What a Treat Wednesday!

GOOD MORNING & welcome to another "What a Treat Wednesday!" 

I was super bummed that I wasn't able to join in on yesterday's Favorite Stamp of the Month using the "Springtime in Paris" so I have incorporated it with my "TREAT" project for today! :)  

Today my AWESOME team & myself made some FUN treats for you! You can see in my video below how I put my little Treat Slider Box together!

As you can see here, I put 2 mini hershey bars on the inside!

MCT Products Used: 

~ Springtime in Paris

~ Treat Slider Die

~ Scalloped Stitched Oval Dies

~ Stitched Round Tab Arrow & Tag Dies

Here is my video for you today! 

Now onto my AMAZING design team! :)  Don't forget to click on each name to visit each blog! :) 

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Liz

Miss Ruthie

Weren't these ALL SO MUCH FUN???

Thank you ALL for stopping by! I hope we inspired all of "YOU" to make yourself a treat today! Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends & I will see you all back here soon! :)

P.S. If you would like to join our NEW "My Creative Time Inspired" Facebook group, you can do so HERE!  This is a place where we can all share our MCT projects & inspire each other! ;) 

Favorite Stamp of The Month!

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome back! 

Today is part 2 of  "My FAVORITE stamp/die of the Month!  This month we are featuring the stamp and die set "Springtime in Paris".  

If this set has been on your wish list, you can pick this set up here at a discount price HERE! 

This set will be on sale for the entire month of August! The sale will end on August 31, 2015 @ 12:00am PST!  

Now onto my AMAZING design team! Don't forget to click on each name to visit each blog. :)

Miss Cindy

Miss Emily

Miss Jessica

Miss Nikki

Miss Ruthie

I hope my team inspired you today! :) 

Don't forget, the sale for this set "Springtime in Paris" will end on August 31, 2015 at 11:59pm PST! If you would like to take advantage of this special, you can do so HERE! 

ALSO, our regular release sale is STILL going on! You have until this Friday to use the code AUGUST2015 to receive a discount off of your entire purchase!  If you missed out on the new release for this month, you can see it all HERE! 

Thank you ALL for stopping by! I will see you all back here soon! :) Have a FABULOUS day my crafty friends! xoxo

P.S. ORDER UPDATE! 

I just wanted to let you all know that to start stalking your mail men/lady for your HAPPY MAIL! You should start receiving them this week! ;)  I cannot wait to see what you create w/this new release! 

My Favorite Stamp/Die of the Month!

Good morning my sweet friends! 

Today we are featuring another "My FAVORITE stamp/die of the Month!  This month we are featuring one of my favorite sets "Springtime in Paris".  If this set has been on your wish list, you can pick this set up here at a discount price HERE! 

This set will be on sale for the entire month of August! The sale will end on August 31, 2015 @ 12:00am PST!  

Above & below are a few items that I have created using this AWESOME set! 

Now onto my AMAZING design team!  Don't forget to visit each blog to see more! ;) 

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Liz

Miss Ruthie

Weren't these projects FABULOUS???  If you have been wanting this set, you can pick it up HERE at a discounted price! ;)

Thank you ALL for stopping by & I will see you all back here soon! xoxo

P.S.  I apologize for not having a "new & FRESH" project and video for you today. 

Well,  last night my son (Anthony) came in my craft room to ask me for all of his forms that he needs for his first day of "Freshman" orientation, which is today! Of course, I tell him SO PROUDLY, "I already put all of your emergency forms & the other important forms along with your money to get what you need in your backpack already!" ;)  Of course, right at that point, I am the BEST MOM in the WHOLE WORLD, well I thought that at least! hehehe!  So he comes back & says "Mommy, these are Baby Aaron's forms…I think you put his in my back pack by accident???"  OMGEEE…..then I realized that I made a HUGE MISTAKE!!!! LOL…. I can actually laugh about it now, but LUCKILY I had another set of forms from last year that we "thought" we misplaced! So, I had to fill everything out all over again, but THIS TIME for the CORRECT SON!!! hahaha!  At least for their "official" first day of school, which is this Thursday, I don't have to do this all over again for Baby Aaron! ;)  HAPPY DANCE! :)

Tag It Tuesday!

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome back to another "Tag it Tuesday!"  

I hope you all are keeping COOL! I cannot believe we were at 104 degrees yesterday!!! Hopefully LOTS OF YOU are having cooler weather than we are! If it's raining, PLEASE SEND it my way!!! lol….. :) 

Okay, now onto my tag!  This is my FAVORITE day of the sweet! ;)  For those who have been following me for a while, you KNOW how I LOVE creating tags!  For my tag today, I decided to use my foil stuff again!!!  I just LOVE this stuff & it's SUPER EASY to use!  Please forgive my HORRIBLE picture, for some reason, this foil is TRICKY to photograph!  I did try my best to get a good pic for you, but you can ALSO see it in my video as well! :)  I put the products I used below!

MCT Products Used:
~ Springtime in Paris
~ Tag Dies
~ Stitched Round Tab, Arrow & Tag Dies
~ Wow So Many Candles (will be in on June 12, 2015)

Other Products:
~ Anna Griffin MINC machine
~ Deco Foil "Pink Melon"

Here is my video for you! ;) 


Now onto my AWESOME design team!  Don't forget to click on each link to visit each blog! :)

Miss Jessica

Miss Katie

Miss Ruthie

Miss Veronica

Weren't these tags AMAZING???  I hope my team & I inspired "YOU" to create a tag today! :)

Thank you AL for stopping by & I will see you all back here SOON! :)  xoxo

Coming SOON!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!! :) 

Made in Minutes!

Good morning my sweet friends & welcome to another "Made in Minutes!" 

I hope you ALL had a FABULOUS weekend….for me….it was busy, but FUN!  I don't know about all of "YOU", but I think my tummy is STILL full from all the YUMMIES we had for the Super Bowl yesterday! ;)

Okay, for my card today, it took me around 17 minutes to make! I tried a technique that I learned from Day 6 from my Online Card Class!  The technique was called "Masked Stripe Background".  I wanted to try something using a heart mask just to see how it would turn out….and I actually LOVED it! 

Basically what you do is put some masking tape, washi tape or post it tape & place it on your paper & start inking! After each time you ink, you are going to move your tape each time until the area you like is all complete!  I probably could've finished this quicker, but I kept stopping & over analyzing it after each time I moved the tape! lol….. 

As you can see in the picture below, after I removed the heart mask, it came out super clean & bright! 

Here is my finished card in its entirety!  At the end, it landed up being a SUPER SIMPLE card that was REALLY easy to make! Just as long as you don't stop after each time you move your tape to analyze it, then you will be just fine!!! hehehe! ;) 

MCT Products Used:

~ Springtime in Paris

~ Heart 2 Heart Love Frame Die

Okay, now on to my AMAZING design team!!! Don't forget to visit their blogs to see how long it took THEM to complete their GORGEOUS projects from beginning to end! :) 

Miss Cindy

 Miss Kim

 Miss Liz

 Miss Nikki

WOWEE! I am TOTALLY in LOVE w/my team's projects for today!  I hope we inspired all of "YOU" to challenge yourself to create something in 20 minutes OR under! :) 

Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends & I will see you all back here soon! xoxo

Made In Minutes

Happy Monday my sweet friends & welcome to another "Made in Minutes!"  I fully intended on having a video for you, but my plug to my video cam was NO WHERE IN SIGHT :(  So 'of course', AFTER I finished my card, I went to take a pic of it & there was the cord, sitting right next to my regular camera~! lol….. I said a few "choice words", then I was over it! hehehe! 

Well, I actually time myself for my card today & it took me 17 minutes to do from beginning to end! It could've been shorter, but I decided to be PATIENT & let my watercoloring dry on its own before I stamped my sentiment & added the stitching! For my card today I used the Tim Holtz distress ink for my watercoloring! I do have to say that this medium has been my FAVORITE type of watercoloring by far! So if you decide to take the watercolor class, I highly suggest using your TH distress inks because they are PERFECT for it ESPECIALLY if you have them already! 

I decided to do my entire card by watercoloring it because I really do need some more practice AND the best part is it is soooo much fun to do! I am REALLY HAPPY that I decided to take this class only because I can do a variety of cards now since I do get bored EASILY!

For my card, I first stamped the eiffel tower using TH Broken china ink, then I stamped the flourish using the TH Victorian velvet ink.  Next I grabbed my container of clean water, then took a paintbrush, dipped it into the water & just brushed it over the images using a detailed water color brush.  Next I took my ink & smashed in onto my craft mat, then took my brush again & just did some shading on the eiffel tower only!  Next I smashed the 3 colors TH Milled lavender, TH Antique linen & TH tattered rose, then spritzed water on the 3 colors & just used my paint brush & water to paint the background of the card!  Then I used the TH Victorian velvet ink to stamp "Springtime in Paris" sentiment onto my card then let it all dry by itself! Which it wasn't too bad because I had my fan on in my craft room! ;) 

Last I stamped "merci" & just used my sewing machine to do some black stitching to kind of off set the black ink I used for my sentiment! 

I then used my distress tool to distress the edges a bit then layered it onto a piece of card stock that I inked the edges w/the Broken china ink so it can coordinate w/the card! I tied some hemp twine & added the little bling to the eiffel tower! I used foam tape to adhere it all done….then VIOLA! ;)

MCT products used:

~ Springtime in Paris

Other products used:

~ Tim Holtz broken china distress ink

~ Tim Holtz victorian velvet distress ink

~ Tim Holtz milled lavender distress ink

~ Tim Holtz antique linen distress ink

~ Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink

~ Strathmore ready cut watercolor paper 

~ Watercolor brushes

~ Cardstock for base is from my scraps of paper!

Now onto the BESTEST design team in the world! ;) Don't forget to click on each name to see how long it took them to create their 'masterpieces'! ;) 

Miss Candace

Miss Cassandra

Miss Cindy

Miss Emily

 Miss Jessica

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Lee-Ann

Miss Shar

That is it my sweet friends! I hope we inspired all of YOU to make a card "in MINUTES"!

Don't forget to join in on our latest "Color Palette" challenge that we have going on now HERE! I have  a "SPECIAL SURPRISE PRIZE" for the lucky winner of this challenge! just saying….;)

Have a FABULOUS day & I will see you all back here tomorrow! xoxo