Recipe 32

Time for another recipe, and as the song by They might be Giants goes

"Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make 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 digging this one out for us! And she brings us such a cute layout inspired by the birdhouses this week.


Ann created a card this week, inspired by the occupants of the birdhouses!



And last up for this week we are sharing a rather cute birdhouse windchime Debbie created for another project a while ago but since it fits this weeks theme we thought we'd share it here too!

Happy inspired crafting once again from all of us behind the blog - we truly love seeing your work so be sure to share it with us.

EDIT: Adding Kate's lovely card featuring her hand drawn birdhouses which she created for this weeks challenge.

Recipe #31 - a day late

Apologies 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 session as much as a crafting project!!

Christine was inspired to create this cheerful birthday card.


Annette also created a scrumptious card good enough to eat.


Mel used photo of one of her daughters with cupcakes for this lovely layout.


Louise created a tasty looking square shaped cupcake card.



And lastly from the designers this week Alana created this wonderful card featuring a hand coloured cupcake girl!


Fancy creating a cupcake inspired layout or card? Be sure to share with us if you do!
See you again next week where we will be placing a little birdhouse in your soul!

Recipe #30

Welcome 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 tickets on her "Love you" layout this week, taking inspiration from the colours in our recipe too.


Annette's pretty card features a ticket embellishment


Christine also made a card this week, again featuring a ticket stamped with one of the Tim Holtz ticket images.


Last up this week, again using Tim Holtz products, is Kate's layout featuring ticket themed patterned paper.


We look forward to seeing your ticket inspired creations this week, be they scrapbook layouts, cards, bookmarks, minibook pages, art journal entries, ATCs whatever! As always be sure to leave us a comment linking to your creations and please, if you do blog, be sure to reference back to us and help spread the SOUPer cheer!

Recipe #29

It'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 line from 2010 and of course numerous stamps we are sure you will have something in yours stash that you can dig out to use this week!

We hope you all have a great week, and look forward to seeing you again next Friday where we have "Just the ticket" to inspire you!

Recipe #28

Wow, 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 decide on that, lets take a look at our designers inspiration this week.

Clare created this simple but lovely card for a certain event just around the corner!

Kate inspired by the colours and floral mugs created this lovely home decor project.


Christine was also inspired by the subtle colours in this weeks recipe to create this layout.


Alana use corrugated card on her project inspired by the wood within the recipe.


And finally for this week Annette brings us this pretty card, again inspiration coming from the subtle colours of this weeks recipe.

So what are you waiting for? Time to get creative SOUPers! See you again next week with another image to inspire a crafting project and kickstart those creative juices

Recipe #27 & Welcome Alana Harrod

Welcome 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 we ran our 12 days of Christmas challenges and we loved her work so much we have asked to join us and are very pleased that she accepted. More of her crafting work can be found on her creative blog so be sure to pop on over and get to know her!

This week we bring you a recipe that Mel found for us with plenty of scope for inspiring your next crafting project.




















And here are the design team projects for this week.


Mel focused on the grid pattern to create a holiday memory page

Alana created a set of Calendar Girl ATCs inspired by one of the grid images.

















Ann also focused on the grid pattern to inspire her fun layout, as well as the vibrant colours in this weeks recipe.























Last up this week is Annette with her super lovely card also focusing on the grid style of this weeks recipe.






















How will you be inspired? Will the grid style kickstart your next project, or maybe one of the images? Maybe the loveable Mickey Mouse? Be sure to share with us your card, layout or indeed whatever you create - we love to see them! Until next week crafty friends!

Recipe #26

Apologies 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 it a scrapbook layout, a card, a piece of altered art, a bookmark, a painting - anything goes.

So here is your inspiration this week - recipe #26.

Three of the ChickenSoup design team created a little something based on this image and we bring you a card, a layout and a set of tags this week.

First up is Kate who has shares the products used and some additional close up images of her project on her blog - pop over to Pickleberry for more information.


Christine was inspired by the colours of the image this week and created this pretty layout.


Finally this week Ann dug out her ink and stamps to create a card inspired by the image this week. She drew her inspiration from the grid background and the colours.


Have fun creating this week and we look forward to welcoming you back again next Friday when, in addition to unveiling another recipe, we will be introducing a new member to the design team. See you then, and as always, please shaare your creations with us leaving a comment and link to this post.