Bon Appetit! Baking Cookies Layout

Happy Monday!  I hope you're staying warm where ever you are-this cold from the polar vortex is getting old!  I've spent a lot of time in my craft room  because it's literally too cold to do anything.  (And I have a space heater in there, lol!)  I'm enjoying the crafting time with no distractions, so I guess that's the silver lining.  

I'm hosting the BBTB2 challenge for the next two weeks and selected the challenge theme Bon Appetit!  I wanted to scrap some pictures of our Christmas cookie baking and made the layout below.  I love how it turned out!  I especially love that kitchen mixer cut from Nifty Fifties for some reason!  I hope you will "whisk" up some food themed creations and share them over at the BBTB2 blog.

 

Cricut:

We Whisk You a Merry Christmas-title

Nifty Fifties-stand mixer

From My Kitchen-all other kitchen cuts and cookies

Paper-Echo Park Happiness is Homemade bg paper, CTMH solids

brown chalk ink for edging

square punch for photo corners

Retro themed hello card

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 theme this week is to make a retro themed card.  I used the old fashioned corded telephone from the From My Kitchen cartridge for my hello card, just like the one in our house when I was a kid.  (My kids can't even conceive of such thing as a phone with NO internet connection!!!!  If it isn't an iPhone, they can't imagine why you would use one, LOL!)  I went with a kind of vintage feeling floral background print to keep my retro feel going.  The other designers have some cool retro projects for you to see over at BBTB2, so check them out.

Cricut:
From My Kitchen-phone cut at 3 inches
Paper-Fancy Pants Park Bench 6x6 paper pad print, CTMH solids
Ink-Versamark jumbo java chalk ink, Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamp-Paper Smooches

One Smart Cookie layout

Happy Monday!  We have a delicious BBTB2 challenge this week-use a cookie on a project, as it is National Pecan Cookie Week.  Now that's a holiday I can get behind and support 100%!  I believe some cookie baking will happen this week at my house (although not with pecans, since I have a nut-allergic kiddo).    Personally, I am more fond of the cookie dough than the fully baked cookies.  Perhaps I have some instant gratification issues…not that any cookies last more than 24 hours in my house anyway, with three teenage boys around.

My layout (for hilarious pics of some cookie baking by the kids-there was a wrecked kitchen involved….) uses the cookies from the From My Kitchen cartridge and the title is from Just Because Cards.  I've had this awesome mixing bowl and whisk papers in the stash for over a year, just waiting for the right project.  They are from Echo Park, but I can't remember the paper line.  Do bake up a fabulous cookie project of your own and share it with us over at BBTB2, after you check out all the fun DT ideas!

Cricut:
Just Because Cards-title
From My Kitchen-cookies
Paper/Stickers-prints Echo Park, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Cookbook (wedding gift)-warning: lots of pics

We went to a wedding in July for a beloved teacher of my boys and I had to come up with a gift, so I made a fairly quick cookbook using my cricut.  I used an album with chipboard dividers and clear sleeves with 4x6 pockets by Simple Stories, which I bought at Archievers.  I found a fabulous paper collection called Farm Fresh by The Paper Studio that had recipe cards included, and I decorated the chipboard pages with some of the paper and cricut cuts from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I also included some photos of my boys taken in her classroom on the dividers.  The boys picked out all their favorite recipes to include-I didn't show all the recipe pages, just the dividers.  I did some fun little twists:  the oven door opens to show a pie and the pot opens to eggs boiling plus one of the boys added a little note later.

Cover:

 Divider 1:

 with the oven door opened:

 back of divider 1 and first page of recipes:

 Divider 2:

 Divider 2 with the pot opened:

 Divider 3 (love that apron):

 more recipes:

 I tucked picture in here and there of the kids at school with her:

I used a thin coat of Mod Podge to adhere the paper to the chipboard dividers, cover and back.

Cricut:
From My Kitchen-all cuts except hinges
Fabulous Finds-hinges on oven door and pot
Paper-The Paper Studio Farm Fresh (bought at Hobby Lobby)

Grandma's Sweet Treats recipe mini album

This mini was made by my Mom, as  Christmas gifts for me and my sister.  It is filled with old family recipes written by both of my Grandmas, in their handwriting.  (She scanned in the old recipe cards.)   There are even handwritten notes my Dad had put on one of the recipes at some point in time.  Seeing their handwriting brought back memories of both of them.  So don't let your handwriting hold you back from journaling, because someday someone will treasure having something in your handwriting!

Cricut:
From My Kitchen

Holiday Recipe Mini Album

I've always wanted to try making a holiday recipe book, so this is my first attempt.  I mainly used the From My Kitchen cartridge, with a few cuts from other carts thrown in.  The paper is last years Echo Park Christmas collection.   This is the first time I've really used many of the cuts on From My Kitchen and they are really cute!  I made several pages for cookie recipes, since there are so many wonderful ones out there for Christmas treats.  (I'm hungry now!)

Cricut:
From My Kitchen-recipe cards, recipe pages and titles, most cuts
Everyday Paper Dolls-oven mitt on first cookie page and cookies on last page
Doodlecharms-sucker
Paisley-sweet

The white inserts to write the recipe on are 3x5, so an index card could replace the inserts if you want lines on the recipe cards.  The recipe pages with pockets are 4x6 3/4 in.  The cover page is slightly bigger.  I cut the title words for each recipe page at 3/4 in.   The strip to make the pocket is 2x6 3/4 in.  Most of the cuts to decorate the pocket are cut at 2 in., except for a few at 2 1/2 inches.  

I'm going to put this into the Fantabulous cricut challenge this week, which has a book theme.