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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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Hi everyone! Today begins the previews of the My Time Made Easy March release! We have some fabulous products to release this month! We have two great templates being released this month, and I'm previewing the Well Contained template today. This template has one "modified" milk carton and holder. I've doubled it up back to back to show you how you can use it a little differently.

The paper I used is one of the new digital paper packs also being released this month called Spreading Spring Cheer. The egg image is from another new digital stamp set for this month called Spring is Here.

I said the milk carton was "modified" because of the opening in the front. I placed a piece of acetate over the opening and added some jelly beans in the carton to coordinate with the paper and my Easter theme.

Here's a front view. The bunny is also from the Spring is Here digital stamp set. I don't know if you can see it, but I added some liquid applique to his tail for some dimension.

The carton comes out of the holder, shown here. You can used the carton all on its own if you'd like. Super cute template!

All these new products will be released on Thursday, March 1! We'll have another preview tomorrow, so watch for that.

We've had some changes in our MTME design team. We are saying goodbye to Monique Hansen and Kathryn Berthiaume. We will miss certainly miss them! We've also added to our team. Please welcome the following new members:

If you want to see more previews of this release, please stop by these blogs.

Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back on Thursday on Release Day! Hope to see you then!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Pretty Palette #49

Sunday...the last day of my week long mid-winter break. Having the back-to-work blues! Speaking of blues, we have some pretty blues in our Pretty Palette colors this week. The colors were taken from the Taylor's Teeth Nomad's Teal Leaf digital paper pack.

I used the paper in conjunction with the Happy Hallows and Tending the Garden digital stamp sets. I "colored" the leaves of the tree in GIMP using the challenge colors. The sentiment was also "colored" with the teal color in GIMP. Love that sentiment. My 20 year anniversary is coming up in April and maybe this will be my anniversary card to my hubby!

I used this sketch from {Freshly Made} sketches. I didn't place my main panel off to the left, but I did follow the sketch otherwise.

For more inspiration, take a look at these blogs.

My Time Made Easy blog

Charlene Cundy
Jackie Randolph
Mary Vogel

Pattie Goldman

Romaine Rancier

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day!

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Just Us Girls #125 - Template/3D Challenge

Hello friends! This week's challenge over at Just Us Girls is our Template/3D challenge and I'm the hostess! I love me my templates! The challenge is to use ribbons, flowers, and buttons. You MUST use all three on a template or 3D item...that's the challenge!

Here's what I came up with. This is a newer box from My Time Made Easy. It's not listed as a template, but rather a cut file called Card Candy. It's so cute and only takes one sheet of cardstock to make. I cut mine from vintage cream cardstock and decorated it with this dp from Prima called Madeline. I made a belly band from chocolate satin ribbon (check!) and placed two Prima flowers (check!) on top and finished the middle with a button (check!). Challenge completed! But there's more!

When you remove the belly band and open the top panel, it becomes a card! Love this! The box itself is the size of a box of playing cards. I used the Flutters and Flowers cut file from MTME to cut out the butterfly. I just put a piece of acetate over it to contain the candy inside. The sentiment is from MTME also called Keep Strong stamp set.

This is what the box looks like when it's open.

And here you can see the butterfly cut out better with the candy emptied from the box. (And no I DID NOT eat the candy! I gave it up for Lent!)

I'm away with my girlfriends this weekend in Syracuse for some girls' weekend thing. My one friend lives there and invited us to this event. So I thought I'd make one for each of them, hence the "friend" sentiment. They really are so adorable (I'm talking about the boxes, but my friends are too! LOL!)