Our weSTAMP group met this month, and what a great time we had! Look at the treats Terri brought! Not only is she an awesome creative papercrafter, you can see she has the gift of BAKING as well!!! These are Lemon Coconut Peeper Cookies! I love how she presented the cookies in the Easter basket (with SU ribbon at the top, of course!) I have added Terri’s recipes (after receiving many emails requesting it!) Here it is! 1 box of Lemon Cake Mix (any brand) 1/3 cup oil 2 eggs 1 cup unsweetened flake coconut 24 butterscotch chips 48 miniature semisweet chocolate chips Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl combine cake mix, oil and eggs; beat until well mixed. Place coconut in shallow bowl. For each cookie, shape dough into one 1-1/2 inch ball and one 1/2 inch ball. Roll each ball in coconut; place on ungreased cookie sheet with smaller ball touching larger ball. Place cookies 1-1/2 inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes or until coconut just begins to brown. Immediately press 1 butterscotch chip for beak and 2 mini chocolate chips for eyes into smaller ball of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheet. Makes 24 cookies. To go along with the Coconut theme, she made a YUMMY Coconut cake!!! Isn’t that a cute little sign to let us know what kind of cake it was?
We start the evening off with a make and take. Peggy was our volunteer for this. This is a beautiful 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ card using the set Easter Blossoms.
Peggy also did our 3 mn. demo for the evening. She showed us how to make a coordinating envelope to fit our 4 1/4″ card.
To make this envelope, first seal it shut. Then you cut off about 1″ of one side of the envelope. That will become the top of the envelope. Then cut a piece of DP the same width of your envelope by 2″. Score this piece at 1 1/4″ (on the long side). Tape the shorter side of the DP to the FRONT side of the envelope as shown below.
Here is a photo of the backside of the envelope. Round the corners of the 2″ piece. This is the backside of the envelope with the flap up.
This is the backside of the envelope with the flap down.
THANKS Peggy! We all LOVED your project!
The theme of our swap this month was a 3-D Spring, Easter, or Mother’s Day project. Here they are!!
Linda B’s swap: (filled with candy!!)
Eileen’s swap:
Heather’s swap: (filled with jelly beans!)
Pam’s swap:
Inside of Pam’s swap:
Jennie’s swap (gift card holder)
Terri’s swap: (pin cushion with fabric!)
Melissa’s swap:
Michelle’s swap:
Peggy’s swap:
Kathy’s swap: (tutorial found HERE)
Shelley’s swap: (yummy treat inside, TO DIE FOR!!)
Shelley made us all a keychain out of a formica chip from Home Depot!
Linda R’s swap: (candy inside!)
Stephanie’s swap:
Lorri’s swap, and recipe and can be found on previous post HERE.
Linda R made the doorprize this month. Isn’t this the CUTEST little dresser?? The drawes slide out (treats were inside!) If you have questions about her project, you can find her blog HERE.
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I have been checking out your blog for the last couple of years and I love it. But I just had to leave a comment today to say how much I love your recipes, I do write some of them down to try, have yet to try them though, too busy stamping. Thanks for your inspiration Lori
What great stuff..talented ladies!!
Any chance you could link a blog to the people so we could get directions to make?
I too am interested in the cookie recipe
Friends, food and fun stamping; it doesn't get much better than that! All the swaps are wonderful. I would love to know how Kathy made her 3D swap, great presentation. Thanks for sharing. jmniffer
I love reading your blog. I have to agree with SherryBee, it is sad when you see what other uplines do for their downlines. My upline, who was a very dear friend of mine, passed away just a few months ago so I no longer know or have an upline. It looks like find a good group of people is the way to have it. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas.
P.S. I would love the recipe for those bird cookies!!!
OMG!!! You girls must have an absolute blast at your team meetings. Look at all those FABULOUS swaps. What a talented group of gals you are!
Karen
xo
PS – that food looks rather scrummy too I have to say! lol
OH MY GOSH! All of the projects are just awesome! I LOVE them all!
This makes me sad, too!
It makes me realize what being a part of a group *downline/sideline or upline* is like and the fun and creative ideas that are shared.
My upline sucks, to put it bluntly….
Thanks for sharing all these goodies!