A sneak peek for My Time Made Easy

We're almost at Halloween... which means my brain and officially start THINKING about some of the more wintery holiday things! The upcoming release for My Time Made Easy has a slew of ideas that are perfect for the upcoming season.

I however, couldnt resist 1 last Halloween project! Now granted once this template is released, halloween will be over BUT you could just as easily make this into ANY hat. Santa's hat maybe? An Elf's hat? It doesnt even have to be a hat of course, but i saw it and thought witches hat and I just had to squeeze that one last halloween project in!

I used the new template, Tri-It. So cute with such fun possibilities! The bottom opens up so you can put any kind of small treats inside... candy, halloween erasers and toys and such like in my above photo, etc.

I also used the stamp set, A Spooky Surprise (which is available both in acrylic and digi)

to help create this fun treat box...

Now i'm off to bed after a long day of wedding and halloween make-uping!!!

Be sure to check out Tangii, Debbie and Lauren for more inspiration!

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PMS blog hop!

It's that time of the month again! PMS time! No not THAT kind of PMS, the only kind of PMS you can look forward to! Paper Makeup Stamps!

Now you should have hopped here directly from the PMS company blog! It's full of all the info you need for the day and if you've just come here, then go back a square to get all the deets. Then come back to me and start your hop!

For my hop card today, i used the new October Halloween card kit!

I love the papers and ribbons and embellies in the kit so much! AND, for the first time, we're offering this kit for sale with a digi stamp as well as the rubber stamp. Yes, this decision was made because there was an error by our manufacturer, but that is no reason you cant reap the benefits! A cheaper kit! Plus right now, if you get our newsletter you would have gotten a code to get 1 kit and get another kit and 10 bucks off! WHAT!?! That's crazy right?! Ok, if you arent signed up for the newsletter... you can still sign up to get these goodie deals each month. Then email katie@papermakeup.com to let me know that you signed up for the newsletter and then i will send you the voucher code! :D

Ok, and now my card...

Every bit of my card came from the card kit right down to the emerald green liquid pearls!

I love these colors for halloween so much! And these papers for Echo Park are just fabulous!

Even the die cut is from the kit! Yep, i LOOOOOVE this kit! :D

Ok... my head cold is still getting the better of me, so i'm going to give you my letter before i forget and then send you on your merry way!

Now continue on to Dawn's blog! She'll have a card for you that is probably reminiscent of how i'm feeling about now! hahahaha! I better take a nap this afternoon so i can party tonight at the RELEASE PARTY!!!!! :D

Have a wonderful day everyone!!!

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MTME SPOOKY SNEAK PEEK! Available for preorder NOW!

Isnt this stamp set super adorable! I'm absolutely IN LOVE with it! Fellow design team member for My Time Made Easy, Catherine Doucette, has begun to design some stamp sets for MTME and boy am i so glad that she did! This stamp set is perfect for halloween treats and such! You can see some awesome samples on Catherine's blog!

Now since halloween is fast approaching... Lauren decided to ordered a limited quantity of this stamp set and in fact... you can put in your pre-order NOW to assure that it will be mailed by October 1st! You can order it by going HERE. Of course there is also a digi version if you'd like! You can order that one HERE.

Now this set has actually been available to preorder since thursday! So you better get on it! I finally had a chance to sit down and make a fun little card with it... but i can already tell... i will be using this one BUNCHES this october!

Here is my card...

Fun huh? I am totally in love with that spider web! Isnt it just fantastic! It fits perfectly inside the label that is in another stamp set being released called A Secret Surprise. Um... yeah... all your crafters out there that like to join in secret sister swaps and what not... you MUST have that set. but you'll have to wait to see it. HAHAHAHA.

The pumpkin and spiders are also from the A Spooky Surprise set as well as the sentiment. The diamond pattern for my background is from the Argyle Amazement stamp set.

Here's a close up view...

So fun!

Ok... one last thing.... Lauren's daughter, Alexa was admitted to the hospital with a severe case of pneumonia. You can read about this on Lauren's blog. But some extra prayers would be wonderful!

Be sure to check out Catherine's, Pam's and Lauren's blog for some cute samples using A Spooky Surprise!

Have a wonderful day!

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I've got a CASE of PMS!

Man oh Man!  The release party form PMS on Monday was an absolute blast.  But i stayed up til 2 am!  I still havent caught up!  But all the stamps are live on the site and all orders placed have been packed and either shipped or are ready to ship!

So now i get to share with you a card i made for the first of 2 release party challenges!

First, we have 2 release party challenges at every release party.  One is always "I have a CASE of PMS" in which there is some specification of who or what card to case.  This time was pretty general.... just to case ANY card in the PMS gallery on splitcoast!  

I chose Shana's card you can see HERE.

I also chose to use a sneak peek of some of the Halloween Monsters that will be released in rubber a little later this month.  Yes a secondary release in September!  Due to some unavoidable circumstances, they werent ready to be released on the 7th.  :)

Here is my card...

I couldnt actually decide which version i liked better... with or without the addition of the googlie eyes.  I like the monsters shifty eyes to begin with.  but the googlie eyes remind me of coke bottle eyes and just crack me up!

If you want to participate in this fun challenge, read all about it HERE

Stamps: Tricker Treater by Paper Makeup Stamps (sneak peek, available mid september)
Sentiment from Monster Sentiments from Paper Makeup Stamps

Coloring/Copics
Alien: V00, V12, V15
Space Suit: C0, C1, C3

Greens: YG11, YG13

Horns: E43

Glass Helmet: C00

Paper:
I have no idea... it was in the scrap bin!

Tools and Accessories

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

Nestablities: Petite Scallops Circle Large

Nestabilties: Plain Circle Large

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Paper Makeup Stamps September Sneaks start NOW!

Wow - there is so many new stamps coming out... some new illustrators... this is going to be a fun week ahead!

Every month Paper Makeup Stamps has a release on the 7th.  We'll have a party with some challenges, and prizes.  It will be a good ol' time!

Heres my card for the first sneak!

The sentiment comes from a fabulous Wordart sentiment set by Shaela Odd.  The witches hat was just something i drew up last night for fun.  :)  Perhaps i'll release it as a digi on the release day!  hehe.

Dont forget to go to the PMS blog to see more fabulous creations by the design team using this set!

Stamps:
Spooky Sentiments by Paper Makeup Stamps (to be released on September 7th)

Coloring/Copics
Hat: N4, N6, N8
Hat band, BV000, BV01, BV02
Word Outline: BV000, YR12

Paper
Patterned Paper by Bo Bunny
Cardstock Tangerine Tango (SU), purple was a scrap so i'm just not sure! :)

Tools and Accessories
Spellbinders Labels 1 die
Ribbon received thru grab bag offer at Taylored Expressions
Button from given to me by my mama

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2nd post for the day - All That Scraps Challenge #24

Ok, so i know i said i'd be back with my card for my sketch... but i lied. Well, not entirely. I will be back with that, but i had started this project yesterday and i wanted to finish it (and clean off my craft table!) before i started on a new project. Even though i'm not currently on any design teams, i still feel like i have so much crafting to do this week! WHy? Because everyone has new stamp releases coming out and with these sneak peeks i want them all! And it seems like each company has challenges, and sketches, and prizes to be won! Oh i love it! So, with the recent no spending and use up what i have motto (imposed much more so by my husband than myself), the opportunity to win the stamps means a happier husband. haha. If not, i'm just going to seriously try to work some magic because all these new releases are steller!

Ok, back to my project...

Who says halloween has to be over after october? I had an idea to do something cute with a box and halloween pictures so when i read the All That Scraps challenge for this week (read the blog entry here) i thought, oh this will be perfect!

So i made my pizza box using this tutorial and then used some images from the september CC Designs releases. I colored my little "bat bear" with copic markers and used patterned paper from reminisce.


For the inside i put together a sort of "jacob's ladder" only much simpler. To do this, i simply cut square pieces of chipboard to fit inside the box. I connected them using pieces of grosgrain ribbon. My ribbon does not run down each chipboard square though it looks like it does. I cheated and just used strips about an inch and a half long and glued them to the chipboard using fabritac (which is a super strong adhesive, acid free, but bonds ribbon to paper like cement!). Then i topped each piece of chipboard (front and back) with a piece of black cardstock. Then i decorated each square piece (front and back)

So when you open the box you see this...


And as you lift the ladder (using ribbon i looped on the top piece) you see the ladder of different chipboard squares. Keep in mind there are no photos. Each year i will add the halloween photo from that year. By the time the boys are about 10, it will be full! But i can always add more pieces. The backside will have photos as well. But i wanted you to see the project without photos since i only have a couple of years to put on there for now!
Here's a picture of the ladder...


and here's 2 photos so you can see what the ladder (which is removable) looked like.



Thanks for stopping by for a 2nd time today!

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