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PKS March Releases REVEAL

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Hey Everyone I just wanted to hop in today and share with you the Reveal for the PKS March Releases. Which I love love love!

PKSC - 03 March 2012

I plan on making alot more projects with this kit and releases, but I need to hop back to the february Kit and sets soon because St. Patrick's Day is coming and I've got projects to craft.

*___ on another note___*

I will be MIA a little bit ( a week or so) as my daughter has her Pageant (Natural Pageant) coming up and all of my time and energy is going towards getting her ready for that.

I so far have been Rhinestoning a dress and Making Layered Hair Bows. as well as buying all of her accessories.

We will be travelling to Syracuse, NY (3 hour car ride) next weekend March 2-4. i will have some projects to share with you for while I am gone so you can stay entertained here :)

Wish us luck it's going to be so fun!!

I hope

Lettering Delights BIG BANG BUNDLE

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:56:00 +0000

The Lettering Delights Big Bang Bundle is here. It's $100 for 100 SVG Sets, but if you have a 25% off coupon you can snag this deal for $75 bucks (which i just did) . this makes the sets only 75 cents each. awesome value. these sets usually go for like 5 bucks each! and if you got this deal last year it's all new sets! AHHH This is your time of the year to stock up

Last year They made this set available for only three days, 100 SVG sets for $100.

Starting TODAY, the bundle will be available for 5 days with a whole different set of products.

This round-up includes 100 Cut It SETS and yes...its $100 but you are paying only $1/set.

Coupon codes will apply so YOU can buy the bundle for $75. Check your emails, if you get the Lettering Delights Freebies then you probably have a coupon code in your email.

No one can ever beat that price for cut its. The count of these cut its is an unbelievable 1600+!

These are files you would pay $1 for elsewhere. (including the Silhouette Online Store)

Have you bought some of the product? So you will be some repeat but you are essentially getting 100 sets for $75 when you use a coupon code. Without the bundle, they would only get 16-20 sets. So its worth the repeats... and then some!!

All the product is available for individual download only (and thankfully). Not sure what the file size would be for 100 sets in one zip, but we don't want to do that! All the product is available in their LD account and through MTC, if you have that software

It will ONLY be available from the 24th-28th!

CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS NOW

Hurry! Limited time offer Only!!

Peachy Keen 3d Challenge: Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:48:00 +0000

Today is another Peachy keen Challenge day!

Today's challenge is to create a 3d Project with the theme weather
all while using your Peachy Keen Stamps of course!!!!!!

For my Project I decided to make a fridge Magnet Game for my daughter because she always likes to play with her things on the fridge while I'm working in the kitchen. She has outgrown her ABC's and Numbers so I thought I would give her something new for her to play/learn with.

This Photos do not do the project enough Justice, They are much cuter in person

It's a set of 6 Weather Icons and 6 Words that match the icon. I thought this would be good for her so she can start associating the words with their meanings. Also this is great because I can now have her look out the window and tell me what the weather is.

I cut all the icons Using Lettering Delights Weather Girl SVG Set ( also available: Weather Boy SVG Set)b. Which has some fantastic and cute shapes. I also at some point plan on turning the Little Girls and Boys into Magnets too and Peachifiying those for my daughter to play with (but that's a more advanced game of matching the appropriate clothing to the weather)

I cut all the Icons out at 4 inch width. They all have various heights.

I used the Following Stamps for each of the faces

Windy: January 2012 SOTM KIT Faces
Sunny: Happy Lashes 1 1/8"
Snowing: In Sitches 1 1/8" and Princess Faces Assortment (for snowflakes)
Raining: Febuary 2012 SOTM KIT Faces
Storm: In Stitches 1 1/8
Partly Cloudy: March 2012 SOTM KIT Faces (to be released)

For the Word Magnets, I used Various Fonts from Lettering Delights, and Printed them out on White Cardstock

Fonts used:
Windy: LDJ Kris Kringle
Sunny: LD Shelly Script
Snowing: LDJ Whale tail
Raining: LD Kracken
Storm: LD Brownnose
Partly Cloudy: LD Red Hatter's Hand

I also used some Studio G Glitter Glue, Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen, Timeless Twine bakers twine in Baby Blue and Lots of Magnet Strips (found a pack of 6 at Michaels for $1.25 and cut those into pieces)

I really hope you enjoy my project. Make sure you head over to the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog in order to join the challenge and check out the rest of the Design team inspiration.

PeachyKeen Sneaks!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:53:00 +0000

Hello,

Today is my Day for release week for Peachy keen Stamps. When I told you these Stamp of the Month Kits are going to get better and better, man did they really mean it.

I can tell you RIGHT NOW, that you are going to want to hurry up and buy/subscribe to this club because this kit is going to blow your mind with cuteness.

For my Project I decided to make a card.

I was totally inspired by Mojo Monday (my go-to) place for Card Sketches

Here is my inspiration

Here is my adorable card.

Make sure you look super closely at the card because there is a background stamp on there too.

And if the sentiment on here is the biggest hint ever on the stamp kit's theme!!!!

The new kit will be up for sale to everyone on Saturday at 8AM EST!

You can look for more info on PKS CLUB KITS here. '

and make sure to head over to the PKS BLOG to see the other Designer Sneak Peeks!

Scrappy Moms Terrific Tuesday: Tags!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I have been a busy bee preparing for the Peachy Keen Stamps release week that is coming up but I have had time to prep a super cute project for Scrappy Moms Stamps Terrific Tuesday Challenge.

This week the challenge is to create any project featuring Tags.

For my project I just decided to create a tag

I cut a tag shape out of a Scrap of Kraft Cardstock, stamped my PK-852 Bottoms Up Snowman on Kraft Cardstock as well. I have never ever before colored on kraft so this was a new learning experience. I colored him using my prismacolor pencils and some Studio G Glitter Glue (which in my opinion is way better than stickles and only costs $1 for a bigger bottle too, available michaels)

The background was stamped using PK-299 Lucky Day Shamrock I used my brayer (i just bought one this weekend) and inked my background stamp in a gradient using SU Crumb Cake and Wild Wasibi. So the background Starts off being Crumb Cake and then Gradially turns to green which I think is so fun!

I then punch out a border strip in kraft and added Some ribbon from Papertrey Ink in "New Leaf"

The Sentiment is stamped in SU Basic Black from Scrappy moms Stamps "Spring Fling" (of course).

make sure you head over to Scrappy moms Stamps and join in on the challenge as well as check out the other Design team Inspiration..

Have a great day!

Also Happy Fat Tuesday/Strove Tuesday!

Scrappy Moms Sneak Peak :Mini Messages

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:26:00 +0000

Today is a beginning of a release weekend at Scrappy Moms Stamps and i was set and determined to make a masculine card. For some reason they are always such a struggle for me, Maybe because i dont not have too many masculine images.

So late last night I was drawing up my Brownie and Bebe Svg Freebies and I came across some plaid paper that looked like a shirt... and idea was born

I decided to make Zack, this adorable cutie svg file. I'm imagining that he is a friend of Brownie and Bebe since I basically used the same body type.

if you're Kraft and you know it clap your hands!!

This card stands 3.5x5 ( i just used a scrap to make it) I used the "Hello" from Mini messages

And I stamped it over and over in a pattern on the middle of my cardstock using Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink. I then left a little room and added a "hi" stamp from Simple Sentiments in Old Olive, since I thought that came very close to green pattern of the shirt.

I added some minor doodling and that's it.

Hope you enjoyed my card tomorrow I will be showcasing the second scrappy moms stamps release "owl occasions"

Thank you!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:21:00 +0000

To all my Dearest and loyal friends and blogging family

I just wanted to say thank you for being there for me and your kind words and I want you to know that I appreciate you all!

As a thank you please feel free to download this hand drawn svg set that I created. 100% drawn by myself alone, though my daughter did suggest that they be "princesses"

Special thanks to my PKS sisters on this one who gave me such great ideas in their creation

Meet Bebe and Brownie: They are best friends just like me and you :) Bebe is organized prim and proper while Brownie is a messy and free spirited! opposites but friends never the less.

~~Free Download~~ ( No longer available. Please email using the Contact me Form if you are interested in downloading this file. Thank you)

I hope you enjoy these little darlings and if you make a project please comment on this post.

These are free to share with your friends. Feel free to Pin, or discuss on your blog, but make sure they get it from the link on my site.

Thanks!

Hugs and Kisses

from your 1/2 brownie and 1/2 Bebe Friend!

Terrific Tuesday Challenge: Hearts

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:27:00 +0000

Hiya,

Today is another Terrific Tuesday Challenge with Scrappy Moms!

Today's Challenge is to create a project that features hearts! Easy Enough Right?!!
Here is my project!

Isn't this little bear the cutest? I got him a while ago from Designs on Cloud 9 when he was the weekly Freebie, but he's for sale now here

Anyways when you get the file all the pieces come completely separately, which I personally do not like. So I went ahead and "put them together" in my make the cut software, utilizing the layers feature and just moving and rotating the parts and pieces so that they are stacked in a way much like the finish product. Then i was able to select the images as a whole and re-size so that the finished product is just shy of 4 inches tall. This sounds complicated but it's really not.

I then used the Shadow feature and Created 2 Shadows of the main image at .0775 inches each. One of the Shadows included the base and hearts and the other was just of the main envelope. I welded this two shadows together to create the base for my shape card.

All of the cardstock is from Recollections and all Scraps the Card base is cut from PTI Kraft Cardstock because I wanted it to be extra sturdy

Stamp Sets Used

Scrappy Moms Stamps

"XOXO" " Hugs" Double Hearts (inside Card), "Smaller ♥(inside Card)," Love Notes
"Happy Valentine's Day", "larger ♥(inside Card)," Crazy for You
"Special Delivery" Designer's Choice

PK-754 Critter Faces Set A Medium -Peachy Keen Stamps

I stamped the inside of the card with the various icon stamps from the two Scrappy Moms Stamps Valentine Sets: Love Notes(2011) & Crazy for you (2012)

The Sentiment "Sepcial Delivery" I masked off and stamped twice, once in Melon Mambo and then again in Basic Black. I punch it out with my Fiskars Cameo Apperance Punch and then cut the punched out shape in my trimmer to give it a straight edge on one side.

That's pretty much it.Added some ribbon, button, timeless twine and that's it

Simple and adorable Card!

Hope you like it

make sure you head over to Scrappy Moms Stamps in order to join the challenge as well as check out the other design team inspiration!

Elegant Valentine's Day Card

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Happy Monday Everyone

Today I am sharing with you a project I made over the weekend.

she's a diva! Oh Snap!

This card is 5x7. The pattern paper is from GCD Cloisonne 8x8 Paper Pad. Which I have had forever, and practially still have a ton of it still left!

I was able to go to Hyatt's and pick up a few more shades of Prismacolor Pencils to add to my collection.

I also dug through my old and dusty collection of Rubber Stamps and found this cutie named Madelynn from The Greeting farm that I purchased ages ago and she is now discontinued.

I Colored my sweet Madelynn in greys and pinks as I wanted her colors to pick up the grey in the pattern paper.

I cut around using my paper trimmer and then I inked her with SU Pretty in Pink in, k and placed her on a slightly larger white mat. I cut out a rectangle from the SVG Cuts Nested Lacey Shapes Set in red cardstock and Inked the Edges with SU Riding Hood Red Ink.

I don't know where I got the Heart doilies from. I honestly believe I found them in the $1 bin at michaels ages ago. But I added two underneath my stamped image

Found the ribbon and Heart Button in my stash and the Red/White Baker's Twine is from Timeless Twine (but of course!)

The Outside Stamp "A love without end.." is from Scrappy Moms Stamps Love Notes Stamp Set (Last year's Valentine's release) which I stamped on a banner SVG File that I created in my make the Cut Software

Stamping on the inside of the card.

The inside I stamped "One life, one love, one you" is also from Scrappy Moms Stamps Love Notes. While the "Happy Valentine's day" is from Crazy 4 you also from Scrappy Moms Stamps.

I hope you enjoyed this pretty quick and adorable card!

Stay tuned as tomorrow I have another cutie project for Scrappy moms Stamps Terrific Tuesday Challenge.

Peachy Keen Stamps Toliet Paper Roll Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Hello Fellow Crafters,

Today is another Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge and my turn as a memeber of the design team to share some challenge inspiration.

Today's Challenge: Create ANY project of your choice using an empty toilet paper roll.

Guidelines:

Design must be new
Link up by 2/8 - 11:59 pm CDT

Here is my Design Team Inspiration with Video tutorial to follow!

Hope you Enjoy it!

Leave me some love if you feel inclined!

Hope you link up your own challenge at the PKS CHALLENGE BLOG

Happy St. Patrick's Day w/ video

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Hiya,

Today I'm sharing a card I recently made. I know it's not even valentine's day yet but i got my new Peachies and I just had to try them out!

I have used the PKSC-02 Feb 2012 SOTM kit and the PKS-297 Kiss me Leprechaun to create this little character. Lot's and Lot's of Masking

I colored him with prismacolor Pencils. Used a little bit of glossy accents.

I also used PK-299 size A2 lucky Day Shamrock Background Stamp

Also. Did you see that I uploaded a new video to my youtube this week. I forgot to post it here but now it's on the original post

So make sure you check it out!!!

Hugs and have a great day!

Terrefic Tuesday Challenge & Octopus Card

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:24:00 +0000

Hey Everyone. today is a Terrific Tuesday Challenge at Scrappy moms!
Today they are working with the rock princess cartridge.

I could not for the life of me find this cartridge so today I am sitting out of the challenge.

But here is a project that I have previous made using rock princess...

you can see all the orginal details for this card here

Though I did make an adorable *NEW* card that I want to share with you all

Isnt this card the cutest?!

This little Octopus was a freebie svg from Treasure Box Designs last week but you can still grab it for only $1 here. It also includes a wide variety of cutting formats as well as a digi stamp!

I cut this little cutie out with my Silhouette Cameo and Make the cut software. The card size is A2.
I used recollections card stock and Su Perfectly Plum, Riding Hood Red and basic Black Ink.

The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps Furry Friends Stamp set

The little Cheeks are done in Melon Mambo Ink and the Gorgeous Fushia Baker's twine comes from Timeless twine

The adorable peachy face is from PK-487 In Stitches 1 1/8" Stamp set which is now one of my most favie faves!

Hope you enjoy my projects and head over to Scrappy Moms Stamps to join in on the challenge as well as check out all the other design team inspirational projects!

Have an awesome day!

Happy Birthday Angelica (blog hop!)

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:07:00 +0000

Hey everyone welcome to A peachy Princess blog hop.

Today we are celebrating Angelica's Birthday, also known as the peachy princess, and the market street queen!

I like to call her my friend.

She is truly awesome. She's that kind of friend that won't laugh at you when you email her about silly things, and she's always there to give good crafty advice, plus she's just a creative mastermind and everything she touches becomes instantly fab!

Here is a birthday card that I made and mailed to her to celebrate her birthday

My card wasn't being very photogenic because it has a slightly curved botton so it didn't want to stay still while i take a photo of it, so i apologize in advance if you have to tilt your head slightly in order to check out my card.

Next is Lauren

Here is the blog hop list in case you get lost
*** all of the links below point the the actual post in case you are hopping a little later ***

Kathy

Amanda

Amy

Cristina-- you are here!!

Lauren - she's next!!!

DoBea

Raven

Jennie

Heather

Lorie

Leanne

Nikki

Julie

Kristi

Mel

Stephanie W.

Kim

Emma

New Product at Scrappy Moms: Action Wobbles!!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:39:00 +0000

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to hop on here and let you know that finally after a long waiting List,

Scrappy moms Stamps is now Selling Action Wobbles. Finally it's easy and convient to get your hands on some of the most creative and fun crafting accessory!

With Free Shipping

head over to Scrappy Moms to your order

I heart U Monster Valentine

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000

As I had stated on my PKS Blog Post, I am showcasing two additional *Peachy projects*, that you can view here

Hiya Everyone

Thank you for stopping by and visiting if you are new and hopping over from the PKS Blog.

Today I am sharing with you a super cute valentine's day card that I have created using PK-693 Monster Mash Faces 1 1/8" and PK-296 XOXOXOXO A-2 Background Stamp. I wanted to showcase the versatility of these adorable Peachy Keen Stamps that Kathy has created.

Not only Does the "face" make the project, but using the xoxo background stamp adds alot of interest to the brown cardstock which would otherwise look plain.

Details:

**This project was 100% designed and cut using My Silhouette Cameo and Make the Cut software

**The card base shape and Layers shapes are of my own creation.

**The card is roughly 5x7. i think slightly larger.. but that's okay I will just have to make my own envelope for this one.

The brown paper cardstock is Papertrey ink Dark Chocolate stamped with the XOXO Background stamp using Stampin Up Early Expresso Ink. All of the edges are Inked with Walnut Stain Tim Holtz Distress ink.

The Pattern Paper is from YT24023 Yours Truly 6x6 by Echo Park.

After I cut out my cute little monster with my Cameo I then proceed to ink various parts of the body with different ink colors. I inked the Blue Body with Stampin up Baja Breeze and TIm Holtz Walnut Stain Distress ink, and the horns and hair I inked with Stampin up Pretty in Pink and Tim Hotlz Distress ink.

I then assembled the monster and went doodle overboard like always :) with my

White Gelly Roll Pen Medium Point

I stamped the adorable face, bringing my monster to life using PK-693 Monster Mash Faces 1 1/8" and Paper trey Ink True Black ink. I added the white of the eyes and doodling with my gelly roll pen.

The Rosy cheeks were created using a dry paint brush and Riding Hood Red Stampin Up ink.

I created the Mini Banner using a bunch of files from Lettering Delights

The Banner shape I created using the Basic Borders SVG Set. I used the singular Scallop and adjusted it to fit my needs.

The font is from Lettering Delights, LD Typeset font that I cut with make the cut software

I finished the project off with some red Swiss Dot grosgrain ribbon that I bought at michael's ages ago, and a black button. I tied some accent bows using Cherry red & Natural White baker's twine from Timeless Twine. My personal favorite.

I hope you enjoy this project, and that it inspires you to use your Peachy Keen Stamps in a Fun creative way.

As I had stated on my PKS Blog Post, I am showcasing two additional Peachy projects, that you can view here
Here are my sneakie Peakies!

PKS & SMS: Valentine tags

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Hello Everyone, this was supposed to be my post for the Scrappy Moms Stamps Valentine's Day blog Hop, but blogger ate my post so now I am posting it here

If you are coming from Peachy Keen Stamps welcome :)

Today I am sharing with you Two adorable valentine's Tags that I created.

I dont know exactly what I am doing to do with these, or put them on but they just came out so stinkin adorable, I am in ♥love♥ with them!

I created these two files with FREEBIE Svgs from SVG Cuts the dino is from here and the bear and heart are from here

all of the sentiments are from Scrappy Moms Stamps, the "be my valentine?" is from the Scrappy Moms Stamps Newest Release Crazy for you

the face on the dino is from Peachy Keen Stamps is from PK-487 In Stitches 1 1/8" and the face on my cute little bear and heart is from PK-758 Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed - 1-1/8"

I hope you enjoy these tags and they inspire you to create something!

have a great day

PKS Linky Party!!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Thanks for stopping by for the PKS Linky party.

And welcome to another PKS Challenge.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS DESIGNER'S CHOICE- go ahead and link up to our Linking party your favorite new project created using Peachy Keen Stamps to play. Make anything! As long as Peachy Keen Stamps are used :)

For my Project I am featuring the brand new

PKSC-01 January 2012

Stamp of the Month Club kit!

January 2012 includes 19 fabulous stamps!

Large Heart
Large Angel (full body)
Large Angel (head with arms crossed and wings)
FIVE EXCLUSIVE faces in 1" (not in any other package)
Small Angel (head with arms crossed and wings)
Small Heart
FIVE EXCLUSIVE faces in 3/4" (not in any other package)

FOUR Sentiment Stamps: I love you with all my (heart), LOVE, A little angel stopped in today to wish you a , Happy Valentine's Day!

For my Project I decided to make a valentine's day card for my Daughter's School teacher..

I colored the sweet Angel Stamp using my Prismacolor Pencils and my Prismacolor Blending Marker.

All of the pattern paper I used on this project is from {My Mind's Eye} Love me collection

which is now available as January 2012 Peachy Picks Paper Crafting kit

Each month, you will receive one kit containing 9 sheets of 8.5"x11" card stock, 24 sheets of 6x6" patterned paper (either in a paper pad such as January's kit, or loose coordinating sheets), and fun embellishments to tie in perfectly to our Stamp Kit of the Month. you can see more information about the Peachy Picks Club here.

I paper pieced the dress, and inked it(aw well as the card front plaid pattern paper) with Tim Holtz Frayed burlap Distress ink and SU-Riding Hood Red ink. the "Love" pattern paper I inked with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap as well..

The heart I stamped with Colorbox Frost White pigment ink and the PK-296 XO A-2 Background Stamp on a scrap of Red Cardstock then stamp/paper pieced and added it to the image stamp

The face stamped on my adorable angel is from PK-485 Snowmany Faces 1 1/8 inch, I masked off the nose and then stamped the nose from PK-494 Everyday Character Face Parts 4" to 5" in it's place. I wanted the angel to look Child like and I think she came out just Adorable!!

The wings and halo are glittered with my FAVIE Stardust Stickles.

The scallops I cut out using Make the Cut, my Silhouette Cameo, and Lettering Delights , Basic Borders SVG Set which is one of my Go-to sets for accents :)

I Finished the card with some doodling with my Signio Uniball White Gel Pen, Some Swiss Dot, grosgrain ribbon from Michael's, a black button and Baby Blue Twine from Timeless Twine

I hope you love this project as much as I do.

Do not forget to link up your new peachy keen stamps project on their blog and join the fun. I will be hopping and commenting on projects.. I cannot see what everyone comes up with!

Crafty Hugs!

Scrappy Moms Valentine's Hop This weekend!!

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:36:00 +0000

I just wanted to quickly post that this weekend will be the Scrappy Moms Stamps Valentine's day blog hop, and we will also be debuting a Brand new Stamp set during the hop weekend as well.

I hope to see you all there

Ps. there will be blog candy from Scrappy Moms Stamps as well :)

This Christmas Layout

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Today I thought I would share with you a layout I created right after Christmas. These photos I had taken of my daughter a few days after we had put up the Christmas tree and decorated the house. I thought they were so adorable that I couldn't help printing them out and scrapbooking them right away.

All of the Pattern paper is from DCWV The Christmas Combo Stack
The large scallopped Circle title and journaling is from The Christmas combo stack as well. I just used an X-acto knife and cut it out from a page. The Deer border was also from the border strips in the Pack as well.

I cut this out once, and then from another page (there are 2 copies of every pattern) i cut out another set of the berries and popped them up with foam sqaures and added glitter.

I have noticed that DCWV stacks nearly always have a page with borders, a page with tags/journaling strips and a few pages that have a border/ journaling or image printed on them. I have been making an attempt to use that more often.

The background cardstock actually had an image of a postage stamp printed on it, I didn't really like that but I loved the border, so I just decided to hide that with another piece of pattern paper.

The tree is a SVG File that I created from (this) paper piecing pattern from Scrapbooks ETC. I can make that available as a freebie if anyone wants it, just send me a request using the contact me section of my website.

I used my sewing machine do accent stitching and also included a ruffle border made from scraps of satin ribbon.

Hope you enjoy this and it inspires you!

Cupid's Sting Valentine's Card

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:41:00 +0000

Hey there friends, it's Cristina coming to you with my First ever Design team Project for Peachy keen Stamps.

Today I am featuring a Stamp from the Newest Release called PK-295 Cupid's Sting.

I absolutely love how this card came out. Over the weekend I went to my Local Scrapbook Store Buffalo Stamps & Stuff (Blog , Website) and purchased this adorable pattern paper (12x12 "Flying High" from My Mind's Eye Irresistible Collection) on Clearance!! It was dirt cheap and the moment I saw it, I knew I wanted to use the cute cupid stamp to create something cute.

Here is my Card

The Kraft Cardstock is from Papertrey ink and the Red is from Bazzil. I am pretty sure the White is just a scrap of recollections. I created a SVG shadow blackout of the stamp in my Make the Cut software and then inked my stamp with papertrey ink True Black ink and colored with my Prismacolor pencils. I then used a New pen that I got from a Local Art Supply Store called Hyatt's (website) called Pen-touch xtra fine tip paint pen. Since I've been having some issues with my old fave the Sakura white gelly roll pen. Anyways this pen is like paint and writes awesome. I stamped the sentiment "this is gonna sting a little" that comes with the Cupid's Sting stamp set, then traced over it with the pen-touch and added some doodling...

I created the postage stamp border using my postage stamp punch from Fiskar The large white scallopw as created using the Basic Borders SVG set from Lettering Delights

One thing that I love love about the Basic Borders SVG Set is is how easy is to create a custom border. in exactly the size you need it. Due to the fact that they include a singlular scallop shape as well... you can see what I am talking about from the picture here

And this set is ON SALE for only $1!!!!

I knew that I wanted to have the border be 4.75 inches across and also that I wanted to have 5 scallops. so all that I did was divide 4.75/5 and made that the width of my scallops. Duplicated that to 5 scallops across and welded them together. That sounds alot more complicated than it actually is.

This card came together rather quickly (except the coloring, that always takes me forever) i finished it off with some old Stampin Up Striped ribbon and a black button with with a hemp cord knot.

I hope you enjoy my project and have a fantastic day!

PS. You would be happy to know that I have also completed 2 scrapbook layouts in 2012. :) And am getting caught up with my pages slowly but surely. I will have some more layouts to share with you laterthis week so stay tuned!

Best of 2011: Scrapbook Layouts# 1-5

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:04:00 +0000

To see my favorite cards of 2011 click here and here

Today i am sharing some of my favorite Scrapbook pages that I have made in 2011.

I am actually saddened that I did not make as many layouts in 2011 as I orginally intended. Yesterday, I took the timesince I was off from work and went through the photos that I have printed and organzied them in little baggies by scrapbook pages that need to be completed.

I have about 20 pages that I need to make before I even think about printing out anything else. I figure if I just work with the pictures that I have printed out I can get some done. Not to mention that I have about 3-4 months of pictures that I need to print out, and these are all for my daughter's scrapbook. I am not including the fact that I still need to scrapbook a whole entire vacation from Puerto Rico from August 2010. So in some ways I am behind almost by a year.

Though hope is not lost. I did make 2 layouts so far in 2012 :-D]

So in no particular order here are 5 of my favorite layouts in 2011. I will do another post later this week with my remaining 2011 favorites. I dont want this post to be TOO pic heavy.

Time 2 Play layout. I love everything about this. I am not so good at matching when it comes to pattern paper, or at least in my opion, that is why at some times I am thank ful for the imagine as I basically had all the pattern paper cut out using the print and cut feature. This makes me almost want to use my imagine today, but then I think about how much I love my cameo.. Maybe i will use it again. You can see this orginal post ( and video) here

back to school layout. I actually made this layout for my little brother, and it was just an idea that came to me last minute, as all good ideas do and I just threw it together in no time. My mother is really into scrapbooking, as long as she is not the one who has to make the pages so every now and then I make a page for her that she can add her photos and journaling and put it into her scrapbook. I really enjoy the stamped boarder with the white embossing powder and there is just enough going on that it doesn't look to plain. you can see the orignal post here

Easter Layout. This page was one that I made when I was a guest Designer for Peachy Keen Stamps back in Septemeber. I didn't have alot to work with as far as photos sizes. This photo was taken by the people at the mall with the Easter Bunny and basically you get 1 photo size (5x7) with a horrendous border and like eggs and the year on it. I guess the year part is helpful since you can easily remember when the photo was taken. So I decided to cut off as much of the ugly border as possible cutting around the eggs and take it from there. I then played off of the photo colors to come up with this layout. You can see the original post here

Santa's lap
This one came togher alot nicer than I had planned. Once again I was working with horrible bordered mall photos though I was lucky enough that at least this mall photo had some what of an easy to cut off border compared to Easter. Since I only had one photo I wanted to add as many Christmas Die Cuts as possible in order to make it look more complete. You can see all of the details on the original post here

Love bug layout This is one of my all time favoritest layouts. I love the color variety. i still do not have pictures filled in this layout. I guess you have to take pictures on valentine's day in order to have some to put on the layout. But hey there is still this year. You can see the original post here

A Peachy Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:09:00 +0000

I am not sure if you've been over to Peachy Keen Stamps and have seen.

That i have been chosen as a 2012 Peachy Keen Stamps Design Team Member!!

Yay! So if you are new visiting, welcome and take a look around. Hop on over to my gallery, check out my youtube, or even like me on facebook and stay tuned because I have alot more peacifiying to do.

To hold you over here are some of my top peachy projects!

Make sure to hop and visit all of the other 2012 PKS designers

Lorie Souther

Kim Score

Nikki Foraker

Heidi Anne Giebel

Michelle Criswell

Raven Baca

Lauren Brewer

Amy Crockett

Glorajean Beardall

Saundra Rega

Amanda Bodine

Heather Hoffman

Melissa Haas

Jennie Garcia

Kristi Bennett

Leanne Garner

Best of 2011: CARDS #6-11

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000

I am continuing with my top cards of 2011. here are my favorite cards #6-11 in no order. I love them all. to see my favorite cards 1-5 click here

This is an Easter Card I made using my Cricut imagine. One great thing about the imagine (there are not too many) is the ability to have the paper match exactly. I love that because I super stink at matching papers. I love the little face and the banner, the card is simple yet understated in it's fantastic-ness. sometimes you don't need alot on a card for it to be outstanding and this is just a good example of that. You can see the original post here.

This is one of my ALL TIME favorite cards that i have ever created. I love the play on colors and patterns and the sketch and just basically everything about it. This was actually a PKS challenge sketch that I interpenetrated and came out with this fantastic masterpiece. I especially love the ribbon, which is sad because I cannot find it at my Michael's anymore.. and i'm all out. you can see the original post here..

Here us another card that is just simple yet amazing. Not alot going on this one either. Easy enough for any one to replicate, but i think one thing that i love is how well the papers and elements match. I love it when that happens. Everything in this card I made using Lettering Delights and make the Cut. you can read more about this card in the orignal post here.

This card is an idea that I ran with on a whim and it turned out fantastical. (as you can see I am having some issues coming out with adjectives to describe my own cards. I really like this one. I love kraft on kraft embossing.

Best of 2011 CARDS #1-5

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:22:00 +0000

I am contuning one of my end of the year traditions I am going to go through and pick some of my favorite projects that I have completed in 2011. Here are just 5. i am going to pick my favorite 11 cards total but I thought the first 5 in one post wouldn't make it overly pic heavy.

Here we go.. in no particular order.. 5 of my favorite 11 cards of 2011

I made this super cute card during my Guest Designer Week at PKS and I STILL love it. I love the pattern paperand the clouds and the banner, and overall this was a good idea that came out just the way I wanted it to. See original post here...

I actually got the idea for this card from a PINTEREST pin that I had found and I basically just used it as a sketch and made it my own. This suprisingly is one of my paper piecing masterpieces, I remember how much I loved/hated putting together the little hot air balloons. You can see the orginal post here

I love love love this card, Everything about it. i took a spring style stamp set and using my Prismacolor pencils colored it in a fall pallettte. I actually have yet to give this card to my mom as I love looking at it. This was one of my first attempts at coloring with Prismacolor pencils and I think I did pretty good :) you can see the original post here

This card was actually another sketch idea. I love using sketches to come up with card ideas. I also had learned and used the faux embossing with diecuts tecnique on this card. I was suprised how fantastic the flowers came out across the bias of the card with the various sizes. Also I hand drew the face and dial feature on the card, which gave him an adorable fun feel. If only PKS came out with a Robot Character face set. ***SUGGESTION ALERT*** lol You can see the original post here

this is one of my prime time favorites, not only the card itself but how accurate and nice the PHOTO of the card came out. Sometimes when I take the picture I think.. the card looks so much better in real life, and this photo of the card is just so fantastic. This was a mojo monday sketch where I got the idea from and I just ran with it. this was aso a fun card to make sue to the unique shape of the card.Instead of using Die Cuts, I used some stickers from E.A.D Designs, but you could easily recreate something like this using stamps or diecuts LOVE LOVE LOVE IT. you can see the original post & Video here

Holli-dollar Days

noreply@blogger.com (Cristina) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Lettering Delights $1 Sale!! $1 most items, 50% off SVGs and CUT ITs!!
WOOHOO!! I just got my Lettering Delights Newsletter and Guess what? It's their Holli-Dollar Days!!

This is my favorite Lettering Delights sale. and it's a great time to stock up, especially if there has been a paper pack, digi set, or Cut it/svg set that you have had your eye on :)

Most Items are $1 EACH!! and SVGs and CUT ITs are 50% off!! Here are a few samples of what's on sale. There are so much more for sale on Lettering Delights.

*** Also be sure to check your email from a previous lettering delights order/freebie and use the 25% off coupon to save EVEN MORE***

*** Also be sure to check your email from a previous lettering delights order and use the 25% off coupon to save EVEN MORE***

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Leave me a comment and let me know what you were able to pick up!