Silhouette Portrait Prizes !

     The Silhouette Portrait, an amazing, beginner friendly, portable, giftly formed, exact cutting device. With all these wonderful features, the Silhouette Portrait is a must have.(Qualities of the Portrait is posted on the post:Silhouette Portrait!!!) Cutting without cartridges, introducing crafting, wielding to the control of the computer, and quickly establishing and cutting designs up to 11"- normally, depending on the item and feature, the Silhoutte has Everyone awaiting its brilliance.

I for one truly understand their impatience, and lack of love for the pricing(200$) and come with a solution: Coupons and PROMO CODES. All that is required to be done is to scroll down, enter your Email Account, and post a comment into the comment section below.  Offer ends December 10th, 2012! People who Enter this November/ December will get an earlier response!!!!

Google Inspiring Cards/Thank You

Light dawns upon a window sill, symbolizing morning. A young, innocent child quietly finishes a sentence on a foldable piece of paper in her best handwriting and hides it behind her back. On the calendar, the days are marked up to a special day. Silently climbing down the stairs, the girl spies her mother tiredly sipping coffee from a white glass mug. Her mother notices her and smiles warmly. "Why are you awake so early?" she asks, parting the cup from her lips. The girl grins shyly, stepping up closer to her mother," Well, I wanted to give you this." The girl hands her mother a white flower embroidered, pink framed card. Her mother opens it. Scanning the writing, she grins, barely containing her overflowing happiness. The girl quickly lands on her mother's comforting lap. Hugging her tightly, she whispers, "Happy Mother's Day Mommy, thankyou!"

Random story involving this card, cool eh? Any who, I LOV this card. Not love, LOV. Clearly you can see the entire layout of this card, perhaps making it necessary to use a white journalism pen or flower shaped stamp for the flowers. I just wanted to share this adorable card, available to copy and paste on your printer, to make a card. Please comment!

Cards From Google/Missing U

The soft rustling of grass. The secret giggles of children. And the freshness in the air. All come from home. Whether it's from far away, or close by, home remembers you. And misses you.

This adorable, Missing U card is a great inspiration for family and friends. Although there are tough times, this card shows happier ones, also expressing how home has been brought to you. Perhaps this was not the ideal idea from whoever made this card, but everyone has a different perspective. If I were to recreate this card, I maybe would've have chosen a different color theme. A lightish blue in exchange for the pink. The white bricks glued against the paper was a clever idea, if I felt like doing it, I could use a pencil and loosely trace brick squares and then lightly go over with a gray pastel. Once I'd completed that part, I'd layer it with dots. Doing the white alone would be fine, but the bricks and punctures give it a realistic twist. For the bicycle, I'll probably be lazy and not cut out the insides. Cardstalk is a good idea for the pop ups and flowers. To pop up the bicycle, I'd fold back a small piece of tape to form a circle, then attach it to the bicycle.Same goes for the shade.The window will just be a piece of paper or fabric, glued to the entire frame.
Thanks for reading! Stay crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Cards Inspirations From Google/Bamboo Card

This stunning, adorable, almost life like card is a true masterpiece. Every time I look at it... Sparks everywhere! Beautiful, and amazingly created, this true treat is a must have upon all Google Image searches. Zooming in, I can't quite read the print, but I think I see Merry Wedding Day. If I were to make this card, I perhaps would write or change the branches because of the missing material and uncuttable thinness. Perhaps I would drench tarred wire with brown paint and maybe cut out the flowers. I'd use darker paper to enhance the shape of the flowers, then, I'd put small splotches of dark brown paint with a mini nook and carnnies brush. Overall, this is a card i'm proud to have on my blog. I'll be exhibiting more of these, so keep posted! Until next post...Bye!
P.S Remem. to add a comment... I need the support!!! I can't keep posting without any mark of achievement! Once 2013 has hit its mark, I need 5 comments!!! Please comment!  : :(

Potato Temptations

Homemade Potatoe Chips

Here's a cool recipe my sister found on making potato chips:

Ingredients:
Salt
Skinned potatoes
Garlic Powder
Canola Oil
Spray Bottle
Paper towels

1. Skin potatoes
2. Put Canola Oil into spray bottle
3. Spray oil large amount of oil onto plate
4. Slice potatoes as thin as possible on cutting board, or, cut off about 4 centimeters of potatoes and then start skinning until you can't skin anymore.
5. Put as many slices of potato as you can onto oiled plate positioned so that none overlap or touch each other.
6. Spray with Canola Oil.
7. Prepare another bowel with a folded paper towel into it
8. Lightly sprinkle salt and garlic powder onto potato chips
9. Microwave each plate for about one minute, or keep checking on them until they seem crisp.
10. If they seem too oily, let paper towel soak as much oil as possible and if still not crisp, continue to microwave.

Enjoy your chips!
Note: Skinning to substitute chopping may not work.

Note Worthy Diary

How to make a Notes Diary

 Here's a photo of the diary my sister made :

Materials:

Designer\Construction\Regular paper the colors or designs you want

Notebook\white paper

Scissor\Xacto Knife and ruler

Liguid glue

Instructions:

The best size for your diary is 1\4 of a piece of paper.

To make pages, fold the paper in half, then then half again.

Cut out all 4.

Continue until you have a thick pile\the amount you want in your diary plus 16 more.

Cut out what you want your front to look like.

Make the front 2 cenimeters bigger than the size of your paper, then double it.

Measure the thickness of the size of your stack of paper add 1\2 cenimeter.

Add that to the length of your cover.

Fold the cover so that the cover's front is the same size as your back. 

Make sure that your spine is thick enought to hold all of your paper.

Now glue 8 pieces of paper to the back of the front cover, and 8 in the back of the back cover for thickness.

You may do the same for the spine.

Now put all your diary paper together.

On one side of ALL the paper put liquid glue on it.

Use your finger to spread it out.

Apply a secone layer.

This time do not spread out.

Stick onto spine inside of cover. Wait until dries and can be use to write, and easy to pull out to make notes.

Thanks for reading about how to start writing!

Peppermint Pleasers

Here's an funtastic recipe I found on making Peppermint Patties-the ultimate peppermint experience.Here's how.

Ingredients

• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 5 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1 tablespoon peppermint extract
• 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 3 tablespoons shortening

Instructions

1. Add condensed milk, 2 cups of powdered sugar, and peppermint extract to a large mixing bowl. Mix everything on medium speed using the paddle attachment until all the ingredients are well incorporated. Add more powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough is stiff but still pliable.
2. Roll 3/4″ balls of dough between the palms of the hands.
3. Press each ball down slowly and set the flattened disk on a flat cutting board or plate. Transfer peppermint disks to the freezer for no longer than 30 minutes. While the dough is chilling, temper the chocolate coating.
4. Place chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl. Melt the chocolate in 30 second increments, making sure to stir after each time until chocolate is smooth. Stir in shortening to thin the chocolate. Remove patties from the freezer.
5. Place a patty on the tines of the fork and dip in the chocolate until completely covered. Allow excess chocolate to drip off the patty before setting each one on top of wax or parchment paper.
6. Allow the chocolate coated peppermint patties to completely set up. This can be done quicker by placing the patties in the refrigerator. The peppermint patties are ready when they are dry to the touch. Enjoy!