Creeper Crew - Jill Card - Green with Envy - The Greeting Farm

Here's Jill again. This time she's Green with Envy.

Creeper Crew - Jill Card - The Greeting Farm

I love the Creeper Crew Jill stamp! She looks so pissed off - which is perfect for this birthday card!

Creeper Crew - Noah Card - The Greeting Farm

Here's Noah. She's pretty down to earth. I love the Tim Holtz metal flower that I used on this card.  All of this weeks cards are birthday themed since I was running low.

Creeper Crew - The Greeting Farm Card - Leslie

In celebration of May release, I'm spending the week making cards using stamps from The Greeting Farm.  I hope you enjoy them!

Rollins Family Lemon Marmalade - Made with Arizona Organic Lemons!

Every year I have an abundance of lemons in January, February, and March. This year I almost gave them all away but managed to save a few for my experiment...Lemon Marmalade. It is so yummy and sweet/tart that I named it Lemon Drop Marmalade.

To make this marmalade I used:

8 cups chopped lemons (about 12-15 lemons)

6 cups cane sugar
6 cups water
2 packets liquid pectin (6 ounces)...but probably need 1 6oz packet or none at all.

1. Remove as pith from the lemon rind as possible and remove the seeds.
2. Boil the fruit with the water until around 200 degrees. If you see any seed float to the top, just skim them out.
3. Then add the pectin and sugar until 218-220 degrees.
4. I had only planned on using one packet of pectin, but I couldn’t get it to set when doing the “plate” test. The plate test is when you freeze plates, pour a little jelly on them, and see if it wrinkles. If it wrinkles…it’s done.
5. Sterilize your jars (I used jelly jars and this made 10 jars).
6. I think next time I will either omit the pectin or just use 1 packet. I like mine runny and this came out sort of like thick jam. Took about 3 hours total including prepping the lemons, but not including the decorating of the jars which my 6 year old helped with.