Wild Card Wednesday: New addiction!

This is Teresa! I might have a little crafting ADD. I flip between things as fast as you can change your unders.  My poor husband is so used to be collecting and going extreme for one thing and then a few weeks later it gets put away to pull something new out :) I am not sure if this is good or bad but I then save everything!! because the crafting circle always comes around and I always go back to each thing. The new addiction is......

Digital Scrapbooking!!!!!!!!!

I have always ignored digital because I have sooo much real scrapbooking supplies and I didn't want to invest a ton of money into things that aren't tangible. 

Well thanks to one of my best friends I am now Digital Scrapbooking and I have only spent $4! In 4 years she has only spent about $24. Because of all the freebies out there and having someone teach me the ropes I am glad I have started this adventure. 

What program do you use??

Photoshop

My friend searched the Adobe website and found me a FREE download! There are tons of places on you tube to go to for helpful instructions on how to use Photoshop

Best places to print?

so far I have found.....

Shutterfly and Costco (costco is cheaper of the 12x12 but doesn't have the smaller sizes) 

What are the best sites to share/ learn and earn free things?

Scrap N Pieces

Stuff to Scrap

Ginger Scraps

Scrap Orchard

Gotta Pixel

Some of these sites have free daily downloads and they all have monthly challenges that often give you things to use for the challenge. These leave their challenges up for weeks or months so you can go back and gather some of the older ones. You do have to set up a log in for their site/store and or forum (yes 2-3 log ins per site). All of the designers have blogs and facebook with more freebies! If you join any of these sites look out for me TREEMOON. 

There are numerous things you download-Templates(a starting point for each page)

Kits-(all the goods), Alpha, Masks, Quick Pages (pages already done you just insert a picture into them). 

Lets just say I am OVERWHELMED with everything but loving the challenges. 

I will post more and let me know what you want to learn and I will give you tutorials on how to do and what to do. :) 

p.s. new fun signatures coming soon made by me (I hope).

SweetTooth Tuesdays: Strawberries and Cream Cookies

I LOVE COOKIES!!!!  So I am always trying to find new recipes to try.  After awhile chocolate chip/peanut butter/oatmeal cookies get kinda boring...tasty, but boring.  So I wanted to find a different kind of cookie.  I stumbled across this cookie....and I feel bad because I can't remember the address....I was looking at stuff on pinterest, then clicked a link on a blog, clicked another link to a different blog, and so on and can't remember where I ended up.  But luckily I wrote down the recipe =)  (so if anyone knows the original recipe, please let me know so I can give them credit for this amazing cookie!!)

Now that spring/summer are on their way....at least according to the calendar we're supposed to be in spring but the weather has a mind of it's own....I get in the mood for fruity things.  I found this recipe and couldn't resist...especially when it came to licking the beaters....=)

These have a hint of strawberry and you get that creamy taste too...hence the name strawberries and cream =)

Recipe:

1 c. butter, softened

2 tbsp. strawberry jello (the powder, do not make the jello and then add it....)

2 eggs

1 c. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 small pkg. white chocolate pudding (once again, the powder, do not make it and then add)

2 1/2 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

white chocolate chips (however many you want =)  )

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream butter and sugar together.  Add the strawberry jello.  Mix in vanilla and eggs.  Then add in all the dry ingredients and chips.  

Using a cookie scoop place on a cookie sheet. bake for 9-11 minutes.

 Let them cool on a cooling rack (try to resist eating right out of the oven....melted chocolate chips burn the tongue....)

  Once they are cooled, enjoy!!!

Foodie Friday: Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joe

I needed a quick meal one night and needed something with hamburger meat since it was thawed from the day before. I didn't want tacos....I wanted something different. Then I found this recipe.  I can't remember the site so I could link back to them...sorry =(

Ingredients:

1 Lb ground beef

1 large sweet onion, chopped

1 red or green bell pepper, chopped

 1 can mushrooms, or you can use fresh, roughly chopped *optional

1/4 cup steak sauce 

1 cup beef broth

salt and pepper, to taste

Hamburger buns

1 Tbs butter

1 Tbs flour

1 cup milk

1 Cup provolone cheese, Swiss, or Italian cheese blend, (grated)

Directions:

In a large skillet over med/high heat, add the sirloin and brown for about 5 minutes; just until it starts to separate and render some of it's fat. Add the the onion, bell pepper, and mushroom.

Cook another 5 minutes or so, until the vegetables are nice and tender. You can drain off some of the liquid if you like. Stir in the steak sauce and beef broth, season with pepper. *I would hold off on the salt until  you are just ready to serve. (The steak sauce and broth are both plenty salty) I did not need any additional salt. I did season with pepper, though. Let simmer for a few minutes.

While meat is cooking, melt the butter in a small sauce pan over medium heat.

 Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in the milk. Bring to a boil and let thicken, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.

Cut dinner rolls in half, toast, and fill with meat mixture. Top with a few spoonfuls of the cheese sauce.

Enjoy!!!

DIY Thursday: Zombie Survival Kit

We just celebrated my husbands birthday and after we both became fans of "The Walking Dead" recently I saw this amazing Pin on Pinterest where a father made a Zombie Survival Kit for his son, and decided I had to recreate it for him. Now I had grander plans for this and I have to admit that pregnancy exhaustion definitely got in the way of what I wanted to be the final product but I think it still turned out pretty well.

To start to get Terry (aka the husband) in the Zombie mood I had a bunch of posters made and posted them in his car, at the door as he came home from work and in his room.

Then he found the box. My little men helped me with the final bloody step of creating the box with a little red paint and their hands.

The rest was just a matter of wrapping up some of Terry's favorite treats and creating fun labels for them all. 

This is what it looked like when he opened the box.

I found some silly toys at the dollar store and some fake toilet paper that I think really added to the overall theme.

Really you can pick whatever treats you want, I chose stuff like Mt. Dew, snickers bar, cookies, those little boxes of Pop's like you get for the 4th of July, and a few other of his favorites. Just make sure to get a bunch of different shapes, it makes the final product more fun.

And yes I know that defense was spelled wrong. (Well I did after i made it any way.)

Its not shown in the pictures because we were waiting for it in the mail but we also got him this really neat book that takes all things zombie very seriously and makes you wonder if there really might ever be a zombie take over. BE PREPARED!!

Well to finish I really must tell you to check out my original pinspiration because it is amazing and I hope that both of these ideas inspire you to create some zombie fun of your own.

Wild Card Wednesday: Duck Dynasty Party

DUCK   DYNASTY   PARTY

For those of you that love the show Duck Dynasty this is your party

We had so much fun and some good laughs.

Some of the stuff are moments form different seasons of the show.

"Hey, Hey It's party time Jack" 

I made this pinata from a balloon to look like a bee hive from one of the episodes the spend the whole show trying to get the honey out of the bee hive.

 We had mallow dogs (from one of the episodes)                             They are always drinking sweet tea but                                        
                                                                                                              we used apple juice instead

 We had some beards for a photo booth.

We asked that everyone dress in hunting clothes 

 Fun with the pinata 

If you are interested in having a Ducky Dynasty party. You can rent this party to celebrate with your friends and family. check it out here at Party In A Box