CRAFT Challenge Blog Hop 2017

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge

Happy Birthday To Us!

Can you believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 8 years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A Flipping Thing) on the 4^th of May 2009.

We have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all around the world, supplemented with several Guest Designers who join us for a month or a week at a time.

We have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to have such a large group of faithful followers.

So, how are we going to celebrate this milestone?

Well, how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog Hop?

We all feature sponsors for this blog hop on our blogs and I have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the following sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.

The sponsor on my blog is Eureka Stamps.

And you can win 3 images from Eureka Stamps  by adding your name to the Inlinkz at the end of this post.

How can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?

That is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop, Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the 17^th of May 2017.

And here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:

The rules this year are very simple:

1.      Make a project for this challenge and your entry will be put in the random draw for the prize by Sweet n Sassy.

2.      Visit the blogs of our DT and enter into their Inlinkz to be put in the random draw for the prize on their blog.

3.      The Top3 will again be chosen as every week as well.

4.      No sentences hunting this year I'm afraid.

You should have come here from Jean’s blog and as you can see your next stop is Maggie's blog. The start and finish of this blog hop are at CRAFT Challenge Blog.

And here is my project for this week, hope you like it.

(using 'Most Special Day Digital Stamp' by Eureka Stamps, 

 'Milton Mouse Colored Digital Image', 'Filmore Fox Colored Digital Stamp' and 'Sweet Birthday Wishes Digital Stamp' by Sweet n Sassy) 

And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the start of the hop)

Aunty Sue

Brenda

Helen

Jean

Jo (you are here now)

Maggie

Marlene

Myrna

Sheryl

Susan

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you are here at the end of the hop)

Your next stop is Maggie's blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't forget to add your name to Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the prize on my blog.

Challenge 404, Mothers' Day/Female at CRAFT Challenge.

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted anything on my blog. Life just has been too busy with work, home and organising CRAFT Challenge to allow any time for crafting for me. I however could not let the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge go by as I needed some cards for 2 very special ladies.

February is a month with 2 female birthdays in our family. So, the current challenge at CRAFT Challenge is just right for this. For this card I have used a template from Robyn Cockburn at Craftsuprint. I have amended it very slightly to suit these 2 ladies (my mum in law and my daughter) in my life. I have removed the image the design came with and replaced it with a photo taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park of their favourite animal the tiger. Hope you like it. Don't forget to also check our challenge at CRAFT Challenge.

And here is the finished card, hope you like.

Love,

Jo.

Recipe for homemade Satay Sauce.

To serve with Nasi Goreng or with sate sticks, or even as a sauce on top fo french fries.

Here is the recipe for sate sauce.
All you need is:

a jar of crunchy peanut butter
a diced onion
some sambal (the chili pepper sauce again, may have to dig out a recipe for that one as you can't buy it here very easily :lol: )
some Indonesian herbs ( ground ginger, ground cumin, and some others of which I don't know the English version, basically some tumeric I guess and of course some garlic)
some soy sauce
some lime or lemon juice
some sugar/brown sugar
some milk

Put some oil into a sauce pan and heat it.
Add the onion and fry until it is soft.
Add the peanut butter and the herbs, the sugar (1 teaspoon), the sambal (1-2 teaspoons), the soy sauce(table spoon full) and stir, heat till warm.
Slowly add milk until it is a smooth sauce (will thicken during heating so you will probably need about 200ml)

I don't even need the recipes for these 2 any longer, just put them in as I find them and done. Absolutely love them.

If you want sate, all you need to do is get some diced chicken or pork, put in a marinade of Chinese or Indonesian herbs, sambal and soy sauce and leave to soak for about half an hour. Then put the pieces on some bamboo sticks or skewers, put under the grill for 10 minutes, turning over half way and ready, just add the sauce and you're done.

Another nice one is to boil some mixed vegetables (carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas, some cabbage, some beansprouts, some cauliflower for about 3 minutes, drain. Then put in a oven dish or large platter/bowl, add some slices of boiled egg on the top, some prawn crackers and the sauce again. (this dish is called Gado Gado in Indonesia and in Holland)
A lovely dish to add to a rice table. Can be really quick due to getting some out of the freezer (mixed vegetables) and using these.

I think I will need to stop now, getting too hungry now :lol: ;)