My favorite slow cooker corn chowder

This is my favorite slow cooker soup recipe.  Super easy!  Just be careful to not over cook as the milk will start to separate.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups milk
1 can cream style corn
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cups frozen corn (canned will work as well)
1 cup frozen shredded hash brown potatoes (that's the easy way, fresh work just as well)
1 cup cubed cooked ham
1 chopped onion
2 TBS butter
Herbs such as parsley or chives for garnish (optional)
Salt and Pepper to taste.  Add pepper only at the end as it can get bitter when cooked for a long time.
Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker.  Cover and cook on low for 6 hrs.  I've tried this on high, but it turns out better if you use low and again, do not over cook.  When the onions are tender, the soup is done.
Enjoy!
Kelly

Casing Shelli scrapbook page

This is a photo of my parents at my wedding.  It was REALLY hot that day!!  I think the tall tales have the temperature up to 304 that day.
Anyway, I didn't get to go to leadership this year, but got to see the photos that my friend took of one of Shelli Gardner's scrapbook pages and this is my take on it...

I love the vintage distressed look and of cours, all the pink!!  It actually went together quicker than I expected.  The flowers were made out of blush blossom and pretty in pink cardstock and the Flower Layers with Leaf die for the Big Shot (a must have), and circle punches.  each pieces was crumpled and sponged with the same color of ink.  The punched circles were distressed around the edges using the distressing tool.  The background paper was made by rolling the Very Vintage wheel in chocolate chip on very vanilla cardstock (8 1/2 x 8 1/2), then sponging on pretty in pink and blush blossom ink all over the page.  The photo is 4 x4 and the photo mat is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 

Thanks for taking a peek and if I didn't add enough details here for you, please let me know if you have any questions!

Happy Stamping,

Kelly

Extreme Skateboard Birthday Card

I'm so sad to see Sale-A-Bration come to an end.  It's been so much FUN!!  I've so enjoyed all the workshops I've done and the wonderful people I've met.  AND of course, all the free stamps that even I have gotten.  But I'm looking forward to April's sweet special on two step stamping and to May, National Scrapbooking month!
So here's a birthday card I intend to send to my brother who owns a skate shop in Idaho.  http://www.meritboardshop.com/
I'm so proud of him and what he's doing with the local youth in his area. 
I used a couple of my free sale a bration sets on his card:  Four Square and Extreme Skateboard.  It's not too late!! Sale-A-Bration lasts till March 31st!! Click here to shop now.  Get a free stamp set from the Sale A Bration catalog for every $50 you spend!! Yipee!!  Who doesn't LOVE FREE STUFF!!

The paper used is the Write Stuff patterned paper pack which comes with really cool die cuts.  I distressed all the parts by sanding and inked the edges of the happy birthday stamped image.  I also used the Itty Bitty Background stamp on the die cut.  Colors used are: soft suede, and real red.  Paper used:  Whisper White, Real Red, The Write Stuff. Embellishments:  silver brads. Tools:  paper piercer, sanding block, scallop sqare punch, 1 1/4" square punch, stampin sponges

Hostess Appreciation Projects

I've invited my hostesses over for dinner tomorrow night and we're going to make these projects:

Actually, we're only making the card and the pillow box.  The scrapbook page is an example of all the great things you can do with our marvelous stamp sets!  I hope they like them. 

Ingredients: Hello Again stamp set, retro remix wheel, real red, old olive, pumpkin pie, kraft cardstock and ink, old olive 1/4 grosgrain ribbon, big shot, curly label Bigz XL die, pillow box die, scalloped border punch, scalloped square punch, spiral punch, corner punch, tag punch, 1" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, stampin dimensionals, paper snips

The scalloped edge on the tag was done with the scalloped square punch.  the scalloped square is just slightly larger, so I trimmed it to fit.  Cute huh?

The scrapbook page is 81/2 x 8 1/2.  The photo mount is 4x5. Got questions...just ask!

This stamp set Hello Again is available FREE right now with a $50 purchase. 

Check out the Sale-A-Bration catalog! and then go shopping ONLINE at my store.

Well, this is neat...what on earth made the formatting go back to "left" is beyond me...nice blogger.

The next hostess appreciation dinner will be in August 2010, so BE A HOSTESS before then!!! :-)
Thanks for stopping by!
Kelly

Hello Neighbor

Hello Stampers!
My dear friend Amy, back home in southern CA, told me about a new paper company website.  The gallery is GORGEOUS!! I've created a few of my own cards fashioned in a way off of things I've seen in that gallery.  Here's the first...

Ok, can somebody tell me why after I add a photo I can't get my formatting back to the way it was?????? AHHHH!

Anyway...

Ingredients:  old olive, whisper white cardstock and bermuda bay, welcome neighbor designer series paper, rose red ink, vintage label stamp set, rhinestone brads, bermuda bay polka dot ribbon, old olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, scallp trim border punch, scalloped circle punch, big shot, billboard decorative strip die, embosslits beautiful wings

(MMM....still won't let me UN center everything.)

The border punch, the vintage lable stamp set, and the patterned paper pack are only available FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 dollar purchase. Choose one item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog for EVERY $50 you spend.  Spend $150 and have your self a party with 3 free Sale-A-Bration products, a free hostess set, and $15 FREE shopping dollars.

Contact me for more details

or

Shop Online Anytime

Thanks for stopping by,

Kelly

Maybe by my next post I'll have figured out how to UN center everything.

February 20th Birthday Card Class in Sidney, NE

Come and join me this Saturday, February 20th in Sidney, NE for a birthday card classe.  Fee is $15.  We will be making 10 cards, 2 each of 5 designs. Please contact me for additional details. Here are the cards we'll be making...

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink (5 1/2 x 4 1/4, 8 x 4 1/4-score this piece at 4" and 6"), Whisper White (3 3/4 x 5, 1 3/8 x 3 3/4), and Close to Cocoa (5 1/4 x 4, 4 x 2-punch one long edge with scalloped edge punch)
Pretty in pink 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon, stampin dimensionals, Stampin Write markers: creamy caramel, rose red, gable green, chocolate chip, pink passion.
Stamp sets: Beary Best Friends, Beary Nice Wishes
Ink:  Chocolate Chip.

Fisherman's vest card uses Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa Cardstock, large tag and tag punch, large oval punch, black stampin write marker, stampin sponges, chocolate chip ink. Take a 8 1/2 piece of chocolate chip cardstock and score at 2 1/8 and again at 6 3/8, bend back the collar, punch out the arm holes and neck hole with the large oval punch.  after punching out the pockets with the 2 sizes of tag punches, fold back 1/4 inch on all flat ends then decorate with stiching lines and sponging with chocolate chip ink.  Add brads for the buttons.  I'll add a 4x4 piece of very vanilla to the inside with my greeting when I send it.  I will also probably decorate the pockets with some of my fishing stickers.  Remember when you bought stickers for EVERYTHING once upon a time?

                                                                                  

This darling card features the butterfly embosslit found in the mini occasions 2010 catalog. Rich razzleberry, old olive, mambo melon card stock, old olive and rich razzleberry ink, the Big Shot, Top Note die, and rich razzleberry polkadot ribbon.  Stamp sets: Inspired by Nature and All Holidays.

Isn't this frog too cute!  I saw him on the new Stampin Up demonstrator only share site.  He was posted by Kellie Anyn Paxton.  I used Gable green paper and ink(sponging).  The punches used were wide oval punch for the head and body.  The legs were made with the large oval punch, feet with the boho flowers punch.  The belly was made with the small oval punch.  The eyes were made with the 1", 3/4" and 1/2" circle punches.  The background was stamped with Inspired by nature in close to cocoa ink that was stamped off first.  The stump was hand cut and decorated with black marker and sponging in chocolate chip.

This beauty was also cased from stampinconnection, but as always, altered just a bit.  I used the vintage vogue set to stamp the flowers in crushed curry ink and soft suede using the rock n roll technique and then cut them out.  You gotta get the paper snips for your detailed cutting if you don't have them already.  They're the best!  The "patterend paper" was created by rolling the very vintage roller stamp in crushed curry then using a sponge inked with the same, just smoosh ink all over the stamped image till you get the desired effect.  The polka dot panel was made with the new polka dot embossing folder from the Occasions Mini Catalog 2010.  I LOVE the embossing folders...Love them!!!

Thanks for visiting!

Kelly

Shelly and My Digital Studio

I finally got to play with My Digital Studio a little. Shelly, my aunt, posted some photos up on Facebook and asked me if I wanted to scrapbook them. She and her husband had a lovely hike in the Brown County State Park in Nashville, IN after a beautiful snow fall.  Looks a little cold for hiking to me, but they're used to winter.
Don't you just LOVE that swirly flowery boder? This was fun. I'd love to know what you think. 

Thanks for stopping by!
Kelly