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Perfect Pairs: Canning Mini & Carrot Patch | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

June 25, 2013
Perfect Pairs
Sari

Wha-hoot! I have some really great digital scrapbooking layouts using Chelle’s Canning Mini & Carrot Patch Products. Did you ever have to thin carrots in the garden? I was REALLY bad at it. I frequently pulled all of the carrots and thinned the weeds. LOL! First let me show you Chelle’s products.

Chelle has also created Grandma’s Fruits & Grandpa’s Veggies if you need some fruit and veggie goodness for your canning layouts..

Four of our ladies gave us some to share with you.

Jan M (QuiltyMom) Readying the Hunt tell us a visual tale of her son’s first year of helping prepare for the Easter Egg Hunt rather than getting to participate in the hunt. She used Home Canning, The Carrot Patch, The Carrot Patch Word Bits, The Carrot Patch Blog Freebie, & CU Button Threads.

Leah (CatLady) She used Home Canning & The Carrot Patch. Her use of the greenery and green font really add to the texture of the LO.

Sam (semantje) She used Home Canning & The Carrot Patch. I liked her use of the arrows and buttons. An herb garden is a great way to combine these 2 kits. Love this way of gardening.

Jenny (jenn18) She used Canning Mini & The Carrot Patch. Look how well the text path and clustering draw your eyes along the path. The bunny cluster is adorable and the plaid paper works really well with her son.

I enjoyed looking at the two kits and how they were combined by our Creative Team. I almost wish it were Easter again, so we could have all that crazy goodness all over again.
Hugs!

Perfect Pairs: Summer Lovin’ & Home Canning | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

August 7, 2012
Perfect Pairs
Sari

Hello Everyone! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Summer is the time for jellying. I miss the fresh berries off the vine. My favorite fruit is a black cap raspberry. I remember picking them each summer at my Grandma Pearl’s. We’d get up early, probably about 6am. Put on clothes, then use a flannel shirt as a jacket. Grab a belt, a 5 quart ice cream bucket, a bandana and gloves. We used just about anything to protect us from the thorns on those black cap vines. It didn’t matter how careful you were, you always came home with scratches in places you didn’t realize those thorns could get to. LOL! Into Grandma’s house to give her the new harvest. She’d have her juicer/steamer on the stove, with the berries reducing to a liquid which slowly drained into another pan. That liquid is a very intensely flavored syrup which we then used to make jelly. It’s a hot job performed in hot weather, as the steamy room is perfumed with the steam of fruited syrups. I highly recommend central air. LOL Again!

They creative team has used Chelle’s Summer Lovin, Summer Lovin’ Ginghams & Home Canning Mini kits.

Here are some designs from Chelle’s Creative Team. I hope they inspire you. (They made me hungry! LOL)

Carol

Lynett

Mel

Look what Kayla came up with for her church group.

Kayla

Hope you have a great day! Hugs!

Gallery Standouts | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

May 21, 2012
Gallery Standouts
Sari

Hi, Chelle’s Aunt Sari again. Today I’m doing a gallery stand out about Grandma’s Garden and in particular her fruits. When I think of Grandma’s fruits, I think Strawberry Freezer Jam using M&C Premium Pectin and this recipe. We would make Strawberry Jam every year. Kairyn kindly provides a beautiful 2-page LO of her children picking strawberries. I love the “vine” in the background paper and the way she coiled the string around. Squares on one page and circles on the other. They sure make pickin’ berries look a lot more fun than I remember.

Every few years, it would be our turn to get Grandma Pearl’s (Chelle’s Great Grandma)Black Cap Raspberry harvest. On summer mornings, we’d throw on a yucky old T-shirt, a long-sleeved flannel shirt, and a ball cap. No one wore flip flops, they didn’t provide enough protection. Next we’d snag a belt & a plastic ice-cream bucket. We were very cute and the picture of young womanhood! Cameras were not allowed! The belt went through the handle on the ice cream bucket so we could pick with both hands. (That’s a laugh) The ball caps and flannel shirts were are only defense from those horrible thorns! It didn’t matter how carefully you picked, you ALWAYS left the garden scratched up and with thorn punctures on your hands. Black caps have a darker, more intense, sweet taste than a regular raspberry and are my favorite fruit. I remember Grandma Pearl having her Fruit Juice Steamer going on the stove making Black Cap Jelly when we’d take the newly harvested berries inside for her. I can still taste the freshly baked bread, slathered with melting butter and that yummy burst of that sugary-sweet berry in the first bite. Or newly made pancakes with black cap syrup dripping down the sides. Is there any doubt why I’m diabetic? [HeeHee, so was my Dad and his mother, Grandma Pearl!] If you ever have the chance, you should definitely try them. On the funny side, Grandma had many bottles of black cap jelly in her storage room in the basement and when she passed, we’re pretty sure they’d turned to Black Cap wine. LOL
As I looked through different LOs, I couldn’t resist this one provided by Janine. She tied in the shrubbery with the lovely basket with her daughter. I love the texture of the blanket next to the shrubs. I remember many shrubs in both of my grandmother’s gardens… AND how we tore them up playing hide n seek on Sunday nights.