Peachy Keen Stamps

Hello friends!  Just wanted to share a couple cards I have made for a card swap at the Peachy Keen Connection.  Have you ever joined a card swap?  I started joining swaps probably about 5 years ago.  When I first started making cards, I had flimsy cardstock, because I didn't know any better.  I learned a lot by swapping with others.  I found out where to get good products, cardstock in particular. That is when I first heard of Stampin' Up.  They have wonderful cardstock!  Lots of other companies have very good quality cardstock, too.   A good foundation is the best place to start, when making cards.  So here are the cards I made.

I used the witch on broom stamp from the September PKSC-09.  I used the cat from PK-630 Nikkity Knack Cat Gang.

For the scarecrow I used PK-609 Build a Scarecrow and the wood sign from PK-646 Faceless Fall Fun 2.

The images were colored with Copics.  Thanks for having a look.

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Challenge #35

Hello friends!  This weeks challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps is just cards, teacher.  I wanted to practice some shading and masking, so I decided to do a pile of pencils.  The stamp is from the August 2012 stamp kit.

I stamped and masked and used my Copics to color them up.  Added some ribbon, a tag, and a button.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Challenge 33 Anything Goes

Hello everyone!  Here is a card I made for the Peachy Keen Challenge, Anything Goes.  I used PK-125 Recess Jump Rope Girl.  I stamped the image and stamped it again on thin paper to make a mask.  A mask is used to cover an image so that you can stamp another image behind it or sponge the clouds, as is the case with my card.  I used copics to color her.

I used a 3 inch circle punch to punch out the image and a larger scallop punch to frame it.  I trimmed about an inch strip from the top of the card and used a scallop border punch to add visual interest.  Peachy Keen is having a September release party on Wed. Sept. 5 at 6:00 pm central time at the Peachy Connection.  They are always fun and you might win a prize!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Challenge 32

Hi everyone!  My card today is for the Peachy Keen Challenge #32 a sketch challenge.  I used PK-128 School Bus and Lunch.    Colored the school bus with my Copics and layered them up on some fun papers from my stash.

My son just started his first day of school for his Sophomore year in High School.  Wish time would slow down a bit.  Have a great day!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Keen Challenge 20 Just Cards

Here is a card I made for the PK challenge, Just Cards.  I used PK-289 Mitsy Sue and Colby Cheer Up.  I used prismacolor pencils to color the image.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Keen Challenge 19

Hello friends!  Well I have almost an hour before this challenge closes.  I am getting better, ha!  This is for PK color challenge.  You can find all the details here.  I used my favorite flower set, PK-240 Say It With Flowers.

I colored the image with Copics and added a few doodles.  I also used my white gel pen.  The flower was made by cutting 2 circles, 1 slightly smaller, distressing the edges with the blade of my scissors, scrunching and inking the edges, and finishing with a brad in the center.  Hope you like it!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

PK Anything Goes

Hello friends!  Wow!  I got this linked with only 5 minutes to spare.  I thought I had another hour.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute.  This little cutie is from one of my favorite sets, PK-277 Vivienne and Friends.  I know I have said this before, but I was fortunate to have met Vivienne along with Lorie,  Lisa and Kim in October of 2011.  We got to spend time with Kathy and the Peachy family.  Whenever I think of that time it makes me so happy!  Very fond memories.

I paper-pieced Vivienne with paper from Simple Stories, Summer Fresh.  I drew the sidewalk and colored the rest with my Copics, except for the clouds.  I used Memento Summer Sky ink.  I cut a cloud shape and used a sponge to create the sky.  I cut another cloud shape and stamped You're a doll on it.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Recent things I have made

These were made with a Zentangle Technique.  Typically Zentangle  is all hand done but I like to stamp images and Zentangle the stamped image or around the image.  The first card, I stamped the pear from Peachy Keen Faceless Fruits and Zentangled/doodled them with a copic fine line black pen.  The next 2 cards were made with Unity stamps.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Peachy Keen Chipboard Album

Hello everyone!

Did you know that Peachy Keen Stamps sells chipboard albums?  They sell lots of fun supplies!  I have made a mini football album using the football chipboard album here.  Being raised in Green Bay I had to use the Peachy Keen Cheesehead stamps to decorate my pages.

I had a lot of fun making this!  I love the images!  I used PK - 700 Packer Tickets.  Isn't she a cutie?  I also used PK- 350 Colby and Jack Cheese Set.  I just love those mice.  That adorable cheesehead tag  I have had for years.  It is retired but you never know, it may come out of retirement someday. ;)
I used PK-09 Cheesy Packer Fans and PK-025 Go Pack Go Snowman and PK-224 Mouse Gets The Cheese and PK-852 Bottoms Up Snowman.  I used various stamps from these sets to complete the album.

The tickets were made with EK-30089 Photo Labels Punch and stamps from PK-09 Cheesy Packer Fans.

I hope you like the album.  Check out the supplies at the PKS store and see what you can't live without! ;)
Thanks for having a look!  Happy Friday to all of you and have a great weekend!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice

Today is the day!! Blog hop fun!!

Hello Everyone!
Well, here they are! Peachy Keens Halloween release for 2010. I feel like there should be a drum roll and Ta Da!!!

I have had so much fun playing with these adorable stamps! Kathy, The Peachy Queen, artist extraordinaire, has done it again!!!

Please join us for a hop filled with so much eye candy, you won't want to miss it! We all had a lot of fun with these cuties!

Want a chance to win one of these sets? Here is the set I will be giving away to one lucky winner!


For your chance to win, become a follower and leave a comment on this post. Winners will be chosen with random number generator on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Each designer will be giving away a stamp set so be sure and stop at each blog, become a follower, and leave a comment. Good luck to all of you and have fun!

Here are the projects I made. Enjoy!










Emma is the next stop along the way! She always has something good up her sleeve!

Peachy Keen Stamps The beginning
Kathy
Viv
Lorie
Janice
Emma
Sonia
Heidi
Samantha
Lisa

Run, run as fast as you can!

Hello fellow crafters! I hope you all had a nice weekend. The weather was gorgeous here in Massachusetts!

I love gingerbread men images, especially the ones made by Peachy Keen! For today's card I used the Cottage Cutz Gingerbread Doll, which comes with 2 Peachy Keen face stamps, and the Doll Accessories 1. I also used the Frosted Cookie die and the word "sweet" from the Sweet Sign die. The hearts on the Ginger-girl are from the frosted cookie die. I just love these little cuties! I hope you do too! Thanks for stopping by!

What's The Scoop?

Just wanted to share some cute little ice cream tags I made for an ice cream toss. A group of people sign up if they want to participate in mailing things to at least 3 people with an ice cream theme. I used a red sizzix die to cut my die cuts. The gum drops were cut from some Martha Stewart Christmas paper that I had from last year. And the adorable face is from Peachy Keen Stamps. This stamp is from the Dolly Dumplins stamp set. Thanks for having a look!

Peachy Keen Challenge #33

Happy Tuesday Everyone!!

Time for another fun Peachy Keen Challenge! Angelica provided us with a fun sketch, so I hope you will play along!

For my card, I used Pk-402 and Pk-404.
Here is the sketch.
and here is my card.
The images were colored with copics. I placed clear plastic over the door and windows using glue dots to adhere. I put tombow white glue on the window corners and sprinkled with glitter. I cut the holly from some patterned paper to frame the door. I used my score-pal on the white background paper to make it look like siding. Finished card size is 5x7. Thanks for stopping by!

You won't want to miss what the other designers have created. Click here for some fabulous inspiration!

The Blog Hop is Finally Here!!!

Good Morning Friends!

The Blog Hop is finally here. The Scrapping Cottage and Peachy Keen Stamps have teamed up to create some adorable Cottage Cutz dies, with the super cute and familiar faces of Peachy Keen, drawn by artist and owner Kathy Jakopovich.

If you have arrived here from Lorie's blog, you are in the right place. If not you will want to start at the beginning by clicking here. Each Peachy Keen designer is giving away a $15.00 gift certificate to Peachy Keen. All you need to do is visit every stop along the way and leave a comment with a way to contact you, for a chance to win.

For my card, I used the Cow Peeker. I think these dies are so stinkin' cute!

I used white cardstock to cut the cow from, then colored the nose and hooves with copics.
For the feed sack I used PK-205 .
I used a scrap of a lemon produce bag, to make the sack look sort of like burlap. The gingham circle
is a piece of chipboard, as is the black heart, purchased from Michael's.
Thanks so much for stopping by! The next stop will be Nikki's. These exclusive sets will be available for purchase starting today through July 26th. Complete details may be found here.

Good Morning Peachy Keen Fans! Challenge 32

Hello Everyone! Time for another Peachy Keen Challenge! Here are the requirements for Challenge 32.

Summer Destinations Challenge

"Create a card drawing inspiration from your favorite vacation destination!
Also must use one of the three "B"s: Buttons, Brads or Bling".


One random winner will receive:

PK-790 Boogie Board Max

Memento Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black

Coordinating acrylic block

My card was inspired by It's A Small World, Disneyland. When my 2 oldest boys were little, we lived in Pasadena, CA. When they were about 2 and 4 yrs old, we took them to Disneyland. We had so much fun and didn't want to leave the park. At nightfall it became chilly, and I hadn't planned on being there so long. I had to purchase sweatshirts so we could stay longer. We stayed another few hours. Oh what fun we had!!

I made the people riding in the balloon with a green sizzix die. I think it is itty, bitty doll body. I used Peachy Keen faces to bring them to life. The overalls and the dress were cut with a green sizzix die. Some of the clothes were hand drawn and cut. The children represent the many different cultures around the world.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate your visits and would love to see you join in on the challenge!

I also wanted to apologize for not visiting your blogs as much as I would like. Summer seems to be a bit busy. I hope to visit your blogs and leave some love, real soon.

Peachy Keen Challenge 31

Good morning everyone!

Today's Peachy Keen Challenge is a sketch challenge. I was born and raised in WI and love the Packers. The large letter G was printed from the computer and colored with copics. I used some of the stamps from PK-25, Go Pack Go Snowman and PK-224 Mouse Gets the Cheese. The large cheesehead is retired.

I hope you will join in the challenge. You may visit the blog and check out what the other designers have created. You won't be disappointed. Thanks for stopping by!

And the WINNER is....

Hello friends! Sorry you all had to wait so long to hear who won PK-267 Happy Bird and phrases .

There were 160 comments. Kathy from PKS used pickrandom.com to choose the number. She helped me out, as I have never done this kind of drawing before. Mine were always, pick a name out of the hat kind of drawing. So the number picked at random was 43, which means Peekpu, you are the lucky winner. Please contact me so I can mail your stamp set. Thanks for all the wonderful comments. We had so much fun with the blog hop so there will definitely be more in the future. Come back tomorrow for another Peachy Keen Challenge.

Peachy Keen Stamp Set Release and Blog Hop and Prize update

Got Birds?

The stamp set at the top of the picture is the prize one lucky winner will receive. I will be away from my blog from Thurs to Sunday, so random.org will pick a winner and I will let you know by Monday, June 21. I just wanted to show the variety of ways you can color this darling little bird. I am making some gift tags for a retreat I am going to.

Thank you all so much for your kind comments. It is wonderful to know that you have inspired someone or taught them something new. I appreciate all of you!! I had fun on the hop and hope you all had fun too.



Good morning friends!
Today we have a special stamp release and blog hop. If you arrived here from Lorie's blog, you are in the right place. If not you will want to start at the beginning, the PKS blog. Kathy designed this stamp set and named it Vivienne and Friends. Viv is such a delight, with a wonderful sense of humor, and we all love her! In fact we are all one big happy Peachy Keen Family!

Now on to my cards. I made 3 cards. Isn't this little Viv such a sweetie? I stamped the image onto patterned paper and cut out the dress and bow for her hair. The background was colored with copics.









The card with the red polka dot ribbon was colored with Prismaolor pencils and gamsol. The 3rd card I had a lot of fun with. Little Viv was walking 5 little pups and got tangled in a web of leashes. To reverse the pups image I stamped it onto an acrylic block and put the paper onto the image being careful not to smudge it. After I colored the image I traced over it with a fine black marker. I added a little pink tongue to the puppy that has tackled Viv and is smothering her with kisses.

I have a prize to offer, PK-267 Happy Bird and phrases . Leave a comment for a chance to win.

On to the next stop along the way. Nikki
is next on the list. Her card is lovely. Make sure and stop by everyone's blog. You won't want to miss any of the projects and some have a chance to win a prize. Have fun!
If you get lost along the way here is the list starting with our dear sweet Viv!
Viv
Lorie
Janice
Nikki
Emma
Heidi
Samantha
Lisa
Angelica

Summer Postcard Swap

Here are a few summer postcards I made for a swap that I am in. I stamped the images onto watercolor postcards and colored them with copics. These were fun to do and it was nice to do a single layer for a change. I love those Peachy Keen seahorses. I used bright, whimsical colors. The postcard with the fish and crab was made with a clear dollar stamp set. Great images for a buck, don't you think? Now if only the weather was more summerlike. It is cold and rainy here.

Good Morning Friends! Time for another Peachy Keen Challenge #30

Good Morning! Today's Peachy Keen Challenge was to make a summer themed shadowbox. This picture was taken in 1991 in CA. Those cute little boys are my sons, Rob and Scott. I love the expression of sheer delight on Rob's face, while his brother plays along the shore. I am not sure of what Scott is holding in his hand. Possibly a water gun? They were always the best of friends and still are. Where does the time go?

I printed the image onto a full sheet of photo paper. I trimmed along the horizon and cut a strip from the bottom of the photo to create the waves. I used the shark and the fish from PK-952, the cute little crab from PK-950, and PK-790, Boogie Board Max. I used MSS-04 for the sun and clouds. The images were colored with copics. I hope you will play along for a chance to win. Peachy Keen always has wonderful prizes! As always thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your visits. Have a great day! Oh and you will want to see what the other designers have created. You won't be disappointed!