4th of July Treat Box for MTME

Today, for My Time Made Easy, we could use any template and create anything - no particular theme. So, I challenged myself to create a 4th of July treat box.  I looked through the store and finally settled on the Fresh Popped template. 

You can probably tell it's a popcorn box.  But I think it worked pretty well.  Especially with the addition of red and blue and don't forget the white stars cut with Magical Birthday Wishes cut file.  The pinwheels helped it look festive too.  The papers are from Darling Dots 2 and Dotted Stripes 2.

The ticket is from About to Pop - I just added the July 4th part.   

I'll be checking out these blogs to see what templates have been turned into really cute stuff:

Lauren Meader
Pattie Goldman

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Kalus

Karien van der Westhuizen

Jackie Randolph

Tracy Holmes

Romaine Rancier

Wendy McGaffey

Dawn Barwick

Mary Vogel
Farida Rone

                                                                      

Clay Cherries for Paper Sweeties

Please scroll down one post to see a very fun notecard set for My Time Made Easy.  Thank you!

The July Paper Sweeties sketch is revealed!  And I had great fun with it.  I took the opportunity to make clay cherries!!  (More about those later.)  And okay, I admit I took liberties with the sketch.  But that's part of the fun, right?  I kind of squinched (is that a word?) the sketch and put the elements all in one place.  Here's the sketch:

And here is the envelope I created to hold my cherry cards and tags:

See what I mean about squinching?  The two banners and the sentiment are really all sharing the same space.  The hearts and word sentiments are from Little Wishes in the Paper Sweeties store.  Here's a closer look at the round cards and tags featuring clay cherries:

Doesn't it look like I had fun with this project?  The air dry clay is super easy to work with - I was amazed!

How simple is that?  The clay colors are very easy to mix.  You can create just about any color you like from white, red, yellow,, blue, and brown.  Let the clay dry for awhile - I let mine dry overnight.  It is very light, perfect for papercraft embellishments.  I hope you join us at the Paper Sweeties blog  - create a project using the sketch (even squinch it, if you want) and post it for us to see.  I'd love to see you there.

Additional Supplies   

clay mold    |    air dry clay

(I got mine at Michaels.)

Notecard Set for My Time Made Easy

Thank you for stopping by today to see the second installment of the new template, In-Dispensable from My Time Made Easy. 

I've also used the new digital stamp set, Just a Little Note and new patterned paper from Petal Prints.  I colored the flower and bird image with Copics and wrapped each one with a sentiment from the new set.

I also packaged up some glassine bags for envelopes,  envelope stickers and address labels.  This is a closer look at the stickers and labels in action:

I scanned my colored image and cropped it to just the large flower for the envelope stickers.  I  cropped out the bird and flower for the address labels and resized it much smaller.  Then I printed them on sticker paper and cut them out.  Fun!

You can see the entire new July Release in the New Products section at My Time Made Easy.  There will be lots of other great ideas at these blogs:

Lauren Meader
Pattie Goldman

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Kalus

Karien van der Westhuizen

Jackie Randolph

Tracy Holmes

Romaine Rancier

Wendy McGaffey

Dawn Barwick

Mary Vogel

Farida Rone

Have fun!

Christmas Cookie Box for My Time Made Easy

Our job today for My Time Made Easy is  to use the July's new template, In-Dispensable, for anything but a card set.  I, of course, thought cookies -which led me right to Christmas and gingerbread men!

This box has the perfect opening - just enough of a peek to wonder what's inside.  

The paper I used for this box is from Tis the Season collection.  

And the sentiments on the tag are from Homemade Holiday Sentiments.   Come back tomorrow to see a totally different In-Dispensable gift box - this time with cards! 

Visit these blogs for other great ideas using the In-Dispensable Template:

Lauren Meader
Pattie Goldman

Kimberly Morrow

Lori Kalus

Karien van der Westhuizen

Jackie Randolph

Tracy Holmes

Romaine Rancier

Wendy McGaffey

Dawn Barwick

Mary Vogel

Farida Rone

So Fun To Be One!

You may remember the circus train I did awhile back.   Grandma Kim requested a  first birthday card for Grayson (you can see his Birth-day banner here) and I thought that circus train was just the place to start.  

I still really like that train and really like how the card version turned out.  Changed some of the pink to teal and orange in hopes it would feel more boyish.  I used my copics and the circle template from My Favorite Things to add the orange dots in the background.  The template has graduated circles which makes it nice.

Hope you're having a fantastic week (Is it hot where you are?  We've been in the high 90s for several days now...)!

Mother Goose Christmas

I've used quite a few of Nicecrane Designs darling images.  This is another one from the Mother Goose collection.  To me it looked like a winter scene, so I decided to turn it into a Christmas card.

I couple of strategically placed snowflakes cover orange falling leaves. They didn't quite fit with my concept!  It's so funny to be talking about snowflakes when it is 95 degrees outside!

Here's a look at Mother Goose Collection I.

Such sweet images - I've already used three of them!  Hope you've had a wonderful weekend and here's wishing you a wonderful week!

Supplies

merry word die    |    snowflake dies   |   martha stewart snowflake punch

aqua felt   |   gold paper from staples    |    warm micro glitter

Kewpie Cuties

Back with some more Kewpie cuteness with an image from Nicecrane Designs.

Ignacio has quite a few Kewpie selections.  The name Kewpie comes from Cupid (the Roman god of love) and Kewpies were so popular that a kewpie doll was included in the time capsule at the 1939 World's Fair.  The sentiment is from the new company Reverse Confetti.  

Here's a look at the set this Rosie O'Neill Kewpie postcard is from:

You can find it here.  Hope you enjoyed the Kewpie cuteness!

Linking up at Make It Monday and Shabbilicious Friday.

Supplies

sentiment stamp   |    embossing powder    |     kraft cardstock

gesso