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Well…we’re living in a material world.And of course, we wear material of some sort every day. I thought it would be fun to combine more of the Sew Special images with this Fashionista paper by Graphic 45. A very vintage material girl look. Can you imagine what it must have been like to sew every item in your wardrobe and that of your family? What a huge job! I’m so glad we have the mall now! Release date for this set is this Tuesday. 🙂

Material Girl

You can see many of the fun vintage sewing elements stamped onto the text paper on this project.

Quick Tip: Use both sides of a double sided patterned paper to get more prints from one page.

Supply List:

Stamps: Sew Special (Rummage Bin line) by CHF
Ink: Black Memento Ink by Tsukineko
Paper: Simply Smooth Vanilla cardstock by CHF, Fashionista Haute Couture patterned paper by Graphic 45
Other: flower by Prima, brad by K & Co., edge distresser, corsage pin

Now totally off-topic…We had the yummiest potato salad last night with shish-ka-bobs for dinner. I’m QUITE sure this is not the most diet-friendly dish but we enjoyed it. I hadn’t made it in years…over TEN! I know this because I made it once at our old house. It was from the back of a Miracle Whip salad dressing jar and hubby was mentioning it Friday night. “Why did I never make that again?” Because I had totally lost the recipe, that’s why! LOL After a little searching, I found it on the Kraft.com web-site and I’m reposting it here so that I never lose it again!

Roasted Potato Salad

4 cups quartered unpeeled small red potatoes

3/4 cup  MIRACLE WHIP or MIRACLE WHIP Light Dressing

4 slices OSCAR MAYER Center Cut Bacon, crisply cooked, crumbled

2   hard-cooked eggs, chopped

1/4 cup green onion slices

1/4 tsp.  salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

PREHEAT oven to 425°F. Place potatoes in 15x10x1-inch baking pan sprayed with cooking spray.

BAKE 30 to 35 minutes or until potatoes are tender and golden brown, stirring after 20 minutes.

MIX dressing, bacon, eggs, onions, salt and pepper in large bowl. Add potatoes; mix lightly. Serve warm or chilled.

Have a beautiful day!

Two things to share with you today… a card and a recipe.  It’s rhubarb season here and yesterday I put together a rhubarb recipe. It’s a compilation of a few different recipes so I made one of my own. What does it have to do with today’s card? Well…honestly, not much except that I wanted to remember it. 🙂 I have a bad habit of losing recipes and sharing them with you is a win-win situation. You might enjoy them & I know exactly where they are!

We Remember

Today’s card uses a new stamp set to be released tomorrow from the Rummage Bin line. Lisa Silver is a long-time talented designer with CHF. If you follow the tutorial each week, Lisa always does a fabulous job with those. I’m so excited for Lisa as this is her first stamp set she’s designed and it is fabulous! We Remember is a classic military themed set that is perfect for so many families. For this design I thought I’d use some red Jenni Bowling paper with a few of the images from this set to create a Remembrance Day themed design.

Supply List:

Stamps: We Remember (the Rummage Bin) by CHF
Ink: Black Memento by Tsukineko, Brushed Corduroy Distress ink by Ranger
Paper: black cardstock by Bazzill, Natural Smooth cardstock by CHF, mini papers by Jenni Bowlin
Other: sewing machine, star brad by Creative Impressions, decorative tape by Prima

And here’s the recipe…

 Rhubarb Betty

6 cups of chopped rhubarb, fresh or frozen

1 ¼ cups sugar

Topping:

2 ½ cups flour

1 cup oatmeal

1 ½ cups packed brown sugar

1 cup butter or margarine, melted

1 tsp salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

Fill 9 x 13 with rhubarb and sprinkle with sugar. Mix flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon and butter together until crumbly. Scatter over rhubarb. Bake, uncovered in 375° oven for 40 minutes. Serve with ice cream. Makes 24 small servings or 16 large.

Thanks for stopping by!

As much as I love summer, now that Autumn is in the air…I’m lovin’ it! Some favorite Fall things…crisp air, colorful leaves, a trip to the apple orchard, cozy sweaters and one of my long-time favorite activities…baking! Yummmm… Nothing like all that yummy harvest produce. One of favorite fall treats is pumpkin. Pumpkin pie and a really good Pumpkin Spice Bread.

Pumpkin Spice Bread

2 cups pumpkin, canned (NOT pumpkin pie filling)

3 cups sugar

1 cups water

1 cup vegetable  oil

4 eggs

3 1/3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Heat oven to 350°F. In large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, water, oil and eggs, Beat well until mixed. Measure the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices into a separate bowl. Stir till combined. Slowly add the dry ingredient to the pumpkin mixture, beating until smooth. Grease two 9″x5″ loaf pans and dust them with flour. Evenly divide the batter between the two pans. Bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10-15 minutes , then remove from pans by inverting them onto a rack and tapping the bottoms. Cool, slice and serve. This recipe freezes well…if you can keep it in the house that long. 😉

Now I just had to make a card to go with this recipe. Wouldn’t this to be fun to pair up with a wrapped pumpkin loaf?

Happy Harvest

Quick Tip: Oops! Get the sentiment crooked? It happens to us all! Simply tear off, roll back the edges and stamp on the layer beneath. It looks like a cool design element! shhhhh…. I won’t tell if you don’t! 😉

Do you have favorite things to do in the Fall? Have a wonderful day!

Supply List:

Stamps:
-Great Canadian Stamp Set (maple leaf) from Rummage Bin line by Cornish Heritage Farms
-All Things Fall (The Rummage Bin line) by Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:
-Pitch Black Adirondack ink by Ranger
-Brushed Corduroy Distress ink by Ranger

Paper:
-Suede Brown dark cardstock by Prism
-Simply Smooth White by Prism
-MochaChica Paper Pack (Kim Hughes line) By Cornish Heritage Farms

Other:
-jumbo eyelet – WE R Memory Keepers
-faux leather cord
-stapler
-button by Autumn Leaves
-copic markers