PKS Anything Goes

Hello everyone!  I hope you all are having a wonderful Monday.  Since Friday night I have keeping myself occupied watching the Olympics.  I absolutely love the summer Olympics, especially track and field.  The last two nights, I have been pretty addicted to diving.  I was in awe of the synchronized divers, so cool!  In between events tonight, I squeezed in a quick card for Peachy Keen's anything goes challenge.

Items Used: 

Peachy Keen: Happy Go Lucky Elephant

My Creative Time: Teeny Tag Greetings

Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge

Sizzix Big Kick

Random Embossing Folders

Chalk

Twine

White Gelly Roll Pen

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful night!

Challenge Me Monday #122

Hello everyone!  It's Monday which means there is a new challenge at FCCB.  I used to love camping as a kid.  These days my idea of camping is in a hotel but I do still absolutely love S'mores.  Last year we bought a gas grill and so we weren't making S'mores after we BBQ'd.  However, I learned how to make indoor S'mores this summer.  Put your oven on broil, place aluminum foil on a cookie sheet, grab as many marshmallows as you would like to roast and place them on the cookie sheet.  Watch the marshmallows closely for a couple of minutes, they will brown, flip for another couple of minutes to brown the other side, then assemble your S'mores.  They turn out wonderfully!  
This week we want to see your projects that are camping themed. I have had the Campin' Critters cartridge for awhile but have never used it before now.  I am really bad about doing that. I decided to make a thank you note for all of the wonderful adults who went to scout camp this year.  It was so hot!  The base of my card is cut at 5"x6.5".  I resized the grass in my gypsy so it would fit the width of my card.  Instead of cutting eyes, I used some googly eyes that I had stashed away.  The background is heat embossed with clear embossing powder and a background stamp from Pink By Design.

Items Used:Campin' Critters, Plantin Schoolbook, Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridgesPink By Design: Swirl CurlsMy Creative Time: More Gift Card SentimentsClear Embossing PowderHeat GunEmbossing Distress InkGoogly EyesWhite Gelly Roll Pen
Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT projects at the FCCB blog.  I promise you won't be disappointed!

PKS Sketch

Hello everyone!  What a crazy couple of weeks it has been.  The last couple of months a lot has been going on in my personal life and there have been a lot of changes in my life.  I play a lot of different roles in my life, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, and Army wife.  The last six months of my life the Army Wife role has become my main role.  Our family has been gearing up for another deployment.  As a deployment survivor, I would like to say that it gets easier. However, it does not get easier to say goodbye to your best friend for the next year.  For the past two months, my husband has been gone training, gearing up for his deployment.  Recently, he had his last four day pass and we said our goodbyes which we like to call our "see you laters".  We sat at the airport until his plane took off  (a ritual of ours).  I watched his son, tears streaming down his face, say goodbye to his father.  He is now old enough to understand what it means when dad gets deployed and my heart broke as I watched him not want to let go of his father.  As for me, I am tough and fiercely independent. As an Army Wife, I have to be.  I am no stranger to my husband leaving; training, inspections, state emergency duty, schools, etc.  I can't remember a time in our marriage where has not been gone for a significant part of the year at some point.  He has missed more anniversaries, birthdays, and holidays than he has been there for but it's our life and I love my husband.  I would not have it any other way.  As I work through this and adjust, this part of my life might be getting a little less attention.  I will still be crafting just might not be as much as I have in the past.  I did manage to pull myself out of my deployment slump today and make my first Christmas card of the year.  I absolutely LOVE the Peachy Keen Kut Outs.  They are so easy to cut out and color.

Items Used:

Silhouette Cameo

Sizzix Big Kick

Copic Markers

Peachy Keen Kut Outs

My Creative Time: Gift Card Sentiments

Stickles

Chalk

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week!

Challenge Me Monday #120

Hello everyone!  It's time for another wonderful challenge here at FCCB!  I actually have two cards to share with you today.  This first one I did for the DT post at FCCB.  This week we want to see your projects with a sun on them.  Here in the midwest we have had no shortage of sun.  Temperatures have been in the triple digits for weeks now.  I am really beginning to look forward to fall.  
The base of my card was cut at 5"x6.5".  The mat I used came from Elegant Edges, sand from Everyday Paper Dolls, and the rest came from Sesame Street Seasons.  I inked the sand to make it look more realistic with Tea Dye Distress Ink.  You can't really tell from the picture but I added glossy accents to the sunglasses.

The next card I have to share with you is one that I wish I didn't have to make.  My son is in a very active boy scout troop.  One of the leader's whose son was in Afghanistan lost him on Wednesday from wounds caused by an IED explosion.  I personally did not know their son.  However, when news of my husband's deployment spread Randy talked to me about him.  He then gave me his wife's card and told me that if I ever wanted to have lunch or talk with someone who was going through the same thing to give her a call.  My heart breaks for their family as they are living every military families' worst nightmare.  Please keep the Wyatt family in your thoughts, I can't imagine what they are going through.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to stop by the FCCB blog to check out the other DT projects!  I promise you won't be disappointed!

Peachy Keen Challenge #26

Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I got a ton of crafting done this weekend.  However, my house is now a disaster and will have to work on cleaning it up tomorrow.  One of my good friends is having a baby very soon and I made a gift bag for the gift.  I am going to enter it in Peachy Keen's gift bag challenge.  Everything was cut on my silhouette.  The banner is from Peachy Keen's July SOTM and the cute little baby is an SVG file from Lettering Delights.  I added some doodling, twine, buttons, and glossy accents.  Now, if only the baby would get here.  I can't wait to meet her baby boy!

Items Used:

Peachy Keen: July SOTM and Just Baby Face Assortment

My Creative Time: All Around Everything, All Around Accessories, Scallop Die, Circle Die, & Anyday Bingo and Crossword Set

Sizzix Big Kick

Twine

Buttons

Chalk

Glossy Accents

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful night!

Happy Birthday

Hello everyone.  I have a card to share with you that I made this weekend.  The base of the card was cut at 4"x5.5" and the square in the middle was cut at 2.5"x2.5".  The border was resized with Silhouette Design software and is a file from the Silhouette store.  The adorable duck is a Peachy Keen Cottage Cutz die.  I would have to say I love this duck.  It is one of my favorite dies.  It was cut out using my Sizzix Big Kick.  I added some doodling, ribbon, glossy accents, and chalk.

Celebrate the Occasion: Challenge #70
Items Used:Peachy Keen: Duck with Egg DieMy Creative Time: Gift Card SentimentsSizzix Big KickRibbonGlossy AccentsWhite Gelly Roll PenChalk
Have a wonderful evening and thanks for stopping by!

PKS #25 - Chalk It Up

Hello everyone!  I got to spend almost all day playing with my craft stuff. I've been having a lot of problems with my Cuttlebug.  It just would not cut my dies very well and the embossing was turning out pretty poor.  So, I went to Joann's and bought a Sizzix Big Kick instead.  My dies now cut like a dream!  I was not excited that my Cuttlebug quit working but I was excited that the dies are not the problem.

For my card tonight, the base was cut at 4"x5.5".  The border is an SVG from the Silhouette Store and the turtle is a Peachy Keen SVG.  I colored the cute little turtle with chalk.  I had never tried this before, and was a bit nervous but it was super easy to do. I used cosmetic applicators to brush the color on and once I had finished I sprayed it with hairspray so the chalk wouldn't come off.  To finish him up, I added glossy accents to the eyes and heat embossed my sentiment.

Items Used:Peachy Keen: June SOTMMy Creative Time: Happy MailEmbossing Distress InkSizzix Big KickChalkGlossy AccentsHeat Gun
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful night!

Challenge Me Monday

Hello everyone and welcome to another Challenge Me Monday at FCCB!  I can't believe it's already July.  The temperatures around here have been so hot and we decided to spend the day at the pool.
Since July 4th is two days away, this week we want to see your 4th of July inspired projects (make a project with a firework, sparkler, or other big "boom" project).  I made a card for my husband who is currently deployed.  I try to make sure to send him something from home every week.  This week's challenge made the perfect 4th of July card to send to him.
The base of my card was cut at 5"x6.5".  I resized the border in my gypsy to fit the width of my card.  The firework came from Sweet Treats and was cut at 3.5".  I stamped the firework with a cute little Peachy Keen face, added some buttons, twine, doodling, glossy accents, and chalk.

Items Used:

Sweet Treats and Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps: In Stitches

My Creative Time: Happy Homecoming

Buttons

Twine

Glossy Accents

Chalk

White Gelly Roll Pen

Make sure you stop by the FCCB blog and check out the rest of the DT's fabulous projects.  I promise you won't be disappointed!