Nov 22 SG Recipe Swap Holiday Sparkling Old-Fashioned Punch

Looks delicious! I love the font you used. 

That's a great punch recipe! I love the rich colors of your card and the luscious looking fruit. Great title work, too. I remember pushing cloves into oranges as a kid. They smelled wonderful but it always hurt my finger to do it. (I never thought about wearing a glove. )

What a fun looking recipe card. Your title looks good. 

Oooh - I am pretty sure I would love this! And so would many in my family! Marilyn - where do you find currants? My gran and then my father-in-law used to grow them, but I had no luck starting my own currant bush. It grew, but never bore fruit so I eventually tore it out. Love the fruit and the greenery on this card!

42 minutes ago, Celestine said:

Oooh - I am pretty sure I would love this! And so would many in my family! Marilyn - where do you find currants? My gran and then my father-in-law used to grow them, but I had no luck starting my own currant bush. It grew, but never bore fruit so I eventually tore it out. Love the fruit and the greenery on this card!

Hi and thank you, the fruit is actually from the recipe page!  Yes, this punch was a huge hit and very festive.  Blood oranges were very expensive at Christmas so we substituted another orange.  Oh, how cool to grow currants!  I actually bought them in my local supermarket in the aisle with dried fruit and raisins.   

3 hours ago, MariJ said:

Hi and thank you, the fruit is actually from the recipe page!  Yes, this punch was a huge hit and very festive.  Blood oranges were very expensive at Christmas so we substituted another orange.  Oh, how cool to grow currants!  I actually bought them in my local supermarket in the aisle with dried fruit and raisins.   

Okay! I was thinking fresh currants, but I will look for dried! I might make this later this month when everyone is here for a family wedding! It would be very festive! 

1 hour ago, Celestine said:

Okay! I was thinking fresh currants, but I will look for dried! I might make this later this month when everyone is here for a family wedding! It would be very festive! 

It was and everyone really enjoyed it!  My sister tells me now that she makes it on New Years Eve for her friends and they liked it.  Plus it makes it easier not to have to make so many drinks......  And, so funny -- when I read your first comment I thought, "Grow currants?" like I didn't realize it could be done since I'd used dried!  🤣

I really like this card, Marilyn!  I especially like the title and the font you chose.  I also like the greenery framing the photo.  So very well done.

9 minutes ago, SodScrap said:

I really like this card, Marilyn!  I especially like the title and the font you chose.  I also like the greenery framing the phot.  So very well done.

Haha, I wondered if anyone would mention the greenery.   That is the photo from the magazine article and the recipe was typed in white - I couldn't figure out how to remove it, nothing looked good so I went with that.   I lost a lot of the photo though...