Manly Monday!

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  I hope you ALL had a GREAT new year! Now we all have to get used to writing 2016....lol.....It's a GOOD THING I do NOT write checks any more otherwise everything would still say 2015! 

Welcome to our first "Manly Monday" for 2016!! :)  For my tag today, I tried to use dark colors to keep it on the masculine side!  So I reframed myself from adding sequins to it….LOL ;)  In my video below, I show you what distress inks I used & how I put it all together!

MCT Products Used:
~ Carved Heart (tiny heart dies)
~ You Touched My Heart (big heart die)
~ Mini Greeting Dies (sentiment)
~ Script Type Background

Here is my video for you today! :)

Now onto the BESTEST design team around! ;)  Don't forget to click on each name to visit each blog for inspiration!

Miss Brigit

Miss Emily

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

Tag it Tuesday!

Good morning my sweet friends & welcome to another "Tag it Tuesday"! For today my team & myself were to create tags w/a Graduation theme! I don't really care too much for my tag because it really didn't come out as I visioned it in my brain! lol…… I heat embossed my "Script Type Backgrounds" stamp onto my tag using Hero Arts Clear Embossing powder, then I used my "Peerless Watercolor Paints" over that! Which, BTW, I will have to practice w/those paints because they did not come out how I had seen them in Miss Jennifer McQuire's video :( Her's were nice & BRIGHT!  As you can see, you can BARELY see it in my picture! :(  So I was ONLY supposed to used the Grad Hat Die ONLY from "Here's looking at you" set, but since I wasn't happy w/the background, I SERIOUSLY needed to cover it up some! I decided to just cut out a circle, then pop dotted my grad hat on top of that, then to tie it all in, I just added a couple of additional circles to just even it out some! (Circles are a little sneaky peek for you!)  Next I used my Hero Arts black embossing powder & just heat embossed my sentiment & 2014 which are both from my "Follow Your Dreams" stamp set!  Last I just added some black & white ribbon from May Arts & tied a bow using red hemp twine!  Well, that is it for my boring tag today! hehehehe ;) 

This is it for me today. I didn't do my homework from the Watercolor class because I was a little disappointed w/those paints I used. I'm sure they are GOOD, but I think I just need to practice w/them & I hope they work better for me tomorrow! :) 

Okay, now here are some REAL BEAUTIFUL tags here for you from my AWESOME design team! Don't forget to click on each name to visit each blog & leave them some BLOGGY LOVE! 

Miss Cindy

Miss Jessica

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Lee-Ann

Miss Shar

Thank you ALL for stopping by today! I will see you all back here tomorrow for some more crafty fun! HAve a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo

P.S. you still have time to join in on our challenge going on right HERE! :) 

Thrifty Thursday w/a Sketch!

GOOD MORNING my sweet friends & welcome to another "Thrifty Thursday!" Today we have a twist to go along w/our scraps! YEP, we challenged ourselves to use this sketch below that our very own "Miss Liz" created for us! We were ALL to use our scraps & make something using this sketch & I think it's safe to say that we ALL pulled it off! ;) 

Here is a picture of my scraps that I used for my card! 

Here is my card I made~! Let's just say that this card was "ALMOST" a tragedy BUT, I was able to salvage it! lol…… I basically added everything on to my card & thought it was too "white", so I decided to ink it up! WELL……I inked up the edges w/shabby shutters & peeled paint ink & it came out HORRIBLE :( Sooooo, I grabbed my mini mister & sprayed water onto the edges with out thinking that this was NOT watercolor paper! At this point I actually wanted to cry because I did NOT want to do this over! I used my heat gun & dried it but it was ALLL warpy.  After it was dried, it needed something ELSE, so that is when I grabbed my tattered rose ink pad & stamped my Script Type background onto my card in the top right side! Now, it was starting to come together so since the edges still were NOT pretty, I took my distressing tool & distressed the edges & just used glued it straight down onto the base of my card! PHEW, this was a labor of love! hehehehe! :)

MCT products used:

~ You had me at chocolate

~ Fun stitched edge dies

~ Fun pockets

~ Script type backgrounds

~ Stitched tab die

~ Stitched pretty flowers & leaves (sneak peek! these are coming SOON!)

~ All paper is from my scraps!

Other products used:

~ Shabby shutters distress ink

~ Peeled paint distress ink

~ Tattered rose distress ink

~ Wink of stella clear

Now onto the GREATEST Design team EVER! I just LOVE how they ALL used this sketch! Please click on each name to visit these AMAZING blogs for more inspiration! 

Miss Liz

Miss Candace

Miss Cassandra

Miss Cindy

Miss Emily

Miss Lee-Ann

 Miss Nikki 

Miss Shar

Miss Teri

WOW!!!! Weren't these ALLLL just FABULOUS?  I just LOVE my team! ;)

THank you ALL for visiting my blog! Have a FABULOUS day & I will see you back here SOON! :)

P.S. I just wanted to say "I apologize" for not picking the winner for our "Monochromatic Challenge" here! I have been so busy, it slipped my mind so I just want to say THANK YOU to those who nicely reminded me! :)  Okay, since I feel BAD that I didn't pick the winner yet… I decided to pick 3 winners! YEP, you heard it right…..3 winners! Since sneak peeks for my new release will be starting on the 21st, I thought it would be fun to SURPRISE my 3 winners & give them each one new product from this new release coming up rapidly! Okay, are you ready to see if "YOU" were one of the lucky winners???? 

Winner #1

#8 Gerda

Winner #2

#5 Penny L

Winner #3

#14 Amie Kiger

CONGRATS to ALL my winners! Please grab this code to the right of my blog---->, it is the "Designer Challenge Winner" button for you to proudly display on your blogs ladies! 

Please email me your addresses so I can get your prize out to you! Here is my email:

 info@my-creative-time.com

HALLOWEEN HUSTLE Day #3

GOOD MORNING my creative friends! 

 Welcome to our 3rd day of  "Halloween Hustle"! We will have 5 days worth of last minute ideas to trick your treats!  You will ALSO see 3-D projects, home decor & even cards!  I hope you are ALL ready for some HALLOWEEN HUSTLE "FUN"! There will be giveaways all week! 

 For today, I decided to make a couple of treat holders using my "Gift Card Holder Die"! I just want to show everyone who recently purchased this die, that you can use it other ways than just putting a gift card on the inside! You can see in my video below exactly how I made these! :)

Not only will a gift card fit in here, but you can use a glue dot on the inside & add a "fun size" bag of M&M's!

For this one, I fit my FAVORITE chocolate candy & placed it on the inside using a glue dot! 

Supplies used:

~ Embossed Gift Card Holder Die (back in stock this weekend)

~ Hello Spring (egg dies for pumpkin)

~ Script Type Background stamp

~ Sequins (Joann's)

~ Thin Kraft hemp twine (my stash)

~ Fly Away w/me Sentiments (die for stem) (back in stock this weekend)

~ Teeny Tag layering dies (back in stock this weekend)

~ Teeny Tag Holidays (will be available this weekend)

Here is my video for today!

Now onto my FABULOUS design team! Don't forget to click on each of their names to visit each blog!

Miss Amy

Miss Cassandra 

Miss Cathryn

Miss Glora

Miss Katie

Miss Kim

Miss Leanne

Miss Liz

Miss Nikki

Miss Ruthie

Miss Shar

Miss Tracy

Miss Veronica

Giveaway for today!

To qualify for this giveaway for today, all you have to do is leave a comment here on this post! For more chances to win, also leave a comment on my design team's blogs as well! VERY IMPORTANT: don't forget to leave a way for us to contact you just in case you are the lucky winner! The deadline for comments are tonight, Oct 23st @ 10pm PST! GOOD LUCK!

                                      

Well....here is the GOOD NEWS, for this weekend ONLY, starting this Friday 10/25/2013 @ 12:01am PST  thru Sunday 10/27/2013 @ 11:59pm PST you can use the code OCT2013 to get 20% off your entire order in my store HERE!  Remember I told you about making a "Teeny Tag Holiday" stamp set? WELL....wait no longer, it will be available this Friday, 10/25/2013  in my store HERE!

Thank you ALL so much for stopping by! I hope we all inspired you to make some last minute projects for your trick or treaters! :)  I can't wait for you to see what we have in store for you tomorrow! Have a FABULOUS day my sweet friends! xoxo's

P.S. Here is the winner for yesterday's (Tuesday) prize! Random.org chose:

Julie Learned said....Tuesday, October 22, 2013
I love the spookiness yet elegance of this Halloween card! Great use of this embossing folder and Emma's stamps!

CONGRATS Miss Julie! Please email me here: info@my-creative-time.com  your address so I can get your prize in the mail!