I've been a craftin'....

This is a candy box I made for Jim's boss. It will be filled with Rocky Road candy. The skull on the top of the box is embossed. It came out very nicely if I do say so myself and of course I DID!!! lol.

These are a few recipe cards I made to go with the dog treats I made and put in some "BOO" bags for my neighbors. Nothing super special, but I thought that they came out cute.

These are a few of my layered cards. The "Don't Open" card has a picture of a heavy person necked with a pumpkin airbrushed on their bottom. Hee hee. I'm so twisted I even scare myself. LOL.

Here are a few of my 3D cards. There is something on every card that stands out. These are my favorite to make, but they really take time cutting out all of the images. Yep I do them all by hand and not with a fancy die cut machine. I like it better that way.

And this was my first attempt at a pop up card. The image on the left is the cover and the image on the right is the inside. It's too plain for my taste. Something is missing. Well it was a first attempt anyway. Will have to work on this method a little more.

I hope you enjoyed my creations. I enjoyed making them.

Cookin' up some Halloween

I invited mom and Kelly over to make some Halloween goodies. I went out and picked them up first thing in the morning and then we checked out some stores for some sprinkles and frosting. We finally got home and started in. Unfortunately, I forgot to buy some cream cheese for the slime cupcakes. So that project is out.

We decided to make some cutout sugar cookies. I found a fantastic sounding recipe from land o lakes. Lots of butter....should have been my red flag. I made the cookie dough and then wrapped it and put it in the fridge.

While we waited, we decided to make some chocolate covered marshmallows. It was interesting at best. Some of the marshmallows had gotten warm so they got sticky. By them getting sticky, it made them hard to push onto the sticks. We got them on though. I have to admit, some of the ones we made looked like colorful turds on a stick. Good thing we were covering them in chocolate. White chocolate that is. LOL. This is what the good ones looked like before we coated them in chocolate.

The colored marshmallows are fruit flavored and the white ones are regular marshmallows.

After we put them on the sticks, I took them over to the double boiler on the stove and started coating them with chocolate. As I covered them in chocolate, and mom and Kelly put the sprinkles on. Needless to say I still have orange and brown sprinkles all over my stove and counter in the cracks and crevices. LOL. After they dried they finally ended up looking like this.


While I had the double boiler full of chocolate, we ended up making some peanut butter eyeballs. I made the peanut butter balls the day before and had them in the fridge. They are basically peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar. What is there not to love about these?!?!!

This is as far as we got with them too. We forgot to buy the red frosting to make the veins. It's a good thing that I had some mini M&M's, because we forgot to buy those too. LOL. I guess you could say that we really didn't plan very well!!!

We sat around for a little while reading Halloween cookbooks and magazines. Finally, we thought it was time that the cookie dough was chilled enough. So I grabbed my bucket of flour, and my marble rolling pin and off to the table I go. I dust the table with four and of course I had to dust mom with flour too. It's hard to see in this photo but she didn't even know I did it.

No wonder she looks so happy about being floured. LOL.

This is Kelly before we started rolling out the cookie dough. Get ready watch the progression....

Here's mom cutting out the shapes. Notice Kelly is starting to nod off?!?!?!

Yep, you guessed it. We worked her too hard. I even fed her a bunch of Halloween candy and chocolate!!!!

Well as it turned out the dough was too soft and I couldn't get it off of the table, even with a spatula. So we ended up spending the rest of the day watching television, and Kelly ended up finally getting her nap.

All in all it was a fun day. Talk about a comedy of errors though. Mom and Kelly went home with some chocolate covered marshmallows, peanut butter eyeballs, and half of the sugar dough. As far as I know they have survived thus far. Who knows the fate of the goodies after that.