Santa's Favorite Christmas Cookies

I've already started thinking about making Christmas cards and I love making the recipe cards. When I saw the 'Deer Friends', Level 2 set I knew I wanted to use the Santa face to make my latest recipe card. I also used the new Bella Rose DSP and the set 'Heard from the Heart' for the "Welcome Christmas into Your Heart" as well as the new scallop edge punch.

Chicken Salad Recipe

The recipe is actually my friend Brenda's chicken salad recipe, but I did this for a swap so I figured if I didn't put my name on the recipe, they wouldn't know who Brenda was. LOL Anyway, I've made the recipe a couple times and it is very delicious if you like chicken salad like me. Here is the recipe if you cannot view it:

Chicken Salad by Nancy Endwright

4 chicken breasts
2 (3 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened)
1 cup seedless grapes
1 c. Miracle Whip (mayo)
1 c. diced celery
¾ c. frozen peas, thawed

Cook chicken breasts. Cool. Remove from bone; shred. Mix cream cheese and mayo until blended. Set aside. Cut seedless grapes in half. Dice celery.
Combine chicken, grapes, celery and unthawed peas in bowl. Add mayo mixture and mix well.
Add more mayo to reach right consistency for chicken salad. Chill. Serve on chilled lettuce leaves.

The stamp set I used is "A Good Egg' which is a favorite set of mine and I'm so happy that is not retiring in August. The cardstock used is from the current In-Colors Wild Wasabi and Blue Bayou. The Designer Series Paper is Porcelain Prints. The ribbon is Blue Bayou double-stitched ribbon. I assume all will retire when the new catalog comes out. The recipe was typed on the computer and printed out on copy paper. I used the Scallop Punch and made "doodles" around the edge with the White Gel Pen and attached the little chicken with dimensionals. I hope you like my recipe card. I hope to start making a lot more of recipe cards using favorite recipes of mine and my friends.

Water Bottle Bib

I've made these water bottle bibs before but with different dimensions and different stamp sets. So the measurements for this one came from Nancy Riley and Anne Marie Peterson. The water bottle bib is measured 2" x 7 3/4" and scored at 2" and 6".

Father's Day Wallet

I made this wallet about a month ago and it was a lot of fun to make. I found the instructions/video on Dannie's Designs: http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Thanks Dannie for a great video.

Blue Bloomin' Beautiful

This is my new favorite set (Bloomin' Beautiful) from the Occasions Mini Collection on page 5. I used Black Stazon to stamp the whole flower and vase image onto Whisper White cardstock and colored and shaded it in with markers. Blue, of course is my favorite color. Then I stamped just the flower image on Whisper White cardstock. I colored the image in and cut it out and attached it to the first flower image with dimensionals. Then I stamped the image again with Black Stazon and colored it in, but cut out only parts of the flower and attached to the second flower image to give it dimension.

Cherry Tart

This is a gift card holder that I had my customers make at a recent workshop. It is made by cutting your cardstock at 4 1/4" x 11 and scoring it at 3", 5 1/2" and 8". Then you fold and crease the scored lines with a bone folder. Sticky strip was applied to the center sections but not the center fold, so that the two middle sections would adhere together. The fold in the middle was punched twice with the word window punch to create an opening for a gift card leaving on edge on either side of the fold. The Picnic DSP was cut at 2 3/4" x 4" and glued to the front with Mono-Adhesive. I also used the Scallop Punch and the 1 3/8" Circle Punch to punch out the cherries after I colored them in with markers. The Belly Band is 1" x 7 1/2" and used to wrap around the gift card holder.

Tart & Tangy

Hi Stampers,

I've had a busy month or so. I've been doing a few swaps with other demos and planning a few workshops. Here are some swaps I recently made with some of my demo friends in Indianapolis. They are gift card holders using the Tart & Tangy set on page 14 from the Occassion Mini and using the Picnic Designer Series Paper from page 16.