Cute Baking Gingerbread Recipe Card Printable

Get your recipes organized and looking good for the holidays and new year.  Start with this cute gingerbread who is baking up a storm in the kitchen.  This printable recipe card is available in three different sizes to keep the fun going when you're knee deep in baking this holiday.

Ever since I fell in love with making notebook covers with plastic canvas, I have been working to reorganize my recipe collection.  I had everything in one big book with pages and pages and pages of recipes.  (I may or may not have a problem with collecting recipes and then never trying them.)

So I've been working to organize them and also to try a few new ones every month.

I have a Main Dish recipe book, an Appetizer and Sides (I haven't decided for sure what to call it yet), a Breads book, a Beverages book, and a Dessert book.  I am hoping that by being more organized and loving my books, I'll use them more often.

It's a hope at least.

But to complete the recipe books, I know I need a bunch of cute recipe cards.  So I've been working on designing up a few.  The plan is to transfer them over to cute cards once I know that I like the recipe.  Other than that, it can be on an internet printout or magazine paper.  That way I'll know which ones I've tried and which recipes I haven't.

So today, I'm sharing a cute recipe card with a Baking gingerbread theme.  I am a huge fan of gingerbread men, so I think the fact that they are baking up a cute storm on these cards is pretty awesome.

The cards are in three formats.  You can find them in a 4x6 printable, a full page recipe card or on a half page printable.  Hopefully that will help you to get organized before Christmas and all the baking that comes with it.  Or at least sometime in the new year.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Christmas iPhone Wall paper

Decorate your iPhone for Christmas with these fun wall paper freebies. Such a fun way to get ready for Christmas and have a little Christmas spirit with you all month long!

The holidays are officially here and we have so many fun things to decorate and enjoy in the next two months.

After decorating my iPhone the last two months with the Halloween iPhone wall papers and the Thanksgiving iPhone Wall papers, I just fell in love with having a fun holiday decoration on my phone.  So I knew I needed to keep the trend alive and decorate for Christmas too.

I created four different wall paper decorations.  I couldn't decide which one I like the most.  I think I'll probably end up changing them out each week for a new one.

You've got a cute reindeer with a Merry Christmas background, an elf checking Santa's list with the saying "Dear Santa, define good...", a Santa Claus ready to deliver his toy pack with the saying "We believe!" and a religious one with the three wise men and "Wise Men Still Seek Him."

Which one is your favorite?

Graphics are curtesy of SweetNSassy.com and Cutsie Wootsie Clip Art on Etsy.

Happy Thanksgiving and Dare to Share Saturday

I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and spending it with family and friends.  I am, so I don't have traditional Dare to Share features with you this week.  But don't be afraid that your wonderful submissions were missed.

I used them all this week to fill my Facebook, Pinterest, Google Plus, and Twitter feeds with your amazing projects.  Hopefully I can make this a habit and that way you will get so much more exposure on your Dare to Share submission than just a normal feature.

So this week, kick back, enjoy a quick share and some great perusing through the other submissions while munching on your turkey leftovers.

I can't wait to see what you've been up to!

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Christmas Candy Cup Printable

Treat everyone you meet this Christmas with a fun Christmas candy cup.  You can make lots of them to share with this cheap project and free printable for the Christmas stickers.  You'll certainly be on Santa's good list now!

Have you ever wandered around Dollar Tree just looking?  Then you come across a product that you haven't seen in forever, or that would be just perfect for a party that you are having?

No?  Just me?

Okay, it was a rough weekend for me.  So I had to get out of the house and wander.  I ended up at Dollar Tree looking for decorations to get myself into the Christmas spirit.

Instead, I found a bag of these small plastic storage cups.  They have a 2 inch lid and come with 10 to a bag, making them the perfect addition to a class room party or to carry in your purse to give out at Christmas time.

When I got home with the storage cups, I couldn't decide on which graphics I liked the best.  I ended up using several sets from one of my favorite designers, Delightful Doodles.

Using a 2 inch background, I added the Christmas graphics to a printable that I am sharing with you today.  Find it at the bottom of the page.

These are super simple to print out on to pretty photo paper.  (I love to use photo paper since it's durable and has a beautiful gloss finish to the design so you don't need to laminate the printable to get a great product.)

Use a 2 inch circle punch to punch out each of the 20 graphic circles and then run through your Xyron sticker maker.  I used a repositionable sticker cartridge for this project. (Don't have one?  I totally recommend you putting this on your Christmas list!  It's one of my favorite crafting tools and I use it ALL the time.)

Now that your graphics are stickers, just peel them off and add to the top of the Dollar Tree storage cups.  Fill with your favorite Christmas candies and you have a quick and easy treat for anyone you find being good this Christmas!

Who would you give these Christmas Candy Cups to?

3 Thanksgiving Pie Recipes and Dare to Share Saturday

Thanksgiving is coming.  Are you ready?

I sat down last night and started my shopping list.  Does anyone else feel like this gets a little out of control every year? 

It's only going to be us for Thanksgiving.  No family or friends, so I don't feel like cooking crazy amounts of food just so my son can eat a roll and say he's done.  But my Dear Hubby wants all his favorites from his mom's kitchen.  Sigh.

I think I'll try and figure out how to cut all those recipes into thirds and then have a ton of desserts.  That's my favorite part after all.

So if you missed it, be sure to check out these three Thanksgiving pie recipes from last week's Dare to Share Saturday.

1. Pumpkin Pecan Slab Pie by The Ramblings of an Aspiring Small Town  Girl

2. The healthiest, crustless Pumpkin Pie by Strength and Sunshine

3. Crock Pot Pecan Pie by The Country Chic Cottage

If you are having a big Thanksgiving get together, you might want to consider having a fun photo booth.  They are still so popular at parties and are a great way to get your guests to take pictures. 

My friend and co-host Pam shared how she did her Cinderella Tower photo booth at her big Birthday bash.  I love how she used regular boxes to make fun towers to match her party theme.  It just goes to show you that you can use what you already have to make an amazing addition to your party.

I can't wait to see what you've been up to this week!

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Be The Light This Christmas Season and printable Service Calendars

Let your light so shine this Christmas and bring Christ back into Christmas.  Be the Light with a month of service for your and your family with these printable calendars and service ideas.

As parents, we want to give our children everything.  We want to give them the opportunities, the gifts, the experiences, the lessons that we may never have had or that will help them to grow to their greatest potential.

I know that no matter how badly I screw up in everything I do, if I can raise good kids who become meaningful adults, then my life will have been worth something.

As I go into the Christmas season, I admit that I too often focus on what I can give my kids for the holidays.  I want the decorations to be perfect.  I want the parties to be fun.  I want the holidays to be magical.

Too often, I let slide the one gift that I can give and teach them at the holidays.  I need to remember to teach them to look outside their lives and their circles to see the people in need around them.  I need to teach them to be the light at Christmas.

This Christmas season, I, along with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are pledging to be the light. 

Every day from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas, my kids and I are going to find at least one way to serve the people around us.  We are going to look outside of ourselves and lift others up so we can remember the true meaning of Christmas.  We are going to help bring a little bit of Christ back to Christmas.

Because, I know that the Kandy Kreations household, and America, need a little more Christ and a little more light.

If you want to join in, you can print out one of these three calendars to remind you to serve every day.  The Be The Light Campaign only goes from December 1 to the 25, but I made my calendars for a whole month since I wanted my kids to have the full 30 days of experiences.  When you have done your service, place a little sticker, a star, or a smiley face in the calendar box to show that you let your light shine that day.


If you need a few ideas, starting December 1 (the Worldwide day of Service), you can find service ideas here to help you.

Here are some other service ideas that you can use:

• Make goodies for a friend or neighbor
• Make blessing bags for the homeless
• Write a letter to someone far from home
• Make the beds for everyone in your home
• Read to a child
• Open a door for someone
• Do yard work for a neighbor
• Pick up trash
• Go caroling
• Volunteer at an animal shelter
• Leave quarters at a laundromat
• Put someone's grocery cart away
• Tip big
• Pay for the person behind you at the Drive Through Window
• Smile at a stranger
• Donate food to the local food bank
• Let someone in before you in Traffic
• Organize a book drive
• Take dinner to an elderly shut in
• Send Christmas cards to deployed soldiers
• Be a Secret Santa for a family in need

Quick and Easy Christmas Candy Bar Party Favor

Create a quick and easy party favor for your Christmas party with this printable candy bar wrapper.  You'll wow your class mates, your friends, your family, or even neighbors stopping by with the unexpected cookie plate with a fun treat to give that wishes them a Merry Christmas.

Thanksgiving is only a week or so away and I've decided to start thinking about Christmas already.  I am usually one of those people who is wrapping up presents and doing her final shopping on Christmas Eve.  This year, there will be none of that.

The kids are going to be off the week before Christmas and so we are going to enjoy it by baking and having fun this year. 

At least that's my hope.

So I've decided to create some party favors for our Christmas party this year so I'm ready and able to enjoy the time with my friends and family as opposed to running around with my head chopped off.

As my brain goes, I'll probably still be crafting that final week, but this time it will be for fun and not for all the craziness that comes with Stocking Stuffers and Christmas parties.

So here's a quick and easy party favor idea for you to make if you want to try and join me.  These candy bar wrappers go around the mini Hershey candy bars and wrap right up to wish everyone on your Christmas list or at your Christmas party a Merry Christmas.

To make these easy Candy Bar party favors, you'll need:

• Kodak Glossy Photo Paper
• Fiskars 12 inch Paper Trimmer
• Scissors
• Glue gun and glue
• Wilton Pretzel Bags
• Curling Ribbon in your Choice of Color
• Hershey Candy Bar minis

Start by printing out the candy bar printable at the bottom of the page.  As explained in my resources page above, I love to use Kodak Glossy Photo Paper for all my candy bar wrappers.  It makes the wrappers crisp and beautiful.

Use your scissors or a Fiskars 12 inch Paper Trimmer to cut out the individual candy bar wrappers around the outside of each colored background.  You have 15 candy bar mini wrappers on each page, so you can make 3 of each party favors for every page you print out.

Once you have your candy bar wrappers cut out, lay the center of the wrapper on the middle of the mini candy bar front.  Wrap the background around the top half of the mini bar and then the bottom half to come up and over the top.  You can see this video here on how I wrap all my candy bars.

Use your glue gun to secure the wrapper shut around the mini Candy Bar.

Using a pretzel treat bag, place your mini candy bars into the bag with the red "Christmas" design first.  Work backwards so the bag has the blue, green, yellow, purple, and red backgrounds moving from top most to bottom.  This will have the wrappers read "Wishing You A Merry Christmas."

Not all pretzel bags are the same.  Some are smaller than others and some are easier to work with when filling with mini candy bars.  My favorite bags are the Wilton Pretzel Bags since they are the easiest to fill for me.  I don't have to fight them to put the mini bars inside.

Once your candy bars are inside correctly, Tie the top of the bag off with a bow using your choice of curling ribbon and trim off the excess pretzel bag.  I used white curling ribbon which doesn't show up so great in the picture but goes quite nicely with the writing and the sugar cookie background on the candy bar wrappers.

Now you have the perfect little treat to give away at your Christmas party, or if your neighbors stop by with that unexpected holiday cookie plate.  You can say thank you with a Mini Candy bar party favor.


Be sure to pin this for later, or go ahead and right click the candy bar wrapper printable below to save the picture file to your computer.

Are you ready for Christmas yet?  Or will you be shopping and wrapping until the very end?

3 Holiday Party Dip Recipes and Dare to Share Saturday

With the holidays, we seem to make more time to get together with friends and family.  I'm not sure why we feel we can/should do this at Thanksgiving and Christmas time and not any other time of the year, but it seems to be the case.

I really think we need to start having big "Christmas" type parties all throughout the year.  Wouldn't that be great?  I know one of my New Year's Resolutions will be to start having our friends over for our themed dinner parties more often.  I'm thinking once a month would be so much fun!

But since you're probably already starting to plan your Thanksgiving and Christmas parties, I know you're thinking about food and party games.  If you missed it, our great friends here at the Dare to Share Saturday linky party shared some great Dip Recipes for your Holiday Parties.

You definitely need to check out these three recipes:

Simple 5 Ingredient Recipe for White Cheese Dip by Little House Living

Cool Dill Dip Recipe by Glue Sticks

Cheesy Chicken Chili Dip by Garden Matter

My in laws have been here all this week, so we are thinking of having a big send off on Saturday by inviting some of our friends over for a big Lasagna dinner party.  I think I will definitely have to use one of these recipes while we are waiting for the finishing dinner touches.  They all look so delicious.

What have you been up to this week? I can't wait to see!

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Gingerbread Man Napkin Holder Plastic Canvas Pattern

Decorate your kitchen or Christmas party with this free plastic canvas pattern for your Dollar Store napkin holder.  Easily add a bit of Gingerbread whimsy with this Gingerbread man pattern that slides over your holder and brightens up your home.

Elf Kisses Bag Topper Printable

Celebrate this Christmas with your Elf on the Shelf.  Have him bring this cute Elf Kisses free printable to your child to help remind them that Santa's watching and they need to be good.

After seeing all the cute Elf on the Shelf ideas around blog land lately, I'm wishing I had a fun elf to play with too!  But I don't have one and I'm not sure he'd have too many fun places to hide around the hotel (or maybe he'd actually have TOO many.)

So instead, I decided write a fun poem and make you a bag topper printable to have your elf give each child one morning.  I hope you don't mind.  I do think it turned out pretty cute.  Plus, they are super easy to make.  So how can you beat that? Especially since I have 4 different versions for you to try.

The poem reads:

Elf Kisses

With little elf eyes watching you,

There's not a lot that Santa misses,

So to help you be good today,

Here's a bunch of sweet Elf kisses.

I made a version for you to use on a Sandwich size bag, two to use on a 3x4 inch zip baggie (one in case you have a border less printable and one in case you don't), and one tag version that can be tied to a bag of candy of any size.

Run over to our Printables store and grab the Elf Kisses printable for your Elf on the Shelf.  When you have them, print out the topper that you need.

Cut out the individual toppers.

If you are using the 3x4 inch bag version (it has 6 to a page), there aren't cut lines on it.  To cut them out, cut down the middle of the page (in between the elf bodies.)

Now cut down the page to the left of the Elf body.  The resulting topper should measure about 3 1/2 inches by 5 inches.

For the other versions, cut along the lines around each of the toppers or tags.

For the bag toppers, fold the card stock just above the Elf Kisses wording.

Now gather the other items you'll need:

A bag of Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolate

A stapler

Bags

(you can see which bags that I like to use by visiting my Resources page at the top of the blog index.)

Fill the bags with Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolate.

Place the card stock topper over the top of the filled bag and staple it on.

You're all done!

If you're using the tag topper, punch a hole in the top edge of the tag and tie it to a bag of kisses.

See? I told you it was super easy!  And won't your kids be thrilled to get this fun treat when they find their Elf on the Shelf tomorrow?

Find the Elf Kisses bag topper printable here.

NEW UPDATE! I made some new candy treats for your Elf on the Shelf to bring to your kids this year.  You can now get your Elf Hugs topper too! Check out the Elf Hugs here.

Are You Part of the Inn Crowd Printable

Are you part of the Inn Crowd this Christmas? If so, print and share this fun free printable that would make a beautiful Christmas gift or decoration for your Christmas mantel.

"Are you part of the Inn Crowd, or are you one of the Stable Few?"

This printable would be such a great gift idea for someone you may not know what to give.  I actually plan to give it to several of my brothers and sisters on a ceramic tile for their Christmas decorations this year.

This printable is an 8 by 10 size, but you can downsize it using your computer's print program and make it any size that you need.  You could purchase a beautiful frame and frame it for a simple but wonderful gift this Christmas.

To save this printable, right click on the picture below and save to your computer.

Or you can just take this printable and add it to your Christmas decorations this year.  I like to add a new nativity scene each year and this one will be perfect.

3 Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas and Dare to Share Saturday

Hey guys!  It's Friday again.

I don't know about you guys, but it's been a LOOOOOOONG week this week.  I don't know if it's the sugar high the kids have been on or what, but this week took forever to get through.

I'm not sure the weekend will be much better around here though.  My inlaws are coming this weekend which means extra cleaning to get ready and yelling to get the boys to clean up their rooms.  Which means extra laundry for me.  (Why does cleaning there rooms equal days of laundry for me?  I've started "collecting" those clothes that are still folded and never worn into a pile that I'm NOT returning. We'll see if they even notice.  So far they haven't.)

If you've noticed this week I've transitioned into Thanskgiving here on the blog.  My printer is down for maintenance so I've been sharing lots of printables and freebies for you guys.  I can't wait until it's back up and running so I can print out that Turkey Poop for this year's thanksgiving dinner.  And these candy bar wrappers as place settings?  They will be so cute on the table.

It looks like you guys are thinking about Thanksgiving too.  I loved checking out all your printables and great ideas.  I am trying to figure out how to dress my Thanksgiving table this year, so I was excited to check out these crafty ideas that I'm considering for my Thanksgiving table centerpiece.  If you missed them, check out these 3 ideas.

1. DIY Rustic Candlesticks by Garden Matter

2. DIY Give Thanks Pumpkin Centerpiece by The Organized Dream

3. Succulent Cornucopia by The Country Chic Cottage

My friend and co-host of Dare to Share Saturday was celebrating something much more fun this week on her blog--her birthday!  Happy Belated Birthday Pam!

I was married a few days before Halloween and wanted to do a Halloween costume wedding so bad.  But dear hubby wanted nothing to do with that one.  So every year on our anniversary, I want to throw a Halloween party to celebrate.  I have yet to make it happen.

So I was super jealous that I didn't get to attend Pam's Big Birthday party this year.  It looked like so much fun.  You need to go check it out.  Her parties are always so amazing!

What did you do this week?  I can't wait to see what you've been up to!

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