Peachy Keen Stamps- Challenge #29

Over at Peachy Keen Stamp's Challenge Blog, their next challenge is to show off your favorite summertime recipe, and highlight the use of some Peachy Keen Stamps!

I wandered across Peachy Keen for my first time over on Emma's My Creative Time - and have been in love ever since! Being as frugal as I must to continue my hobby/passion I saved my pennies for their Everyday Character Face Assortment PK-490.

I just got them, my first set of face stamps about a week ago, and feel like I'm making up for lost time now, I use them so often! Everything needs a face, and now I can give them their faces back!

My printer is out of ink, and has been for the last month or so because I just keep spacing whenever I leave the house to take it with me and get a new one, or at least this one refilled. Anywhoo, my handwriting isn't gorgeous or anything, but you can read the recipe okay, so it'll do!

I used:

Peachy Keen Stamps, Everyday Character Face Assortment, PK-490
Cricut Expressions
Indie Art Cartridge, the strawberry cut, in various sizes
Once Upon A Princess, for the whipped blob- actually the top of 'cupcake 2' just cut off.
Red Dye based ink (for inking the pink paper I cut the strawberries on)
Black Pigment ink (for the faces)
Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Folder (for the strawberry bodies)
D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder (for the Whip Blob body)

For the stitching around the edges and whites of the eyes I used my White Jelly Roll Pen, also ordered from Peachy Keen Stamps.

Enjoy!

Dawn

Packaged card set

I am a member of the Mothers & More of South Snohomish County, chapter 147. I'm also the membership coordinator. We are having our chapter meeting tonight, about Reconnecting with Yourself. I get to bring a good friend of mine with me!! Yay!

I also decided to make a little packet of cards, to take with and donate into the prizes if we end up doing raffles or anything like that. I've never been to a chapter meeting (in two years) that was at The Rock and not had drawings, raffles and games. So, I'm thinking they'll fit in well.

Here are a few photos of them, all put together and in the little cello bag I used. I had this one holding some cling mount foam, but pulled it out and with one small fold, the cards fit great.


I will probably be buying some from clearbags.com soon enough! I def. need to find some way to package them up, as I plan on being in a craft bazzaar towards the end of the year at a friend's church!

Once Upon A Princess... up and on the wall!

I shared this post late last night, once I finished my wall hanging from Once Upon A Princess.

I know I said I would get it up on her wall today, and as I said- she saw it and then literally drug me to her room to hang it up!

Because, really- somedays you just feel like a princess!

As promised.... Once Upon A Princess Project!

Alright, so I've been promising a cool project from my new cartridge.... Once Upon A Princess... Of course, I couldn't help myself and had to make a bunch of these adorable little girls!
I was trying to find a way to incorporate a bunch of them into Zoe's room decor, and I thought 'why not put them on a rope?! I used ribbon here.
I cut white and pink grograin ribbon into 18" pieces, and then tied them to one another.
I then taped (I know, old fashioned, right?!) the back of each princess to the ribbon at a tie.
To end up with a long ribbon with all the princesses on it. Of course, it's 11pm here, so Zoe's long past in bed, and I am not risking waking her little butt up to decorate her room!
I tried to do a decent close up of each princess.



Of course, since I laid them on the floor of my living room, they ended up with dog hair, and dirt all over them.

On some, I used my watercolor pencils to try and add come dimension or color. I'm not sure I'm happy with how they turned out.

This little rocker turned out as my FAVORITE!
Since I spent a good chunk of time making all of these, I'll get them all hung up on the ribbon in Zoe's room tomorrow and try to get a good photo up.

Enjoy!

Dawn

Once Upon a Princess Wall Hanging

Tonight I am going to be working on a Once Upon A Princess project for my little girl's room! I am super excited about it, and think it is going to be adorable, all I'm going to tell you is that it will be a border/wall hanging type thing, but I think you'll LOVE it! I already to, and only have the little bodies cut out!

Once Upon A Princess & Home Decor on it's way!

For Mother's Day this year, instead of sending Adam and Zoe on a hunt for things they think I would like, we decided I could just take that money, and buy myself my mother's day gifts. :-)

Guess what I am getting? Once Upon A Princess, that's right! I got some feedback from Lauren, over at Lauren's Creative because I know she has the two that I want so badly (create a critter and once upon a princess) and asked her which she would get if she could only have one. She made a good point, that I do already have Zooballoo, so I have animals, and with a two year old little girl, who couldn't use a princess cartridge?! And, honestly- I am just DYING to make that castle!

I also have been collecting my Cricut Rewards points since I started my Cricut Journey, and had 600 or so in my account, before the newest addition arrives, so I decided to cash 400 of them in (and pay shipping of $8 + $3 handling) to order another solutions cartridge directly from Provo Craft. I chose Home Decor, because I love the bugs on it, and like that it has some words and good overall designs for anything.

I've also been having some issues with my Cricut Expressions sort of ripping paper instead of cutting it occasionally. It usually happens with thinner paper, so I didn't think it was the blade, and even with the pressure up and speed down it still did it. I was at Walmart today, and like normal I always have to browse through their scrapbooking section and saw they had Cricut Replacement Blades for $8- so I got some, and just installed a new one, and will let you know how it goes. Also, they have a Black Machine now, and I think from the looks of it, like it's only sold at Walmart. I also saw that they have 12X12 mats for $12, and just now looking, they are only $9 on their site! A killer deal, if I do say so, I saw them on ebay for about $14 and then add shipping, so it does work out to be cheaper. I'm not usually a fan of Walmart, with all the bad publicity about their treatment of workers, and how they make huge profits and whatnot, but honestly- it's a good price, and I'm a true, to the bone frugalista, so- yeah.