Good morning!  How's your day going?  The week's almost over and I don't know about you, but I'm ready for the weekend.  It's been a busy week, but busy is good.  Today I have a card to share that I made with the Peachy Picks March Kit, and one of the new gnome themed stamps.  This one is PK-562 Gnomegrown.  These little gnomes are just as cute as they can be, and there are some great sentiments with this set, which make it a must have for your fun Spring and Summer cards.  Check out the Peachy Keen Stamps Store for all amazing new releases.  This release has quickly become a favorite of so many, and I'm certainly no exception!  I just LOVE 'em!!!

All of the card stock, patterned paper, and even the sentiment tag are a part of the Peachy Picks Kit.  The cute little gnome was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers.   The pearl trim and the brads on the sign are the only elements that weren't part of the wonderful kit this month.  It's so much fun choosing what to use for a card from all the fabulous things that are included in each kit.  If you haven't figured it out by now, I am LOVING these kits!!  Give them a try, because I know you will, too!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I'm off to meet one of my siterhood friends.  Our little SCS group has been swapping cards for nearly 4 years, and today I get to meet another sister in person!!  Can't wait to enjoy this day out, so I'd better get to it!  Have a beautiful day and happy stamping!

Sneaky Peeky Time and A New Challenge!

Good morning!  This is a long post today, so be sure and scroll all the way down.  I don't want you to miss a thing.  The excitement around here is positively contagious as we get ready for the big reveal of our new stamp sets tomorrow at Peachy Keen Stamps, and I have a little sneaky peeky for you today!  This card is made with the new Stamp of the Month set (available tomorrow), and are you EVER going to love it!  It's got SO many wonderful images in it to work with, and the creative possibilities are endless!!!  I used the sweet little gnome girl for my card today.  I stamps her with Momento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Copics.

 All of the patterned paper and card stock that you see here are a part of the new Peachy Picks Kit that will be coming out tomorrow, too.  If you haven't gotten one of these kits yet, then  you are REALLY missing out!  There are so many wonderful things included, and again EVERYTHING you see here was a part of the kit.  Paper, card stock, ribbon, buttons, paper banner.  It's all there, and so much more!  For more inspiration and sneak peeks, be sure to visit the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog, because some of our other designers have some fabulous things to share, and scroll back to yesterday's post for even more sneak peek inspiration!!  

Now on to the new challenge!  Our challenge today is a GREAT one!  I haven't done anything of a 3-D nature for so long, and this was so much fun!!  I guess I let the cat out of the bag, because now you know that the new challenge is something 3-D, but there's a twist to it, because it also needs to include a weather theme.  If I compare my shadow box card to our weather today, "wishful thinking" is what comes to mind, because it's snowing, blowing, cold and nasty outside here today.   Oh well!  Looking at this card makes me feel warm, so that'll have to do!  ;-)

 As I mentioned above, this is a shadow box card, and the directions can be found HERE on Splitcoaststampers.  I stamped the CB-09 Gracee Goose stamp, which is a Country Bumpkin image with Memento Tuxedo Black in and colored her with Copic markers.  The patterned paper is some from my scrap bin, and the card stock is from Stampin' Up!.   The cute little sun and sentiment are the PKM-16 You Are My Sunshine stamp set from Peachy Keen Stamps.   I added a couple of gemstones to the frame and on her necklace and the rhinestone brads for some bling.  The grass was punched with a Martha Stewart grass border punch.  

Be sure to check out the Peachy Keen Challenge Blog to see what the rest of our designers have created for this challenge, and it would be wonderful if you can join us for this challenge, too.  There's always a chance to win a prize if you play along, and you could have a chance to be one of our Top Peaches!

Oh, and before I go, have you heard that we're having a release party tomorrow?  Yep!  Join us at 10 a.m. CST for a release party to celebrate all this new peachy goodness!  You'll be able to chat live with our designers, we're going to play some games, and offer you a couple of challenges to play along with this weekend, and of course we're going to be giving away some stamps.  Click on the button below to take you to The Peachy Keen Connection, make sure you're a member, and look for the link on the front page tomorrow morning, which will take you directly to the release party thread.  Hope to see you there!!!

Whew!  I know this was a long post today, but there was just so much to share with you!  I thank you so much for dropping by for a visit, and I wish you a beautiful day filled with blessings and lots of happy stamping!

Good Luck To You

Good morning and happy Wednesday to ya!  Are you ready for some more card making inspiration?  I've got another card to share which showcases the CAH-UTE St. Patrick's Day Stamp of the Month stamps from Peachy Keen Stamps, and the Peachy Picks Kit.  Boy, have I EVER had a blast playing with these, and you're going to start seeing sneak peeks for next month's kit very, very soon.  I don't know how they do it, but they just keep getting better and better!!  Keep your eyes peeled for all the latest updates on the new release, and the mean time, I'll keep tempting you with all the wonderful things currently available.  Heehee!! 

This card was created with Echo Park's Times and Seasons 6x6 paper pad, wood buttons, and twine, which was all included in the kit, along with a whole lot more for oodles of fun projects later.  The stamp set is the February Stamp of the Month PKSC-02.  What I really love about this little guy is the hair.  I started to put it together, and realized that he seemed to be missing a very important detail, so I started searching through my stash to see what I could come up with for hair.  What I found was some small cording in a peachy color.  I looped it to the back of the hat, and cut the strands, then frazzled them a little bit.  For some added color I gave him some darker tips using my Copic markers, and I LOVE how it turned out.  It just makes me smile, and I can't help it.  Everything was stamped with Momento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers.  Some Spica glitter pens gave some added sparkle to the buckles of his shoes and hat, as well as the hatband and the straps on the keg.   I made the collar out of some scrap paper from the Echo Park pack, by punching with my scalloped circle punch and hand cutting to fit.  Oh, and I almost forgot the best part!  His head is popped up onto an Action Wobble, so he's got some wiggly action going on as well!  He is just as cute as he can be!!

I'm off to tackle a mountain of laundry and hopefully squeeze in some stampy time in between.  If you don't hear from me within in a couple of days, please send out a search party!!  Thanks so much for dropping by today.  I hope you like what I've shared with you, and I wish you a blessed, bright and beautiful day!  Happy Stamping!!! 

Peachy Picks and Stamp of the Month Scrapbook Page

Good morning, and happy Monday to ya!  Did you have a great weekend?  I certainly hope so, and if you're lucky, you got some happy stamping time in.  Speaking of luck and or lucky, I've been having a ball playing with the new Stamp of the Month stamps and the Peachy Picks Kit from Peachy Keen Stamps.  I do believe that this kit is sold out for this month, but you can still order the terrific stamps I used today.  I'm telling ya that these Peachy Picks are a hot ticket item and there are a limited number of them available, which is why you need to sign up for the club to make sure you get yours every month with no worries.  It's a great deal, and you get so much fun stuff to work with!  I LOVE them, and just wait till you see next month's kit!  It's a dandy!!  Ahhhhhh...  Be still my heart!  ♥♥♥

One of my New Year's resolutions was to TRY and attempt more scrapbook pages.  In attempting to keep myself accountable for that resolution, here's one I came up with.  Let me tell you where I was going with this one.  You see, I know that I have pictures SOMEWHERE of my youngest when he headed off to college for the first time, and I loved the idea of the "Good Luck to you!", "Miss you!", "Love you!" and "Smile!" sentiments for this page, and I thought it was a way to show a great use for these stamps other than St. Patrick's Day.  There are LOTS of occasions when a "Good Luck" card or page would be in order.  The PKSC-02 has a HUGE assortment of stamps included in the set to give you a multitude of choices for cards and creative projects each and every day. 

In addition to the PKSC-02 stamp set, I used PK-255 Happy Flowers and Cheerful Phrases for the sentiments, and PK-298 Size A2 Grampa's Pajamas (This one's a BIGGIE) background stamp, which is the pattern you see behind the shamrocks.  I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink for stamping the images, and they were colored with Copics.  The backgrounds were stamped with Stampin' Up! ink in Not Quite Navy, Old Olive and Baja Breeze, and if you haven 't used Peachy Keen background stamps, you don't know what you're missing, because they stamp so clearly and beautifully, you just wouldn't believe it!!

I think that's all I've got for ya today, but come back tomorrow because I've got a cute Good Luck card made with these stamps to share with you.  Have a blessed and beautiful day, and happy stamping!