A CHOCOLATE Post

Hello There!

Well, I went to take a picture of a recent card I made to post on my blog and my batteries were dead! Sooooooooo.... instead I thought I'd post a "yummy" picture of Jolie - with CHOCOLATE ALL OVER HER FACE! .....along with a glint of mischievousness in her eyes - gotta love it!

Anyway, I do hope to re-charge my batteries (my camera batteries that is) tonight and take the picture tomorrow so that I can actually post a new creation on my blog!

Happy Smiles and hugs too!
~avril :-)

Steppin' it up a notch

Hello to ALL!!!

I was having some fun altering this first card (below) for a workshop a couple of weeks ago and realized I wasn't just "altering" the card but "steppin' it up a notch" too! Gosh, I feel like I am on Emeril Lagasse's show!!!! :-)

See if you can find the difference between the two cards....... My photography is not the best so look closely!

Both cards use basically the same supplies and tools except for a little bit of silver cord and brads added into the 2nd card.

Here are the ingredients I used....

Stamp Set - Snow Swirled

Cardstock - Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Whisper White

Ink - Pacific Point, Baja Breeze

Accessories - Blender Pens, Dimensionals, Whisper White Taffeta ribbon, Silver cord, Filigree Designer and Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, Silver Brads, White Gel Pen, Paper Piercer and Scallop Edge, 1/4 circle, 1/2 circle punches

It's kinda fun to step it up a little bit from one card to the next! A good challenge indeed!!!

Wishing all of you a lovely weekend!

I do hope to post again real soon!

Hugs and smiles galore,

~avril :-)

Happy Halloween!!! - the day after.....

Happy Happy WEEKEND to EVERYONE!!!


For Halloween I made these little "pizza boxes" for Jolie's super fabulous teachers at her day-care. You can find a wonderful (and easy easy) tutorial to make these boxes on Beate's blog.

Inside the boxes I tucked in a clear bag full of yummy chocolate treats. I have to say that these little boxes were soooooooooo much fun to make - and EASY EASY EASY to make!!!! - but I already said that didn't I! :-)

For a couple of friends I did whip up a few matching small pumpkin candles wrapped in ribbon and DSP of Ghostly Greetings....which you can also see in this picture below. Easy, cute and fun to make!

Ingredients...
Eat, Drink and Be Scary Stamp Set,
Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss CS, Basic Black Ink,
Ghostly Greetings DSP, Pumpkin Pie and Natural Twill ribbon,
1/8" circle punch, dimensionals, lrg and sml tag punches,
paper piercer.

Lovely! Now I am ready to move onto the next holiday....Turkey Day!

Happy Smiles and BIG Squeezes,
~asm :-)




Just a fun pic of Jolie cuddlin' up to her "potatoe head" witch of a jack-o-latern! Gotta love the PINK cowgirl hat - her newest addition to dress-up fun. :-)

Lady Bug Lady Bug......

......fly away home!

I thought I'd give a little peak of Jolie's costume for Halloween. If you can't tell from the pic she is going to be a lady bug (a stickin' cute lady bug at that!!!!)......spoken from a true "proud mama". It's a fabulous little costume because it is nice and warm and oh-so easy to put on - it's just like a jacket with a pair of pants and "voila!" you have a lady bug ready for action!

More Halloween pic's to come in the near future!
~avril :-)

Halloween Treats!

Happy Halloween!

I have been having so much fun this year with Halloween! It maybe due to the fact that Jolie is really starting to enjoy and participate in this holiday. I have had a couple of Halloween Treat's Class' along with a fun filled Halloween party for Jolie, a handful of her friends and their parents too - so I've had a bunch of opportunities to have creative fun for the holiday of Halloween. Hope you enjoy the pic's of some of my projects for these events!

Hugs and "spooky" smiles,

~avril :-)

Apple Yummy Dessert

Happy Tuesday!

I wanted to post a super super yummy o yummy dessert I made this past weekend with the apples we picked on Saturday. I call it my Jen B. Apple Yumminess Dessert because my dear friend Jen B. gave it to me! - I have been told in the past day or so (through friends on Facebook) that it is actually a recipe for a Dutch Apple Pie. Well.....I still want to call it Jen B.'s Apple Yumminess Dessert!!!! ;-)

Jen B's Apple Yumminess Dessert

Mix all together the following ingredients....
1 c. flour
1 c. sugar
dash o salt
1 egg
1 1/4 c. melted butter

and then pour over.....

4-6 c. peeled and cut baking apples - toss with a couple tsp's cinnamon and place in a buttered pie dish.

Bake at 350* for 45 minutes - or until nice and brown ontop. Serve with vanilla ice cream and you've got it made! Enjoy!!!

p.s. As you will see from my picture below a cookie sheet underneath the pie plate is wise.....the yumminess of the dessert tends to run-th over if ya know what I mean!

Bella Rose

Hello to Everyone!

This is a card I made last month for a "NEW" stamp set swap I hosted. LUV, LUV, LUV this stamp set! It's just so pretty and voluptuous (yup....luv that word too!)

I ended up laying the rose a couple of times not only to get a couple of colors into the bud of the flower but also to add dimention.

Here is the recipe....

Stamp Set - Bella Rose
Card Stock - Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Pink Passion and Whisper White
Ink - Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Pink Passion
Accessories - 2-way glue pen, Dazzlin' Diamonds Glitter, paper piercer, dimensionals, silver brads, white gel pen, A La Carte jumbo wheel (retired...opps!)Word Window, Designer Label, 1" circle punches, Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

As I am typing away my picture is getting lower and lower....don't like it! Sorry! I wanted the pic to be ontop of the posting.....not on the bottom! Oh well, can't win them all!

Thanks for stoppin' by to check me out!
~avril :-)