Paper Makeup Stamps Release Day and Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! It's time for our monthly release day blog hop from Paper Makeup Stamps. You should have come here from the PMS blog....I'm the first stop on the hop. So if you haven't stopped at the PMS blog first, go there first to get all the details.This is one of the new fairies this month called the Sugar Plum fairy. She can be used all year 'round, too! I colored here with copics and then cut her out. She's quite a large stamp because of the way she is dancing. The chocolate panel was run throught a snowflake cuttlebug folder. The dp is from a retired SU pack (maybe Holiday Treasures?). I paired it with pink pirouette paper and added the pink taffeta ribbon and pink glitter dots. I punced the side of the pink panel with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch. The sketch sort of follows the current Taylored Expressions sketch.

I'm going to send you off to Anita's blog for some more fab inspiration. Before you go, I'm going to give you your first letter.

Thanks for hopping with us! Don't forget about our release party tonight in the PMS forum at 8:00 pm CST. Hope to see you there!

PMS Sneak Peek and Just Us Girls

Happy Saturday! Today is a two-for-one post! Paper Makeup Stamps is nearing its release tomorrow, and today we have one last sneak peek before the release. Today is also the Just Us Girls sketch challenge, so I've decided to combine the two! Paper Makeup Stamps is sneaking the new set called Christmas Cheer. It's a really cute set illustrated by our own Shaela Odd. There are a variety of winter/Christmas images included in the set. I'm using the Christmas tree on my card. I had to get creative with that flower image because I was using this tree! The image actually has a tree trunk, but I didn't ink up that part of the image. I paper pieced it with a piece of Jovial dp from Basic Grey. I used some pearls to mimic the stem in the sketch. I didn't have room on the bottom of the card for the three pearls, so I added them (plus one!) on the upper corner. The sentiment is from Little Moments sentiment set.

If you want to see more sneaks from the Paper Makeup Stamps DT, stop by the PMS blog. Also tomorrow is our blog hop, release day, and release party. The information is on my sidebar for times and places.

The JUGs girls also have some inspiration for you. And my good friend Cheryl Rowley is our Guest Designer for November! I'm so excited about this! She is an excellent crafter and has some fabulous creations on her blog, Cottage Creations. So stop by the JUGs blog to what the girls have for you!

Thanks for stopping by today. I'll see you tomorrow for the PMS blog hop!

My Time Made Easy - Group Post

Today is the last day of postings for the My Time Made Easy November release. All the girls are posting some fabulous inspiration for you today. I have the template called Anyway You Slice It. Have you seen some of the amazing things the girls have done with this simple little template? I've been blown away! I was going to make this template into a piece of pumpkin pie, but yesterday, our girl Katie did a wonderful job making this into a piece of pumpkin pie (we both love all things pumpkin)! So I had to switch gears.

I started to think of what I could make in a triangular shape. I thought of a teepee. While googling teepees, I came across another website for Christmas crafts. Then I found an angel made from paper! Voila! That's what I was going to make!
I cut the template out on Poison Ivory paper using the Cricut and SCAL. I added some ivory lace on the box, then added some gold ribbon on top. The "angel's wings" are just the tails from some gold tulle I tied around the box. I added an ivory flower with a gold glitter dot in the middle to cover up the knot. I am no artist, so the head is very simple. It was punched from Blush Blossom cardstock and I drew in the eyes and mouth with a fine point marker. The same gold ribbon was used for a bow at the neck and I added some gold bells to the tails.
I can see these reduced in size and made to hang on a tree with little gifts of candy or money inside. There are so many possibilites for this cute little template! And at the very reasonable one time price of only $5, it's a must have!

Here are links to all the MTME girls' blogs.

My Time Made Easy Design Team:

Lauren Meader (owner)
Kristin Bueter
Catherine Doucette
Katie Shawger Cotton
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholz
Tammy Hershberger
Lisa Kind (me!)
Tangii Crain
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Monique Hansen

Stop by and see the November release once again all at once, then hop over to the MTME store and pick up your must haves! Thanks for stopping in today! See you tomorrow with another Paper Makeup Stamps sneak and a JUGs post!

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 9

I have a Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peek here, so please go there after you read this post!!

Welcome to the 9th week of JustRite Stampers’ Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! Don’t forget that JustRite has some Christmas stamps in their newly released CLING line of stamp sets, too -- you can find them HERE. This week, the designers joining the JustRite design team is the Just Us Girls (JUGS) challenge blog design team!

For the month of November, we thought we would switch gears a little and throw in some holiday gift ideas using your JustRite stamps, so be watching for those, too, on November’s hops! And in celebration of JustRite’s 9th and 10th weeks of Christmas Blog Hops, they have a huge surprise for you -- take 25% off All JustRite Original Christmas Stamps now through November 15, with free shipping within the U.S. -- Don't forget to tell Santa!!

We were thrilled when Pam Imholz broke the news that the JUGs DT was going to participate in this hop! I love JustRite stamps...they are so many pretty designs, I had a difficult time choosing one. But in the end, I settled on this Backyard Birds set. It's not part of the Christmas Collection, but it did have a pretty cardinal in a winter setting.

I just love this card! I didn't intend for the main image to take on the look of an ornament. It just evolved into it as I was finishing it, and I'm so glad it did! The image is colored with copic markers and when I was finished, the background was begging to be shaded in. I had to cut a mask for the bird and the ribbon around the image, then it was shaded in with Baja Breeze ink. I cut and embossed it with a nestie and that's when it took on the look of an ornament. So I ran some ribbon through the holes and tied a bow on top. The paper is from Basic Grey's new Jovial paper pad. I LOVE red, black and cream! So classic! I added Liquid Applique to the snow on the branch and Star Dust stickles to everything else (I love sparkle too!). The sketch is an old one from Sweet Sunday Sketches.I decided that I'm giving this to my mom for Christmas, so I did some extra special decorating on the inside as well. The border is from the Christmas Nested Frames & Occasions set and the sentiment is from the Christmas Nested Sentiments set.

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog

JustRite Design Team:

Debbie Olson
Sharon Harnist
Heidi Blankenship
Kazan Clark
Stephanie Kraft
Barb Schram
Michele Kovack
Angela Barkhouse
Kathy Jones

Just Us Girls Design Team:

Alicia Weiman
Andrea Matthews
Dana Gustafson
Kristin Bueter
Maria Levine
Kathryn Berthiaume
Lisa Kind
Pam Imholz

Thanks for stopping by today!

Paper Makeup Stamps - Sneak Peeks Begin!

Today begins the first day of sneak peeks for Paper Makeup Stamps! We are sneaking some fabulous new holiday wordart today. Some great stuff!

Isn't this a beautiful sentiment? I wanted to go traditional with the colors...I think these are traditional! My starting point was this great paper from the Domestic Goddess Collection from Graphic 45 and the Sketch for You to Try from last week. I also used this beautiful seam binding I purchased from my friend Debbie Marcinkiewicz's Etsy store. I've never worked with it before, but it's so fun!

Stop by the PMS blog to see sneaks of what the other PMS girls have done! We're having sneaks for the next few days, then on Thursday, November 7, (release day) we have our blog hop all day and release party in the PMS forum. You are all invited to come and have some fun! Hope to see you then!

Recipe
Stamps: Wordart (PMS)
Paper: Vintage cream, garden green, so saffron, Graphic 45 dp
Ink: Garden green, wild honey distress ink
Accessories: Nesties, seam binding ribbon, bling, corner rounder, dimensionals

Star of the Show - My Time Made Easy

Oh boy, do I have something special to show you today! I just love this project, if I do say so myself! I have the new Star of the Show template from My Time Made Easy to show off today. When Lauren shared this with us, I immediately had this idea in mind. It went through a lot of different phases in my mind before it came to fruition, however!I have always loved stacked boxes! I have purchased several of them, and now I don't have to buy them anymore! I have them right at my fingertips! This project was first going to be done in light blue. I had some pretty ribbon to use on it. But two things changed my mind. Today I saw Kristin did a fabulous job making this box into a star and she used the light blue snowflake paper. Then yesterday, I made a red and white card and loved it, so I decided to continue with that color palette.

The bottom box was cut (in SCAL) at the original size, then the middle box was reduced to 80%, and the smallest at 60%. I printed three full sheets of this FREE digital paper from MTME called The 12 Days of Snowflakes. The middle box only used two sheets, so I have paper for another project! I stamped the smaller snowflake from the Secret Santa stamp set in real red ink around the sides of the white boxes.The Perfect Poinsettia cut file (new this month) was reduced to 60% before cutting it out in SCAL. I used scrap pieces from the star box template. The leaves were cut using the new Holly-Day Accents cut file. I added a red glitter dot to the center of the flower and star dust stickles to the edges of all the petals and the leaves. The boxes are held together with some SU ribbon. Here is a closer view of the poinsettia. There are more samples of this box being posted today by some of the MTME DT.

Lauren

Tracey

Catherine

Debbie

Stop by their blogs to see their fabulous creations! Thanks so much for stopping in today! I'll be back tomorrow with the first day of sneak peeks for the Paper Makeup Stamps November release, so please stop by!

My Time Made Easy - Release Day!

Hi everyone! Did you survive Halloween? It certainly was a crazy weekend, and can you believe it's already November 1st? Where has the time gone?One good thing about it being November 1st is that it's time for a new release from My Time Made Easy! You've been seeing some peeks these last few days of what we have to offer, but we have much more! Today the MTME DT have all created cards that you can easily reproduce quickly. I did some really fun clean and simple cards with three of the four new stamp sets being released today. I used some Fall to Layouts for my CAS cards. When you have to create several Christmas or thank you cards, using this type of layout is so helpful! I took my inspiration for these two using the new Candy Shoppe digital paper. The gingerbread girl (from The Gingersnaps stamp set) was stamped with chocolate chip ink. I used pink pirouette and chocolate chip cardstock. On the second card, I stamped the door from Sugar and Spice and the sentiment from Secret Santa in chocolate chip ink. The ribbon is pretty in pink taffeta. I used the Bow Easy for the double bow. I love these two! I used another Fall to Layout for these really simple and easy cards. I stamped the snowflakes and sentiment in brilliant blue from the Secret Santa set. After stamping, I scored two lines just above the bottom and added three blue glitter dots. On the second card, I stamped the peppermint candy, gum drops, and sentiment from Sugar and Spice in real red. I added star dust stickles for some sparkle on all four cards.

I have been having so much fun with these new sets! There is so much packed into these four sets that can create a bunch of beautiful CAS cards!

All the MTME DT are posting cards today, so make sure you stop by to see some more fabulous inspiration.

My Time Made Easy Design Team:
Lauren Meader (owner)
Kristin Bueter
Catherine Doucette
Katie Shawger Cotton
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholz
Tammy Hershberger
Tangii Crain
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Monique Hansen

Thanks for stopping in today! I'll have another post tomorrow using one of the new MTME templates! See you then!