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My Time Made Easy Release day...

**ETA:  Here is my completed project :)  with some pamper me goodies inside!  Fabulous gift... easy peasy!!!

Happy Release Day! First of all, I am so sorry, but this post is going to be record short, I am horribly sick and am having a hard time being vertical :(  This is also why my project is so bland, I just didn't get a chance to get the fillers ready but when you come back on Sunday to see my next MTME post, I'll show ya the completed project and then some!  Today is a MTME Group Post so make sure you visit the rest of the team (I promise you there projects are WAY more inspiring!!), including our fabulous guest for this month!

 

Lauren Meader (owner)

Kristin Eberline

Katie Shawger Cotton

Lisa Kind

Tangii Crain (me)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Monique Hansen

Amy Sheffer Guest Designer

 

The template for this is called Keep It, and is now available from My Time Made Easy.  The monogram is from the set called Monograms Defined and the "Friend" stamp is from the Sentimental Occassions set.

An Easter Basket and a Pretty Pattern challenge... Made Easy!

Today is My Time Made Easy's first Group Post for the April release and today we are showcasing the So Berry Sweet basket Template... the posibitlies of this basket are endless.  Next I'm making a Gardening basket with a  potted plant and plant seeds or a Spa basket, but today I have an Easter Basket for ya.

At full size this basket is a great size, but if you get the SVG version you can easily scale it to any size to fit any size goodies you can find.  I used one of the flowers from the Sensational Stems set and some VersaMark on the basket itself just to give it a little design, then I used the same flower and some Lavender ink on the handle.

For my card I used the Pretty Patterns Sketch challenge for today, you can get all the info here (it was my first post as the Team Hostess :) very exciting for me!).  So for this card I used some of the new fabulous papers by Kristin... I am LOVING the design and color palette!  The label stamp is from the new Occassional Labels and the words are from Sentimental Occassions both designed by the awesome Kristin!  Don't you LOVE them?!?  Of course the butterfly is from the Flutters and Flowers Cut file. Sorry for the quick post, but you will find tons more eye candy with the rest of the MTME DT...

 

Lauren Maeder

Kristin Bueter

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Katie Cotton

Lisa Kind

Monique Hansen

Tangii Crain

Our guest this month is Amy Sheffer!

 

For more Pretty Pattern sketch challenge inspiration and to meet the newest members of the Design Team visit this post!

Thanks so much for visiting, I'll see ya back here tomorrow for the MTME Release day post!!

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.  I got an extra few minutes this weekend to stamp just for the fun of it, and I chose to play along with the MFT WSC (LOVE that group!!).  This steaming, bowl of comfort-soup and the sentiment are from the Bunny Slippers Who's that Girl set.  Sorry for the quick post, but I have TONS of work to do still before the work week starts, hmpf! Thanks so much for popping by, hope to see you again soon :)

Looking for DT members...

If you are interested in being on the My Time Made Easy's Sketch Team, please see this post, you have until Wednesday pm.  :)

Time for another MTME Pretty Pattern Sketch!

Happy Thursday (Friday-eve, as I like to call it!).  Have you met Bizzy Bunny?  Bizzy is one of three new Digi Images available from My Time Made Easy.  MTME will be releasing NEW Digi images on the 15th of every month, go here for more details.  So, welcome to our 2nd Pretty Pattern Sketch Challenge, did you play last week?  The entries were fabulous, though I am still making the rounds to comment on them all! We are still looking for a few DT members for the sketch crew... are you interested??  Play along with the challenge here, and leave a comment in comment section telling us that you are interested, easy peasy!  It has been a crazy busy week around here and I am in desperate need of some coloring therapy.  Well, I got my new Copics the other day (the 2011 released colors)... they are gorgeous and were just perfect for this image :)  Ok time for you to get inky, come on ink those stamps and play along!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

Stamps: Bizzy Bunny digi set, sentiment from Harriett Hopalong digi set (both from MTME)  Paper: Dear Lizzy (American Crafts), Chocolate Chip (cs), Lagoon cs (Bazzill), White (PTI)   Copics: B21, 23, 24, 26, C0, 1, 3, 5, E23, G21, 82, 94, R00, 20, Y21, YG25, 61, YR07, 09  Challenges: MTMEPPSC02

 

 

 

 

 

Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past!

Welcome to the March edition of the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop (wowzers, that's a mouthful!).  Once again Sankari has given us an amazing sketch, you can head over to the TE Blog to see the sketch, get all the deets of the hop and how you can play along next month!!  This month's theme is Spring, so I used the super fun Friendship Blooms set (along with the coordinating dies, of course!!) because what's more Spring-y than flowers :)  I also used the papers from the March Key Ingredients Kit (these are awesome little kits if you've never seen them!!!).  I also added a few teeny rhinestones from Taylors Tiny Twinkles, just to "spice" up a little of that white space.  Well I don't want to take up too much time, cause you've got some hoppin' to do!  Here is a list of the Hop participants and if you get lost along the way, just head back over to Taylor's Blog... she'll show ya the way!  Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again tomorrow.

 

My Time is getting colorful!

Were you here on Thursday to see My Time Made Easy's debut Pretty Patterns Sketch challenge?  Well if you haven't checked it out, go to this post for the deets (We're still looking for some Challenge DT members, could you be one?).  Well today is Sunday (at least it was when I typed my post, lol), and Sundays are Pretty Palette day.  My friend and fellow DTer, Lisa Kind is hostessing the Color Challenges and she picked some fabulous colors, go to the My Time Made Easy blog for all of the deets.  

Stamps: Keep Strong (My Time Made Easy)  Paper: Blossoming Cherries Digi paper (My Time Made Easy), Choice Buttercream (Taylored Expressions), Pink Pirouette (SU!)  Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories:  Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Celery Tafetta ribbon (SU!), Lush Pearls (KaiserCraft), red Prism flower  Challenges: MTMEPPC01, SSSC109

PMS is sponsoring JUGs!

Woot woot it's the weekend!!!!  Today Paper Makeup Stamps is sponsoring the JUGs challenge, which is a gorgeous Color Challenge from my friend, Lisa Kind!  The colors are Baja Breeze, Soft Sky, Pink Pirouette and So Saffron... yeah, I kinda a little "darker" palette than that.  I just couldn't find dsp that fit.  The rockin' Katie (owner of PMS) is giving away a $20 Gift certificate to Paper Makeup Stamps to one lucky challenge winner so make sure you get your "inky on" and link up your challenge here.  Can't wait to see what you create.  Thanks for stopping by, see ya back here tomorrow for the very FIRST My Time Made Easy Color Challenge!

Stamps: Aurora's Dolly (Paper Makeup Stamps), sentiment (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper: Stella Rose - Gertie (MME), Lagoon cs (Bazzill), Choice Butter Cream (Taylored Expressions)  Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories: Ribbon (Taylored Expressions), Blush button (PTI), Bakers Twine (Taylored Expressions), Baby Blue Liquid Pearls  Copics:  B000, E000, 00, 21, R20, 21, Y21, YR20  Challenges: Mojo182, JUGs76

My Time Made Easy is gettin' sketchy!!

Yup, you heard me right!  My Time Made Easy is getting sketchy!!!  Every Thursday we will have a new Pretty Pattern Sketch for you to play along with!  Head over to the brand new and beautiful MTME Blog for all the details on how you can be part of our sketch team, how to win some goodies or simply link up and play along!  If you add your creations to SCS or another gallery, be sure to use the tag MTMEPPS01 so we can check out your art!

Stamps: Killer Curves & Bold Botanicals (My Time Made Easy)  Paper: Romance Digi paper (My Time Made Easy), Soft Suede cs (SU!), Sunflowers Medium (Prism)  Ink: Sky Blue (Vivid), Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories: Soft Suede ribbon (SU!), Espresso Dimensionals (Adirondak), Yellow flowers  Challenges: MTMEPPS01

A Cupcake kind of day....

The last time my stamp group got together our theme was cupcakes!  Due to a VERY sick puppy and mounds of wedding invites I almost didn't get a card done at all!  Then I thought of this Cupcake set from My Favorite Things (a VERY old set from MFT, lol) and thank goodness for the MFT WSC!!!  I whipped this baby up in about 15 minutes!!  Not including drying time, lol.  I colored the "frosting" yellow and the "cherry" red.  Then I went over the frosting with some Crystal Effects and sprinkled some chunky blue glitter/sprinkles on it.  Finally I added some more Crystal Effects to the cherry (I did this last so that none of the glitter/sprinkles got on the cherry).  I recently got the Mini Rolled Roses die (remember when I won the gift cert from the WSC a few weeks ago?) and used it with some felt... LOVE that look!!!  Well that's it for now, thanks for stopping by.  Hope to see you again soon :)

Stamps: Cupcake Kind of Day (My Favorite Things)  Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)  Accessories: Chunky Blue Glitter (SU!), Crystal Effects (SU!), Pure Poppy ribbon & button (PTI), Mini Rolled Rose Die-Namic (MFT), misc pearls  Challenges: MFTWSC10

True colors and a JUGs technique...

I'm a little late posting this, but this beautiful set is called Raindrops and Rainbows Add-ons by Paper Makeup Stamps.  This is a newly released set (released on the 7th) and it goes perfectly with the Raindrops and Rainbows set and the Springtime Solids set.  The JUGs girls' challenge this week is a great technique challenge called Acrylic Smash technique, there is a great tutorial here on SCS.  This technique is perfect for a cloudy sky look and soooooo easy peasy!  I stamped my sentiment on the acetate, but I stamped the rainbow image on some PTI White cs and colored it with my Copics.  Then I added some white Sparkly fluff for the clouds.

Thanks so much for coming by!  Hope to see you again soon.

Welcome to the Butterfly Blog Linky Party!

Holy Snickerdoodles that's a moutful, lol!  The amazingly talented Eva Dobilas invited several people to participate in her first ever Butterfly Blog Linky Party, and I was lucky enough to be included.  Are you kidding me??  A chance to do a hop with Eva, of course!!!!  Grab yourself a latte and a cozy chair and enjoy the hop (there is some AMAZING talent in this hop!).  Anyhooo, Eva asked us to make something with butterflies... how fun and spring-y is that?!?  I immediately thought of the Flutters and Flowers cut files from MTME and what goes with butterflies better than flowers?  These flowers are from the Sensational Stems set from MTME.  I used last week's sketch from JUGs.  

With wedding invitations out of the way (whew!) and my VERY sick puppy on the mend (hopefully)... I got to spend today just stamping away :) ahhhhhhhhh, therapy!  I have lots to post this week so I hope you'll come back often to visit (I just love having guests).

Happy Release day!!!!!

It's the 7th and you know what that means... It's time for another Paper Makeup Stamps release!  And this one is chock-ful of Spring goodness!  Aren't we all ready for some Spring weather and flowers?  Well the PMS Design Team has some awesome inspiration to help you load up your shopping cart :)  We'd love to see you tonight at the Release Party for some chit-chat, giggles and games.  We'll save you a spot at the PMS Forum.  If you didn't come here from the awesome Miss Andrea then you'll want to start this hop at the PMS Blog, be sure to head over and start there.  Katie has all the deets on how you can save some $$$  

Well I won't keep you too long, because there are still a few "hops" to go, so be on your merry way and go visit my friend, the VERY talented Miss Randee (please tell her I said hey"), oh don't forget my little giftie for ya...(the letter "I")

A few deets about my card: that darline image is Chelsea, and she is being release today!  I used Flower Soft in her basket (love that look!!).  The twine I used is from my fellow DTer, Jami Bova. But while checking out my friend Monique Hansen's blog today I found an AWESOME place for twine... called, what else? The Twinery!!  Well, thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful week, see ya tonight ;)

 

It's Paper Makeup Peek time!

Happy Sunday!  If you've been following Paper Makeup's peeks then you know that today is day 3, and it's Critters and Monsters day!  If you haven't been following, then you're going to want to head over to the PMS Blog and check them out!  You can see more of the Critters and Monsters that Paper Makeup is releasing tomorrow night!  Meet Skater Cat... tell me he is not just the coolest cat in town?!?  This sentiment is just perfect!  I used Jen's March sketch here for this card.  Thanks for popping by, now go and check out the PMS Blog for more inspiration and awesome images!

An "Easy" Year in Review!

For today's group post I chose to use the Oh-K-Dokey Cut file.  I absolutely adore my Keurig machine, so much so that we got one for the office too :D  and now most of my office is addicted :)  I like to share ;) lol.  Anyway, I will be making one of these sets for several people in the office.  I plan to fill them with some fun sampler flavors, yummmmmmm!  Apparently I REALLY love the whole Artichoke & pink color theme (thanks Kristin).  This paper is from the newly released Wistful Wonder paper pack, and both sentiments are from the newly released Keep Strong stamp set.  Before you head off and get inky, stop by the rest of the DT as they are sure to have some amazing inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by!!

 

Lauren Meader (owner)

Kristin Eberline

Katie Shawger Cotton

Pam Imholz

Lisa Kind

Tangii Crain

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Monique Hansen

Kathryn Berthiaume