tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38780911416814842382024-03-19T05:01:12.139+00:00Chicken SoupWe're cooking up a weekly batch of Chicken Soup for Poorly Mojo's, so if yours is in need of a little TLC you've come to the right place. Chicken Soup is all about taking inspiration from things around us and using it to kickstart our creativity. Be they adverts, books, T-shirts, etc .... the list is endless!Recipes are posted every Friday Night at 7:00pm, where members of the DT will also share their takes on the inspiration.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-5329230993129270222011-06-05T21:17:00.007+01:002011-06-05T21:47:53.890+01:00Recipes 43 & 44A double posting today after a very busy couple of weeks for most of us on the ChickenSoup team, so apologies first for our lack of inspiration, but hopefully this will make up for it.Recipe 43We have two examples for this recipe, one from our May guest designer Sue.And a layout from Kate inspired by the colours.So how will that image inspire your next creation? We hope you will choose to share Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-25729155655889040362011-05-22T09:41:00.008+01:002011-05-22T09:52:51.345+01:00Recipe 42Another Friday means another ChickenSoup recipe, only it's Sunday and the blog post we thought we had scheduled to post was indeed only saved as draft!! Sorry folks, good job we are better at inspiring and creating than we are with technology!So without delaying any further, our recipe inspiration for this week.Our guest designer Sue joined us again this week and created this fun card.Kate Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-45331027776029582272011-05-14T20:08:00.015+01:002011-05-15T21:26:41.070+01:00Recipe #41 - Welcome Sue!Apologies for the delay, some of you may have also experienced some problems with blogger but we are all back to normal now and pleased to introduce our guest designer for May Sue Jones. Sue won our challenge to Guest DT with us for a month and we are thrilled to have her!Sue joins us almost every week at ChickenSoup using the recipes to inspire either a layout or more often a fabulous card. FindChicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-15554671018125194192011-05-13T19:23:00.002+01:002011-05-13T19:25:16.569+01:00A minor delayWe seem to have lost the last couple of days of blogger history and as such cannot get to our examples this week to share with you. As soon as we resolve this your next recipe will be available for inspiration. Apologies for the delay.Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-61808529340148124012011-05-06T19:00:00.000+01:002011-05-06T19:03:37.044+01:00Recipe #40 - Welcome to MayCan you believe we are in May already?! I know we can't, the year seems to be rushing by, but with is comes the summer so it's not all bad! Our recipe today is slightly cooler toned in colour after a few bright ones. Let see how much fun you all have with this one, courtesy of ChickenSoup chef Annette.Annette gave us a lovely card inspired by the image.Alana also made a lovely card this week, Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-61158195974770714842011-04-29T10:00:00.000+01:002011-04-29T10:00:06.274+01:00A Royal Recipe #39Well unless you have been buried under a huge rock these last few weeks you will be aware that there is a Royal Wedding today, indeed they may already be wed by the time to read this! So by way of a little celebration to the Prince and his new Bride we bring you a Royal Wedding inspired recipe for today. Be it the Union Jack bunting, the celebratory theme, the great outdoors or an opportunity to Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-91869040826598181622011-04-22T14:40:00.000+01:002011-04-22T14:40:00.988+01:00GOOD FRIDAY - Recipe #38Good Friday, and we all hope that is is a good one for you all! Are you working still today? Have the day off? Planning to enjoy a little rest and relaxation in the sunshine? It certainly is better photography weather and many of our designers will be busy snapping away this weekend that's for sure! Whatever you do we hope you have a smile on your face at the end of your day and maybe a little Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-33569759447142243912011-04-15T19:00:00.000+01:002011-04-15T20:31:25.324+01:00Recipe #37Friday again! Which means another helping of craft mojo inspiring ChickenSoup. We have a little something this week which should get your creative cogs turning! And here is how our designers were inspired this week, first up Kate's cog-tastic layout! Alana's time themed tag features lots of clocks with cogs And a cog embellished card from Ann Have fun with the inspiration this week and be sure Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-6495279227862670652011-04-08T20:00:00.000+01:002011-04-08T20:50:03.483+01:00Recipe #36Bring me sunshine, that is what this week's recipe says to us, and what a lovely end to the week we have seen in most of the UK this week. Well spring is well and truly here and so we hope that this weeks recipe will see your springing into your craft space and creating something wonderful. The team drew inspiration from the tree, the colours and the whole spring/summer feel of the image this Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-71784184704278802011-04-01T19:00:00.001+01:002011-04-01T19:00:03.632+01:00Recipe #35April already, can you believe it? How time flies when you are having fun - and we hope you will have fun with this week's recipe. If this is you first time with us WELCOME - we are a weekly challenge blog for papercrafters and more. The idea being we reveal an inspirational image and papercraft examples created by the DT. Anyone can join in - the more the merrier, and take a look at last weeks Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-22292607263416060252011-03-25T19:00:00.000+00:002011-03-25T19:00:07.440+00:00Recipe #34 and a chance to win a guest DT SpotWELCOME CHICKENSOUP FOLLOWERS!We sure hope you have had a nice week and managed to enjoy the sunshine that seems to have graced us with it's lovely presence this week. As promised last week we are offering you a chance to win a guest design team spot with us for the month of May 2011. To be considered all you need to do is create a project based on this week's recipe, post a comment to this post Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-66407909817253066872011-03-19T17:11:00.011+00:002011-03-19T17:39:13.661+00:00Recipe 33RAINBOWS!.,..to brighten your day as we well and truly enter the season of spring. Hopefully this weeks recipe will lead to no end of creating and have you digging through your brightest of papers. The team were inspired to create a number of projects this week based on our rainbow coloured recipe.Ann scrapped these older photographs of her now teenage daughter.Kate created a bright and textured Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-55963379138799998732011-03-11T19:00:00.003+00:002011-03-12T17:03:24.788+00:00Recipe 32Time for another recipe, and as the song by They might be Giants goes"Blue canary in the outlet by the light switchWho watches over youMake a little birdhouse in your soulNot to put too fine a point on itSay I'm the only bee in your bonnetMake a little birdhouse in your soul"and I have been humming away this song every since this recipe was posted for the designers!!Thanks to Christine for Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-53684291840952882532011-03-05T21:27:00.010+00:002011-03-05T21:41:03.920+00:00Recipe #31 - a day lateApologies for being a day late with our posting, but hopefully it is scrummy enough that you'll forgive us.If this is your first time here, WELCOME, and we hope you will return each week as we bring you an image, a "recipe" if you will, to inspire your next crafting project.Today we bring you a cupcake notecard set image as your inspiration - calorie free, even if it may inspire a munching Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-67706744729653280792011-02-25T12:00:00.004+00:002011-02-25T12:00:05.669+00:00Recipe #30Welcome back to the blog one and all, hope you are having a nice half term school holiday (if you are in the UK and on school holiday that is!)This week we have just the ticket to get you crafting again!We are sure that many of you will have a ticket themed item somewhere in your crafting stores, or if not, why not draw your inspiration from the layout or colours in the recipe this week.Ann used Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-77914228601253590352011-02-18T20:09:00.003+00:002011-02-18T20:26:54.566+00:00Recipe #29It's half term and as most of our designers have children begging for that extra bit of attention we are taking a break this week from providing examples to go along with our recipe. We sure hope this doesn't deter you from being inspired to create a little something!With so many lovely film reel products on the market, from Tim Holtz and his film strip alterations die, Bo Bunny's Mamarazzi lineChicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-12921898249325892862011-02-11T19:14:00.008+00:002011-02-11T19:28:11.320+00:00Recipe #28Wow, it's Friday again - it sure does roll around quickly doesn't it?Hope you have all had a nice week and are looking forward to a restful weekend, maybe with some time for a nice cup of tea and some cake? That is what our image for this week made me think of straight away! Maybe it was the lovely floral china mugs that did it!How will this recipe inspire your next crafting project? Before you Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-64309499510930661172011-02-04T21:26:00.011+00:002011-02-04T21:51:02.794+00:00Recipe #27 & Welcome Alana HarrodWelcome to this most blustery Friday evening across most of the UK! We sure hope you are tucked up in the warm and looking forward to the weekend ahead.Before we go ahead and share with you our recipe for inspiration this week we would like to introduce an addition to the ChickenSoup Design team - a very warm welcome to Alana Harrod.Alana undertook a guest design team spot for us last year when Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-70498469650444705662011-01-29T23:11:00.009+00:002011-01-29T23:25:49.968+00:00Recipe #26Apologies for the delay in posting this week's recipe, slight technical hitch but we're all fixed now!Hope you will enjoy playing along with us again this week. As always this challenge is open to everyone who stumbles across it, no need to be a member of any group or forum to join in. The idea as always is that you use the image each week to inspire or kickstart your next crafting project, be itChicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-32439729553978449352011-01-21T17:59:00.009+00:002011-01-21T18:22:13.501+00:00Recipe #25Happy Friday everyone, so nice of you to flutter-by or should that be butterfly?!! That is after all our inspiration for this week, isn't this bracelet gorgeous? Thanks to Souper Cook Christine for digging this one our for us - we can't wait to see how you are inspired. Lets share Christines stunning layout first. How bright and cheery are these colours? Mel also created a bright and cheery page Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-11954330072776038122011-01-14T19:00:00.021+00:002011-01-14T19:00:03.999+00:00Recipe #24Here we are again with recipe #24, and Ann has chosen this weeks image for us. It is full of soft, subtle colours, silhouettes and distressed outlines - lots to inspire you!
Our cooks were all very inspired by the colours and shapes in the image, as well as the layout of the design, and while the end product was different in each case, you can clearly see the link between them all. Lets take Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-41052870724905908012011-01-07T19:00:00.004+00:002011-01-07T19:00:04.471+00:00Recipe #23HAPPY NEW YEAR CRAFTERS and welcome to the first ChickenSoup recipe for 2011. Do you like our new year, passing of time, clock theme to kick start the year?
We hope you are feeling nice and crafty this Friday and haven't missed us too much during our little break over the holidays. If you have, worry not we are back now every Friday with an inspirational image to hopefully inspire your next Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-35232980069541078442011-01-01T18:13:00.001+00:002011-01-01T18:15:23.820+00:00Happy New Year CraftersOn behalf of all the ChickenSoup designers I would like to wish you all a Very Happy New Year. I hope 2011 is full of craft inspiration, creativity, fun and laughter for you all.Don't forget you still have until January 6th to complete your 12 days of Christmas inspired projects. We have seen some lovely work being shared and look forward to seeing more in the next few days - especially now you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-67324095326832299962010-12-12T19:30:00.001+00:002010-12-14T22:43:19.398+00:00On the 12th day of Christmas Insert sad face here as we bring you our final day of Christmas Inspiration. Don't forget you have until 12th night, that is January 6th to play along with all 12 of the recipe's we have provided over these last 12 days. We will then be back on Friday January 7th with our first recipe for 2011. And so without further ado, let us reveal the final recipe for festive crafting inspiration.All I wantChicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878091141681484238.post-46835953823542684222010-12-11T11:00:00.002+00:002010-12-11T11:00:06.124+00:00On the 11th day of Christmas Another day closer to the big day, are you ready? Are all your gifts purchased and wrapped? Cards sent? no? Well worry not, grab yourself a cuppa and see if we can can't inspire you to make a little something to reduce that to-do list. One of the things many are doing this time of year is preparing for family visits and maybe doing a little baking? Today's recipe is sure to inspire then! Our Chicken Souphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506766710475924010noreply@blogger.com1