My Time to Create Template Challenge #06

Hey blog friends!  It's time for another challenge with Lauren Meader and the my time team.  This week is a challenge to use a My Timeless Template to create beautiful packaging for candy! 

I chose the Recipe Wrap Up template...one of the freebies offered by Lauren over at Papertrey Ink!

I will be giving my gift to my cousin and his wife-to-be on their wedding day in october.  The recipe wrap is the perfect way to house individual messages from our family of four, plus something sweet to represent their sweet love, and the "moola"  as I like to give good old cash for the actual wedding present.

After sliding the decorative belt off of the wrap-up, it unfolds to show the 6 individual pockets inside.

Hershey bars fit perfectly inside!  Yet another great template design by Lauren Meader!

Want some more inspiration?  Check out the My Time to create team:

Lauren Meader

Alicia Weiman

MacKenzie Bruckler

Maria Levine

Kendra Wisenbaker

Kristen Beuter

Tracey Cuccia

Pam Imholtz

Odette

Lisa Kind

Tamara Harder

They will for sure tempt your taste buds and your craft mojo with their candy re-dos.  I hope you'll take some creative time to try one of the templates for the challenge this week.  Link us up to your creation on the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog so we can all see!

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by!

MTTC 06 My Time to Color Challenge ...Happy Owl-oween

Wooooohooooooo...it's Saturday with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create Challenge team! This week is a color challenge to spark your creativity. Be sure and link your project at the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog.

the challenge:

my card:

I love this cool owl from My Cute Stamps Happy Owl-oween set! So fun to paper piece with the DP from Stampin Up! and to color with markers. I also highlighted the big eyes with crystal effects and dotted on white dimensional paint on the DP. Some embossed spider webbing rubbed with vintage cream ink adds some fun texture too!

Check out the My Time team for more fabulous inspiration!

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Odette
Tamara Harder

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a fantastic and creative day!

Supplies:

Stamps: My Cute Stamps

Paper, ink and crystal effects: Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink

Embossing envelope: spiderweb from cuttlebug

Other: paper piercer,pinking sheers, ribbon and tiny brads

My Time to Inspire 06 Challenge - {Sweet as honey}

I spy with my little eye...chocolate and glitter and flowers, oh MY! Hey friends! It's saturday so you know what that means...a my time challenge with Lauren and the my time challenge team! This week is an inspiration challenge so use any part of the challenge photo to inspire your project.

the challenge:

my card:

All kinds of favorites here...glitter, scallops, button, Papertrey stamps, swiss dots embossing envelope and sewing. I love this combo of chocolate and light blue with white or cream.

Some glitter accents on the silk flower make it sparkle! Speaking of sparkle, let me link you to some talented ladies who always sparkle....check out what the my time team has come up with this week:

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kendra Wisenbaker
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Jen Tapler
Odette
Lisa Kind
Tamara Harder

Be sure to visit Kristen's blog for a Mr Linky to submit your creation. You could be one of Lauren's favorite projects highlighted in the My Time to Shine top 5!

Have a creative weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

My Time Sketch #35 and Raspberry Suite #16.....{It's Harvest Time}

OK, challenge people, are you ready for a two-fer? It's time for another saturday challenge with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create Design Team....today Lauren has a great sketch for us!

Sketch Challenge:

I also wanted to get in on Dawn McVey's color challenge so I applied her chosen colors to Lauren's sketch, mixed in a whole lot of my "own interpretation" and ta-da! A card was born :)

Color Challenge:

Well, these are not my usual colors but they work here I think. I picked up this awesome vintage owl and It's Harvest Time sheet music at The Graphics Fairy...one of my favorite places for free vintage images. I converted the owl image to black and white in my Microsoft Word program and also changed the tint on the sheet music so it would be a kraft color.

Lots of textures here...let's begin with a glitter loaded backdrop! Gasp! Yes, I dumped fine glitter all over the chocolate cardstock. It's so spooky and sparkley! The chunk of sheet music is printed on cream cardstock and accordion folded so it adds dimension. The Damask Designs stamp set was the perfect way to stamp some leafy looking DP plus I roughed up the edges of that piece with a distressor from SU!. The chocolate cardstock that provides a mat for the owl has been embossed with a scor-pal and has vintage cream ink rubbed over the ridges. The final touches are some salvaged trim from a lampshade I was tossing, the fence punch from Martha Stewart and a couple of buttons from the old stash.

Want to see more fabulous cards inspired by the sketch from the My Time team? Don't forget to upload your creation to the Mr Linky that will be on Lauren's blog. You could be recognized in her weekly My Time to Shine top 5!

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kendra Wisenbaker
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Jen Tapler
Odette
Lisa Kind
Tamara Harder

OK, gotta run! I hope you get a chance to make something this weekend and that you enjoy your Labor Day. We'll be spending ours bbq-ing with friends! Can't wait!

Supplies:

• Paper: Georgia Pacific and Papertrey Ink
• Digital Images: The Graphics Fairy blog
• Stamps: Papertrey Ink
• Ink: SU!
• Glitter: Martha Stewart
• Punch: Martha Stewart
• Craft supplies: trim, button, floss
  
  
  

My Time to Create Template Challenge #05 and SPCC#11...sweet picnic

Happy Saturday Friends! It's time for another challenge with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create Challenge team. It's template time! Time to make something with one of Lauren's My Timeless Templates offered at Papertrey Ink....there are even two freebies so give em a try if you haven't already. And, I'm also using color inspiration from the fabulous Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Challenge blog. Have you seen this one yet? Always amazing eye candy over there!

the challenges:

my project:

The template challenge is two fold this week....use a template AND make it school themed. So this little basket called Pack a Picnic has been transformed with green galore cardstock from Stampin Up and stamps from Stampin UP and Papertrey Ink. This is the perfect shade of green for those snappy granny smith apples! Might as well start off on the right foot with your teacher and bring him or her an apple in a super fun container!

I added the brown to the outer edge of the stamped apple by first inking it up with green galore and then rolling the stamp edges into the brown ink. A very time honored stamping technique that never fails to impress me!

The fun part about 3-D projects is that they show well from every angle! I used a stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the row of small apple stamps and the "basket grid" is the grid stamp from Papertrey's Guidelines set. The handles are strung onto the button floss that is then threaded through the side of the basket and taped to the inside. I think the buttons really give it a little something special. :)

Are you ready for some amazing inspiration from the design team? Check them out:

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kendra Wisenbaker
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Jen Tapler
Odette
Lisa Kind
Tamara Harder

Don't forget that Lauren will be picking her fave five to highlight this week. You will find the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog so hook us up oh crafty ones. We can't wait to see what you are making! Thanks so much for coming by this week!

Supplies:

• Template: Lauren Meader
• Paper: SU! and Georgia Pacific
• Stamps: SU!, Papertrey Ink and Provo Craft
• Ink: Colorbox and SU!
• Punch: SU!
• Other craft supply: embroidery floss, brad, buttons, gingham ribbon

My Time to Create Color Challenge #4 (MTTC04)...the butterfly effect

Hey everyone! Coming to you live from a cabin by the river in northern Cali...thank YOU blogger scheduler! It's time to get creative with Lauren Meader and the gals of the My Time to Create Challenge design team! This week it's all about the colors, dahlings, and they are quite lively for sure. Don't forget, Lauren will be highlighting the top five projects that are linked up with the Mr Linky on her blog for the color challenge. Could be YOU! I hope you give this challenge a try :)

the challenge:

my project:

As you can see, I was inspired by ALL of it...even the display graphic for the challenge. LOL! I couldn't help myself, these butterflies from the Indie Arts cricut cartridge were P-E-R-F-E-C-T! And, I'll tell you a secret. I bought this cartridge when it first came out....for THESE butterflies...and like everything precious I hoarded them as if they were too precious to use. Can you imagine?? I mean they are a DIE CUT! I could cut them over and over again but no, I had to save them for a "worthy" project! LOL Well, all I can say is thank you My Time challenge. It is time for these pretty butterflies to be free.

OK, enough of my crazy talk...how about some more inspiration?

Check out these uber-talented papercrafters and then let your creative juices flow for your own little bit of play time. Can't wait to see what you make!

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kendra
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Jen Tapler
Lisa Kind
Tamara Harder

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a creative day!

Supplies:

• Paper: Papertrey Ink and Georgia Pacific
• Cartridge: Cricut Indie Arts
• Other: buttons and embroidery floss

My Time to Inspire 05 Challenge - {Bee} Happy

Hey friends! What's the word? What's the BUZZ all about? Well I can think of at least one thing....and that is folks are buzzing about the change to the My Time to Create challenges with Lauren Meader and crew. Lauren will be highlighting favorite challenge projects each week starting with last saturday's challenge! Hooray! Watch for the very first announcement of the My Time To Shine top 5 on Lauren's blog!!! Could be YOU! Or one of your crafty friends...check out the links for last week's challenge on this post from Lauren.

So, are you up for another challenge? This week it's an inspiration challenge so you can use the image to inspire you, may be it inspires you with colors, or maybe layout, or??? you make the call. Be sure and post your project online somewhere and link us up with the Mr Linky that will be on Lauren's blog. Can't wait to see who's in the My Time to Shine Top 5!

the challenge:

my project:

So a little on what inspired me...I liked how the clothesline was full of brightly colored fabrics of all types of patterns, all lined up in a row. And even though each apron was it's own entity, there seemed to be a connecting fabric and/or color as you move your eye down the clothesline. I decided to let the neat clothesline lead me to neat rows of stamped cardstock and the connector be the bees from the Papertrey honey bees stamp set. I let Lauren's choice of highlighted colors be my guide in what color I would stamp each strip with.

I also snuck in two other Papertrey sets: Simply Stationary and Polka dot basics. Here is a closeup of the honey bee within one of the stationary decorative circles. Oh! And stitching since the aprons on the clothesline look handmade.

And finally, some buttons, because who is not loving buttons these days?? I am honestly quite happy to see the button back in vogue in papercrafting. There are just so many ways a button can be the perfect something don't you think??

Ready for MORE inspiration? Check out the My Time design team offerings this week. They are always up to something amazing!

Lauren
Alicia
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristen
Tracey
Jen
Odette
Tamara

Thank you so much for buzzing by! Your visits truly make my day :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU!

Buttons: Papertrey Ink and Foofala

Other: Scrapper's floss, sewing machine and pinking sheers

My Time to Create Sketch #34.....{Sweet} Wishes

Whoooo hooo! It's saturday so you know what that means....it's a challenge with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create design team! I hope you'll join us and make something FUN this week!

the sketch:

my project:

So I altered the sketch in that I changed the offset rectangles behind the main image to circles...because I just CAN'T make offset squares look right (hee hee) AND I was trying to make this card coordinate with my gift card box that I had already made. So the sketch was the springboard for the perfect companion card!

I put the icecream cone from the My Cute Stamps Sweet Chocolate set to work here for our young friend who's turning 10! Also, my fave cuttlebug embosser, swiss dots, and the circles CB embosser which I flipped over and inked with white pigment ink to highlight the recessed areas. Looks like strawberry sherbet to me!

This is my gift ensemble! Fun huh? Oh! And I have to give credit to Rebecca Sower for the yellow gift box with a wire ribbon on the card...I had an old Fresh cuts tag from the Rebecca line that had these cute little boxes but not in the color I needed so I made one mimicking her example.

Be sure and check out all of the amazing sketch contributions from the My Time team:

Lauren
Alicia
MacKenzie
Maria
Tracey
Pam
Jen
Odette
Lisa

Thanks for stopping by! I'm so glad you could visit. Have a wonderful weekend!

My Time to Create Template Challenge #04

Happy Saturday friends! It's time for another challenge from the My Time to Create Challenge design team! This week is a template challenge so you have tons of amazing 3-D project inspiration coming your way!

the challenge:

my project:

I chose the super versatile Get a Handle on It by Lauren Meader for Papertrey Ink. This cute little box holds almost a full canister of Almond Roca with just a few to spare for the gift giver! LOL!

I also used the super cute stamp set and die cut flowers and leaves from the Tickled Pink Scrapbook set from CTMH. Thanks Leigh!

The clear stamps fit perfectly on the precut die cut white cardstock pieces in the kit for easy silhouetting of your stamped images. Awesome! Speaking of awesome.....back to the template! I cut circle shaped windows in the front and the back panels with my coluzzle. I used a piece of clearly creative cardstock to create windows that the gold wrapped almond roca would peek through.

Swiss dots, foam tape and gems give some great design elements to this gift box. This is the perfect box to decorate on all sides. It reminds me of those stationary note cubes...except better because it's handmade with love. :)

And what gift would be complete without a cute card to go with? Using many of the same elements I was able to whip up a matching notecard.

I hope you'll play along this week using a template to make a gift or something fun for yourself. Three are two FREE templates at Papertrey Ink so give em a try, won't you? :)

Supplies:

Template: Lauren Meader for Papertrey Ink

Paper: Papertrey Ink and CTMH

Clearly Creative Cardstock: PApertrey INk

Ink: SU!

Embossing fodler: Cuttlebug

Ribbon: CTMH

Other: craft gems, foam tape

Want more inspiration? Check out what the design team has done this week:

Lauren
Alicia
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristen
Tracey
Pam
Jen
Odette
Lisa
Tamara

The Mr Linky will be at Pam's blog this week so please enter your projects there! Have fun!

My Time to Create Inspiration Challenge #3 {MTTI03}

Happy saturday y'all! It is time to get down and get crafty with Lauren Meader's My Time to Create Inspiration Challenge! It's all about using her inspo photo to inspire something creative. For me it was a card and I used the color combo, the block pattern in the photo and the striped material. I also had this fab bunch of woodblock Birthday stamps from American Crafts to use from a recent box of goodies from Papercrafts magazine. Thank you Papercrafts and American Crafts for such fun stamps that worked perfectly for this project.

the challenge:

my project:

See? Aren't these just the happiest of happy birthday stamps?? :) The pennant just rocks my world and the gift was the perfect image to paper piece. I used the dotted background stamp to stamp dots over the bow portion of the package, detail cut the ribbon and bow and layered it onto the package. The whole package is popped up on foam tape too. The dotted background of the card was stamped by layering on inks from 4 different ink pads and stamping repeatedly across the strip of white. And finally the pennants were stamped and embossed with white on 4 cardstocks from Papertrey Ink: I chose Melon Berry, Summer Sunrise, Ripe Avocado and Ocean Tides. Oh! And the striped background was also stamped using Faux Ribbon from Papertrey Ink. Lots of stamp therapy going on here ;)

Want more inspiration? Check out the MTTC design team creations in the peek below and then click on the links to visit their blogs. You are sure to find a bunch of creative goodness with these gals!

Lauren
Alicia
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristen
Tracey
Pam
Jen
Odette
Lisa
Tamara

I am so glad you stopped by today! Thanks for sharing your day with me! Can't wait to see what you do with this challenge. Please link your creation to the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog so we can all see.

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink, Georgia Pacific

Stamps: American Crafts and Papertrey Ink

Ink: Stampin up! and Papertrey Ink
Embossing powder: Stampin Up

Ribbon: American Crafts

Punch: Stampin Up!