Cookin' Up Creations

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts." ~ William Hazlett

Most people focus on the beauty of nature. However, Mother Nature touches us much more deeply. Nature isn’t about how it looks. Instead, nature is about how it makes us feel and how it touches us deep in our hearts.



Join us all month long as we post challenges based on the the Glorious Beauty of Mother Nature and her Four Seasons.

A new Blue Plate Special challenge is posted each Monday (sketch), Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Participants have until the 3rd of the following month to complete and post their creations in the Cookin' up Creations Gallery.

Prize will be a $20 Gift Certificate to their favorite online store (random drawing).....


Hey Everyone! It's me with another Spring Challenge for you!! If you have Spring photos by all means please get them scrapped, but if not that's ok too.

Your Challenge today is to use Pastel Patterned Papers + Flowers + Splatters/Misting.

Photo of sweet grandkids Marcus, Kellan, and Lucy at our Easter get together, April 2022.
Spring Has Sprung


Happy Scrapping!!

What a pretty spring page! Nice challenge!

like the challenge. Great page. Love to get the opportunity to use pastels that we don't see often.

pretty page, Deanna. love those Spring colors

This is an awful scan.

Found this unfinished class from Crop and Create, it was perfect to finish until I ruined it with the misting!

Ural wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:08 pm

This is an awful scan.

This is just beautiful and so precious, Ural!! Love those critters and flowers!

Tamara wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:45 pm Found this unfinished class from Crop and Create, it was perfect to finish until I ruined it with the misting!

So pretty, Tamara! Love this design with the big circle and all the flowers!

Ural: ah sweet photo and page
Tamara: it looks great. no worry that the misting doesn't look how you wanted it to. certainly not ruined

splattered mist, pastel pp, and lots of flowers!