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I'm so excited about this month's release over at My Time Made Easy!  We have some fabulous new holiday templates, images, and paper being added to the store that I'm sure you are going to love!  Today, I'm previewing this new template called Candy Wrapper.  It's such a cute and easy template to put together!  It went together in minutes...literally!

 

 I started by cutting the template out from Lucky Limeade cardstock and added this new plaid paper from the Homemade Holidays digital paper pack to the center.  Then I wanted it to look like a real piece of candy in a wrapper, so I wrapped it in celephane and tied it with some ribbon.  I added some Prima poinsettia flowers and leaves and made a cute tag from some new and old products.

The holly and Secret Santa sentiment is from the new Homemade Holiday digital stamp set.  I colored them using GIMP.  Then I cut it out using the Be Dazzled cut file.  I cut another tag a little larger in red cardstock and mounted them together.  Then I stamped the to/from sentiment from the Dashing Through the Snow stamp set in red ink.  I tied some baker's twine on the tag to finish it off.  I've participated in a Secret Santa gift exchange at work for several years and think this would be an inexpensive gift to give.  Some hard holiday candy would be a perfect to put inside.  I always forget to take a picture so you can see how the box opens!  All you do is untie the bows and then open the sides.  You can put all kinds of thinks in the box because it is very roomy!

The MTME design team has more previews for you.  Check out these blogs for more.

 

MTME Store

MTME Gallery

Lauren Meader

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Farida Rone

Kimberly Morrow

Tina Hale

 

The new products will be available on Monday, October 1!  Thanks for stopping by!





Just Us Girls #156 - Wild Card Challenge

Hi friends!  This week over at Just Us Girls is the Wild Card Challenge where we get to pick whatever type of challenge we want.  I'm hostess this week and I chose to use numbers on your card/creation.

 

 I decided just to go literal and use the number dies.  I needed a 40th wedding anniversary card for friends of ours, so this was the perfect challenge for me!  I started with red in mind because red is the color for a 40th anniversary.  I chose this paper by Cosmo Cricket called Circa 1934.  I like the red with the black.  The sentiment is from a free set from PTI called Everyday Classics.  I stamped it in Riding Hood Red ink and die cut it with a flag die.  The ribbon is SU's Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon.  The entire card is mounted on vintage ivory cardstock.

 

 I used this sketch from Clean and Simple Sketches.

You can see some great inspiration from the JUGs design team.  See for yourself by visiting these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Andrea Matthews

Elise Durenberger

Lynn Mangan

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Just Us Girls #155 - Inspiration Challenge

Hi JUGs fans!  We have a fabulous inspiration photo brought to us by Marisa!  Isn't this a great photo?  I just LOVE the colors!

Here's a bigger picture of the inspiration photo so you can see it better.

 

Here's how I used the inspiration photo to spark my creativity.  First of all I focused on those great colors.  I used chocolate chip and cherry cobbler from SU.  The dp is also from SU, a retired pattern paper called Parisian Breeze.  Then I looked at some of the elements within the photo:  flags, squares/diamonds, stars, numbers, and baby elements.  That comforter really caught my eye.  I knew I had the Hexagon Die from Papertrey Ink, so I pulled that out and the Banner Builders die set from PTI as well and went a-craftin'!  I cut the main hexagon panel out of chocolate chip and cut various hexagons from the cherry cobbler and several patterns from the pattern paper and then fit them into the open spaces, varying the colors/patterns.  I added the blue ribbon and three flags tied together with chocolate/white baker's twine.  The sentiment is from Tending the Garden by My Time Made Easy stamped in red ink.  Love this one!

The JUGs design team has some other great inspiration for you as well.  Check out these blogs.
 

JUGs blog
Elise Durenberger
Lynn Mangan
Marisa Ritzen
Vicki Dutcher

I hope you can play along with us!  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!



Pretty Palette #71

Hello there!  Take a look at this week's colors at the Pretty Palette challenge.  For some reason, I thought Christmas...must have been the green and red!

So this is what I created with these colors.  I stamped the present, from Dashing Through the Snow, in red and the sentiment, from Secret Santa, in basic gray.  It's mounted on a scalloped wasabi green circle.  The pattern paper is from Mrs. Candy Claus digital paper.  I ran the red panel through a candy cane stripe embossing folder to keep with the holiday theme.  I added the pretty ribbon and bow and mounted all of that on a gray card base.  I also added some white dots around the scalloped circle and used a glitter pen on the snowflake on the present.  One Christmas card down and many to go!

I used this fabulous sketch from Deconstructed Sketch as my starting point.

Our design team has some great inspiration for you using these colors.  Check out these blogs:
 

MTME blog
Dawn Barwick
Jackie Randolph
Romaine Rancier
Tracy Holmes

Thanks for stopping by!