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Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
~ 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein

It's week two of our Krafty Recipe Swap. That means it's time for the Quickfire Round – where our Top Chefs and Guest Chefs dish up what they've made with the featured ingredient.

Our featured ingredient is Kraft Paper! Any kind of kraft or kraft-like paper will do, including brown paper bags or brown butcher paper.

Here's how we roll . . .

Just use kraft paper somewhere in your project.
Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, April 28.
Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Winners of the challenge will get the coveted Winning Recipe blog button and a chance to be featured in our next challenge.

If you've followed Catered Crop for very long (God bless you), you know one of my favorite tools is the Perfect Layers tool. So, I'm crazy excited about this challenge's sponsor.

Perfect Paper Crafting's Perfect Layers tool (say that three time's real fast) has completely changed the way I make my cards. Everyone wins with this challenge. Just enter catered5% for a 5% discount checkout to get your hands on these tools.

One very lucky, randomly selected winner will get a $25.00 gift certificate from Perfect Paper Crafting. Snap!

Be sure to click on these pictures to visit the Chefs' sites because, really, this is just a sneak at the amazing things they've made.

Need some more ideas? Here's a whole Pinterest board gallery of creative ways to use kraft paper in your projects.

A very special welcome to Angel Rivera, Beth Lindsay and Tracy MacDonald, our Guest Chefs and the winners of he last challenge.

April 22, 2012 | Filed Under: Dawn Burnworth, Dorcas Designs, Follow the Recipe, Jeanie Witmer, Libby Hickson, Recipe Swap, Silke Ledlow | 1 Comment

The brown paper bag is the only thing
civilized man has produced
that does not seem out of place in nature.
~ Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Oh my . . . all your brad-ly cards were so yummy, they would have made Paisley and Pitt blush! It was pretty hard to pick just a few winners, so, if you didn't get picked, please do try again. Congratulations to Beth, Angela Rivera and Tracy MacDonald. You're invited to join our Top Chef designers in next Sunday's Quickfire and grab the Winning Recipe button.

Congratulations also to player #43, Lori. You've won a $30.00 gift certificate from Eat Cake Graphics. Just e-mail me through my contact page, here, and I'll get you hooked up.

Our featured ingredient for our next Catered Crop Recipe Swap is Kraft Paper! Any kind of kraft or kraft-like paper will do, including brown paper bags or brown butcher paper.

Here's how we roll . . .

Just use kraft paper somewhere in your project.
Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, April 28.
Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to use kraft paper in your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

We also have some amazing Kraft paper artists on our own Top Chef design team. Dorcas will show you how to color on Kraft paper with Prisma art pencils. Krafty Chick Jeanie Witmer runs a "That's Krafty Thursday" so you can enter two challenges with one card. Those two always amaze at how beautiful they can make something as simple as kraft paper look.

If you've followed Catered Crop for very long (God bless you), you know one of my favorite tools is the Perfect Layers tool. So, I'm crazy excited about this challenge's sponsor.

Perfect Paper Crafting's Perfect Layers tool (say that three time's real fast) has completely changed the way I make my cards. It helps me make single, double and triple mats around my panels without all the math, which is a very good thing for me. If your paper cutter is a little cattywampus, either the Perfect Layer Tool or Perfect Squares Tool can unwamp ya'. And, if you don't want to invest in an expensive airbrush system, the Perfect Airbrush system turns any marker, including Copic markers, into an airbrush. Yep, they're the bomb. I haven't played with the Perfect Tears tools, yet, except as a centering ruler. But, unlike other tearing rulers, theirs comes with a watering pen to moisten the paper and make it easier to tear. Genius.

Everyone wins with this challenge. Just enter catered5% for a 5% discount checkout to get your hands on these tools.

One very lucky player will go shopping. The randomly selected winner will get a $25.00 gift certificate from Perfect Paper Crafting. Snap!

Be sure to come back Sunday, April 22, to see what our Chefs have dished up for you with their krafty paper.

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April 15, 2012 | Filed Under: Follow the Recipe, Recipe Swap | 5 Comments

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
~ Brad Paisley

It's week two of our Catered Crop Recipe Swap and you all are already rocking the challenge! I Love It! Since it's week two, that means it's time for the Quickfire Round – where our Top Chefs and Guest Chefs dish up what they've made with the featured ingredient.

Our featured ingredient for our Catered Crop Recipe Swap is Brads! Here's how we roll . . .

Just use a brad or two somewhere in your project.
Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, April 14.
Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

You guys are in for such a treat. The Eat Cake Graphics Design Team is in the House! After you see their projects with Holly's whimsical, funny, poignant . . . images, you're going to just freak. You're welcome! Hee Hee . . . consider it my Easter present to you. And, howdy! One very lucky, crazy lucky, randomly picked player will win a $30.00 gift certificate to go shopping at the Eat Cake Graphics on-line store. I think some of my Catered Crop Top Chef designers considered quitting the team so they could be eligible. Yeah, we're jealous.

If all these projects don't inspire you enough (gracious), there's a whole gallery of gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials in this Pinterest board. Maybe you'll find some new twist for your old brads.

A special welcome to Libeeti, our Guest Chef and the winner of he last challenge. Be sure to click on these pictures to visit the Chefs' sites because, really, this is just a sneak at the amazing things they've made.

I think I Callie Puppy has sniffed out some cards with Holly's Eat Cake Graphics images. Thanks to all the Eat Cake Graphics design team for playing along with Dorcas and me.

April 8, 2012 | Filed Under: Dorcas Designs, Follow the Recipe, Libby Hickson, Peggy Marsh, Recipe Swap, Silke Ledlow | 2 Comments