Peachy Keen Challenge...Color

OH my how I've missed doing challenges!!! This week over at Peachy Keen Stamps blog they are hosting a color challenge. I needed to make a card for a baby shower I was going to so I thought the cute little duck die/stamp set I bought a few months back was perfect. After all the little one is hatching soon. :)  My friends have elected not to find out the gender of the little one so I wanted to make a card that would fit either.


Then I remembered seeing the color/photo insipration theme from PKS and thought this paper would be PERFECT!! It is Echo Park Paper called Hello Summer. I just love the fun pretty colors of this paper it's awesome. (So much I bought 2 paper packs). My inspiration from the photo was the colors and if you look carefully - you can see the plants (moving) teeehee just like my duckling.

I used the Cottage Duck and Egg die set. (I must say love the fun little dies - w/ the face stamps). They are just as cute as can be.
I also used the lawn fawn polaroid die for the back ground frame.

The little duckling and put her/him on an action wobble. Just to make it more fun.

The ribbon is from American Crafts.

Hope you enjoy it!! I know my friend really did enjoy seeing the cute little duckling.

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Halloween Goody bags

This weeks challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps is to make any project with PKS stamps. I love the Cricut Teddy Bear Parade - I think it layers nicely and you can cut a little smaller items and still make it look nice.

Since my daughter is in preschool and only has 10 total kids in the class I figured I'd make a cute little "treat" bag this year. I knew I wanted to use the PKS faces and the Teddy bear cartridge but picking just 1 of the bears was hard. She has 9 girls in her class and 1 boy. So I didn't totally want to make it all girly.

I picked up some cute little Halloween goodies - (since kids get way!!!! too much candy at Halloween I wanted something else). I found these little disc, stamps, and a puzzle and thought it would be perfect for this.

I cut the cute little bears at 2.10 " using my gypsy I hid all the lines and then stamped the cute little PKS face on them. I did the layers for the pumpkin outfit.

I added them to a top note template I made a while back for the tops of such treat bags. The bags are 4x6 and work perfectly for these.
Since there is a boy I didn't want all pink either so I used the green card stock from DCWV Bewitched mat stacks. The orange/green paper is from Michael's.

Hope you enjoy  and
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Ghost Night Out...

So I always love a good challenge and this week at Peachy Keen stamps the challenge was to follow a sketch. I love sketches and love being able to CHANGE them to make it my way. I try to find an element and run with that. This weeks sketch is this

Well I saw a couple of things in this sketch and made a little layout for Halloween for this.

I wanted to use the big circle - and make it the "moon" - then the haunted house and the ghost flying by. Then for the middle section - I made those the photo mat area and then the bottom is the orange polka dot.

The paper is from DCWV - Bewitched paper stack, and mat stacks. Can I just say I love the DCWV paper stacks!!!

I stamped the cute little Ghost w/ PKS ghost stamp - notice they are flying around and then one hiding.. I wanted to make it appear as if the ghost was flying away from the haunted house so I inked my stamp - stamped, did not reink and stamped again. 

I added a few little spiders - from Create a Critter 2 -cartridge. LOVE IT!! Just too cute for little critters.
I added googlie eyes for the spiders.
The pumpkins were colored w/ spectrum noir marker, and prima pencils and then used my orange sakura pen.
The cute little banner stickers are from SRM stickers.
The moon was created by using TH - distress stamps.

The sentiment stamp was from Emma's stamps http://www.creativetimeforme.com/.

Hope you enjoy and
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Spectrum Noir Challenge

A few months back I was introduced to Spectrum Noir Markers - I fell in love with them instantlly. I have gotten several sets and hope to get a few more for Christmas. Spectrum Noir just recently announced they were going to be hosting a blog challenge.

This challenge was to make a Holiday Card/Project. The rules are pretty simple - use only Spectrum Noir markers to color your image. If you own Spectrum Noir markers and want to play along a great prize is up for grabs. Here is the details: http://www.spectrumnoir.com/challenge/

The sentiment is from Creative time for me.
Gingerbread house stamp is from Peachy Keen Stamps.
I used a range of Spectrum Noir markers for coloring. I love how they go on and how they blend very well together.  

I made a 5x5 easel card and added a few little rhinestones.

The paper is from Believe paper pack from Michaels (last year).

Hope you enjoy and

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PKS Challenge #29

This week at Peachy Keen Stamps was to follow a color challenge. I love color challenges as they allow me to think about ways to make a card/project with colors I normally would not. I'm sure most have a certain color they normally us. I know I do.

I made a cute little 5x5 card. I didn't put a sentiment on it yet as I don't know what I'll use it for.

I used some Bazzill cream color card stock, DCWV mat stack for the purple, and DCWV for the yellow chevron. I colored the cutie with my Spectrum Noir markers. I then paper pieced her dress and bow to give it a little bit of dimension.

The little girl is from the Vivienne set.

I added a few little Roxy gems from Queen & Co. on the bottom and a few little smokey colored rhinestones on her collar.

For some highlights I used my Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Gold dust. Just a little shimmer. 

Hope you enjoy and

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Have a Fairy Nice Day...

So today I made a cute little easel card. I just love making those it really seems to add another fun element to the card. They are simple to make and really pretty cool when the person getting it opens it up.

I had an idea in my head and I will say this card turned out as I pictured it. I wanted to use the cute little Fairy from PKS stamps. I love love love the set of Mini Fairy. They are just too cute.

I used SEI Couture for the green/purple paper.
I also used SEI Couture for the patterned paper. It is actually a little shimmer w/ pink/purple/green/blue and yellow dots.

I cute the square Dolli from the Paper Trimmings cartridge at 4"
I used the layered feature.

The Fairy was colored with Spectrum Noir Markers - can I just say I really love these. I used white stamping card stock.

Added a few cute little flower Quicklet Eyelets. I wanted some more bling so I added some Queen and Co. rhinestones to the center of the flowers.

Hope you enjoy and
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Behavior Rewards

OK so a little back story to why I made these little tokens. The past few weeks my 3 1/2 year old has really been pushing the limits on her behavior. I know what everyone is thinking - she's a toddler and yes I totally agree. So in efforts to contain her behavior I've come up with these tokens. She will have to earn them and if she gets 10 tokens she can get a special prize. Something like maybe going to the park, bubbles, TV, a special treat or a special toy. I know it may not be the best way to parent by "bribing" but I really need my little one to behave. I think it has something to do with school being out.
I will say the idea is something I saw at the preschool used by the special needs teachers. They would have these little flash cards - for the kids who were non verbal and they would give them one for being good and/or even if they were not listening or behaving nicely. At the end of the day they got to pick out a little prize from the treasure box if they had so many good tokens. These kids really like getting the prizes and it seemed to work so I thought I'd give it a try at home for my daughter.
 

I made these in a rainbow of colors, and also then the star and sad face -- that means she looses a privilege.

I used PKS Happy Lashes and Happy New year faces for these little tokens.  

I took it a few steps farther and laminated these because I wanted them to last and also put a magnet on the back.
I've already been asked by a little one if she could have them. I told her they are her reward "Dablums" as in yes Captain Hook reference.

Hope you enjoy and
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3D Object using a soup can

So for this weeks challenge at PKS was to use a soup can and make a 3d object. I have near and dear friend having a birthday in a few weeks so I figured I'd made something for her.
I used a soup can that was cleaned and made this cute little sucker bouquet. 

Create a Critter - cats - cut at 3" w/ all layers (except I hide the face so I can put PKS faces on them).
Create a Critter - pinwheels- cut at 4" - w/ shadow and layer - I attached those to the suckers to make a cute little bouquet.
Create a Critter - circle (from the pin wheel) - at 3" and used the real dial size for the lid.

The dot/stripe is from imaginisce.

PKS face - Happy Lashes and Critter faces.

Hope you enjoy and
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Turtle Creek

Well last week my daughter's preschool went to Turtle Creek Farm here where we live. Let's just say 30 very excited kiddos had a blast. This isn't your typical farm. They had Emu's, Lamas, chickens, pigs, alligators, sheep, ducks, an albino hedge hog, a huge tortoise, and even European Deer. The kids had a blast and Ms. Lucy surely loves teaching these kids a thing or two about animals. She was so wonderful and my little girl keeps asking to go back and see Ms. Lucy. The preschool has now done this trip 25 years. 
I think one of the  highlights of this field trip was feeding the animals. My daughter loved to feed the chickens, the ducks, the sheep. The other highlight was my daughter holding the animals she loved to hold them including the snake (ewwww), and the baby alligator.

Ok enough about the farm here's the layout I made for this. When I saw the challenge at PKS I knew instantly that I wanted to use this paper. This weeks challenge at PKS was to use specific colors:

Kraft paper for the base
Imaginisce Happy camper line  I think this paper is perfect has most of the colors. I added a splash of yellow.
Create a Critter - Chicken,  Hedge Hog, and Pig all cut at 2.5"
Create a critter - Alligator cut at 2"
Create a Critter - grass - 1", 1.5", 2"
Banner - Arts Philosophy - 1"
Billionaire - Letters cut at 3/4"

PKS stamps for the chicken, hedge hot and pig

The layout came from a Sketch that I really love from http://www.sketchsavvy.blogspot.com/. What great inspiration for different designs.

Since this has a small banner on it too I'll be using it for another entry in the Magazine challenge on the Cricut circle blog. This month was to make a banner - and you can also enter as many times as you want. I love that.

Hope you enjoy and
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Create a Critter Braclet and Thank you Card.

So my daughter's Preschool class is going tomorrow to a really cool farm. This isn't your usual farm. It has all kinds of different animals. My daughter is soooo excited. She actually asked if she can make something for Ms. Lucy the director. I told her sure. She instantly said a sheep. I figured then to make a cute little card for her to thank her for all her time and hard work. We've been there before with the moms group about 2 years ago so she really wasn't old enough to understand. 
So for Ms. Lucy I thought she would like a little bracelet to show our appreciation. This lady is incredible - she does hundreds of tours and really loves doing it for the kids.
Create a Critter - Lamb card - cut at 3"
All the characters for the bracelet are cut Create a Critter at 3") on SHRINKY dinks. Yes that is correct Shrinky dinks. 
They cut perfectly on the cricut and came out perfectly.
I didn't have any Laser SDs so I used the frost and colored them all by hand w/ my copics.
I then stamped the PKS faces on each one.
I then used my heat tool to shrink them and added them to a jump ring and onto a bracelet.
I stamped a simple little Thank you on the inside.
This is an easel style card.
I made 7 total animals - all of these animals are on her "farm". Like I said it's not your average farm. Yes it has your typical farm animals, goats, pigs, sheep, bunnies. Now there is a new baby alligator, and several new chicks. She even has a hedgehog. So this was 100% perfect for the farm.

I hope she and you like it and
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Peachy Challenge #7 - Sketch

So this week for the PKS challenge was to use the follow sketch to create a project.

I figured I'd play along - I just love PKS stamps and the wonderful challenges. I had a cute idea to follow this sketch using shamrocks.

I will be honest I probably made this card in my mind and then went to make it and changed it about 10 times.

I wanted to make a "swival" easel card so here was my chance. I saw this great card idea from www.cardcreationsbylorraine.blogspot.com. She did a several tutorials making different type of cards.

The shamrocks are cut at 2 1/2" from Paper Doll Dress up.

Mr. Shamrocks hat is also cut from Paper Doll Dress up - at 3".

The little shamrocks are cut at 3/4" from Paper Doll Dress up.

The faces are PK -650 Just Baby Faces.

The green card stock is from Archievers.

I inked the edges of the shamrocks with SEI Olive

The background paper is also from SEI paper line is Jocelyn - Chocolate fix.

I added some stickles to the shamrocks, some Viva decor, and a cute little bow to the pretty little girl.

The inside stamp is from Emma's stamp set called, " I Believe in Leprechauns".

Hope you enjoy and

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