Cupcakes with a Kiss!

Today is the beginning of Food, Glorious Food week over at BettyBee's Buzz so I am sharing these mouth-watering morsels!  The cupcake queen, Tori, shared how to add a Hershey's Kiss to the center of a cupcake and create a delicious surprise center! 

The recipe is so easy!  It calls for a regular cake mix and the stuff to prepare it normally. Plus Hershey Kisses, and today I looked in my stash and found a really good assortment of 7 different flavors!

Here you can see where I placed the little paper "flag" from the Kiss inside the cupcake liner, so the flavor of Kiss is identified BEFORE you take a bite of the cupcake... HA!  All instructions are on

BettyBee's Buzz :)

The images are from a darling cooking set from Crafty Secrets, and they are colored with Copics.  The "ghost" image is stamped with Memento's London Fog ink, so it appears to be in the background, and doesn't interfere with the printed lettering. 

Make your cupcake topper, sandwiching a toothpick between two punched pieces, and you've got a neat treat! 

Here is the cupcake dessert stand for Father's Day, featuring the downloadable selection I shared last week, from Shindig's Parties To Go!  What a fun party pack, and the Cupcakes With A Kiss were a big hit! 

 

Until next time....

Happy creating!

Be Inspired #101 Nostalgia Week

Crafty Secrets has sent us some fun little vintage pieces, and this one is right on target for me this week, as I have a very challenging new cell phone, and I've had this very sentiment more than once!!

The Design Team over at Cuttlebug Challenge has created some darling pieces with their retro cards, and I hope you will have an enjoyable walk down Memory Lane with them, and take a few moments to create a project of your own for the challenge this week. There is a nice prize package from Crafty Secrets for the winner this week!

For my card, I've used vintage wallpaper patterned paper by Crafty Secrets, topped by mats by Marco paper, and the corner designs are dies by Cuttlebug Ornamentals. The old fashioned phones are cut from with my Cricut Heritage cartridge ~ perfect for this image :) and they are accented with a warm brown watercolor pencil. The flowers are my favorites, from Wild Orchids!

On a personal note, I am so grateful for the Lord's blessings for my family. My 10 year old granddaughter was actually hit by a speeding car that passed her stopped school bus today, and she is alright. The driver did not stop, and there is hope that the camera on the bus will have captured the info that the police need. He ran over her foot, but she is okay, and her two little brothers were just behind her. It was SO INCREDIBLY close...and my daughter watched it happen. We are so thankful that our daily prayers for protection are answered.

Keep crafting and keep praying ~

Happy New Year

It doesn't seem possible that the decade has passed, but here we are at 2010 already...

It has been said that the older you get, the faster time seems to go by, and it sure does seem to be that way to me! Let's enjoy every day to it's fullest ~ and not regret anything. Choose to be happy. Look for the positive in all situations and in everyone. And don't let what anyone else does or says determine how we are going to feel or act. That should assure us all a pretty good New Year. As Tiny Tim asked... "May God bless us, every one".

Here is a New Year's Card that I made with Crafty Secret vintage images and paper. The stars at the bottom are a MS punch, and then filled with MS copper glitter, which is also used to frame the Resolutions image. I've added a shimmery copper ribbon. Inside is the calligraphy message of "Good health, good cheer, Blessings to you, Throughout the Year!"

Wishing you the very happiest New Year!

Happy Crafting ~