2008...What A Year!

Hey strangers :)
Sorry, I've been so quiet.  I went to FL for Christmas and then got sick...
some kind of awful stomach bug/virus thing...going on day #3, UGH!
Besides that my Christmas was wonderful.
I loved being with my parents and sisters and nieces and nephew, it was the best!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, too!

SO, you know that Unity is retiring ALL of their 2008 Kits of the Month, right?
Well, I went back and got ALL of the cards I made in 2008 with some of those kits to show you!

Remember Happiness (Aug. 08)

 

 

Bliss and a Birdie (June 08)

Little Reminders (Dec. 08)

 

 Its The Little Things (July 08)

 Enjoy Your Story...Laugh (Nov 08)

Thinking About the Good Times (Oct. 08)

 

 

Friendship. Love. Miracles (Sept. 08)

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my little walk down memory lane!
All of these retiring kits are only $26.00 and the FREE SHIPPING is still on!
Also, did you see the SCS Shop Hop?
Unity has a sweet little sale going on for that, too!

Friends With Flair ~ Christmas Cards

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!
CHRISTMAS EVE!
Jingle Bells and Ho Ho Ho!

Can you tell how happy I am...right now I'm in FL!

Visiting with my family!

Shopping with my mom!

Eating yummy food!

I hope you are having a meaningful Christmastime as well!

OK, how about some cards?
To see all of the Friends With Flair blogs,
please visit the Unity Blog!

I finally at the final hour thought of a card idea,
it just popped into my mind
and viola!

I managed to whip up about 25 of these in 2 evenings

after work.
Each one took about 5 minutes!

I used the July Kit of the Month called
Happily Ever After
&

Merry, Merry, Merry
and bunches of Basic Grey Christmas paper!

That's all for me!
I hope you like my cards!

I also hope you are having a wonderful peaceful day!

and that you have a beautiful Christmas weekend!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hip Hop!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Happy day before Christmas Eve, too!

I hope everyone is ready for the BIG day!

I'm SO glad that you are taking a few minutes of your day to stop by here and see me!

Our Hip Hop starts at the Unity Blog so make sure you check that out!

This card is one I made using the December Kit of the Month

and this weeks Hip Hop Sketch Challenge!

I hope you'll play along with the Sketch Challenge!

there are always a FAB prize to be had!

Now I want to show you the little gifts I made for the girls at work.

I made these little ornaments.

(I can't find this stamp)

 Merry Merry, Merry

 Greeting of Christmas

Merry, Merry, Merry

 I wish I had remembered to take pics of them all, I used about 6 different Unity Kits on them

some were already taken home by the recipient when I remembered

to ask to take a pic...lol!

Hope you like them and my card!

Now you just have to hop over to

AJ's blog and see what FABulousness she has for you:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart

for stopping by today, I really

LOVE hearing what you have to say

each and every week!!!

See you tomorrow for some Friends With Flair Fun and the
Christmas card that I FINALLY came up with for this year!

Spellbinders Heraldry Collection ~ SCS Review

Here are 2 cards I made for last weeks SCS Review of the new Heraldry Spellbinders dies.
You can find my review and the whole team review HERE on SCS.

On this card I used the Unity Cosmo Cricket stamp: Delovely Vintage

on this one I used the Unity Melody Ross kit: Just Be You

These are pretty different style of die for me but VERY fun to use...
I can see lots of Princess cards for my nieces using these dies ;)

Hope you are having a GREAT day!

Friends With Flair Hip Hop Sketch Challenge!

Happy Friday....one week until Christmas Eve...WOW!
I hope you are all way more ready than I am!
Nope, not ready at all!
BUT that's OK...I'll get there!

Time for my card!
I made my card for Friends With Flair and this weeks Hip Hop Sketch Challenge:

I used the Websters Pages set called: Believe in Miracles
and some more of that GORGEOUS Echo Park paper (that you can get FREE)

I really think that paper looks like a yummy, girly candy cane, don't you?!

You can see all of the Friends With Flair blogs listed on the Unity Blog.

and don't forget about this important bit of info ;)

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Hip Hop Thursday with NEW Echo Park!

Today we are hopping along with some new Echo Park prettiness!
Aren't the new kits beautiful!?
I do think so, too!

I hope you started the FUN on the Unity blog, because that is where this show starts!
Then you hop along and enjoy the ride!

Today I made a card using With Love and I Adore You:

I also used the matching BE MINE paper from Echo Park on this card,
LOVE it!  You can have some of this paper, too, FREE with every $40 order!

All that black and pink is right up my alley!

Now you just have to hop over to
AJ's blog and see what FABulousness she has for you:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart
for stopping by today, I really
LOVE hearing what you have to say

each and every week!!!

See you tomorrow for some Friends With Flair Fun!

It's A Virtual Cookie Swap!

Happy Sunday Everyone!
Today I have a cookie recipe for you as part of a FUN Virtual Cookie Exchange that AJ thought up!
There are some fabulous ladies participating so be sure to visit them, too (their blogs are listed below).

I have made my FAST, EASY No-Bake Oatmeal cookie recipe.  It's a recipe I make all the time, I know it by heart.  It's perfect for this busy time of year when you don't have lots of time to be in the kitchen.  They take 10 minutes from start to finish, PROMISE!
These are so FAST and EASY you can make them in the morning, before school...when you've just remembered you have to bring cookies or before church or work and they'll be ready when you get out of your shower!

Here is the top of the box with the cookies in it.  I put the recipe here and used a non-permanent adhesive so this piece can be taken right off and put into the recipients recipe box or wherever they store their recipes.
I hand wrote it basically because I love to see people's handwriting so I thought maybe others like things handwritten, too!

 

Here is a picture of all of the ingredients melting together:
(sugar, margarine, cocoa powder and milk)

 

 Very important part...let boil for 1 minute...no less and no longer.
for some reason if this part isn't pretty close to perfect
the cookies sometimes won't harden.

And here is when you dump the oatmeal and peanut butter in:

and here they are on parchment paper cooling off:

(in about 30 minutes they are ready to eat! but they are super yummy warm, too...ask me how I know!)

here are some of them in their box:
(this box is from a local cupcakery...I have quite a collection of them!)

This is the decoration I made for the box:
(stamps: Greeting of Christmas)

The paper is Jillibean Soup!

Here are the rest of the Cookie Exchange Girls:
AJ Otto:

Jessica Diedrich:

Eva Dobilas:

Kimberly Crawford

Jenn Balcer:

Tina Fussell:

Tiffany Johnson:

Here is the recipe, in case the picture is not easily readable:
No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups Sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 Stick of Margarine
4 tbsp. Cocoa Powder
Place these ingredients into a heavy saucepan and melt and bring to a boil.  Boil for 1 minute and then turn off heat.  Then add the following:
3 cups Quick Cooking Oats
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
Mix together well and then using a teaspoon drop spoonfuls onto parchment paper and let cool 30-45 minutes.

Have a GREAT Sunday!