I have been cooking and crafting a lot of different things lately and I thought I'd share some of them.
Mini Pizzas
The photo is terrible but they taste so good. Roll out grands biscuts, sauce and cheese them, and bake them according to the time and temp on the biscuts. I found an awesome recipe for pizza sauce here. We just like cheese, but you can put what ever you want on top. Easy and delish!
Rolo Cookies
Super yummy & super easy to make. Just make sure you follow the recipe for the cookies, not the directions on the back of the cake mix. Best if served warm but good either way. You can pop them in the microwave for a sec and they will taste like just from the oven.
Sticky Bun Breakfast Ring
I've made this twice and it is sooooooooooooo good! The only change I make is I use the 2 tubes of buttermilk biscuts (per the directions) but I coat both sides of the biscuts in the brown sugar/cinnimon mixture before putting them in the pan. Super easy and delish. I see a trend of not-so-healthy foods here, but sometimes you just have to live!
Weekly Family Planner
I started with this $10 frame from WalMart, scrapbook paper, and stamps for the days. Openings are 4x6 and I thought that would be too small, but it works out well for us.
I stamped the days of the week onto the paper. If I want to change out the paper, I can just stamp on the new ones. That and I couldn't find days of the week stickers and don't have any scrapbook supplies (letters, stickers) so this route was cheaper.
Here is the final product sans Wednesday. Someone accidentally broke the glass trying to get the back off so we had to go back to WalMart to get a 4x6 frame for the glass. Good times. You write on the glass with a dry erase marker and it wipes right off. Turned out good and works well so far.
Seasons Frames
Dollar store frames, scrapbook paper, and however you can do the letters. I got 6 different (ugly) frames at the dollar store and spray painted them black. Cut scrapbook paper to fit. Sidenote: did you know all the seasons have six letters? So you will always have enough frames when it comes time for a new season. Just swap out the paper (and letters, of course).
If you own a Cricut, the cutting out of the letters would be super easy. I do not own a Cricut (oh, how nice one would be =) ) so I printed out the letters from the computer and used a projecta scope I had from college to project the immage on the wall. I traced the letters and cut them out with a scissors. Did I mention how nice a Cricut would be? Adhere the letters to the paper, put the backs on, and voila! All or $7 or $8 (including spray paint).
You could also do this with the letters in your last name.
4 comments:
My good friend Michelle is a major paper crafter (stamp it up) and pininterest lady! I tried to join but you need to have a Facebook account...boo to Facebook! Your crafts are great!!! I want to do something similar but with Banaszynski In letters painted by the kids and framed! Thanks for sharing! Oh and we make mini pizzas but with English muffins-Bella makes them all. Happy new year!!!!
I agree, Facebook is the devil! I joined with Twitter which isn't as bad. I don't have much intention to tweet, I just wanted to join pinterest =)
I don't own any cutting machine, either, so what I do is print letters like you do, cut them out, adhere them to whatever cardstock/patterned paper I want to use, sticking the "front" to the back of the cardstock/patterned paper and cut it out again. Not fast, but dang it, I'm old school. :-)
I'll be following you and as always, you're welcome to follow me.
Kari - I have a cricut (the little one) and it works well. Mine was under $100 but what sucks is the cost for the cartridges - gotta make sure you get them on sale since coupons don't work with them. Its a great investment.
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