Fabulous Friday - Blueprint Challenge

On this Fabulous Friday New Years Eve edition, we have a fantastic blueprint challenge from the lovely Carolyn. Here is her blueprint...isn't it awesome?

Here is her interpretation!

Thank you Carolyn for this awesome challenge!

From all of us at Scrap Shotz, we wish we all a Happy New Year and all the best in 2011.

Fabulous Friday - Anything But Challenge

Hi there, Laurel here. My challenge for you today is anything but a card or scrapbook page. I upcycled a can from some chipboard elements. I covered it with paper and stickers from the Echo Park Wintertime kit and made a tag to match. I will put some homemade hot chocolate, some mini marshmallows, mini candy canes and a Tim Hortons gift certificate. This is going to be a gift for our mailman. So I would love to see what you do for my anything but challenge.

Thanks - enjoy your Christmas Eve!

Be Inspired! in December - Candy Cane Wrappers

2 more days until Christmas; are you ready? Here is a quick and super fun gift idea from Stephanie!

If you’re looking for an inexpensive easy to make gift to hand out over the holiday season, here’s a great idea that I saw on a blog.

Start with a box of candy canes.

 

Remove them from the box but leave them wrapped. Go to your printer and print up a bunch of Christmas sayings in strips. Leave space between the lines and cut the strips.

Put a small amount of adhesive in the middle of the back side of the strip and fold it around your candy cane. More adhesive will hold the ends together.

Trim the ends with decorative scissors or just clip. Now you have a small gift for your children’s friends, the baby sitter, or the children in your neighbourhood!

These are just darling! Thanks Stephanie for your inspiration!

December Be Inspired - Making Rosettes

Looking for the perfect personal touch to any gift or card? Well, design team member, Laura Gilhuly has the perfect tutorial for you today!



Supplies:
3 strips of paper 12 inches long. The width is up to you. If you wish a wider rosette, if you choose over 1 1/2" you will need to cut two strips and glue them end to end. The ones I chose to do are 1/2 inch

glue gun
scoring blade or score pal
button, pearl or other accent for center
punched circle smaller than the flower

1) score your strip of paper every 1/4 inch and fold like an accordion

2) overlap the ends to form a tent and glue together

3) lay your circle on a hard surface and push the center down and squish together to form the rosette

4) put some hot glue on your punched circle.

5) pick up your rosette and place on the circle

6) hold in shape until glue is dry

7) add button or gem to middle

and voila you have your own rosette!

Here are some examples of some rosettes

Thanks Laura for the inspiration!

December Be Inspired - Candy Cane Peppermint Bark

Yum yum yum is all I have to say!!! Here is Stephanie's super secret candy cane peppermint bark recipe. Thank you SO much for sharing Stephanie!

I started with a really good quality Belgian white chocolate. Generally speaking, the better quality chocolates have a higher cocoa solids content and will melt really easily. Be careful with white chocolate as it will burn if you heat it too much.

Here we go! Melt about 2 cups of white chocolate. I used a double boiler for mine. While this is melting, take your candy canes and remove the wrappers.

Next you will need to break up 12 candy canes. I put mine in a double Ziploc bag and used a hammer. Don’t pound them too much as you want small pieces but not dust. Add your broken up pieces to the melted chocolate.

Stir these up together and spread the mixture on a parchment lined baking sheet.

Place the sheet in the fridge to cool. Once it’s cooled, break into smaller pieces and enjoy!

Thanks for sharing Stephanie!

Spotted in the Gallery!

I just love browsing through the gallery lately... everything is looking so festive! It really gets me in the mood for Christmas!



Our card tag this month was a lot of fun... and I'd like to share this card posted by Dawn... I just love how she stamped the sentiment on the Christmas ornament!




Hope all your holiday crafts are coming right along. Please drop by the gallery and share them with us!

Fabulous Friday - Chromotherapy Challenge

On this Fabulous Friday, we have an awesome Chromotherapy Challenge from Laura.

When I think of winter I think of the bright blue skies and white snow so for this month I am going to make it easy (I know everyone is super busy this time of year) I want to see you use these two colors (and variations of) in your project! have fun ladies!

Thank you Laura for this great challenge!