Yeah, boy! I love pizza, and we just ordered Jet's. I had a pizza boat which is a gooey mess of cheese, mushrooms and green peppers (in my case), along with pizza sauce and garlic/parmesan crust. It's huge and delicious.
If you like fast and easy recipes, here's one I kinda stole and changed a little from Martha Stewart. 1.
1. Take frozen roll dough, place in greased muffin cups and let rise in a warm place til doubled in size.
2. Push down and deflate the dough in the cups. Take out and stretch a little and put back into the cups.
3. Add 1 Tablespoon pizza sauce and cheese and a couple of toppings and bake at 400° F for 12-15 minutes. Don't use too many toppings, since these puff up and can spill over.
Everyone loves these at my house.
Here's the original recipe for their instructions.
As for the crafty side of pizza, you can buy these here or make something similar if you're talented.
If I were thinking ahead, I'd have made you a pizza related card, but you'll have to settle for these Winnie & Walter cards I made with their free holiday digi images here and their rose dies. I used the same watercolor background I made with Distress Inks and watercolor paper.
Happy Wednesday!
Chark
Although Geometry was my least favorite subject in high school (probably thanks to the teacher, but whatever), I did like this challenge over at Winnie & Walter stamps. I found them through Jennifer McGuire's blog when she used one of their products and am so dying to get some of their products.
For this Gossip Column challenge, you have to use geometric shapes and they provided free amazing digi art for the challenge!
Here's my take. Geometry and Neon together. I used my new chalk markers (that's due to The Daily Marker's influence).
I colored the image with Prismacolors and chalk markers, cut the image in half, mounted on black cardstock and then offset it on white and added the hello die cut—it's from Papertrey Ink—and enamel dots from Jo Ann's. Winnie & Walter have a fun ($5) Hello die too.
Hope you'll join me today for this challenge or at least check out their fab products. My daughter assures me that Geometry rocks, so I guess I'll agree with her in this case—this was so fun to color!
Happy Monday!
Chark
I'm so into the NSD challenges from Pinkfresh and Winnie & Walter that I entered my third challenge here.
The challenge is to create your own background. I did so for this page by using the Pinkfresh stencil and stickers that came with my January kit. I added some Thickers for the title and a picture of my daughter who is about 4 here and who is now almost 21! Those darn kids just keep growing up on me!
Here's a close up of the stenciling. I love this stencil! It's not huge, but it's fabulous and a great accent or focus for a card. The stickers were perfect for this picture. I have to add some journaling because she said she remembers thinking "this is the worst candy." And, of course, it's just wax, so it kinda is the worst candy.
I love the idea of creating your own background, but I'm not sure I can pull it off like some people...but I had fun trying. The die cut, the xo rub ons in gold and the little heart card are all from the Pinkfresh kit. And these kits are packed with good stuff. I still haven't used the gold flair or the canvas tags or heart confetti. Luckily, there are more NSD challenges, so I may still get to use them today!
Happy Friday redux!
Chark
* Edited to add to the Stamplorations stencil flash linky...you have til May 31 to join in here and you can use any stencil project! Dying to get my hands on some of their stencils!
So, I received my Pinkfresh kit awhile ago and of course, was anxious to use the products, but it wasn't until their challenges with Winnie & Walter Stamps for NSD that I really got to play with the new stuff. This card uses another of the new stencils. I masked off the leaves and just inked the rose bud and stem with my new Abandoned Coral and Pistachio Distress Inks.
The washi isn't Pinkfresh, but the sentiments are rub ons from the kit. They were the perfect colors! I added a red bow to match the red hearts. I normally don't mix my reds, but I think it works with the coral. I used the circle applicator with the distress inks, but it left more marks than the rectangle applicator. Probably operator error...but I think I'll just use the circles for stenciling small areas.
You can still join in here if you want! Here's the sketch.
Happy Friday again (see the post below for another Pinkfresh/W&W challenge entry)!
Chark
I used my Pinkfresh Studio supplies to make some cards to enter in their National Scrapbook Day Challenges with Winne & Walter Stamps. They have some cool ones (8) to try and you have until the 9th to enter, so I hope you'll join in.
Here's a card using the hot pink, gold and aqua...a fab color combo imo!
I went light on the aqua, which is weird for me, cuz it's one of my favorite colors. That stencil, though, isn't it so wonderful? Small but fun and it came out so crisp with Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry. I used my new Pistachio as the aqua...it leans a little green, but I like it with the raspberry. The paint swish die cut and the hugs and kisses card are also Pinkfresh. The gold paper is DCWV gold cardstock. I think I may need to add some round bling too, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for the inspiration, Pinkfresh, I know I'll use it again!
Happy Friday!
Chark
