Just add color...

Warning- this post is filled with pics, sorry for the overload!!!!!

Who doesn't love color eh?!  I don't know one person who doesn't.  It speaks to us in so many ways and means so many different things.  Think about all the color challenges out there for us paper crafters or the fact that red roses mean love while yellow mean friendship.  And what about what we choose to wear, "is it hot, is it trendy this season?" or even the colors we use in our homes.  Can you imagine a world in black and white?  I can't, it would be so boring!  So obviously today's post is about color.
+  =  LOVE


I just got a new stamp set from the Sweet Stamp Shop called Color Wheel and I have a card to share using it today.  But first I want to show you that stamp set and the Reverse Confetti stamp set called Dream in Color I want to pair it up with, check it out.  Don't you think these are perfect together?!  Well that is my next project! 

Today however, I am just showing you a card with the first set from SSS.  It is inspired by this card from Savannah O'Gwynn.  I just loved the sections of colors here that really seemed to stand out.    So I tried to do the same.  I used my fun new flair from Bossy Joscie!  I was just loving the geotag and had to incorporate it.  I also love the sentiment from the color wheel set, so fab. 

 

For color I chose to use the inspiration from this week's Dynamic Duo challenge- I am loving this combo! I dug through *some* of my DP to find scraps (I have lots of other scrap DP, this is about 1/3 or it, if that) so I could enter into the Use What you have challenge #12 form he Sweet Stamp Shop.  Finally, I used the layout from the current Reverse Confetti's Sketch For You To Try Challenge.

Is it time for the Question of the Day?!?!  OK so today's question is...is there a color that has a specific meaning to you?  If so what is the color and what does it mean?  if not, then what is your favorite color?

Thanks so much for stopping!

A YUMMY recipe to share

I am taking a break from the typical post to share a recipe with you today.  Little Tangles is having a Potluck Party Challenge as part of their Birthday Celebration for N&T's birthday, so why not.  I am having so much fun celebrating over there that I want to participate in it all!!!!!!!!! 

So this is one of my very, very, very favorite salads.  It comes compliments of a chain of restaurants in the Inland Northwest Area, you can check them out here.  These are just little pubs but with such good food, though, I do have to tell you it doesn't matter what I order there as long as I get this salad!  If I could order it as a main dish, I totally would!  Everyone in my family loves it, even my hubby who is a hater of all pasta/potato salad things and basically anything with Mayo!  So we hunted down the recipe and have been whipping it up on a regular basis.  Here is a yummy pic and here are the details:

ROASTED CORN PASTA SALAD 1 Tablespoon butter 1 Tablespoon cooking oil ½ cup diced red onion 1 ½ cups frozen corn 4 ½ cups uncooked fusilli 1 cups mayo 1 bunch cilantro roughly stemmed 2 Tablespoons chipotle puree Salt to taste 1)     Combine corn, onions, butter and oil and roast in a 400 degree oven until onions are translucent and tender. Remove from oven and cool in refrigerator. 2)     Cook fusilli as directed and cool under running water.  3)     Combine cilantro, chipotle and may on food processor and puree. 4)     Mix fusilli, corn/onion mix and puree ingredients.  Add salt to taste.

NOTES --Chipotle puree is canned chipotle peppers usually found in the Mexican section of most grocery stores.  Before using place the contents of the can in a food processor and puree well. --This recipe is a downsized version of the restaurant version so some amount may require slight adjustments.

Seriously, make this and you will not be disappointed!

Stop by later for another post and the Question of the Day!

Happy Birthday Neat & Tangled!

Hey ya'll!  

I am super honored to be over at the Little Tangles blog today helping celebrate Neat & Tangled's Birthday!  Woop!  Go check it out there is lots of fun to be had, challenges to play and prizes to be won the entire MONTH of August.  BIG Happy Birthday N&T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flashback Friday on Saturday

Hello!  Sorry I missed getting the Flashback Friday post up.  I was volunteering all day for  Obliteride.  This is the first year of Obliteride, which is variable length bike ride (25, 50, 100 and 180 miles routes), that is being put on by my work place, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  The goal is to end cancer!  We want to raise money to support the Center so we can continue our life saving research!  Pretty good cause eh?!  We are grant funded and were impacted by the government sequestration- boo. :(  I am going to volunteered for support work, I helped put the medical kits together for the support vehicles and medical tent.  It was a lot of heavy stuff around and sorting.  It was hot and dusty, but fun and I met some great people.  

Here is a card I made, I was inspired by the Curtain Call Watermelon Wonder colors (though the contest is closed).  with this color spectrum how could I not use this cutie digi from By LORi Designs. .  Most of the paper is from Dear Lizzy (my fave paper of the moment).  I love the sentiment, Be-you-tiful, which is from Reverse Confetti's Peacock Pretties set.  I am linking up to the following challenges: By LORi Designs- Designer Paper,  Mojo Monday 305, Ribbon Carousel Challenge 84- Summer Fun. 

Onto Flashback Friday- I'll just pull out a very few of my fave questions and answers from the last two(ish) weeks:

Question from 8/7- Would you dive in a cage with Great White Sharks?
Definitive Answer by all- NO WAY!

Question from 7/31- I am afraid of 8 legged creepy crawly things.  What are you afraid of?
Answer- Bugs were certainly the top answer, but I loved this from Jane-
Well Katie....me being a fully affiliated arachnophobe, I totally get your dilemma,, I once killed a spider the size of my head!!!! (I also exaggerate a million times more than I should) anyway, I killed it by pouring bleach on it, cruel, I know, I phoned my friend in a panic and she rushed over to my house thinking I had murdered someone as I sounded that distraught...(distraught because I had to get so close to pour the bleach on it....and did I mention the size of it!!!) Anyway, your card is a cutie, I have loved seeing your work and hope to see more of you. :)

OK, just one more....

Question from 7/30- We were talking about made up words or those not in the dictionary (e.g. Ginormous or my daughter's exampled Potato-nub-nub.  What are some of the words you use?
Answer from CM-
Potato-nub-nub...how sweet and hilarious! Love your post, and your card is fantastic! Clever+++ As for 'imaginative' phrases: for reasons I have no clue about, I call toes, "gullers." Weird or what...No clue why. Hmmmm....Love your question-posed posts!!

Today's Question of the Day is- if you could ask any question what would it be?

This just in!

There are a whole lot of birthday celebrations going on out there!  Neat & Tangled and the 10 Minutes Craft Dash are among those this week.    Also there are a few crafty ladies out there who are also celebrating their birthday TODAY!  Big shout out to them- Amy Tsuruta and Lesley Croghan- HAPPY BIRTHDAY ladies!  I am sure there are many more that I am missing (and I apologize for that) but I just can't keep up.  Anyway, check them all out, I am sure some have giveaways.

While I am here I might as well share a card right?!  So here it is- I am gonna call it my un-birthday card since it doesn't have a birthday theme but could totally be a b-day card.  Initially I made it for a PC call but then I wasn't quite sure about it so didn't submit.  Maybe next time... instead I am going to enter it into the Little Tangles "Un-birthday Challenge" and the current Curtain Call Challenge!

Since it is all about Birthday's here, how about telling me what your favorite birthday memory is for the Question of the Day!

PS- I get to be a guest over at Little Tangles this week for the N&T birthday celebration.  I am so excited and I hope you will come visit me!!!!

Help Wanted!

I am trying to play catch-up here.  Keeping up with all you fantastical bloggers is hard work!  Camping certainly threw me off for sure (totally worth it) but now I don't even know where to start.  There are lots of releases this week, and birthdays and anniversaries...help me please!  Seriously I think blogging (and commenting) is a full time job and yet I have another full time job, a kiddo, hubby and other life stuff.  Hmmm...well I guess continuing to whine isn't going to get me anywhere... ;)



Speaking of whine...I decided to have a little cheese with mine... :)  Here is a card I made for a friend's birthday who just loves wine.  I bought this Amuse stamp and sentiment specifically so I could make her a card.  The colors are very rich and regal, which is just like her too!  Happy Birthday Leslie!  Oh...and while I am at it, I am entering this into the Freshly Made Sketches #98 Challenge and the CAS-ual Friday's Challenge #111- featuring buttons.

It's that time again...for the Question of the Day!  I have a girlfriend in Cape Town, South Africa right now.  She is there for work but will be squeezing in some play (of course).  This weekend she is planning on going diving in a cage with Great White Sharks!!!!  I am freaked out for her, but also excited!  I can't decide if I was in her shoes if I would do it or not.  So the question is- if you had this opportunity would you dive in a cage with Great Whites?  Why or why not?

Thanks for stopping.  I really do always appreciate your comments!

Winner, Winner, Winner!

Sorry for the silence the last few days folks.  I went camping with my family and had a fabulous time.  There was a burn ban in effect, so that was a bummer, BUT we made it through some how!  The highlights were:

1. Family-love them all- even when they are annoying- wink! We had a good time together!
2. Stars- they were beautiful and amazing!
3. Hiking- we took a few fab hikes and saw sooooooo many wildflowers and the view of Mt. Ranier was AWESOME (see below)!
4.  Practicing our bigfoot calls- Yep... we actually did just for fun! I am pretty sure I heard one respond.... :)

I think this list could go on and on so I'll stop there because I have a winner to announce....

....but first, today's Question of the Day- What is your favorite memory from camping and/or vacations?

OK already, the winner is from this post-  Flashback Friday.  The answer was Napoleon Dynamite!  I have to say this is one of my fave movies of all time.  It is pretty stupid really, but the more times you watch the funnier it is.  My hubby and I even had a party one time with "tots and quesadillas" as the main entrees while watching the movie.  You have to watch it to know what I am talking about- so go watch it!

Sooooooooo...(I know you are thinking get to it already but I like to build up the suspense)....the winner is....

(Note- I used random.org but for some reason couldn't get the picture of the widget on my page.  The number drawn was #7 from 1-7- sorry!)

...Stacey Schafer, she said: 

Neapolitan Dynomite! Yes, I cheated because I had no clue! Happy for all your wins lately, Katie!

Stac- You called it Neapolitan, like the ice cream, which is totally funny, but I am still giving it to you friend!

Stacey send me your address and I'll get your blog candy in the mail!