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I've been working all week so I haven't had time to get in my craftroom to work on cards or anything for that matter.  Boy, do I miss it.  Club is coming up fast again and I need to get everything planned.  I think it will be Halloween / Fall theme, but that can change too once I start playing around with the stamp sets.  

Have you looked at my post yesterday about the dsp sale?  Don't forget to check it out.  The sale starts on October 1st.  If you are looking for Christmas paper, you might want to order early.  With Christmas coming soon, I wouldn't be surprised if quantities would run low.  

For my Tasty Thursday, I thought I'd share a dessert my family loves.  I've been making this since my girls were in grade school.  They are currently in college.  My husband isn't a lover of birthday cakes so often his request for a birthday dessert.  It's easy so I'm not going to argue.  It's something that you can just pick at and eat.  And actually it's easier to eat in a bowl rather than a plate.  

No Bake Bars

4 cups Cheerios (I use Honey Nut Cheerios)

2 cups Rice Krispies

2 cups dry roasted peanuts

2 cups M&M's

1 cup corn syrup

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine cereals, peanuts & M&Ms in large mixing bowl.  In sauce pan, bring sugar and corn syrup to boil.  Cook until sugar is dissolved.  Remove from heat.  Add peanut butter and vanilla.  Pour over cereal  mixture and toss to coat evenly.  Spread in greased 9x13 pan.  Cool.  Cut.

Note:  I usually add an additional 1/4 c of the corn syrup, sugar and peanut butter. My preference is that the original recipe just needs a little more to hold everything together.  

I hope you try it and leave a comment.  I would love to hear your opinions.

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

 

Take a look as to what is coming up in October!  Stampin' Up is having a sale on the Designer Series Paper!  You buy 3 packs of paper, and get another one free!  The sale includes paper from the Annual Catalog and also the Holiday Catalog.  And...it includes some paper stacks!  Who can resist a sale?  Especially with Christmas around the corner.

Just think what you can do with all that paper.  The possibilities are endless. Think past the Holidays.  We can't always think about Christmas.  There are tons of other reasons we need cards.  

                            Designer Series Paper Sale Items:

      Annual P. 189   144180  Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper $13.00USD

Annual P. 189  144137   Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper           $11.00 UDS

Annual P. 189   144118   Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper     $11.00UDS

Annual P. 188   144111   Be Merry Designer Series Paper                        $11.00UDS

Annual P. 188   144163   Pick A Pattern Designer Series Paper              $11.00UDS

Annual P.188    144155   Coffee Break Designer Series Paper                 $11.00UDS

Annual P.188    144185   Naturally Eclectic Designer Series Paper        $11.00UDS
Annual P.188    144110   Whole Lot Of Lovely Designer Series Paper   $11.00 UDS

Annual P.187    144168   Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack     $10.00UDS

Annual P.187     144193   Color Theory Designer Series Paper Stack    $10.00UDS

 Annual P.187     144177   Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack   $10.00UDS

Holiday P 29     144629  Christmas Around The World                            $11.00UDS

 Designer Series Paper

Holiday p. 49    144613   Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper          $11.00UDS

When  you order online, the fourth pack automatically comes up at no charge.  It's that easy.  You want to see the paper again?  Just click on the image in the beginning of this post and it will take you to my online store.  Start planning your order now!  

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

This is going to be a quick post, but I wanted to share this video with you.  It's from Stampin' Up.  The video is only one minute long but it shows different products from the holiday catalog and ideas on how to use them. Want to know some ideas for the acetate boxes?  It gives a super cute idea how to decorate one.  

Like I said, it was a quick post.  

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

Happy Sunday!  It's Sept. 24 and the temperature is in the 90's here in Wisconsin.  Where is the fall weather?  And to top it off, the Green Bay Packers aren't playing the way they should be. Seriously...get it together guys.  Regardless, I'm glad to be in my air-conditioned house watching them.

The card I'm posting is what I made for my club thank yous.  Every month, my club members received a hand-designed card from me.  I just stick it in with their club orders.  The dsp is from the Painted Autumn series.  If you have the paper, do you recognize the pumpkins?  It's actually from a sheet of paper.  I just cut out the trio and used that as my image.  No stamping required.  That is, unless you don't want a sentiment on the front.  I chose to let it blank so they can add their own if needed.  

Do you hate wasting paper?  I do.  On the sheet of paper, there are some pumpkins that were cut off at the bottom.  I cut those out and added them to the card inside.  There's not much else they are good for.  Make the inside look super nice.

Well, the Green Bay Packers have rallied in the second half, but they still have a long way to go.  

Click on the picture for dimensions and instructions.

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

 

 

When I started this blog, I was going to post a recipe or kitchen tip weekly.  This is my first one!  I know it's late, but still trying to figure things out.  Please be patient. 

My first recipe is perfect for fall.  Pumpkin Bars.  Since pumpkin is very popular right now, I thought it would be a great first recipe.  It's also such an easy recipe to make.  Pretty much just add all the ingredients together and mix.  Can't get any easier than that.  I made these for a demonstrator meeting and everyone loved them.  

Pumpkin Bars

2 cup sugar

4eggs

1 - 15 oz can pumpkin puree

1 cup oil

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

dash of salt and nutmeg

Mix all ingredients together.  Grease jelly roll pan.  Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.  Cool completely.  Frost

Cream Cheese Frosting

6 tablespoon margarine or butter, room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups powdered sugar

3 oz. cream cheese, room temperature

2 tablespoons milk

Beat with mixer until smooth.

Hope you will try this recipe.  It's also super cute when cut into squares and each square has a piece of candy corn on it.  Festive without too much  effort.

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

It has been two years since I've joined Stampin' Up as a demonstator.  Wow.  I'm not one to jump in head first.  I prefer to do things little by little.  For example is this blog.  I had been thinking about it for about a year.  Now I finally got the courage and here I am.  I never kept a diary and a blog is like that, only definately not private.  My next goal is to set up a HomeStyle Stamper Facebook page.  I know it should have been done when this blog was set up, but it didn't get done.  I want to have it up within a month.  There.  Now it's out for people to see and it will push me to get it done.  I've got to stop procrastinating about it.  That's all there is to it.  

I wanted to share a card my upline, Lyssa Zwolanek, set me for my 2 year anniversary.  The card style is just fabulous.  I can't wait to use it at my club.  It's different but not too complicated.  

This all I have for now.  It's getting late and I do have to work tomorrow.  

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

What's fall without some pumpkins?  Same goes in card making.  I made this card for a card swap and also my monthly card club.  Duo purpose card.  Gotta love it.  Can  you recognize where this stamp came from?  It's just one stamp of 25 from the At Home with You set from the annual catalog.  It's designed to go next to a door, but I like it all by itself.  Look at what you all get with this stamp set!  And the best thing is that it also has framelits so no fussy cutting.  

I dug out the watercolor pencils to color the stamped image.  Sometimes I have a tendency to forget about these.  What's nice about the watercolor pencils is that you don't get any  lines the markers leave.  And it's so easy to blend and shade with the colors.  You could use watercolor paper and the aqua painters.  But I used the blender pens with Very Vanilla cardstock.  

It's super easy.  Just color the image with the watercolor pencils.  Starting with the lightest color, use the blender pen and color over the image.  Do this one color at a time.  In between colors, just wipe the blender pen off on your grid paper and go on to the next.  Look at the picture.  The left image is just watercolor pencils.  The right image is with the blender pen.  It gives a polished look to your card.

Isn't the difference amazing?  And it's super easy to do.  I'm not a big fan of coloring, but this was fun to play with.  Brings out the kid in me.  The key is to clean the blender pen in between the colors so don't forget.

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the picture for the dimensions and instructions.  Hope everyone has a great weekend! 

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper

I was so glad to have my club people back again!  Not all could make it, but that's ok.  We still had fun.  Summertime is pretty crazy, so we don't always meet then.  For our first time back, I like to have a small favor to welcome them back.  I dug out the crate framelit for the first time and played with that.  It's so adorable.  The picture isn't the greatest because at the last minute I realized that I didn't take a picture.

 The crates are made from the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack.  There are a variety of different wood textures to choose from.  My favorite was the birch tree texture.  I decided to save that for a possible future card.  So, I chose 3 different wood grains and then they could pick from those.  Add some fall candy.  The crates fit into the gusseted cellophane bags perfectly.  Top with a tag made from the Labels to Love stamp bundle and you have a perfect club favor.  Who doesn't love a little something extra?  Especially when it's for no reason at all.

Until next time...Stampin' Always

Cheryl, HomeStyle Stamper