Five Minute Frozen Yogurt

Oh my gosh, two weeks have passed and I had forgotten to post something. I was convinced to put up the backsplash in the new kitchen and combine that with work, I have been swamped with stuff to do!

The heat has been a huge factor over the past few weeks. It is definitely Summer now and each day has been so warm. To cool off Nicole and I have been making sweet cold treats for our families so today I’m going to share the first of those treats. It’s a very simple and easy recipe for frozen yogurt so take a look and enjoy!

Five Minute Frozen Yogurt (serves one)

2 cups of the frozen fruit of your choice (I like to mix up berries with something tropical like mangoes, peaches, or pineapple)

1 ½ tsp. of honey

¼ cup of Greek plain or vanilla yogurt

¼ cup of fruit yogurt or you can add more of the plain or vanilla Greek

You can also add in 1 banana (try to freeze it beforehand)

Add all of the ingredients into the food processor and process until smooth. A blender will work as well.

Serve immediately. The frozen fruit should make it nice and cold and the yogurt will give it that creamy consistency. You can also add a couple of ice cubes to the processor if it doesn’t seem “frozen” enough.

Island Paradise Cards

“Island Paradise is a refreshing aqua that calls to mind a change of scenery. A cool blue green shade that speaks to our dream of the great escape, Island Paradise is emblematic of tropical settings and our desire to unwind.” – Pantone 14-4620

We’re getting close to the end of our Pantone Spring colours blogs. The final two colours that we have left are blues, two very different blues, so we are going to do two very different things with them.

This week we chose Island Paradise (I wish I was relaxing at an Island Paradise about now!) and we thought about the beach, palm trees, relaxation, and sunshine, so we are going to incorporate those things into a card that you can send to people just because and transport them to a little island paradise.

Check out what we have come up with...

We decided to go with all blues with the exception of the sun and we decided to make two versions. One version will be with a Silhouette (or any other brand) cutting machine and the other will be cut by hand by tracing images onto the cardstock. All the colours will be the same, but we just want to show that you can easily make this card even without a fancy cutting machine.

Pick out some images of palm trees, the sun, and waves to cut out on your machine. Then pick your shades of blue. If you’re doing it by hand then print off some images and trace them onto the cardstock and cut out. We went for a yellow sun, dark blue palm trees, and bright blue waves. We opted to use the closest shade that we had to Island Paradise as our layer on top of the navy blue card.

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Now if you’re using a machine, then pick a font and colour pen that you want your words to be printed in. We chose to print on the Island Paradise blue layer. If you’re cutting by hand, then choose some words that you want to stamp on the Island Paradise blue layer and stamp in a shade of dark blue and emboss.

Lastly you are going to glue all of the parts on the light blue layer and then finally you will have two similar, but slightly different in looks and make, Island Paradise cards.

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