Happy Birthday Aunt Marilyn

Hello!  I hope you're having a wonderful day.

Today I have a birthday card to show you.

My Aunt Marilyn turned 98 today (Sept. 29th)

She lives in North Carolina and I haven't seen her

for quite some time now.
Covid has changed so much!

I wanted to make her something beautiful

so I used one of my favorite stamp sets.

I stamped "Poppies" from Stacy Stamps

onto white card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black

ink and colored them with my Arteza colored pencils.

I fussy cut them and adhered them to a card base.

The happy birthday sentiment is from 
Lawn Fawn Scripty Words set

also stamped with VersaFine ink.

Since this card was an odd size, I made

an envelope to send it in.
I think she'll be happy to receive a pretty 

card for her birthday.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

make someone smile.

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

 

Give Thanks

Hello crafty people, I hope you're having a beautiful day.

It's getting to that time of year that we need to think

about making several kinds of cards.

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Today I'm showing you a card I made to send my

Aunt Marilyn for Thanksgiving.

All the supplies came from my stash and actually 

the leaves were punched from some pieces that I had 

put into my recycle box.  Those little scraps did come in

handy.

I used my Silhouette to cut the Give Thanks 

using the Keep On Truckin font.

The inside is blank, as I usually do.

I will write a personal note to her rather than 

stamp a greeting.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Have you started any of your holiday cards?

Come again soon.

Until then,

be thankful.

 

Recent Layouts

Hi, I hope you're having a good day!

Today, I have some layouts to show you.

I obviously don't scrapbook in chronological order.

So you never know what layouts I'll be showing you. 

This layout is from Mother's Day 2021.

This really showed me that we need to take pictures of

everyone and not just Marie.
I only had one picture of the family and I wasn't in it.

Now we try to remember to take a full family picture at 

different get togethers.

These are pictures from when the kids were visiting 

Sara's Moms early in the summer.

Sometimes I just can't stand the cuteness.

I love how this layout of my son with Marie turned out.

The top one with the fist bump was done when 

Marie was only a couple days old and her Gram was 

visiting her.

I'm glad you stopped to see what I've been creating and
I hope you are too.

Come again soon.

Until then,

be creative!

 

Sweet To Be One

Hello blog friends!

My granddaughter turned on last November, but since 

it was Covid, there was only a very small party for just a few

family members, but none the less it was wonderful.

Here are a few layouts I did to commemorate her 

first birthday.

One of her favorite foods at the time was strawberries,

so that was the theme.
She wore a onesie I made, with
Sweet To Be One on it.

She also had on a tulle tutu in red and green that 

I made, but we didn't get any pictures of her with it on.

They had such cute decorations for her party.

And of course there was a "Smash Cake"
This is when she had her onsie and tutu on.

She had such fun with her cake.

Only got a few pictures with her opening her gifts.

The only picture with her "smash outfit" on is the one

here with her Godfather, Brian.

Here is a picture of the onesie that I made for her

to wear.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have enjoyed your time at

Kristie Kreates and have been 

inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then

Happy Birthday!

 

Layouts and Stamping with Marie

Hello and welcome to Kristie Kreates!

Today I have a couple more layouts to show you

and a special little project from my granddaughter

Sometimes, a toddlers hair just isn't what you want it to be.

And you know what, we don't care and neither does she.

Last Christmas we had the first 
Maynard Family Ugly Sweater Cookie Contest.
We each decorated a cookie and then I posted them on 
Facebook and asked people to vote.  It was so much fun

that we're probably going to do another contest this year.

And from my Granddaughter, Marie, we have this beautiful

stamping project.  It was the first time she every stamped.

It was a bit of a challenge, but she finally got the idea and

stamped some pretty good images.

In one of my next posts showing layouts, you'll see what I did

with her project.  I look forward to doing more and more crafting

with her.  She already loves to color and paint and I think she's
going to love learning new techniques.

I'm so glad you stopped to visit for a while today and hope you'll

come again soon.

Until then, 

happy crafting!

I Call It Portobello Mushroom Lasagna

Hello creative people.

Today I have something different to show you.

I feel that cooking is a creative process and today I 

decided to create something different for dinner.

I call it Portobello Mushroom Lasagna.

I cleaned out the portobello mushrooms and placed them in

oven safe dishes, with a little bit of olive oil in the bottom.
Did you know cleaning out the mushrooms is much easier

when you use a plastic spoon?  I learned this from my 

daughter in law.

I slices up some zucchini and added some slices to the mushrooms

then some sauce (I used some of my daughter in law's sauce) then 

a mixture of ricotta and spices.  (oregano, S&P, Italian seasoning, garlic and 

Parmesan cheese)

Then topped that with some sliced onion.

Next I added more sauce.

To top it all off with some spinach and mozzerella cheese.

Then I popped those babies into a 350* oven for 

about 1/2 hr.

And they were ready to eat!  Well, too hot to eat right away,

but after a little wait they were ready.

I used a roll to make us some cheesy garlic bread.

And our yummy, melty, saucy 
Portobello Mushroom Lasagna

was ready.

It was so good, we both at the whole thing.
I will definitely be making this kind of dish again

in the future and put whatever veggies I have available into

it.

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you have been inspired

in some way to get creative in the kitchen.

 Come again soon,

until then,

happy cooking and creating!