The Day Has Come...

Can I get a WOO-HOOOOOOOOO for Lauren?!?!?!

The My Time Made Easy™ store is officially OPEN for business!!!  Releasing and available TODAY are the following:

Pretty Impressions© Stamps:
All a Flutter©
All a Flutter Sentiments©

Pretty Printables© Digital Paper:
Fluttering-by©
Shutt-erfly©

Pretty Packaging© Templates:
All a Flutter©
Shutt-erfly©

and Pretty Pieces© Accents:
Flutters and Flowers©

I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet, as I know there's been a LOT to look at today. LOL.  I've got 2 projects to share with you today, both feature new templates and stamps being released to day at My Time Made Easy.

First up is this cute All a Flutter© tote and card to coordinate.  For the tote, I used some chocolate card stock, and the circles pattern from the Pretty Printables© papers.  I have my Cricut Expression with the SCAL software (I bought mine at Candacraft) and let me tell you - I literally had this put together in less than 10 minutes.  Yes, REALLY.  And, you can see that it holds quite a bit...there are 4 travel sized bath & body items in here.  I gave this to my daughter, and she giggled with delight :).  I added the handle, and now she carries it around the house -- probably more than I would like her to - lol.

I made a card to coordinate...the sentiment is from All a Flutter Sentiments©, I stamped the outline image of the butterfly from the All a Flutter© set, and carefully cut out the inside of the wings (I used hole punches for the circles, the 1/8" and 1/16" work perfectly!) and layered it on a piece of the circle paper. The main layer is another pattern included in the Pretty Printables© papers.  Kristin really did a fabulous job on all of these papers, you won't be disappointed!

My next ensemble uses the new Shutt-erfly Pretty Packaging© template.  This time, I used this great butterfly striped paper, and used rust and white as my main colors.  I colored in the wings on the butterflies used in this project.  "It's the little things that make life big!"  I can see myself using this sentiment a LOT.  I'm trying to teach my girls that it's not always about presents or expensive extravagant things, but that it's the little things, like spending time together, and enjoying each other that is important.  Oh - and cookies.  Cookies are important ;).  The cookies you see in the photo are Ricotta Cheese cookies.  My friend's Mom passed along the recipe (I've made a seperate post below with the recipe), and they are tasty!  Quite a few fit in this box, perfect for gift giving!

This time - I cut the template from the polka dot paper included in the Butterfly Pretty Printables© and used the "wrong side" of the paper for the outside, so what a nice surprise to see the inside of the box lined with polka dots, and the wings on the closure of the box too!

This time, I made my card using the box as my inspiration piece.  The 'Enjoy' was stamped on a piece of rust cardstock in white craft ink.  I picked up this cute Heidi Swapp Alphabet set on clearance at M's last week for $4!  How can you beat THAT???  And it came in handy for this project, so it was DEFINITELY justified ;).

Well -- that certainly didn't turn out to be a short and sweet as I thought it would be, but I did try...

I'll be back later this week, with ANOTHER few samples with new release items from My Time Made Easy, and a little somethin' from Pink Cat Studio - her first release of 2010!

Be on the lookout!