My Time Made Easy - November Sneak Peek!

Happy Halloween!  I hope the ghosts and goblins don't play too many tricks on you this evening!

With Halloween brings the beginning of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and gift giving ideas to think about.  I hope over the next few days you'll gather some great ideas from the My Time Made Easy design team. 

Today I'm peeking the new Cover-Alls template.  Lauren peeked it yesterday on her blog.  I used the same paper in a different color...the new Farm Fresh digital paper in Sunrise.  I paired it with red to make it holiday festive!  I filled it with Deedee Desserts No Bake Cheesecake Mix in raspberry.  All you do is add cream cheese and Cool Whip to the package and put that in a graham cracker crust pie pan and refrigerate.  I received this as a gift once and thought it was a great idea.  So that's what I did here.

I added lace and gingham ribbon to make it look like an apron.  The pockets even got a little bit of lace added to them as well.  This is a super easy template to create!  The template comes with other ideas to create your own Cover-Alls to fit your crafting needs, too!

Lauren, Kathryn, and Monique are posting some fabulous creations with more of the new templates being released this month (there are 4 of them!), so make sure you swing by their blogs to see!  Thanks for stopping by today and Happy Haunting!

Pretty Palette #33

Hi everyone!  This is going to be a quick post!  I'm here with another Pretty Palette challenge from My Time Made Easy.  Here are this week's colors.

These colors were taken from the Chocolate Halloween digital paper pack.  I thought some of you may need to make another Halloween card and would want different colors to use.

I had to made a baby card and it turns out the gift I bought was in these colors!  I used the Bringing Back Baby digital stamp set for the buggy, and printed it off on the Chocolate Halloween paper so I could paper piece it.  Then I just colored the rest with copics.  The sentiment is from Tending the Garden stamp set.

I used this week's Pretty Pattern sketch from MTME and turned it on its side. 

You can see more information on the MTME blog.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great Sunday!

Just Us Girls Wild Card Challenge #108 - Alter and Decorate a Frame

Hi everyone!  Are you ready for a Wild Card challenge from Just Us Girls?  We have a really fun one this week brought to us by our very talented and out-of-the-box crafter Elise!  I didn't think I would be up for this one, but it was so easy, I'm so glad I took on the challenge!

The challenge is to alter and decorate a frame.  I already had a frame in my possession that I purchased a long time ago (I got it for $.97!).  However, I had no idea what I was going to do with it until I made a visit to one of my favorite stores I go to for inspiration...JoAnn's.  While I was ambling around, I found this picture frame in the Christmas section (yes, they are featuring Christmas decorations already!).

It caught my eye and I took a picture of it for inspiration.  I often do that while I'm in stores and see something that I can recreate or use for inspiration.  I went to the button section of the store and found some amazing buttons.  I bought some snowflake buttons and some crystal poinsettia buttons.  Then I purchased some green glitter paper.  When I got home, this is what I created with my new and old supplies.

I arranged the poinsettia buttons in a tree formation, added the crystal star on top, and some glitter dots for the trunk.  The ribbon treatment was created from ribbon I've had for a long time.  The sentiment is from the Secret Santa stamp set by My Time Made Easy and it's stamped in Riding Hood Red ink.  This will look very pretty on my shelf in the living room for the holidays (if I don't give it away as a gift first).  I can see me altering another frame in the future.  This was such a cool project!  And wait until you see the other girls' projects!  You can see them on the JUGs blog and at their own blogs.

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Jingle All the Way!

Hi all!  Happy Friday!  I had the day off today because I had to take my mom to the doctor for a follow-up from her stay in the hospital a few weeks ago.  She's doing really well.  We went for breakfast because the appointment was at 7:30 am!  Quite early to get up on my day off, but it was a nice day.

Today starts a new challenge over at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long, and we have a new sponsor....Creations by AR.  They have some fun templates to choose from!  The challenge this week is called Jingle All the Way...use bells on your project.

I chose this Brownie Box.  It's just a cute little template that only takes one piece of paper to make.  A few score lines, and it was done!  I used a pattern paper from Jillibean called Christmas Chestnut Soup.  I love it because it's sturdy and wonderful to use for a template.  I tied the box closed with Riding Hood Red tafetta ribbon.  I strung five bells onto red and white baker's twine and tied it to the bow. 

This box will fit a lot of different small items, but I found that these pocket-size antibacterial containers from Bath & Body Works fit perfectly inside.  I was lucky that they had Christmas ones out already!

 Here's another shot of the box.  I just love this cute little thing! 

How are you doing on your Christmas cards and projects?  Why not stop by the CSAYL blog and play along this week?  We don't have many challenges left this year!  If you play along with us this week, you could win two templates from AR Creations!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great weekend!

Pretty Palette #32

Hello everyone!  We have new colors over at the Pretty Palette challenge from My Time Made Easy.  They are Halloween inspired!