Baby Blue

Hi Crafty Friends,

Hope you are all doing well. I am just about to wind down the school year...2 more days before school is completely out! I'm so excited! It's been a wonderful year, but summer is ALWAYS welcome. :)

Onto this week's crafty festivities - this is a card for my good friend's FIRST BABY! Can't wait to give this card to her, and CAN'T wait to meet him!

Here is my card:

Materials Used:

• Cricut Simply Charmed for the baby bottle and teether
• Net Background Panel (over my blue and tan stripped paper)
• Peachy Keen Faces
• Fiskars Sentiment Stamps for both baby sentiments
• pop dots adhesive for the baby bottle for a little bit of dimension

I am submitting my cards to the following challenges:
Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge
Ch 77 "Say It with Sentiments" - Paper Playtime

SKETCH CHALLENGE
Create a card or layout using the sketch provided.

Hope all of you have a wonderful rest of the week!

<3, Katie A. 

Peachy Keen Color Challenge 19

After being MIA for awhile, a birthday party for my friend finally got me crafting again. I knew I had to get a Peachy face on her birthday card somehow, so I decided to go with a "Birthday Queen" theme so that I could use my Once Upon a Princess cricut cartridge. I LOVE the colors that were part of the color challenge, so I tried to incorporate as many as I could.

Materials Used:

• Peachy Keen Princess Faces 1 1/8
• Once Upon a Princess cricut cartridge
• tsuneko inks (the words did not cut super cleanly, so I ended up doing some "sponge-like" action with my inks). 
• buttons (from Wal Mart's craft section)

I wish you all a safe and happy Memorial day, tomorrow! God Bless America! :)

<3, Katie

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