My Time Made Easy Post Release - Christmas Cuppy Cake

Hi there!  I'm back with another template from My Time Made Easy that was just released yesterday!  Have you seen the new products?  You can see all of them here. 

I'm using the new Cuppy Cake template that is so adorable!  I went with a Christmas theme for this because it is July and we like to celebrate Christmas in July, right?  LOL!  I cut the bottom of the template from Old Olive cardstock and the top from Cherry Cobbler.  I then decorated it with SU's retired Jolly Holiday dp. 

I added some gold ribbon around the bottom edge of the top of the template and then a big gold bow tied off with gold and red jingle bells.  I can just see this filled with Christmas candies, an ornament, or even a real cupcake (like Lauren did here)!

Some of the design team are posting today that you just have to see!  Stop by these blogs.

MTME store

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Hairston

Pattie Goldman

Tangii Crain

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll be back on Wednesday, the Fourth of July, with my Year in Review MTME post!  It will be very festive!

My Time Made Easy Release Day - Birthday Bash

Today is release day at My Time Made Easy!  You can see all the new products here.  You won't be disappointed with all the birthday themed products.  Which is why we are having a birthday bash hop with the MTME design team! 

The template I'm using today is called 3 Tier.  It is simply three graduated boxes that can be used like I have here, or they can be used separately.  Whatever your little heart desires!

If you've seen some of the other girls using this, they've gone very elegant and fancy.  And their projects look amazing!  I wanted to go cute and sort of funky.  I was thinking of those wonky cakes that are tilted this way and that.  They are usually done up in crazy colors.  That was the effect I was going for.

I searched the MTME store for some fun digital papers and settled on Coffee Beans because of the bright colors and great patterns.  I printed three of the papers on cardstock and used my new SILHOUETTE CAMEO to cut it out!  That machine has been in the box for over two months!  What was I thinking?  Lauren almost strangled me through the computer when she heard this!  I put it together, stacked it, and then looked at it to determine how I was going to finish it off.  I simply added grosgrain ribbon around the bottom of each box and flowers with glitter dots in the centers.  The red ribbon to tie it all together was the perfect addition to tie it all together, so to speak!  What a cool way to package up a birthday gift!  Imagine jewelry inside each box...a necklace in one, earrings in another, and a bracelet in the last to match!  Or bath products.  The bottom box is really big and the others a really nice size as well!  This looks like a 3 Tier birthday cake in gift form!  Love it!

The entire team is posting their Birthday Bash themed creations today, so you don't want to miss out on seeing them.  Here are the blogs you need to stop by.

MTME Store

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Farida Rone

Kimberly Morrow

Linda Hammerton

Lori Hairston

Lori Kalus

Mara Campbell

Pattie Goldman

Tangii Crain

I hope you enjoyed today's post!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you tomorrow with more of the new release from MTME!

Just Us Girls #143 - Stars and Sparkle

It's time for another challenge from Just Us Girls.  This is the 5th Saturday of the month and that means it's Wild Card week.  For this challenge, our sweet Maria has challenged us to use stars and sparkle on our cards.  It's close to Independence Day (Fourth of July) here in the USA, so it's a perfect challenge for those celebration cards.  Or not, if you so choose.

 I chose to be patriotic.  I just love our stars and stripes!  I chose this paper from Bo Bunny called Liberty.  The sentiment is one that my friend and former Paper Makeup Stamps DT member Shaela Odd created a few years ago.  I saved it because I just loved it.  I printed it on white cardstock and distressed it with Antique Linen distress ink.  The stars were cut out with a cut file that will be released tomorrow from My Time Made Easy called Magical Birthday Wishes.  I layered the small star onto the larger star and it made a cut out.  I cut the stars out of red and navy cardstock, ran them  through my Xyron machine, then covered them in Glitter Ritz glitter in Canadian Blue and Poppy Orange.  This glitter is very fine and burnishes to a smooth almost velvet feel and it doesn't stick to your fingers and face!  Love that!  And it really sparkles too!

I used this sketch from Card Patterns.  I'm so sad that this will be their last challenge, so I just had to play along for the last time.  

The JUGs design team has some great inspiration for you.  Stop by their blogs to see for yourself.  And I'd like to give thanks to Hannelie Bester for being our guest this month.  We hope you enjoyed her designs as much as we did!

JUGs blog

Andrea Matthews

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Vicki Dutcher

Hannelie Bester, June Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by today!

My Time Made Easy July Release- Preview Day 1

 Hi friends!  Today begins the previews of the July release from My Time Made Easy.  We have four new templates and one is more amazing than the next!  The template I'm previewing today is called Lil' Cupcake.  It's a really cute little container!

Here is a close up of the template.  I cut the main part of the template out of Close to Cocoa cardstock.   The bottom of the cupcake (the liner) was cut from new digital paper called Blushing Birthday.  It's one of several designs in this paper pack.  I love the colors!  Orange is one of my favorite colors, so I was giddy when I saw this paper pack!  The top part of the cupcake (the frosting) was cut from an older paper called Taylor's Teeth Sunflower Squash.  I wanted it to look like it had some sprinkles on it and this paper with the stars did the trick!

 

The top of the template, the cherry, has two slits on either side that slide in together to keep it closed.  I topped it off with an orange circle to make it look like a cherry.  I also added some dotted scalloped ribbon from SU.   From this view you can see what the box looks like.

This is all the items I put inside.  I just went to Bath and Body Works yesterday because they had a great sale.  I bought a bunch of the antibacterial lotions and soaps and such.  I also had these tissues that matched nicely too that fit perfectly in there.  I was thinking that those cupcakes made from socks that Lauren makes would be adorable inside as well!

The balloon card was made with the Magical Birthday Wishes cut file.  There are a bunch of other items in this file, like stars and banners, that work with the new digital stamp set called Magical Birthday Wishes.  This is what I used for the sentiment on this card.  It was cut using the banner from Magical BirthdayWishes cut file.  I used the same starry paper and tied some floss around the bottom of the balloon.

On the inside, I printed this sentiment from the same digital stamp set.

Some of the other MTME designers are sharing their previews on their blogs.  You can see them here.

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Kimberly Morrow

 Lori Kalus

Pattie Goldman

Tangii Crain

Thanks for stopping by!  I'll be back soon with more of the MTME July release!

Pretty Palette #65

This week's Pretty Palette color challenge are taken from the Bee Mine digital paper pack from My Time Made Easy.

I used one of the designs from the paper pack that had all the colors in it.  I used the My Bee Loved cut file to cut out the yellow bees.  The hexagons were punched with a Creative Memories punch I've had from my scrapbooking days.  The zig-zag design was created with pinking scissors.  I cut the flag out using a die from WPlus9 Designs and stamped the sentiment from the Bee-Loved stamp set.  I added a blue grosgrain ribbon and a yellow button threaded with some black and white baker's twine.

This is the sketch I used from Clean and Simple sketch challenge.

You can see more color inspiration from our Pretty Palette design team.

MTME blog

Jackie Randolph

Mary Vogel

Romaine Rancier

Thanks for stopping by! 

A Jubilee Celebration

My mother-in-law asked me to make a card for the priest at her church, Father Larry, who is celebrating his Jubilee as a priest.  In the Catholic Church, once a priest reaches the age of 75, he has to retire.  Father Larry has reached this age and his parish is celebrating with a party today.  I wanted to make something special to commemorate this special occasion.  I purchased this pretty shiny gold paper from AC Moore and used almost the entire 8.5"x11" paper on it.  The cross is from PTI's Everday Blessings and it was embossed in detail gold embossing powder.  I cut it out using MFT's Vertical Greetings die.  I added some gold crystals around it and in the middle of the cross.  I found this ivory rick-rack with gold glitter on it which was the perfect accent for the card.  The roses are Primas.

Because of the roses, the card was too bulky to put into an envelope.  So I used one of the clear boxes from PTI and decorated it with a gold ribbon and bow.  My MIL loved it!  I once again forgot to take a picture of the inside.  I used a sentiment and a decorative stamp from the Everyday Blessings set embossed in gold as well.

 I used this sketch from Sweet Sunday sketches again.

 And here's a picture of my niece Maria at her graduation.  We are so proud of her!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great day!

You Made It!

Hi there everyone!  I have lots of pictures to share with you today.  My niece Maria graduated yesterday (I'll have pictures tomorrow) and this is the card I created for her.  I purchased this A La Modes stamp set from My Favorite Things called Grad Girl a while ago just for this card!  Maria's school colors are purple and white and she loves green, so I think adding the yellow was ok since I had all the other colors in there!  I colored the image with copics, and since Maria is wore a white gown for her graduation, I kept it white but colored her hat purple.  Maria also earned the honor of wearing a gold tassel on her cap because she graduated with high honors, so I colored the tassel with a gold Spica pen.  The paper is an oldie but goodie from SU called Uptown.  I love how soft the colors are in this card.

I used this sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  Love these sketches and I use them all the time!   I of course decorated the inside, but I forgot to take a picture.  It says, "The tassel is worth the hassle.  So proud of you."

 I have pictures of Maria's prom, which was this past Wednesday.  If you don't want to look, I totally understand!  Thanks for stopping by!

If you want to see my beautiful niece, thanks for staying!  Here is a back shot of the dress.  She had a little train on the dress with sequins coming up the back.  Hard to see it here.

This is Hector, her date for the evening.  Handsome couple!

The hair!  Maria has really long hair and next week she is cutting it to donate it to Locks of Love.  Her hair looked so pretty all done up.

Here's another shot of her hair.

 This was taken at the hair salon.  My husband's cousin, Linda, created this up-do.  I think she did a fantastic job!

This is my favorite picture!  The prom was at the Harbor Club at our First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY.  This is where our Buffalo Sabres host their hockey games.  This is a great shot of part of our skyline in the early evening.  Such a cool picture!

Well, thanks for sticking with me on this long post and for allowing me to brag a little about my niece!  I don't have any children of my own, so I live vicariously through my nieces and nephews!  See you soon!