Holiday Blitz Day 4: Tutorial on Crystal Snowflakes Stampin’ Up! Style…& another winner!
Posted on: Friday, November 21st, 2008
Don’t you just love the holidays? After all, it’s traditional during the holiday season to give gifts, and what better gifts are there than the handmade ones from the heart? I am having SO much fun with this Holiday Blitz event because it’s giving me the opportunity to get into my stamping studio to create for the simple joy of creating.
Once again I have been enjoying reading all your comments regarding your holiday gift exchange traditions. We’ve tried various different forms of gift exchanges and kept coming back to giving a gift to everyone - our immediate family of course (including myself, my husband and our children) as well as our parents, grandparents, siblings, neices and nephews. Typically we allocate a higher dollar value to our own immediate family. Our gifts are a combination of purchased and handmade. There is one tradition that my husband’s family has been doing since they were kids, that we all do now, and that is the exchange of funny gifts. Close to Christmas we draw names for the funny gift and then put on our creative thinking caps and try to tie the gift in to something funny that happened related to that person during the year. Although some of the gifts are purchased, for the most part they are put together by either making them or scavenging for them. For example, one year my sister-in-law was driving my father-in-law’s van – as she was slowly backing out of their driveway she didn’t notice my car and backed right into the door handle. Thankfully the damage was minimal. My father-in-law ended up drawing her name for the funny gift and ended up giving her a car door handle mounted on a plaque which he had scavenged at a junk yard! We all got a good laugh out of that one.
For today’s tutorial I am going to share my version of a crystal snowflake. I got the idea from Anna Wight. Her blog is called Sassy & Sweet notes. She created what she called crystal snowflakes using a type of chunky glitter called Dazzling Dust glitter. As you may know if you’ve been a reader of mine for any length of time, I am constantly looking for ways to re-create hot trends in the paper-crafting industry using all Stampin’ Up! product. So, I set about seeing if I could create a similar look using my Stampin’ Up! products. Unfortunately I couldn’t because our chunky glitter is too different – the Dazzling Dust looks like little shards of clear glass whereas our clear chunky glitter looks like small round discs that are iridescent. HOWEVER, by using a combination of chunky glitter and our Dazzling Diamonds glitter, I ended up with a look I just love. So, I called it Crystal snowflakes Stampin’ Up! style *lol*. Here’s how I made them:
Stamps: Best Yet, Snow Swirled
Paper: Holiday Treasures DP, Baja Breeze & Whisper White CS, Vellum CS
Ink: Whisper White Craft ink, VersaMark, Baja Breeze, Basic Black
Accessories: chipboard snowflake, crystal effects, foam brush, Chunky Sprinkles glitter, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, small snowflakes sizzix die, Big Shot, Filigree Brads, Clear Rhinestone brads, heat tool, sponge, 1" Baja Breeze Double-Stitched Grosgrain ribbon, 2-way glue pen
Step 1: I took a chipboard snowflake from one of Stampin’ Up!’s On Board collections. The particular collection I used is now retired, but you can get something similar in the On Board Something Seasonal collection. I covered the snowflake in Whisper White Craft ink and dried it using my heat tool.
Step 2: I dabbed crystal effects all over the snowflake as you can see from the right hand side of the snowflake, and then took a foam brush and brushed it out (as you can see on the left side of the snowflake). You want the crystal effects to be brushed out all over the snowflake.
Step 3: I placed my snowflake face down in the Crystal Iris Chunky Sprinkles glitter (which I had poured into a container) and very gently pressed it into the glitter.
Step 4: I then quickly tapped the back to get rid of the excess Chunky glitter and quickly held it over my Dazzling Diamonds glitter container and sprinkled some of that on and tapped off the excess. There were a few spots that needed a bit more glitter so I took my foam brush and used the corner to dab a bit more crystal effects onto the areas that needed more glitter. You’re done!
Step 5: Decorate your snowflake as desired. For my project I took my Sizzix small snowflake dies and cut one of the small snowflakes out of vellum and the other out of Baja Breeze CS using my Big Shot. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the vellum using a 2-way glue pen and stuck the vellum snowflake directly on top of the Baja Breeze CS snowflake using 2 way glue. I used the layer of vellum to mute the intensity of the Blue Color. As a finishing touch I added a large Filigree brad and a large clear rhinestone brad from Stampin’ Up!’s Pretties kit to hold all the layers together. You can click on the picture below to get a larger view. As you can see from the picture below, the chunky glitter and Dazzling Diamonds glitter does NOT cover the entire surface of the snowflake – you can see patches of bare colored chipboard. This is the way it is supposed to be – too much glitter and you lose the effect.
Easy wasn’t it? You can add it as an accent to any number of different types of projects. You can see my finished card below.
And now……drumroll please……the winner of yesterday’s draw for the pdf tutorial of the Christmas Planner tin is Kristi Kelly! Congratulations Kristi! In order to draw my winners I use the website www.random.org so that the winner is randomly drawn. Kristi, please email me at andrea@sunnystampin.com in order to claim your prize!
For Holiday Blitz Day 4 I’ll be drawing another winner for the tutorial for this tin. In fact, I’ll be giving away this particular tutorial for 7 days in all. After that, it will be a different tutorial for a different project. This tutorial includes a supply list, dimensions and over 40 step-by-step color photos on how to make this project. For more details about the Holiday Blitz Event click here.
Today’s question: What is your favourite holiday meal or holiday food that you typically only have during the holidays?
Just so we’re all on the same page – the winner of today’s draw will be announced tomorrow evening (EST) when I post Holiday Blitz Day 5. You can expect our daily posts to be released in the EVENING (EST).
Andrea Walford 
215 Comments
November 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
This is beautiful, Andrea! I’m loving your daily tutorials! I only make my grandmother’s special fudge at Christmas. It makes a TON and the longer you store it, the creamier it gets! (However, it never lasts long around here!)
November 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
We have a traditional food – pierogs. They are a bread bun filled with bacon, onions and ham. They take so long to make, that they are reserved for Christmas!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
GREAT IDEAS!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
my favorite holiday food is sweet potatoes praline. It is very yummy. Of course when you add enough sugar, brown sugar, and butter to anything it has to be good.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
My favorite food is a cranberry orange relish. It makes tons and so I only make it for a holiday when my extended family is around.
dixie
November 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I really like all the ‘textures’ in that card!
We really don’t have any ‘food traditions’ for holidays. When I cook the meals, I try new things all the time – usually with a southern flair. When my SIL cooks we always ALWAYS have the same thing: k-roast, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, cranberry sauce, gravy. She also cooks that same meal for sabbath dinner about once a month! This year since I have to work the day after both “big meal” holidays I have bowed out of the cooking and it looks like my FIL has won the battle and we will be eating out this year. At least I wont get stuck doing dishes!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Andrea, love the snowflake! I can just imagine all the laughter at your house during the holidays! The funny gift sounds like a lot of FUN!!
My favorite food anytime I visit home is my mom’s pickled eggs! No meal would be complete without a couple of them on my plate. During the Christmas holidays I also look forward to the peanut butter fudge that our friend Bill always brings us. His is the best!!
Thanks again for sharing all of this with us!
November 21st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Since I moved out after getting married I have always made a dish that my mom use to make often for Thanksgiving and Christmas and that is usually the only time during the year that I make it and that dish is Broccoli/Cauliflower Divan. It is a nice creamy veggie dish that you broil with cheddar cheese on top and it is really yummy but I reserve it for the holidays. I am in charge of making it every year when we have Thanksgiving at my parents house and it is the dish I take with when we go to my husbands parents house for Christmas.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
“home made nuts n bolts”…which is funny cuz really, i could make it all year long… :p
LOVE your blitz!!! thank you…
kim a.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
We don’t have a French Canadian background, but we still like to enjoy Tortiere on Christmas Eve. The kids think it’s great that they actually get to eat ‘pie’ for supper.
I’m loving the great ideas…thanks so much for sharing.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
We don’t have any favorite foods that we only eat at the holidays, except maybe fudge. And I don’t always make that during the holidays. In the past my family hasn’t wanted traditional food for the main holiday meal so we have had lasagna or pizza. One year for Christmas Eve we just had appetizers. My SIL and BIL didn’t understand that at all and didn’t like that we weren’t having the same dishes as every year before that. My girl friend always makes soup for Christmas Eve dinner and her family loves that tradition.
Love the items you are making and sharing. God bless you and you sister for the sharing you do so freely.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Definitely Turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
My favorite holiday food is good old-fashioned pumpkin pie. It’s not complete unless it is embellished with lots of REAL whipped cream (not from a can, please!) which guarantees that it will pack a calorie wallop. But I love it!
I also love the snowflake!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I just love the snowflakes….just not the real stuff!!!
Holiday traditions and food! Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce sandwiches (the days after Thanksgiving). Cookies, candies. I remember one time as a child we had hot dogs for Christmas dinner, we loved it. Not knowing it was all they could afford.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
My dish is nalyshnyky. It’s a Ukrainian dish which is crepes filled with cottage cheese and covered with cream. Yummy!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I grew up in Venezuela and for the holidays we have grilled leg of pork with black beans, white rice and fried platains. Yummy
November 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I make marinated mushrooms. its a recipe I got from a friend. It uses oil and vinegar, brown sugar, salt, etc. Its soooo good, but kind of expensive to make as you need the whole button mushrooms from a jar.
Love the holiday blitz!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
My favorites are these little cookies my grandma makes that we call “snowballs”. They are those pecan cookies that get dipped in powdered sugar. I have tried to make them many times but they are never as good as grandmas.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
So much fun Andrea! Love this blitz!
My favorite “only for the holidays” food is Cranberry Chutney! My SIL shared the recipe with me many years ago. Now, everyone requests it at the Holidays.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
pecan pie!! It is so rich that I limit myself to only having only one piece a year.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
love this card. my favorite holiday food is after thanksgiving we make turkey sandwiches with cranbery sauce (the canned jelly kind, dressing, turking and mao) sounds weird , but they are so good. Years ago when I worked they use to serve these at a deli I would go to, just during the holday season and ever since then we have been making them just duing this time.
give them a try !!!
kathey~
November 21st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Love the snowflake. My favorite food for the holidays that I don’t fix at any other time of the year are Buckeyes. I do all different flavors. Lemon, maple, coconut, plain peanut butter and peanut butter with nuts.My family love them all and my husband takes them to work also.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Too much Christmas pudding!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I love your snowflakes–they are even prettier than most of the ones up here in AK!
We have always made a wild rice dressing, with mushrooms and celery and broth, and we have that instead of the typical stuffing. I make it once in a while besides the holidays, but wild rice is too pricey to make it often.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Turkey of course- more for the turkey sandwiches afterward than the actual day of. Then of course there is greenbean casserole, mmm.. and deviled eggs…mmm…
Can you tell I like to eat!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I love that sparkle! Thanks for the detailed tutorial!
My favorite holiday-only food is my Grandma’s cranberry steamed pudding…yum! Want some pudding with your sauce? That’s what we always tease each other about because the sauce is so good…
November 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Wow , awesome projects and tutorials…so clear and easy to follow. Thank You
November 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Appetizers – we have lots at Christmas – and the favorite seems to be layered shrimp spread. It doesn’t seem to matter if anyone is hungry – it disappears anyway.
I’m really enjoying your Holiday Blitz. It will give me some ideas of things to make for gifts this year.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I love the bling! What an awesome card! This would be a keeper for sure!
My favorite meal is Thanksgiving, Turkey with the works!
Joan
November 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
My favorite Holiday indulgence is pecan pie. It is so rich that really you can’t eat it more than once a year. Fresh pecans make it extra special. But the best part was my mom’s homemade water-whip crust. No other crusts compare.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
The thing that is a must have holiday treat are oreo balls. They are oreo cookies smashed all up and mixed with cream cheese and then dipped in chocolate and chilled. They are so yummy. Other things like sweet potato praline casserole and red velvet cake are also once a year treats.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
We have a big family get together and eat sandwiches, everyone favorite homemade dish, and lots of laughter! kt
November 21st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Without a word of a lie, I would eat stuffing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner during x-mas if it was considered socially acceptable.
Beautiful flake! I stopped by yesterday and ooh-ed and ahh-ed over the ornament and then FORGOT to leave my comment. Narf. Silly me.
Brandi
November 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I second Jane M’s post–I love to make oreo balls/truffles during Christmastime, and I have to make sure *I* don’t eat the whole batch!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
What an easy question!! It is oyster stew. My grandpa used to make a great big pot of oyster stew every Christmas eve and we would eat it with oyster crackers. It was the BEST. Well, grandpa is gone but this tradition remains.
Thanks for sharing your snowflake beauty.
Cheryl Sims
November 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Thankfully, we only drink eggnog during the holidays. Can you imagine how much weight we gain if we drank it year round? Yikes! But it sure is good
November 21st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Keep the great ideas coming!
I love all holiday foods, but I guess my favorite would be pumpkin pie.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
My favorite holiday desert is pumpkin roll which I only eat at Thanksgiving & Christmas. The funny thing is that I am the one who makes it so I don’t know why I don’t make it more often!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hi Andrea,
I love your tutorial today!!
My favourite food to make at Christmas is Toblerone Fudge and Toblerone Cheesecake. They are delicious!!
Anne
November 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
another great project ….thanks. homemade scalloped potatoes and christmas cookies are my once a year favorites
November 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
My favorite, Christmas-time only, food is homemade stromboli. My mom started the tradition on Christmas Eve when I was little. She only made it on Christmas Eve (we still don’t know why, since we all love it so much). Now I do the same thing with my family. I use my mother’s recipe and make homemade stromboli only on Christmas Eve.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Love the tutorials! My favorite holiday food is candied sweet potatoes. I will often bake one throughout the year, but I will only candy them for the holidays!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
hmmmm ….. so many to choose from. I think it would have to be some type of appetizer like Brie Cheese with cranberries ……. very, very good!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Yum! This question makes my mouth water, because I LOVE my family’s traditional Polish Christmas Eve meal! We always have kielbasa, kapusta (sweetened saurkraut), pierogis, and red potatoes with dill. Then we have “angel wings” (pastry covered with powdered sugar) for dessert. Can’t beat it!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
We don’t have a traditional holiday meal- sometimes we have turkey, more often it’s ham, 1 year my sister made a pheasant hotdish. I try to only have Christmas cookies for Christmas so they stay special!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
My favourite Christmas food is my mum’s homemade chocolate balls !!! They’re soooooo delicious !! She rolls up dates with peanut butter and then hand dips them in melted chocolate…..yummmy !!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Great projects with clear instructions! Thanks. My favourite holiday food is shortbread cookies made from a recipe from the Edinburgh School of Cookery. They are very firm and quite dry so no one else likes them very much – I get to eat most of them myself!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
My favorite holiday meal is any meal that our family can be all together and enjoy each other’s company. I love Thanksgiving dinner with the turkey and all the trimmings. I also love doing a special Christmas Eve dinner with family as well. I really cannot say that I have a favorite holiday meal – I cherish them all with our family and friends!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
My favourite holiday meal is Christmas dinner. We do all the usual things of turkey and stuffing but a must have as far as we are all concerned is my mother’s tea biscuit recipe. I sometimes phone my sister at holiday time and there she is in another part of Canada making the same tea biscuits!!
Love it!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Oh my goodness thank you for all the wonderful tutorials!!! I’m looking forward to each and every single one of them!
The thing I absolutely love to eat during the holidays is stuffing. Yummy, fluffy, bready stuffing…MMMM. It just doesn’t seem right to make it any other time of the year which makes it such a special treat during the holidays!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
can’t wait to go make these snowflakes!!!
My favorite food during the holidays…..all food I shouldn’t eat…but it’s so good!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:39 pm
My favorite part of the holiday meal is making a leftover turkey sandwich (must be on a fresh hard roll that we special order from the bakery – also dark meat) stuffing and gravy. Also my MIL makes a great apple pie – and she only makes them at Thanksgiving.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Loved the tutorial today!
My fave is a sweet potato casserole! It has a yummy brown sugar crumb topping. If I go to any potluck style meals in Nov/Dec, they always ask me to bring it.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
My favorite meal that we enjoy is Prime Rib on Christmas Eve. It has become a tradition here.
Beautiful project!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Another great tutorial and project. Love the colors used. darlene
November 21st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
A favorite Christmas treat growing up was my Grandma’s Spritz cookies.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Mmmmm… favorite holiday food? There are so many… I love fresh, homemade cranberry sauce but also a carrot souffle that we make only at Thanksgiving or Christmas. The recipe is on cookinglight.com if anyone is interested.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
We have so many foods that are saved “just for Christmas”, but many people eat them year-round: Buttertarts, Homemade nuts & bolts, Almond Roca, Shortbread, Imperial Cheese cookies, Homemade Caramel Corn and French Canadian Tourtière (my MIL makes this and it’s soooo good
Thanks for the Christmas Blitz inspiration Andrea!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I love love love the holidays for all the food and family time. I love my mom’s sweet potatoes and my aunts cookies and honey baked ham.
Catherine
November 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I’m gonna have to say turkey!! I know it’s boring, but it’s the only time I get to eat it! My parents never made turkey so I never had it when I was younger, but since I’ve been with my boyfriend (8 yrs now) I get to eat turkey every year at his mom’s!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I am loving this holiday blitz!
Anyway, my favorite holiday food is hand made tamales. My family (the ladies only) gets together about 3 weeks before Christmas and we make dozens and dozens of tamales in an assembly line. We each get to take home a dozen to eat than night, but the rest get frozen for Christmas Day. I love it!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Wow – everyone’s favorties make mine seem so boring, but my favorite dish that we only have at the holidays is my fiance’s green bean casserole. He has just that special touch to make it yummy and like no other I’ve ever had before. My mom even quit making hers and just expects him to bring it every year!!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Ooooh, a food that my entire family looks forward to eating at Christmas are my mom’s double baked potatoes. We only ever have them on Christmas day!!!
Yum!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
We always have ham on Christmas Eve- the sides may change, but the protein doesn’t
November 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I would say basically anything Mom cooked. Reading these responses makes me think of her. She past away 3 years ago on the 16th. Christmas eve was tons of appetizer type foods before church and after then she was up early to make Christmas dinner the next day. 7 kids and extended family. She was a worker. She was French. Anyone ever had meatpie? Her dressing was really different too with hamburger and spices – most new family members didn’t like it but we grew up on it and still love it. Anyway I’m rambling. Happy holidays!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I love that snowflake, Andrea! TFS!
Foods that I only make during the holidays are mostly sweets. I make English Toffee, Maple Walnut Fudge, and a Christmas snack mix with Crispix cereal, popcorn, pretzels, and various candies that is coated with a toffee-like glaze. Sounds sickeningly sweet – but oh, so addictive! I only make these things at Christmas because then I have to spend the rest of the year working off all those extra calories!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Great ideas. Ok for our holiday tradition….the cranberry goop in a can!:( Our first Thanksgiving together (17 yrs ago) my husband wanted cranberry sauce. So silly me bought real cranberries and hunted down a recipe….well after cooking and stirring forever, also just a note – real cranberries POP when you cook them…….ok cooked it let it cool and my loving husband hated it. So from then on he gets the goop in the can, that looks like the can when you take it out and he loves it.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
My favorite holiday meal is the Christmas one that my mother-in-law prepares for her five children, their spouses and eight grandchildren. The best part of the meal for me is the first course–Italian Wedding Soup. It has teeny tiny meatballs and spinach floating in broth. One year she didn’t make as much thinking the kids wouldn’t really care for it and before the adults could sit down to their bowls the kids had already cleaned theirs and were begging for seconds. Now she makes a huge batch every year.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:56 pm
For Thanksgiving, I totaly look forward to the turkey with all the fixings and pumpkin pie with cool whip!!!
The favorite holiday dish for Christmas I would have to say is Deluxe hashbrowns and green bean cassarole with ham. My favorite dish for the holidays is all the nummy choloclate candies people make and I make only at this time of year.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:09 pm
My fave Thanksgiving food is homemade noodles. Turkey and Pumpkin pie I could do without, but that is the only day I get made-from-scratch noodles. Yummy!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Alicia
November 21st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
We eat turkey on Thanksgiving and ham on Christmas. I love creamed cauliflower
November 21st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Pumpkin Pie! Mmmmmm.
I love the snowflake. Will be casing that one tonight! Thanks
November 21st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Favorite holdiay food….chocolates and pumpkin pie. HHHHMMMMMMMMMM!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mom makes Candied Yams. Complete with toasted marshmallows on top – they are super sweet, but it just isn’t a holiday meal without them for my brother and I. Another favorite is fudge (YUMMY!). I don’t have it very often, usually only around the holidays.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Love the snowflake! I am covered in dazzling diamonds right now…hehe just forgot and blew on a project!
One of my favorite Holiday foods are homemade yeast rolls. They are time consuming so I usually only make them for special occasions. Thanks again for sharing
November 21st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
our favourite is a cookie called Millionaires shortbread,which is a shortcake base, with a toffee fudgy centre topped with chocoate. It is so good taking it from the freezer while frozen and having a piece with a cuppa tea, love all the ideas, so good to have you back.
Eileen
November 21st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I love your blog, THank you for all the great ideas. I love all the great goodies.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Home made cranberry sauce and peanut butter cookies and ballsa. Yum.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:45 pm
My favorite is roast turkey, gravy and mashed potatoes. That combo is just heavenly! I never seem to eat roast turkey any other tiem of the year.
Snowflake is really cute!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I loved your snowflake. Thank you for sharing it with us. You got me inspired!
My favorite holiday treat is stuffing. I can’t imagine a turkey dinner without it.
Hope you have a wonderful peaceful holiday season.
Mary
November 21st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I loved your snowflake. Thank you for sharing it with us. You got me inspired!
My favorite holiday treat is stuffing. I can’t imagine a turkey dinner without it.
Hope you have a wonderful peaceful holiday season.
Mary
November 21st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I love the turkey dinner and all the sides that go with it. My favorits are stuffing and glazed sweet potatos.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
My favorite meal is Christmas dinner. We have leg of lamb — our one really big splurg of the year. It’s a special treat that we all look forward to.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
My favorite part of the holiday meal is Sweet Potatoes. I love them. That is the only time I eat them because thats the only time we think to have them. Plus they are more expensive throughout the year. I dont like the canned yams. Thats not the same. Too much sugar.
Thanks
November 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Your snowflake is beautiful!
My grandmother makes a side dish called “Yugoslav Peas.” Because we don’t like near my family, when we get together for special occasions and holidays Yugoslav Peas are a dish we always look forward to. It’s a delicious, hot dish of peas in a rue-based gravy-ish sauce. I know that maybe doesn’t sound so appealing…but they’re so tasty!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
We gave homemade ravioli that are to die for! YUM!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I don’t have a whole meal that is only during the holidays however – molasses cookies – only one kind though – my uncle makes the best ones – I could eat just them during the holidays and I am good.
Thanks again for letting me be a part of the fun and join in.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for the chance to win your tutorial.
My favorite holiday dinner is Thanksgiving turkey and ALL the trimmings. Yummy, I can’t wait.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Gorgeous!!!!
On Christmas Eve we usually have appetizers for dinner….cheese tray, shrimp ring etc. and lot’s of wine
Christmas is traditional Turkey dinner but with Matzoh stuffing (jewish roots) and I also like to have cabbage rolls if I have time to make them. I have some in the freezer right now and it is killing me to save them!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:35 pm
My favorite holiday food is apple pomegranite salad. So good!!
Loving your holiday ideas by the way! Thanks.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hi Andrea,
I love the holiday blitz, I look forward to it each day.
At Christmas we make a fruitcake that is just wonderful. My mom got the recipe from a neighbor years ago and we’ve been making it ever since. However, it shouldn’t be called “fruitcake” as it isn’t your typical gooey, dried fruit mixture. This is more like a cake made in a bundt pan, which has raisins, marachino cherries, nuts if desired. It’s the best:)
Sharon L
November 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
That’s easy…turkey!!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
I make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies – they are so moist & yummy:)
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 am
Thanks so much for all of your wonderful ideas. So inspiring.
We have turkey, stuffing, cranberries, stuffing, carrots, mashed potatoes with gravey and another veggie like corn or green beans. I so love turkey I don’t know why it is saved just for the holidays…probably cause the meal is a lot of work.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:09 am
oops. I wrote stuffing twice and didn’t catch it before I hit send….guess cause I love is sooo much!
I should add we have cherry cheese cake for desert. Yum! I gained 10 lbs just thinking about eating Christmas dinner.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 am
Turkey! My dh makes it on the grill. I am not much of a meat person– I make it and then don’t eat it — but grilled turkey is really good and all of our guests love it. So there’s a wing with my name on it once a year!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:12 am
We have the traditional turkey, ham, mashed potatoes,gravy, green bean casserole. But the main thing I love to make and eat is homemade cornbread dressing the way my mom and her mom made it…it is soooooo good. We usually have it for Thanksgiving and then make it all again for Christmas. This year we decided to eat out for “day, but will have all the trimmings for Christmas, when my youngest comes home for the holiday from basic training. Can hardly wait!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
love the snowflake. Durning the holidays we I dont have just one favorite food. But I do think that everything just taste better when your cooking it for the whole family to enjoy together on that special day.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 am
Great Projects. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful and easy to follow directions.
My favorite holiday food is homemade tamales.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
Mine is pretty boring but I love to have brussel sprouts with my turkey dinner. No one else will eat them but me so I get them all to myself. Sometimes my son will have one just so I’m not eating them alone – how sweet:)
As usual Andrea, awesome tutorials!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
Your ideas just blow me away as usual. My favorite, this is easy, is sweet potatoes mashed then put into a oven safe pan covered with marshmellows then baked. My favorite as a kid and it hasn’t changed. Love it! Thanks for everything
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
Andrea,
Love the tutorials. The snowflake is gorgeous.
Every year, we go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving dinner- turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and gravy, plus lots of desserts. We’ve had this same meal for so many years that we look forward to it each year.
I was wondering if there was a way to request specific recipes people have mentioned. I’m also curious about nuts and bolts. What are those?
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
How interesting to see the different food “traditions” of others! This is so much fun! We do the “traditional” Southern Thanksgiving of Turkey, dressing, rice, gravy, sweet potato casserole and green beans followed by pumpkin and pecan pie. But, my absolute favorite thing is my Mama’s sherry pie! It’s the only time we ever have it and I cherish it!
Thanks for sharing so generously with others!
debra~
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 am
My favorite Christmas food is Seafood Cornbread Dressing.
In North Louisiana we always have Cornbread Dressing with our Turkey. But since I live in South Louisiana, I add shrimp to it and it gives my cornbread dressing a different flavor which is excellent. Email me if anyone wants the recipe.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 am
pecan pie!!!!! It’s too rich to eat very often.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 am
What a wonderful snowflake and thanks for the tutorial for making it…it will be fun to try this one out (along with your other ideas)! Our holiday food tradition comes from a recipe my mom makes for us; a chocolate applesauce cake. It’s wonderful and as we’ve grown up, I watched the nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews all egerly await desert when this cake is finally placed on the table and we all sit around to remininsce in the holiday we just shared. And, to wonder who gets to take home any chocolate applesauce cake leftovers. Sharing this fact has brought back such pleasant memories. Thank you, Andrea.
Karen
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 am
This Holiday Blitz is a fantastic idea, Andrea & Sophie!
A tradition in my family is to have a bunch of yummy snack foods on Christmas Eve and again on New Year’s Eve. We’ll have a variety of crackers, cheese, potato chips, meats, olives, pickles, oysters, cookies and bars, and Egg Nog.
When I married and moved away, I attempted to continue to the tradition with my husband’s family but no one was interested. Thankfully, my husband has grown to love the tradition and we have our little feast each Christmas and New Year’s eve while watching old Christmas cartoons and movies.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:24 am
My grandma’s homemade dressing. Now that she has gotten older, I am the one to make it. My husband always had Stove Top stuffing and swore he wouldn’t like mine because he just didn’t like stuffing. When he tried my dressing (stuffing), he said that the holidays aren’t complete without it. It is now his one request!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:29 am
My mom always makes a huge breakfast with all the trimmings. This is the only time I ever have such a big breakfast. Scrambled eggs, sweet rolls, grapefruit, bacon, toast,
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 am
Just found you on the web – I’m fascinated by everything I see. Great ideas – truly inspiring.
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A holiday favorite of our family, which can be made for each holiday throughout the year, is my grandmother’s sugar cookies / cookie cutters used. Her recipe is simple and you can never stop at just one
As an adult, looking back to childhood, the cookies represent memories filled with love, family, time spent together, and laughter.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 am
My favorite food would be cranberry sauce. I mean the jellied stuff outta the can. It’s THE best! Esp. on a turkey sandwich… yumm-oo!
Thanks for asking & sharing!
Bobbie *Ü*
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Very pretty card and we are so lucky to receive directions!
I really enjoy green bean casserole and only make it twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is so yummy.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 am
I love Turkey. I will eat turkey everyday, I love it. I make my own turkey regardless of whose house I go to eat for Thanksgiving. I love all the stuff that goes with Thanksgiving (turkey, stuffing, gravy, mash potatoes, etc)
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 am
Definately homemade Southern Dressing! Or some call it stuffing. Our family also makes a very good sweet potato casserole with a topping of crushed corn flakes, brown sugar, pecans and butter spread on top and baked.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 am
Great tutorial! Everyone looks forward to the family recipe stuffing! It’s a chestnut stuffing and DELICIOUS!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 am
Bunelos (pronounced in spanish) It is almost like a fried tortilla but has cinnamon and sugar sprinkled,they are very crispy.
valerie
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 am
biscotti and pumpkin pie!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 am
We always have prime rib on Christmas Eve. And a big brunch on Christmas day.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:20 am
I always make a pumpkin pie that has more spices than most. We love it. Thanks for more great ideas. Mary
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 am
Awesome tutorial, as always!
It may seem boring (and yucky to some) but my favorite is brussel sprouts! My husband hates them, so for the last 10yrs I’ve only indulged for myself at holiday times.
Thanks for the inspiring ideas,
Janine
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
My mother always made a candy she called “burnt sugar candy”. It is made by cooking the sugar mixture to a medium ball stage and adding to a sugar that has been cooked till it is browned, then adding coconut. I only eat this very sugary decident candy at Christmas. Even though my mom has been gone for 14 years, I always have memories of the wonderful legacy of her comfort foods.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hi Andrea,
Another GORGEOUS project! My fave Christmas food….is yummie whipped shortbread cookies…only time of the year that I make them and they go like hotcakes!!!! I sprinkle pink crystals over the tops of them, this year I might try some red and green cherries!
Cheers.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:18 am
So many choices……I’d have to say cranberry salad. Yummy!
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:43 am
It would be these pumpkin bars. They are very rich. Kind of like a pumpkin cheesecake. They are SOOOO good!
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
What a delightful tutorial today… thanks for sharing it with us!
My children count down the days to have Grandpa’s homemade eggnog. We’ve all learned the hard way to not have more than one glass before dinner or we don’t appreciate Grandma’s feast! Yum!
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 am
I have to choose two: Turkey (I love, love, love my Mom’s turkey and look forward to it every Thanksgiving and Tamales, which my Mom also makes every year for Christmas…Mmmmm I get excited every year as the Holidays roll around cuz I know we’ll be having these again!
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November 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 am
I just made this for the first time in YEARS! My family has this great jello dish that we usually have at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I KNOW my in-laws won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole so I decided to make it for me! It’s Black Cherry Jello w/black olives, dark cherries, and walnuts. I know, it sounds a little suspicious but it tastes so good! The crunchy walnuts and the salty sweet flavors are wonderful! Plus it’s a low cal/fat dish!
Love the tutorial!!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 am
Another beautiful tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing these with us. My fave Christmas food would have to be my “Crab Dip”. I only make it at Christmas as it is a pretty expensive dip but everyone loves it & requests it each year.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 am
We like to have turkey on Thanksgiving. However, on Christmas we used to have ham. Last year we decided to have something different and I made Prime Rib. Boy was it good.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 am
Stuffing! I also really loved wassail or spiced cider.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
my mom makes the best brocoli casserole…cheesy and delicious…what makes it special is that years ago (30) i worked at Eatons and for Christmas I bought her a beautiful casserole dish…and that dish always has the brocoli casserole in it!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
My favourite at Christmas time is the spy aples that are sliced into rings (with the core removed, of course) and dipped into a light batter then fried until light brown, then gently sprinkled with icing sugar … such a treat
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Andrea,
Love all the ideas! My favorite holiday treat is an Italian Pastry called the Kugerneet(sp?) My father(79) makes them every year. Its a dough that is filled with chestnut,chocolate and candied fruit and then the pocket of dough is fried, once done you sprinkle with powdered sugar. They take the entire day to make and my father makes them with the help of my uncle. My father’s mother use to make them many year ago, (she has seen passed away)but my father still takes them to her sisters who are 93 & 101 years old, they look forward to them and his visit every year.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
For Christmas we always have “sticky buns” in the morning! I only have then once a year and it just wouldn;t be Christmas without them!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
Love your snowflakes. Ummm, favourite food(s) at this time of year, has to be my mother’s turkey dressing, praline sweet potatoes and my sister’s homemade chocolates.
The goal is not to gain weight.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
We always make ‘Bark’ to share. It is made of white chocolate, peanuts and golden grahams. At Christmas our family looks forward to their little bag of it when we come to visit.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Great card!
It has to be Chex Party Mis- why don’t we make this throughout the year?? I don’t know, but we make so much of it for everyone in the family that it is usually a whole day event!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
My favorite holiday treat is Christmas Cookies! I don’t normally eat cookies much but there’s something about the wonderful array of cookies this time of year. I always have a hard time trying to decide which ones to bake though. A constant winner is Snickerdoodles! I love cinnamon and the cinnamon/sugar topping on Snickerdoodles is just wonderful!
I love your blog and look forward to it for the absolutely gorgeous projects and the step by step instructions
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
I love your blog! Thanks for sharing all these great ideas with us!
My favorite holiday dish… Red Hot Cinnamon Jell-o. Sounds weird, I know, but it is so very yummy. It is cherry Jell-o mixed with Red Hots (cinnamon imperials) and applesauce. Top it with Cool Whip.
I’m so looking forward to Christmas just so I can have this! Oh yeah, and family and all that, too.
Happy Holidays!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
LOVE these projects!
My favorite Christmas “food” is cut out cookies with lots of icing! I have started a tradition of making them a few days before Christmas with my four-and-a-half year old daughter. We love making them together and eating them, too!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
I do not enjoy cooking, however, for Christmas dinner I go all out. I make a standing rib roast that is unbelievable. I got the recipe from the Sunday newspaper 20 years ago and pull it out every year. I make a rub using fresh garlic and rosemary. Christmas dinner would not be Christmas dinner without it!
I love your blog and check it daily. It is at the very top of my favorites button!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
I love what you did with the snowflakes. Very creative.
My favourite part of the meal is the whole thing. The only time we have turkey and stuffing is at xmas, easter and thanksgiving. Turkey with cranberry sauce and stuffing and gravy are hands down my all time favourite foods. I look forward to these holidays all year.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Well I love Thanksgiving.(which is this coming Thursday) why because my MIL cooks and she rarely does and is such a wonderful cook so anything she makes I am happy! So I am so looking foward to. She is Hatian and I {{HEART}}} Hatian rice oh yummm I can’t wait! lol.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
I love the card and the idea for the snowflakes you are so smart. I’d never think of that. Where do you get all of these ideas?
As odd as this will sound my favorite holiday food that I don’t get the rest of the year is cranberry sauce. Either from the can or the way my mother makes it. I love the stuff. I only get to eat it for Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas.
Karen
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
Andrea, I love the card!! The Holiday Treasures DP is my favorite!!! We have 2 favorite dishes at the holidays. We have a jello salad made with lemon jello, cream cheese, pecans, celery and pineapple. It’s great!! We also have scallopped pineapple. It’s sinfully rich, but it’s worth it!! I never would have tried the recipe for the scallopped pineapple, but-we do a 6 x 6 recipe swap and this was a fellow demonstrators recipe. She made it for one of our holiday get togethers and it was awesome!
Thanks for your great ideas.
Cindy
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Love the snowflakes, they look great and not even cold, I love the way snow looks but hate how cold it is here rightnow seems like Jan or FEb here in Mi,
I love our turkey and wild rice stuffing, then the day after I make a wild rice omlette love it and cant wait to make one this year.. Keep up the great work I really appreciate all of your great ideas, Andrea
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
Great Snowflake! Thanks for sharing. My all time favorite food is Turkey/gravy/Mashed potatoes. But something that I always make special for Christmas Eve dinner is called Pink Arctic Freeze – a recipe my MIL handed down to me after I married her son. It’s got cream cheese, whole cranberry sauce, crushed pineapple, walnuts and whipped cream. It’s sinfully rich but everyone just LOVES it.
Thanks for the chance to win the Xmas planner – it looks wonderful!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 am
My favorite holiday meal is the traditional turkey feast but I make peppermint bark during the holidays that is truely addicting!
Happy Holidays!
Michelle
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 am
Each Holiday Bliz gets better! Love the tutorial!
One of our fav dishes for the holidayis baked pineapple. My kids would disown me if I didn’t fix this dish.
Be Happy, Stamp alot!
Charlotte
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
My favorite holiday only food is homemade noodle. My grandmother always made them and when you passed away the first holiday after she passed was not complete because her noodles were not there. So the next year I got the recipe and made sure that there were homemade noodles. I have been makeing the noodle for 20 years now.
Dana
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Love the snowflake! I am going to have to try that!!! My favorite holiday food that I only make for the holidays is my sausage stuffing/dressing. It’s also got apples in it. It is delish! I can’t wait for Thursday!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 am
Nanaimo Bars! Is this a western canadian thing? It’s a square made with a chocolate and graham cracker crumb base, a custard and icing sugar filling and melted chocolate top layer. This says Christmas, to my family!
Love your tutorials!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Oh this is so beautiful! Anything that sparkles gets a thumbs up from me.
To answer the question: I make pizzelles at Christmas time. They’re an Italian flat cookie that you make using a Pizzelle iron. I look forward to those every year.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
What a great tutorial and it’s so beautiful!
At Christmas we always have turkey, stuffing, salad, and potatoes. The one thing we only have on the holidays is our salad. It is a broccoli mandarin salad that because of when we eat it we call it “christmas salad” and it’s delicious!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
I love the colors of your card, and the snowflake is perfect. Thanks for showing us how.
I love the stuffing, tho I do have it other times of the year – but not as often as I would like.
Swedie
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
This is beautiful! Your tutorials are wonderful, Andrea. My favorite holiday meal is pork and dumplings. It is a tradition with my husband’s family that I easily adopted. Yummmmm!
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 am
I love your ideas. Thanks so much for sharing. I now know what I will do with my leftover snowflakes from last year.
Our family favorite is my mother’s homemade waffles. She made them every year and we would cover them with the turkey gravy. My kids loved to put their “nana” corn on top of the gravy. Nana corn is corn that she and my dad cut off the cob during the summer and froze to use all winter. It was expected and appreciated every holiday. We have kept up the tradition with the waffles….my son made them the first year after my mother passed and we look forward to them every holiday.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Love the tutorials!
My favorite holiday food is sweet potato casserole. It is NOT the same as the ones with marshmallows! Creamy sweet potatoes on the bottom and a crunchy topping of pecans, butter and brown sugar. So yummy!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
Every year my husband make Baklava. Not good for the hips but soooooo yummy!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 am
We have a tradition that on Christmas Eve we have home made manicotti. It is my favourite Christmas Dish!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Oh my. Your card is GORGEOUS!!! Thanks for sharing with us.
Let’s see…my favorite dish is my mother-in-laws COOKIES. Does that count? She makes thumbprint cookies and almond chocolate bars. Yum.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
My favorite food I only make & eat at Christmas time is Pizzelle Cookies.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
We have turkey dinner with all the fixings! It’s so good I don’t know why we don’t do it more often! When I was a kid my mom would make these flaky sausage rolls to snack on while opening our Christmas presents.
Love your projects!
Elizabeth
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Cinnamon spiced pecans. They are so easy to make, I really should make them more often than the holidays!
Love the projects!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 am
We usually have lasagna at my in-laws on Christmas Eve. Cute card, I will have to make one!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
We have an applesauce based spiced gum drop fruitcake. The gumdrops are a lot better than the usual candied fruit
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Candied yams! I love them. We do them with apples and yams then brown sugar and marshmallows
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
We have a green jello salad that my mother-in -law made for many years. The first year I had Thanksgiving at my house my niece asked “Where’s the green jello? It’s not Thanksgiving without green jello salad”. From then on I’ve made green jello salad.
Thanks for all your tutorials. Sherry
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Fabulous use of the snowflakes…
My favorite Holiday Tradition has to be all the baking. My hips don’t love it – but my taste buds sure do. My grandmother’s Shortbread melts in your mouth. I love spending time with my boys decorating cookies. Messy – but always memorable.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
To Die for Apple Pie is a favorite–it is a recipe that I was told I could not share but Boy I can trade a pie for a lot of stuff:).
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Home made Lasagna all the way!
Thanks for the sharing your glittery snowflake
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I just love all these tutorials, thanks. At christmas i like to make with all the turkey trimmings sweet potatoes mashed with brown sugar and the top them with marshmallows and put them in the oven till they puff up and brown a little, YUMMY!!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Turkey and Seven Layer Salad!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
A family tradition started on my mother’s mother’s side for Christmas Eve dinner, is a pasta dish and the “sauce” is anchovie paste heated with a bit of olive oil. It started because back then you were supposed to eat fish on Friday’s where my family originated and it was quite a poor country. They just kept it as a tradition, and today I carry on with it. My family does not really like the dish (LOL) but I make it anyway along with a traditional pasta dish and they all humour me and eat a mouthful or two before eating the “good stuff” as they call it.
I love Christmas traditions and this is just one of ours.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
My granddaughters want to give the snowflakes a try…that ought to be interesting. Thanks for the great tutorials!!
Love the Holidays cuz we get to have Prime Rib with all the fixins….YUM
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I just love all your tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing. My favorite holiday food has got to be candied yams. I only make them at the holidays because they are so sweet and “healthy”. I just cannot feed my family that kind of sugar except on special occasions.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
We always have standing rib roast the week before Christmas and then the traditional turkey dinner Christmas night…love the card…great card
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
You are really rockin’ the tutorials!!! Thanks for sharing all of this with us!!
My FAVE holiday food is Eggnog!! I love the stuff and am always so happy to see it when the holidays roll around!
Hugs,
Char in So Cal
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Andrea, I love the tutorials……….thanks so much for sharing all of the ideas and tips. Fudge is the one thing that I only make at Christmas. It is so good and I could eat it all, so that is why I only make it at this time of year!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
My mom always makes candied yams – they’re supposed to be a vegetable dish, but I love them cuz’ they taste like dessert!! I also love the candies my kids and I make every Christmas & only Christmas: fudge, choc. dipped peanut butter balls & coconut balls, homemade caramels, and cream cheese mints!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I am really enjoying your holiday blitz tutorials.=) Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas!
My grandmother always makes a cranberry salad for Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite!!!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Awesome Snowflake!! Love that sparkle!
Favorite — my Bourbon Balls, a candy that I only make once a year!
Cindy
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
We have Tongan food. Lupulu and Taro. Lupulu is Corn Beef cooked in Taro leaf with coconut milk and onions.
Love the snowflake. Going to try it for club.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Love the snowflake and my favorite special holiday dish is actaully a dessert that my mom created which is a Chocloate Ice box pie that is extgremely rich with a cream cheese base. You only want a slim slice, but is super yummy!
Since she is no longer with us i alos make it for myself on my Birthday!
Happy Thanksgving, and Many Blessings!
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Cute Snowflake! Just the traditional things. We have big Holiday Dinners a few extra times during the year just to get everybody together.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Love ALL your ideas.
I always have Green Jello Salad this time of year. I’m sure there is a better name for it, but that’s what we’ve always called it. It’s got green jello, cottage cheese, pineapple and other things in it. Love it and can’t wait to have it next week and at Christmas.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Love the snowflake!
My favorite holiday food for Thanksgiving is Turkey of course, but also creamed spinach. I only have it then. For Christmas, it’s Prime Rib.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Andrea,
Your ideas are so beautiful and thank you so much for sharing them.
My favorite thing that I make for Christmas is Ginger Cream cookies for my Dad. They are so good and not everyone likes them, but I do it for my Dad and that’s what makes it special!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hmmm…. I would say my grandmother’s sweet potato casserol!
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I make a special german recipe for cabbage rolls , as well as honey garlic chicken wings for Christmas Eve
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
My favorite food is really an appetizer — my Mom’s homemade shrimp chip dip. It is soooo good. She is asked to make it by so many people that invite her to their holiday parties. All that cream cheese, well, she will only treat us to it during the holidays (then we all start diets on Jan 1).
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
ps This is an awesome project. I feel like a leech..we take ideas from you, and give nothing back in return, but Love the projects you share!
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I always have to make a blueberry jello salad. My family doesn’t like cranberries and this blueberry salad takes the place of a cranberry salad or sauce. It’s yummy!
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Love your tutorials! My favorite meal for Thanksgiving is turkey, mashed potatoes, corn pudding and stuffing. Of course cherry pie for dessert! Thanks!
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Burger bites, and Nanaimo bars are the family’s Christmas foods, as well as Dream bars.
On the topic of your snowflakes, I love it!! I have some given to me die cut snowflakes, and I think I will cover them in glitter the way you’ve described.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Your snowflakes are awesome!
Thank you for all the wonderful ideas.
My favorite holiday food is the pumpkin pie.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Great tutorial as always! Getting me in the Christmas spirit.
Wow, great foods listed here…I need to get with Sabrina and learn to make tamales…love those! Christmas only dishes here are sweet potato casserole and a pumpkin roll that I make which is similar to a jelly roll type cake with lucious filling in the middle.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I’d love to have recipes for some of these delicious sounding specials. I only fix creamed onions for the holidays, but would eat them year round. The snowflakes are beautiful. Thanks for all the good stuff you show us.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
The food I eat only around the holidays is pie of course. We order 5 different pies from Baker’s Square! And oohh are they delicious!! The pie eating begins on Thursday!
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Great tutorial!
My favorite holiday food is pumpkin pie!
It is also the time of year that our family makes homemade egg noodles and stuffing(no stove top for me it has to be homemade.)
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
We always have a chocolate log cake for dessert on Christmas day. It is made up of round chocolate wafers layered with real whip cream (just like the photo on the box of wafers!!) Mom only makes it at Christmas and we always fight over who gets the biggest piece! So yummy!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I am so enjoying all your tutorials.
Todays question is an easy one for me. My mom’s peanutbutter fudge is soooooo awesome and I only have it at Christmas. I CAN’T wait:)
Thanks again for all the hard work.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
A favorite is ham and turkey at the same meal.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Homemade Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Gorgeous card! Love the look of the snowflakes and the colors you used for this card. My fav holiday food is my grandfather’s dressing and my mom’s sausage balls. YUM!!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Gorgeous snowflake! What a neat way to use glitter and chipboard. I’ll have to try it out.
We have some favourites at our Christmas table – turkey with stuffing (and it has to have Mt Scio savoury), and for dessert, truly ruly punkin pie. yum yum!
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Is there any answer other than FUDGE. chocolate heaven My niece calls it fuzz.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It’s called a Bird’s Nest Sandwhich. And even though it’s really easy to make we only serve it for Christmas Brunch. It’s a grilled ham and cheese with a twist. You foam up an egg white, stick it on top of the sandwhich and indent it with a spoon. Then you drop the egg yolk into the foamed egg white. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or until egg white is browned. When the egg breaks over the sandwhich its yummy!!! MMMMM! Hurry upo and get here Christmas!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Another beautiful project. You are amazing. We eat a very special form of Italian Wedding Soup on Christmas eve, followed by a delicious ham. Christmas Eve is our big holiday meal with all the trimmings. Christmas day we finish up our soup (always enough for an army) and eat what the kids like, pizza or tacos!
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I usually only get cornbread dressing around the holidays and I can’t wait to get my mouth around some now…I can just taste it. LOL!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Great card Andrea!! Our favorite Christmas morning treat is Monkey Bread. It’s very easy to make and certainly has no healthy attributes!! To make it it’s three cans of Pillsbury bisquits (the ones in the blue can). Cut each bisquit into four parts dip into a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. These get dropped into a bundt pan sprayed with Pam. I then sprinkle brown sugar on top. Melt one stick of butter, pour over the top and let it sink in. Bake at 350 for about 45 to 60 min. Let sit for a couple of minutes then before flipping over onto a plate. Pick pieces off with your fingers and eat until it’s gone.
My boys are 23 and 21 now and still ask for this when they first come through the door Christmas morning.
Thank you once again for sharing all that you do. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Debi
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Thanks Andrea for all of your inspiration! I’ve been missing you! Even though you have no clue who I am, I check your blog daily! I love it!
My favorite holiday food is EGGNOG!!! I can’t wait to get eggnog every year! My husband hates it, but I just love the rich, creamy taste.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 am
Thanks for your inspirations Andrea! I really love your card & tutorial! Especially seeing stamping on the ribbon.
Our holiday food is actually tasty sweet goodies that I make for Christmas only. I make Swedish Wedding Cookies, Peanut Clusters, Almond bark covered Pretzels, Almond bark covered Ritz crackers with peanut butter inside, Peanut Butter Kisses, etc. I send a platter to my husband’s office & treat the neighbors with a plate. It’s fun to listen to Christmas music when I
make my yearly goodies into the wee hours of the night.
Stampin’ Smiles from Ear to Ear,
Ann
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 am
My favorite food, that we only have during Christmas, is butter tarts.I store them in the freezer and fight over them while they’re still frozen. Just like candy! And for Christmas dinner we always have mashed turnip and carrots mixed together, along with brussels sprouts. It wouldn’t be the same without all three of them!
November 24th, 2008 at 12:08 am
On Christmas morning..my fav. item to drink is BAILEYS in my cuppa java; then, Xmas dinner…the stuffing has to be my most fav. food. I like everything, but most of all…hubby has the kitchen to himself, with a sign *DO NOT ENTER*. I certainly won’t argue with that. He keeps my java mug filled, while making dinner, while I keep the carols turning in the CD player.