Lezlye Lauterbach :: Peachy Penguin!

We would like to thank Lezlye for joining us for the month of April as our Guest Designer!
We have enjoyed each and every wonderful creation, and are thrilled that she 
could share her creative talents with us!!  Please check out Lezlye's adorable project for today, and after you've had the chance to enjoy that, scroll down to the bottom of this post to see who our WINNERS are from the PKS Spring Fling Blog Hop!!!

Lezlye here from Lezlye's Ink and Paper Creations

with my last post as Guest desinger for Peachy Keen Stamps. I am really sad my time is up, I have enjoyed working with theses stamps and sharing my creations with you! I would like to Thank Kathy and the whole Peachy Family including the DT for this opportunity and making me feel right at home here At PKS!

Peachy Penquin

I love using my peachy keen faces on cricut and silhouette cuts for charachter's it really give them more personality. I hope you enjoy my little card.

Peachy Keen Stamps PK-754 Critter Faces

Peachy Keen Stamps PK-187 Eye Sentiments

Cricut Circle exclusive Animal Antics cartridge

Polaroid Die 

Cloud Die 

Flair American Crafts

EK Success Border Punch

Pattern Paper My Minds Eye

For more details on my card you can visit here.

Have a great Tuesday!



WINNERS FROM THE PKS SPRING FLING BLOG HOP ARE:

From Heidi Giebel's Blog on Thursday, April 18th:

Janet Licari!!!

And from Jeanne Streiff's Blog on Thursday, April 25th:

Vicki Garrett!!!!

Thank you ladies for hopping along with us and leaving comments along the way!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

(Winners have been or will be contacted with instructions about how to claim their prizes.)

Amy Crockett :: Thanks A Bunch!

Hello everyone!!  This is Amy from Scrapping Mommy here to share a project with you today.  I just LOVE spring.  So many new blooms to see and I am really loving the warmer weather, how about you??  Today I created a card that really makes me think spring/summer.

I used the April SOTM and the Veggie Sentiments One for my card.  I colored in the flowers and watering can with copic markers and then I added a little bit of white gel pen as an accent.  I added some dimension with foam adhesive under the can and some of the flowers to help give it a little 'pop'.  I did a little bit of fringe on the green cardstock for a little added texture and then used my sewing machine to stitch around the card.  Here is a closer look......

The papers are from a 6x6 MME pad called Everyday Flair.  Love the bright and happy colors.  I hope that you can see a little bit of happiness in my card and it has inspired you to make something bright and happy, too.

Hugs,
Amy

Emily Kluender :: Coolest Crayon In the Box

If you're looking for the Spring Fling Blog Hop, please CLICK HERE.

Hi Peachy friends!!! Emily here from Creations of an Army Wife, and I've got a layout to share with you today. This is was my son's first day of preschool. He was so excited to start and picked this shirt out at the store. So his shirt was the inspiration for this layout. 

The title was stamped using Lucy's Solid ABC's and 123's. The adorable little crayons, two sweet faces, and the sentiments come from PKSC-08 August 2012 Stamp of the Month Sets. I also used the "you're" from the new Honey Sentiments.The rest of the faces come from The Moodies face assortment and Simple Simons face assortment. For the middle crayon, I just stamped the Simple Simon face and filled in the glasses with a black gel pen. 

I cut the crayon box using Cricut's Simply Charmed Cartridge @ 4 inches. The three PK crayons fit perfectly. The arrow was cut from Cricut's Art Philosophy Cartridge @ 2 inches. The crayon scribble was cut from Cricut's Calligraphy Cartridge @ 1.5 inches.

Other products used:

Memento Bahama Blue, Lady Bug, Tuxedo Black Inks

Recollection's Pop Dots

Color Box Red Cat Eye Ink

White Gel Pen

Target Dollar Twine

Cricut Expression

White Gel Pen

Black Gel Pen

Dienamics Sentiment Strips Die

I had a lot of fun putting this together. I hope you enjoy it too!! Thanks for stopping by and happy creating!!

~Emily~

P.S. Don't forget about the Peachy Keen Stamp Sale on the new April Mid Month Releases. It will be ending today, so you don't want to miss out on these great stamps with great prices!!

Spring Fling Blog Hop :: Day 2

Good morning and welcome to Day #2 of our Spring Fling Blog Hop!!

We've brought together our designers both past and present to share some amazing creations with you, and we know that they are going to bring the warmth of Spring right in to your hearts, even if  like many of us, Winter is still hangin' on!

These wonderful creations will be just the ticket!!

Grab your favorite beverage, and take a few minutes out of your busy day to relax and join us for our

We could not be happier that you joined us for this special event and we hope you will end this hop filled with inspiration to get crafty!!  We've got a WONDERFUL prize to offer, too!  Yep!  We're going to award one lucky person the following prize package...

The Moodies!!

(All three sets to one winner!!!!!)

Aren't these adorable?  They are a part of one of the recent releases at Peachy Keen Stamps.  Drop by The Peachy Keen Stamps Store to see the complete collection of new stamps, and while you're there, be sure to check out our Peachy Pick of the Week!  It's a GREAT DEAL and only available for a limited time, so get yours while you can!!

All you need to do to be entered to win is leave a comment on each blog on this Spring Fling Blog Hop.  We'll choose one random winner from all the comments to win the above prize package.  We won't know until the time comes which blog will be awarding the prize, and you'll increase your chances of winning by leaving a comment on each blog.  This hop will remain open for comments until 11:59 CDT on Sunday, April 28th, and the winner will be announced here on Monday!

Your NEXT STOP is at the ever so talented Amanda Bodine's Blog .

Here's the complete hop order, in case you should happen to lose your way.

Blog Hop Order Thursday, April 25th:

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog - http://www.peachykeenstamps.blogspot.com/

Amanda Bodine - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/

Glorajean Beardall - http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/

Ruthie Nixon - http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/

Cassandra Cauble - http://www.ctimz3.blogspot.com/

Amy Crockett - http://www.scrappingmommy.com/

Raven Baca - http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Lorie Souther - http://www.thinkinspot.com/

Melissa Haas - http://doxiemeldesigns.blogspot.com/

Michelle Criswell - http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/

Vivienne Holden - http://www.craftinghaven.blogspot.com/

Jeanne Streiff - http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Emma Aguilar - http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Nikki Foraker - http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/

Saundra Rega - http://luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com/

Kathy Jakopovich - http://www.peachykeenstamps-kathy.blogspot.com/

Thanks for joining us today!  Enjoy the Hop!!!

Sandra Rosario :: Love My Honey!

Hi everyone! It's Sandra from 365 Days of Cricut and today is my day to post a project of inspiration on the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog.  I made a layout for me and my honey I can't wait for him to come back from deployment so I can put a cute pic of us here! The stamps I used are PK- 195 Honey Sentiments and also the Jan. 2013 Stamp of The Month Kit PKSC- 13 January 2013 for both of the bear faces. "Bee" sure to come check out my blog for more details  here have a Peachy Keen kinda day! 

-Sandra :)

Lezlye Lauterbach :: Happy Birthday Tutu YOU!

Birthday Tu Tu You!

Good Morning, Lezlye here from Lezlye's Ink and Paper Creations

Welcome to  my third post as Guest Designer for Peachy Keen Stamps, I have been having such a ball with these stamps! I also love that the Stamps of the month have SVG's that match them so there is no scissor cutting if you own a cutting machine! Yahoo Thanks for making these Kathy!

Peachy Keen PKSC-June 06 2012

Papers Used

 American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray Paper Pad

Paper pieced her skirt with these papers Too!

Core'dinations Cardstock

Neenah white Cardstock

Lifestyle Crafts Curved Banner Die

A little tip with these Photo polymer stamps you can manipulate them to curve or distort. That's what I did for the sentiment to make it curve with the banner! Cool huh!

American Crafts Glitter Tape

CTMH Glitter Gems

Copic markers

B00, B04, E50, E11, E51, R20, R24, Y11,Y13, Y19

Spellbinders Nestabilty Ovals Small and Large.

Have a great Day!

Glorajean Beardall :: Smile!

Hi, this is Glora from Glora's Crafts and I have a fun and simple card for you today. I was inspired by a fun card that my fellow design team member. Jeanne Streiff, had made HERE. I took her basic idea and tried to make mine look like a close up picture of someone taken with a Polaroid camera.

This sweet face is from PK-1202 The Moodies 2 1/4" and the sentiment is from the brand new Baby Buzz Sentiments both by Peachy Keen Stamps. The cute Polaroid style die is called the Stitched Capture Frame with Arrow die by My Creative Time. I used a small strip of Washi tape across the die. I also added some faux stitching with my Sakura Gelly Roll pen. Did you know you can buy the White Gelly Roll pen from the PKS store? It is my all time favorite white gel pen.

I hope this gave you a smile for the day! Thanks for stopping by! Hugs- Glora

Mid-Month Stamp Release and a SALE!!

Good evening Peachy Keen Fans!
If you're looking for the Spring Fling Blog Hop, please go
HERE.

We're excited to share some PEACHY NEWS with you tonight!!

We're here this evening to share our Mid-Month Stamp Release with you and let you

know about an awesome SALE!!

Kathy has created a "Tweet as can be" stamp set and  three add on sentiment based stamp sets that go just perfectly with our April Release or any of your special die cuts.

The possibilities are endless with these fun stamps and captions to add to your creations!

These are all available NOW in The Peachy Keen Stamps Store!!

Oh, the SALE!  With the excitement of the new stamps, I ALMOST forgot about the SALE!!!

There are actually TWO SALES going on that will hopefully help you get all those MUST HAVE stamps that are on your wish list.  The graphics below explain the details of each offer.

The 25% off sale includes regular priced items.  Please check the PKS website for any exclusions that might apply.  This is good through Sunday and customers will receive a free and exclusive "Thank You" stamp with each order!!

This 20% off sale includes newly released stamps only, but you'll have a full week to take advantage of this great sale!   Please note that additional discounts do not apply on new releases.

Here's a look at the April Mid-Month Stamp Release!

Happy weekend, happy shopping, and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Nikki Foraker :: Turtely Tubular!

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Spring Fling Blog Hop

Hiya Peachies! Nikki here with a card today. :) I stamped and paper pieced the absolutely adorable turtle from the June 2012 set. I gave him a face from the Erkle and Merkle Face Assortment set. Total turtley cuteness! :)

I embossed the white panel behind the turtle with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder. I also popped up the layers and the turtle for dimension. And I finished it off by white heat embossing the sentiment from the June 2012 set. 

Have a Peachtastic day! 

♥ Nikki ♥

Spring Fling Blog Hop :: Day 1

Good morning and WELCOME!!!

Spring has finally sprung!

The Spring peepers are peeping, warmer weather has arrived (for some of us anyway), 

and our talented designers from both the Current and Alumni Teams have come together to celebrate and  bring you some Spring inspired creations!

Grab your favorite beverage, and take a few minutes out of your busy day to relax and join us for our

We're thrilled you're here, and we are confident you're going to LOVE the SUPER AMAZING creations you'll see along the way!  We've got a WONDERFUL prize to offer, too!  Yep!  We're going to award one lucky person the following prize package...

The Moodies!!

(All three sets to one winner!!!!!)

Aren't these adorable?  They are a part of the most recent release at Peachy Keen Stamps.  Drop by The Peachy Keen Stamps Store to see the complete collection of new stamps, and while you're there, be sure to check out our Peachy Pick of the Week!  It's a GREAT DEAL and only available for a limited time, so get yours while you can!!

All you need to do to be entered to win is leave a comment on each blog on this Spring Fling Blog Hop.  We'll choose one random winner from all the comments to win the above prize package.  We won't know until the time comes which blog will be awarding the prize, and you'll increase your chances of winning by leaving a comment on each blog.  This hop will remain open for comments until 11:59 CDT on Sunday, April 21st, and the winner will be announced here on Monday!

Your NEXT STOP is at the ever so talented Kristi Bennett's Blog.

Here's the complete hop order, in case you should happen to lose your way.

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog - http://www.peachykeenstamps.blogspot.com/

Kristi Bennett - http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com/

Janice Wilson - http://www.stampingwithjanice.blogspot.com/

Samantha Casey - http://samanthacasey.blogspot.com/

Cindy Beland - http://www.cindybcreations.blogspot.com/

Jennie Garcia - http://earthyscrap.blogspot.com/

Gigi McKellips - http://www.thecricutbug.blogspot.com/

Lisa Buttafuoco - http://www.our2angelsinheaven.blogspot.com/

Leanne Garner - http://createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/

DoBea Alberts - http://www.dobeaalberts.blogspot.com/

Heather Hoffman - http://housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com/

Heidi Giebel - http://gotscraps.blogspot.com/

Emily Kluender - http://www.creationsofanarmywife.blogspot.com/

Tanya Adams - http://www.nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/

Cristina Garcia - http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/

Sandra Rosario- http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

We'll be here again NEXT THURSDAY for Day 2 of our Spring Fling Blog Hop!   We'll have a whole new line-up of of designers and creations to share, so we'll see you then!

Have fun and enjoy the hop!!!

Cassandra Cauble :: Flower Frame

Hello everyone!  It's so good to be back!  This is Cassandra from CREATING with COLOR by CASSANDRA.  And today I have a sweet little home decor piece for the baby's room:

My sister-in-law's daughter had a baby last week, so I made this super cute piece to hang in the baby's room at my sweet sister-in-law's house to celebrate her being a new Grandmother!!!  The alphabet stamps for the baby's name are from the PKS ~ Lucy's ABCs & 123s : Solid stamp set.  All of the super cute flower faces are from the PKS ~ The Moodies 1 1/8 stamp set.  The sun is made with the PKS ~ You Are My Sunshine stamp.  That sweet little bee was a recent free PKS giveaway.  And if you look closely, you can see the fun little frogs in the flower garden.  They are from the PKS ~ Happy Lil' Froggies stamp set.  

Here are some close ups:

Well my creative friends, that's it for me today.  Thanks for stopping by today.  And if you would like more information on how I created this piece, please hop on over to my blog for all the fun details.  See you all again soon.  Have a GREAT day!

~ Cassandra

Lezlye Lauterbauch :: Twinkle In My Eye

Good Morning!

  Lezlye's Ink and Paper Creations here

for my second Guest Designer post for Peachy Keen Stamps.  For today's card I went back to basic stamping. I used a strip of water color paper to stamp the Turtle, Grass and flowers with Memento Tuxedo Black  ink. I then used my Derwent Inktense Water-soluble Pencils to color my image. Theses pencils are more intense that regular watercolor pencils. I like them.

Inside

I used a  scallop die to cut the black scallops and the double ended banner die ( I cut one end off)  The stamps I used for this card are Peachy Keen Stamp Set PKSC_06 June 2012 and Eye Sentiments  I absolutely LOVE these stamps! The peach rubber stamps such crisp images and sentiments! Go check them out here https://www.peachykeenstamps.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Janice Wilson :: Grass Tutorial!

Hello everyone!  Today I have a YouTube video showing you one of the ways that I color grass with Copics.  Unfortunately the quality isn't as clear as I would have liked but I hope you find it useful.  I used PKSC-03 March 2012.

In this photo  I show a base coat of green, some layers of color starting on the right side of the first card, and the final result with the finished card.  The video is about 8 minutes long if you would like to watch.  I haven't tried to edit my videos so I hope you don't mind.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,

Janice

Amber Kroening :: So Excited!

Hey guys!  Amber here, from Bella Rose Cards.  I have a couple of CAS cards to share with you today that you can easily recreate!  I used the April Set of the Month for both of these.
For the first card I used my Silhouette to cut my butterfly and watering can.  To create the polkadot look I used my Copic markers to color my images.  To create the polkadot look I used my marker to add the dots first, and then went over the entire image with a lighter green copic. I really like how it turned out!  I scored 3 lines on the bottom of the white panel, using my scor-pal, and stamped my sentiment above them.  I adhered my images with foam tape, and attached my white panel to a blue card base.

Again, I used my Silhouette to cut my images.   I stamped the bird legs and sentiment on my white panel, and then embossed it with an embossing folder.  Then I attached my bird with foam tape, and adhered the white panel to a blue card base.  Easy right!!??

Thanks for looking.  I hope I inspired you to go create your own Peachy CAS card!

Gigi McKellips :: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!

Hi everyone! This is GiGi here from The Cricut Bug to share a project with you. 

Have you seen the NEW face stamps? OH MY are they CAUUUTE! They are called The Moodies and they come in 4 different sets! They come in the Moodies Face Assortment ( in sizes ranging from 3/8 - 1 3/8) , 1 1/8, 2 1/4, and 4 inch for all your crafting needs. I used the 2 1/4 inch stamps on this project.

I cut the bread shaped box using my Cameo and a file from Lettering Delight called Oishii. I hid the face and instead stamped it with that super cute PK Moodies face and colored it in. The tag is stamped from the PK Sandwich Fun stamp set and I tied it on with some crinkle ribbon and button with twine. 

I hope you all liked my fun sandwich box and thanks for stopping in! Have a great day! 

They are running a sale on these super cute stamps if you would like some of your own! Here are the details:

Click on pictures above to SHOP! 

Lezlye Lauterbach :: April Guest Designer

Good Morning!
Today we are thrilled to introduce you to our April Guest Designer,

Lezlye Lauterbach!!

Please join us in wishing Lezlye a very warm welcome to the Peachy Keen Family of Designers.  We know that you will thoroughly enjoy seeing Lezlye's beautiful creations being shared here each Tuesday for the remainder of April!

  Hello everyone my name is Lezlye am a Mom of three, one girl 23, and two boys 20, 18. I have been married to my High school sweetheart for 27 years this June.  .  I started a blog Lezlye’s Ink and Paper Creations. over 6 years ago and wanted to get more involved in this industry.

  I also have the handle igottastamp from my early stamping days! I have been stamping and Scrapbooking since the 80’s! Yikes! I love to create everyday whether it is with stamps, ink, my Cricut, cameo or copic markers and meeting other paper-crafting enthusiasts fills me with such joy! I have been on several design teams and I have been fortunate to have been published in a few publications including Cricut Magazine. I am truly grateful and over the moon excited to be a guest Designer for Peachy Keen Stamps. 

It's Lezlye here from Lezlye's Ink and Paper Creations. I am so thrilled for this day to be here. I have been looking forward to it for months! I absolutely LOVE PKS! If you could have heard the shriek when I received the email asking me to be a guest designer for PKS, my husband thought someone was in my scrap loft! Thank you so much Kathy and the whole Peachy Keen Family for this amazing opportunity!

For my 1st project I decided to use some of my beloved Peachy Keen faces.
PK-754 Critter Faces Set A Medium.
My bunny cut is an SVG file and my preferred choice for faces always come back to PKS. The sentiment comes from the fabulous Stamp Club of the Month Kit from June 2012
 PKSC-06 June 2012
 The papers are Crate Paper Little Boy Blue. I look forward to creating on the following Tuesday's 9, 16, 23, 30th in April for Peachy Keen. You can drop by my blog here.
See you next week!

Saundra Rega :: Happy Bird-Day!

Hi There! Saundra here from Luv Scrapping Together!

 I am so happy to be providing a little Peachy Keen inspiration today.

I created this card with the Birthday Challenge in mind that is currently open on the Peachy Keen Connection.

I used the cute little chicks that are on the brand new PKSC-16 April 2013. This set was just released on Friday. I colored these cuties with Copic markers and added some glossy accents the their eyes. I placed them in a nest that I cut from the Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cartridge.

I cut a shape from Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge and stamped it with PK-107 Cloudy Day background stamp. This is one of favorite background stamps. I find myself using it quite often.  The ink I used was very pale so it is hard to see in the photo.

For more definition, I inked all of the edges of my cuts with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Since this is a birthday challenge I cut some balloons from Create-A-Critter Critcut cartridge. I added some Twinery Baker's Twine in Maraschino, Denim, and Lemon Drop and a button from my stash.

I used sentiments from PK-142 Lil' Tweets Bird Day and PKSC-12 December 2012.

Here's a another close up for these adorable chicks:

There is still time to join in the April release challenges for you chance to win a $25 gift certificate. You have until Tuesday, April 9th at midnight CST. You can get all the details on the Peachy Keen Connection.

Just a reminder that there is a special sale going on right now.

You can see all the new stamps on the Peachy Keen Stamps Store.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Until next time...

Happy Crafting!