Author: celestelind

Mom/Grandmom, Nurse Practitioner, Swimmer, Cake Decorator & Scrapbooker. I live in Florida, where it is HOT HOT HOT! and I LOVE it! I have a pretty busy life, waking up around 4:30 each morning to get my workout in before I go to work, and often not getting home until 7pm or later, but I always have time to read a book. . . .

Keto Cheesecake Tarts

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Yum! These looked so good, I couldn’t even wait the necessary time for cooling before tasting! And I was not disappointed!!

This is so easy to make! Only four ingredients – and if you want, you can top it with some sugar free type jam to make it feel like a really sweet dessert – too sweet for me, but you have the option below.

For a small pan of tartlets like I have here, you need a silicone pan, and you’ll need to spray it with Pam or some other cooking release spray.
For a small batch like I’ve done here you will need:
One XL Egg
8oz softened Cream Cheese
1/4cup Lakanto Monk Fruit
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Beat all the ingredients well, so it is smooth as silk, and then divide into the cupcake pan as shown.
If you would like to add some fruit to it, melt down some sugar-free jam, put a small teaspoon in the center of the batter, and swirl it around with a spoon.
Bake at 300° F for about 45 minutes. Let them cool for quite a while before trying to remove from the pan.

Here is how they should look once they are done – pulling away from the edges a little bit.

And here is how we serve it! Doesn’t it look yummy? And only 1.5mg carbohydrate per serving!!
Enjoy!!

Shabby Chic Mothers Day Card

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One of two cards made this weekend, using Heartfelt Creations Elegant Rose Frames paper collection. I love the shades of greens and pinks in this collection. I sometimes have trouble sticking to the theme that HFC seems to suggest with their collections, i.e.Elegant “Rose” Frames – and I don’t like to be pinned down to the preprinted card panels, although are certainly convenient in a pinch…..but I am trying (against all odds!) to try and create something original! (Ha!) I’m afraid I am good at copying others, but not so original myself.

And not such a good photographer! I’ve got the tools, but not a super set up, and am too lazy, I guess to get the set up “set up”! So forgive the shadows, please!

I’ve used small Garden Lilies, white Dogwood blossom, and a “Fantasy” flower I found on line, to make my shabby flowers out of Fomiron. I cut a little doily from the HFC Rounded Window Frame die set, and then cut out the center so you can still see the pretty paper beneath. The scalloped edges are cut from a holographic metallic paper I found, and I love the sheen it has!

Anyway, having some fun this weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Garden Lilies for the Win!

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This “cover photo” gives you a tiny glimpse into my little scrapping area. It is all, just a corner of my family room – but everything is also basically within arms reach, as well.

I loved making this card! It has about 5 layers of card-stock on the front, and has a delightfully heavy feel to it.

I used the Garden Lily, and added some small Hydrangeas to tuck in there.

On the inside I stamped an image directly to the card, and had fun water coloring it last night. Just in time for Easter – obviously I don’t have the sentiment (from Creative Expressions) glued in yet – because I can’t decide if it’s for Easter or Mothers Day!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now get to crafting!!

A Z-fold Card with Dimensional Flowers

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I scrap-lifted this from the Heartfelt Creations Facebook page, an on-line tutorial by Carrie Giletto. Hers included a pocket for a gift card or money – mine does not – I placed a sentiment there instead.

I made a couple of Wild Roses in light pink, and a couple of lilies in yellow, plus small white blossom tucked in here and there. This slimline die is my favorite!

I used a little flower from the Tender Moments collection to add to the heart on front, and a sentiment from Creative Expressions is tucked inside, on the middle panel.

The large “empty” area has been left blank intentionally, to allow for a more personal message.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now get to crafting!!

Garden Lilies on Cards

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Just a couple of cards to quickly share, using Heartfelt Creations Garden Lily paper Collection.

Additionally, I have utilized one of the newer slimline card dies, and one of the arched gateway dies as well. this first card has my newest sentiment from Creative Expression “On Your Wedding Day” – I’d been looking for it forever!!

The lower card also has a sentiment from the Floral Frames die cuts.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Garden Lilies and Roses for Mothers Day

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It’s never too soon to start making Mothers Day Cards, or Christmas Cards – especially if you have 75-80 to prepare to give out!!

This card uses pale blue Classic roses, two of the Garden Lilies, several little lilacs and many different types of foliage.

I love the newer slimline dies from Heartfelt Creations, this has the cute scalloped edges, which is replicated on the inside of the card, and adds a nice little touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by – new get to making your own Mothers Day Cards!!

Beautiful Lilies on Cards

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If you play with some of these flowers, and springtime colored papers long enough, you might be able to forget that it’s not actually Spring outside yet!

Heartfelt Creations has come up with another sure winner in the Garden Lily collection – not that they ever fail to disappoint – but this is one of my top three favorites (the other two were the Wild Rose, and the Sweet Peony).

Now I recognize that Valentines has come and gone, but I still wanted to share these beautiful lilies, some call this the Star Gazer Lily, I always called it the Rubrum Lily – it’s one of the favorites of brides (back in the day when I used to make Wedding Cakes, this had to be made for almost every other cake) – and so I enjoyed fashioning out of paper, and adding some speckles, just like the real flowers have.

These yellow lilies remind me of early summer in my backyard. Tiny white snowdrops to accent the lilies help set them off, as well.

I love sharing my cards with you, my friends! Thank you so much for stopping by. Now get crafting!!

Using Leftovers to Make Cards

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I made a challenge for myself to only use flowers from my stash. The cards are simple – Heartfelt Creations paper pads has a couple pages designed to be cut apart for simple card bases, and that’s where I started.

For thin sides, I used the Floral frames stamp and die cuts, to fancy them up a bit – those were also made preciously and in my stash.

This one I layered with some gold foil to fancy it up.
Close up of some of my flowers – rejects, left over from previous projects that I just need to get out of my stash, as it is becoming way too large.

Thanks for stopping by! Now go forth and craft!!

Arched Gate-Fold Christmas Cards

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I’m having trouble deciding which of these two cards I like best! Can’t decide which one looks better – I love the silver ribbon, but the flowers seem too big on the second one – on the first one I like the flower placement, but seems like the colors don’t match up just right. In any case – I have completely used up this paper pack – 35 cards, mostly rather embellished. Anyway, please help me pick – it’s for a VIP!

Below is the inside of the first card – both are practically the same.

This is the second card – you can see subtle differences.

And of course, a couple of closeups of the flowers from each card:

Thanks for stopping by, and truly, I need your help on deciding which one to give!!

Gate-fold Christmas Card

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The problem with my Christmas card production is my love for embellished cards, with lots of florals. I tell myself, “just 2-3 cards a day, simple, flat, easy to mail” and what do I end up with? Big fat cards that need to be hand delivered, that’s what! but I am in love with this latest one. I started out rummaging through one of my drawers looking for something, inspiration, I suppose. Anyway, I found some old card bases, and thought maybe I could play around with it, so I had to rummage some more, and found some dies that were designed to go with these type of card bases.

For this card, I used Heartfelt Creations Holiday Star paper, and one of the 6”x6” shutter fold cards, as well as the small Festive Poinsettia stamp and die set.

Here is a close up of the flowers

I did something a little different, at the bend of the shutters, I threaded in an organza ribbon to tie it together, and I used some little Velcro dots to keep the shutter flaps together (now that I think about it, I guess I could have glued them together). Then I just started fiddling around with flowers – decided to stamp these in lavender to go with the paper color – and hot glued them down. I have a little video below of the full card.

I think it turned out pretty good, and I really like it! I hope you do too. Thanks for stopping by, and please leave me a comment sometime!