Recipe of the Week #18- Cheesy Nacho Beef Dinner

Cheesy Nacho Beef Dinner

1 (6.8 oz) package of Rice-A-Roni Spanish Rice

1/2 lb lean ground beef
2 cups water
1 cup salsa
1 cup corn
1 cup canned black beans, drained and rinsed
1 medium tomato, chopped
1 cup shredded cheese
1/2 cup sour cream
tortilla chips

Saute the rice mix with ground beef in large skillet over medium heat until beef is browned. Stir in water, salsa, corn, beans and Special Seasonings: bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 15-20 minutes. Stir in chopped tomato and top with cheese and sour cream. Eat with tortilla chips.


My hubby and I LOVE this dish! It is definetly a repeat recipe around here! (My boys are skeptical of anything with black beans, so they don't eat it.)
I usually put the leftovers in tortillas and send them to work for my hubby's lunch.

Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

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A "Corky" Kind of Love

     Today I have one last project made with wine corks. 

I've seen this project on Pinterest and have been wanting to make it.



I drew a heart on a large piece of cardboard and cut it out. Then I used a glue gun and glued on corks. The heart is about 2 feet tall.



I'm planning to use it as a cork board once I re-do my scrap space.



     Can you believe that I still didn't use up my collection of corks?

Which means more cork projects. . . later. I'll set them aside for awhile. :)

 

     Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

     This post is linked to Brassy Apple, Polly Want a Crafter, Liz Marie Blog, Be Different Act Normal and Craft-O-Maniac.

Fabric Covered Cork Boards and a Quilt Display

     Hi Guys! I've got a quick and easy project today. I took the four 12"x12" cork boards that I showed you yesterday, bought some fabric at Hobby Lobby and put the two together.

First I laid the cork square onto the fabric and cut the fabric so that there was enough to fold over to the back.

Then I folded the edges over like a present and glued the flaps down with a glue gun. I used four different fabrics for the four cork tiles.

Voila! Four functional cork boards that add a little color to the room. I made these to match my sister's bedroom.

     On another note, today a good friend gave me a quilt that she made. I don't know where it will permanently go, but for right now, I draped it over the top of one of the old doors in my livingroom. I think it looks like it belongs there!

Thrifty Thursday #17

     This week Thrifty Thursday is short and sweet. On my ventures, I may find many treasures or, like this week, I may only find a few.
    On Monday, I made a project using wine corks and decided that this week would be "Cork Week" on Live.Love.Scrap. Imagine my surprise when I found these during my weekly trip to the thrift store!

Four sheets of 12"x12" cork for fifty cents!!

     Come back tomorrow to see what I'm going to do with these. . .

     Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

Layout of the Week #13- Using Cork Paper

     Hi All! This layout is brought to you by the letter "C" for cork. Sticking with my cork theme for this week, I got out my cork scrapbook paper and came up with these two layouts.
     Here's how to make the first one:

You'll need
piece of cork paper (either real cork paper or paper printed to look like cork)
12"x12" pattern paper
letter stickers
journaling card (mine is an index card that I used a border punch on)
embellishments
optional: 8 1/2"x 11" piece of card stock

Note: I chose school themed supplies for my layout, but you can choose any subject you like. 

Cut your cork paper to 8 1/2" x 8 3/4". My pattern paper is pretty busy, so I matted my cork paper with white card stock.
Place your cork paper about 1/2 inch from the left side of the paper and about 1 1/2" from the top.

Add your photos. I used wallet size pictures, but you could use two 4"x 6" photos. I placed them closer to the left edge than the right.

Next, you can add your title to the bottom left corner of the cork paper. Then place your journaling card on the right corner of the cork paper.
Add your embellishments. I placed sticker strips on the top of the layout near the right corner, placed a sticker near the bottom left corner and placed three stars next to the top photo.
Ta-da! A layout using cork paper. Quick and simple:)

Cork paper isn't just for school themed layouts. Here I used it on a layout about my hubby and I going to Benihana's. There's some cork paper at the top of the layout and my title letters are made from cork.

The stuff on the left side of the paper was already printed on the paper, but I covered up two of the preprinted pictures with pieces from the Benihana chopstick wrapper. The two red strips are also pieces cut from a chopstick wrapper.

     Thanks so much for stopping by and God bless.

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Recipe of the Week #17- Zucchini Bread

Zucchini Bread
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2 cups grated unpeeled zucchini
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease bread pan - I usually divide this recipe into two loaves.
Combine eggs, oil, and sugar in large bowl and whisk until well combined. Stir in zucchini with a rubber spatula.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir well. Pour dry ingredients over zucchini mixture and stir until well combined.
Bake for about 60 minutes.

Years ago, I got this recipe out of Family Circle magazine. My family loves it. The bread tastes so good, my boys forget that they're eating zucchini! I think it's the touch of nutmeg that makes it so good.

Cork Covered Letter

     I hope everybody had a nice Mother's Day. I sure did. I truly am blessed with my two boys- who are growing up incredibly fast- and my darling hubby- who is my best friend in the whole world.

     Today I got out my collection of corks- I believe I have a lifetime supply! It looks like I have a problem, but really I have picked them all up at yard sales and thrift stores.
     I have been wanting to try to make a cork covered letter. I've seen several different types on Etsy. I used a chipboard letter that I got at Hobby Lobby.

First, I covered the chipboard letter with some cork scrapbook paper so the chipboard wouldn't be able to be seen in between the corks. Then I just spaced the corks around the letter. I cut up a few corks to fit in odd spaces. Then I glued them all down with a glue gun.

I added this little snack unbrella to the bottom. I can't decide if I like it better this way or plain. What do you think?

I'm planning to give this letter to a friend and I wanted her to be able to hang it. I used my glue gun and attached a tab from a soda can. I've already tried it out and it will work beautifully to hang the letter.

     Once I got going, I really enjoyed making this project. This is going to be "Cork Week" here on my blog. Stay tuned and see more ways to use this versatile item!
     Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

EDIT: I kept looking at my letter "P" trying to decide what was missing. Finally I figured it out! Here is a pic of how I fixed it- I cut up thin layers of wine cork and glued them to the edge of the letter. Now you can't see any of the chipboard beneath, and the whole letter looks like I made it from cork.



I think it looks better this way.



You can see the edge a little better from this angle.

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