A (Belated) Birthday Card

So we finally broke down and finished off our Cricut Disney collection. Our Best of Pixar cartridge came in the mail today and we just had to try it out!! We also had a belated birthday card on our to-do list for almost a month. (How sad is that?) At least with school finishing up this week we will *hopefully* be better with being creative. So here's the card that we made!

The card is a tri-fold 4x6 card.The cartridge has a cut of Mike and Sulley waving out a door, but I couldn't quite figure out how to use it to make this card. Instead, I used two separate cuts to look like they were in the door, which was made to look like Boo's door (who's adorable self is on the inside). The card says, "You must think we're monsters... for forgetting your birthday. Happy Belated Birthday!" There is a pocket on the last section for a gift card to be slipped into. Extended birthdays are great, right?! Keep them coming!

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Cupcake Saturday!

Good morning on this absolutely gorgeous Saturday morning! We hope everyone is having a great day so far! Ours is looking to be busy, but hopefully we'll be able to relax a little tomorrow. Anyway, the cupcakes we are sharing with you today are the ones we made for our birthday last weekend. At the beginning of May, as we were watching the Harry Potter Weekend on ABC Family for the umpteenth time, we decided that we really wanted to have a Harry Potter themed birthday this year. Honestly, who wouldn't want to live in a world full of magic and mystery?! (And who says 27 is too old for a birthday party?!) We had a whole bunch of ideas to work with , but unfortunately, life got in the way and we didn't get around to it. But, we did make cupcakes to celebrate! These are our butterbeer cupcakes, in honor of Harry Potter:

We took a shortcut with these, and used a butter cake mix. Instead of adding water, we added cream soda to the batter (it was kind of difficult to find the cream soda. Not too many stores out here sell it. Who knew??) Once the cupcakes were cooled, we took white buttercream frosting and added a package of butterscotch pudding to it. We mixed it to make a butterscotch buttercream. (This would probably have been better looking if it was a homemade frosting, but it tastes delicious!) These were exactly what I would imagine a mug of butterbeer to taste like.
If the cupcake form isn't quite your thing, there are a ton of other recipes out there for drink versions. We've tried the one from this website, which was surprisingly good. It's not the heathiest drink out there, and drinking a tablespoon of butter may not be on your top list of things to do, but it is tasty in small portions. (That's in the mug.) We also found a butterbeer frappuccino 'recipe' here for the coffee drinker who frequents the corner Starbucks. I wonder if the one at Safeway would make this for us. There are also cream soda-based recipes, too.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a magical day!!

Big Birthday Wishes!

Happy Friday! We hope everyone had a wonderful, shortened week. Mother Nature finally decided to send us some sun and warmer, so the weekend is looking even better now! Anyway, today is our parents' birthdays. I always find it entertaining when I tell people that our parents have the same birthday and they just give me a 'look', and then let it go. Although I do sometimes get the "Are they twins too?". Obviously. So, today's projects are the cards we made them. It's the thought that counts, even if it gets to them late, right?!
This is the card we made our dad:

Out of everyone in the family, he was always the one to go to with any math questions. It seemed like a fitting card for him. That, and he is getting up there, but then again, aren't we all?! ;)
This is the card we made for our mom:

When we were first thinking of her card, this is definitely not what we were thinking. After a few trials, this is what we cam up with. The colors don't really fit our mom's personality (she's not a huge fan of pink), but it is definitely a card she would pick out for someone!
So, to finish up, happy birthday Mom and Dad! (The gift is in the mail, we just wanted to extend the day a little more!!)
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Cupcake Saturday

It's that time of the week again. My favorite day- Cupcake Saturday! And this weekend is even better since it is a long weekend and our birthday weekend! Very excited to not have school on our birthday this year, just saying. :)
Anyway, here are today's Cupcake Saturday cupcakes. In honor of Memorial Day, we knew we would have to make something patriotic.

We just took white cake batter and dyed half red and half blue. After they were cooled, we cut them using the pop holder, and layered them with vanilla frosting. The final touch was the stars and stripes sprinkles on top!
We found these cute little push pop containers at Target yesterday (and they were on sale, so even better!)

They're perfect for a picnic this weekend or later on at a 4th of July party. Either way, they look and taste great.

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Cupcake Satuday!!

We're back! It has been a few weeks since we've had the time to make some cupcakes. But, between work and orders and everything else that seems to take up our time, we found a few minutes to make these! This week's cupcakes are Nutella cupcakes with strawberry jelly frosting.

 These are kind of a mix between two recipes. The cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes with Nutella mixed in. I was a little surprised when they came out because there wasn't much of a Nutella-y flavor to them, even though I added more than the original recipe called for. But it might have added to the softness of the cupcakes. A lot of other recipes pipe some Nutella into the middle of the cupcakes, but I'd rather just eat it out of the jar (as you can kind of tell). Once the cupcakes cooled, we topped them with a strawberry jelly buttercream. This was a definite risk, but I think it worked out. It was a lot sweeter than we would normally make, but it balances out the cupcake nicely, especially if you make a sandwich out of the cupcake.
Anyway, we hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, and that you get to do something fun and exciting! Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Sunday! We hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, celebrating all of the amazing moms in their lives. I know everyone says they have the best moms, but we really do! She always goes above and beyond for all of us. We were fortunate enough to be able to spend the last three weeks with her (and our dad), which was awesome. We were able to celebrate with her before they let yesterday morning, which was great.
Since Mom couldn't really bring much back home with her, we made a nice little breakfast. Here is the card we made her:

From first look, it most definitely doesn't look like a 'typical' Mother's Day card. Once it's opened, it makes more sense

We wanted to make it a somewhat snarky card, because Mom always tells us we're too snarky. (That, and we really wanted to use something from a new paper stack we got, but nothing fit for Mother's Day) So, we saw something with this saying, and thought it was perfect for her. I'm sure in the last 30+ years, there were tons of times she wanted to sell one, or all, of us to the circus, or zoo, or feed us to the sharks.
So, Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely mothers out there, especially ours!

Running in the Footsteps of Legends

Happy Sunday! We hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. We're sure everyone is looking forward to the next week. Or not. Our weekend was pretty amazing, I must say. Today's post isn't a crafty one, but we felt the need to share! We spent the weekend down in Eugene, Oregon. Now, for those of you who don't know, Eugene is home to the University of Oregon. It is also home to the legendary Hayward Field, Steve Prefontaine, Bill Bowerman, the Olympic Trials, and pretty much anything else that has to do with the world of running!
We went down there on our trip two summers ago, but didn't see much of the school. We kind of did a drive by of the track, but not much else. This morning, we ran in the Eugene Marathon. It was pretty amazing. On the bus ride to the race, we saw their 'Student-Athlete Academic Center'. Let's just say it was no room in the basement of the library. During the race, we ran by their football stadium. We're pretty sure our entire college campus could have fit in the stadium and parking lot. The entire campus is ginormous! So, skip (or run) ahead 26 miles and the race finished on the track. This was the best finish to a marathon. The track is definitely the best track to run on- it's so squishy! It was probably the fastest 200m we've run in a long time! And then they show you on the big screen at the end of the track. It was such an awesome experience!

And, of course, we had to wobble our way to the entrance of the track to get our picture in front of it. It may not have been our best times, but they weren't our worst, and we were able to find each other in the end, which has been a problem in the past. Except for the uber bad chub rub and my phone dying at mile 22 (which meant no more music) this was the best marathon we've done. It's also the only one (so far) we would think about doing again!
Thanks for stopping by! Now it's time to go ice, eat, and go to bed!