UDI Sketch Saturday

Morning all! I hope you're having a wonderful Saturday! As you know today is UDI's sketch challenge day so I'm back to share a card with ya. Be sure to check out the sketch HERE.

For this week's sketch I turned it on its side just to make it a little easier for me to use. I stink at using circles in this way. Anyway, I wanted to make a quick thank you card with this sketch so I used some Sweet Pea paper, my Emblosslits Beautiful Wings die, and the Modern Label punch.

Today we start something new with the UDI Sketch member blogs...we are doing a round robin which just means you get to see all of the sketch members blogs from a link at each and you can get off the hop and go back to the UDI blog at anytime you would like!

From my blog you head on over to Max's blog. Max is the head UDI chick and is just so talented and FUN! I know you will enjoy that stop! If you didn't start at the UDI blog you can either go THERE or you can just start hoppin' along the blogs from here. However you do it...have a great time!

Love Monkey

Morning all! Welcome to the middle of your week. Isn't it wonderful to know you're halfway to Friday...woohoo! I'm excited as I have a Dove Chocolate Discoveries party tonight and one on Friday. Fun stuff!

Anyway, some time ago, when I was a member of a particular Yahoo group, a woman named Kim Score posted samples of her punch art and that she was selling the directions for the punch art at her blog (Paper Punch Addiction). I immediately ran over to her blog and purchase some of her punch art as my brain...yeah, not getting punch art out of it any time soon! Her directions are easy to read and follow as well as so reasonably priced. I've been following her blog since then.

Well, she had some blog candy up for grabs awhile back so I entered (and gave you the chance to see her blog by adding her link in my sidebar) and I won! I got my blog candy a week or so ago but just got to putting together one of the items yesterday and it is SO cute! Of course I want to share with you all but Kim asked that I not show the entire page to protect all of the hard work that goes into her classes and creations...so I'm sharing a peak of the Love Monkey 12x12 page that she sent me. It is SO cute and is very hard to not show you the entire thing!

So...what are you waiting for? Go check out Kim's blog...HERE. Oh, for those who are interested Kim uses Stampin' Up! punches only so these characters (and more) are great for classes, workshops, and stamp clubs. Just ask my stamp club they have gotten to make a snowman of Kim's design!

Cute & Cuddly

Good morning everyone! Did you make it past your Monday in good spirits? I had a good, laid back, kind of day with the kids home from school. Gotta love days like that at the beginning of the week, huh?

I'm sharing with you today a set that I made on Sunday for our friends who just had a baby. They were having a "come meet the baby" party and we had a gift for them so I whipped these up real quick and away we went.

As you know I can't link you to the company that these sets are from but needless to say it hasn't stopped me from ordering from them, creating with their products, or wishing I could tell you but...such is life. I'm sure if you have any specific questions and would like to e-mail me that would be fine!

Well, that is it for today. I hope you have a wonderful day!

What's for Dinner Tonight?

I thought I'd share this recipe with you this week and yes, I'm making it for dinner tonight! I have never been able to find chunky Italian-style tomato sauce in my area so I just use a little less than 15 oz of tomato sauce and add more Italian seasoning to the mixture. I've also not had tomato sauce on hand and used diced tomatoes as well (just draining off a little of the juice so it wasn't too runny and it was just as good! You could add any additional toppings that you'd like...I've added turkey pepperoni...to make it something you'll love. Add a salad or other veggie side and you are all set to go! My boys (all of them) love this recipe!

Deep Dish Pizza Casserole

1 pound ground round
15 ounce can chunky Italian-style tomato sauce
Pam
10 ounce can refrigerated pizza crust dough
1 1/2 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Cook meat in a nonstick skillet over medium high heat until browned, stirring until it crumbles. Drain, if necessary, and return to skillet. Add tomato sauce, and cook until heated.
While meat cooks, coat a 13 x 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Unroll pizza crust dough, and press into bottom and halfway up sides of baking dish. Top bottom of pizza crust with meat mixture.
Bake, uncovered, at 425 degrees for 12 minutes. Top with cheese, and bake 5 minutes or until crust is browned and cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes before serving. Yields: 6 servings.

Work time = 10 minutes
Cook time = 20 minutes

Calories: 277
Fiber: 1.6g
Fat:7.7g

Happy Valentine's Day!

This year for Valentine's Day I signed up for Andrea Walford's Valentine's Online class. It was wonderful and I just wanted to share the fruits of my labor. Make sure you check out her March Break Madness online class. It starts soon!

I made all of these for Todd. It was a fun process and I hope he likes them. Have a wonderful day with the one you love!