So, without further ado.....
THE CHALLENGE:
The summer months bring out a bevy of cook outs and pot luck dinners. What’s your favorite recipe? Share it in a stamped creation and you’ll be in the running for our July Release Week Challenge! Enter and you could walk away with all three stamps in Flourishes’ June release! You have until Friday, July 16th at 5 PM EST to enter for your chance to win. Use Flourishes stamps if you have them but if you don’t, please play along anyway. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword FLLCJUL10. Keep in mind, in order to be eligible, you need to link your creation HERE in this post using the inlinkz linky. We can’t wait to see what’s cookin’ in your kitchen this summer!
Now, to my creation! A couple years back, my mom gave me a fabulous recipe for a Strawberry Salad -- it features a tasty salad with spinach, strawberries and toasted walnuts! The Vinaigrette is delish! (Not exactly low cal, but delish!) So, I made up a card to have handy for the next BBQ. I figure I can bring the salad, put the dressing in this decked out jar and have the recipe for the hostess! EDITED TO ADD: Looks like I'm going to need to remake this recipe card.. I forgot 1/2 c. Red Wine Vinegar to the recipe!!! So, if you want to give this recipe a try -- don't forget the vinegar! :-)
I also combined challenges to include the colors for the 100th Color Throwdown celebration! You can check out the challenge HERE. Trust me, you'll want to -- there are 30 some companies doling out prizes to help Color Throwdown celebrate! :-) (including Flourishes)
Now to the deets! This one was super duper easy peasy! I just printed my recipe off on Flourishes Classic White card stock, used a circle Nestabilities die to cut it out, matted it up on a scalloped Nesties shape and then again on a larger circle shape. The strawberries were colored using the Poppy Copic collection plus a mix of greens to try to capture the "certainly celery" shade in the color challenge (G82, YG11, G12), I added B000 and BG10 to serve as my hint of "baja breeze". Add some gingham ribbon and a button and... almost done! The jar was just decked out with some gingham ruffle and a button with twine. Voila!
Want to see what the rest of the DT cooked up? Stop by and see.....
Christine Okken
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Thanks for stopping by! See you back here soon! :-)
24 comments:
gorgeous. i love the way the directions are typed out in different areas and the strawberries are placed perfectly. perfectly colored too!
I wish I could invite you to my house so that I could be the lucky hostess to receive this gift! I love that you chose a circle and arranged the recipe and strawberries so artfully!
I am certainly enjoying all the recipes being shared today!
This is beautiful Julie.. I love the way you typed out your recipe.. That jar with the pretty gingham ribbon is perfect for this recipe.. Great challenge. I enjoyed this one and I think everyone else will to.
Julie, this sounds amazing and the design is wonderful! Beautifully done!
YUMMY - I love Strawberry Salads!!! Your recipe card is super sweet!!! It sound delicious and I will have to try this!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!! Hugs ~S~
Now that's a cute idea, Julie! Cute, cute, CUTE! Love just about all vinaigrettes. This would be such a thoughtful and fabulous hostess gift. Thanks for a very useful idea!
wonderful and such a good gift idea for the hostess.
Yumo and not low cal at all. But hey all the good stuff isn't low cal. Totally cute pacakging and great idea leaving the recipe for the host. Darling idea Julie
Oh this looks gorgeous Julie, what an awesome hostess gift! The jar is beautiful, I feel so bad that you have to do it again...but this design is beautiful! I just love that ruffled ribbon too!
This is darling, Julie! I'll have a cookout and invite you so you can bring it to me!!! Thanks so much for helping us celebrate Color Throwdown #100 this week!
This is the nicest kind of gift you can give from your kitchen! Just beautiful! Now that you've cleaned out your stamp room, will you come clean mine if I send you airfare? LOL Thanks for playing along with the CTD!
This is so cute!! Very creative!
I love your round recipe card! And that recipe sounds delish! Thanks so much for celebrating with the Color Throwdown too! I love that you combined the challenges!
Love it! Truly creative & always inspirational!
This is fabulous, Julie! The circle recipe card is so darling...
Super fantastic coloring job too!!
I'm so glad you had a chance to play along the CTD 100th!
This is fabulous!!
gorgeous...your coloring on this image is so incredible!! Thanks for playing along with this special 100th Color Throwdown challenge!! Make sure to leave some love along the way and increase you changes to win!!!
Hey girlfriend! I've been backtracking on your blog and OH MY STARS ... your creations just keep getting better & better! Truly you are an inspiration!!
Hope your summer has been filled with fun & laughter! Miss you!
This is fabulous, Julie! Looks good and it's gotta taste good! Thanks so much for helping us make the Throwdown 100 celebration such a success!
Oh yum! I love strawberries and especially strawberry and spinach salad! I love your recipe card..just beautiful! Thanks so much for helping us celebrate our 100th challenge!!
What a beautiful project! I really enjoyed your post!
Oh my gosh, this is just as sweet as can be! You always come up with the most original ideas! Thanks for sharing this with us and helping the CTD girls celebrate this week!
I just bought some spinach and strawberries at the store...thanks for sharing your recipe and the darling hostess gift idea. The recipe card is so pretty,maybe you could just tell the hostess and she could pencil in the vinegar on the back...this is too beautiful to waste!!
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