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!

My Time Made Easy - Sneak Peek

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Happy Saturday everyone! I'm here with a sneak peek from My Time Made Easy. Lauren has created some fantastic templates once again, and I have a fabulous one to share today. It's called Carry It and we have some terrific stamp sets from Lauren and Catherine Doucette for the holidays that you won't want to miss out on! Here's my take on Carry It. What you are looking at is a gingerbread house on steroids! LOL!!! I googled gingerbread houses and found that most of them are loaded with candy canes, lattice pretzels, gum drops, and icing! So that's what I did using every new stamp set being released this month and then some! One of the gingerbread houses I saw had candy canes framing the door, and I tried to mimic that here. The only thing is that this image is really a peppermint stick. I just bent the stamp on my block to create a sort of candy cane. The door is from the previously released Home Improvement stamp set. All the images on this side were stamped in Ranger Snow Cap pigment ink, then embossed with white embossing powder. I love the windows in this set called Sugar & Spice. There is a beautiful matching door that was too large to used with my candy canes. I love the lollipop and those delicate snowflakes. The windows were just begging to be decorated with holly and berries.Is this a cute gingerbread girl or what? In The Gingersnaps stamp set, there is also a man and a boy. I love the peppermint candies too!
This is the smaller of the two deer in the Dashing Through the Snow stamp set. I've added tons of stickles to EVERYTHING on this template! I just love all the sparkle! The snow/icing on the bottom is a Martha Stewart icicle border punch. The icing hanging from the roof is also a Martha Stewart border punch (I can't remember the name). The roof is from the Cherry on Top digital paper from MTME also.

You can see more of this template on our DT blogs by stopping by some of our MTME DT blogs.

Lauren Meader

Catherine Doucette

Tracey Cuccia

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

You can also get lots of inspiration in the My Time Made Easy Gallery. Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back on Monday (release day) with a MTME group post from the MTME DT! See you then!

Just Us Girls - Wild Card Challenge #57

Hi everyone! I'm here with my first post of the day. I have another one here for the My Time Made Easy sneak peek, so make sure you stop there too!Today at Just Us Girls, Dana wants us to create a fabric flower. She introduced us to a fabulous technique that truly is a cool technique! Dana loves her fabric flowers and this Burnt Edge Flower technique was right up her alley! So here's what it looks like.Isn't it fabulous and so real-looking? Here's the link to the technique, but I'll tell you how I did it. You need a silky synthetic material cut into various size circles, cut about five slits in each circle, then hold each petal to a flame (be careful not to burn the house down!) and watch it burn and curl into these cool petals! Easy peasy! I wish I would have used more than four circles so it was fuller, but am I absolutely happy with the outcome! I stitched them together, then added this paper rose. The sentiment is from the Birthday Cheer set from Paper Makeup Stamps. The leaves are a cuttlebug die that I thought looked like rose leaves. I scored them with the Scor-Buddy and sponged some ink around them.

I actually made this card for our JUGs DT friend, Kristin. Her birthday is Tuesday, so please stop by her blog and leave some birthday wishes! Happy Birthday, Kristin!

Stop by the JUGs blog and see all the other variations of this technique the girls have created! They are all so pretty! Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great weekend!

Recipe
Stamps: Birthday Cheer (Paper Makeup Stamps)
Paper: Vintage cream, riding hood red, always artichoke, Blush dp (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, always artichoke
Accessories: Nesties, silky synthetic material, Prima rose, cuttlebug leaf die, glue dots

Makeup for the Weekend - Paper Makeup Stamps

Hi all! This week's Makeup for the Weekend challenge over at Paper Makeup Stamps is DON'T BE SQUARE! Well, I don't want Shaela (our hostess) to think I'm square, so I made two round cards! I've never done this (a shocker for me, I know!), so I thought I'd give it the old college try!
I have two nephews, Ethan and Kristoff (ages 6 and 3 respectively), and I thought these would be cute to send to them from Aunt Lisa. What kid doesn't like to get mail? I used the remnants from the PMS October Kit (I heard that as of this morning there was only one kit left) and some images from last year for these cards. The paper on both cards is from the kit as is the Happy Halloween sentiment. The other sentiment is from the Spooky Sentiments set (a set of four sentiments for only $2.60 for bare rubber and $3.90 mounted on EZ-Mount on sale). The spider and skull are from the Spooky Solids set. There is a pumpkin and bat in this set also.

Two very simple cards for two adorable boys! I'm sending them out tomorrow (each one sent separately, of course!), so I can't wait to hear from my niece what they say! I hope your Halloween plans are coming along. What will you be for Halloween? I'd love to know! Thanks for stopping in today...I look forward to hearing your comments!

Just Us Girls - In Suspense

Happy Saturday! We have another challenge for all of you from Just Us Girls. This week is a template challenge and we are being sponsored once again by My Time Made Easy. The JUGs design team is showing off the In Suspense template. I was going to my friend's house last night for a girls' night out, and I decided to make this as a hostess gift.

I printed out the Chocolate Pumpkin paper from the Chocolate Halloween digital paper to use for the front of the template and chocolate chip for the back part. I added some acetate behind the opening and added the jelly pumpkins. I thought it would be cute to put the ghost peep in the window! The double bow was made with the Bow Easy (love that little tool!)! I just added a couple of flowers and bling for the centers.I had some scraps of the Chocolate Pumpkin digital paper left over from the template, so I used a piece to make a 3 x 3 notecard. I used the Spooky Surprise stamp set for the sentiments. I punched two tags and added it to the card with a crystal.

We'd love for you to join our challenge. There's a free template at My Time Made Easy that you can download and use or use one of your choice. Can't wait to see what you create! Stop by the JUGs blog to see the fantastic creations from the DT and our Guest Designer, Selma.

Thanks for stopping in today!

A Monster of an Invitation!

Our friends' daughter, Roxanne, called me the other day to ask me to make birthday invitations for her kindergarten son. She is taking the boys from his class to the Science Museum for a Mad Science birthday party. Sounds like a fun time for the boys! I tried to find something "mad science" related and settled on this monster image, Dreck, from Paper Makeup Stamps.

I used this paper from Cosmo Cricket as my starting point. I think it's great for boy cards...I've used it several times for that and I still have a bunch of it! I colored Dreck with copics, swirled some Baja Breeze ink around the image while it was still in the die, and added some stickles for some sparkle. The Soft Sky piece was run through a Cuttlebug folder and I used a Martha Stewart border punch for the red piece. The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up set (can't remember which one) and the stars were a last minute addition because that corner looked so bare.

Roxanne loved them and I enjoyed making them for her son! Thanks for stopping in today!

Recipe

Stamps: Dreck (PMS), sentiment (SU)

Paper: X-press white, real red, soft sky, Cosmo Cricket

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, baja breeze

Copic Markers: G23, 40, BG72; R17; YG31

Accessories: Nesties, Martha Stewart border punch, SU star punch, circle punches, cuttlebug folder, star dust stickles

Happy Halloween PMS Style!

Hi everyone! I see lots of you are Halloween crafting, and I wanted to keep up with you! Paper Makeup Stamps has a fabby Halloween kit that will have you making a bunch of those cards you need to make and send off to your favorite ghoul! Here's what's in the October kit.I had a hard time deciding what to use on my card, there's so much to choose from! I decided to use the glittery brads since I don't seem to use them often anymore. They are so pretty! Here's what I did. Witches should be green, right? She's colored with copic markers and then I made the background look ominous with a scalloped circle and basic gray ink. I kind of got a little heavy handed in the one spot! A storm is brewing in that area! I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch for the layout.

If you stop by the PMS blog, you'll also see cards using this kit by Katie and Tangii. You'll get some great inspiration there!

Thanks for stopping in today! See you in blogland!