Apples anyone?

Hey everyone! Do any of you have Back to Schoolers? I miss my little ones. They have been in school for almost three weeks now. :( LOL some day (possibly) I'll stop calling them my little ones. lol Q is going to be 11 next year. ECK.

Anyway........today I was finally feeling better and had some time to craft. Most everything else on my blog this week has been a scheduled post. I am so excited to share one of my favorite new sets from Paper Piecing By Nikki. I really love the simplicity of this adorable set its called Fall Characters.

I'm thinking of making a really fun fall banner with the leaves and pumpkins. Wouldn't that be fun.

 

Okay so let me show you what I made today. A really fun gift set. ;)

 

This little set is available right now at My Etsy Store. ;)

 

Here's a list of What was used:
Cameo- Fall Characters
Ink- Real Red, Old Olive (Stampin Up)
Embellishments- Cola Twine (Maya Road)
Stamps- Thank you (Peachy Keen Stamps)
Tools- Hole punch, 1/2 circle punch, fancy frame (Stampin up)
Paper- Stampin up, Happy Days (Echo Park)
Adhesive- ATG and dimensionals

 

Thank you Nikki for creating such an adorable set!!! ;)

 

Peachy keen Stamps September Sneak Peek

Oops! I'm kinda late. Lemme esplain... the ever amazing blogger just didn't post when it was suppose to. I'm so sorry y'all!!!

 

Peachy LOVE!!!! Hey y'all I am SOOOOO excited to share with you all today this amazingly awesome fun project using the beautiful and super creative new Peachy keen September SOTM! Oh I just love this release. As some of you may know Halloween is my favorite holiday so...yeah I just love this release! here it is...

 

My first Peachy project!

 

 

Okay so there are some do's and donts I've learned while doing this project.

 

1. Do NOT laminate every piece. I thought I was being super genius by laminating it, I thought "oh yes this will keep it nice and clean unobstructed from little finger prints and dark marks. UM NO now it is WAYYY too heavy but it still kind of worked out okay. ;)

 

2. If you are going to use your label maker and then your laminator to make the menu items DO NOT put your laminator higher than 3M. IT WILL BURN YOUR PAPER. lol Although for a Halloween menu board I have to admit I think it looks pretty cool!

 

3. HAVE FUN! I'm very fickle. I change my mind all the time and I cant stand things being the same all the time. So I knew having a different theme for each month would work perfectly in our home. I cant wait to make some more of these.

 

Here are some super fun ideas that I had the pleasure of seeing on Pinterest. They all inspired this creation...

http://pinterest.com/pin/18014467229132962/

 

http://pinterest.com/pin/18014467229118091/

 

http://pinterest.com/pin/18014467229049792/

 

Please be sure to head on over and see what my DT sisters created for your viewing pleasure! Absolutely amazing stuff!!!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!!!! ;) Don't forget there is going to be some awesome challenges at our release party this week. GO HERE!!!

 

Peachy keen Challenge #32

Hey Peachies! How are you? Good I hope. I wanted to jump online really quickly and share a super fun project that I made for this weeks Peachy keen Challenge!

This week there is a sketch challenge. I always love sketches because they are sooo hard for me. lol no really! I love a good challenge, but me and sketches we don't get along. But I had a lot of fun with this one!

YOU  HAVE TO COME OVER AND JOIN US!!!

All of the stamps used are from this months August SOTM kit from Peachy keen Stamps. I also used Happy Days Paper from Echo Park! LOVE that paper!!!

Thank you all so much for stopping by. I cant wait to see what you create for this weeks challenge.

Alota changes...

Hey everyone! How are you?

I'm doing good, we are all doing pretty good over at my casa. Over the summer we have experienced quite a few changes. Summer is always a great time for change yeah?!?!?!? I think so too.

With change sometimes comes so much excitement too right!?! YES!!!! With that said it is with great excitement and honor that I get to announce I am the newest member of the amazing Alota Rubber Stamps Design team!!!! If you haven't seen their stamps you must run don't walk over and take a look. I have to be honest and tell you my Alota addiction started a few years ago when my sister bought one of their grab bags. I just so happened to be at her house when it came in and it was jam packed full of goodies we went online and bought 4 more grab bags that day lol. Yeah I know addiction level lol.

Here is one of my recent Alota projects. I hope you all like it. Thank you so much for visiting my little corner of the web. ;)

Here's a list of What was used:
Ink- Basic Black (Stampin Up)
Embellishments- liquid pearls, twine
Stamps- Girl With Doll (She is one of my all time favorites), Teeny Tag Greetings Stamp Set
Tools- Spellbinder dies, scalloped punch, sewing machine, distresser
Paper- This & That Graceful
Adhesive-ATG and dimensionals

Flip for Piggies

LOL Yeah I have no idea why I posted that as the title either. It sounded good at the time and the more I played it out in my head it just doesn't totally fit. Ah. Too late.

So how are you all on this beautiful day? I kinda love Mondays. Did I tell you?!? Yeah I do! So today I'm going to show you something that I uber love! Have you seen the new adorable paper piecing file by Nikki called Piggin' Out? First let me tell you I had this really cool idea and it came out differently than I planned. I was going to make the hot dog from the file too but I messed it the sizing and it came out sooo much  bigger than the pig. LOL It looked pretty silly. Well lesson learned that's what happens when you aren't paying attention. So I ended up keeping the adorable piggie and making her vault. Can you tell? I hope so lol.

Here's a list of What was used:
Cameo- Piggin out File
Ink- Basic Black (Stampin Up)
Embellishments- Twine (thetwinery.com)
Stamps- Hooray (Jaded Blossom) Miscellaneous Fun
Tools- Crop a dile, standard hole punch, word window punch and fancy label punch (stampin up)
Paper- Dots & Stripes – Candy Shoppe (Echo Park), solid cardstock (Stampin up)
Adhesive- ATG and dimensionals 3L

Thank you all so much for stopping by! I hope you have the best week!!!

Shirts a plenty shirts galore

lol. I LOVE Peachy Keen Stamps paired with Echo Park paper. Two amazing companies put together to make something fun. LOVE IT!!!

So when I went into my craft room yesterday I really wanted to make something with stitching on it. I've been itching to sew for some time now. I was telling a friend a while back that I cried the other day because I hadn't sewn in so long. lol I'm such a dork like that. Anyway as it turned out I didn't end up sewing on this project at all but I did make another project coming up with some beautiful stitching! ECK.

Here is a super fun clean and simple card using the beautiful new July Peachy keen stamps SOTM for July! I love this set!!!!

 I simply love these shirts! I just had to paper piece them using the beautiful Echo Park Boys Life paper.

And aren't these clothespins the cutest thing ever? They came with this months Paper Kit from Peachy Keen Stamps. The twine is from Maya Road and it was part of May's Paper pack from Peachy Keen if I'm not mistaken. ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you're having a great day!!!! Now I'm off to get some reading done! ;)

Ginger Snap Scraps Guest Designer

Hey everyone! I was so uber excited that I was asked to be a guest designer for Ginger Snaps Scraps this month. I love their products and the team is simply wonderful.

Today we are showing you all projects using things with Picnic or BBQ themes. Without further ado here is my project...

 This is a really fun apron svg from the Silhouette store stamped with a Peachy Keen Stamp.

I used the super simple fabulous Happy Days Echo Park Paper! I LOVE my paper! I also used My Creative Time stamps on the inside.

Thank you all so much for stopping by!

Market Street Color Challenge and a giveaway

First and foremost I would like to say

Happy Memorial Day

to all those out there who have served our country in some form or fashion

whether you are a parent, sibling, husband, wife, child, friend of one of our AMAZING service men and women. Please take some time today to remember those who have served and those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom! My family appreciates you!!!

So, how is your summer going? It just started for us but boy am I glad it is here. I'm one of those moms that just loves the kids being home with me! This summer will be no different. They are getting so big and I cant wait to just hang out and play all day. So with that said that's kinda why I've been mia a bit lately. I had a huge epiphany and realized they wont be babies forever. I want to spend as much time with them as I can before they are too "cool" to hang out with their mom. Lets hope that never happens lol. Wishful thinking I know.

The girls and I did find some time to craft this past weekend though so let me share a project with you!

Market Street Stamps is having a color challenge. It ends in about 14 hours so you had better get on it. ;) These colors are just tooo beautiful and Dobea had an amazing week of fun going on over at her blog last week and I was so blessed to win this stamp. I had to use it. I don't know why I didn't have it before shame on me!!!

Speaking of a week of fun. I ended up with a stamp that I already had...actually when I was going through my stash I realized I have three of this same stamp! Oops. Well Oops for me yayy for you...two people who comment on this post will be randomly selected to win the Compass stamp set! Please be sure to leave a way for me to get in touch with you if you win. ;) Good luck I'll draw the winners next week on Monday.

So I created a quick bookmark for the corner of my pages! All of the paper is from the Echo Parks Hello Summer. It all fit so perfectly with this color challenge. The stamp is from the set called It Takes LOVE. The font on the word LOVE is sooo amazing I just love it! That's pretty much it just a super simple bookmark oh and I used the tutorial from HERE.

Thanks for stopping by yall!!! ;)

Peachy Keen Sale!!!!

I tell you I get sooo excited when I hear the word SALE!!! It does something to my blog. I know that's bad but it's ohhhh soo good!

Well guess who is having a sale???

UM yeah! Peachy Keen Stamps is who.

A few days ago my Nana asked me to make her 20 (yes I said 20) Birthday cards. She wanted them all different too. ;) Love that, if they are all the same I get bored! So here is one of many to come in the near future.

Here's a list of What was used:
Ink- Basic Black (Stampin Up)
Embellishments- Basic Grey button, Twine
Stamps- Happy Birthday is from the April SOTM kit over at Peachy Keen

Tools- Big Shot, Flad Die Jaded Blossom

Paper- The paper is from Echo Park. (LOVE EP)
Adhesive- ATG and 3L adhesive dimensionals

Thank you all so much for stopping by! Don't forget to check out the sales at Peachy Keen and the new faces ;) You are going to LOVE them!!!

BUGGGGGSSSSSS

Hey everyone! Ruthie and I decided to post together on the Jaded Blossom Website.  We decided to hit you with some bugs!!!!

No not like on your windshield kind of bugs ewwww that would be nasty. We mean like cute adorable little bugs. Wanna see?

First up is Ruthie's AMAZING project!
Please jump on over to her blog to check it out. ;)

And here is my cutie little bug!

Isn't she adorable? I just kinda love her. I also used the Flag Die From Jaded Blossom and some aweseome Echo Park paper.

Here's a list of What was used:
Ink- Whisper White craft ink, Memento Tuxedo Black
Embellishments- Pink gems
Stamps- (Sneak Peeks) ;)
Tools- Flag Die
Paper- Echo Park
Adhesive- ATG and dimensionals from 3L adhesive
Color Medium- Tons!

Be sure to stop by the Jaded Blossom blog hop on Friday at 4:00 PM PST! There is sure to be some inspiration and who knows maybe even some prizes. Be there or be square ;)