Favorite Stamp of the month ~ SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU & HOME SEWN

Good morning my creative friends, before I continue on w/my post for today, I just want to take a moment & pray for those who lost their loved ones 12 years ago on this day. :(  I want to THANK all of our military men and women who work so hard everyday to protect us and our county! We LOVE you & APPRECIATE ALL of you!

Today we have another "My Favorite Stamp of the Month" for you! We are featuring 2 of my FAVORITES, "Home Sewn" & "So Grateful For You"! Starting today, Sept 11th through next Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 we are offering FREE SHIPPING on these 2 stamp sets! If you are new to my blog & would like to pick these up, you can do so HERE! Here is what they look like in it's entirety & a card I made using each of these SUPER FUN sets!

Home Sewn

Supplies used:

~ Home Sewn

~ Stitched Spooky Ghost die

~ Stitched File Folder & Index card die

~ Tag Dies

~ Fright Night

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So Grateful For You!

Supplies used:

~ So Grateful for You

~ Tag Dies

~ Cocktail Party stitched dies

Here is my video for you today! :)

Now onto my AMAZING design team! Don't forget to visit each of their blogs by click on each name!

Miss Amy 

Miss Cassandra

Miss Cathryn 

Miss Kim 

Miss Leanne

 Miss Nikki 

Miss Shar

Miss Shar

 Miss Veronica 

Were these not the CUTEST projects from my design team?  I think they are just AMAZING!

Starting today, Sept 11th through next Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 we are offering FREE SHIPPING on these 2 stamp sets! 

Thank you ALL sooo very much for stopping by & I will see you tomorrow~!  HUGS! :)

Throwback Thursday Challenge! ~ Episode 363

 Go HERE for today's Friday Tip of the Day!
GOOD MORNING & welcome to another Throwback Thursday Challenge!

Here are the details for this challenge:

~ Must make an altered item using your Cricut cuts!

~Must use any OLDER Cartridge of YOUR choice

~ Deadline for this challenge is June 6th @ midnight PST

~ link your project here to Mr. Linky , then leave a comment

 

 For my project today, I decided to decorated this frame for my son's teacher! I have to say that this teacher is one VERY SPECIAL lady! She has taught both of my boys now & we ALL just ADORED her! Lastnight, Anthony wanted to buy her some flowers & a balloon for their last day of school today! Let me tell you, we will MISS this teacher TREMENDOUSLY!

Here are the supplies used:

Frame ~ Big Lots

Tape Ribbon, Burlap ~ Liz's Boutique

Sentiment ~ "So Grateful For You" stamp set

Cartridges used ~ "Don Juan" & "Plantin Schoolbook"

 Here is my video on how I created this frame!


Now here is a QUICK "Gift Card Holder" I made for my other son's teacher! Since he is a "man" teacher, I was very limited on how I embellished this! lol...

Materials used:
Sentiment ~ "More Gift Card Sentiments" (will be back in stock on Monday, 5/28)
"Gift Card Holder Die" (will be back in stock on Monday, 5/28)
Mustache die ~ "What's Growing On?"
Paper & Book chipboard~ Fancy Pants "Off to School" kit

Like I said earlier in this post, This is the same teacher who taught my other son in 5th grade too! I just wanted to share w/you the frame I made for her 2 years ago! (We love her!) Now, Mrs. Elias will always have both of my boys w/her!;)

Okay, now onto our LUCKY winner who will win a pretty cuttlebug sponsored by the ONE & ONLY "Custom Crops"!!!
All I have to say is "Thank God" for random.org because there is NO way I can pick just one person out of ALL of you TALENTED crafters out there today! Okay, Can I get a drum roll please...........  Random.org chose:

#13 Miss Lisa L.

CONGRATS My sweet friend! Please email me at  info@my-creative-time.com 

with your address & phone number so I can get your prize out to you!!!
Thank you SOOO VERY MUCH for stopping by!
Go HERE for today's "Friday Tip of the Day" w/Miss Debbie Crowder!:)

My Creative Time Friday Tip of the Day! ~ Episode 354

GOOD MORNING & welcome to "Friday's Tip of the Day"! Today you are ALL in for a treat! I have sweet Miss Debbie joining me again & she has the CUTEST projects EVER! Let's get started! For my card I used the Peachy Keen's March Stamp of the Month for the CUTE little mushroom! Other items used: Scallop & Stitched Circle Die, Recycled ribbon & So Grateful For You stamp set!

Here is my Tip for You in my video! ALSO, Miss Debbie & I are doing a FUN giveaway! See details below!;)


Now onto my FABULOUS "Guest Designer" MISS DEBBIE from "Bugjuiced"!
Ball Jar $1.99

Memory Jar......PRICELESS!!

Good Morning Everyone and thank you for stopping by to see another Friday tip of the day for my monthly guest spot for sweet Emma. Today I wanted to show you a cute project to make that is really quick and simple and just sweet!

The tip of the day here is to re-purpose old jars such as canning jars, pickle jars, spaghetti sauce jars and make something that holds a special meaning/message...make a Memory Jar!

This one is all about my sweet daughter. She is the best thing that ever happened in my life and at 26 years old I still think of her as my little girl and that will never change. So I made a Memory jar for my project.

I used the "Teeny Tags" dies and stamps as well as stamps from "Turn that frown upside down" and "This and That". I cannot tell you how much I love Emma's stamps and dies. The quality is just far superior than other stamps. Her dies I am loving. I didn't know what I was missing before I had them.

I took a ball jar (purchased at Michaels for $1.99) and bought a spool of 20 gauge wire and just twisted them up to hold my little sentiments. I had originally plan to use long tooth pick type sticks but couldn't find them anywhere!

I just bent up little swirlies to put the tags on and hot glued them to the lid.

I put sand originally in the bottom but think I will buy something else to go in the bottom so by the time this pic is put up it will maybe change. I added a cute little sentiment for the front and used from "This and That" set. I used the circle die from "Build a Banner" to put her Date of Birth on.  I used "Turn that frown Upside Down" for the You complete me, It really looks cute in person.  "My minds Eye" 6x6 paper pack Lost and Found and it is Market Street.

I also used the "TeenyTags" die to make a cute little banner for the top. I was going to use the banner kit but needed my banner to be a bit smaller. I bought these cute little letters at target for $1.99. There is a whole bunch of them. They just redone our target and I have to say the crafting area is much better. I used the dies from Teeny Tags both sizes to make the signs inside jar.

$1.99 Ball Jar at Michaels (Do you know how hard it is to take a good picture of a jar!!)

 It was covered up by the sand but you can use moss etc. It probably would be better since its hard to screw it on with all the loose sand.

This is such a wonderful sentiment! The papers were all from MME Lost and Found Market Street

 I dream of going back in time to when my baby girl was a baby! I LOVE YOU LINDSAY!!

2nd Project

I did a cute little gift card for a sweet friend. I used Close to My Heart Die cut Cards with envelopes and used Miss Emma's New sets "You are Perk-fect" and "Coffee break". I love this die!! I also used her Curly Label Die. Click on each of the products I listed for the store page they are on!

I printed pattern paper from my cricut cartridge "Kates Kitchen"and also used the Homemaker stack from October afternoon. I used my Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cart to do that cute little flap shape! I knew the special person I am sending this too loves Red. I think all of these stamps are just so Delish!! I will be putting a starbucks gift card in place of the "fake" one I printed here. I didn't have time to get their today since I was super busy at work!

CLICK ON PICS FOR LARGER VIEW

"Teeny Tags" used again for the Sweet Friend and the Many Thanks in pic below. 

 "You are Perk-fect" set 

"You are Perk-fect" set again for the cup stamp and sentiment above.

The cutest cup die in the world from "Coffee Break" 

3rd Project...yep its the last one!

I made a quick little card with the "Cocoa Motion" set

I used my Art Philosophy cartridge to cut this shape card. It is cut at 4 1/4" I think of "Do the locomotion" when I think of this set!! Although in my head I sing Cocoamotion instead of Locomotion!

I hope you enjoyed my long post and hopefully my tip of the day! 

THANK YOU MISS DEBBIE for ALL of these FABULOUS projects today!;)

Now onto our GIVEAWAY today! If you watched my video, I showcased one of my favorite little tools that I have had for years, my Ribbon Iron! I thought it would be fun to end this week on a "happy note" by giving this away to ONE LUCKY commenter! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE and on Miss Debbie's blog HERE to give yourself 2 chances to win! GOOD LUCK!;)

THank you SOOO much for stopping by & I will see you all back here Monday morning! Have a FABULOUS weekend my sweet friends! xoxo

Nugget Treat Cards! ~ Episode 267

WOW, this seems wierd doing such a late post! I just had to share w/you a project that I "Actually" had a dream about these lastnight! Yep, can you believe I actually slept long enough to even have a dream? lol....... I have LOTS of these nuggets left over from halloween, so I decided to make 3 cute little cards for the nicest people who work at my post office! They are ALL soooo SUPER SWEET to my Mother & I ALLLLL the time!;)

For my cards today, I used my favorite Papertrey Ink stamp set called "Limitless Labels"!

This set works perfectly w/these cute little nuggest candies! I also used my stamp set "So Grateful for You" along w/my "Curly Label Die". The card base I designed in my Gypsy Girl using my FAVORITE cartridge in the WHOLE WORLD "Art Philosophy"! You can totally get this cartridge HERE from my sweet friend "Miss Melanie" w/Courtney Lane Designs!

Here is what is what it looks like opened!

Here is another view of it!

here is my video showing you how I designed these in my gypsy!;)

Do you think my Post office staff w/like these? Well, I sure hope so!

This is my late post for tonight! I will see you VERY BRIGHT & EARLY in the morning when I announce my new design team! Enjoy the rest of your night my sweet creative friends!;) xoxo

Guest Designer Wednesday!

Good morning & welcome to another "Guest Designer Wednesday"! Every Wednesday I will be featuring a Guest Designer here on my blog! Just so you'll know, I am randomly choosing crafters who participate in my Throwback Thursday challenges! (hint hint)! So, you'll never know when "YOU" might be getting an invitation from me! ;)

 I would like to give a huge welcome to Miss Janie w/Typical Scrapbooker! She has designed for me in the past & I really admire her work! For today's card, Miss Janie is showcasing my stamp set called "So Grateful For You"! I think she did an AWESOME job like always!;) Don't forget to head on over to her blog HERE to see how she created this beautiful card!

Thank you everyone for visiting! Don't forget to head on back here tomorrow for my Design Team Thursday AND for a Peachy Keen sneek peak!!!!!! You are NOT going to want to miss this!;) Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends!!! xoxox's

Happy "Sweet 16" Birthday Miss Madison! - Guest Designer today!

Good Morning My Creative Friends! Today, I am a Guest Designer for Miss Madison's 16th birthday celebration! I want to Thank you her sweet Mom for inviting me to be a part of this FUN event! This is the layout I created for her! I thought it was perfect since she loves to play volleyball & is definitely a crafter!;) You can go to her blog HERE for more details!

 Head on over to Miss Madison's blog because she is having an AWESOME giveaway RIGHT NOW as we speak!;) All you have to do is leave a comment on the top of the post for today on her blog for an opportunity to win an "Exclusive" stamp set!

To honor this "SPecial occasion" I also decided to giveaway one of the stamp sets I used on this layout! It is "You're My Best Buddy" All you have to do is leave a comment here below this post AND go to Madison's blog HERE, leave her some sweet Birthday wishes! Even though her "Real" Birthday isn't until Monday, I KNOW she would LOVE to read ALL of YouR SWEET comments!;)

Throwback Thursday Challenge & My Design Team!

Happy St. Patty's Day everyone! This is a bittersweet day for us because, we are on pins & needles & have to wait ONE MORE day to hear my hubby's results! Someone asked me how could I have the strength to be making cards at a time like this? Well, to be honest w/you, this is the only thing that is really keeping me going! During the day, I am distracted by the boys & my hubby, but when they go to sleep, that's when I constantly start thinking about everything all over again:( So crafting seriously is my Therapy at the moment!
 As soon as everyone wakes up, I am going to shop for my cornbeef & cabbage and some mint chip ice cream! I always make us milkshakes w/that every year for St. Patty's day! (My Favorite!)

Okay, welcome to another throwback Thursday challenge w/my FABULOUS design team! Here are the details for this challenge:
*** Link your project up to Mr. Linky, then leave a comment!

*** Deadline for this challenge will be on Wed, March 30th!
***Use ANY OLDER CARTRIDGE OF YOUR CHOICE for this challenge & make sure your project has the color GREEN in it***
***Make a project of YOUR choice!
*** ONE project per person please!

Sorry, I'm still not ready to do a video yet. But I did make a card for this challenge!
Here is my card, I used Create a Critter for the worm & apple shaped card. I also used 3 Birds on Parade for the little cute cloud! That ADORABLE face on my worm is from Peachy Keen's Large "Critter Faces" set! Did I forget about that Super Perfect Teacher stamp?? Yep, that is from my stamp set called "My Teacher Rocks"! I colored it in to make it look like it's on a post-it note & I also used red stickles for that tiny cute apple!;) Oh, I also embossed the apple using the "Book Print" Impression Plate from Papertrey Ink!

Here is Miss Glora's super cute card also using "My Teacher Rocks" stamp set!

Here is Miss Nikki's Manly Man card using "You're My Best Buddy" stamp set!

Here is Miss Abby's adorable card also using "You're My Best Buddy" stamp set!

Here is Miss Vickie's adorable card & she used "So Grateful For You" stamp set!

Now onto the LUCKY winner of our last Throwback Challenge....... Random.org  chose.......#62

CONGRATS Miss Cassandra!!!! You can see her CUTE card HERE! Cassandra is the winner of a stamp set of her choice from my stamp line!!!;) So Miss Cassandra, go ahead & email me & let me know which stamp set YOU would like & I would also need your address!

Don't forget to click on each one of my Designer's names to visit their blogs to see how they created their AMAZING cards AND while you are there, don't forget to leave them some love!;)