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Here's chirping at you... My Time Made Easy February Release

*If you are looking for my Pure Innocence February calendar page, please scroll down 1 post.  Thank you*

**Did you know My Time Made Easy is having a Design Team call??  
Check out this post here for all of the details!!**

Today the My Time Made Easy team is showing off it's newest template, Pull Up Tabs.  This template comes in both octagon and square.

There is a decorative topper piece, but I chose to use a scalloped circle instead... it fit perfectly!  The octagon is the perfect size for a 3" ish candle or some mini chocolates... yumm!!!  I added some decorative paper, from the Wind My Girlie Gears paper pack.

This is likely the busiest card I've ever made, lol!  I started with last weeks SCS Sketch and used more of the same Wind My Girlie Gears paper.  The birdie is from the BRAND NEW Wind 'em Up! stamp set, and the sentiment is from the Wound Sentiments set, also NEW!  I covered the "screws" on the bird with rhinestones and went over the beak, legs and "key" with black and silver Spica glitter pens... very sparkly

Well that's all I have for ya today, be sure to visit my other team mates to see their take on the Pull Up Tab template!

• Lauren
• Lisa
• Monique
• Kathryn

 

Paper Makeup Stamps January Release Blog Hop

Happy Hop day!!!  Today is the Paper Makeup Stamps January release Hop, if you didn't come here from Anita's blog then you'll want to start at the PMS Blog to get all the deets :)  This month PMS is releasing 3 new Color Kids and some fun wordart.  I used this week's sketch from SCS for my layout and the adorable image here is Color Kid w/a Valentine.  Grab yourself a latte and happy hoppin!  You're sure to see some rockin inspiration!!  Your next stop is Miss Ginger.

Stamps: Color Kid w/Valentine (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Challenges: SC366

PMS Peek day

Today the PMS team is peeking some Fairies and Silhouettes (including a Fairy designed for our very own Tina!).  I am showing off the Madeline Fairy Silhouette and if you've been a fan of PMS from the beginning you'll know that Madeline was one of the first PMS fairies :)  This week's SCS Sketch challenge was the perfect layout.  Head over to the PMS Blog to see some more peeks, or visit my fellow DTers to see their peeks.

Katie, Lisa K, Randee, Tina

Dawn, Andrea, Jackie, Jenn

Stamps: Madeline Silhouette (Paper Makeup Stamps)  
Paper: Wild Daisy Rd (Heidi Grace)  
Challenges: SCS339

PMS August Peek Day 3

 

Hey yall, I'm back with another peek for ya!  Today we are peeking the Home Matters set, and if some of these images look familiar to you that's because last year we released this as a digi only set.  Head on over to the PMS Blog to see some more awesome peeks of this set.  This is such a must-have set... awesome for moving cards, thank you's, etc.

Stamps: Home Matters (paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: Love Birds (SEI), Chocolate Kiss (Gina K), White (PTI)  Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories: Pearl Flowers (Basic Gray), Prima Flowers, Misc pearls, Green glitter pen (Spica)  Copics:  B00, 01, 02, C3, 5  Challenges: SCS Sketch 292

  

A little Retail Therapy!

 

 Happy Monday!  Today some of the PMS team is showing off some more designs using the Retail Therapy set.  One of these days I will actually color that purse, but it is so stinkin' fun to paper piece!  This set is HUGE, there are so many fun  phrases and images!!  This card will be perfect for my Office Manager at work... she is such a purse-junkie.  As I am typing this I am wondering... I start Physical Therapy soon, I wonder if my Insurance would pay for some "Retail Therapy" instead?  I should call and ask, lol!  Well I was going to paper piece all of those little purses you see on the pink panel, but something came up and I ran out of time so I decided to use that image (they are a row of 6 hat boxes & bags) and make my own dsp.  I wanted it kind of subtle so I used VersaMark ink... I really LOVE the look!!  I did paper piece the focal purse, going over the clasp parts with Black Glaze pen.  Instead of all of the rhinestones on the strap that I showed you last week, this time I decided to take my Stardust pen and go over the "links" so it looks like a "chain" type strap.  I also used the Stardust on the scallops of the sentiment panel.  Here is a close up of those details.

 

Hope you can find a little inspiration here, thanks for stopping by.  Make sure you stop by the PMS Blog and check out the peeks there.  Have a fabulously week!

Stamps: Retail Therapy (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: Blushed Collection (KaiserCraft), Baby Pink  light (Prism), Black Onyx (Gina K)  Ink: VersaMark, Onyx Black (VersaFine), Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories:  Pink Pearls (KaiserCraft), Stardust Glitter pen (Sakura), Black Glaze Pen (Sakura), circle and large scalloped circle nesties, circle and scalloped circle punches  Challenges: SCS SC288

  

Happy Hop Day...

 

Happy Friday and Happy hop day!  Welcome to the PMS May Release DT Blog Hop!  Grab yourself a Latte, get cozy in your chair and let's get hoppin'!  First off, you should have come here from the PMS Blog, if you didn't you'll want to start there.  Katie has all the deets there on how you can get some free stuff :)  This is an amazing release... 2 new lines of stamps, a new illustrator and TONS of rubber!  Holy Snickerdoodles!!  I truly do love this release, I think it is one of the all time favs of the Design Team!  Tonight is the release party... 8pm cst in the PMS Forum, hope to see you there!!  This image is called "Me and Pops" isn't it just too cute for a Daddy's day card??  I paper pieced Pops' "suit".  This is your first official stop (after getting all the juicy details from the PMS Blog), your letter from me...

Now hop on over to the Rockin' Gabby and check out the eye candy she has for ya (tell her I said "hey").

Stamps: Me and Pops & sentiment (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: misc pp, Chocolate Mulberry paper, Desert Coral Dark (Prism), Close to Cocoa cs (SU), Dark Chocolate & white cs (PTI)  Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)  Accessories: Dark Chocolate buttons (PTI)  Copics: E09, 13, 15, 30, 31, 59, YG95, B32, 34  Challenges: SC279

We all need some butterflies...

 

Sorry for the late post, DS had his first Lacrosse game yesterday and when we got home I just couldn't resist snuggling with the boys for some reading time.  Before I knew it we'd all crashed!  Anyway, this is for this past week's sketch challenge on SCS.  I've been dieing to ink up the new Flutterbies, and this layout just seemed like a perfect fit. The sentiment is from the Buggy Sayings set.  The sentiment panel is popped up and the butterflies wings are bent up as well for some dimension (clearly I need to re-do this picture!).  Hope you all are having a fabulous weekend!

Stamps: Buggy Sayings & Danni's Flutterbies (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: Juliette pp (SEI), Basic Gray cs (SU), White (Gina K)  Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Copic  Accessories: Black Brads (Queen & Co), Black Glaze pen (Sakura), gray ribbon (SEI)

It's a Mid-month hop!

Katie has a special mid-month release for us, this super cute Halloween set!  If you did NOT come here from Lisa K's blog, make sure you go to the PMS Blog to start the Hop (every piece in the set will be featured if you follow the hop).  Wanna win this set??  One random person will be drawn to win the entire set (it's a secret which of the DT member's blog's the winner will be drawn from)!!  The stamp I am featuring here is the solid Jack-O'Lantern.  I stamped him several times and then popped him up to different heights to make my little "pumpkin patch".  The layout from this card is from the sketch for this weeks Challenge over at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  Ok, now it's time to hop on over and visit Lisa McKinney.  Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you back here soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Halloween Monster set from PMS

Paper: Cast-A-Spell dsp, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie cardstocks from Stampin Up!

Ink: Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Black & Pumpkin Pie ribbons, black brads and "Too Cute" rubon from Stampin Up!

Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge...

I am on a mission to use my PMS images a certain number of times this month, but I also don't want to neglect my Stampin Up images...so here we have a 2 fer!  2 cards fer 1 challenge, lol.  You can go here to see the details for Mercy's Sketch Challenge, this one is a week old but they are on Tuesdays if you ever wanna play along... she does some fun sketches!!  Back to business, here...

 

Here is my first sample for the sketch.  I have such a hard time with that "naked" space at the bottom of the card base, lol!

Supplies (all supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):
 Stamps: Country Morning
 Paper: Nouveau Chic dsp, Basic Black, Sage Shadow and Whisper White cardstocks
 Ink: Basic Black
 Accessories: Scallop border punch, Basic Black 5/8" ribbon, Very Vanilla 1/4" ribbon, Button from Button Bouquet,  Square nesties not from SU!

And here's #2.  The shimmery paper was so fun and pretty, but I had a really hard time using it.  I originally cut this piece for the card on my previous post (the PMS Monday Challenge) and could NOT get it to work on that card.  Well this is one of those cards that looks much prettier in real life, lol.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dreams set from Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper:  dsp from Creative Imaginations, Red bazzill cardstock, Orangeish Bazzill bling paper, Whisper White and Pacific Point cardstock from Stampin Up!

Ink: Tuxedo Black from Memento

Accessories: Square Nesties, EK Success border punch, Prima flower, button from SU, Stitch Rub ons from Doodle bug Designs

SC239... Ashlie

 

Sometimes you see a sketch and the ideas just start flowin'!  That was the case with this last Sketch Challenge on SCS.  That being said, this is NOTHING close to what I had imagined in my head, lol (that card soooo didn't work out).  I colored Little Miss Ashlie here TWICE!!  Can you believe it?  The first time as I started to go over the skin for the second/blending time...I picked up the wrong color :(, then I was 98% done with this one and a bug landed on my hand so I went to swat it, and bumped my marker which marked her hair and her hand... thank goodness for the Blender!!!  Ok, I used the Colorless Blender on the Mr Snail to give his shell a little texture and it ties in with the Pink and Green.

Supplies:

Stamps: Ashlie from Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Misc dsp, Swiss Dots Pink and Green from Bazzill, Chocolate Brown from PTI, Whisper White & Mellow Moss from SU!

Ink: Tuxedo Black from Memento, Copics

Accessories: Brown ribbon from PTI, Olive Stripped ribbon from SU, Chocolate Chip button from SU, Pink Shimmerz

Happy Friday!!!! It's Blogger's Challenge day...

This week I tripled up my Blogger's Challenge card, it is also for my LNS Challenge and Mercy Kerin's sketch challenge over on The Fresh Batch blog.  No special talent combining those, since two of the challenges were to use 'Red, White and Blue'!  This is my first time attempting the LNS challenge (those ladies are so stinkin' talented it's almost intimidating!!) and my first time checking out The Fresh Batch.  I know this paper has retired, and while I always LOVE new stuff, I am sooooo going to miss this paper!  I love the shades of blue & red!!  Don't forget to visit the rest of the Blogger's Challenge gang to check their awesomeness!!

Supplies (all supplies are Stampin Up!):

Stamps:  Echoes of Kindness

Paper: Sweet Slumber dsp, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red and Baja Breeze cardstock

Ink: Basic Black & markers

Accessories: Eyelet Border punch, White Satin ribbon, Baja Breeze button, twine

Friends are Angels, SC234

I haven't stamped in a week!! What's up with that??? Well, I've been working on getting my 'room' done (I'm almost there!!). This is for a sketch challenge on SCS, I have LOTS of Paper Makeup Stamps Sneak Peeks starting on Thursday and some Stampin' Up! swap cards coming up and hopefully I'll get some pics of my room posted (I love my new "Copic Storage"). Lots of fun stuff coming up, lots of stamping and lots of posting :) 

 

Clean and simple cards are something that I am NOT good at!  I am really trying to force myself to make a couple here and there, I think I like this one.  The papers here are all from Paper Trey Ink and the image is from Paper Makeup Stamps.  I love Katie's sentiments, just wait until you see the new 'Sentiments' for the July release...OMG!!!!!!  The ribbon is from Stampin' Up! and the pearls are misc.  Thanks so much for stopping by, hope to see you back here soon for some PMS Sneak Peeks & some Stampin' Up! goodies.

Sketch Challenge #229, Ashlie

I love the challenges on Split Coast but it seems like with all the other things out there I sometimes forget about them. This week I did the Sketch Challenge, loved that sketch.  What a great way to show off some beautiful dsp?!  Did you notice the beautiful watermark? (wink, wink), Katie just rocks!!  Ok, gotta get back to making a 4th grade learning cube, so here's the recipe...

Supplies:

Stamps: Ashlie by Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Bittersweet by Basic Gray, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Whisper White and Ruby Red cardstocks

Ink: Tuxedo Black by Memento, Copics

Accessories:  Heidi Swap rhinestones, Prima flowers, Angel Wings & Pink Shimmerz