Some Odd Girl gift!

Look what I got for Christmas!! I am so excited about my new stamps and can't wait to play with them.  Aren't they cute??  If you want some for yourself, go check out the Some Odd Girl blog.

Cup Cozies

I have been seeing cup cozies everywhere lately...craft magazines, blogs, Pinterest, etc.  I just love them! I decided to make a couple myself using a paper sleeve (from my local coffee shop) as a pattern.  These are the first two I made.  Now that I have the hang of it, I'll have to do another post with some instructions....it is sew easy. ;-)  

 

 

Snowmen Cakes

I made these snowmen cakes using a metal cake mold I got from TJ Maxx.  The eyes, mouth and buttons are royal icing - the hat is coated in royal too.  The nose and holly are made with fondant.  The body is covered in butter cream icing and coconut.  You could just dust them with powdered sugar or  cover the entire cake in fondant.  There are a lot of options with this cute little guy.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

I made both of these cards at my friend Patty's card class.  The little turkey is my fav!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Thanksgiving Snacks

These are my little snacks I made for Thanksgiving this year.

Candy Acorns

I found the idea for these acorns on Pinterest....love me some Pinterest! I couldn't get it to link back to the directions, but it was easy enough to figure out.  Here's how I made them: Open mini Nutter Butter cookies and remove the peanut butter. Put a small skillet on the the stove eye and get it hot, touch the bottom of the Hershey kiss to the skillet to melt it, then stick the melted part to the Nutter Butter.  Melt the bottom of a chocolate chip and put it on top as a stem.

Turkey Cake Pops

Make your chocolate cake pops.  Be sure they have chilled for about 30 minutes then use melted chocolate as glue to put the candy corn feathers on.  Let those chill for a few minutes, then add the eyes (made ahead of time from royal icing), beak (pointed end of candy corn), and waddle (candy sprinkle).



Breaking Dawn Goodies

Some of my Twilight Saga crazy friends and myself decided to go see the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn.  Well, you just can't go to a movie that late without a midnight snack - goodie bags are a must!!

I used the Martha Stewart "Drippy Goo" punch to add some blood at the bottom of the tag.  To make the blood look wet, I added a little diamond glaze.

The goodie bags have Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares (with gooey red rasberry filling inside), vampire fang cookies, and vampire bite cookies.  Oh, and plastic vampire teeth...of course.   :-)

These vampire bite cookies are so much fun.  They are filled with red jelly on the inside, so when you bite into them, they "bleed".  I got the idea and recipe from Baking Bites blog. Check out it out for the complete recipe.

 I made these sugar cookies using the Wilton Vampire Fang pan. 

Mustache Card

My sweet friend gave me this fun Amuse stamp set (Foiled Again). This is a quick card I made using some of the stamps. The middle mustache is popped out and has ultra fine "Flower Soft" flocking on it. I just love all of the cute 'staches in this set.