plain jane: April 2015

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Friday, April 24, 2015

friday favourites

Hello!

I hope all is well!

I'm sharing my Friday favs so here they are! :)

LOVE the neutral colours and LOVE the chair!

I've been drooling over Bookhou's bags forever!!

I hope to give this a try soon...crocheting a basket. :)

YUM!

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Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Happy Earth Day + Sale!

Hello and Happy Earth Day!!

I really do my best to teach my children to love our earth and to show respect. I LOVE the outdoors, I went camping with my parents every summer....and I mean camping...in a tent!

Anyways, lets do all we can do to keep our earth healthy and beautiful and I also wanted to have a sale....20% Off All Clear Stamps!

Pop on over to the JD blog and check out Marion's sweet and simple card!

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

I'm not sure if I have ever shared this recipe here but just in case here it is (my youngest requested a batch of my brownies). I found this recipe a couple of years back in a Good Housekeeping magazine. I tried it because it looked easy and I love baking with cocoa...I love the rich flavor cocoa gives.

Ingredients

1/2 cup all-purpose flour (for my Croats I use oštro brašno)

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt (if using salted butter than skip this)

6 Tbsp. butter (85 grams)

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1/3 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (180 degrees C.). Grease 8 x 8 inch metal baking pan. In a small bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.

2. In saucepan, melt butter on low. Remove saucepan from heat; with spatula, stir in sugar, then eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla until well blended. Stir in flour mixture. Spread batter in prepared pan; sprinkle with chocolate chips if using.

3. Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in brownies 2 inches from center comes out almost clean. Cool brownies completely in pan on wire rack (if you cut into them while they are still warm it'll be tricky cutting them because they are just too soft).

4. When cool, cut brownies into 4 stripes, then cut each strip crosswise into 4 squares.

Each Brownie - About 120 calories, 2 g protein, 17 g carbohydrate, 6 g total fat (3 g saturated), 1 g fiber, 39 mg cholesterol, 100 mg sodium.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Daffodils - SALE!

Hello!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

It's a beautiful sunny spring day and it made me reach for my Daffodils stamp set.

Then I thought...why have a Daffodils stamp set SALE! This whole week Daffodils will be 15% Off!

I didn't have a lot of time this morning so I used my water colours to make the background and once it was dry I stamped the daffodils onto it. SIMPLE!

I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder.

Pop on over to the JD blog and check out Ange's gorgeous card!

Thursday, April 16, 2015

friday favourites

Hello!

Hope all is well!

Sharing my Friday favourites!

Simple. Love it!

I can't wait for my strawberries and raspberries to start coming in! I love them with crepes!

I adore this rug!!!! LOVE!

LOVE LOVE LOVE tulips!

I hope you found some inspiration. :)

Make sure to pop on over to the JD blog and check out Aga's gorgeous card!

Have a lovely weekend!

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Hi

Hi!

Hope all is well! Don't have much to share here (working on lots of things but can't share them yet! :) Excuse my extremely dry hand!

Pop on by the JD blog and check out Miriam's fabulous card!

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Best Mom ever + sale

Hello!

Hope all is well! I wasn't planning on make a card this morning (I make my cards early morning or late at night) but I couldn't help not ink up this flower wreath so because I don't have time (finishing off some German stamps) I kept it very clean and simple!

Also I'm having a sale on the two new stamp sets I added to the shop last night. Both are 15% off for the next two days! In celebrations of Spring and up coming Mother's Day!

I coloured with Graph'it markers.

As a Mama myself and also having the best Mom ever....there's never a limit to letting them know that they are the best and loved!

Monday, April 13, 2015

New JD stamps

Hello!

I hope all is well!

I got some happy mail today....new Jane's Doodles stamps!! :)

Whenever I get new stamps I have to stop whatever I'm doing and ink them up!!

I've added them to the shop. I'll also have a Spotlight Blog Hop featuring these two stamps soon.

Friday, April 10, 2015

friday favourites

Hello!

I'm here with my Friday favourites!

I will be trying these out this weekend...I always have these ingredients and this mama need more energy and these No Bake (yes!!!) energy bits look perfect!! :)

LOVE stripes...will pop in Promod next time I'm at the mall to check it out!

This bedroom is so pretty....reminds me of spring - fresh and pretty bright colours.

Last week I treated myself and ordered this Ilia lipstick in Neon Angel! I love a good pop of colour on the lips!

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Hi

Hello!

Hope all is well! :)

Sharing a card I created using my Little Miss Mia, Dino-MITE and Smile stamp sets.

I used the speech bubble from my Dino-MITE stamp set, I just covered the 'RAWR' with washi tape, inked it up, removed the washi and stamped the speech bubble onto cardstock.