Simple Happy Birthday!

Hi Everyone!

Happy Friday! Hope you are all doing well. Tonight I went to a little birthday celebration for a very dear friend, and so I made her a card using Peachy Keen - Challenge #14 Color Challenge inspiration.

Materials Used for My A2 Birthday Card:

• paper piecing of the pendant banner
• Recollections Paper
• Foundations Paper
• Peachy Keen face
• Winter Frolic - little girl
• Wrap It Up - balloons
• Scrappy Moms Sentiments

I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!

<3, Katie A.

Christmas In April

Hi All,

Hope this week is treating you well! I am back to the grind (Spring Break was SO nice), so time is limited for crafting again. :( I was thankfully able to finish a project that I had started awhile ago when I had the idea of starting a mini album compiling our Christmas photo greeting and the Christmas letters that my husband writes to family and friends. I didn't have time to photograph the inside of the album but will try to do that later. I had previously made the shell of the album with the background paper, but I decorated the front cover for this week's Peachy Keen Challenge: Anything Goes!

Materials used:

Sizzix Mini Album (The outsides of the album are made w/ a thin chipboard w/ patterned paper glued on both sides of the chip board. Had to use two mini albums one on top of the other in order for our Costco Christmas Greeting to fit!)

Big Binder Rings (found these at the Scrapbook Expo in Anaheim this year)

Winter Frolic Cricut Cartridge

Buttons

Scrappy Moms Sentiment

faux stitching

the mini crystals for the snow

sticker letters

Peachy Keen faces! Love that I got to use the Critter faces!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!

<3, Katie

Peachy Keen Challenge 12

Happy Easter Everyone! I hope you all have a very blessed day tomorrow!

My husband and I have a TON of weddings to attend in the next couple of months, so instead of rushing around on the DAY OF the wedding to buy or make a card (my standard routine) I thought I would be proactive and start early. I crafted this card for the Peachy Keen 12: Sketch.

Materials I used:

• Cricut Accent Essentials for back panel
• Cricut Paper Doll Dress up (bride and groom)
• Patter paper is "Recollections" paper
• pearl trim ribbon and pearl stick-ons
• black ribbon
• Scrappy Moms Sentiment
• Peachy Keen Faces - PK 490 Everyday Face Assortment

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for visiting!

<3, Katie

Happy Early Easter!

Hi Friends!

Hope you are all doing well! SO excited to have finished this little project in time to submit to a couple of challenges. I'm submitting this to:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge: 3D Object Candy Containers &

Krafty Girls "For Peep's Sake" - Challenge #4

I made this cute little egg lollipop bouquet using the following materials:

• My box was cut from: Cricut Slumber Party
• I used a styrofoam cube from Dollar Tree and covered it with a fabric scrap
• My Eggs and chickadees were cut from Cricut Simply Charmed
• The trim was from random scraps
• chickadee faces were all from Peachy Keen PK-461 Happy Lashes 1 1/8
• and finally, the little ribbon was baker's twine from Scrappy Moms

If I don't post before Easter again, I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Easter!

<3, Katie

My Own Scraps Transformed into My Own Treasure!

Hi Everyone,

TGIF! Started my Friday night with Olive Garden and a glass of wine and ended it with this cheerful taste of spring. I thought the food and wine from OG were satisfying UNTIL I made this card. LOL. The Peachy Keen Face on the little chick and sun just make the whole card I think.

I'm submitting these to the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Challenge 10 - Just Cards Faux Stitching

My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #49 Spring Scallops

Crafty Catz Challenge #125 Spring Is in the Air

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge

Cricut Cartridges:

• Plantin Schoolbook (grass)
• Simply Charmed (chick)
• Feelin' Groovy (flowers)
• Sun (Accent Essentials)

Peachy Keen 754 Critter Faces SET A Medium

Pin Wheel (Martha Stewart Scoreboard)

Scrappy Mom's Sentiment

Tsukneko Ink

Tim Holtz Tags Die

Have a fabulous weekend! You guys would make my weekend if you become a follower. I would LOVE to go visit your websites, too. Thanks for visiting! :)

<3, Katie

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #103

Happy Wednesday! Week is almost over - thank God for that!

I found time to dabble a little bit in crafting tonight, and I'm going to submit this to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #103...I've been trying to film a video teaching everyone how to make these "Tim Holtz" inspired flowers using my Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge, but my video camera wasn't working, and my camera memory needs to be cleaned...stay tuned for a video soon though! Had to edit the post and card, because I didn't read the challenge directions carefully enough - we needed to have 3 flowers, not just one. OOPS! And I tell my freshmen to read directions. :)

I plan to give this birthday card to another one of my colleagues who has a birthday coming up.

Materials used:

cuttlebug embossing, which is inked (flower pot & card)

Accent Essentials (flower layers)

Scrappy Moms stamps (sentiment)

baker's twine

Everyday Pop-up Cards (flower pot)

"CANDI" wanna be brads (these are AWESOME!)

paper flowers from Michael's (the 2 on the left)

Thanks for visiting! I would LOVE for you to join as a follower - the more the merrier! Would love to follow your sites, too! Have a wonderful rest of your week.

<3, Katie

Peachy Keen Challenge & Manly Man Card

Hi Guys,

Back for another evening of crafting! So I made this card to submit to both the Peachy Keen Challenge and My Craft Spot "Manly Man Card" challenge. I used to coordinating colors required for Peachy Keen's and themed it according to the "Man" theme. I held it up next to my husband and asked him if he felt manly next to it. With lots of conviction he said yes. :)

Materials:

Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge

Baker's twine

buttons

Cuttlebug Embossing

The face is of course from: Peachy Keen

The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms.

Have a great Sunday and happy crafting!

<3, Katie

P.S. Would LOVE for you to become a follower! :)