Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Time for a Picnic Party Post

Howdy Blog Hoppers...welcome to the Club Scrap June Picnic Blog Hop!
I hope you enjoyed Debby's Blog and I'm also sure that you missed me last month!  You did miss me right??  Or maybe you missed the cats?

This month I was lucky enough to be selected to be the Guest Artist for the Greetings to Go set and along with a little help from my mom we whipped up these great cards!  But after all that crafting and creating I was left in a bit of a conundrum for the Blog Hop this month.  Finally I had one of those necessity breeds creativity moments when I was working on planning a big party for this upcoming Saturday night at our house.  I needed some cute place cards for the foods I was making and waaa-laaa an idea was born.
Cute little stamped cards to go on my buffet table!  The picnic stamps work well for cook-out type cards but don't let those specific images stop you.  I was determined to find stamps that worked for all of my dishes!  (And since I'm not rocking an amazing new crafting technique I'll throw in the added bonus of the links to the dishes I am making.)

First off the above listed beverage...because nothing gets a party started at my house like some tequila shooters!
Jalapeno Cilantro Limeaid

Next up...Grilled Watermelon and Feta Salad! Also a cute and perfect match for this kit.  Now let's branch out to other kits and stamps...

The Tahiti bananas work perfectly for my Mini Banana Pies.  And I couldn't resist the cute Oh Baby pig for the Hot Ham and Cheese Sliders.  Nothing says "I love ham" like a cute pig!  I have a couple of guests at my party who are gluten intolerant so I kept the place cards color coded so they would know to stay away from unsafe items.  Pink/Red Painted Desert paper means none for them...
More non-GF items include these tasty looking Jalapeno Popper Cups and these Easy Blackberry Crisps (Scroll partway down page for an easy description.)  Stamps from the Salsa kit highlight the spicy peppers and the Grapes from Sonoma make perfect blackberries!
The Salsa stamps make another appearance for these adorable Seven Layer Dip Cups (don't those look fun and easy?) and the After Five UM Stamps work well for any drink item but I'm fixing Bloody Mary Shrimp Shooters.  
(We need to work on getting some of those at Retreat!!)
Pull out the Seashore Stamps for anything fish related like my Tuna Tartare and either the older Asian Artisan stamps or some Fire and Ice stamps would work for anything Asian themed like these yummy Saucy Asian Meatballs.
Finally we will wrap up the cards with the corn from the older Harvest Kit for my Chilled Crab and Corn Soup (for the life of me I couldn't find a Club Scrap Crab stamp-do we have one?) and the Salsa stamps won out again for this Tomato and Mozzarella Salad.

I had a couple more but you get the drift right?  Pretty much anything you make you can make an adorable easy place card for!

AJ gives two thumbs up and was anxious to help with the party planning.  Here he is helping me finish my massive party grocery list!
So plan a party and craft your way to a cute table scape!

Next up this month is Carpe Memoria with Lisa!  If you want to see all of the cute Picnic creations just Hop on back to Club Scrap Creates!

I hope you enjoyed my little crafty post with a recipe bypass!  If anyone is in the neighborhood come by for a limeaid shooter!


20 comments:

  1. You are such a foodie. What a fabulous menu. A picnic production of that scale would paralyze me, but I'll be happy to attend. If you need my mailing address for the invitation, let me know! (But thanks for the recipes!) I know . . . I'd do it if I had someone like AJ to help.

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  2. Food glorious food - what better way to showcase the redcipes than these delightful cards. Awesome.

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  3. My mouth is watering...great idea BTW!

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  4. Yes back to get more food, fun idea and it did make me hungry

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  5. Wow -- you made me hungry reading your blog! Love your kitty! Sweet idea for a buffet and these little cards are fabulous!

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  6. what a fantastic idea! the cards arewonderful!!

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  7. What a fun way to spruce up your party table, and yummy dishes you chose. Thanks for linking the recipes!

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  8. Janet, I DID MISS YOU!!!
    And you had me at Bloody Mary Shrimp Shooters!!! WOW, thanks for sharing all the amazing recipes and just love how you got creative with the menu cards, WAY TO GO!!!

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  9. Janet,what a great use of somany wonderful Club Scrap stamps and what a great idea to make these cards. Looks like you will have a wonderful buffet.

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  10. Great idea! And thanks for being sensitive to the dietary limitations of your guests! Some great GF ideas here!

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  11. I wish I was in the neighborhood to stop by!! A limeaid shooter would be great right now! Wow, great idea with all the food labels!!! You are pretty awesome getting all that done you know!

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  12. I cannot even image all the cooking you will be doing, which all sounds amazing from the signs you made, great idea and man I wish I could just drop on in and enjoy!

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  13. Wow, it is great to see how you used so many stamps for your food and drinks. Wonderful, and the color coding is a great idea.

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  14. Wonderful and, as usual, a fun read!!

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  15. Here I am reading your post at lunchtime, and I'm getting really hungry! Great how you found so many stamps for your place cards. Thanks for sharing your creativity and entertaining us!

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  16. What fun cards for your party.

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  17. Wow, Janet Great use of the stamps.

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  18. Oh Wow, can I come to your barbeque. Thanks for the recipes too

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  19. Super cute place cards! I loved your Guest Artist cards too.

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  20. These place cards are such a cute idea, Janet. They would look cute in chalkboard too, I bet. :) Was there a crab in Castaway? I must check....

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