MTME announcement, card and giveaways!!!

Lots of exciting things to share with you today! There is some new phenomenal talent joining the My Time Made Easy design team! I'm so excited to get to work with these ladies!

Each new team member is giving away a My Time Made Easy template! So if you've wanted to try them out, you can get one for FREE! If you have tried them out and love them, now is the time to get one FREE! :) Just leave the new team members some love on their blogs!

Here they are....

Dawn Easton - http://treasureoilerdesignz.blogspot.com

Geny Cassady - http://madisonavenue.typepad.com

Lesa Rapp - http://paperpossibilities.blogspot.com

Stephanie Kraft - http://handkraftedbystephanie.blogspot.com

By the way, Stephanie totally lucked out on the best name ever for a paper crafter! Haha!

My Time Made Easy also has a new Design Team page! How fun is that! You can read a bit about each designer there! I LOVE that idea (and just might have to steal it! ;)

You can check it out HERE!

There are some links to more giveaways at the bottom of my post (but i'm sneaky like that and will make you scroll thru!)

Ok, now onto my card today... This is another simple one using one of the very first MTME stamp sets called All A Flutter. By the way, this set has also been made into a digital stamp set! Which means you can make those beautiful butterflies any size you want! How fabulous is that! Think of the wall art designs! I cant not WAIT to get my room painted so i can put vinyl cuts on the wall and have it all a flutter with some beautiful butterflies!

Ok, i got off subject! here's my card!

I was dying to play with some of my new distress ink colors! So I stamped the solid butterfly image in Wild Honey, and then stamped off on a scrap piece of paper, then stamped it onto my cardstock. The distress inks are so sticky that a good amount is left on the stamp, but it leaves a much lighter color. I know pretty much all inks do this, but the distress inks are fabulous at this! Then i inked up one of the butterfly wing designs in the same ink and stamped right on top of the previously stamped butterfly. I repeated the same process with the new Storm Sky distress ink color. I then took the small build a butterfly body pieces from the stamp set, inked them up in vintage photo distress ink and finished off each butterfly. Each piece is separate (the body, head and antenna) so you can each all or 1 or however you'd like the butterfly to be.

To give the butterflies some motion, i used 2 swirls (i love that the swirls have mirror images in this stamp set!) from the Fanciful Flourishes stamp set. Those were inked up in Antique Linen distress ink.

The sentiment is also from the All A Flutter stamp set. (did you know there are 25 stamps in that set? Talk about the set to have if you love butterflies!

Sweet and easy! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Dont forget to check out the new team members blogs (links above and in my sidebar) for your chance to win a free template!

ALSO - the Just Us Girls Challenge blog is being sponsored this week by MTME. Play along this week and 1 lucky participant will win a free template from Lauren!

And last but not least... have you been dying to get your hands on a stamp set from MTME?!

Well now is your chance! Leave a comment on Lauren's blog post today (read it here!) and she will pick 1 lucky commenter to win a free stamp set! How awesome is that!

Lots of giveaways floating around! Be sure to check them alllllll out! :)