Thanks for stopping by today!

I’m excited to get started on Day 1 of the Perfect Peeks for the My Time Made Easy ™ LLC March Release!!

This month you asked to get some early peeks, so I figured I’d give you what you asked for and spend the next 3 days sharing some of what we will have to offer!!

Now the week long daily samples that follow our actual release from myself and my FABULOUS design team will continue as usual, so keep checking in daily for lots of ideas and inspiration.

Let’s get started!

NOTE: All products shared today will note be available in store until March 1st!

Today

 from the MTME team both have some additional projects to share!

Oh Baby!!! Check it out! Whether it’s creating invitations or favors for a baby shower or making a creative and cute package for a baby gift – OR just making a card or gift tag to go with a gift for a new little one – you will definitely want to see this brand new Bringing Home Baby set from My Time Made Easy. Totally unique and super cute and reasonable. Come see…

Visit Pam Imholz to see more!

“Come take stroll in my Vintage-Style Bouncing Baby Buggy!”

Visit Mona Pendleton to see more!

Yesterday I shared this little peek with you:

Now let’s see how many NEW! Release items you REALLY got a peek at shall we?

You actually saw 4 pieces to our NEW! Release

1) The Tag

That is from a NEW! Pretty Pieces Cut File called Tag You’re It ©It features 4 different tags in PDF, SVG, GSD, DXF, and WPC formats. You can never have too many options when it comes to tags! This is one in a set of 4 tags!

2) Stamp Set

The title on the tag reads “Bringing Home Baby”, and features an adorable little stork!! Obviously we have a baby theme going!!

The stamp set is called : Bringing Home Baby © and is a Set of 27 images! ( Details further down)

PS: Those of you wanting NON-BABY stuff hang in there! We have more to share I promise

3) The Flower/Leaf

Fanciful Flowers © Pretty Pieces Cut File

Available in SVG, GSD, DXF and WPC format It is so true…..you can NEVER have too many flowers!! This file has 6 flower shapes, a center, and perfect leaf shape!

4) The Pretty Packaging © template

Obviously the tag and flower are attached to SOMETHING! But what?

Well, as you know the main focus of MTME is coordination. Making cards, tags, and gift items easier and more affordable than ever 😀

That being said….. What comes to mind when you read Bringing Home Baby?

How about a Bouncing Baby Buggy © Pretty Packaging template!

Finally! I have been dying to share this with the world for over a year! Yes, a YEAR!

I fell in love with this when it all came together!

That is one of the hardest parts of the industry-hurry up and WAIT. The best part to the “wait” with this was the fact that during that “wait” I was able to design a coordinating stamp set, with everything I personally have always wanted to accompany my Bouncing Baby Buggy Pretty Packaging © template.

This template was actually fashioned after this baby decoration—-> CLICK HERE 

and a combination of these baby favors —–> HERE SOOOO CUTE!!!

I used the Fanciful Flowers © Pretty Pieces Cut file on the carriage front, and to decorate the wheels! As you can see they perfectly match the A Loving Heart Paper!! I also accented it with the GaGa for Gingham paper

This template also coordinates with the Pretty Impressions © Bringing Home Babystamp set, and the Pretty Printables © Bringing Home Baby digital paper collection. 

Upon first glance this is an amazing 3 dimensional baby carriage template!  Perfect for welcoming new baby, shower gifts/favors, or decor. It can hold so many wonderful baby gifts!

Here I have a set of my first born (Alexa) baby booties and bonnet. The one she wore to her Dedication when she was just 21 days old. She was Dedicated to the Lord the day before her open heart surgery, in the hospital chapel where our pastor traveled to do the ceremony for me. I have NO idea how I got through that ceremony! It was so hard. Alexa had a formal dedication a few months after her surgery.

In the actual carriage is a handmade bonnet that one of my old Stampin Up! customers made for me when I was expecting my third child- Amber. It is a special bonnet that is later turned into a handkerchief for when your daughter grows up and gets married! She has her “something old”. Lordy! That gets me teary just TYPING it!! To think that someday my “babies” will grow up or even marry. Or the fact that her baby will wear it someday! Goodness gracious. 

 As you can see this template has  the realistic look of an English Pram stroller. You wouldn’t believe it is all made from cardstock! From the perfectly pleated hood, darling decorative panels, to the wonderful wheels, there is no better way to package up a gift for baby.  Do not be fooled by this “baby carriage” template. It can also double as a beautiful basket, when you use just the bottom! Fill it with a plethora of gifts from a planter, candy, candles, baked goods, get well care package, spa essentials, treats for the kids……create a wheel barrow for the gardener in your life…. or make it a half egg for Easter! You can even use our fabulous Cute Critters © Pretty Pieces cut files to make the base of this a animal body (just resize it to about 80% its original size)! 

One template, endless possibilities. You will see those later this week.

Here is the back of the baby buggy.

It is the perfect place for a hand stamped tag! You could even place the baby name, or birth statistics back here for a keepsake that mom & dad will cherish forever!

Here is the sweet stork closer up!

He is the larger version of the stork on the tag you saw attaches to the front of the carriage.

I just colored the stork in with my Copic Markers. I stamped the solid baby bundle image inside the outlined image, then used my copic markers to doodle some flowers that match my Fanciful Flowers © Pretty Pieces Cut File and my A Loving Heart ©Pretty Printables digital paper.

The ribbon is May Arts! Just GORGEOUS!

More about the stamp set:

Bringing Home Baby © is a Set of 27 images!

Stamp set designed to coordinate with the Bouncing Baby Buggy © Pretty Packaging template, and our Bringing Home Baby © Pretty Printables digital paper. This is the PERFECT baby stamp set! I have combined must have sentiments with the main images I have always longed for in a baby set, and it is definitely gender neutral! Not only does it have the essential baby themed sentiments, but it has the key images to define “bringing home baby”.

We have an adorable stork! You can color it in, or use the solid image for quick and easy creations. There is also a smaller version so you can make coordinating tags, or other gifts. There is also the PERFECT baby carriage that resembles a English Pram Stroller-you can color it in, use the solid images in the set to quickly and easily add color, or build your own using the solid pieces. The carriage in this stamp set was designed coordinate with the Bouncing Baby Buggy © Pretty Packaging template.

 Not only can you make fabulous cards, and tags but baby gifts, decor or gift packaging! 

Sentiments include: 

Bringing Home Baby

For the new arrival

Heaven Sent

Delivered with love

Expecting a bundle of joy

A Gift For You

It’s a Baby Shower

Bouncing Baby

Boy

 Girl

Twins

WELCOME

BABY

You can’t go wrong! 

I will have more to share with this template and stamp set and the release progresses! In the meantime don’t miss more ideas.

Be sure to visit:

They are both featuring projects using the Bouncing Baby Buggy © template and Bringing Home Baby © stamp set.

Supplies:

Pretty Packaging © template: Bouncing Baby Buggy

Pretty Impressions stamp set: Bringing Home Baby

Cardstock from Couture Cardstock: OSW white, Blushing, Sweet heart

Matte Photo Paper (super for printing digital paper :D) Printworks Matte Photo Paper (Target)

Pretty Impressions Digital Paper: GaGa for Gingham, A Loving Heart

Ink: Copic makers and Momento black

Pretty Pieces Cut Files: Tag You’re It ©, Fanciful Flourishes ©

May Arts Ribbon, SU! Buttons

As always, thank you for taking the time to stop by!  I hope you are excited about what we have shared today and what is to come tomorrow. I’m so excited it feels like March will never get here. Each month is like Christmas to me.

I feel so grateful to be able to take something that I so LOVE doing (and totally believe in with every bit of my heart) and be able to share it with the world. To have a group of people who understand the joy, and feel the same passion for giving handmade cards/tags/gifts is just wonderful! It has proven to not only be a great outlet but truly the gift that keeps on giving when such is passed on to others.

Thank you all for letting me share my passion with you each time I create something.

See you tomorrow!!

Hi everyone!

I’m back! Finally. The kids are on vacation, and we all got the worst tummy bug the last few days. THAT is never fun. Jay and I were also sick at the same time, so that makes it even harder taking care of the kids. Usually only ONE of us gets sick first, but not this time. Thankfully it didn’t last too long.

Anyway we are all on the mend now!

Hope you are all enjoying whatever weather you are having. We had now yesterday, rain today. Poor Jay. He got a snowmobile this winter and hasn’t gotten to use it much at all. Usually in New England we get slammed with snow, and this season has been relatively MILD. Don’t tell him, but I don’t mind too much! Getting the kids all done up in their winter gear is exhausting.

I’m getting ready for the My Time Made Easy ™ LLC March Release. Peeks start tomorrow!!

You all begged for peeks so this time we will give it go!

Here is a snippet of a sample of what is to come!

There is something for everyone this release….wait until you see….

More tomorrow!

But to get your new stamp fix TODAY Pink Cat Studio is having their February Release!!

Lookie what we have here…..

Check out the store today to get yours —>HERE!

You HAVE to see all the Design Team samples! They are AMAZING! Check out the PCS Blog–>HERE!

Could it get any cuter?!! Melissa is just so amazing. I LOVE her stuff! LOVE!

I especially love the Sick Lily and Billy!! I so should have remembered to pull those out to play this past week. Instead I had too much fun using all three of the Lily Bug images!!

Now I don’t know what it is but I am in quite the CARD funk!! Obviously it certainly has NOTHING to do with the UBER cute images :D. Between designing stamps, templates and cut files my brain just doesn’t want to think CARDS! So I apologize for the lack of that certain something that is missing.

Hello Friend Lily Butterfly

OBVIOUSLY she was going to be my absolute FAVE! I don’t think she could possibly get cuter!

I so enjoyed coloring her. I normally would go with PINK or PURPLE but tried to step outside my little color box! And normally she’s have blond hair! So I was proud of that.

I got this paper pack and cannot for the life of me remember when, or where! I loved the flowers along the bottom of one of the pages. There are some funky flowers in it, and some lady bug paper (scroll down for a peek at that).

 I decided to layer the flowers on to a tag (part of my next release!). I uses a rub-on and a epoxy sticker for my sentiments here.

Now here is a quick project Amber did for her BFF Emma

Being the “bad mom” I am (as this party fell mid release week for me) we didn’t make a card (GASP!) I KNOW! I’m awful! Trust me I have plenty of guilt! I so should have used the craft hour the day before to do that with her, but totally spaced. I was lucky enough to remember to take her shopping for the gift! LOL! I’m sure some of you can relate.

 So the morning of the party I told Amber we had to make a quick tag instead. I mean QUICK! The bag was pink and purple (see told you I love those colors! LOL!) and so I had Amber stamp and color Lily. I gathered all the Copic markers in the colors we needed (yes believe it or not my 5 yo is allowed to use my precious Copic markers! She does a wonderful job and takes good care of them!), and she got to work as I wrapped the gift.

She colored her (except for the cheeks) and I cut her out because we had like 10 minutes left till we had to leave for the party.

We punched a flower out, punched a hole in the center, and grabbed a Blow Pop!

Amber signed it ( with pop in flower because I didn’t even think to just slide it out I was in such a flurry) then we taped it to the bag and we were done!

I BARELY had time to get a photo. But she was proud so I took the 3 minutes we didn’t have to make sure I got at least these.

I would have liked to at least wrap the pop with tulle and wrap the stick but Emma didn’t care. She was happy to get a candy tag.

OK moving on….

Lily Bee

She has a beehive hair do and all! Love it. I had this paper from Basic Grey for what seems like over a year, and have FINALLY got around to using it. It actually became my inspiration for my colors. Again I would have gone with other colors typically….but was so happy to try something different.

The sentiment is from another PCS set: Fairy Friends

I thought is was cute, even though she is a bee! LOL! She is a bee fairy to me.

OK another cute lil bug….

Lily Lady Bug

This one used that Lady bug patterned paper and some ?Cosmo Cricket paper I believe. I love mixing paper companies/patterns/colors.

Now this is the typical Lily color scheme you’d see from me and yet my least favorite of the creations! LOL! GO FIGURE!

I kept it sweet and simple. I love the colors, but my layout was truly lacking something. I needed a sentiment but it just never came together. See we all hit walls and ruts. If the release wasn’t today I would have let this sit until something sparked my fancy. I should have used a sentiment that came with the set, but I wasn’t seeing where. Probably that upper right corner, but it may have unbalanced the card…anywho….what is done is done.

I hope you enjoy all the eye candy from the team! You really need to check it all out.

Please come back tomorrow as you will NOT want to miss what we have to share. For the next 3 days some team members and I will be taking turns sharing peeks at what is to come from the MTME March 1st release! Something for everyone.

The Pretty Packaging © templates alone will leave your jaw on the floor-I promise!

See you then.