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Monday, October 25, 2010

Good friends tip the scales

Can't believe how time is slipping away!  I hope you all had a good weekend and have been having a good week so far.

It seems this past weekend I spent the whole time trying out new recipes and then reorganizing my craft room.  While I did make a few cards I haven't photographed them yet, and it's dark now when I leave for work in the morning and when I get home, so I may wait till Saturday to load these latest ones up.  Luckily I made this cutie recently and hadn't posted it yet:

The image and sentiment are from the set called Weighty Matters by Cornish Heritage Farms.  Isn't that dog an absolute cutie!!!

I stamped the image in Espresso Adirondak ink on Aquabee marker paper, and added shading around it in pink with the Copic Airbrush.  The gorgeous flourish is cut out of black cardstock using a die cut from Heartfelt Creations called Decorative Butterfly-Border.  I layered everything together on top of some SU designer paper and some black grosgrain ribbon.

Now, on to my cooking experiences.  So far we've spent about $100 on supplies to make chinese food.  We have chili oil, sesame oil, and peanut oil.  We have dark rice vinegar, yellow rice vinegar, white rice wine, and yellow rice wine.  We've got bean paste, and fermented beans.  We have dried chillis, garlic chili sauce and regular chili sauce.  Soon we hope to get value from all this LOL!  So far we have made 5 dishes.  The wonton soup worked well and was yummy.  The fried banana and chocolate wontons were WONDERFUL.  it went downhill from there, with one dish too spicy hot, the next one too salty, and the last too sour.  I'm getting tired of cooking, and more importantly I'm reaching my limit on eating experiments gone wrong.  Hopefully the next tries will be more successful!  For tomorrow we decided to go back to our regular standard cooking, so it's going to be tried and true chili.

I'd like to mention that there is a card drive on right now for two young kids, in recognition of Spina Bifida Month (October), I hope you can play along too:  A place to praise and craft.

20 comments:

  1. This is adorable! I love that cute image and sentiment, great set to have for friendship cards. Pink and black is always a fun color combo, too! My favorite!

    Sorry you had a tough time with some cooking experiments but I think it's great that you are trying to make new things. Sometimes they don't come out as planned but it's all part of the experience, right? :) You had my attention with "fried banana and chocolate won tons", though. YUM!

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  2. Oh my goodness, do I every love your vintage dog image. It looks fabulous against the pink and paired with that gorgeous die. Wonderful sentiment, design and fabulous dsp.

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  3. Love the flourish. Very cute sentiment.

    I should show you my cook books - my husband laughs that he shouldn't ever have to cook my first attempts. All my recipes are marked, adapted, doubled, notes about how long it takes to prep, etc. My son cries when I say we are trying something new. The nice thing is that all those staples will last a long time.

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  4. wow!!... SUPER fun cooking! ;)
    the card is soo beautiful!.. love the subtle colours here :)

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  5. A wonderful card! Love the corner thing you used!
    Hugs Kristel

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  6. OMG I was JUST looking at this image set the other day on ebay! How ironic

    He is so gorgeous love what you did!!

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  7. Adorable card, very fun image. The cooking adventures sounds fun! I do things like that too, invest in a ton of new things to try new recipes. Sometimes they work, sometimes, not so well. My thing right now is making bento boxes.

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  8. Your card and that image is adorable! Good for you for trying new things, I'm chicken when it comes to cooking outside my confort zone,

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  9. Oh this is such a cute card love that puppy image and the corner die . You a great job with the copic airbrushing .
    Marilyn

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  10. What a cute image, what a shame Cornish Heritage Farm is no more. Also love that stunning corner flourish. Lovely card. I'm on my way, get the choklit and banana wontons on the go, I've lived through dodgy cheese, I need a reward! ;)
    xxx

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  11. Awww, how due is that darling dog? Such a terrific vintage image! I love the simplicity of this card and how you have highlighted that bold die cut - fabulous!

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  12. Love it! The dog image is adorable. Love the colors. TFS

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  13. This is so cute, love it, can't stop smiling on this one. Congrats on trying new things, sounds good and I think you are braver than I. I always stay with easy things, maybe I should branch out also.

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  14. What a cutie! Love the vintage look of this card.

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  15. What a gorgeous card!

    Do yourself a favor and go OUT for Chinese! :O)

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  16. cute card, kristina! love hearing about your cooking adventures!

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  17. Oh gosh, this is so cute! Just look at that little puppy! Great job.

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  18. That is just too cute for words!! Thanks for sharing it!! :D :D

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  19. adorable! The image is wonderful and I love how you used HC diecut behind the image!

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  20. Such a sweet puppy image! Love the die cut and your beautiful layout design. This sentiment is just perfect :o)

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