Homemade Salsa

I had a lot of tomatoes from the garden last week and wanted to make some salsa that would be similar to what we buy at the store. So I found a recipe for Thick Tomato Salsa on this website. It's really good salsa!

2008 Year in Review layout

I've been meaning to share this layout for a long time. I made it over a year ago. To make the photo grid, I cropped the photos I wanted to use to 2 1/2 inch squares, placed them in a Photoshop document with some white space between them, and printed them out.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies used:
Cardstock: DCWV
Patterned paper: graph paper by Scenic Route
Chipboard stars: American Crafts
Number stickers: American Crafts
Stamps: Variety Alpha by Hero Arts
Journaling strips: Narratives by Karen Russell (Creative Imaginations)

Simple Set of Thank You Notes

 Just sharing a set of simple thank you cards that I made for a local fundraiser. Thanks for looking!

(To see a larger picture, click on the picture above to go to the Flickr page, then click on 'All Sizes')

Supplies used: 

Stamps: Thank You Messages by Hero Arts, Thank You Flourishes by Hero Arts, Fancy Flourishes by Papertrey Ink, Artistic Borders by Hero Arts, Flourishes by Inkadinkado

Ink: StazOn Forest Green, Stampin' Up, Ranger Pitch Black

Flowers: Prima

Button: Hero Arts

Rhinestone brads: Making Memories

Papertrey Ink Origami Challenge

 

The Papertrey Ink challenge today is to incorporate origami into a project. So I made a little pinwheel out of a piece of My Mind's Eye paper and put a brad through the center to hold it together. The stick is actually two toothpicks glued together. I stamped the flower background using one the stamps from the 'Life' set and Versamark ink.

Thanks for stopping by!
Sammie

supplies used:
Cardstock: Bazzill (kraft), Papertrey Ink (pink)
Stamps: Life by Papertrey Ink, Paper Tray by Papertrey Ink
Ink: Versamark and Ranger Pitch Black
Green paper: My Mind's Eye
Ribbon: American Crafts
Scallop Edge Punch: Fiskars
Corner Rounder: EK Success

Papertrey Ink Paint by Number Challenge

I made this card today for the Papertrey Ink Paint by Number Challenge on Nichole's blog.

This is the sketch for the challenge.



And this was my assigned color palette.





This was a fun challenge and probably the fastest I've ever made a card, because the colors and design were already chosen for me, which usually takes a long time for me to figure out!

Thanks for stopping by!
Sammie

Supplies used:
Stamps: Life and Text Style by Papertrey Ink
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink (kraft, sweet blush and vintage cream), American Crafts (gray)
Ink: Baroque Burgandy by Stampin Up, Versamark 

a layout

This is a layout I made last weekend for an online crop at WeScrap. The blue circle is the leftover piece from a chipboard 'e' that I painted blue. The rest is pretty self-explanatory! Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used: 

Cardstock: American Crafts
Patterned paper: Bazzill Basics (red dot), Imaginisce (stripe)
Chipboard letter: The Paper Studio
Paint: Apple Barrel (Summer Blue)
Punches: Fiskars 2-in-1 corner rounder, Fiskars Scallop Sentiment Edge Punch

Voting has begun on the Purple Cows blog

You can now head over the Purple Cows blog and vote for your favorite project. I would really appreciate your vote for my project, which is #22, the card shown above. To learn more about my card and the Purple Cows tools I used, please see my last post.

Thanks for stopping by!
Sammie