"Let's Face it Friday" Challenge #8

Happy Friday!

If you are looking for the Peachy Keen Stamps New Release blog hop click here!

I am so excited because today is the 2nd "Let's Face it Friday" challenge of the new year! 

 Challenge #8
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and one of the most celebrated "Hallmark" holidays during the year! Let's "one up" Hallmark though ('cause they got nothin' on a handmade card or gift), and create a Peachified valentine using X's & O's somewhere on our projects! X's and O's don't have to be the main focus on your project, but should be the evident theme of your project.

Your project:

-must be new
-must include a Peachy Keen Face
-Link to Mr. Linky before January 20th

Here is my card!

The papers are Coordinations and K and Co's Valentine stack from Michael's.

The hearts were cut from the Simply Charmed cart at 2 1/4". The tag was cut from Once Upon a Princess at 6.25 x 3.25, cut using my Gypsy. The X's and O's are from the Smiley Cart and they measure 2.69 x .97, also cut using my Gypsy.

I inked around the x's and o's with a pink ink and then glued them to the tag to create an embossed effect. The twine is from The Twinery. 

Their sweet little faces are from Peachy Keen Stamps new stamp set PK-450 Wide Eyed Kids face assortment.

 *Giveaway*

The PKS Design Team will be voting on entries, and choosing a TOP 5.
Winner will receive two of our newest Valentine's Day sets:

{PK-280} Valentine's Day Sweets!

 

and {PK-281} Valentine's Day Cupids

Click here to go to the Peachy Keen Challenge blog!

 See you tomorrow!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

**Giveaway Closed** Peachy Keen Stamp's New Release Blog Hop!

WooHoo!  

Today is the Peachy Keen New Release Blog Hop! Are you ready?!?

If you just got here from the fabulous Emma's Blog, then you are on the right track! If not please start here. Believe me... you don't want to miss anything.

There are three new sets of face stamps! My project was made with set, PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment.

  

I was so excited when I first saw these because, they are not just boy faces, but they are the complementing boy faces for the princess faces! I am having so much fun creating cards with them!

All the papers are from Doodlebug Designs.

The popsicles were cut at 3" from the Simply Charmed cart. The labels were cut from the Lacy Labels cart at 5.10 x 3.88 and 4.79 x 3.65, on my Gypsy. I printed the "You make me melt..." sentiment on my computer/printer.

 The face on the green, or boy, popsicle is from the new PK-642 Boy Mates Assortment stamp set! The girl popsicle was stamped with a face from the PK-640 Princess Face Assortment. 

  

Kathy at Peachy Keen Stamps has generously given me at set of PK-642 to giveaway to one of my fabulous followers! 

To be entered to win:

1. Become a follower, if not already following.

2. Leave me a comment on this post.

I will be picking a winner via random.org, Sunday night at 9pm (pst) and I will announce the winner in my blog post Monday morning.

Below is a list of the all the DT members/blogs in order.

PKS

Kathy

Viv

Kim

Lorie

Heidi

Janice

Joanna

Nikki

Erin

Emma

Ruthie (me)

Samantha

Lisa

Angelica

Your next stop is the super talented Samantha's Blog!

Don't forget that tomorrow starts the begining of a new "Let's Face it Friday" challenge!

Thanks so much for taking the time to hop with us!

 

Design Team Thursday #2 ~ Joy's Life

Happy Thursday!

Today is the 2nd Thursday of Joy's Life.com's, Design Team Thursday!

This is my card for this week.

The card measures 5 1/2 x5 1/2. The paper is DCWV and K and Co Valentine's paper.

The dog was cut from the Sweethearts cart at 3 1/2". The tags were cut from the Lacy Labels cart at 4.5" and 5". The back and white twine is from Paper and Parcel.

Last but certainly not least the sentiment stamp is from Joyslife.com's stamp set, Mother and Daughter stamps.


Check back tonight at 5pm (pst), we are having a Peachy Keen Stamps new release blog hop! Believe me... you do not want to miss it! There are three new face stamp sets and they are to die for! Everyone in the hop will be giving a set away, so make sure you hop along with us and leave a comment at each stop!

I hope you have a wonderful day! See you later!

Peachy Keen Stamp's New Release Sneak Peak!

I hope your having a wonderful day/evening! 

Here is my sneak peak of one of the new PKS releases!

Tomorrow night,Thursday , at 7pm Central Standard time there will be a Blog Hop to celebrate the new releases! Each of the Peachy Keen design team members will be unveiling their "sneak peek" and there will be peachy blog candy at each stop! 

You don't want to miss it!

Cricut Cardz Challenge #58

Happy Wednesday!

Today is a new challenge on the Cricut Cardz Challenge Blog. This weeks challenge is to design a card with a snowman in any colors that you would like.

This is my card.

I chose the snowman from the Smile Cards cart. He was cut at 3".

The papers are DCWV and Doodlebug Designs. The white 5/8" grosgrain ribbon is from Michael's.

The sentiment was printed on my computer/printer. The snowman's face is from Peachy Keen Stamps, PK-460 Happy Lashes Assortment set.

Click here to go to the Cricut Cardz Challenge blog for more inspiration!

Don't forget to stop back by tonight about 7pm (est), I will show you a sneak peak of one of Peachy Keen Stamps new releases! You aren't going to believe how unbelievable cute the new stamps are! Tomorrow, Thursday night at 7pm (est) is the New Release blog hop! There will be blog candy at each stop along the way... you aren't going to want to miss it! 

Also... tomorrow is Design Team Thursday at Joyslife.com  and I have another cute card to show you!

I hope you have a wonderful  day!

Tacky Tuesday's Challenege #2

Happy Tuesday!

I am so excited because today is Tacky Tuesday's Challenge #2!

First off, I wanted to announce the winner of challenge #1. There were a total of three entries, I used random.org to choose the winner and the winner is..... Pam Nisson! You can see Pam's card and blog here.  Pam won a set of PK-641 Princess Faces 1 1/8".

All three entries were great, thanks to the ladies that played along!

We decided that for challenge #2 we were going to change the rules a bit. First, if you do not have the cart that we pick, you can still play along as long as you use a similar cut.   You will still need to do a play on words somewhere on the front of your card.

For this weeks challenge we are using the whale from Create A Critter.

This is Janie's Card! 

This is Raven's card!

This is Theresa's Card!

This is my card. :)

 I used DCWV and K and Co papers. The whale was cut from the Create a Critter cart at 3". The hearts were cut from Doodlecharms at 4", 1.25" and 1". I printed the sentiment on my printer.

The whale's face is from PK-641 Princess Faces 1 1/8".

The winner of this challenge will receive the same set!

Make sure that you post your card to our Facebook group, Tacky Tuesday's, before February 1st, 2011.

Tomorrow starts a new challenge at Cricut Cradz Challenge, I will have a card for that and later in the day, I will show you my "sneak peak" for Peachy Keen Stamps, new release blog hop! See you then!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

 

Valentine's Treat Box

Happy Monday!

I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to hop through the "It's My Party" blog hop and our live USTREAM this weekend! We had so much fun and we were so excited to see everyone who joined us for the chat!

Today's project is the project that I shared during our live USTREAM. I have all the dimensions and info below!

I cut the pizza box from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. I used my Gypsy, the size was 5.3 x 9.4 and I welded the scallop heart from the Doddlecharms cart to the front. The heart was sized at 3.77 x 2.92, and then welded together. 

Then I took a cello bag and filled it with M&M's and placed it inside. I wrapped the bottom of the box with some twine to hold the box closed.

On the back of the box I placed a poem. The stamp shape is from the Sentimentals cart. It was cut at 3 x 3.5. The Poem was printed with my printer and I cut it at 2.5 x 3. 

They were really simple to make! Super cute too!

Tomorrow I will have the new challenge up for our second Tacky Tuesday challenge!  I will also announce the winner of  my Peachy Keen Stamp giveaway! You still have time to enter, if you haven't already, click here.

I hope you have a wonderful day! See you tomorrow!

***Giveaway Closed!*** "It's My Party" Blog Hop!

Happy Saturday!

Welcome to the "It's My Party" Blog Hop!

If you have arrived here from the amazing Nicole's blog then you are on the right track. If you would like to start at the beginning click here to go to Alex's blog.

So... if you haven't already guessed, this hop is about fun and easy party ideas. I decided that I would plan a child's party. I thought it would be fun to go with a "vintage circus" theme. I also decided that I was going to use what I already had on hand. If I didn't have something... I would just have to get creative. :)

Like I said above, I wanted a vintage circus feel... really I just took some inspiration from my circus theme. I decided on bright primary colors. I purchased the new DCWV Celebrations stack a couple weeks ago and I knew the papers would be perfect.

 I found these plates in my kitchen and some red polka dot ribbon in my stash. I used my Crop-o-dile to punch holes on the rim of the plate and turned the paper plate and ribbon into this.

The napkin ring was made with a piece of paper 1 1/2" wide by 6" long. I added some ribbon, a 3" scalloped circle, and a 2 1/2" number five. (That's how old my make-believe child is.)
Here is a better view of the napkin ring.

 I also made a banner... because every celebration needs a banner right!?!

 The tags were cut from the Birthday Bash Cricut cart at 3". The letters were cut at 1 1/2".

 I used red and white twine, that I purchased from Paper and Parcel to string the banner together.

 I also decided to make some cupcake wrappers/holders. It was a cut file that I purchased from Lettering Delights a month or so ago. I think they turned out super cute! They would be even cuter with cupcakes in them.... but remember I was using what I had on hand and unfortunately, I didn't have any cupcakes. I did have some Hersey's kisses... so I added those. :)

If this was a real party... I would totally make one of these and put it on that cake plate!

  Doesn't it look amazing! You can see how to make one at Cookies and Cups!

Back to the party...
I also made some scalloped cupcake toppers. Again, the scallop circles were cut at 3" and the number "5" was cut at 1 1/2".

 Here is a close-up of the toppers.

 (Sorry, the lighting is funny on this one.)

 So here is everything together.

I know it's not Chuck E Cheese's... but I think it's fun. :)

BTW... I went to Farrell's for my 5th Birthday. Farrell's was the "cool" place to go for birthday's, when I was little. It's an old time ice cream parlor.

This is a photo of me and my two friends Maryann and Debbie, after the party and yes... we are still friends. :) I'm the one in the middle, aren't we cute?


 

 So no blog party would be complete with out some sort of blog candy!

 I am giving away a set of Peachy Keen, 1 1/8" Happy Lashes, stamps.

All you have to do to be entered to win is:


1. Become a follower, if not already.
2. Leave me a comment on this post.


That's it! I will choose a winner via Random.org on Monday night and announce the winner Tuesday morning. Good Luck!

Here is a list of all the bloggers in the hop.

Alex @ You Had Me At Craft
Abby @ Scrapbookaholic by Abby
Debbie @ DD's Crafts
Emma @ My Creative Time
Gaby @ Gaby Creates
Janis @ Pause Dream Enjoy
Jess @ Kinder Stampo
Jenny @ Crazy About Cricut 

Joanna @ Scrap Making
Julie @ Cricut Chick

Liz @ Liz's Paper Loft
Mari @ Made by Momo
Mary @ Cardz TV
Meighan @ Scrappin Thrideeschik
Melanie @ Scrappy Mel

Nicole @ Canadian Nickel Scrap'n
Ruthie @ September Ninth (Me)
Sandra @ 365 of Cricut
Sarah @ The Pink Cricut

Theresa @ The Scrap Booking Queen
Tracy @ Craft Junkie too
Trish @ Techniques by Trish

Your next stop is fabulous Sandra @ 365 of Cricut!

Thanks so much for hopping along with us today! 

I hope you have a wonderful day!