Favorite Cookie Recipe

dug out this recipe to make for my son in law - thought I would share it with all of you.  Very yummy.

Peanut Butter Fudge Bars

1 pkg (18 ¼ oz) yellow cake mix                         1 egg

1 cup creamy peanut butter                                   ½ c. vegetable oil

1 can sweetened condensed milk                        1 c. (6 oz) semisweet chocolate chips

2 T. butter

In bowl combine cake mix, peanut butter, egg and oil.  Press 2/3 of mixture into greased 13 x 9 pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.  Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.

In heavy saucepan heat milk, choc chips and butter over low heat.  Stir until well blended.  Pour over crust.  Sprinkle with remaining crumbs.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool on wire rack.

Unity Stamps and My Mind's Eye

Unity Stamp Company has a challenge on their facebook page to use their itty bitty stamps - I have all my Unity Stamps together and I knew where they were - surprised aren't you - so I took out my sewing machine stamp - I always make my assistant a set of cards for her birthday - her birthday is in March and I am usually trying to get them done right before her birthday - so now I have one made.  I love the colors in this grouping from My Mind's Eye.

Sew happy you stopped by today.  I found a card shape on Silhouette - shaped like a spool of thread - I think I will have to use it with this stamp to make another card.

Silhouette fun and Operation Write Home

Sharing another card I made using my Silhouette - check yesterday's post for another card.  This is one of the free cutting files that comes with the machine.  I decided to turn the tag into a cute card.  I sized the tag down to fit on an A2 card - put a color behind the words to make them pop - added some flowers from the flower drawer and some great My Mind's Eye paper.  I made this for Operation Write Home. 

This week's midweek challenge on OWH Stars and Stamps is to use something you got for Christmas - Merry Christmas to Barb - very fun to use.

Come back tomorrow - I may have another card for you to see.

Silhouette Adventures

I got a Silhouette Cameo at Christmas so now I am beginning to start to play with it.  This is one of the card I made this week end.  I used paper from My Mind's Eye - Everyday Flair and a sticker from SRM Stickers to complete my card.  I colored some pearls to match the pink in the card.

Come back  again to see more adventures with the Silhouette.  I am having fun.

Lawn Fawn and Basic Grey

I love the saying on this stamp from Lawn Fawn - a perfect stamp for an Operation Write Home card.  I knew I wanted to use a paper that resembled a map and Basic Grey had this great paper which had some nice colors to compliment the design.

The first card is based on the sketch from Card Positioning System.  I used a circle in the middle rather than a rectangle.  I added dry embossing to the strip behind the circle. 

The second card is based on the sketch from Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps blog.  The little strips are paper I trimmed off the map paper (double sided).  It worked perfectly. 

I hope you enjoyed today's cards.  If you want to do something that makes you very happy, start making cards for Operation Write Home.  They are guaranteed to bring smiles to many faces.

1st Oldie Moldie Monday 2012

I have this wonderful pad of Making Memories paper called English Garden - I don't think I have hardly used any of it so I got it out and started making cards - I believe with the blue rose paper I have made 5 cards - and then I had to try out my new Silhouette machine and I cut the butterfly with it.  It was one of the free shapes you get.  I embossed the butterflies and then layered them to add some dimension to the card.  I tied some bakers twine around the butterfly. 

The stamps used on the top two cards are Hero Arts stamps.  I have gotten so much use out of this set - they is one more stamp in the set - Just Saying Hello.  I used a SRM sticker to complete the butterfly card.

The midweek challenge on the Operation Write Home card blog Stars and Stamps was to make a thank you card in honor of Dixie - our east coast shipper - who has retired from shipping so hopefully she can make more beautiful cards. 

So in 2012 dig into your old supplies and show them some love.  It is amazing how beautiful those papers still are.

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year - hope 2012 is filled with health and happiness for all of you.  I hve spent the day playing with paper and just relaxing - work is going to get crazy so I need to enjoy these quiet days at home. 

I wanted to send some New Year cards to a couple people so when Melonheadz Illustrating posted this cute baby New Year - I could not resist using it.  I had this great number paper from Authentique that I thought would add to a new year card.  Why oh why did I not buy a 12 x 12 sheet of this paper - maybe because I never saw it in 12 x 12.  The first card is based on the sketch at Authentique Papers blog.  I had this embossing folder of clocks and for a new year card it seemed appropirate and adds a little extra texture. 

The other card is using up all the different pieces I had of this particular grouping of paper.  Did you know that there is a certain color of ORANGE that is the color for 2012.

I added a couple stickers from SRM - it is from a birthday sticker sheet but I think Celebrate works for a new year's card.  I did add some sparkle to the baby's hat and flag and also the numbers on the first card.

Enjoy the remainder of today - and hopefully everyone cheers on the Wisconsin Badgers tomorrow in the Rose Bowl.