Peachy Keen Blushing Bride Winner!

This morning I have a quick post to let you know the name of the winner of the set of Peachy Keen "Blushing Bride" stamps.  Thanks again to everyone who left such nice comments - I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed my "take" on the Peachy Keen Stamps.

I will be posting a project with these faces soon - and one reader will be able to play along with a new set of stamps.

The winner (chosen by random.org) is...

S. Bayles

Congratulations Sandy!  I will email you to get your address and send these out after the holiday!


I'll try to get back later today with another post - it all depends on how things are going at "camp"!  Maybe we can share our progress on the Hogwarts castle!

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Creative Charms Deal and Kit of the Month for July

Are you ready for a little more Christmas in July?  A new month means a new Deal and Kit of the Month from Creative Charms and the Kit of the Month will definitely get you in the holiday spirit

July Kit of the Month

The 145 Pieces July Kit of the Month includes:

• Winter Chipboard Stickers - 6 Pieces
• Christmas Vintage Metal Frames - 6 Pieces
• White 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces
• Christmas Twinkle Stickers - 10 Pieces
• Winter Seasonal Sparkles - 21 Pieces
• Red & Green Vintage Jewels - 12 Pieces
• Red & Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces
• 18" Red Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon
• 18" Green Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

Everything for only $14.99

If it is just too hot for you to even think about Christmas, you may like the summer flowers, bling and butterflies in the Deal of the Month for July.

July Deal of the Month

This 151 Piece Deal of the Month includes:

• Sunburst Daisy - 5 Pieces
• Yellow Braided Daisy Medley - 4 Pieces
• Amber & Green Gradient Gem Brads - 12 Pieces
• Orange 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces
• Yellow Groovy Petal Medley - 8 Pieces
• Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces
• Summer Medley - 21 Pieces
• Palm Tree Brads - 12 Pieces
• 18" Green Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

All this for only $6.99!

This month there is another special offer - a beautiful wedding mini-kit...

Dream Garden Wedding Kit

This 96 Pieces Dream Garden Wedding Mini Kit includes:

• White Sparkled Butterfly Medley - 5 Pieces
• White Sparkled Flowers - 6 Pieces
• White Gradient Pearl Stickers - 76 Pieces
• White Vintage Pearl Brads - 9 Pieces

All this for only $6.99

White Flared Flower from Simplicity collection

There is still time to get a great deal on the Simplicity line. These black and white embellishments are perfect for graduations, weddings and anything else that needs a classy touch. Everything is 70% off. This probably won't last long at these prices!

Vintage Brad Kit

Also, for this weekend only the Vintage Brad Kit is back. This great set includes the Blue Vintage Marble Brads, Amber Vintage Marble Brads and Grey Vintage Pearl Brads. This set is only $5.25 through the 4th.

Creative Charms Weekend Giveaway...

June Kit of the Month

June Deal of the Month

Finally, since this weekend is the 4th of July holiday, Creative Charms is also giving away both the June Kit of the Month and the June Deal of the Month. These will be perfect for all of your 4th of July pics! Just go to the Creative Charms Blog, leave a comment and be a follower to enter.


Peachy Keen Giveaway

Today is the last chance to leave comments on my Peachy Keen Guest Designer posts here and the Peachy Keen Blog for a chance to win the PK-590 Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces set.  You have until midnight (11:59 p.m. Pacific time) on Saturday, July 2 to leave your comments and I'll post the winner on Sunday.

I'll be busy today, moving some of our furniture to make way for the construction and preparing for "Camp Aunt Diane" since our nephew will be visiting again while his parents take our twin niece and nephew to camp.  I think we are going to try to build Hogwarts!

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend!

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Christmas in July for my last "Peachy" Day

  

Happy July!  Today is my last day as Guest Designer on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog.

Thanks for all of the comments both here and the Peachy Keen blog - remember, you can leave a comment on every post this week to increase your chances of winning a great set of Peachy Keen stamps!  You have until midnight (11:59 p.m. Pacific time) on Saturday, July 2 to leave your comments and I'll post the winner on Sunday.

I thought I'd do a little more "Christmas in July."  When I was looking at some of the seasonal Peachy Keen stamps, this little fellow just stole my heart.  He is the  Snickerdoodle Happy Elf  (PK-319) and I love everything about him - snickerdoodles are even one of my favorite cookies!  I don't have a lot of experience coloring stamped images but I find that the Peachy Keen images are great to work with.  There is just enough detail to make it fun but not so much that you have to make lots of decisions about shadows and layers.  I use ProMarkers to do my coloring.

I colored this little elf several times, trying slightly different variations.  I used Stickles on the trim of has jacket to add some sparkle.  For the image on the left, I used Versamark ink and black glitter embossing powder and heat embossed the image.  This makes it a bit easier to stay in the lines (but I am far from perfect in my coloring!).  I like both variations and I thought I'd try making a couple of cards to show how the image works for a circle or an oval.

You can read more about this card...

...and this card....

on the Peachy Keen blog HERE.

Don't forget to leave comments on my posts here and the coordinating posts on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog, each day this week for a chance to win the PK-590 Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces set.

I have really enjoyed this week and I hope you have too.   I'm sure there will be lots more "peachiness" on my blog as I continue to find ways to use these great stamps!

Have a great weekend and Happy Fourth of July!

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Flowers with Faces

Welcome to another day of "cute" projects featuring Peachy Keen Stamps.  I decided to try the stamps on some flowers and I just love the way they turned out.  I used the flowers for a card that you can see over on the  Peachy Keen Stamps blog.

I used the "peachified" flowers to decorate some candy for a little favor bag.  These are "Nuggets" candies and they are fun to wrap and decorate for tiny gifts.  The decorative paper is cut in strips that are 1 x 3 inches and then simply wrapped around the candy and adhered on the back.

The smiling face is from the Everyday Character Face Assortment (PK-490).  I arranged the nuggets as they would be placed in the bag and then added the flowers.  Each face has a tiny pink pearl nose (from Creative Charms).

I cut a piece of pink cardstock at 2 1/2 x 3 inches to make a backer for the bag.  (The bags I use are 3 x 4 inches - you would adjust to suit the size if you use a different bag).  This helps to keep the candy in place and adds another punch of color.

To create the bag topper,  I cut a piece of the same paper used to wrap the candy at 3 x 3 inches and folded it in half.  I used a Martha Stewart border punch to create a decorative edge on the front.

A large binder clip will hold everything together while you punch two holes and thread some ribbon through from front to back.

The ribbons should cross in the back and then come to the front through the opposite holes.  I use about a 6 inch length of ribbon and then trim the ends.  If you have a lot of treats to make up this will conserve the ribbon - bows take a lot more ribbon to finish!

You could add a message on the back of the pink cardstock - or stamp more faces!

Remember, you can leave comments on my posts here and the coordinating posts on the Peachy Keen blog all week for a chance to win the PK-590 Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces set.

A special note for my overseas friends and readers - Most of you know that I am also on the Design Team for Scrappy-Go-Lucky which is based in Australia. Scrappy-Go-Lucky works with Peachy Keen and sells Peachy Keen stamps to the Australian and UK markets.

In honor of my Guest Designer week, Mandy has set up a special code of PKDI which will take 10% off your order of Peachy Keen Stamps. This code is good only for Australia and the UK and will expire Sunday, July 3rd at midnight (Boston time). For those of you in Australia or the UK, this would be a perfect time to add to or start a collection of these great stamps!

Tomorrow will be my last Peachy Keen Guest Designer day.  I wonder which project I should share...

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Lots of Tiny Peachy Keen Faces!

It's my third day as Guest Designer on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog and today I have something a little different to share with you.  If you are new to my blog, welcome and thanks for stopping by!

I stamped faces on these clothespins with StazOn ink to make little dolls for my neighbors (won't they be fun to dress up!).  While I was cleaning the tiny stamps an idea popped into my head.

I figured out a way to make my own "Peachy Paper" by stamping rows of tiny faces in a grid fashion.  The stamped piece above was my first attempt.  I didn't think about filling in the gap at the right until it was too late.  You can see more photos of the process in my post on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog HERE.

After I had filled the cardstock with images, I cut the word "Smile" from the Cricut Gypsy Wanderings cartridge.  I wanted to highlight one of the smiling faces in the background so I decided to make a ring to put around the face.

I could have set up a cut on the Gypsy or with Design Studio but I chose to use this "low tech" punch method.  If you have a set of graduated size punches it is a handy trick to know.  Just punch the first circle with the smaller punch.  Then, move the punched circle to the second punch area and center it in the opening.  When you punch the larger circle, you will have a perfectly shaped ring to use to highlight something on a card or layout.

Once the ring was placed, I couldn't resist adding a bit of bling to make the smiling face sparkle.  I also added a gem to the flower in the "Smile" and tied a piece of gingham ribbon around the top of the card.

I hope this card will bring a smile to someone's face when they open it.

Remember, you can leave comments on my posts here and the coordinating posts on the Peachy Keen blog all week for a chance to win the PK-590 Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces set.  If you have questions about how to use the stamps, there is a very helpful "How To" section on the Peachy Keen site HERE.

This is the second card I made with "Peachy Paper" - just in time for the Fourth of July!  You can see more about this card on the Peachy Keen Blog HERE.

A special note for my overseas friends and readers - Most of you know that I am also on the Design Team for Scrappy-Go-Lucky which is based in Australia.  Scrappy-Go-Lucky works with Peachy Keen and sells Peachy Keen stamps to the Australian and UK markets.

In honor of my Guest Designer week, Mandy has set up a special code of PKDI which will take 10% off your order of Peachy Keen Stamps.  This code is good only for Australia and the UK and will expire Sunday, July 3rd at midnight (Boston time).  For those of you in Australia or the UK, this would be a perfect time to add to or start a collection of these great stamps!

I'll be back with another Peachy Project tomorrow - have a great day!

By the way - the "Look Books" for the latest Hello Thursday Cricut  cartridge release (the Event and Project cartridges) are now available on the Cricut.com site HERE.  The Cartridge Library has not been updated and when I last checked there was not an update for Design Studio available yet - soon, I hope...

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Peachy Face Backgrounds

This post originally appeared on the Peachy Keen Stamps blog when I posted as a guest designer on June 29, 2011.

Wow - it's already Wednesday!  I am having a great time creating with the Peachy Keen stamps and I hope you are enjoying the projects I have been making.  Thanks for all of the comments here and on my blog, Capadia Designs.

 
I was thinking about some new ways to use the face stamps.  I have seen many cute paper dolls and critters featuring the faces, however, I wanted to try something a bit different.  When I looked at the tiniest faces in the Everyday Character Face Assortment (PK-490) I had a few ideas...

I recently found some colorful clothespins in the dollar bins at Staples.  I thought it would be fun to make some clothespin dolls for my little neighbors and I found that the 3/8 inch faces were a perfect fit.

These will be fun to dress up with paper cuts or fabric.  I used StazOn ink to be sure that the faces would be permanent. I cleaned the stamps right away and while I was cleaning them an idea popped into my head!

I took the six small face stamps and lined them up on the grid of my cutting mat.

I used my rectangular acrylic block to pick up the faces.  It is important to use a grid or some system to keep everything aligned properly.

I stamped rows of faces on a piece of cardstock cut at 4 x 6 inches.  I used the grid to help keep the spacing accurate and then shifted the stamps to the right or the left to fill in the pattern.

When I was finished, I had created "Peachy Paper!"  I used this as the background for my 5 x 7 inch Fourth of July card.  The blue layer is cut at 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches and the white layer is just a bit larger to give a pin line frame for the red, white and blue theme.

I stamped the sentiment with a Studio G stamp (the sets that are in the dollar bin at the large craft stores).  After working with the Peachy Keen stamps I noticed a big difference in the quality of the stamps.  The Peachy Keen stamps ink so well and leave such a clean impression.  It is better to save up and get this peachy quality than to have a binder full of unused "cheap" stamps!

 

I used this adorable cut from the "A Child's Year" Cricut cartridge - one of my all-time favorites.  The crowd of Peachy faces is watching the parade pass by!

The Fourth of July card was my second "Peachy Paper" card.  This "Smile" card is the first one I made and you can read more about it on my blog, Capadia Designs.

Remember, you can leave comments on my posts here and the coordinating posts on my blog all week for a chance to win the PK-590 Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces set.

I have lots of ideas for variations on this technique - I hope I may have inspired you to try it too!

See you tomorrow!

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