Peachy Keen Guest Designer Week 22, Day 2!

---Day 2 Post from Peachy Keen Blog -- :)

Hello again! First things first... Remember yesterday how I mentioned the beautiful weather in Wisconsin? Let me take that back! We have heat advisories out for the next two days and then back into the 50/60's on Thursday. Apparently I spoke too soon. :) Okay, enough about the crazy weather...

Today I decided that I need to take a few minutes and make a baby card for one of my BFF's who just had a sweet little baby girl. This was a bit of a challenge because my friend does not love pastels and even more specifically, pastel pink. I kept it to a minimum by using brightly colored patterned paper with a very little sprinkle of pinks. :) What do you think?

Oh and the super sweet PK-222 Happy-Go-Lucky Elephant... one of my faves!

That bow on the card isn't just an ordinary bow. It is fully equipped with an alligator clip on the back and ready to be tucked into some of that new-baby-smelling hair. I make hairbows... it's kind of my 'thing'. So I have been adding a small one to baby girl cards that I have made lately. Every little girl needs a pretty hair bow! :) Even if you can't make your own hair bows, this would be a super easy gift to whip up for a new baby girl! Buy a few bows to add to the card and VOILA! But if you don't want to add bows... it's still a fun card with a super cute elephant!


Supplies I used:
PK-222 Happy-Go-Lucky Elephant
Little Girl (all patterned paper and cardstock sticker 'cutie pie') by Echo Park Paper
Kraft cardstock by Bazzill
Button by BasicGrey
Ribbon by Offray
gellyroll white pen
COPIC markers
Tuxedo Black Memento ink
Lilac Twine from the Twinery

That's all I have for today... but don't forget about that sweet candy!


To be entered into the drawing please leave a note on this blog post and also on my blog. You will have five days to leave a note, so that is five chances to win! :) I will use random.org to pick which day and post for the winner. I will draw and announce the winner on my blog on Saturday June 11th.

Have a great Tuesday! Thanks for checking out my project today!

The Day Before...

This layout is so special in so many ways. The picture is of my daughter and me (I don't get into pictures TOO often) sitting outside waiting for the Flag Day parade to start. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, or wind, or shade to be found... it was hot. I was 9 months pregnant. My mom talked me into going to the parade in the afternoon, because M loves parades. I worked that morning, went to the parade, got a bit of a sunburn, worked a little after the parade, went home and by then my husband was home from work. He fixed dinner, I took a shower and slathered on lotion for the sunburn. I remember putting on pajamas and feeling so relaxed, I was in bed by 9pm at the latest that night. It was a good, exhausting day. 5:45am the next morning my water broke. :)

This is a layout to remember the day before... I spent the afternoon with my mom and daughter at the parade. Its the day before we became a family of four and our lives changed forever (again)!

So if you made it through all of my ramblings, now you actually get to see it. Its a sweet memory, so I'm a little more chatty than I usually am in a blog post. Or it could be that its past 1am and I wanted to get this posted before I went to bed! :)



All patterned paper/journaling card: Fly A Kite by October Afternoon
Kraft paper: Bazzill
Rose ribbon: Maya Road
Button: Stampin' Up!
Ink: Color Box
Alphas: Thickers by American Crafts

Some closer-ups of the details:

Puppy Surgery

This layout is a page of my daughter showing her love for her stuffed puppy (which happens to be a backpack) after this puppy had to have a little surgery. The arm was falling off, but luckily mommy is experienced in sewing/fixing stuffed animals. :)

I used the Cosmo Cricket 'Material Girl' line for most of the embellishments and papers in this layout, a few handmade embellishments and other randoms. Let me know if you have any questions -- I'm happy to reply!



And some closer shots so you can see the details...

Basket Cat

My cat likes to sleep in this basket.... this is my first scrappy page of my cat. I always swore I would never scrap my pets, but hey, why not when you have paper as cute as the Max and Whiskers Basic Grey line? :) :)

Finally finished!

I started this layout a week and a half ago while I was at the LSS croppin' with some ladies. I just needed to put the finishing touches on it... so here it is!





Most of the products on this layout are from the Basic Grey Kioshi line, with the exception of some Prima flowers, Tiny Type Cosmo Cricket letters, Making Memories fancy alphas, and some Thickers. :) All of the buttons, brads, pp, and paper ribbon are BG! Woot!

Birthday Girl!

This is the very first birthday layout I've scrapped of my daughter... and it is from over six months ago when she turned five. How bad is that? Show's you how far behind I am on things. :) I'm still playing catch up with the baby books!

The paper is from SEI - a recent release of birthday stuff. Lots of cute graphics and embellishments for this line, I enjoyed the bright colors. I have a hard time scrapping holidays and birthdays because I feel like somehow they always end up kind of cheesy, but I love how this turned out. :)

Thanks for looking!

A couple new layouts! :)

I did these a week or so ago and I just haven't had time to post them. Today I made time during morning nap, so here we go! :)

There are a couple of these that are unusually simple for me, but I love the paper and colors and they worked perfectly for the pictures I had. Don't you just love when that happens?

Paper and products from the first two layouts are from the new My Mind's Eye lines. :)









And one more for now.... :)




Paper from this layout is from the Little Yellow Bicycle's 'Lucky' line.

What a pretty picture!

I forgot one from this weekend... so here it is! :)

This is a picture that my lovely daughter was so proud to show me... and I'm so very proud of her! She's a fun kid. :)

(I have edited and resized my photos at least a dozen times... and they aren't working for me. Maybe its just my browser? I think if you are having troubles viewing you can click on the picture to see it better... I hope that works, sorry!)





And I'm going to link up here -- check out Scrappy Gifts! There are some really neat ideas:

'Scraplift' from CK

I got a few layouts done this weekend for some challenges! :)

I scraplifted this idea from the newest Creating Keepsakes magazine... page 103 (a Jennifer McGuire layout):




Its a picture of my little guy passed out in his stroller after a long day at the zoo on his first birthday. (We had the party on a different day - his birthday was on a Monday... so we decided a trip to the zoo was in order!)

Catching up a bit!

There are a couple layouts I've done recently and haven't posted, so I need to catch up!
This is with a page kit from a swap -- I tried some glimmer mist and stickles on this layout to distress some of the patterned paper and flowers. It was fun!





And this one was a layout that I was doing for a fast scrap and I was a complete dork and didn't read the rules clearly enough. The fast scrap was for a CARD, not for a layout! No matter, I got a layout done in less than an hour and I think it turned out pretty good! See -- this is proof I can scrap faster. :)