Here is the latest card I made for the monthly Iron Chef recipe card swap that I participate in. My category was cold dessert, and the secret ingredient was lemons! Our hostess, Jessica, sent everyone some patterned paper and challenged us to use the paper on our cards. The paper is blue, brown & white! Doesn't exactly go with yellow or a lemon theme, so it was definitely a challenge for me. I am pretty happy with how my card turned out though. I dry embossed the "Lemon Ice Cream" title, the lemon and lemon slices using a Lasting Impressions brass template. I put the recipe itself into a pocket I created with brown cardstock. Hope you're having a great holiday weekend!
Hi, These are two projects I made for swaps. The card swap had to follow a sketch (which I've since lost/deleted the image of, so I can't share it with you, oops!) and had to use the colors blue and orange. The image is from CC Designs. The recipe card is for the Iron Chef recipe card swap. We were each assigned an ingredient (mine was onion) and then we had to design a recipe card using our ingredient in a vegetarian main dish. This was pretty difficult. Who knew it was so hard to find a vegetarian main dish with onions in it?! Hope you're having a great week!
After about an 8 month hiatus, I am swapping with the Iron Chef gals again! I am so excited to have the time to commit to swapping again. I had to take a break from swapping with them because I was just too busy trying to finish my brother's wedding invites and save the date cards. Now that I have those projects behind me, I can devote some time to swapping. I love the Iron Chef recipe swap. It's a swap for 6x6 recipe cards. Our hostess, Jess, is wonderful! I couldn't ask for a better hostess. She's organized and always provides us with great sketches and challenges. She provided the patterned paper to all the swappers and our challenge was to use the patterned paper and this sketch. The theme was salads. I chose a broccoli salad recipe. The tag has the recipe for the dressing on it. I wish I had taken a picture of the tag before I sent my pages off to the hostess, oh well. We're always looking for more people to join our little group of recipe page swappers, so if you're interested please let me know!
I am still participating in the Iron Chef recipe card swap and having so much fun. Jessica is a great hostess. This month, the category I chose was main dish. Lisa picked the secret ingredient, ground beef. Jessica sent each participant a little something (I got these cute St. Patrick's Day stamps and some green ribbon) and challenged us to use what she sent us on our recipe cards. As an added challenge, we were to make the card monochromatic, and add a decorative edge on the card. This was definitely a challenge!! I wish I had some green patterned paper but green is probably my least favorite color, and I'm already pushing the deadline so I had to make do with what I had. Thanks for stopping by!
The theme for the Iron Chef Recipe Card swap this month is broccoli. My category was a grilled recipe. I followed the sketch that the swap hostess gave us for my card this month. I found this cute broccoli guy on the internet, printed the image on cardstock, punched it out and added the little google eyes to him. This was a super quick & easy card. Hope you're having a great week and are staying warm!
Here is my latest Iron Chef Recipe Card. This month the secret ingredient was mushrooms. My category was crock pot recipes. Finding a good recipe was super easy! When I found these new Imaginisce papers at my LSS, Angela's Happy Stamper, I knew they would be perfect for my cards. Sort of has a 1970's feel to it I think. I'm loving how these turned out!
I am still participating in the Iron Chef recipe swap. It's been almost a year since I joined, and I am having so much fun creating these recipe cards. They can be really challenging! This was my month to select the secret ingredient. I chose garlic and chose side dish as my category. The swap hostess gave us all a sketch to use when creating our cards. I love that, design is the thing I struggle with most in my cards. Here is the picture of the sketch and what I came up with.
For the October Iron Chef recipe swap, the category I picked was "beverage"... well, turns out the secret ingredient was Tomatoes!! That made it really difficult for me, I didn't know of any tomato drinks other than a bloody mary. I looked online and found this recipe for a slow cooker tomato cocktail. I'm trying to use up some the patterned paper that I've had forever. I used some old Rusty Pickle paper on this card.
Here are a couple more recipe cards I've been working on for swaps. I'm hoping by November, I'll have enough extra recipe cards that I can make a few recipe books for Christmas gifts. The first one is for a Crock Pot recipe swap. I used a Campbell's soup can stamp by Art Gone Wild. The second one is for the Iron Chef recipe swap series I'm participating in. This month's requirement was red/white/blue (either the food or your card!) and my category was desserts. I found the twinkie guy image online. This was a super easy card, no stamping, no coloring, just put it on a page.
I had a nice relaxing weekend. For once, I didn't have a hundred things to do this weekend! I slept in and was able to spend a lot of time in my craft room. I worked on a lot of swaps that I've signed up for recently, and I'm happy to say I am caught up on all of them. It feels good to be done with those commitments. Here are a few recipe cards I've been working on, the first one is for a pizza recipe swap. The second one is for a side dish recipe swap that I am hostessing. This is one of my favorite dishes, my family makes it for every holiday meal. It is wonderful, just making these cards was making my mouth water for it! Hope you had a nice weekend too!
I joined a couple more recipe swaps on the PaperCrafts Magazine site. I really enjoy swapping and seeing what others create. The first recipe was for the Iron Chef recipe swap series I am in. My category was pies and my secret ingredient was almonds. I don't really care for almonds so I had to do a little research to find a pie recipe with almonds in it. Pink & brown is still one of my favorite color combos. The pie is dry embossed using a Lasting Impressions template.
The recipe card below was made for a swap called "Get to know your state." We had to find out what the agricultural business was in our state and make a recipe card using those ingredients produced in your state. I had no idea what is produced in Virginia... I live a few miles from DC so there aren't any farms around here! I had to do a little research on this one too. I found out that Virginia has a large dairy cow population. Who knew!? So I decided to use a recipe with milk.... caramel hot chocolate! The cow is a stamp by A Muse.
I recently joined a recipe swap on a Yahoo Group I belong to. The only requirement for the swap was your recipe card had to have a bunny on it. I have lots of bunny embossing templates so I thought I would give it a try. I found this yummy carrot dish recipe online and printed it on Lasting Impressions paper. I made the card itself have a pocket and stuck the recipe inside the pocket. I thought it looked plain so I dry embossed the dots all around the outside of the card. Then I dry embossed the bunny and eggs and put them inside another pocket. I just thought it would be easier if the recipe wasn't catching on the bunny every time you slide it in or out of the pocket. Now, I'm really wishing I had a carrot template since I chose a carrot recipe. Oh well. I hope my fellow swappers like them anyway.
I've been working on some swaps lately. I am in an ongoing recipe card swap each month where we have to choose a category, and then we are given a secret ingredient. We have to then create a recipe card using the secret ingredient that fits within our chosen category. My category for March is "Soups, Stews & Chili." And the secret ingredient is Cinnamon. That's a toughie. Then I remembered the Cincinnati Chili that my mom makes has cinnamon in it. I found this outline of a map of Ohio and typed the recipe inside. I have to admit, I had no idea on that Ohio map where Cincinnati was located. I had to look up Cincinnati's location on mapquest. Even though I'm from Ohio, I'm from the northeast part of the state. In college, some friends and I once drove to Cincinnati, and it took us over 5 hours to get there. I couldn't believe we could drive that far and still be in the same state! Ohio doesn't seem that big. I hope I put my star brad in the correct place on the map and I am not showing off my bad geography skills to my fellow swappers.
I've been signing up for some recipe card swaps on the Paper Crafts Magazine website. I've really been enjoying the challenge of creating on a larger space than I 'm used to (I don't really scrapbook, just mainly do cards). The first picture is a recipe card I made for a holiday treats recipe swap. These cards are 6x6 so they fit nicely in that sized scrapbook. I remember my mom making these candy cane cookies every year for us. They are delicious! I made them this year, took them to work, and they were gone in less than an hour!
The second picture is a card I made for an Iron Chef recipe swap. This was a real challenge! You sign up for the swap and have to pick your category (salad, dessert, beverage, etc) before you even know what the secret ingredient is! I don't watch Iron Chef on TV so I'm not sure I fully understood what I was getting into. I picked beverage and the secret ingredient was oranges. Easy! Whhewww! Turns out my family makes this orange slush every Christmas holiday... only ours is a slightly modified version with Vodka. I forgot to add we freeze it after making it so that is where the "slush" comes in. Oh well.
