Here are the latest layouts I've made. The first two I did with CROP ON LINE at CREATIVEKUTS.

These two where made with CREATIVEKUTS file Life's Pleasures

I would love to see what you've been working....leave me a message with a link to your projects. Have a very crafty day:) Bonnie

Man Pleasing Chicken

I wanted to share this recipe since so many of the girls have been asking for it. This is one my family's favorite recipes even the little ones love it.

Man Pleasing Chicken
12 chicken thighs
Sauce
mix together in small mixing bowl
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 cup dijon mustard
4 tablespoons red wine vinegar

Put chicken thighs in a baking dish top side down and brush wih half of sauce bake at 400 for 20 minutes turn thighs over and brush with other  half of sauce and bake for another 20 minutes.

I also wanted to show the last few layouts I made. The first one I made during the CROP ON LINE going on over on creativekuts fan page on facebook. I love this file it's called So Bubblicious. .

This was a BAP from Creativekut. You should join in on the fun....they have a new BAP starting every Monday.

 This was last weeks BAP I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet. I can't decide rather I want to use it on a Easter page or in the baby ablum I'm making. Which one would you use it for?


Thanks for stopping by and have a very crafty day. I have this post linked to the following Link ups
http://craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/http://craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/
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Dreams Come True

 Family Fun

Dreams Come Ture

Here are the latest Crop on Line layouts I've done. I have one more to finish this week then will start on the 2 mini albums and 2 cards with matching bags. I can't believe I signed up for all of these this time and I only have until the 15th to have them finished.

Here are just a few of the layouts I've made this year with Creativekuts Crop On Line. We are doing 3 layouts every two weeks it's a great way to get caught up. If your interest in join us or would like to purchase any of these layouts you can e-mail me at bonnie@scrap-n-away.com.

Thanks for stopping by and have a very crafty day.

Crop On Line

Do you have problems getting your layouts done? We've started a new Crop On Line to help you get your layouts done.

Here are a few guidelines for the new "Crop On Line" that will apply to anyone who is interested in joining us. 

The main purpose of this is to motivate each other in completing projects and sharing to hopefully give others ideas. Therefore, it is very important to remember to post your finished project to get the next file and bonuses. Each layout will be shown prior to the starting day so you can decide whether you want to join.

We will be cropping together starting the 15th and 30th each month which will be the days the new files will be sent and we begin posting. Layout files will be forward by way of email asap during the day as you post a completed section and request the next file. All request will need to be sent within one week beginning the first day of cropping. So you have 1Week to complete your layout, a lot of time even if you only dedicate 20 mins a day.

The files you will receive will be valued at a minimum of $10 and your cost will be only $5.00. You will also receive extra goodies because you know how much I love to show my appreciation for all your participation. I want you also to know we are here to help. If you want to know how to do something, we will tell you the "how to".

There might be something I am forgetting, but remember I am old. lol I will let you know of any changes. So let me introduce you to Bonnie that will be heading up this adventure. If you are interested in doing this layout please send $5 through paypal to creativekutsmkk@gmail.com and send her an email at bonnie@creativekuts.com letting her know you will be joining in the "crop on line".

Here's my first completed layout and I'm working on layout #2. We will be having 2-3 layouts for you to choose from. You may do 1 or all of them. What a great way to get your layouts done and and to your files. 

Have a very crafty day,

Bonnie

Snowmen & Their Pals BH

Welcome everyone to our Snowman & Their Pals Blog Hop!

If you came here from  Laura - http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right place.  If you just happened upon my blog please stay and join in on the fun with Creative Kuts and the Design Team.  The fun begins at Creative Kuts - http://creativekuts.blogspot.com/. 

Check out all the wonderful projects created by members of our creative teams from files located in our store at Creative Kuts and Creative Kuts 2.

This is a two day blog hop and we appreciate you leaving a comment to encourage these talented ladies to continue sharing their ideas and creations. We're so excited to be doing this hop to share with you projects from some very talented ladies. We also are taking this time to remind you to check out our newest website: Creative Kuts Monthly Kit Klub. Here we offer you quick layout kits which will include all the paper and paper pieces needed to create some adorable layouts. All you will have to do is add your pictures and any special touches of your own after completing the kit.

So let's get started!

1. Visit each member's blog and leave a comment.

2. Let us know how you enjoyed the blog hop on our facebook Creative Kuts Fan Page

Prize give-a-way opportunities: 

This is a 17-Piece Texture Boutique Value Kit to be given away when we reach 300 Followers on our sister blog Creative Kuts2.  CK2 is only 89 members away from this amayzing drawing.  

Even more: Have a chance to win a Silhouette Cameo Cutting Machine.

For more details check out Creative Kuts Wonderful World.

Now for my project:
I used Snow Much Fun for this layout. Don't you just love the Adorable Snowman? Not sure what papers I used since I'm trying to use up paper I have . I used the snowflakes in the file and layered them to make the snowflakes on the photo mats, I added mini buttons to the snowman's vests, all of the pieces have been chalked and inked to add added dimension plus I have added pop dots to give them a 3 D affect. The Icicles and Snowmen have been out lined in Stickles.

I hope you enjoy my version of this file.

 **BLOG CANDY ALERT** 

How would you like to win this adorable file?

HERE'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO:

1. You must be or become a new follower of all the blogs on this hop and leave a comment (one comment per person).

2. Go to the Creative Kuts Posts Group Page, join if you aren't a member and post a comment that you are coming by from the "Snowmen & Their Pals" Blog Hop and let us know which is/are your favorite project.

3. Become a fan of CK at CK fan page.

Here's today's line up:

1. Creative Kuts - http://creativekuts.blogspot.com/ 
2. Deezy - http://deezydoesiteezy.blogspot.com/ 
3. Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/
4. Marji - http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com/

5. Jenn - www.jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com
6. Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
7. Jameka - http://jamekaleondra.blogspot.com/
8. Mary Ellen - http://digimemasplace.blogspot.com/
9. Christina - http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/
10. Eva - http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com/
11. Wandy - http://greenapplescrapper.blogspot.com/
12. Sandra - http://papercraftingnut.blogspot.com/
13. Laura - http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/
14. Bonnie - http://scrap-n-away.blogspot.com/   YOU'RE HERE
15. Creative Kuts2 - http://creativekuts2.blogspot.com/  NEXT

Please hop over to Creative Kuts2 - http://creativekuts2.blogspot.com/ to see the wonderful project there. Have a great weekend!!!! Bonnie

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! I hope you have a safe and fun day.

I made this layout from Creativekuts BAP for this week. You can play along too! All you have to do is go to Creativekuts fan page on facebook on Monday and request your BAP.....there is a new free BAP every Monday. This week there is even a bonus if your done with your layout by today you get the second page to the layout also. I'm sending my e-mail today.....can't wait to do the second page to go with this!  Thanks for stopping by.

Fall Color Trends

Designing and creating your own family memories is a major perk of taking up scrapbooking as a hobby. One thing I enjoy most about scrapbooking is that I can take  color and fashion trends and adapt them to my page designs. There is always some new wild trend, like mixing patterns or wearing colors that are out of our comfort zones!

This fall the hot new colors according to Pantone are: French roast, honey gold, pink flambe, tangerine tango, ultramarine green, bright chartreuse, Olympian blue, titanium, rhapsody and rose smoke. Or to people not in the fashion world: dark brown, golden yellow, bright pink, bright orange, teal, bright yellow-green, blue, medium gray, light purple and light smoky pink

 No matter what craft you are into these colors will be so pretty. I'm in love with them all. Which one is your favorite? I love the Tangerine Tango for some reason I always love Orange for Fall. I buy clothes,shoes,paper and jewelry with some sort of orange in it every Fall.

Do you smell the pumpkin!!!

Happy first day of October! I made Pumpkin Crack Cake this weekend for the girl at the retreat and I'm getting ready to take out Pumpkin Muffins out of the oven. YUMMMMM can you smell the Pumpkin? I love Fall  I have to tell you the girls and my husband loved the Pumpkin Crack Cake so I thought I would share the recipe with you.

 Pumpkin Crack Cake


 Serves: 8
White Cake mix  or  if you want you can use  Gluten-free Vanilla cake mix
Ingredients
7 1/2 ounces canned pumpkin puree
7 ounces sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 15-ounce box gluten-free yellow cake mix
8 tablespoons (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or chopped pecans)
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch square or round baking pan and set it aside.

In a medium-sized bowl, place the pumpkin, condensed milk, eggs, sugar and pumpkin pie spice, and beat until well-combined.
Pour the pumpkin mixture into the prepared pan. Sprinkle 1/3 of the dry cake mix over the top and swirl it into the wet ingredients with a knife.

Sprinkle the rest of the dry cake mix on top, and smooth carefully until it covers evenly. Pour the melted butter evenly on top of the cake. Next,
sprinkle evenly with chips. Cover the top of the pan with foil.


Place the cake in the center of the preheated oven, and bake for 25 minutes. Uncover, and bake for another 15 to 25 minutes,
or until it has begun to brown around edges.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before slicing into squares or wedges and serving.


Doubling the recipe is a cinch, with a hitch. Double all of the ingredients — except the cake mix. Just sprinkle that thinner if you double the recipe,

Believe me you're going to want to double this recipe so you have some left for the next day. I didn't even get a second piece:(

Thanks to EasyRecipe for this great recipe!!!

For those of you who joined our Blog Hop this weekend Thank you and Thanks for all the comments!

Have a very crafty day! Bonnie

Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome everyone to our Halloween Blog Hop!

If you came here from  Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/  then you are in the right place.  If you just happen upon my blog, please start at the beginning at Creative Kuts to join in on the fun.

Check out all the wonderful projects created by members of our creative teams from files located in our st

ore at www.creativekuts.com and http://www.creativekuts2.com/

This is a two day blog hop and appreciate you leaving a comment to encourage these talented ladies to continue sharing their ideas and creations. We're so excited to be doing this hop to share with you projects from some very talented ladies. We also are taking this time to remind you to check out our newest website: Creative Kuts Monthly Kit Klub at http://www.creativekutsmkk.com/. Here we offer you quick layout kits which will include all the paper and paper pieces needed to create some adorable layouts. All you will have to do is add your pictures and any special touches of your own after completing the kit.

So let's get started!

1. Visit each member's blog and leave a comment.

2. Let us know how you enjoyed the blog hop on our facebook Creative Kuts Fan Page

More great opportunities:

This is a 17-Piece Texture Boutique Value Kit to be given away when we reach 300 Followers on our sister blog www.creativekuts2.blogspot.com.  For many other chances to win on the sizzix drawing be sure to stop by.

Even more: Have a chance to win a Silhouette Cameo Cutting Machine.

For more details check out Creative Kuts Wonderful World at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Kuts-Wonderful-World/297909533625395.

And now for my project:

I used Creativekuts file Beware to mae this wreath. I enlarged the file to make the ghost and bats the size I wanted. I then cut it out of felt. The wreath t's self is a wire coat hanger covered in tulle cut into 2" strips and tied around the wire coat hanger.

Here's today's line up:

1. Creative Kuts - http://creativekuts.blogspot.com/
2. Wanda - http://deezydoesiteezy.blogspot.com/ 

3. Marji - http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com/
4. Laura - http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/
5. Mary Ellen - http://digimemasplace.blogspot.com/
6. Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/
7. Bonnie - http://scrap-n-away.blogspot.com/  YOU ARE HERE
8. Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/   NEXT
9. Tammy - http://anonymouscricuter.blogspot.ca/
10. Ina - http://inasplacecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com/
11. Christina - http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/
12. Marialex - http://scrapalexj.blogspot.com/
13. Melissa - http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com/
14. Ginette - http://taginetteproulx.blogspot.com/
15. Eva - http://evasscrapsncards.blogspot.com/
16. Creative Kuts2 - http://creativekuts2.blogspot.com/

Please hop over to Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

Pumpkins, Pumpkins and more Pumpkins

I'm on a Pumpkin kick....everywhere I look I see the cutest ideas for decorating pumpkins. I want to make them all LOL I absolutely fell in love with this one when I saw it. I have to find a place for it this year it's to pretty not to make.

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Wow where did today go? I've been busy cleaning up my scrapbook area and forgot to post this morning. Today I thought it would be fun to give you another recipe. I made these the other day and let me tell you my husband had them gone in a couple of days. He was so funny. He was getting ready to leave for work and he's taking all the cookies with him. I asked him if he was taking them for someone at work and he said yea ME :)
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

For the cookies:

3 3/4 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For the coating:

1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Dash of allspice

In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Whisk together to blend. In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugars on medium speed until well combined. Next, still on medium speed, beat in pumpkin. Then, add the egg and vanilla extract. Lastly, add in the dry ingredients. Beat until combined, but do not over mix. Cover the dough, and refrigerate for one hour, until firm.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Line baking sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl, mix together the sugar and spices for the sugar coating. Scoop dough (approximately 2 1/2 tablespoons) and roll into a ball. Roll the dough ball in the sugar mixture, and place on the lined baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. Take a drinking glass with a flat bottom and moisten with water. Dip the glass in the sugar mixture, and use it to flatten the dough balls. Re-sugar the glass as needed.

Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes. Remove when the centers of the cookies have set. Let cool on the baking pan for approximately 5 minutes, and then transfer to wire cooling racks to cool completely.


Source: Adapted from Annie's Eats/Recipe Girl/DLYN



Just a note if I was to make these again I would put some Pumpkin Pie Spice in the dough also. I wanted the to taste more like Pumpkin but my husband loved them. I hope your family enjoys them as much as my husband.

Shabby Chic Pumpkins

Do you like Shabby Chic as much as I do? Look at these adorable pumpkins and gourds I found over at The Cottage Market. You can also find the directions there on how to make them. They're so easy you won't believe it!!! I will have to make these next year since I already have this year planned out.

Look at how cute these witches are!!!! and what's even better is they're  no bake so even the kids  can help make them. You can find the recipe here Taste of Home.  I hope you and your kids have fun making them. They won't last long so you might want to double the recipe.

Fall Candles

Look how cute and simple these are. I absolutely love these!!!! You will be seeing these somewhere in my house this fall.

Cowgirl Outfit

I've been busy getting ready for an Open House I'm doing with a friend of mine. I wanted to show you this Cowgirl Outfit I made. I'll be selling them for $75 including shipping anywhere in the US. This one fits 3-6 months. I also have a Cowboy outfit in Brown and Tan with Chaps.

 I'm having so much fun getting ready for the Open House. I've made a Pumpkin Set, Cowboy Out with Chaps,scarf, Santa Cocoon and Hat now I'm working on football hats in the color of teams. My son and his family are HUGE Chicago Bears fans so I'm off to make hats for all of them. Thanks for stopping by and have a very crafty day!

Fall Table Setting

Sorry no post yesterday. My husband was working so that meant I was solo at the Retreat so I had to do all the cooking and cleaning by myself :(   We are having a Super Fun time though and the girls that are here this weekend are wonderful.

I love this Fall Table Setting I can already see it on my table. I just need to pick up the orange flowers and maybe a few more candles the next time I go to town.

I hope you had a very crafty weekend. Thanks for by.

Fall Table Setting

I've been looking for a pretty but simple table setting for fall and I finally found one this morning on pinterest. What do you think? The best part is I wouldn't even have to buy anything new to do this.  You could add more color if you wanted by changing out the candles and napkins but I like the white with the fall leaves.

Ghost Pops

Have you ever made these Ghost Pops? They are so easy.....when I made them I used white kleenex( the ones in the square box)  and tied them around tootsie pops with black and orange ribbons. I didn't bother putting the eyes on but you can if you think it's cuter with them. I put them on a large tree I had made out of branches painted black. It was soooooooooo cute I used it in the entry way for a Halloween Party I hosted at a Nursing Home.  There was one for every kid that came through the door. They had so much fun taking them off the tree.

Hope you have a very crafty day:)

Painted Pumpkins

Have you been looking for a craft to do with your children? I found these on Pinterest. I'm looking forward to doing this with my grandkids.

Can you guess what these are? Rocks and Sticks yes I said ROCKS and STICKS! How stinking cute right!  What an inexpensive craft and just think of all the fun your kids will having finding the perfect rocks and then turning them in to jack-o-lanterns. 

SUPPLIES

Rocks

Sticks

Paint

Glue 

Paint your rock the color you would like your pumpkins,add face if desired, when dried glue on stick and your done! Wouldn't these be cute done in glitter? I can see them painted black with purple glitter for Halloween and then done in browns for Thanksgiving. I hope you and your children enjoy making these!

Have a very Crafty Day! Bonnie