Dinner rolls? No, Doughnuts!

I promised my son that we would make doughnuts. Well that was like last summer and I never did do it. I know, bad mommy. Well he has snack time this week for kindergarten and wanted to take in doughnuts. So.....I tried an easy peasy recipe that I had seen and he agreed that they were simply yummy that he wanted me to make them for his class snack. So being the good mommy that I am, I made 28 doughnuts just for him to take in! I hope the kids enjoy them as much as we did and as much as i'm sure you will once you make them. These are so good and easy that I am going to have to limit to making them once a month!

A common bag of 36 dinner rolls. Let thaw but still cold. Can also use 24ct Texas rolls.

In the center of each Texas roll, poke a hole and stretch to form a doughnut shape. If using dinner rolls you can press two rolls together and stretch to form a doughnut shape. I used dinner rolls here but didn't press two together this time.

Placed a regular tablespoon next to one so you can see the size they are before rising. Cover with plastic (spray with PAM first or the dough will stick when taking off) and put in a warm place (I heat my oven to warm and turn it off before putting in the doughnuts) and let rise until double.

Same doughnuts 2 hrs later. They really don't need that long to rise. The first batch I did, I let rise only close to an hour. Really depends on how warm the place is you put them to rise.

After the plastic wrap comes off, the doughnuts go a little flat. I used the little round piece to recut the holes in the doughnuts. But wait.. don't throw those little pieces away.. Fry them up and have some doughnut holes! (The first time I didn't cut out the holes, just reshaped them before frying.)

Doughtnuts and doughnut holes frying in oil. Skillet was set at 375 degrees. Could also use a deep fryer if you had one.

Doughnuts 'draining' after being fried. (layered on paper towels and then on the brown packaging from a recent SU order.)

28 doughnuts dusted with Powder Sugar.

Doughnut holes. Yes there should be at least 28 here but they are so good that you are just popping them right into your mouth after the powder sugar hits them! ;)

Here are some glazed doughnuts I made the day before. These are two regular dinner rolls pressed together instead of just the one dinner roll like above. The glaze recipe is 4 cups powder sugar and 1/2 water mixed together.

You can frost them with your favorite frosting or even add sprinkles for the kid inside you. Enjoy and if you make them, let me know how you liked them. I'm off to eat the last one with my cup of coffee!

I cased myself and Blog Candy link

The 20th of every month is a challenge for the Dirty Dozen Alumni. Today, Holly was our 'hostess' and challenged us to case ourselves. The only catch was that we had to case one of our oldest uploads to SCS or one from the very first page. I went with this card. (please excuse the lack there of... it was in my early stages of stamping and I have grown so much since then ;) )

I flipped the card to fit the image I was using. Changed colors, stamp, changed one layer to the top note and add bling and ribbon.

The MFT WUW challenge this week was to try your hand at masking. I love to mask and went to town on MFT Presents Sara Williams Funky Flowers set. The flowers were colored with prismacolor pencils that were close to the Color Challenge 210 of Summer Sun, Real Red, Kraft and Black, and blended with odorless mineral spirits. I attached them to the Kraft cardstock with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots.

stamp: Funky Flowers - MFT Presents; paper: real red, summer sun, kraft, black, white; ink: black, summer sun, real red; accs: rhinestones, ribbon, ticket punch, top note, helmar crackle medium, helmar liqud scrap dots, helmar quick runner adhesive, cuttlebug

For the vase, I used Helmar Crackle Medium that is shown below in the picture. When it was dry, I rubbed Real Red into the cracks.

I am so loving this crackle. So fast, so easy and such a strong crackle. Do you like this look? Would you like to try your hand at the crackle? Then head over to the Helmar USA Design Team blog as our fearless leader, Tracy, is giving away some crackle as blog candy!

Not only is this for the DD/DDA challenge but the 20th is Celebrate MFT day. See this thread on SCS if you would like to see how you can Celebrate MFT. And one more challenge.. this also qualifies for Sharon's blog challenge of using ribbon tabs!

To see what the other Dirty Dozen girls and Dirty Dozen Alumni girls did, check out this gallery. (this gallery is open to the public)

A Funky Flower Magnet - MFT Blog Hop

Welcome to another MFT blog hop. If you have arrived here on your own and not from Paula's blog but would like to start at the beginning of the hop, head over to Kim's blog.

I have for your viewing pleasure a sample using MFT Presents - Funky Flowers by a new illustrator, Sara Williams.

I covered a chipboard with inspire design paper. I then stamped and masked the flower over top of the vase adding some steams after all the flowers had been stamped. The flowers were colored with Prismacolor markers. I then stamped the flowers again, colored them the same way and cut them out completely. I then mounted them on top of the flowers using Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots. Before mounting them, I went back in on the original image and using an xacto knife, cut around the steams.

For the vase, I stamped it onto close to cocoa and then covered it with Helmar's Crackle Medium. Sponging on some distress Vintage ink after the crackle had set. The vase was attached with glue dots. The entire image though is attached to the chipboard with dimensionals. A magnet was added to the back of the chipboard. (yes, it is hanging on my fridge in the picture.)

stamp: Funky Flowers; ink: black; paper: white, close to cocoa, inspire design paper; accs: prisamcolor markers, helmar crackle medium, helmar liquid scrap dots, helmar acid free glue, chipboard, magnet, xacto knife

I am sending this to my grandma for her birthday, she'll be 90 something. Hence the reason I kept it kinda simple.

This new illustrator, Sara Williams, is the sister of Susan who happens to be the next blog you are hopping to! Have fun!

Butterfly Kisses

Still playing catch up with my cards that i have managed to make here and there.

Butterfly Kisses by Treehouse. I made this card for a friend who was in the hospital at the time. It also qualified for the Limited Supply209, Sharon (NoTimeToStamp) blog challenge76 of making a spring card and Card Positioning Systems' sketch104. I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots for the butterflies so they are all at different dimensional sizes. Used the butterflies and the flower to make my own background paper (Limited Supply challenge). I thought it turned out springy and cheery and hope it made my friend feel just a little better when she received it.

Some new, some old and all that in between

Last week was MFT's release. Here are a couple cards I posted on SCS for the release plus an oldie but goodie set that i used a few weeks ago. Enjoy.

Sketch challenge218 was used here. Paper pieced her pjs and gave her fuzzy paper pieced slippers and collar. Nite Nite Ellie was released last week from MFT. $2.00 from each retail sell of this set for 6 months will be donated to St.Judes Children Hospital.

Another set released last week from MFT, MFT Presents Hooga Booga. Paper pieced the little one. Again used stamps from the set to make design paper. This sketch is from Card positioning systems105 and also color challenge208.

Birthday card for a young man. Sketch challenge217, Color Challenge207, Limited Supply209 and MFT challenge all rolled into one. Both the Limited Supply challenge and MFT challenge was to use stamps to make designer paper. Limited Supply took it one step further in that it you could only use one set and one set only to make your card. I used Icing on the Cake from MFT. The stars were faux dry embossed and middle cake is on dimensions.

Birthday invites for my soon to be 13 yr old daughter! This was also a Ways to use it... ATC's. They are small trading cards that are 3.5 x 2.5 in size. MFT's Nite Nite Ellie set was used along with JustRite's Brayton Font set.

Thank you for stopping by. I'm sorry if I don't update regularly but I have not been doing much stamping... well at least stamping that you are allowed to see ;)

Loads of Love bag and tutorial

Whew, what a week! I'm back to stamping after taking almost a 2 week break! Yeah, think i was sick. hehe So be prepared to be bombarded with posts today! For my first post, we have a cute little bag that I had started for Jan's demo stamp camp that got postponed to the end of Feb because of weather. (I can't take credit for this idea. There are plenty floating around on SCS that I got the idea from.)

I used SU's Top Note die three different times, cutting the design paper in half to cover the bottom white. The truck is paper pieced with the same design paper. Hearts were colored with water color crayons and a layer of crystal effects was added over top of them and over the windows. Small oval punch was used for 'handle'.

Here is a side view. You can see the bag sandwiched in between the two Basic Gray Top Notes. I found it easy to punch through the front top note and the bag together first then put on the back top note. Line up the punch to the punched out oval in the bag and punch the back top note. You can punch all four layers together but it is pretty hard. And incase you are wondering, I used plain regular double sided tape to hold it all together.

So where did I find a bag that small to fit my top note? I didn't, I made it! It's called an Envelopbag. And they are really easy to do (has to be or I wouldn't have made 16 of these for the swap! lol) But even though they are easy, I know some of you are like me and need a visual so I did a quick tutorial. Feel free to ask any questions if there is something you can't figure out.

Tutorial on how to make the Envelope Bags

You can use any size of envelope. For the bags above, I used a 5 x 7 1/2 " envelope (that opened at the side) and cut it twice so I got two bags out of it. For tutorial purposes, I used a regular size envelope. Make sure you seal the envelope before starting!



You want the sides/bottom to become 'walls'.

I then like to push in the sides so the bag collapes before taping on the Top Notes, as you can see the side view shot above.

Supplies used:
stamp set: Loads Of Love, Loads Of Love Acces.,
paper: SU's Urban Garden design paper, white, basic gray;
ink: black stazon;
accs: watercolor crayons, crystal effects, Big Shot Top Note die,
Small Oval Punch, dimensionals, envelopes