My Time Made Easy Release Day - A Little Bit S'more

Today is release day at My Time Made Easy and the entire team is posting today.  This month's theme is centered around camping.  We have a turtle template, a vintage camper tempate, three stamp sets with camping images and sentiments, cut files, and paper oh my!!   You can see all the new products here on the MTME website.

So if we have a camping theme, why are you seeing a graduation girl?  Well, the MTME templates can be used in a variety of ways!  Wait until you see what the girls have come up with!  I've been in graduation mode.  My niece is graduating at the end of the month and I've just finished making her party invitations...40 of them!  So I used the Happy Camper template and turned it into a head and placed a graduation cap on it!  I have to admit that I got the idea to use the template as a head from Lauren...she created a wowzer with hers and I just ran with that idea!

I cut the template out of Blush cardstock.  I used a 3/4" punch for the blue eyes and a hand held punch for the whites.  I added some eyelashes and pupils with a black marker.  The smile was created using the handle from the Treasured template.  I just had to cut off a bit of it to get the right shape.  For the cheeks, I punched a 1" circle and used the negative piece as a template to stipple some pink ink on either side of the smile.  So cute!  Then I cut a 3 3/4" square out of purple cardstock (my niece's school colors are purple and white) for the cap.  My niece is graduating with honors and will have a gold tassle, so I added a gold tassle and attached it to a glittery gold brad.  See how she's looking at that tassle and smiling?  So is my niece!  She's so happy to be graduating with honors because she has worked so hard to earn it!  The top of the template opens to put something inside, but I thought these would be very cute table decorations.  I may make more for her party!

 Here is the invation I made.  I used Maria's graduation picture and created this in my photo editing program.  I got the idea to place the number vertically from an invitation I saw online.  The pawprints on the bottom are from the Sign It stamp set.  Her school's nickname is the Bulldogs, so I had to add the paw prints!  I just love the way these came out!

Here they are together.  So cute!  I just wish I had some of that curly hair they used for dolls that I could put on my template.  She needs some hair I think!  ;-)

Like I said before, the entire design team is posting today, so stop by these blogs to see what they have to show you.

MTME Blog
MTME Gallery
Lauren Meader
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Farida Rone
Kimberly Morrow
Linda Hammerton
Lori Hairston
Lori Kalus
Mara Campbell
Pattie Goldman
Tangii Crain

Thanks for stopping by today!  We have more inspiration coming from this release, so please stop by again!

My Time Made Easy Preview Day 1 - Trendy Turtle

Hello friends!  Today begins the previews for the My Time Made Easy June release!  And it's all camping related!  Today we are revealing the new template called Trendy Turtle.  Where is the turtle, you ask?  Well the MTME templates can be used in many different ways, and that's half the fun!  Today, I just made the shell of the turtle (you can see Lauren and some of the other girls' full turtles!).  For the base I used Dusty Durango cardstock and paired it with one of the new digital paper packs being released called Smore Smores.  (I was just eating smores this weekend...yummo!)  I tied up the "shell" with some chocolate satin ribbon.  There are so many things you can put into this.  It's quite roomy! 

For the card, I took one of the hexagons and increased the size, made two of them, then welded them together using the SCAL program and cut it out.  I made a mat with the digital paper by sizing it down.  The sentiment is from a set being released this month called So Much S'more. (Are you seeing the theme here?)  I punched it out with a Marvy punch and added a bling flourish.

Stop by these blogs for more inspiration.

MTME Blog

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Kimberly Morrow

 Lori Kalus

Pattie Goldman

Tangii Crain

The release will be on June 1st and I'll have more for you then.  Thanks for stopping by today! 

Pretty Palette #62 - My Time Made Easy

Are you enjoying your weekend?  We are having fun at our cabin!  Great weather too!

We have new colors for our Pretty Palette challenge and I really think you'll like them! 

 I really like these colors together.  The paper is from DeLovely by Cosmo Cricket.  It had the pink and turquoise in it I needed.  Then I cut the flower out using the My Bee Loved cut file and stamped it with the coordinating stamp.  I used copic markers to color the flower, from Bee Loved stamp set, and added star dust stickles in the center.  The sentiment is from Sentimental Occasions.  That panel was cut with the deckled rectangle nestie.  I added the crystal flourish from Want to Scrap.  Pretty easy card!

Stop by these blogs to see more inspiration using these fun colors.

MTME blog

Jackie Randolph

Mary Vogel

Romaine Rancier

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your weekend!

Just Us Girls #138 - Photo Inspiration Challenge **New**

Happy Saturday and Happy Memorial Day weekend!  I hope you are enjoying your holiday weekend.  We are changing things up a bit over at Just Us Girls.  We have decided to retire our 3D/Template challenge and replace it with a Photo Inspiration challenge.  We hope you enjoy this type of challenge.  You can go wherever your inspiration takes you!  Vicki has chosen some great pictures to get you crafting.  I love today's...blue and brown are some of my favorite colors!

 I took the colors, the stripes and the teddy bear from the inspiration photo.  The pattern on cake reminded me of this retired SU paper called Parisian Breeze.   I stamped the teddy bear on one of the patterns in chocolate chip ink.  The image is from Baby Button Bits by PTI.  The sentiments are from Bitty Baby Blessings, also from PTI.  The doily is from a Martha Stewart pack.

 The sketch is from Taylored Expressions.  I guess they are discontinuing their sketches.  Bummer, because I've always loved their sketches.  But there are a lot of sketch challenges out there (on of them at JUGs!).

 You can see what the JUGs design team did with this inspiration photo at these blogs:

JUGs blog
Elise Durenberger
Lynn Mangan
Maria Levine
Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

My Time Made Easy Memorial Day Sale!

Hey everyone!  Are you ready to celebrate Memorial Day weekend?  Are you kicking back and relaxing with maybe some crafting involved?  Well, take a look at the sale going on at My Time Made Easy!  Here are the details!

In honor of Memorial Day, and as a thank you to all our valued customers, we are going to have a store wide 25% OFF SALE!!

(sale excludes the purchase of Gift Certificates)

Sale is starting Friday May 25th 12:00 am EST through Monday May 28th 11:59 pm EST !!

Don't forget to share this with a friend :D

CLICK HERE TO START SHOPPING!

Please read our download instructions here if you are a NEW! customer.

Have a great weekend and Happy Shopping!

Pretty Palette #61

Happy Sunday everyone!  I'm here this week with a new color challenge from the Pretty Palette challenge.  These colors are just so me! 

I used this new cut file from My Time Made Easy called Vintage Cars.  This is one of two that come with the cut file.  I cut it using my Cricut and some chocolate chip cardstock.  The dp is from SU called Elegant Soire, and I'm sure it's retired.  The green panel was embossed with a circular folder, in keeping with the dp.  The ribbon is chocolate chip grosgrain.  The sentiment is from the Sign It stamp set.  I stamped it in chocolate chip ink on vanilla cardstock.  I cut it our with a flag die and added some brown pearls.

 You can see more inspiration (and link your creation) on the MTME blog and on Romaine Rancier's blog.    Thanks for stopping by today!

Just Us Girls #137 - Color Challenge

Hi there!  Are you happy it's Saturday?  I sure am!  The weather is going to be just fabulous this weekend, so I'm hoping to get to our cabin either tonight or tomorrow.  Can't wait to just sit outside and take in the warm weather!

This week over at Just Us Girls, I'm the hostess for the color challenge.  I chose this fun and fresh blue, white, and yellow color combo.  I hope you enjoy it!

I did another CAS card!  I have to admit that I forgot it was my week to hostess!  (It's been quite a busy week!)   Anyway, I pulled out this fabulous new (to me) paper from October Afternoon called Sidewalks.  My friend Cheryl gave it to me, and I just love the colors in it!  The felt flower and leaves are from My Favorite Things, the flag die is from WPlus9, and the sentiment is from Scattered Showers Additions by Papertrey Ink.  Love that sentiment!  I stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black ink.  That is my favorite ink for sentiments or intricate stamps.  It stamps like a dream!

 Here's the sketch from Clean and Simple I used.

The girls have done a fabulous job once again with these colors.  Visit these blogs and see for yourself!

JUGs blog

Andrea Matthews

Dana Gustafson

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fabulous weekend!