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Bon mercredi à tous! Le printemps semble être au rendez-vous à Montréal avec des températures au dessus de zéro! C’est vraiment merveilleux! L’adjectif merveilleux décrit bien la soirée que nous avons passée récemment lors du cours Gâteaux en folie! Avec le jeu d’estampes Gâteaux en Folie de Stampin’ Up, nous avons créé quatre cartes d’anniversaire et une jolie boite-cadeau en forme de « cupcake » petit gâteau.
Voici quelques photos de cette magnifique soirée :
La concentration était de mise, mais cela ne nous a pas empêchées d'avoir du plaisir!
Et le projet terminé :
Bravo mes dames et merci à Marie-Claude et Francine d'avoir accepté de vous faire photographier!
Il est encore temps de participer au cours Gâteaux en Folie. Une autre séance est planifiée pour le 27 mars. Cliquez sur le bouton « Acheter » pour vous inscrire dès maintenant. Cliquez ici pour l’horaire des cours.
Date: 27 mars 2009
Heure : 19 h à 22 h
Lieu : Studio Craft with Grace Studio, 18695, rue Poitiers, Pierrefonds
Happy Wednesday everyone! Looks like spring has finally arrived in Montreal! We are actually experiencing several degrees above freezing, and let me tell you that it feels great. Great is also the perfect adjective to describe the evening we had at the Crazy for Cupcakes class recently! During the class we made four beautiful cards and the unique holder shaped and decorated cupcake style! All were created using the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set by Stampin' Up!
Here are a few photos for your viewing pleasure!
Totally focused on the task, working with the Stampin' Up Blender Pens:
And the finished product:
Special thanks to Francine and Marie-Claude for allowing me to publish their photos! Thank you everyone for a very fun evening!
It's not too late to join in the fun! I am offering a second session of the Crazy for Cupcakes class on Mar. 27. Click the "Buy Now" button to register! Click here to see the Course Schedule.
Date: March 27, 2009
Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: Studio Craft with Grace Studio, 18695 Poitiers, Pierrefonds
Qui n’aime pas les gâteaux?Le jeu d’estampes Gâteaux en folie de Stampin’ Up est idéal pour la création de vos cartes et projets d’anniversaires! Avant de visionner les échantillons que j’ai pour vous aujourd’hui, parlons un peu de l’histoire de ces petits gâteaux.
En anglais, le mot pour ces petits gâteaux est « cupcakes ». Il y a deux théories sur l’origine du mot « cupcakes ». D’après un article sur le sitewww.foodtimeline.orgles voici :
1. Le nom a trouvé son origine de la quantité d’ingrédients utilisés pour faire le gâteau (une tasse de farine, une tasse de beurre, une tasse de sucre, etc.)Ceci est semblable à l’origine du nom du gâteau quatre quart ou tôt fait « pound cake ». Il se trouve que les recettes pour les « cupcakes » et le « pound cake » sont similaires et produisent des résultats semblables.
2. Ces gâteaux étaient cuits dans des tasses. Certains anciens livres de recettes mentionnent de faire la cuisson dans de petites tasses.Ces tasses ont bien pu être faites en argile. Ceux-ci ne sont pas les moules en métaux que nous retrouvons aujourd’hui qui nous permettent de faire cuire une douzaine de ces petits gâteaux à la fois!
Voici une recette qui date de 1796
« Un gâteau léger à cuire dans de petites tasses
Une demi-livre de sucre, demi livre de beurre, mélanger dans deux livres de farines, un verre de vin, un verre d’eau de rose, deux verres du mélange de muscade, cannelle et groseille » ---American Cookery, Amelia Simmons, 2e édition (p. 48)
Puisque nous parlons de recettes, regardons quelques échantillons crées avec le jeu d’estampes Gâteaux en folie ainsi que leurs recettes respectives. Vous trouverez ce jeu dans le nouveauLivre d’idées & catalogue Stampin’ Up. Si vous n’avez pas encore votre exemplaire de ce Catalogue, veuillez me téléphoner ou m’envoyer un courriel et c’est avec plaisir que je vous en expédierai un gratuitement (valeur au détail 11,95 $)
Jeu d’estampes en vedette
Gâteaux en folie (jeu de 6 estampes, offert en français et en anglais, à la page 41 du Catalogue, 28,95 $)
Ce vendredi. 27 février, de 19 h à 22 h, venez créer ce magnifique ensemble 3D. Il ne vous reste que deux jours pour vous inscrire. Pour réserver votre place dès maintenant; il suffit de me téléphoner (514)624-8693 ou de m’envoyer un courrielsherley.grace@gmail.com. Cliquez icipour plus de détails.
Who doesn't love cupcakes? Stampin' Up's Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set is perfect for the creation of your birthday or anniversary cards! But before we get into the card making, did you know that there seem to be two theories about the origin of recipes titled "cupcake"? According to an article on www.foodtimeline.org:
1. The name comes from the amount of ingredients used to make the cake (a cupful of flour, a cupful of butter, cupful of sugar etc.). ---This is very similar to how pound cake was named. In fact, the recipes for cup cakes and pound cakes include pretty much the same ingredients and would have produced similar results.
2. These cakes were originally baked in cups.---Old cookbooks also sometimes mention baking cakes in small cups. These cups may very well have been earthenware tea cups or other small clay baking pans. These would easily accomodated baking level oven heat and produce individual-sized cakes. This is not the same thing as contemporary metal cupcake pans, enabling cooks to bake a dozen small cakes in one fell culinary swoop.
Here is a historic cup cake recipe from 1796 "A light Cake to bake in small cups. Half a pound sugar, half a pound butter, rubbed into two pounds flour, one glass wine, one do. [glass] Rosewater, two do.[glass] Emptins, a nutmeg, cinnamon and currants." ---American Cookery, Amelia Simmons, 2nd edition (p. 48)
Speaking of recipes, let's look at a few samples created using the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set along with their recipes! These are from Stampin' Up's 2009 Spring-Summer Idea Book & Catalogue. If you don't have your copy, call or email me for your free Catalogue (retail $11.95).
Feature Stamp Set
Crazy for Cupcakes (the set features 6 stamps, available in English or French, page 41 of Catalogue $28.95)
Samples
Recipe:
Stamp set: Crazy for Cupcakes
Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, More Mustard, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink: More Mustard Classic, Black StazOn, VersaMark
Accessories & Tools: On Board Loads of Letters, Fine Galaxy Glitter, Pacific Point 5/8" striped grosgrain ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, crochet thread
Recipe:
Stamp sets: Crazy for Cupcakes
Paper:
Card stock - Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Real Red
Designer Series Paper - Kiwi Kiss
Watercolour paper
Ink: Classic - Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red, So Saffron; Black StazOn
Planned for this Friday, Feb. 27, there are only two more days to register for the Crazy for Cupcakes class which will held from 7:00 pm to 10 pm. Call (514)624-8693 or email me sherley.grace@gmail.com today to book your seat. I only have a few more seats left! For more details on the class, click here.
I hope you all had a great Valentine's weekend! I came across this article that I thought you would find interesting. It is from the Postcard and Greeting Card Museum - www.emotionscards.com. Enjoy!
Sending greeting cards to friends and family is a tradition that goes back about 200 years. They were mostly sent by the elite and wealthy in the early to mid 1800's. Most of the early greeting cards were hand delivered and many were quite expensive, but they soon gained mass popularity with the introduction of the world's first postage stamp issued in 1840 and a few ambitious printer's and manufacturer's perfecting printing methods, hiring artists and designed both elaborate expensive cards as well as simple affordable ones by the 1850's.
As you visit our galleries you will see that cards of the past were fine pieces of art. Manufacturer's used quality artists and many of the large manufacturer's held "art" competitions to generate interest and to get new ideas for cards. Some of these competitions awarded as much as $1,000.00 to the winner!
The oldest known greeting card in existence is a Valentine made in the 1400's and is in the British Museum. New Year's cards can be dated back to this period as well, but the New Year greeting didn't gain popularity until the late 1700's. The Valentine and Christmas Card were the most popular cards, with Valentine's offering us the most "mechanical", "pop-up" and filigree cards, followed by Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Cards gained their highest popularity in the late 1800's and early 1900's offering us cards with some of the most unusual art. The Victorian age give us the most prolific cards.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, when lovers said or sang their Valentines. Written Valentines began to appear after 1400. Paper Valentines were exchanged in Europe where they were given in place of Valentine gifts. Handmade paper Valentines were especially popular in England. In the mid to early 1800's, Valentines began to be assembled in factories. Early manufactured Valentines were black and white pictures painted by workers in a factory. Esther Howland (see below) known as the Mother of the Valentine made fancy Valentines with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap". She introduced the Paper Lace Valentine in the mid 1800's. By the end of the 1800's, Valentines were being made entirely by machine.
Christmas cards were introduced and popularized by John Calcott Horsley, the artist of what is known as the world's first Christmas Card and Louis Prang, known as the Father of the American Christmas Card.
The rest is History. With the exchange of New Year's, Valentine's, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Birthday Cards, just to name a few, there is probably no occasion that doesn't have its own greeting card!
Won't you join me for a fun evening of card making? My upcoming class, Crazy for Cupcakes is next Friday, Feb. 27. Click here for the details!
Veuillez vous joindre à moi lors de mon nouveau cours, Gâteaux en folie! Pendant cette magnifique soirée, nous créerons cet ensemble de « délicieuses » cartes sous le thème des gâteaux.Venez créer quatre cartes anniversaires ainsi que cette boite en forme de gâteau.
Vous recevrez : Instructions énumérant chaque étape du projet ainsi que le gabarit qui vous permettront de recréer ce projet à votre guise!
Cours : Gâteaux en folie
Date : Vendredi 27 février 2009
Heure : 19 h à 22 h
Cout : 30,00 $
Lieu : Studio chez Sherley, 18695, rue Poitiers, Pierrefonds
Faites du prochain anniversaire un jour mémorable! Offrez cet ensemble comme cadeau à un parent ou une amie ou gardez-le pour vous. C’est à vous de choisir!
Les sièges sont limités alors ne tardez pas! Téléphonez-moi (514) 624-8693 ou envoyez-moi un courriel, sherley.grace@gmail.com, dès aujourd’hui pour réserver votre place!
Politique de référence : Invitez une amie ou un parent, nouveau à Craft with Grace , à s’inscrire et participer au cours avec vous!Vous recevrez un bon de 5,00 $ valable sur votre prochaine commande Stampin’ Up, faites avec moi.
Join me for a fun-filled evening of crafting, as we create this "delicious" cupcake-themed card set! During this brand new class, we will make the four cards and the mouth-watering coordinating cupcake box.
You will receive: step-by-step written instructions and template, enabling you to recreate the project, at your leisure, as many times as desired.
Make your next birthday celebration an event to remember! Give the complete set as a gift to your friend or loved one or keep it for yourself! The choice is yours!
Space is limited. Call (514) 624-8693 or email me, sherley.grace@gmail.com, to reserve your seat today!
Referral Policy: Have a friend or relative, that I haven't yet met, register and attend class with you and receive a 5$ voucher which you can use on your next Stampin' Up order, placed through me!
