Sunday, July 31, 2011

Guest Designer Week 28 with In The Pink - WINNER

Thank you to all of you who left such nice comments for me this week.  The winner of The Princess Face Assortment stamp set is 

Maria  from Fairy Land
Maria I have sent an email out to you.  Please send me your full name and address and we will get your stamps out to you!!

Thanks Peachy Peeps,
Love and Hugs,
Cathryn :)

Friday, July 29, 2011

Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer Week 28, Day 5 with In The Pink Designs by Cathryn

Good Morning!!!  Welcome to my last day as a Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer.  I have enjoyed myself more than I can express!  Thank you to PKS and their Design Team ladies for such a warm welcome and support!  AND thank you to all the followers who have left me such sweet comments.  I appreciate you all!!Ok on to my project!
I used a tin that I filled with yummy cookies as color inspiration for this gift tag. I used some patterned paper to stamp Mitsy Sue and added a little more color with some copics and pastels. I cut the image out and placed it on top of the same image I stamped on white paper. That was I didn't have to cut out the tail, flower and stem!  The attahced "gem" is a Tim Holtz Facet which is available in the PKS store.  I love these because the back is flat and it is easy to add a picture or sentiment to it!



Materials:
Wow! So Many Candles  -  My Creative Time
Tim Holtz Facets  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
Oval and Scallop Oval Nestabilities
Linen Closet Matstack  -  DCWV
Flower Shower Stack and Lemon Flower Stack  -  DCWV
Glossy Accents for tear
Celebrations Ribbon  -  Michaels
Crop-a-Dial and eyelet
Copic Markers and Pastels
Twine  -  PTI
Irock and gems
Black and White Gel Pens
This week I am giving away PK-640 Princess Face Assortment! In order to win these fabulous stamps you must leave a comment here on the Peachy Keen blog under all of my posts this week and on MY BLOG under each of the Peachy Keen posts for the week. I will randomly draw a winner for these fabulous stamps. There is a total of 10 chances to win if you leave a comment on each post on both blogs each day. You have until the end of the day on July 29th to get your comments in!

Thank you for visiting again today. I hope you enjoyed all 5 of my posts this week.  I am so grateful to all of you for making my week so nice!  Be sure to check back to see if you are a winner!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Love and Hugs,
Cathryn :)


Thursday, July 28, 2011

Guest Designer Week 28, Day 4 with In the Pink Designs by Cathryn

Good morning this is Cathryn from In The Pink!  Today is another great day for me as a guest designer for Peachy Keen Stamps!  I am so glad I was given this opportunity.  Thank you to Peachy Keen and all who have visited my blog and left wonderful comments!  Today I made a shaped card using one of my favorite Peachy stamps, Lulee's Swim Time (It is too hard to pick just one favorite!).




 Materials:
PK-780 Lulee's Swim Time  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
Cricut Cartridge - Elegant Edges for card base, welded and cut at 5"
Copic Markers
Citrus Stack  -  DCWV
Pretty In Pink Cardstock  -  Stampin Up
Worn Lipstick Distress Ink
Yellow Stickles
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
1 1/2" Circle Scallop punch  -  McGill
1 1/8" Circle Punch  -  Paper Shapers
White Gel Pen  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
Dimentionals

This week I am giving away PK-640 Princess Face Assortment !  In order to win these fabulous stamps you must leave a comment on the Peachy Keen Blog under all of my posts this week and on MY BLOG under each of the Peachy Keen posts for the week. I will randomly draw a winner over the weekend. There is a total of 10 chances to win if you leave a comment on each post on both blogs each day. You have until the end of the day on July 29th to get your comments in!

Thank you for visiting again today.  Hope you enjoyed this post.  Check back tomorrow for my final post as a Peachy Guest Designer.  Have a wonderful day!
Love and Hugs,
Cathryn :)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Guest Designer Week 28, Day 3 with In the Pink Designs by Cathryn

Good Morning, this is Cathryn from In The Pink.  Welcome to my 3rd day as a Peachy Keen Stamps guest designer!  I am enjoying every single minute!   Today I made some plant pokes out of 3 great PKS sets.   I used them to dress up a basil plant for my kitchen.  My hubby is a great cook so I figured he would appreciate a fresh herb plant in the kitchen!
   
 Materials:
Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities
Fiskars Border Punch
Spiced Marmalade and Broken China Distress Inks
Yellow, True Blue and Pink Stickles
Purple Ribbon from Michaels
Copics

This week I am giving away PK-640 Princess Face Assortment!  In order to win these fabulous stamps you must leave a comment on the Peachy Keen blog under all of my posts this week and on MY BLOG under each of the Peachy Keen posts for the week.   I will randomly draw a winner over the weekend.  There is a total of 10 chances to win if you leave a comment on each post on both blogs each day. You have until the end of the day on July 29th to get your comments in!

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you join me tomorrow for another Peachy Keen Project!
Hugs,
Cathryn :)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer Week 28, Day 2 with In The Pink Designs by Cathryn - Tuesday Sketch Challenge

Hello my friends, this is Cathryn from In The Pink!  Today is my second day as Guest Designer for PKS.  I am so excited to participate with the fabulous ladies of the Design Team in the Tuesday Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge!   This time the CHALLENGE is to create a card with the Sketch AND Color Combo pictured below.  Your Design must be new and you must enter by 8/8/11.  Peachy Keen Stamps are not required to participate, but it's always great to see what you create with them if you have them already!


Here is my take on the Challenge.  I embossed the background of this card using the  Daisy stamps from another one of my favorite sets, Easter Patch.   This set has an awesome bunny, some grass and daisies.  It is a holiday set but I can use these stamps all year round.   I LOVE daisies.  They are beautiful, resilient and they can flourish just about anywhere!  Who wouldn't admire those qualities!
  



For the flowers I used the daisy cut from the new Cricut Projects Cartridge Flower Shoppe.  I spritzed them with some glimmer mist and added some stickles to the middle.  Then I used hot glue to attach them to the cardstock.

Materials:
PK-286 Easter Patch  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
This & That stamp set  -  My Creative Time
Blueberry Sky, Berry Sorbet & Spring Moss Cardstock  -  Papertrey Ink
Versamark Watermark Stamp pad
A La Mode Sparkle Embossing Powder
Memento Black Tuxedo Ink  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
Lime Ice Stickles
Irock and Gems
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl
Broken China and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink

This week I am giving away PK-640 Princess Face Assortment!  In order to be entered for a chance to win you must leave a comment on this blog under all of my posts this week and on MY BLOG under each of the Peachy Keen posts for the week. I will randomly draw a winner for these fabulous stamps over the weekend. There is a total of 10 chances to win if you leave a comment on each post on both blogs each day. You have until the end of the day on July 29th to get your comments in!
Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you all participate in this fun challenge and link up over at Peachy Keen Stamps!  Please stop by tomorrow for my 3rd project!
Love and Hugs,
Cathryn :)

Monday, July 25, 2011

Guest Designer - Week 28, Day 1 with In The Pink Design by Cathryn

Hello Peachy Fans!  I am Cathryn from In The Pink .  I am thrilled to be guest designer here this week!  I have a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful children, a 16 year old girl and a twin boy and girl who are 8.   I have been crafting ever since I can remember.  My Mom was always making something so there was always
materials around to play with.  I currently work from home 9 months a year painting glass for shows my husband and I attend on the weekends.  I try to find some time for crafting whenever possible.  A few years ago when I got my cricut I discovered  Peachy Keen Stamps and I have been hooked ever since!  I am so happy to be able to share a weeks worth of Peachy projects with you!

For todays project I have an altered note paper holder.  I used two PKS stamps for this project, Boogie Board Max and You Are My Sunshine.  Max is adorable and reminds me so much of my son Zach.  I used some glossy accents on the sun to give it "shine".



 Materials:
PK-M16, You Are My Sunshine  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
PK-790, Boogie Board Max  -  Peachy Keen Stamps
Copic Markers
Patterned Paper, Citrus Stack  -  DCWV
Summer Sunrise Ribbon  -  Papertrey Ink
Cuttlebug Divine Swirls Embossing folder
EK Sucess border punch
Glossy Accents
True Blue Stickles
Irock
White Gelly Roll Pen  -  Peachy Keen Stamps

This week I am giving away PK-640 Princess Face Assortment this week!
In order to be entered for a chance to win you must leave a comment on the this post on this blog under all of my posts this week and on MY BLOG under each of the Peachy Keen posts for the week. I will randomly draw a winner for these fabulous stamps. There is a total of 10 chances to win if you leave a comment on each post on both blogs each day. You have until the end of the day on July 29th to get your comments in!
I hope you have enjoyed my project for today!  Check back tomorrow for my Peachy Project #2!!!
Have a great day!
Love and Hugs,
Cathryn :)

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Week 27 WINNER!

Thank you again to everyone that left such nice comments!  Some of you left comments EVERY day - on EACH blog, which I know is time consuming - so thank you!  

The winner of the Happy Lashes Face Assortment is:


Houses Built of Cards said...



Completely ADORABLE!!! GrEaT layout!!!

Congratulations!  I have your contact information, so I will be emailing you shortly!



Friday, July 22, 2011

Guest Designer Week 27, Day 5

Happy Friday!  I can't believe this week is over - it went by so fast, and I am definitely sad to see it end!  I have had such a good time and appreciate all of the sweet comments that you have left.  Thank you to everyone at Peachy Keen Stamps!

This week I've taken you through a year's worth of scrapbook layouts; the only thing that I had left off was a birthday themed page.  I am so excited to participate in the Let's Face it Friday Challenge!  This week's theme is "Puns."  I decided to have a "won-DEER-ful" birthday celebration for the sweet deer from Create a Critter
 If you'd like to play along you can find all of the details HERE!
I don't care how many projects I do with the Create a Critter cartridge - I never get tired of it.  The Peachy Keen Critter Face stamps just push the "cute" factor up even more.  I have been saving this patterned paper to use for something special, and I decided that this week is awfully special, so it's the perfect time to put it to use.  I know that bright patterns aren't for everyone, but I love these - especially when paired with my favorite kraft cardstock.  
All of the animals are dressed up and ready for the deer's party.  I added distress ink and white gel pen doodles and faux-stitching to EVERYTHING in this layout.  It is a bit time consuming, but I try to distress and doodle as I go.  Normally while my Cricut is cutting out the images, I ink things and put together what I can.  I like to have all of my images ready to go once I start to actually put the layout together.  Sometimes I end up changing a few things around from my original design, once the cuts are in front of me.
I love the fox's "fabric" flower hair accessory.  All I did was attach a mini-brad to the fox, but before I pushed it all the way through - I wrapped the baker's twine all around it.  The twine is secured with gel adhesive.
I have never had much luck cutting out the balloon strings with my Cricut, so I decided that baker's twine would be even cuter.  I simply attached one end of the twine to my balloon and then tied the strings in a knot for the little squirrel to hold.

Silhouette
Create a Critter 
ALL Patterned Paper - Ki Memories "Paisley Parade"
(I have a more complete materials list, including cut sizes posted on my blog.)

Don't forget that this week's giveaway from Peachy Keen Stamps is the Happy Lashes Face Assortment set!  

All you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment on this post - for an extra entry make sure to leave a comment on the corresponding post on my blog, Lauren's Creative!  I will draw a winner on Sunday morning using random.org and post the results on Peachy Keen's blog and on mine!
Thank you again for all of your sweet comments!  I hope that you will stop by and visit my blog in the future!  I don't normally post 5 layouts in one week, but I always have lots of projects to share!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Guest Designer - Week 27, Day 4

As promised, I have a Christmas layout to share with you today.  I dusted off my Paper Doll Dress-Up cartridge and got to work sprucing up Santa and his reindeer with some Peachy Keen Face stamps.  If you have been wanting to purchase some Peachy Keen Stamps for the first time or add to your collection - this weekend they are having a "Christmas in July" sale July 22nd, 23rd & 24th!  Make sure to check it out!  I have my eye on a set or two...or three.  ;) 
I did have to cut out some images a few times, to create layers, which is a bit time consuming, but definitely worth it in the long run.  
I will use the smaller rectangle for journaling - more than likely I will add another piece of white (or maybe kraft) on top of the pink patterned paper, so that the writing will show up.  It's a little hard to tell in the pictures, but I outlined the stars with diamond Stickles to add a bit of sparkle. 

To attach the twine to the reindeer, all I did was run a line of gel glue and then attach the twine.  I did the same thing to attach the baker's twine to Santa's bag. 
Cricut Paper Doll Dress-Up, George and Basic Shapes, Wild Card & Winter Woodland
Peachy Keen Stamps - Funshine Face Assortment & Critter Faces Set A Medium
Patterned Paper - K & Company "Secret Santa"
Cuttlebug A2 Snowflakes Embossing Folder
(I have a more complete materials list, including cut sizes on my blog.)

Don't forget that this week I will be giving away a set of the 
All you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment on one or ALL of my posts this week!  If you'd like 10 chances to win, just leave a comment on each of my posts here on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog and a comment on the corresponding post over on my blog - Lauren's Creative !  You do not have to be a follower or email subscriber of either blog to win, but as always - I would love to have you!  I will draw a winner using random.org and the winner will be posted Sunday, July 24th!


Tomorrow I will be participating in the Peachy Keen "Let's Face it Friday" Challenge, so my layout won't post until 10:00 AM CST.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Guest Designer - Week 27, Day 3

Happy Wednesday!  I can't believe the week is already halfway through.  So far, I've shown you a spring layout and a summer layout, but today we have arrived in my favorite season - fall!  I am planning to use this layout for my daughter's first day of school pictures (she starts preschool in the fall), but you could use this layout for almost any occasion!  

See that red polka dot apple...that will probably be me on the first day of preschool, while Nicole will probably be more like the happy yellow apple.  Oh well...that's as it should be.  I did some more paper piecing for this layout, and I couldn't be happier with how those cute apples turned out.  I wasn't sure at first if I was going to add faces to my Faceless Fruit, but they looked so sad and lonely without a sweet Peachy face.  So...of course I added some little faces.  This time I used the Funshine Face Assortment.  Did you know those were the very first Peachy Keen face stamps?  


Cricut Birthday Bash & Wild Card cartridges

Peachy Keen Stamps - Faceless Fruit & Funshine Face Assortment
Sketch Inspiration
(I have a more detailed materials 
list
, including cut sizes posted on my blog.)


Don't forget that this week's giveaway is a set of the 
Happy Lashes Face Assortment stamps!  
All you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment on one or ALL of my posts this week!  If you'd like 10 chances to win, just leave a comment on each of my posts here on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog and the corresponding post on my blog, Lauren's Creative!  You do not have to be a follower or email subscriber of either blog to win, but as always - I would love to have you!  I will draw a winner using random.org and the winner will be posted Sunday, July 24th!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all of your sweet comments!  I have been trying to keep track of any questions that I've seen and will answer in the post on Sunday!

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for a little Christmas in July inspiration!