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Pink Strawberry Rice Krispie Treats

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:47:00 +0000

I love Rice Krispie Treats and this recipe is a little bit of a twist on something I saw on Pinterest. For my recipe I decided to do a strawberry flavor! You use your regular cereal box recipe and replace white marshmallows for strawberry ones! And you add some dry strawberry cake mix and some sprinkles!

6 cups rice krispies

3 tbsp butter

10 oz bag of strawberry marshmallows

1 cup strawberry cake mix (dry)

sprinkles

Before you begin, spray a large cookie sheet with butter flavored cooking spray (or regular flavor).
1. melt your butter in large pot over low heat.
2. add marshmallows.

3. stir and stir til melted

4. as they start getting pretty melted add in your cake mix a spoonful at a time and stir really good.

5. notice the beautiful shade of pink.

6. add in rice krispies and keep stiring.

7. continue to stir and sprinkle in the sprinkles!

8. remove from heat, turn off stove and spread onto cookie sheet using your clean fingers!

9. YUM!

10. If you plan to cut pieces out with cookie cutters, do it quickly while it's still warm and easy to press. Otherwise, cut into squares with a knife!

Hope you enjoy this perfect Valentine's treat!

Basil Herb Embroidered Dish Towel

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

I bought a set of plain dish towels with a blue border and a set of iron on transfers and embroidered this easy dish towel! Made a great gift! Fun and easy!

Dream Embroidery Pillowcases

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:26:00 +0000

I like the color scheme of this pillowcase set! I start with a dark blue pillowcase and drew on my pattern with a white chalk pencil. Then I embroidered with various colors! Turned out cute I think!

Modge Podge trays from napkins!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0000

I bought this set of nested wooden trays from Hobby Lobby and a pack of pretty napkins and some modge podge! I separated the 2 layers of the napkin and used the printed piece for my project. I started with my sponge brush and placed the napkin in the center and started apply glue all over yet delicately due to the thinness of the napkin. I covered each tray and let dry!! Easy and fun!

Pink/Purple Flower in acrylic

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

I started this one with a dark blue background on 5x7 canvas. As I painted I was very happy with it and it sat on my desk for a while. I made myself finish it before I started another project and now I really love it! The colors turned out better than I expected! I also added some glossy accents for dew drops!

LOVE flower watercolor

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:30:00 +0000

I painted this with my watercolor pencils onto coldpress watercolor paper. Then outlined it with my black pen. Then I added some glossy accents for dew drops!

Magnolia Seed Pod Acrylic Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

I painted this magnolia seed pod on8x10 canvas with acrylic paints.

Japanese Magnolia Acrylic Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

I painted this tulip bud on 5x7 canvas with acrylic paints.

Acrylic Painted Knife

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

This was one of David's most recent projects, he made this knife from an old horse femur bone. I decided to paint it for him on 8x10 canvas using acrylics!

Pen Cup

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:48:00 +0000

This was a gift I made for Mom, she is a pen lover just like me! I bought her this set of Slicci metallic pens and made this little cup to put them in! Nice!

Felt Beaded Broche

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:46:00 +0000

I made these for a Christmas present this past year and wanted to share them with you! I made the tree from one of my own digital stamps! Here is the tutorial for how I made it here.

Photoshoot for Lexi!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:23:00 +0000

I had a great time with my friend Sonya the other day photographing her little girl, Alexis! They turned out so CUTE! Here are a few of my favs! Click Here to see the whole gallery! (172 photos!)

Grocery Coupons anyone?

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:00 +0000

Does anyone know of the best site for grocery coupons? Please comment here for suggestions or your experiences with these sites! That'd be really helpful! I wanna start clipping coupons!!

Christmas Cactus!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:04:00 +0000

My Christmas cactus is in full bloom and looking so pretty! I gave it a fun little photo session the other day!

Red Velvet Cheesecake!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:39:00 +0000

Crust:
17 Oreo cookies, crushed
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp sugar

Filling:
3 pkgs (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 cup (8 oz) sour cream
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 tbsp baking cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1 bottle (1 oz) red food coloring

Frosting:
1 pkg (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Place a greased 9-in springform pan on a double thickness of heavy duty foil (about 18 in square). Securely wrap foil around pan.

2. In a small bowl, combine the cookie crumbs, butter and sugar. Press onto the bottom of prepared pan. Tip: google ideas on materials to use on the bottom of your pan for easy removal of your cheesecake to place on you cake plate.

3. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the sour cream, buttermilk, cocoa and vanilla. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Stir in food coloring. Pour over crust. Place springform pan in a large baking pan; add 1 inch of hot water to this larger pan. Tip: This is called a 'water bath' and it prevents your cheesecake from splitting and cracking.

4. Bake at 325 for 60-70 minutes or until center is just set and top appears dull. Remove springform pan from water bath. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around the edge of the pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan.

5. For frosting, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth. Frost top of cheesecake. Refrigerate until serving. Yield: 16 servings

Photoshop'd Peacock!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:59:00 +0000

This peacock is one of my old favorite photos. I played with it in Photoshop for several hours playing with the colors! I had so many versions but this ended up being my favorite! © Tiffany Richards.

Original

After

CLR

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0000

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Ha! I know this is really random kind of post, but sometimes I get excited and want to share some good news!

Glitter Polish

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:06:00 +0000

You know how when you see a bottle of the prettiest glittery nail polish at the store....? Then you get it home, you shake it up really good and get yourself ready for some shiny sparkly sweetness for your nails? You get a really good helping on your brush and spread it over your nail? 1 stroke, 2 strokes, 3 strokes.... and then your like 'what the...?' Now you have on, basically, a clear polish with like 3 specks of glitter dust randomly appearing on your nail as if by accident? Like some dust from your craft table accidentally got into your clear nail polish? LOL

Well, I finally found some glitter nail polish that really looks just as good on your nails as it does in the bottle! Sally Hansen Gem Crush. This shade is called Big Money (2 coats). Perfect for New Year's Eve!! Hooray for products that live up to their advertising promises!

The Puppy Chorus!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:06:00 +0000

The girls, Emma and Francie sing along to "Emmet Otters Jugband Christmas" Do any of you remember this movie? My sister and I loved it!

After I uploaded that video, I was checking it out on my big screen and the girls couldn't figure out what in the world was going on!

Isabelle's Sweater

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:36:00 +0000

She'll let me put her sweater on as long as she doesn't have to lift one paw to help!

Color Houses!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:24:00 +0000

I feel so bad about the total lack of attention to my personal blog here! Been so super busy over at Tiffany Doodles. So, I thought I would do random posts from some of my personal photograph stash!!

I have been really into the HDR photography lately. For those of you who don't know; that means High Dynamic Range. You need a steady tripod for your camera to capture anywhere from 3 to 5 photos at different exposures, averaging about 2 stops between increments. Which means you take a really dark photo, a normal exposure and then one over-exposed. The purpose of this is to capture all of the information in the highlights, midtones, and shadows. Then you import all of these exposures into your photo editing software and through the magic of Photoshop and some plugins for your tone mapping you get something that looks like this!! Maybe one day I'll do a tutorial if you really want me too!!
Enjoy! More to come soon! Thanks for looking! Click to enlarge.

Ally cat in window!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Sometimes ally likes to get crafty with me!

Tiffany Doodles Blog Hop - Birdie Card

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Welcome to Day 3 of our Tiffany Doodles Blog Hop! We hope you had a great time on the previous 2 days, and perhaps found some inspiration along the way!

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On today's Hop we are featuring cards made with Bird images by Tiffany Doodles!

For my blog hop card I choose to use the Birdie Wings digi stamp. This is such a cute bird to color and also a fun one to paper piece. I did a little bit of stitching on this shabby chic patchwork card.

All papers in this card are from Basic Gray's June Bug series. I started by cutting my main red polka dot piece in 4.25" circle.

Then I punched 14 circles with my 1" circle punch!

Then I cut 3 circles of the same size to make my patches in the middle to be sewed on.

Then I die cut my yellow center piece.

I placed my 1" circles face down and used a plain piece of cardstock cut in a 4.25" circle as a base to glue my small circles onto. I layed it out like the pic below as perfectly as possible.

Then I held down the big circle and drew a circle around it completely on top of the little circles like below.

I drew this circle so that I would make sure I glued each one down evenly and in the correct alignment!

Then it would look perfect like below!

Next, I glued my red piece down in the center. I also cut my 3 patchwork circles into quarters and choose 4 pieces to use that looked decent together. I layed them out on the card to see how they would look!

Next, i colored my birdie with copics. Zoom pic to see colors used. I cut the birdie out with my scissors and then outlined any white edges with my black sharpie pen!

Here it is close up!

I also colored a little bluebird...

I also colored an orange poppy!

And a red poppy!

Then I did my machine stitching on the card (which I am NOT good at!!) LOL After I did that I decided to hand stitch the little yellow piece so that it would look decent.

I love hand stitching on my cards!

Then I printed my sentiment from the computer, die cut it, & colored my paper the same color as the birdie. I assembled my card together and tried out the various little digis I colored!

I hope you like this 'tweet' little card and feel inspired to make one of your own!

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Framed Hand Embroidered Fawn!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:40:00 +0000

While I've been sitting with Granny alot more these days, I've been wanting to do some hand embroidery with her. But I couldn't find any transfers that I really liked over at Hobby Lobby. I'm a creative person, surely I can think of something to draw out that I could sew! It suddenly occurred to me that I could sew some of my digital stamp designs!! Hello! Why didn't I think of this before?!?! So I printed out a few designs that I thought would make for easy sewing since I still consider myself a beginner sewer! I decided on this skinny little fawn. (get stamp from my store here) I saw a photo a while back using lots of negative space and wanted to create a piece like that! And this is what I came up with! Hope it inspires you!

Click here to check out the Skinny Fawn Digital Stamp at Tiffany Doodles! Or here for other fawn's I've drawn!

Halloween Card Tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (Tiffany) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +0000

The Card Challenge at my other site Tiffany Doodles for this month is Stitching! I l-o-v-e stitching on my cards so I had a lot of fun with this project! I used the brand new Spooky Pumpkins Digital Stamp set for this tic tac toe card!

To start this project, I layed out my design in Photoshop in a 4"x4" document (300dpi) I filled the background with a very dark gray. I then created nine 1" boxes and filled them with a lighter gray. Then I opened each pumpkin digi and insert them into the document. I used the Transform tool to resize them to fit into each box. Since there are only 8 digis in the set, I duplicated 1 of them and flipped it horizontally. Do you see which pumpkin has a twin? (my printer was acting up and put a dark line through a few of the boxes so I didn't mean for that to be there.)

Next I cut out a 4" square piece of cardstock - I used Coordinations "spellcaster" textured cardstock.

I turned my cardstock over and need to draw my guides for cutting out the 1" square holes in the cardstock. So to be precise I lined up my cardstock even with the image and used a ruler as my guide.

Then I cut out my 1" square with my exacto blade.... be careful!

Got everything cut out for my windows!

Next I used my little doodlebug hole maker and ran it down all rows of my cardstock. It doesn't actually pierce the paper but it makes a little indention so that I can use it as a guide for making good holes. I used my paper piercer and a little hammer to tap all the holes.

Next I used a piece of orange paper and my scallop edger to make pretty sides. I made it just a smidge bigger than my 4" cardstock window.

Then I used my autumn leaves ink pad and inked the edges of my actual card backing, all 4 sides.

I then glued down my orange paper onto the kraft card b/c I'm going to need to sew through both pieces at the same time!

But first I punched all my holes!

I also colored all the pumpkins with my colored pencils! After I colored them in I took my black fine tip pen and went around and over all the lines of each pumpkin. Makes them stand out much more!

Here is a close up of the colored pencils I used.

Next comes the stitching! I used 3 strands of orange embroidery thread and did the back stitch on every row!

I thought my pumpkins needed a little more dimension so I took a almost black marker (N7) and made a little shadow below each pumpkin.

Then I sewed french knots on each scallop of the orange paper! I love making french knots!! I used 4 strands of embroidery black thread and 3 loops for the french knots! =)

I then glued down the black cardstock window onto the pumpkin digi paper and assemble the card!! I hope you like this tutorial!! I would love to hear your thoughts!