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Happy Saturday everyone! I'm here with a sneak peek from My Time Made Easy. Lauren has created some fantastic templates once again, and I have a fabulous one to share today. It's called Carry It and we have some terrific stamp sets from Lauren and Catherine Doucette for the holidays that you won't want to miss out on! Here's my take on Carry It.
What you are looking at is a gingerbread house on steroids! LOL!!! I googled gingerbread houses and found that most of them are loaded with candy canes, lattice pretzels, gum drops, and icing! So that's what I did using every new stamp set being released this month and then some! One of the gingerbread houses I saw had candy canes framing the door, and I tried to mimic that here. The only thing is that this image is really a peppermint stick. I just bent the stamp on my block to create a sort of candy cane. The door is from the previously released Home Improvement stamp set. All the images on this side were stamped in Ranger Snow Cap pigment ink, then embossed with white embossing powder. 
I love the windows in this set called Sugar & Spice. There is a beautiful matching door that was too large to used with my candy canes. I love the lollipop and those delicate snowflakes. The windows were just begging to be decorated with holly and berries.
Is this a cute gingerbread girl or what? In The Gingersnaps stamp set, there is also a man and a boy. I love the peppermint candies too!
This is the smaller of the two deer in the Dashing Through the Snow stamp set. I've added tons of stickles to EVERYTHING on this template! I just love all the sparkle! The snow/icing on the bottom is a Martha Stewart icicle border punch. The icing hanging from the roof is also a Martha Stewart border punch (I can't remember the name). The roof is from the Cherry on Top digital paper from MTME also.You can see more of this template on our DT blogs by stopping by some of our MTME DT blogs.
You can also get lots of inspiration in the My Time Made Easy Gallery. Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back on Monday (release day) with a MTME group post from the MTME DT! See you then!
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Isn't it fabulous and so real-looking? 
I had some scraps of the 
I had a hard time deciding what to use on my card, there's so much to choose from! I decided to use the glittery brads since I don't seem to use them often anymore. They are so pretty! Here's what I did. 
Witches should be green, right? She's colored with copic markers and then I made the background look ominous with a scalloped circle and basic gray ink. I kind of got a little heavy handed in the one spot! A storm is brewing in that area! I used 
Whenever I see colors like these, my thoughts always turn to Graphic 45 paper. This paper plus a Mojo sketch turns to this. 
Now I cannot take credit for the light shining on the cat idea. This was done on a card I saw at my LSS using this stamp (which is why I purchased it!), and I fell in love with the idea. I stamped the image on vintage cream cardstock, then masked off the area for the light and inked it up in wild honey distress ink. Easy peasy! I added a black mat punched with a border punch, the dp, and some kraft taffeta ribbon. I used the Mojo Monday sketch from this week (flipped on its side), which is why I added that black piece on the bottom punched with a Martha Stewart punch. I don't know that I like it much, but it was the only way I could figure out how to get that element in there. The sentiment is from 
I went all out in super sweet pink! I used dp from DCWV called The Sweet Stack. It's already glittered up (which I love)! I've been in a paper piecing mood lately, so I decided to piece the bowl in the coordinating dp I used on my card. I stamped and colored the image with copics on X-press paper, then cut it out. I cut, embossed, and swirled some Worn Lipstick distress ink around the cardstock while still in the die. Then I adhered the image to that piece. I added some sparkle with glitter pens on the spoon and jimmies. The bottom was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and I added the brads (from the 
I used a piece of acetate as the base of my card. It's just the stuff you can put through your printer to make a transparency. The image, purple cardstock, and dp are from 
These Moody girls are so crazy to color! You can really use your imagination when coloring them! I couldn't make out what some of the things were that she is holding, but it didn't matter because I am the artist coloring it, right? No need to be intimidated! So I just colored in two shades of brown and two shades of pink. (I guess I'm in a pink and brown mood...my post yesterday used these colors, and I think I'm going to wear pink and brown to work today!) The sentiment is also new this month from a set called 
When my husband and I went to Costa Rica, we were trying to find souvenirs to bring home. Someone at the hotel suggested Costa Rican coffee from a little coffee shop around the corner from the hotel. We just laughed because we don't drink coffee, but our parents do, and it never even occured to us to buy some coffee for them from a place that grows the coffee beans and is noted for their coffee! It was a "duh" moment, for sure!
For the card, I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch, but flipped the flower to the other side. I stamped the cup from 
It's hard to see on the coffee bean digital paper when it's cut up, but the beans create the shape of the cup! Pretty nifty design! 
He reminds me of an English schoolboy...think of Prince William and Prince Harry. I colored him to match this dp I just purchased this weekend. It's the Communique Collection from Graphic 45. I wanted an old-school or formal look to this card, and this paper was perfect. It also sort of reminds me of a Burberry pattern. The layout is from this week's SCS sketch. The red pieces were run through Canvas Impression plate from PTI and I just added the black pearls. The sentiment is also a new one this month.
I put the candy corn in a bag and tied it with a ribbon. I made a tag using SU's tag punches. I used the 
I really like the way this tag came out...with my new courage to cut apart my stamps! LOL!! 
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