Hey guys – I am SO super duper excited to be a Guest Blogger today for Scrapbook Steals! If you haven’t heard of them before, they are a FANTASTIC resource for getting deep discounts and fabulous one-time deals on your favorite crafty supplies. Market Street Stamps was featured a couple weeks ago, and today, I have the honor of Guest Blogging for Peachy Keen Stamps’ feature!

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that people LOVE customizing when they craft! We all want to receive a card with a personal touch, and we love to give those cards even more. What better way to do that than choosing a face that goes perfectly with the occasion?

My parents started Peachy Keen Stamps back in 2003, and since then, my mom Kathy has been illustrating her signature line of Peachy Faces and took the die-cutting world by storm! Luckily, she also draws some pretty cute shapes, and I’m super excited to share some ideas with you today!

This sweet card was created using Faceless Fruit and Basic Paper Doll Faces – both are available in a suh-weet bundle over at Scrapbook Steals right now!

• Paper piecing is a fun way to give an instant pop to your projects without having to be the world’s greatest coloring guru. I simply stamped the pear from “Faceless Fruits” onto some patterned paper from Echo Park and again on a sheet of pear-colored cardstock. After I cut the patterned paper pear, I put some foam dimensionals on the back so it appears more 3D.
• I used Versafine Onyx ink which stamps like a dream (but just a warning, it is not Copic or alcohol marker compatible. It works wonderfully with water-based coloring methods)! To give my little pear a bit more pizzaz I used some chalks in a pink shade and colored a little tongue with a red gel pen.

This Bubbly Bumble Bee card was created using Faceless Bugs- another bundle available on Scrapbook Steals right now – hurry they only have a limited supply at a fabulous price and once they’re gone – they’re gone!

The “Faceless Bugs” stamps that are in the Scrapbook Steals bundle were later made into dies when Kathy teamed up with the folks at Cottage Cutz! While I used the die for this particular project, this bundle comes with the stamps which is just as easy – simply paper piece as I did in the pear card or color your bumble bee in with Copics, pencils, or watercolors!

• To make the antennae appear on the black cardstock, I heat embossed them with white embossing powder. Super easy: stamp with clear embossing ink (I used Versamagic), sprinkle with white embossing powder, tap off excess and heat with a heat tool until it sets. Voila! I love heat embossing. It gets addicting, just to warn you!

Sweet and simple cheerful flower card created using Faceless Flowers, Flower Centers, and Simple Sallies Assortment – another amazing bundle that’s available at a crazy good price for just a limited time at Scrapbook Steals – once they’ve sold all they’ve got, that’s it! No mas.

If there’s one thing I love about card making – it’s the endless options you get when you pair ink and stamps.

Here I’ve stamped four different flowers using Memento Ink in Cantaloupe and Distress Ink in Tea Dye. As you can see, I started by stamping my flowers off the paper and created a sense of movement.

• By layering positive and negative images, you can create your own custom flowers and looks. The 3/8″ Simple Sallies fit perfectly in these flowers!

The sentiments on these cards were all stamped from PK-225 Happy Flowers & Cheerful Phrases. I used my DYMO caption maker for the bee card sentiment.

Hope you all enjoyed the inspiration and already picked up your STEAL of the day! It’s rare to find them at a price like this – they’d make fabulous holiday gifts for your stamping friends, too!

Thanks so much for stopping by – have a Peachy Day!!

xo Angelica