Friday, March 15, 2013

Look at these yummy recipe cards and a Cross Card set!

Hello Everyone!

Yes, I have started my own personal creation blog!

I have been on such a journey these last two years....with health issues, food discoveries, gluten and corn intolerances, homeschooling, and so much more!  I love creating in every aspect of my life, and wanted to be able to share some of my "non" Clear Dollar Stamp and Clearly Digi Creations with you too!  So stay tuned, and I will hopefully have time to share some of my other discoveries and creations with you!

Today, I am sharing a Clearly Digi Stamps creation with you!  This set, Cross Messages, you will recognize from a previous stamp set and die set.  I have created them in Digital Images to make them even more versatile:

Digital images outlined - so you can print on patterned paper
Digital images colored - so you can print and cut out for beautiful creations
Three piece cross in PDF - print and cut out
Three piece cross in SVG - with a cutting machine you can cut it out electronically!  Yay!

Cross Messages Digital Stamp Set 

by Lori McCroskey


I wanted to have a set that I could create card sets for church.  Here is what I came up with!
These card sets would be perfect to sell at craft fairs and church bazaars!

Here is my first set.  The shaped circle around the cross matches the center of the cross....I used my SVG file from the set to cut it out.  I have quite a few layers in this card.

 Here is the gift bag that I made to hold the card set. 
 These cards made up really quickly!  I just cut a piece of cardstock 4x5.25, embossed it with a cuttlebug folder and layered it white on white.  I trimmed around the printed crosses to give them a white border.
 I really like all the white on these cards!




This was a pretty big card set.  Usually I only do 6-8 cards per set.  This set is going to be a gift to my wonderful "natural" doctor that has been helping me get well!  She is wonderful to me, so I wanted to make her a special set....she is also a pastor's wife!

Below is another card set I did, using a different color wave:
 I HAVE ADDED A PINTEREST BUTTON at the top of this post....just in case you want to add some to your idea folder!  If you aren't a member of pinterest, you must join!
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Home Cookin Recipe Cards


This next set was inspired by this:
My wonderful little recipe card drawers that I had built in to my kitchen 10 years ago!
Do they have pretty little recipe cards in them?
Well no!
But I want them to!  Here is what they look like inside!  Ack!

Nope, nothing inspiring in those drawers to make we want to create a wonderful meal for my family!  LOL!

So I emailed our very talented Illustrator team and asked for a recipe card that I could print and make my drawers a little more inspiring!

Most wonderful Lisa Lara came up with these absolutely adorable recipe cards for me to use in my very cute little drawers!

Home Cookin EZ Print Recipe Cards PDF

 Yes, nothing could be easier!  You just open your pdf file, hit print and ta-da!  Little recipe cards that you just trim up a tad and start writing out those recipes!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new recipe cards!  I can't wait to get my recipes on them!

Here is a set printed out.....
I made a feathery gift bag for my little recipe card birdies....well, yes, I'm going to have to share these with my MIL!  She will just adore these!

Look!  I even put little feet on the bag :-)  Yes, I was feeling very creative this day....LOL!  These are just those little glass pebbles you by to put in vases!
More pictures:
I cut out some little birds for the back side of my bag:
 What a wonderful gift!

Next, you can also have these in the regular jpg and png version so you can manipulate them!


Home Cookin' Recipe Cards

For Christmas, I got this adorable little recipe stand....once again, it was UGLY with print outs and ugly scratchings in it for recipe cards.  :-) but not anymore!  I created some 8x8 layouts with the png version of the recipe cards to create the adorable pages you see below!
(the stand is from Michaels, BTW :-))










 They really went very quickly and were very easy to make!

I think I will take some pictures of my girls making some recipe and make a little recipe scrapbook page :-)


Here you go....my inspiration for the week!



My next project to tackle?


Yep, I think it is time for some jar and seasoning labels!

  Hope your day is filled with blessings and creating galore!