So Berry Sweet: My Time Made Easy

Hi everyone! Today the My Time Made Easy team is a sneaking a new template from the April release at My Time Made Easy. We have two new templates being released this month, and this one is called Berry Sweet Basket.Let me begin by saying that this basket is HUGE!! I was shocked at its size! Lots of room for a variety of things! The first thing I did was print out Well Woven digital paper in the Green Pasture color (yes, this basket is actually green, but it looks brown!). I actually printed it on both sides of the paper so it would be finished off on the inside too. See what's inside? That's new too! We have a new cut file called the Apple a Day cut file. I printed three of them: two in the actual size and one sized down to 75%. The top "leaves" is from the Fanciful Flowers cut file. I ran it through the Swiss Dots embossing folder and attached it with a brad. I know a lot of people who make jellies and jams, and after I made the basket I thought it would be a nice way to present those jellies and jams to someone. So I created a card with the Well Preserved stamp set and made an apple jelly jar to go on it. The label is another new cut file being released this month called Occasional Label. I stamped it with the new Occasional Labels stamp set (the checked outline) and Sentimental Occasions stamp set. I added the apple from Well Preserved as well. I liked the red checked paper (from Doodlebugs)...it matches the red apple theme. The MTME girls have more inspiration for you to check out. You can find the links on my side bar, or just head over to Lauren's blog for links. We also have Amy Sheffer as our Guest Designer this month! Please stop by to see her fabulous work!

Also stop by the MTME blog for the new Pretty Patterns sketch challenge. Tangii has her new team together and you'll see some great creations there too. They'd love to see you playing along!

Tomorrow is release day at MTME! More cool stuff for you eyes! See you then! Thanks for stopping in today!

Pretty Palette 02 Color Challenge

Hi everyone! Are you ready for another Pretty Palette color challenge from My Time Made Easy? I hope you like this one!I love blue and brown and I thought the addition of green really made it more organic. Here's what I created with them. I found the perfect paper to go along with the colors (ok, I picked the colors from the paper because I chose the colors for the challenge!). It's from Prima, but I cannot remember the name of it as I write this. I backed it with some certainly celery cardstock. I chose to use the Singing Silhouette stamp set for the main panel. The sentiment is a sneak peek of what's to come from MTME later this week! I added the stamped flowers from Singing Silhouette.

The sketch is from this week's Pretty Patterns sketch challenge. I changed out the ribbon for the buttons.

If you'd like to play along, head on over to the Pretty Palette challenge on the MTME blog. I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #77 - Zipper Flower Technique

Hello my friends! This week is technique week at Just Us Girls and Dana has chosen another great flower technique. You may have seen these zipper flowers around blogland recently. They really are cool! Here's my attempt at this flower. My flower does not have the ruffle effect that some of the flowers the JUGs girls created. I think my zipper should have been shorter. Anyway, I still like it! Dana did a tutorial on how to create these little beauties on the Want2Scrap blog. Very easy to do!


I purchased zippers in various colors, but ended up using this black one with the silver teeth. I paired it with patterned paper from Fancy Pants called It's the Little Things and PTI's aqua mist cardstock and ribbon. The sentiment is from Paper Makeup Stamps. I knew I had this stamp, but had to search for it for a while to find it. I thought it would be perfect for this card. The bow was made using the Bow Easy tool. The pearls where white, but I colored them with a BG18 copic marker to match the aqua. Love that we can do that! The leaves were cut with a die from PTI. The layout is from this week's Mojo Monday.


I hope you try this technique this week. The zippers are fairly inexpensive to purchase or you may have some old clothing you don't need laying around that have a zipper you can salvage. If you do try it, make sure you link your project to the JUGs blog. You can also stop by there to get some inspiration from the JUGs girls.


Thanks for stopping by this Saturday! I'd love to know what you think of this technique and my flower!


Recipe
Stamps: Wordart from PMS
Paper: Neenah white, black, aqua mist, It's the Little Things dp (Fancy Pants)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black BG18 copic marker
Accessories: Zipper, pearls, aqua mist satin ribbon, dimensionals, leaf die (PTI), Fabric-tac glue, needle and thread

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Make It Your Own

Yeah! It's Friday! What are you doing this weekend? I'm going to my friend Maria's house to learn how to make enchiladas! She's Mexican and Spanish and she's having a few of us over for a cooking session! Should be fun! I think margaritas are on the menu too! ;-)

This week our sponsor at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long is Perfect Presentation. They have a bunch of really cute templates, labels, tags, and such in PDF, SVG, and GSD files.

The challenge on CSYAL this week is called Make It Your Own. We are challenging you to create your own pattern paper and use it on a Christmas themed package or project. I chose a cute and simple little template called Easy Candy Wrap.
I love the way this came together and it would be so easy to create a bunch as gifts or favors. They could also be created in any size you like. I chose to cut it out of Neenah white cardstock and then stamped it in real red using this peppermint candy image from a set by My Time Made Easy called Sugar and Spice. There is a dot of red stickles in the center of each candy to make the box sparkle a bit. I tied it off with some red ribbon and added the tag cut with a nestie. The sentiment is also from Sugar and Spice.

If you'd like to see what the CSAYL girls have created using templates from Perfect Presentation, stop by the CSAYL blog! You won't be disappointed and will find some great inspiration for all those gifts you'd like to create for the holidays. We hope you play along...you could win a template of your choice from Perfect Presentation!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great Friday!

New Color Challenge from My Time Made Easy

Hi everyone! I'm here today with news of another new challenge from My Time Made Easy. Every Sunday, I'll be hostessing this challenge and I'll try to have some really fun colors to work with! I hope to see all of you playing along with me! Here are this week's colors.


I picked these colors from a dp in the October Afternoon Thrift Shop collection. Here's how I used them. My mom's birthday is today and this is her birthday card. I started with an ivory base and added the certainly celery cardstock and dp. On the middle section, I ran a piece of certainly celery through a cuttlebug folder and distressed it a bit with tea dye distress ink. (I also distressed the other layers with this ink.) The scallops were punched with a Martha Stewart punch with red riding hood cardstock. The ribbon is seam binding from Debbie Marcinkiewicz's etsy store.

For the center piece, I used the Framed Elegance cut file and stamped it with riding hood red ink with the frame stamp from Framed Elegance stamp set. The butterfly is from Bold Botanicals and was stamped on the frame with memento rich cocoa ink and once again on a scrap piece of ivory carstock. I colored both with copic markers and then cut one out. The body of the butterfly is adhered to the frame and star dust stickles were added to the wings.

I hope you'll stop by the new MTME blog and play along. There are some prizes to be won if you play all month long and we are looking for a DT for this challenge! Thanks for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #76 - Color Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm the hostess this week over at Just Us Girls and we have Paper Makeup Stamps as our sponsor. Basic Grey's Hopscotch paper was my inspiration for this pretty color combination. Here's what I created with them.
Since I have been a design team member of PMS since almost it's inception, I have quite the collection of stamps from them! I wanted to use something that hasn't gotten a lot of love. So I settled on this bird house image from the Home Matters set. (This set comes in rubber and digi form, with a couple of more images in the digi set.) I used the Clean & Simple FTL132 layout for my card. On the tallest bird house, I had to extend the pole with a black marker. I colored the images with copic markers and added some star dust stickles. I added the ribbon, Prima burlap flower, and flower-shaped button tied with some floss. The background looked a little bare, so I added the soft clouds with some soft sky ink.

The sentiment is from the Tweet Things set, also from PMS. It actually says "Happy Bird-Day to you", but it didn't all fit, so I only inked up the part I wanted (love that option!).

Paper Makeup Stamps is offering a $20 gift certificate to one random winner over on the JUGs blog. You can see what the design team has done with the PMS images on the JUGs blog...fabulous designs! I hope to see your creation there!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Recipe
Stamps: Home Matters, Tweet Things (PMS)
Paper: PTI white, pink pirouette, Hopscotch dp (Basic Grey)
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, soft sky, copic markers
Accessories: Ribbon, button, Prima flower, star dust stickles, floss

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #3 - "I Can See Through That"

Hello my holiday friends! I'm here today with another Christmas Stampin' All Year Long challenge. This week our sponsor is In Style Stamps.


The challenge this week is to use vellum on your projects. Here's my card.
My image is a digi image appropriately called Christmas Tree. I printed the image on PTI white and then again on a small piece of dp from Basic Grey's Wassail paper pack so I could paper piece the tree. (I printed the image on computer paper, cut a piece of dp to fit over the tree, and adhered it to the computer paper over the tree image with removable tape. Then I ran that through my computer.) The presents are colored with copic markers and I added star dust stickles on the tree and star.


I used this week's sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketches and flipped it on its side. The ribbon and red cardstock are Riding Hood Red. The sentiment is from Season's Greetings Sentiment Set by Paper Makeup Stamps. It's stamped on some old vellum from SU that has white swirls on it. I made sort of a banner out of it. The button hides the glue dot that's holding that end. I used a glue pen to adhere the other end.


Stop by the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what the design team has done with these fabby stamps and the vellum challenge! We hope you can play along with us as well! One random winner will win four digi images of their choice from In Style Stamps!


Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!