Surprise Giveaway from My Time Made Easy and a super fun project!

SUPRISE GIVEAWAY!

Today is the last day of peeks from the February My Time Made Easy ™ LLC Release!

We are giving away the chance to receive a $50 Gift Certificate to the My Time Made Easy ™ LLC store. BUT there are 2 chances to win! So the giveaway totals $100! That Lauren is so generous!

In order to qualify you have to do the following:

* Visit each design team members blog to view their project.

* Leave each member a comment about what you liked best about one of their release projects from the week.

By commenting here, you are agreeing to play along, and comment on everyone's post, in order to qualify for the giveaway.

The winner will be drawn via www.random.org.

The winning name will be crossed checked for comments on all design team members posts. If the winning person did not complete teh round of commenting, then another number will be drawn, and cross checked.

Winner will be announced Friday February 12th.

Enjoy!

How fun an exciting is that! I love giveaways. You know what else i love? When I'm able to take a crafting item, whether it's a stamp, template, punch, or even paper and multi-purpose it. When i'm able to use something in a completely different way, and make it look like it didnt even come from the same beginning... i love that! Why? Well, partially because i'm cheap and I like to get more uses out of things. haha. And also just because i think that extra challenge to find more uses for one thing is awesome. I mean really... how many stamps do YOU own that you've only inked up one time. Or templates that you've just put together once? Be honest. Ok, you can keep the number to yourself because i'd be embarassed at my number!

SO, i thought it would be a super fun thing to switch things up a bit and turn this adorable mail box template called You've Got Mail, into an oven! :) If you want to see my original You've Got Mail project (where it actually looks like a mailbox!, click HERE). The change was super easy too. And i love the outcome! I used my SCAL to cut out my template, so when cutting the front piece, i added in a rounded corner rectangle. it's just a shape that comes with SCAL so i didnt need to do anything fancy.

Had i used a PDF the window could have easily been cut out with a craft knife or even a punch.

Here is my project!

Fun huh? Ok, well i thought so! The little details (so easy to change) is really what makes this switch from a mailbox to an oven. I added an oven door handle but just so it wouldnt look like a mailbox handle, i stamped on a little scrap of white paper to create a "towel". I also added 2 circle punch outs to create my stove.

The heart used on the towel was used all over the template. It's from the You've Got Mail acrylic stamp set. I also used the Home Made stamp as this little box is now perfect to give away home made baked goodies, or in this case... some soap that LOOKS like a homemade goodie. :)

Here is the heart again stamped onto my printed digi paper. This paper is from the Darling Dots collection and i just love this shade of pink! I used some pink ink to stamp the heart on top and then also added on some pearl baubles.

I also created a little matching note to include with the gift. This is actually a cut file called love notes and it's only 2.50! Here's a tip, you dont have to cut out everything in the cut file. If you are used SCAL, you just ungroup it, and only keep whatever you want to cut. Why spend a fortune on a scalloped heart punch or even nesties when you can have this one and just resize to fit whatever needs! Perfect!

The little cupcake in this picture is the same little guy that was sitting inside my oven in the pictures above. Believe it or not... it's SOAP! Super easy to make too. Just buy some melt and pour soap and some of those silicone bakewear muffin cups. I also poured out my left over soap onto a silicon baking mat and let it set a few minutes. In the meantime, i stamped a butterfly from the All A Flutter stamp set and cut it out. BUT there is a cut file for that too, which i would have used if i wasnt sitting in my kitchen. Then i just placed the cutout butterfly on top of the set soap, and cut around it with a knife. Easy peasy.

The Love Notes cut file also comes so that you can easily have a little note that opens. here's a little quick shot so you can see what i mean...

So thats my project for you today! Dont forget to leave you comments on the entire team's blogs for your chance to win a $100 gift certificate! here are some quick links for you!

Lauren Meader - owner

Kristin Bueter

Mona Pendleton

Katie Cotton - that's me

Pam Imholz

Catherine Doucette

Tracey Cuccia

Have a wonderful day!!!