Peachy Keen Stamps Celebrate Christmas Blog Hop Day 2

Hello Peachy Friends, 
It's me again! Here's Day 2 of our Celebrate Christmas Blog Hop!
I hope you enjoyed yesterday's creations and are up for another round of gorgeous projects!

For all of my projects I used the In the Garden Face Assortment PK-1320! I love this set and I will go so far as to say it's my favorite PKS Face to date! AdOrAbLe!!!

I'll start things off with these super cute pillow boxes that I cut on my Silhouette Portrait. I put an oval window on them so you could see the candy cane Hershey kisses that I tucked inside. I wrapped each pillow box with tinsel yarn and attached a tag and little bell. On the tags I put a poem that I found on Pinterest and a super cut Elf that I also cut with my Portrait and stamped with my PKS!! 

Elf Kisses

With little elf eyes watching you. 

There's not a lot that Santa misses. 

So to help you be good today, 

Here's a bunch of sweet elf kisses.

Face Stamp: PK-1320 In the Garden Face Assortment

Cut File: ppbn Designs: Santa and Friends

I also created two cards. I used these super adorable cut files from Treasure Box Designs. I really love the look of these little cuties, they are so unique!!

Face Stamp: PK-1320 In the Garden Face Assortment

Cut File: Treasure Box Designs: Bobble Buddy Elves

As a little added something I made some place cards for our Thanksgiving Dinner. The Pilgrims are from Miss Kate Cuttable and the place card stand I just created myself with my Silhouette Designer Software and cut it all on my Portrait. 

Here's the place card at my nephew's seat at the table. 

Face Stamp: PK-1320 In the Garden Face Assortment

Cut File: Miss Kate Cuttables: Pilgrim Girl and Pilgrim Boy from the 50 cents store

Lastly, I made my parents a Thanksgiving card using the same cut files from Miss Kate Cuttables. I couldn't help my self these little pilgrims are so so adorable!

I hope you enjoyed my projects for the hop....and that they inspired you. If you have any questions, let me know via email. 

Now for the important Blog Hop Info!

Here's the lineup for today. After me you will be hopping on to the very talented Amy's blog!!

Saundra Rega

Leanne Garner

Michelle Criswell

Heather Hoffman

Gigi McKellips

Christina Garcia

DoBea Alberts

Emma Aguilar

Jeanne Streiff

Heidi Ann Giebel

Amy Crockett

Lisa Buttafuoco

Vivienne Holden

Melissa Haas

Amber Kroening

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Please leave a comment on each of the designer's posts in order to ensure your chance to win the Fantastic Christmas Bundle Prize Package worth $150.00!! One "hopper" will be chosen and announced on Monday, December 2nd. 

Peachy Keen Stamps Celebrate Christmas Blog Hop Day 1

Hello All my Peachy Friends....
It's been a while but I'm happy to say today's blog hop is going to thrill you down to your PeAcHy Toes!!

We have some fantastic Alumni and Current PKS Designers hoping today and tomorrow! You will be overwhelmed with the amazing creations that they have all made to share with you. 

I'll be hopping tomorrow but here's the lineup for today...

Kristi Bennett

Cassandra Cauble

Raven Bacca

Angelica Suarez

Tanya Adams

Glorajean Beardall

Ruthie Nixon

Cindy Beland

Jennie Bones

Janice Wilson

Lauren Brewer

Samantha Casey

Emily Kluender

Amanda Bodine

Lorie Souther

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Make sure you stop back tomorrow to see what I've created for the hop and don't forget to enter for the Stupendous Give-Away by commenting on each Blogger's posts!!

It's been a long time...

I can hardly believe it's been since April that I've posted on my blog. It sure was a busy summer and fall but that's no excuse...
Here are some of the cards that I've made over the past few months, mostly fall cards.

All of my cards that you will see here have been cut with my Silhouette Portrait using the Designer Edition Software and SVG files.

cut file: "Too Cute By Jessica" School Kids

face: Peachy Keen Stamps Princess Face Assortment

papers: Graphic 45 Mother Goose

cut file: "Too Cute By Jessica" School Kids

face: Peachy Keen Stamps Piles of Smiles 1 inch

papers: Doodlebug Design Inc., Happy Harvest

cut file: Treasure Box Designs Pumpkin Girl

face: Peachy Keen Stamps Happy Fall Faces (retired)

papers: Doodlebug Design Inc., Happy Harvest

cut file: Miss Kate Cuttables Stacked Pumpkins

face: Peachy Keen Stamps a mixture of Monsters 'n More (retired), Pumpkin Face Parts 

and Monster Mash Face Assortment

papers: Doodlebug Design Inc., Haunted Manor

cut file: Miss Kate Cuttables Scarecrow

face: Peachy Keen Stamps a mixture of Monsters 'n More (retired) and PKSC-09 September 2012

the sentiment is PKS Hollween Holler Scarcrow Driver

papers: Doodlebug Design Inc., Happy Harvest

cut file: Treasure Box Designs Bobble Betty & Bobby

face: Peachy Keen Stamps Boy Mates Assortment and Princes Face Assortment

papers: Doodlebug Design Inc., Happy Harvest

Thanks for taking a peek at my creations....

PKS Spring Fling blog hop

It’s Here…Yippee!! 

The Peachy Keen Stamps Spring Fling Blog hop….

We will hop all day today, April 18^th and then again all day Thursday, April 25^th!

PRIZES:

There will be one grand prize package for each day of the hop. So, don’t forget to comment on each designers post to maximize your chances of winning.

Here are my creations for today’s hop…

Stamps used for card above: 

PK-170 Teddy Bear Assortment

PKSC-08 August 2012

Cut Files used from Lettering Delights

Woody Whatnots

Stamps used for card above: 

PK-170 Teddy Bear Assortment

PK-126 Smartie The Owl

Cut Files used from PPbN Designs

Geeky Bear

Stamps used for above page: 

PK-170 Teddy Bear Assortment

PK-640 Princess Face Assortment

PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment

Cut Files used from Lettering Delights

Good Luck Gnomes

Woody Whatnots

Your next stop is Emily at Creations of an Army Wife

Here’s the lineup…

 Peachy Keen Stamps Blog 

 Janice Wilson 
Samantha Casey 
Cindy Beland 
Jennie Garcia 
Gigi McKellips 
Lisa Buttafuoco 
Leanne Garner 
DoBea Alberts 
Heather Hoffman 
Heidi Giebel 
Emily Kluender 
Tanya Adams 
Cristina Garcia 
Sandra Rosario

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!!

xo

PKS Spring Fling 2013 Blog Hop

Hello My Peachy Friends….

All of the current and alumni Design Team members are getting together to give you two amazing days of Peachy Hopping! Our Spring Fling Hop will be

Thursday, April 18th 

and Thursday, April 25th

The hops will begin at 6:00 am CST which is 7:00 am for all of us East Coasters.

There will be an Amazing prize package for each day of the hop!

…more info to follow!

Easter Bunny Gift Bags

Hi Everyone, 
I've got a video for you to hopefully inspire you to create something fun for the upcoming holiday. 

I created these sweet little Bags using my Silhouette Portrait and an SVG cut that I got from SVG Cuts, called Easter Bunny Gift Bag. I stamped a Peachy Keen Face onto the bunny to make it extra cute and adorable! Peachy Keen Stamps PK-440 Cute and Cuddly Face Assortment. 
Hope you like my video!

A couple of layouts...

Here are a couple of pages that I've done recently. 

The first one I put together at the monthly crop at my church. I used my Gypsy and my Cricut Expression. The cake was cut out of Simply Charmed and I used my Peachy Keen Stamps to give it a face, PK-640 Princess Face Assortment!! The title is the font Learning Curve also a Cricut Cartridge. 

For the second layout I used my Silhouette Portrait to cut these adorable little puppy dogs. You can find the cut files for these little pups here at Bear Necessities. 

thanks for stopping by today!!

xo

Silhouette Portrait and Peeps card

I've been thinking for a while about getting a Silhouette cutting machine. I love my Cricut but the ability to cut any font on my computer along with SVG's, not to mention being able to create and cut my own designs was just to strong a pull for me! I had to have one...

Well, it arrived a couple of weeks ago and I've been in heaven ever since. I adore this machine. It's tiny and compact which is nice. It's cutting ability is unbelievable! It will cut the most intricate designs with out even the tiniest tear of the paper! 
I've been cutting lots of SVG's that I've gotten on the internet. I've also downloaded lots of icon fonts to cut. My favorite SVG site is Paper Piecings by Nikki. Her artwork is adorable and she offers a freebie every day! Another site that I love is Miss Kate Cuttable. She also offers a freebie every day! 
Now, I've decided to try my hand at creating my own designs. I've watched a few youtube videos and downloaded Inkscape software which is free and enables you to create SVG's.
I started out by using a coloring page that I downloaded from the internet. I took it into Inkscape, cleaned it up and created this SVG to make my card. I have tons to learn but I am really enjoying the whole process and love the new freedom that my Silhouette Portrait gives me!

Here's my Peep's card....
The peeps and the title with the outline were all created in Inkscape and cut on my Silhouette Portrait!

thanks for stopping by....

xo

Glittery Titles

I've been scrapping a few of my holiday photos and using these beautiful papers by TPC Studio called Sweet Christmas. The collection comes with an alphabet sticker sheet. The letters in the alphabet are larger than the average alpha sticker (about 1 3/4 inch tall)....so I decided to make some of my own smaller glitter alpha stickers to use along with them on my title.
First, I cut my title using the Cricut cartridge Learning Curve at 1 inch tall.

Then, I mixed about 1 teaspoon of Aleen's Tacky Glue with a few tablespoons of water and stirred it up really good (I used an old prescription bottle to mix the glue and water). Using a paint brush I covered each letter and then dipped the letter into some Martha Stewart fine red glitter.

 I let the letters dry and then I took the same watered down glue and painted over the glitter letters one more time. This helped to seal in the glitter to keep it from getting all over the place.

After my letters dried, I attached them to my layout with Scotch Quick Dry liquid glue

I love the glittery effect and they go so nicely with the alpha stickers that came with the paper!!

I hope you liked this quick tip and thanks for stopping by!!

xo