My Time to Colour Challenge

So, we are going to be trying something a bit different with Lauren's My Time design team. we are going to be posting the sneak peaks of our projects on Friday. This will give you a taste of what is to come, and maybe give you a hint as to the colours that were chosen before we reveal the actual image and all of our cards. The peaks look GREAT this week (as always), and I can't wait to see the full images tomorrow.



Here is a list of the design team so you are ready to visit them tomorrow for the full reveals!


Lauren
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristin
Tracey
Pam
Jennifer
Odette
Lisa
Dana
Alicia

High Hopes Blog Candy

If you love High Hopes stamps, and who doesn't, you need to go HERE right now!!

Crissy, one of the illustrators for High Hopes, is giving away *7* FABULOUS prizes on her blog. Go check it out!!

Return of the Wranglers

It is REALLY late here, and I *finally* got blogger to load, so I won't be saying too much about this card. It has been a real challenge to get things together this week. I finished my card late, then blogger was being difficult. However, I finally got it all together and my card is posted below.

The colours this week were really perfect for a cowboy theme. I want to use them again for more masculine, and "outdoor" type cards.



This is another card with the fabulous Weiman Wranglers, with all proceeds going to Make a Wish foundation. If you haven't bought your set yet, what are you waiting for!?! See Lauren's post for more information.



I printed the Ava and Ethan images on cream cardstock after having moved them to be almost as if they are holding hands.



The balloons have icicle stickles on them, and the sentiment was punched using my label buddy.



Please check out the rest of the team, and join us in the challenge this week.

Lauren
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristin
Tracey
Pam
Jennifer
Odette
Lisa
Dana

Welcome the Weiman Wranglers!

On August 5, 2004, Ethan Weiman was welcomed into this world, and into the loving arms of his parents, Dave and Alicia Weiman.

On June 12, 2009 Ethan's little life left those same loving arms, as he was welcomed into the loving arms of God in Heaven. In his mother's words " Heaven gained the greatest little boy ever".

Ethan was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma in July of 2007. He was a brave, and tough little cowboy! Ethan loved Knock Knock jokes, balloons, and of course, being the true cowboy that he was - horses! His younger sister, Ava just adored her big, brave brother.

Pink Cat Studios has designed the Weiman Wranglers digital stamps to honor the life of Ethan Weiman and raise money for the Make-A-Wish foundation. The Cowboy Ethan and Cowgirl Ava digital stamps can be purchased separately for $4.00 each or combined for $6.00. Please visit the Pink Cat Studio website to purchase the digital stamps. And to see the amazing samples from the My Time Design team.

If you haven't used digi stamps before, be sure to visit Dana's blog for a mini tutorial on how to use this images in Microsoft Word, and Tracey's blog tomorrow for a tutorial on how easy they are to use.

My sample used the Cowboy Ethan digi stamp. I used the image of Ethan above to choose the colours for this image.

I printed the image on cream cardstock and coloured it with Prismacolour pencil crayons.

Then, I printed another image on plain paper, and cut it out to create a mask. I sponged a sunset around the top half of the image, and sponged brown along the bottom to create the ground.

This is what it looked like before I trimmed the image to use it on my card.

The sentiment was printed on silver paper, then embossed with clear embossing powder because the ink was not drying on the paper, and I didn't want it to smear.

The balloon was done with liquid pearls, then sponged to add some colour. I love the dimension the liquid pearls add to the balloon. It makes it look like a mylar balloon.

Please visit the Pink Cat Studio website to see all of the design team samples, and to purchase your own images as we raise money for the Make a Wish foundation.

The design team has been really busy getting samples ready for the release today, and they would all love to hear what you think of their projects. Please visit them and share the love.

Lauren
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristin
Tracey
Jennifer
Odette
Lisa
Dana

Picnic Fun

This week, on the heels of a new Papertrey release, Lauren's My Time team has created projects using one of her My Timeless Templates, and as an additional challenge we had to create our own background paper.

I couldn't help using one of the newest templates, Pack a Picnic. I absolutely love this template, and have lots of ideas, unfortunately I ran out of time, and don't have this quite done because I wanted to buy a strawberry plant to put inside of this basket before I gave it away.



The pattern was printed on kraft cardstock, and I used my acrylic paints again (I recently found them in my craft room, and I can't get enough of my paints) to lightly paint red and white stripes across the basket in a loose plaid pattern.

The image is from Unity and is part of the Fall Festival set. I had originally thought I would use a cherry or strawberry image on the basket, but I think the pie is much cuter. I can just see the strawberry pies now!



Instead of using the cardtock handles that come as part of the pattern I decided to use twill and I really like the look it gives. I am quite pleased with how this turned out, and I can't wait to use it again!

Be sure to check out the rest of the team, and play along this week with your own stamped (or painted) paper! These samples look fantastic, visit the blogs below to see the whole project!



Lauren
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristen
Tracey
Pam
Jennifer
Odette
Lisa
Dana

Remembering Ethan

This is a blog post that is very difficult to write. Alicia, a member of our My Time design team, lost her wonderful caring 4 year old son Ethan this weekend. Ethan had been battling cancer for 2 years, and Alicia and her family have remained amazingly strong throughout this journey. They have detailed the struggle on their CaringBridge pages, and I am sure some of you have already been following their journey.

The DT wanted to do something in memory of Ethan, and to help the Weimans, so Lauren and Kristin organized a paypal account for us to make donations. Alicia has asked that in lieu of flowers, we fill the room with balloons, so we will be ordering a big bouquet of balloons as well as a Schwann's gift so that the family has one less thing to worry about in this difficult time.

If you want to donate, please click on the paypal link ----------->
any money that is collected that exceeds the need for the balloons and gift, will be given to the familly as cash to help pay for final expesnses, outstanding medical bills, or for them to donate to a charity of their choice.

Inspiration Wish

This week we have a really cool inspiration photo to play with. The idea with inspiration photos is to take something from the photo and use those elements on you card, or project. It can be the colours, the elements, the shapes, the style.....



I chose to use the colours, and the circle theme to come up with this card.



When I saw the inspiration photo I immidately thought of a recent post that Pine did on reverse applique, and how great that would look with coloured circles. I am really happy with how it turned out.

Initially, I just had the coloured circles, and although I had planned on outlining them with white gel pen, I was worried it wouldn't look good, so I took a "before" photo just in case I had to use that as my post today :)



As you can see, this card is okay, but it is so much better with the faux stitching around the circles.



The sentiment is from Unity, and is stamped in versamark and embossed with white powder.



This week Lauren has been focused on the PTI release, and on making FABULOUS gifts for her children's teachers, so she is sitting this one out, and Kristin is hosting for us. Be sure to check out her blog, and the rest of the fabulous DT to see the full cards that go with these amazing peeks.

Dawn
MacKenzie
Kristin
Tracey
Jennifer
Odette
Dana