Color Your Own Paperdolls

Mom - this is for you!  My mom loves paper dolls.  She collects them and fondly remembers playing with them as a child.  I keep an eye out for vintage paper dolls to add to her collection.  Mom, these aren't vintage, but they are cute!

Paper Sweeties has darling girl (and boy) stamps and clothes that are perfect for paper dolls.  This kit is packed in an armoire box (here's the side view).

Paper dolls, clothes, notecards, envelopes, seals, and crayons are all packed inside.

Just add tabs to the clothes to change them into paper doll clothes and check to see if anything needs to be done to "doll" for the tabbed clothes to fit.  For example, Abigail needs her hair cut away from her shoulders so the tabs can be slipped over her shoulders.

Paper Sweeties is gearing up for the June Release.  For this kit, I used the new Faith Hope Love and Wedding Day sets.  The Paper Sweeties blog is showing sneak peeks today.  Let's go see what everyone's created!

Supplies

armoire pattern    |    mini hanger     |  gold ink  

rustic cream cardstock    |    envelope

    

Christmas Treat House for MTME

Scroll down one post to see the new June Paper Sweeties sketch and my take on it.

Yesterday was Halloween in May.  Today it's Christmas in June!  I have a different template to show you though.  This one is Carry It.   Tt works great as a house, too and you can find it at My Time Made Easy.

The door, windows and wreath are from the new set There's No Place Like Home.  The snowman is a digital stamp (Made of Snow) and the sentiment is from Homemade Holiday Sentiments.  I love this diagonal stripe paper.  It is from the Candy Claus papers.

Check these blogs for other house and housewarming ideas:

Lauren Meader
Pattie Goldman

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Kalus

Karien van der Westhuizen

Jackie Randolph

Tracy Holmes

Romaine Rancier

Wendy McGaffey

Dawn Barwick

Mary Vogel

Check out the New Products section at My Time Made Easy to see the entire June release.  So glad you stopped by!

June Paper Sweeties Sketch

It's time for the new Paper Sweeties Sketch!  Here it is:

And here's my card:

The sentiment is from Live Love Grow.  To find that stamp set and many more check out the Paper Sweeties store.  Check out the Paper Sweeties Blog for all the information and prize for the Sketch.  I would love for you to join us!

Halloween Treat Box for MTME

Halloween in May - love little houses, love Halloween - it hardly matters that it's not really Halloween time!  And it hardly matters that this template is really not a house!  But that's what I saw when I looked at it.  It's called Tapered Off,  it can be used for ANY occasion, and it's new from My Time Made Easy.

I was really amazed when I opened up the new stamp set and saw a door and windows - that worked perfectly!   And look at that sweet little wreath (I think they probably had Christmas in mind, but I thought I could add a few black stars and that might make you think of Halloween)!  

The kitty and pumpkin are a digital single (Purr-fect Pumpkin).   So great that the digital images can be printed out just the size I need.

The tag hanging on the side was cut using Homemade Holiday Labels.  The sentiment and star flags were printed from Hauntingly Homemade Labels.

Let's find out what all the other ideas are for the Tapered Off template - we can find them here:

Lauren Meader
Pattie Goldman

Kimberly Morrow

Lisa Kind
Lori Kalus

Karien van der Westhuizen

Jackie Randolph

Tracy Holmes

Romaine Rancier

Wendy McGaffey

Dawn Barwick

Mary Vogel

Have fun!

Photo Cards for Suzanne

What are you working on?  "Suzanne card."   That is often my answer when Dennis asks me.  Suzanne loves to take pictures and she and her husband take lots of trips with their friends.   I met Suzanne about 4 years ago.  She started buying my cards from a local antique store here in OKC and then called me to ask if I would make some cards just for her.   I also made her wedding invitations and wedding book about three years ago.

She has a great idea here:   Suzanne emails me one of her pictures from a trip, I create and she uses them to write notes or thank yous to the couples that go with them.

I think the cactus picture is gorgeous, but there's something about the black and white cabin that I just love.  This is one of their anniversary cards:

I try to keep the cards simple, so that the photograph takes center stage.   Have a happy Memorial Day and a BIG THANK YOU to all veterans and current duty military!

Supplies

pattern kraft paper    |    ticket die    |    ticket stamps

silver metallic twine     |     letters die    |    black/white twine

State Notecards

A lot of people LOVE their state.   My grandma thinks Oklahoma is the cat's meow.  We've just had a major disaster in Moore (about 12 minutes from my house), where a tornado took out most of the suburb.  It also destroyed two elementary schools, where some children lost their lives.  Tragedies like this bring out the best in many people and Oklahomans have shown their best through volunteering and donations.  We are also hearing hero stories of people throwing themselves over others, like teachers protecting their students.  In the midst of heartbreak, people have rallied for each other.  Maybe my grandma is right - Oklahoma may be the cat's meow!  Keep these Oklahomans in your thoughts.  Thank you!

 I always look for Oklahoma items (like pillows, tea towels, ornaments, books...) for Christmas for my grandma.  I designed some Oklahoma notecards for her and my mom.  (I already gave a set to my mom, but  my grandma will have to wait!)  

These are super easy to make.   You can personalize them for your state or someone else's state for a gift.  You can find state outlines at the silhouette online store (if you have a silhouette) or you can even do it the old fashioned way by cutting them out yourself.  Find state outline sheets here.  

Maps can still be found at gas stations and some book stores.   You  could punch hi or hello or something like that on the frame.  If you have a silhouette machine, I'm sure you could find a frame ready to go in the store.

So glad you stopped by!

Oh, Baby!

Vintage baby images are just the sweetest!  Well, some are a little scary, but not these from Nicecrane Designs.  And it looks like I have a bare hiney again!  I have to say one of the emails I most look forward to is an email from Ignacio showing all his new images.  What a fun "job" it is to showcase these cuties!

Oh, I have to tell you about the paper I found at Staples. I've been looking for some gold and silver paper that I really like.  This is it!   It comes 8 1/2 x 11 in silver and gold.  There are colors, as well, but I was interested in the metallics.  

I used circle dies, my silhouette, and hole punch to create gold circles for these cards.  

I'm sure I could have done it all with the Silhouette, but what can I say?  I like variety!  Then I found that I really liked the dots random looking in placement and in size, rather than in typical alternating polka dot rows.  (Not that I don't like those, too - I tend to love polkas!)

I love the vellum bands on these!  I printed the sentiments centered horizontally on of a piece of 8 1/2  x 11 vellum, which gave me plenty of room to wrap it around the card.  "Airing my views" came directly from this image - that's what it says (very tiny) under her.   I thought that was perfect for a thank you card.  So this is the "view" I printed for the inside:

You can find the "Born to be Wild" set (along with LOTS of others) at Nicecrane Designs.

Have a wonderful week!