Toil and Trouble FREEBIE!!

Toil and Trouble by Just So Scrappy is a fun Halloween kit! There are so many element choices in this and the embossed papers are really cool! Be sure to check this out in her store by clicking on the kit preview below and don't forget to scroll down for your FREEBIE!







And as promised....a FREE QP. Just click on the image to download!! =) This IS a png file with "see-through" windows to easily slip your pics in behind even though it doesn't appear that way in the preview.

*password* is bewitching

Applelicious by Just So Scrappy

This was the perfect kit to make a school layout! I'm trying really hard to keep up and scrap school events IN the year they happened so I can have the printed book sometime the following summer and be ready to go for the next school year. It might be the first time I've kept up and been on target with my scrapping. We won't discuss baby albums or wedding books (yikes!). My excuse is that I didn't have SBC3 then!

So, look how fun my page turned out using this fantastic kit! Applelicious by Just So Scrappy can be used for school, apple picking, pie baking, apple cider and with all that red and green don't you think of Christmas too??! I even managed to make a wedding layout (see below!) Click on the image to see this kit in her store and click on my layout to see full credits as a few of the items pictured came from different sources.

Simple as That! giveaway

Check out this amazing giveaway of Life. Camera. Actions. on Simple as That! http://rebeccacooper.blogspot.com/

Fall is HERE and I have a FREEBIE for you!

Well, it's official. My favorite season has ended and the weather is starting to turn to rainy old gray skies (sigh!). To keep my spirits up I pulling out all the "rainy day" projects that you do indoors....sewing, crocheting and COOKING! I was looking through some old magazines that I picked up last year and "re-found" this recipe that I didn't get time then.

So, after we got back from the pumpkin patch yesterday we got busy with these cookies!!

(the weather was sooooo nice yesterday, so glad we went then! It's raining now!)

This recipe is for Night Owl Cookies and below I have a freebie recipe card if you'd like to have it. =) Click on the card to download it.

These are cute (for owls) and a great project to do with kids! =) I tried the recipe pretty much as written but didn't need near the amount of flour and cocoa as they suggested. It calls for the refrigerated pre-made sugar cookie dough, but your favorite recipe can substitue and my next batch with be Gluten-Free so my hubby can enjoy them too! =) It is torture for him if I'm cooking/baking something delicious and he can't eat it!

So, here we go. After mixing the flour and cocoa in this is what the log looks like....notice that flat edge on the bottom? That is the edge used to join the cookies! =) My white dough isn't perfectly centered because I overlapped the chocolate wrapper to make it a little thicker on one side for the owl face. Now the recipe says you can get 20 owl cookies, I got 14 so maybe my log was thicker than it was supposed to be or I cut them a little thicker (or both!). I actually like the size they are though.

I used thread to make the slices and they are pretty cute once assembled (again, for owls). =)

I even got creative and put oatmeal around the eyes to see how that would turn out!

Be sure to space them far enough apart. I'm so glad I did a test run! I don't normally use pre-made dough so I wasn't sure how much they would GROW when baked! YIKES!

I mean, seriously! This.....

became THAT! LOL!

You still can get 12 on a larger pan though! =)

Then it's just a matter of decorating with some chocolate and vanilla or cream cheese frosting!

Gotta add those M&M eyes too!

Then you end up with a pretty cute cookie that was easy to make!

Our little "owl family"! =)

I got this recipe from a magazine last year, but you can view the FULL RECIPE HERE!

Oh this is TUTU CUTE!!!

I recently became a CT Member for Just So Scrappy! Now, I've known about her before she even HAD a CT so when I saw a call from her I was thrilled!! I just love this ballerina kit called "Tutu Cute"!! It has several add ons AND a QP offer so you can just put your pics right in! Here is the page I did with the kit! Click HERE or the kit preview to find this in her store! =)