MTME

Sorry I have not been able to post much. Life has been hectic around here. We have lots going on and not enough hours in the day to get everything done on the to do list. We have Halloween coming with lots of parties, a bridal shower for my husbands's niece, Diana, both kiddos have birthdays in November, then comes Thanksgiving and the Christmas frenzy begins. I promise to post all of the acivities going on in the house. I am already mentally tired but I already have Christmas on my mind too so I decided to make a Christmas card. I used the Mr. Claus digital stamp, isn't he adorable, and the Tis the Season paper pack which I need to mention in only $1.00. Mr.Claus digital stamp only costs $3.00 so for little investment you can create some really cute cards. I printed the paper, made the card, paper pieced and colored  Mr. Claus and added flock to his santa suit. You will see more of him this holiday season  he is cute for tags and adding on to boxes as decor. Well I will leave you with our Halloween pictures from a party last weekend. Please play along with the MTME design team I look forward to I seeing your creations and interpretation of the sketch here.

 P.S. yes my third grade, eight year old daughter is as tall as I am it is sad but true. Have a great day ladies.

MTME Pretty Pattern Design

Well it's time for another MTME design and I must say I just love the product! I know we are getting ready for Halloween now but I just could not stop thinking about all the things and people that I am thankful for this year.....Sometimes I just need to stop running around and remember to be thankful for how fortunate, I have been this last year.
It's now time to talk about this card. I saw this pattern paper and just fell in love with it. Once you get to know me better you will realized there are 2 patterns I just go gaga over Damask and Quatrefoil, they are my weakness. I used the Thankful Digital Stamp set which I think is a great deal at $2 and very versatile since you could make it any size or color you need with the stamps being digital but then I stumbled upon this gorgeous Dainty Damask paper. The card is an A2 size card. I used the
Thankful stamp set and Dainty Damask paper From MTME. I colored it with prismacolor pencils and some stickles. I added some bling and embossed quatrefoil from Cuttlebug and layered everything together. I hope you like my card.
Won't you join us for this week's challenge? We would love to see what you create! You can link your project HERE. Sketch Keyword is MTMEPPS73.

MTME Pretty Pattern Design

Well it's been a bit hectic around here...soccer season, school projects and just life in general. I am surprised I got this card made on time. We are getting into the swing of Halloween around here, costume shopping with the kids and thought this card would jump start me into the season. My card was made with the  Spooky Surprise digital stamp set and Hauntingly Homemade Paper. I just loved the witch's feet and the all of the elements included with the stamp set. I used my nestabilities to cut out the borders around the stamps and added Micheal's $1.00 bin rhinestones in purple and black. I used prismacolor pencils and glitter gel pens to color in the stamp. I printed all of the paper on one 8.5x11 sheet of cardstock and used my Cuttlebug Spider Web embossing folder. Sorry the picture is not that great, but I took the picture at night with poor lighting:(   I used my Martha Stewart graveyard border punch. Well I am off  to start running around again have a great day!!!!!

MTME Pretty Pattern Design

I have been working on my MTME Pretty Pattern Design card. I purchased Photoshop Elements to work with the digital stamps and paper and discovered like anything else it has a learning curve  but the savings in storage space and the ability to have all of my colors match was great. I loved this digital stamp set from MTME Grammy's Sewing Kit and the matching paper. I created a card for the seamstress in our lives my MIL, who has an upcoming birthday. I knew this card needed some sewing elements as well. I printed all of the digital paper on one  8x11 sheet of cardstock including the stamp. I grabbed some lace and ribbon and ruffled it on my Janome mini and added some decorative pins. Following the card, sketch I added 3 buttons to the bottom and rhinestones on top of them for some bling. This card came together in no time at all. Below you can see the sketch. and a close up of the bling buttons. Hope you like it and that it lives up to the rest of  the design team's talent.

Stamping Bella Bday Card

 

I needed a Birthday card for a young lady and there is always a Stamping Bella stamp that seems to be appropriate for every occasion. I stamped my Bella with Memento ink colored her in with my Prismacolor pencils. Stamped a PTI Happy Birthday on vellum and attached 2 buttons. The curve on the bottom of the green piece of cardstock was cut with my nesties and I attached stones. Voila a Birthday card!!!! I have soccer games today with the kiddos and its picture day so I will be out on the hot humid fields all day. We will jump into the pool upon the immediate arrival to our home.

Just a simple inside to have a pretty spot to write  birthday wishes for the recipient...Have a great weekend.

MTME Pretty Patterns

I am excited to announce I have been selected to be on the MTME Pretty Patterns Team. We will have sketches assigned and have to create a card with Lauren Meader's great digital stamps and paper. I hope my creative juices can live up to the team's talent. I am still learning how to work with the digital stamps and paper but I am sure with time I will learn some shortcuts. For now, I created a hair bow card to match gift wrapping paper that I purchased at Target for a birthday gift for my daughter's friend.

I am hoping for a Silhouette but for now I used my Expression and Make the Cut to create the card. The card base is 4.25 x 5.5 an A2 card. I embossed piece of purple cardstock with my seeing spots cuttlebug embossing folder. In Make the Cut, I created a tag and cut a square and so I would have how to attach the bow to the card, I punched two holes with a regular hole punch and with my exacto knife cut a straight line and attached it with pop dots. I used one of my Cricut Cartridges to cut the leaves in green cardstock and taped everything with my ATG. I used the colors that were on the gift wrapping paper as my inspiration. The bow was just a flower glued to a hair clip and a large rhinestone glued to the center. The lines around the card were done with a good old fashion ruler and a white gel pen. The stamps were my sister's PTI stamps I believe I used the number and handmade stamp from one of the friendship jars fillers. I put the card into a clear PTI box so the hair bow was visible. I hope she liked the card and bow......I hope you enjoyed it as well.

Design Team Call!! for My Time Made Easy

I have always been a lurker on Lauren Meader's Blog My Time.....I have loved to watch her gift for making boxes and 3d items....Her kids would not throw out any packaging in the house until she gave the ok. I would just laugh at some of her posts. She could tear apart things and create a template. Her templates are so precise and easy to use. She is the reason I even own a Cricut.... Now I have a chance to tryout for her design team so I figured let me give it a try. Since my blog has been so neglected and this is one of my goals it will inspire me to start blogging again. Here are my two entries for the design team: Pretty Patterns Sketch #67 with Pretty Palette #65

For this card I used my Cricut and Make the Cut to create a slider card. I used the colors from Pretty Palette #65 which were white, dark gray, and yellow. I used patterned paper from DCWV Lemon Flower. My second entry is Pretty Patterns #66 with Pretty Palette #60

I used a stamp from Papertrey Ink with embossing so the flower would stand out. I stamped lines around the edge of a Kraft color cardstock, the matted pattern paper is from My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy 6x6 papers. I hope you enjoyed my entries. I tried to show my style at the two extremes a fast and easy card and one that takes more time and supplies. I would like to thank Lauren for this opportunity and for all that she has shared with her readers over the years. http://mytimemadeeasy.com/blog/?p=3940

Part 3 of the Jane Austen Inspired Party

It was great to have a stamping party where everyone worked on one stamp set. We all helped each other create wonderful cards and yet each was very different. What inspired me to make this card was the paper. I love black and creme or just black and white. The elegant designs in the background just made me feel like I was in a Jane Austen story or movie. This was so easy to make. All I used was patterned paper, oval nestabilities, black brads, pop dots, black ribbon and tiny pearls to use on the silhouette.


The inside of the card I used my own generated sentiment on the computer using my Jane Austen font. Hope you like it!!!

Part 2 of the Jane Austen Inspired Cards

The next card was made by Patti, my sister's sister-in-law. I absolutely love this card because it is so elegant for a wedding. The entire card was made with nestabilities, a cuttlebug embossing folder and pearls. What do you think about this one? I bet you wish you were at our party!!! A little wine, some paper and some stamps and the creative juices just start to flow out of our fingers.



Don't you just love that veil? I fell in love with that little touch on the card. I love the versatility of this stamp. You can make a wedding, birthday, and a hello friend card. Hey for all you card makers out there, what other type of card can we make using this stamp? Leave a comment if you have a different idea. We would love to hear from you!!!!

Jane Austen Inspired Cards

I know I live in the year 2012 but I have such a passion for the 1800-1900s. When I saw the Hero Arts Silhouettes stamp, I just knew I had to have it! Not only did I get it, but my sister and her sister-in-law too. So, I decided we should have a "Stamping of the Silhouettes" party at my house. We had a little wine, some snacks and the creative juices just started to flow. I will show you the cards we made one day at a time. We were so inspired by this set and our love for Jane Austen that we made many cards to show you and hope to make many more different ones in the future.



This first card was my creation using pearls on the silhouette. It's a very simple card. I used my oval nestabilities, brown polka dot paper, and dark brown paper. The Jane Austen font I downloaded for free and typed the birthday sentiment on a little banner. Here is the inside of the card:



On the inside I used the same polka dot paper and my nestabities and added the sentiment using my Jane Austen font. I hope you like it. Let me know what you think!

We're Back!!!!

Sorry we have been absent from blogging for so long but summer has been busy with the kiddos and now we are plunging into back to school shopping since the kids will be starting school in a couple of weeks. I have not created much since I decided to convert the home office (my hubby doesn't use anymore) into my scrapbook studio. The deal was it could not look like a scrapbook store since the office is across from my bedroom and front doors of the house. I had my supplies in a closet in the laundry room and would work on the dinette table and would have to clean everything up everytime someone wanted to eat (the nerve). So after hours of shredding paper and purging of scrapbook supplies and organizing, this is the result.

This is what the office looks like from the inside. I got a punch of clearance boxes at Michael's and labeled all of them so I could easily find my toys.

This cabinet stores 3 foldable boxes from Walmart with my inks, embellishments, embossing powders and stickers. My cricut and cartridges are on the second shelf with my rolls of vinyl behind it. The 3rd shelf has my printer with my Martha scoring board and paper cutters. Behind the doors of my cabinets are my ribbon,seam binding, stamps that are in cd cases (which I unmounted to save space), my big shot, embossing folders and nestabilities. Below the white binder holds all of my dollar stamps from Micheals and Joannes and my embroidery floss is in the other binder.


In the clear stoarge drawers all of my chipboard letters, shapes and big sheets.
Now you can see all of the boxes labeled with my goodies and I have my markers, pencils, prefolded cards, mini photo printer, lots and lots of buttons, flowers and pins.
I will show you the rest of the room later and I have another cabinet arriving tommorrow for more goodies. I will open the drawers and cabinets and show you how I store my goodies. Hopefully my creative juices will start flowing to make crafty goodness. See u soon

My New Idea

Don't you hate it when you have a stamp set you fell in love with at the store, you purchase it with every intention of making many cards with it and then look at it months later and say, "I don't know what to do with this stamp." Well now I have solved my unused stamp set problem. And let me tell you I have a lot of stamps sitting in my closet unused. I am so creatively drained that I now search to see what others have done with the same stamp set and just recreate it. I love making cards but I just don't have to time to be creative and my stash is just piling up. Here is what I have 'cased' from other crafters that have the same set I have. Please understand me when I say I take no credit for coming up with these cards. All I am guilty is of loving the design and recreating it at home. I hope I can help all of you out there who have the same stamp set and don't know what to do with it. Enjoy!!!

Let me begin by saying the first stamp set I have featuring today is from Inkadinkado: Garden Delight and Autumn Leaves: Flourish set.









You can see the original card I cased it from here and here

All I did was emboss the flourishes, colored the butterflies using my Stampin Up markers. I also colored some of the butterflies using colored pencils and gamsol. I used Prima flowers and my Martha Stewart lattice punch, doily lace and lattice corner punch. This card was very easy to do but very elegant. You can change the sentiment to make it whatever you want it to say. It is such a versatile card. I hope to add more ideas from one set you can get a lot of use from it. Please let me know if this helped you.
Thanks for viewing.

September 2010 Papertrey Blog Hop

The CHALLENGE IS:

One of the most fun things about this hobby is the people you meet, whether in person or online, and the things you learn from them. Now is your chance to show off any skills you might have learned from a fellow stamper, and perhaps even give them a little shout out to thank them for the inspiration they have provided. Create a project using one of your favorite learned skills and perhaps after a little blog hopping, we will ALL learn some new tips and tricks and continue to pass on the love of this hobby!

This is a great challenge because I was feeling uncreative and I couldn't find the time to do the hobby I love. Then I came across Mish's post. I would like to start by giving a SHOUT-OUT to Mish. Thanks Mish for that great post about having a date with my stamps and feeling creative again. I was just searching for ideas for a Halloween card and got my idea and technique from Monica, the M.A.D stamper. She used a sponging and masking technique and this is what I created.


I used the largest nestie for the circle. Then I used a smaller nestie to cover the center of the larger circle. Next, I used my brayer to color the whole circle orange, then I took off the center circle and what I was left with was a white center. I sponged a little yellow in the middle and then stamped the tree using PTI's Through the Trees. Finally, I sponged black around the edges and added some bats and embellishment and VOILA, the Halloween card was made.



It was so simple and quick to make, I cranked out five in no time with lots of different paper. .

Remember and Never Forget 9/11/01

The world changed for all of us on this day....but remember and pray for those who lost so much..

Mission Organization

Sorry it has been a while but with school underway I feel like my head is spinning! Between driving to two school (I have one in middle school and the other in elementary), afterschool practices (baseball and dance), I barely have time to breathe let alone sit down and be crafty. So last night I decided that I had to organize my life so I can get back to doing what I love.

I went to this great blog called eighteen25 and the mom on this blog had a wonderful and cute way to organize myself for the week. She gives this awesome template that you see in the picture frame. I printed it on cardstock that matches the scrapbooking paper I put behind it. I sponged it a bit with different ink pads to give it a vintage feel. I matched the colors to my kitchen because I love fall colors and my house is filled with rusty reds, greens, browns (you get the picture.)
I got the frame from Walmart for $4. What a steal and I got a fine tip overhead projection marker that wipes right off the frame with water and the kids can't take it off by just wiping it with their fingers. (HA HA Mom's little secret.) If you use a dry-erase marker curious children like my son will erase your entire month in one second. That's tragic. This ideas is great because I'll only shop for the food I need for the week and just get what I need and I hate thinking about what to cook and if I already know ahead of time cooking can be done in a snap. I still have to fill my calendar but I just wanted to share this great organizational but classy tool for your home. Hey and its eco-friendly. I'm not wasting paper: just write, wipe and use again. Here is where you can get the template. Let me know what you think. I love it!!!!

August 2010 Papertrey Blog Hop

Hi Ladies!!!Long time I haven't posted but life has just taken off with school starting this week and I started working 12 hr shifts this week but that I will leave for another post....I didn't think I would make it tonight my shift as a nurse was a little longer than anticipated. I realized I dont own any of the PTI Halloween stamps so I had to be creative since I wanted to make a Halloween paper gift bag...I hope you like it !!!!

Bella and Prismacolor pencils

Sorry it has been a while since my last post but I took the kids to Disney World and let me tell ya I had to recover from that vacation!!!! My legs were achy, I had tons of laundry and I had to do some school supply shopping. UGH!! But here I am doing what I love and I wanted to share with you how easy it is to color with your Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.
Here is a card made by another blogger that I admire, Stephanie from the UK.

She created this beautiful card using her Copic markers and I thought to myself, can't I create this too with my Prismas? So I tried and here are the results.
Now here is my card.

Now here is what I used color it. For the pants: PC947 Dark Umber for the edges and PC940 Dark brown for shading or lightly coloring in the pants. Do the same thing for the jacket. I used PC956 Lilac for the dark highlights and PC1026 Greyed Lavender to lightly color the jacket. Then I also used it to color in the bags and the headband. I used PC1005 Limepeel for the flowers on the bag, PC1086 Sky Blue Light all around the image, and used PC944 Terra Cotta and PC945 Sienna Brown for her hair. This is what your image should look like before you apply Gamsol.

Now use your odorless paint thinner and a blending stump to blend the colors together and this is what your image will look like after you blend.

Of course you can't just color the image once and that's it. Now I took my dark brown and colored the pants again to make them even darker. It is your own preference of how dark you want it to be. Then I used my blending stump again dipped in Gamsol and here is the final result.


What do you think?

July 2010 Papertrey Blog Hop 2

This is my entry, Yvette, for the PTI July Bloghop. I was inspired to do this set by Laurel Seagrave. Her notecard inspired me to use my damask stamps from PTI. My set includes: a birthday calendar, tin paper-clip holder, notecards with stationery box, wall hanging and matching notepad. All items can be placed in my gable box as a wonderful gift box. I will also give you the details on how I made each of these items when I post again. Office supplies used are: paper-clips, binder ring to hold wall hanging and birthday calendar, and a paper pad. Take a look and enjoy!!

July 2010 Papertrey Blog Hop

Here is my entry (Vanessa) for Papertrey Ink's July Blog Hop. Being a teacher and seeing their July release I was inspired to make a teacher set. I hope you like it. It was extremely easy and fun to make. I will give you all the details and show you each item. I used Teacher's Apple, Just for You and the library card stamps from PTI to make this set. It includes office supplies because one is a post-it holder, a notecard holder, a long note pad, and a card that has a removable bookmark. Again I will share the details of each item on my next post.