Where the Wild Things Are

So, I found this paper from Paper House Productions and it has the iconic book characters from Where the Wild Things Are...since my daughter is an elementary school librarian and she needed a baby shower card, I made her the fastest card ever. 

I trimmed a panel from the 12x12 paper and adhered it at an angle to some dotted paper and added twine. I frayed the ends of the knot, because, well, they're wild! And though this shot doesn't show it, I added some matte gold sequins to the card. I just felt it needed something. And regular gold sequins wouldn't have worked for this card. I used Nuvo clear drops on his scales and horns and on the boy's crown for texture. Ta Da! Ready to go in 5 minutes!

This baby shower card was just as fast...the sequin elephant is a sticker from my stash...ever have something crafty so long you forget where it came from? Yep, that's this elephant. (I searched google for sequin elephant sticker and this ebay listing came up if you need your own).

I bought it years ago and it just sat there. Finally I figured it was time to use him. I used some School Days paper (yep, old stuff from my stash) and yellow cardstock and this one was finished too! 

Inside I stamped a sentiment, which I stamped crooked, so I re-stamped it on the yellow cardstock and adhered that over the messed up one. That took the longest. I ought to know by now not to stamp directly in a card!

And my last baby shower card uses a free stamp I got when I ordered some stamps but I can't even remember who sent it...that's when you know it's time to stop buying stuff! It's so sweet and small. I used a watercolor background and purple ribbon. Getting that watercolor just right took me the longest time. Too dark, too crooked, too whatever. But this one worked for me.

Happy Friday!

Chark

When Days Collide

Tomorrow is both National White Chocolate Day and Elephant Appreciation Day and I thought maybe the best way to celebrate would be to get a white chocolate elephant. Turns out, of course, you can do that.

Now, I'm not sure how you order this lovely, but it does say that if you're ordering outside of Bankok, the tusks will be packed separately so as not to break. On this website, it shows incredible chocolate creations, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to order. Not that I really need chocolate from Bankok, no matter how gorgeous, but someone might. Here's another piece. I guess I'll just be content knowing that someone is making these somewhere in the world.

I might, however, order these adorable stamps from Mama Elephant that I've been drooling after for awhile. They are the sweetest! And so many people have been doing such amazing things with them. Check out the blog to see DT samples.

 
This cute elephant clipart is free to use if you're interested. It's from i2Clipart.  They have a lot of images that are royalty free.

And I better put up one of my favorite white chocolate recipes. My husband likes these and doesn't like white chocolate. I think they just taste like little sweet bits in this one. You can also add some semi-sweet chips too and maybe some walnuts if you're feeling saucy. Here's Saveur's recipe.

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  BLONDIES

  Like a brownie in shape and texture, blondies are packed with all the brown sugar and butterscotchy goodness of chocolate chip cookies, but softer and more substantial.

makes 12

Ingredients

12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan

2 cups flour, plus more for pan

1 ¹⁄₂ tsp. baking powder

¹⁄₄ tsp. kosher salt

1 ¹⁄₄ cups light brown sugar

¹⁄₂ cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups roughly chopped white chocolate

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9″ x 13″ baking pan; set aside. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. Whisk together sugars, vanilla, and eggs together in a bowl until smooth. Add butter, and stir until smooth. Add flour mixture, and stir until just combined. Stir in white chocolate, and spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with a few crumbs attached, about 20 minutes.

Happy Monday!

Chark