Abi Ballerina

Hi Friends! It's good to 'see' you!

Today I have a card made with the gorgeous 'Abi Ballerina' by Wendy Burns. 

She's a freebie at the moment and you can get her at the
 All Dressed up Challenge Blog.

I coloured her with Copics in lavender/purple.

(I can never tell which is which)!

Gave her some dots on her dress with a white gel pen.

The white frame is a Sizzix Thinlits Die - Ornate Oval Frame.

The purple? diecut is a Spellbinders elegant frame.

Sorry, can't remember which one. I'm useless!

The sentiment is from a Penny Black stamp set, 'Petal Party'.

The base card is Centura Pearl. Love the subtle sheen on that card.

I'll be back very soon with another Peachy card.

'Till then have a lovely day.

Day 4 sneak peek!

Hello friends.

Today is the fourth day of sneaky peeking some of the cutest Peachy Keen stamps to date!

You need to hop on over to the Peachy Keen Blog to see the other sneaks, you really do!!

Here are two sneaks of my own to show you...

Decided to go monochrome with this one.

The shop is an add-on set from PKSC-21.

Available at 7pm tomorrow, straight after the release party on the NING site,

The Peachy Keen Connection!

If you aren't already a member, please join, it's free and there's a wealth of Peachy Goodness there!

I CASED THIS card by Caryn Davies, as it really suited the stamp.

The papers are by Pink Petticoat.

I coloured my gorgeous Sweet Shop with Copic markers, (as usual).

The 'sweets' are Liquid Pearls'.

There are four different stamp options for the shop sign,

Sweet Shop, Confectionery, Baker and Coffee Shop.

Brilliant! 

Here's sneak peek #2

This one is a bit different to say the least LOL. 

I wanted the shop to look like those hard gums that have the sugar all over them.

Can't remember the name off-hand, but I think you know the ones I mean.

The door especially reminds me of them.

I drew the sweets in the window of this one.

I'll be back later with more from the main stamp set.

Watch this space!

Thanks for dropping by, it's lovely to see you.

A perfect day!

Had a wonderful day with my best friends on Sunday
! Bacon butties, craft shopping, getting all our stash out of bags and making the kitchen table disappear under all the clutter. Extra table to accommodate the Big shot and Joy Trouvaille machine. Dies, card, guillotines, trimmers, stamps, glue, ink etc! Time for lunch and the first surprise visitor! Jackie, who wasn't sure she could make it due to family illness.
Then surprise number two when Dizzy Di turned up at 6pm, (just in time for dessert!
(She missed dinner by 5 mins).
 That just topped off a fabulous day.

I even managed to make two cards.
(I usually just do the running around and fetching and carrying etc,
which I love to do when they all come)!

I made this for for my best mate Pam's hubby.

The card is all printed from my Pink Petticoat files.
This ticking pattern and co-ordinating papers are from a lovely set called Beach Cottage.
With these digital files, you cannot go wrong with matching your colours!
I used a JustRite font stamp (retired) set for 'DAN' and 'RACH'.

This one was for Pam's S-i-L Rachael.

Pink Petticoat patterns used again for this one.

I CASED THIS card I found via Pinterest.

I seem to CASE the CAS ones. Hmm I see a pattern here! lol

See you later with more Peachiness! 

(if Alan doesn't mither the life out of me)!

Peachy Keen hops with Flower Soft!

Blog Hop is now finished!
Thanks to everyone who took part.
Prize winners will be announced on the Peachy Keen and Flower Soft blogs shortly.

Welcome to the Peachy Keen/Katie Sue Designs (Home of Flower Soft), combined blog hop!

If you came to me from the VERY talented VICKIE, you are on the right track.

If you just dived straight in, you need to start at the beginning, at 

Katie Sue Designs so you don't miss a thing.

There will be TWO prizes for this event.  

Katie Sue Designs (The Home of Flower Soft), will be offering one commenter from the hop, 3 pots of Flower Soft (colours of their choice) and a bottle of Flower Soft Glue.  ($25 Value).

 

Peachy Keen Stamps will be offering a prize of one $25 Gift Certificate.

The winners will be randomly chosen from one of the blogs on the hop so you'll need to leave a comment on every one to maximise your chance of a prize.. 
*Please add your email address so you can be contacted if you're a winner.*

We have some delightful projects for you. 

Here's two of mine...

 

My darling puppy and sentiment are from the August release, PKSC-20

The cloud background was created using PK-107

 I used Flower soft Vintage Christmas mixed with Burgundy for the puppy food.

I thought it looked a little like crumbed up fruit cake).

For this card, I used the Flower Soft  Peony Pink as a bouquet to take to the poorly puppy,

 who is a little green around the gills.
  (Flower Soft is amazing as it's good for single stems, bouquets, 'grass', texture on critters, the list is endless)!

I used PKSC-20 again for these cute critters.

(Amazing how different they look with different stamped faces)!

I coloured the Kitty and the Puppy with Copics.

I hope you enjoyed my two cards. 

Your next stop is the amazingly talented  AMY.

Here is a list of the participants just in case you get a little lost along the way.

Remember!! You need to comment on each post for a chance to win those awesome prizes!!!

Katie Sue Designs (The Home of Flower Soft)

Tanya Adams

Jeanne Streiff

Vickie Harper

Vivienne Holden

Amy Crockett

Cindy Beland

Dawn Lusk

Gigi McKellips

Melissa Haas

Cibele Glazer

Janice Wilson

Lorie Souther

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog

Happy hopping and good luck!!

Wedding cards and news!

It's August Bank Holiday Monday here and for once, the weather is glorious!

I hope the weather is treating you kindly too.

It was FAIRLY kind to the couple these card were for, last Saturday.

Dull, but the rain held off thankfully.

I was asked to make two cards for the wedding.

 The flower was so high, I had to make a box-elope to fit the card in!

I'm so pleased I got a chance to use that lovely Hessian.

(I just wish I could remember where on earth I got it from)!! Awww

It kind od speaks for itself, so no need for too many ingredients.

I can never remember the names of most of my stash anyway!

Must try harder to label stuff.

Here's the second one, not so fancy...

CAS! LOVE this!

CASED a card I found on Pinterest.

THIS is the original. (You'll need to scroll through the cards).

I'll be back on Wednesday with a couple of cards I've made for Peachy Keen using Flower Soft!

We are having a shared blog hop and there'll be a super duper prize involved as usual!

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

 See you there!!

Black and white birthday

I CASED my card from one I found on Pinterest.

I LOVE Pinterest!

Lisa Haine's of the Purple Place created the original.

(Scroll down her post a bit, there are quite few cards in it).

Paper by Pink Petticoat

Swiss dots EF

Butterfly die by Clearly Besotted

Greeting done on the PC backed by Spellbinders Label 18

Back soon with a couple of wedding cards!

Have a fabulous weekend and thanks for dropping by.

I love it when you do.

Sympathy card

Hya friends!

It's been one of those weeks this week! (I seem to be having a few of those lately)!

Time has just got the better of me again!

Ah well. Last minute .com is my middle name.

Are you ready for another Friday Challenge with us at Peachy Keen?

Of course you are!

Now this one isn't easy, sympathy cards never are, are they!

They ARE necessary though.

Here's the deets of this week's challenge.....

THE CHALLENGE

Create a card using a sympathy theme.

We'll be awarding "TOP PEACH" to the player who uses their Peachy Keen Stamps this week and  our two runner ups will receive a spiffy badge to display on their blog!

Guidelines:

- Design must be new

                 - Link up by 8/28 - 11:59 pm EST

There ya go! Nothing to it!  

Here's a card I made for the challenge...

I tried something different for this card.

I stamped PK-240 'Say it with Flowers' in a kind of arch shape, then cut round them.

I coloured the daisies with Copics.

I embossed the Kraft card base with a Spellbinder's A4 M'Bossabilities folder.

The greeting is from PK-287 'Bawlin' Bunnies'.

Very simple, but then that's what's best for a sympathy card I reckon.

Now, Please pop on over to the Peachy Keen blog, to get all the details of the challenge and see the fab creations some of my DT friends have made.

They always make such amazing cards!! I'm not worthy!

While you're there, why not throw your hat in the ring and join in the challenge!

Have a fabulous weekend when it finally arrives!