My Happy Stamping Place

Chicken Pizzaoli

Hi all!  We got snow for the first time this season.  I was in LaCrosse with my daughter, visiting my sister, Geri for the weekend. We didn't get any snow in LaCrosse but on our drive back we slowly drove into the snow.  It wasn't much.  Just enough to stick to the ground and make the roads slushy.   I think it's all supposed to melt by Thanksgiving.

We had to get back early today because I had Recipe club this afternoon.  Bonnie was the hostess and she brought 3 delicious items.  The main dish was Pizzaoli.  This was deeelish!  Here is the recipe card I created for it.

The chicken is made from the owl punch and a few other punches.  The idea came from Michelle Scileppi.  I can't tell you how many different punch art chickens I have made for my recipe club cards.  It's always good to find another one.  I love the clever way Michelle adapted the owl punch to become a chicken!

The designer paper is the oh-so-cute, Domestic Goddess.  I have been itching to use this paper and found just the project.  The ric rac is made from the Tasteful Trim Sizzix die.  I can't stop using this die!

I'll post the other recipe cards we made in club over the next couple of days.

Tune in to my online website tomorrow.  Stampin' Up! will have some fantastic Clearance rack deals!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

More recipe cards

I have the other two recipe cards to share from my Recipe club last week.  The first is a bagel dip and it is so addictive!  I could eat it all day.  It has Accent in it, which I guess is MSG, so I intend to make it with seasoning salt as a replacement.

 

The last one is a light and refreshing dessert recipe.  It's made with Lime Sherbet and creme de menthe and topped with whip cream and a maraschino cherry.  It looks so pretty! I should have taken a picture of it.

 

The stamp set is called Slice of Life and is a level 1 hostess stamp set from the Occasions mini catalog.  You have until the end of April to earn this set for Free!  How do you earn it?  By hosting a party, book party, or placing $150 order yourself!  You can order through me on my online ordering website here or by contacting me at kathleen@myhappystampingplace.com.

We're still battling winter here in Minnesota.  We got more snow yesterday.  We were enjoying a warm up for awhile - temps in the 50's but winter isn't quite done with us yet.   It doesn't get to me as much in March because I know it's not sticking around for long. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

Yummy recipe!

Scalloped potatoes and ham.  Doesn't that sound delicious?  This is one of the recipes my hostess will be bringing over today for recipe club.  I can't wait to try it!  Here is the recipe card I created for her recipe that my club members will all get to make.

 

I gave it a vintage feel because it seemed to fit this recipe.

Recipe: Paper: Crumb Cake, Rose Red, Always Artichoke, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Springtime Vintage designer paper

Other: Birds and Blooms sizzlit dies, Tasteful Trim Sizzix die, Crumb Cake seam binding, Sticky Strip, pearls

I based all of the colors off of the designer paper. That way everything coordinates!

It's my son's 13th birthday today.  Now I have two teenagers in the house.  They are growing up on me too fast!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathleen

Recipe Club page

January has just been flying by for me!  How about for you?  So many things to do, so little time.  I've been trying to eat healthier but that chocolate keeps calling my name. 

This next recipe card is for a dessert.  It's not chocolate and it has carrots in it so it must be healthy, right?  This is a very yummy recipe!  You can really taste that cinnamon in there. I made this for my guests at  a Norwex party I had last Sunday and it went over well.  Judging by how my family snarfed up the leftovers, it went over well with them too!

 

I used the new cupcake punch to punch out the cupcake.  I embossed the bottom part of the cupcake with the square lattice embossing folder first to give it that texture.  The top was stamped with the speckles stamp from the create a cupcake first and then punched out with the cupcake punch.  The new pompom trim across the bottom of the recipe is a fun new trim in the Occasions mini catalog and the white trim going across is from the Tasteful Trim sizzix die that was in the Holiday mini catalog but it is still available for purchase if you are interested. 

Sale-a-bration is off to a great start!  I hope you can join me for my Sale-a-bration Open house this Sunday.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Blueberry Dessert

Did anyone go out Black Friday shopping?  My daughter and I tackled the crowds.  We had great luck and our first two stores - Target and Kohls.  No significant lines and we found most of the things we were looking for.  Then we decided to drive to another area and the traffic was terrible.  We abandoned the store based on the nightmare in the parking lot.  We moved onto another mall but it wasn't our usual mall so we were unfamiliar with where everything was and it was overwhelming!  So we drove back to "our mall" and finished up our shopping.  My daughter had to work at 5:00 for 3 hours.  Then she came home and put up the tree with my husband.  What a long(but good!) day.

So now I'm all rested up again.  It's a good thing cuz there's a lot on my plate today.  I will be putting the rest of the Christmas decorations up and getting ready for my Holiday Open House tomorrow.

I want to share with you one last recipe card from Recipe club this month. 

 

I made the blueberries with the 1/2" circle punch and Not Quite Navy cardstock.  I sponged them with Night of Navy ink and highlighted them with the uniball white gel pen.  The bowl is made with 1/2 of 1 1/4" circle punch and 1/2 of 3/4" circle punch in River Rock and sponged it with Soft Suede ink.

The jumbo ric rac is made with the Tasteful Trim Sizzix die from the Holiday mini catalog.  After die cutting this piece I ran it through the polka dots embossing folder to give it some fun texture.  I finishedit off with a cherry cobbler button and vanilla taffeta ribbon.

And here is a picture of the dessert.

 

If you are local to the Twin Cities area and would like to come to my Holiday Open House contact me at kathleen@myhappystampingplace.com or call me at 952-226-2190.  It is 2:00-5:00 on Sunday.  You can see all of the information here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Thanksgiving 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!  We are going to spend today with my mom and my side of the family.  We alternate years with my husband's family.  There's a bunch of us on my side.  There should be 35 or so of us this year.  Maybe more.  I'm bringing the desserts.  I baked a pecan pie, frosted shortbread and caramel rice krispy balls.  Two of them are new recipes so I hope they'll taste good!  Dessert is very important to my family.  We all have terrible sweet tooths!  We'll have the tradiitional turkey and stuffing.  Because we are all traveling from different places we don't usually do mashed potatoes.  It's hard to make all of the hot dishes with limited oven space.  So we make a different potato dish which my family loves - we call them Peggy Potatoes!  My oldest sister Peggy introduced them to the family and they have become a family tradition ever since!  we also have our traditional orange salad which is not a salad at all but an excuse to eat more dessert!  Someone will bring veggies which we will eat to feel less guilty about all of the other stuff and rolls too.  What are your family's traditional Thanksgiving foods?

Since we are talking about all of this yummy food, I want to share a recipe card from recipe club this month.  Wendi provided this yummy recipe.

 

The letters are made with the Broadsheet Alphabet.  You may recognize these letters from the Austin card we made last week. I love the look of this alphabet!  So stylized and fun!  I stamped the letters in Early Espresso on Whisper White and punched them out with the 1 1/4" circle punch.  I popped them up with stampin' dimensionals. The background is stamped in Old Olive Ink on Old Olive cardstock with a flower from the Fast and Fabulour Level 2 hostess set.  The flower embellishment is made with XL Fancy flower punched out in Poppy Parade designer paper from the Level 1 paper pack, the 5 petal flower punched out in Daffodil Delight designer paper from the Greenhouse Gala designer paper pack.  Then I place a vintage brad in the middle.

And here is a picture of this yummy salad.

 
This is healthy and delicious! 

Check back tomorrow for another yummy recipe and a totally cute punch art chef!

Have a safe and happy Thanksving!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen