Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge (take two)

Hello again - it's time now for the Tuesday Challenge for Peachy Keen Stamps.  Thanks so much for all of your kind words and comments here and on the Peachy Keen blog.  If you saw my post earlier this morning on the email feed you saw a sneak peak at my card that is now posted for the challenge.

 

Here is the full card from this morning's sneak peek.  The Tuesday Challenge is Sketch Challenge 55.  For all of the details, please click over to the Peachy Keen Challenge Blog HERE.

Here is the challenge sketch

 

I don't usually work from sketches but I enjoyed making the card for the challenge.  I actually made a second card which I'll share here.  For all of the details on the challenge card with the Santa, please see my post on the Peachy Keen Blog HERE.

For my second card, I made a smaller A2 size card.

I chose this set, PK-322 Christmas Tag Minis as the set to feature because it had so many great icons for small projects as well as sentiments as well as "to" and "from" for making tags.

This adorable little bird is the featured image for my second card.  I used the Creative Memories Scalloped Circle and regular Circle punch in two sizes for the green mat and the bird image.  This little fellow was easy to color with my ProMarkers.

I used foam squares to add dimension under the green layer and the scalloped circle which was punched from pearlized gold American Crafts cardstock.  The white background layer is embossed with the Snowflake Cuttlebug folder.

I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of Core'dinations white gemstone cardstock.  It stamped neatly on the textured surface.  The red and green printed cardstocks are from a DCWV Christmas stack.

Here are some of the other images from this set.  The peachy color of the stamps is so appealing - it just makes them fun to use!  I have found that these stamps take ink incredibly easily and stamp perfectly the very first time.  The images on the stamps are very firm and you do not have to apply a lot of pressure to get a good stamped image.

Here is one little tip about cutting the tail of the vertical piece in the sketch.  For the Santa card, I used ribbon and you can simply fold it in half and cut the tail.  I didn't want to fold the cardstock so I lined it up with the grid on my mat and drew a pencil dot in the center at one half inch from the bottom.  Then I simply snipped from each corner to the pencil dot.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to leave a comment here and on the Peachy Keen Blog to have a chance to win this great "Blushing Bride Interchangeable Faces" set (PK-590). 

A special note for my overseas friends and readers - 

Most of you know that I am also on the Design Team for Scrappy-Go-Lucky which is based in Australia.  Scrappy-Go-Lucky works with Peachy Keen and sells Peachy Keen stamps to the Australian and UK markets.

In honor of my Guest Designer week, Mandy has set up a special code of PKDI which will take 10% off your order of Peachy Keen Stamps.  This code is good only for Australia and the UK and will expire Sunday, July 3rd at midnight (Boston time).  For those of you in Australia or the UK, this would be a perfect time to add to or start a collection of these great stamps!

I hope you have a great day!  I'll be back tomorrow with some more "peachy" projects!

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