12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 6

If you are looking for the Christmas Magic Blog Hop Click HERE

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop Day 6. This hop will take place December 12th through December 23rd and will be full of wonderful ideas and inspiration to get you well on your way of creating all of those beautiful Christmas project. This is an awesome way to get a lot of your Christmas cards, and scrapbook layouts finished, home decorations completed and maybe even be inspired to create something using a new technique that you have never tried.  There will be a new project posted each and every day by all the wonderful amazing ladies in this hop. Also each day we will have a guest designer for you to visit. I will be giving away some wonderful blog candy each day of the hop from our amazing sponsors that we have for this hop. I will be posting all the winners from this hop on December 24th. Every one has a chance to win including the ladies participating in the hop and even the guest designers and the sponsors. At the end of each post I will have a list of all the sponsors who are sponsoring this hop all you need to do is click on their name to go to their sites and check out all the wonderful sites. I want to thank each and everyone of the sponsors for their generosity. It has been greatly appreciated.

Here is a complete line up for the hop in case you get lost along the way. You wont want to miss any of the wonderful projects these talented ladies have made.

Lisa ~ http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Theresa ~ http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Ashley ~ http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Anita ~http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com

Amy Jo ~ http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com

Lynda ~ http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/

Mindy ~ http://papercreationsbymindyblog.blogspot.com/

Janet ~ http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

Nicolette ~ www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com

Shawnee ~ http://www.blessedonthebrightside.com

Inga     http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/

Tami ~ http://tamboscreations.blogspot.com/

Kerri ~ http://crafttimeandcupcakes.blogspot.com/

 Our wonderful guest designer for you today is Erika from Crafty Sprouts. Erika has a wide variety of stamp sets that I know you are for sure going to love. You can visit her store by clicking  HERE. Be sure to stop by Crafty Sprouts Blog and check out the wonderful project Erika created for this hop. Thank you Erika for being a guest designer for the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop I really appreciate it and appreciate you being a sponsor.

For today's project I decided to do something totally different. I found this amazing site on the internet and I have just fallen in love with it. The site is called Six in the Suburbs. This blog is six women cousins living in the suburbs of Boston, six contrasting yet complementary personalities, six women at six different points in their lives with a blog that has blog post about recipes from the kitchen, funny stories, tips and tricks, kids, for the home, men, saving money, sewing corner, and books articles. I have fallen in love with all the recipes they have for the holidays. You will just love it there. They give some great recipes that would make your holiday entertaining one that everyone will be sure to remember. Be sure to stop by and check out all their wonderful recipes you will be glad you did. Below is just a few of the cute tasty recipes they offer.

Nutter Butter Snowmen

These are too adorable...and tastey too. 

Credit: My Pretty Purse blog

Grab some nutter butters, white chocolate, m+ms, and orange tic-tacs in the grocery store to build these little snowmen. The tic-tacs are such a clever way to add the snowman carrot nose!

Easy Marshmallow Snowmen Cupcakes

These remind me of an ornament I have, of a s'more snowman. This adorable cupcake was crafted by Martha Stewart....take a look:

Photo: Martha Stewart

You'll Need:

For hat: a chocolate-covered mint "beret" 

For body: two marshmallows -- cut a slice off the top one and squish to make it smaller. Dabs of icing hold parts together

For eyes: chocolate sprinkles (poke holes first with a wet toothpick)

For nose: orange gummy fish (or candy corn piece cut small)

North Pole Cupcakes

These clever North Pole cupcakes will be a hit at your next holiday party. The cupcakes are featured on Karaspartyideas.com, see below for instructions on how to make them yourself.

CREDIT: Karaspartyideas.com

You'll Need:


Vanilla Cupcakes
White frosting
Sugar crystals (or coconut might be a cute alternative) 
Candy canes (break off the curved top)
Red M+Ms
Small Cut outs that say "North Pole" (you can print these of hand write them)


So creative and tastey too...

Tree of Cheese Appetizer

This is an adorable "tree" of cheese arrangement from Cabot. It's an easy idea for any party this holiday season.

You'll need:

- Cubed variety of cheese (cheddar, white cheddar, pepperjack, Havarti dill)

- Sprigs of rosemary or other green

- Cherry tomatoes

- 1 ball of mozzarella for top

Cheese Ball Snowman

Here is a cheese-ball Snowman recipe that I love from Betty Crocker. Great for family and office Christmas parties that are approaching!

Ingredients:

3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened

4 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (16 ounces)

2 tablespoons basil pesto

1 tablespoon grated onion

1/4 teaspoon yellow mustard

2 drops red pepper sauce

1 container (4 ounces) whipped cream cheese, softened

Assorted crackers

1 Mix 3 packages cream cheese and the Cheddar cheese; divide into 3 equal parts. Combine 2 parts to equal two-thirds of mixture; mix in pesto. Mix onion, mustard and pepper sauce into remaining one-third mixture.

2 Cover each cheese mixture and refrigerate about 4 hours or until firm enough to shape. Shape each cheese mixture into ball. Wrap each ball, label and freeze.

3 About 12 hours before serving, remove balls from freezer. Thaw in wrappers in refrigerator.

4 Arrange balls on serving plate with smaller ball on top for head of snowman. Frost snowman with whipped cream cheese before serving. Decorate as desired. Serve with crackers. Store covered in refrigerator.  

I  told you they had some amazing ideas for your holiday entertaining. Be sure to go visit them there are tons of other recipes that really look delicious. You can also become a fan of theirs on their facebook page by clicking HERE.

Now on to my blog candy for day 6 of this hop. I have decided to giveaway

 the following from our wonderful sponsors. I will be awarding 2 winners

 for today the following.

       1. A file of their choice from Designs on cloud 9

   2. A $20.00 gift certificate from Creative Kuts

      3.A $15.00 gift certificate from The Robins Nest

                    4. A set of digital sentiments from Karber Digital Images

To be eligible to win this blog candy you must do the following:

1. Leave a comment here on my post 

                   2. Become a follower of  Six in the Suburbs blog

I want to thank each and every sponsor for all their wonderful generosity. You all are truly amazing. Here is a list of all the sponsors of this hop. Please be sure to check them all out you will be glad you did.

Click on any of the names and it will take you to their site.

1. Pink By Design  

2. Treasure Box Designs 

3. Joys Life  

4. Designs on Cloud 9 

5. Scraptastical Kreations Paper Piecing Patterns

6. Shelly's Images  

7. Mr. Cricut Crazy  

8. Nicolette Simpson

9. Paper Creations By Mindy 

10. The Robins Nest  

11. My Creative Time 

12. Fresh Brewed Designs  

13. Scrapping Bug Designs

14. Little Scraps of Heaven Designs  

15. Scrappy Moms Stamps

16. Bugaboo Digi Stamps

17. Karber Digital Images 

18. Whimsy Stamps 

19. Crafty Emmas Store  

20. The Scrapbooking Queen 

21. Oh My Crafts 

22. My Memories 

23. Inspired Stamps 

24. PSA Essentials 

25. Craftysprouts 

26. Chomas Creations 

27. Our Craft Lounge 

28. The Cutting Cafe 

29. Cardz TV Stamps 

30. Getting Cricky With  K Andrew 

31. Jens Digi Stamps

32. 3 Girl Jam

33. Stamping Scrapping 

34. Di's Digi Downloads 

35. Crafty Sentiments Designs 

36. Prairie Fairy Designs

37. Delicious Doodles 

38. Crafts and Me 

39. The Twinery 

40. Creative Kuts 

41. Beary Sweet Designs

42. The Beary Scrap

43. Paper Piecings By Nikki

44. A Jillian Vance Design

45.  Cathy Barwick

Now be sure to hop on over to Theresa's Blog and 

see the wonderful projects she has created.