tnis-salg: February 2010

Hop for Joy! A new Magnolia-licious DT sketch challenge

Good morning and happy March 1st....the month that has the first day of spring! YAY! LOL! We have a new DT sketch challenge for you from Magnolia-licious. This month, it's Jacque's turn to choose the challenge and she provided us with an awesome sketch! I wanted to use this adorable Tilda in a bunny suit that I got from Magnolia-licious. And true to my record, I have used yet another stamp that is not in stock in the store. UGH! I'm so sorry. But if you're interested, please be sure and email Diana. I also used #427 flowers from Lazy Summer Days collection. Both are colored with Copic markers and Tilda is cut out and popped up for dimension.

The fun and punny sentiment is from a set of Easter Greetings at The Cutting Cafe' called Happy Easter Inside and Out Greetings. The butterflies are cut using my Cricut, and I added a Prima rose I got from Stamp and Create and some cherry blossoms I got from Wild Orchid Crafts. Please be sure and visit Magnolia-licious Highlites to see the gorgeous cards the rest of my design team sisters have created. They are all so fabulously talented. And we're excited that we've got two new guest designers joining us as well! So a huge welcome to Mindy and Angela!

That's it for today! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!!

Card recipe:

images - Magnolia from Magnolia-licious, sentiment from The Cutting Cafe'

Paper: DP - Basic Grey Two Scoops; cardstock - Bazzill; stamped images on cryogen white

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic Sketch markers

Tools: Cricut with Tear Drop cart for butterlfies, MS frond and branch punches, Round and scalloped round Nestabilities

Misc: ribbon from Stamp and Create, Kaiser half backed pearls, dimensional tape, stickles

Flavor-of-the-Month . . . Chocolate Raspberry Truffles

Until I was in my 20's, I'd never eaten a truffle. Sure, I'd had chocolate from the box of Russell Stover's, but truffles, no.

Enter my brilliant Aunt Janice who treated me to my first truffle, a Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, at Godiva on a visit to New York City. It was pure heaven...the crisp outer shell, the dark, rich center, the slight tang of raspberry. I believe there were angels singing.

Since I had this raspberry sauce on hand, I decided to try making them myself. You know what? They are pretty delicious.

Chocolate Raspberry Truffles

8 oz. bittersweet chocolate
1/2 c. heavy cream
2 TBSP raspberry sauce
1 bag dark chocolate candy melts
sanding sugar (optional)

Chop the chocolate and place in a bowl. Bring the cream to a simmer on the stove and pour over the chocolate.

Let sit 5 minutes, then whisk until smooth. Stir in the raspberry sauce.

Let this mixture sit at room temperature for an hour or more until set. (I poured it into a shallow baking dish to help cool it down faster.)

Scoop into balls using a melon baller or a spoon and place on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. (I watched Ina do this on TV and get perfectly round ball....that didn't happen for me. I got this: )

{not pretty.}

If that happens to you, pop them in the fridge, then remove after 15 minutes and shape into balls. (I had better luck pressing them together, rather than rolling them.)

{much better. }

Refrigerate the truffles until ready to coat.

(You can skip the next step entirely and roll the truffles in cocoa powder, or...)

In the microwave, melt the candy melts with 1 tsp shortening. Melt in 30 second intervals on 50% power, stirring after every cycle until melted.

Dip the truffles into the candy melts and place on the wax paper lined sheet. While the candy melts are still wet, sprinkle with sanding sugar.

Now, I know it is like a sacrilege to use candy melts to coat real chocolate, but I wanted that hard outer shell and haven't been brave enough to try my hand at tempering chocolate. Anyone tried it?

Do you have a chocolate post to link up? I can't wait to see! Link up a the the bottom of the post. Please remember to link to your POST, not the main page of you blog.

Thanks so much for playing along with Flavor-of-the-Month. I've heard from several of you that FOTM sneaks up on you and sends you into a mad panic at the end of each month. You know what, it does to me too, most months. I always meant it to be *fun* not stressful, SOOOOO...this is the last Flavor-of-the-Month. (I think chocolate is a good way to go out, don't you?)

It will be replaced with impromptu linky parties now and again. I might say..."What's the best thing you've baked this month?" and ask you link up. I'll be sure to announce those on twitter, too, so if you're not there, come join the fun!

Alright, ladies & gents....link away!!! {Linky will be open through March 2nd.}

Fashion 2010 Pictures

Fashion 2010

Womens Fashion Pics

Women are the most potential fashion doers, I say. Why, because in my brain the word “beauty” itself is made to adore the feminine group. And jeans, which have become a fashion wardrobe (despite it’s original purpose as working overall) – ended up to be a part of women’s fashion nowadays. With the presence of jeans as another option of fabric for the fashion materials, a new trend had been brought to live. In no time, designers start to sew-together their idea for jeans. And thanks to its versatility advantage, jeans have been taking part in many women’s life.

As we all should know, women tend to have much more fashion variety instead of men, for this reason the initial form of jeans that are dedicated for women have met so many differentiations. Jeans material has been used not just to make some jeans with a woman’s cut only, but also for making jackets, skirts, shorts or hot-pants and much more (you can name it). Oh yeah, it’s all shaped in order to enhance one’s womanly figure.

womens fashion

Russian Fashion Models Gallery

russian fashion models gallery

April Showers bring May Flowers. Peggy Loves Vintage with The Cutting Cafe'

Happy Saturday everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend. We had a rainy day today, which is wonderful. I love rainy days. Now please understand that I also live Reno, which is high altitude desert. So we just don't get rainy days. We get good snowy days, but rain storms are far and few between. So when we get one, I love it. Ok, enough about the weather! :) Let's move on to this adorable duck and baby from Peggy Loves Vintage! This image is actually from the New Baby Volume 2 cd. Be sure and really look at the images on Peggy's CDs with an open mind. They can be used for so many different things. I cut the image from the front of a baby shower card, because I thought they'd make the most adorable card to celebrate Spring.

I printed out two of the images because I wanted to pop up Mama Duck, baby duck, and the top part of the umbrella. I just used some dimensional tape to pop them up. Hopefully you can see the dimension a little better in the picture below. Please visit Peggy's blog too. She's got a couple great images she's giving away right now. Please be sure and leave her some love and let her know which image you like best. She'd also love it if you'd link up your project you made.

I mounted this adorable duck and baby on a FABULOUS scalloped square from The Cutting Cafe'! I don't know if you've seen the new large scalloped square from Spellbinders, and I also know I don't have to tell you how spendy they are. You can get the Assorted Scalloped Set 1 file from The Cutting Cafe', which has quite a few different type of scallops on it, for a grand total of $5.99, and you can make it any size you want with the click of your mouse!!! Easy peasy! You can either use the wpc file to cut it out with a cutting machine, or you can use the pdf file and your scissors. I truly LOVE this file of scallops! I cut mine out with my Pazzle Inspiration which I got from Hallmark Scrapbook! Hallmark is one of my favorite stores to shop at on line. Jody and Brad are the most wonderful people! They have the best prices and service ever! I also used the Rain, Rain, Go Away file for the sentiment. Regina has been releasing lots of new files, so please be sure and check them out over at The Cutting Cafe'!!

Thanks so much for stopping to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Card Recipe:

Image - Peggy Loves Vintage New Baby Volume 2 cd; Sentiment and scalloped frame - The Cutting Cafe'

DP - DCWV Whimsy stack; cardstock - Bazzill

Tools - Pazzle Inspiration, EK Success flower punch, Circle Nesatabilites for sentiment

Misc: buttons - stash, silk ribbon, Kaiser half backed pearls, dimensional tape

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover Revealed. Leonardo DiCaprio's Girlfriend.

Letterman Reveals Bar Refaeli is 2009 SI Swimsuit Issue Cover Model!

After hearing that the model would be first announced on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, COED magazine sent one of there editors over to the Ed Sullivan Theater during the filming to get the inside scoop.

So, without further adieu, the 2009 SI Swimsuit Issue cover model is… Bar Refaeli! This 23-year-old Israeli model first appeared in the magazine in 2007. She was also voted 2nd most likely to be on the cover by COED readers, after Brooklyn Decker. So, close on that one, but no cigar.

UPDATE: This has since been confirmed by CBS2 News, after a billboard of her cover was spotted over Broadway. See the photo evidence here!

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Girl is Bar Refaeli. Leo DiCaprio's Girlfriend.

See David Letterman Reveal the Cover

Many More Sexy Bikini Photos of Bar Refaeli HERE at COED MAGAZINE.com

Bar Refaeli

Indian Bridal Fashion Pics

Latest in Indian wedding and bridal fashion. Information and advice on latest bridal outfit trends, and choosing jewellery & accessories

Redd Bridal Couture, specialists in made to measure Indian & Asian Bridal Wear Fashion, wedding dresses & Indian Dress. We have beautiful Lenghas

Indian Bridal Fashion

Fashion Teenage Models

fashion teenage models

Fashion model thought to be expecting child with Jamie Hince. Kate Moss is said to have started telling her closest pals she’s pregnant. The model sparked rumours she’s expecting a child with boyfriend Jamie Hince, 40, after being snapped with a rounded stomach.

It’s thought the couple shared their good news with Topshop boss Sir Philip Green, 56, and his daughter Chloe during an intimate evening at the Ivy Club in Covent Garden this week.

‘It was a celebratory dinner to announce her pregnancy,’ a source tells the Daily Mail.
Kate, 35, who has been dating Jamie for 18 months, already has daughter Lila Grace, 7, with ex Jefferson Hack.

fashion teenage models

Victoria Secret Angel Fashion Show

The Victoria Secret Angel Fashion Show was beautiful. I like the way the Victoria Secret models came down the runway with the Angel wings attached to them. The next fashion show will be again in December of this year. I am excited to see what they do this time.

victoria secret angel fashion show