Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 16

Happy Fall Greetings!

Brrr! With temperatures dipping into the 20's - it's definitely becoming easier to stay inside and create! Not that we need an excuse, though, right? ;)

Our winner this week picked by pickrandom.com is #13 Suzi! Congratulations!!! What a fun take on this challenge, using gold flourish accents on a cheery red and green card! Suzi used PK-236 Winter Baby in Teacup. Everyone had such beautiful cards, and we enjoyed looking at all of them! Suzi, please email me your mailing address so we can send you your prize!

For our next challenge, we want to see what you like to make with your Peachy Keen faces! That's right! Any craft, any medium, with your favorite Peachy Keen face stamps. The challenge will end 11-30-09 at midnight. We'll announce our next lucky winner and the next challenge on 12-01-09 (December, already...eek!). If you don't currently have a blog, no problem! Just email me a photo of your creation, and I will be happy to post it for you. For our U.S. friends, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

PLEASE pass the word around about this challenge.. here's the reason why.. for every entry over 20 we will add another $1.00 to a $20.00 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps!.. That means that if we get 37 entries, the prize will be a $37.00 gift certificate.. if we get 100 entries, the prize will be $100.00 gift certificate! What if we get 500? WELL... then I guess we will be handing over a $500.00 gift certificate! FOR REAL.. please tell your friends! Anyone can play and I know we have sold A TON of faces - many of you have them already! Good luck to all who enter!! :) Please note there is only one entry per person.

And now .... inspiration from our awesome DT! These ladies really amaze us with their talent and creative minds!
Added 11-17-09 7pm) I'm so sorry.. where are my manners? I forgot to mention that Janice has chimed in to guest design for us this month! Special thanks to her and all of our awesome team for the beautiful samples they have made.. again!! :)

What a glorious card by Vivienne Holden!

Viv used Dolly Dumplins to create the face in the snowflake.

Oh my what a beautiful fall project by Janice Wilson!!

Janice used her Simple Simon faces and PK-614 Fall Fun Pumpkins and more!

Lorie Souther made this adorable 6 x 6 "Joy" layout as she is starting to make tear bears!

Lorie used PK-135 Medium Bear Features on her bear.

Angelica Suarez made this adorable recipe card :)

She used PK-660 Laughy Taffy Faces.

Here's mine... one hour.. that was it!

I used one of our 2" faces PK-900

We are so looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Come on and play along with us!

Big Hugs,

KathyJ

Christmas Cards for Noah!

Help Little Noah Celebrate Christmas Early!
Read here for more information. Get the Kleenex out!
Cards can be sent to: Noah Biorkman, 1141 Fountain View Circle, South Lyon, MI, 48178
Big Hugs,
Sincerely,
KathyJ

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 15

Good Morning!!

A big thank you for the GREAT turn out on Challenge 14 (pink and brown card)! There were SO MANY awesome cards... You are a very talented group indeed! We are always so happy to see what creative minds can do! We hope you will play along with Challenge 15 (below) too!

OUR WINNER for Challenge 14 was picked by pickrandom.com #28 LindaW !! Linda's card is just great and she has won the $25.00 gift certificate to http://www.peachykeenstamps.com/!
Linda, if you would, please email me for details on your g/c. :)

Here is the sketch for Challenge 15. This challenge ends on 11-15-09 at midnight. We will announce the winner of the prize below on November 17th when we post the new challenge. Please use Mr.Linky below or email me a pic of your card if you do not have a blog. We look forward to your takes on this sketch!!

HERE is what our very talented design team came up with! Many thanks to our design team for continually doing us proud! Special thanks to Janice and Angelica for finding time to help us out this week!! :)

PK-311 Snowmany Thanks has been done up so beautifully by Vivienne Holden!

Our guest designer, Janice Wilson comes through with an adorable card
using both PK-322 Christmas Tag Minis and
PK-407 Ginger Baby Oven Mitt

Lorie Souther created this beautiful baby card with PK-247 Goodnight Moon.

Angelica Suarez made the "So thankful" card above
with our PK-131 Fall Leaves Template Set

Here is my card. I used PK-306 Snow Happy for this challenge and had tons of fun! :)

The PRIZE FOR CHALLENGE 15 is PK-327 Winter Peekers & Phrases. The winner of the draw for challenge 15 wins it! No worries, if you already have it.. we will set you up with a different package of equal value. Good luck to all that enter! :)

Happy Stampin'!
:)Sincerely,
KathyJ

Peachy Keen HALLOWEEN Challenge

CONGRATULATIONS, Terri, lucky #5 was picked by pickrandom.com as our Halloween Challenge WINNER ... You have won the $20.00 gift certificate to www.peachykeenstamps.com! Please email me at kathy@peachykeenstamps.com so I can get you your gift certificate. OH how I totally enjoyed seeing all of the cards that you came up with! You are certainly a talented bunch and really quick thinkers! We are so happy that you could find time to join us even though it was a very busy time for all of us. I just couldn't let Halloween pass us by with all of the fun that goes with it! Thanks again for playing along! We hope to see more of your great works and ideas here on all of our regular challenges too!
HUGS!!
:)KathyJ

Good Morning!

Trick or treat! Come on over for some at Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog! The fun begins now but ends at midnight (CST) on 10-31-09! Our winner for this challenge will be drawn and announced on 11-01-09. You don't have a lot of time so we will keep it simple.

THE CHALLENGE:
• create a card
• use a haunted house somehow in your card
• you will need a bat
• and a ghost
• include a Halloween greeting
• you can use die cuts, stamps, punches, images on papers... etc.. anything goes!

THE PRIZE:
You will want to get as many people involved in this one as you can! The more that play and enter.. the higher the prize goes! We will start with a $20.00 gift certificate and the more that enter the higher the prize. For example: If 13 enter, the prize will be a $20.00 g/c, if 20 enter, the prize will be a $20.00 g/c... if 47 enter.. the prize will be a $47.00 g/c!! Grab your friends and get out your stuff for some Halloween fun!

We have a guest designer for this challenge. Please welcome Janice Wilson!! She has graciously offered to help us out as she was paying close attention to my last post. Here is what our team came up with. Finished cards by our dt will continue to be posted throughout the day as everyone is on different times and schedules.

Janice Wilson created this awesome card with her PK-M04 Mini Ghost on her card above.

Vivienne Holden created this adorable scene on her card with both her PK-623 Ghost with Pumpkin and her PK-612 Dress Me Ghost.

Diane made her spooky, fall card with PK-554 Monsters n More 1/2" faces.

Lorie Souther has made this adorable Halloween scene with PK-612 Dress Me Ghost.

Here's mine! This stamp is not yet published. :( Sorry.. I had to give it a try anyway!

HAVE fun and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Hugs!!
KathyJ

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 14

Happy Tuesday!!

I hope this finds well and in the mood for lots of fun the rest of this month!! First of all our winner for Challenge 13 is Leslie Lawter, with the lucky number 18! Our congratulations to you, Leslie! I really liked your card! It was so cleverly made with the open frame on the front to reveal the penguin inside! Too cute!! To view this little beauty of a card... click here! Leslie, please email me at kathy@peachykeenstamps.com so I can get your prize mailed out to you.

So many of our design team members are beyond busy - including me! This week, three of our five members had a chance to get me their designer samples. Diane with her crazy crop schedule and Lorie managed to get a card off to us... even while she is sick! ...AND Viv has a new GRANDBABY (need I say more?!) My daughter, Angelica has also joined us this week. We have been buried in work and she has two babies to tend too! I REALLY appreciate our team for making time to create these beautiful cards for us!! THANK YOU, ladies!!

CHALLENGE 14: You have until Midnight (CST) on Sunday, November 1st to get your entry in. Here are the elements required for Challenge 14 - the layout and theme are up to you!

***Make a card
***Use the colors PINK AND BROWN as the main color scheme.
***Use a stamped image (preferably Peachy Keen Stamp - but not required)
***Incorporate a piece of ribbon
***Use some type of glitter (stickles are fine!)

The prize for Challenge 14 is a $25.00 gift certificate to www.peachykeenstamps.com

Lorie's "Merry Christmas" card is made up with our funny little PK-403 Ginger Bite!

Diane's "Happiness" winter card is made with PK-327 Winter Peekers & Phrases

Vivienne's "Birthday" card comes in sporting 'Ginger' from PK-229 Funny Flowers!

Angelica's (my daughter) "Feliz Navidad" was made with PK-M11 Winter is for the Birds!

We so appreciate your entries and cannot wait to see what you come up with!! Have fun!!Ooooo... and .... just a little hint.. WE have a fun HALLOWEEN something coming up! Watch for details about NOON CST on the 29th!! :) You don't want to miss it!!

The prize for Challenge 14 is a $25.00 gift certificate to www.peachykeenstamps.com!

Challenge 13

Good... AFTERNOON!! - Sorry I am running quite late today!!

THANK YOU to all that participated in the Ornament Challenge! I know it was a bit off the wall, but it sure was fun! The winning number was picked.. #12!!! Linda Polaretzki!! Congratulations, Linda!! I will send your Fiskar's punch to you promptly. Please email me with your address. I love your ornament!! I loved ALL of the ornaments that I got to SEE.. I see that more entries came in that I haven't visited yet!! So sorry!!

Here is the next challenge:

Make a card

Use colors Blue and Purple in your design (can be subtle or bold)

Use a stamped image

Must include at least 3 snowflakes (can be more)

Must include a Greeting

Have fun is the main thing!! You have until Midnight on Sunday, October 18th to complete your card. When you are done, post your card on your blog and upload your post with MrLinky below. If you do not have a blog, please email your card to me and I will post it for you. :)

Here are the cards that our design team members came up with! Sonia is still away. I expect to hear from her by at least early next week. We miss her!!

"Merry Christmas" card is by Vivienne Holden... and what a beauty it is! Viv used PK-311 and PK-327 from the Peachy Keen Stamps line in her card.

Lorie Souther blows me away with her "Snow" card that she made with PK-019 What's so Funny? Snow Set.

Diane Markle's"Let it Snow" card is simply adorable! She used PK-321

Kathy's "Happy Holidays" card was made with PK-305 Snow Slumber Snowman.

PRIZE for this challenge is DoodleBug Paper Hot Pink and Brown, a spool of 3/8" Offray Grosgrain Shock Pink Ribbon and a bottle of Crystal Ice Stickles. If you win this prize.. you will have most of the elements for Challenge 14!!

Thank you again for playing along with us! Have a great two weeks, everyone!!
Sincerely,
KathyJ

Challenge Blog Owner Blog Hop

Drum roll please....

OUR WINNER IS: #22 Lynne! Congratulations Lynne!! Thank you so much for partcipating in our first ever blog hop!! Please email me at kathy@peachykeenstamps.com with your mailing address and I will get your prize shipped to you.

Thanks everyone for such a fun filled week! We really hope that you'll come back and join us for all of our regular challenges too! We still have Challenge 12 up until midnight Sunday October 4th!! It is posted just below the blog candy. It is super fun.. make an ornament! :)

Please feel free to visit our site this weekend and use our special coupon! THANKYOU is the coupon code to save 15% on your purchase of $25.00 or more. Be sure to sign up on our email list on the site's home page (bottom of the page) to get future coupons, news and promos!! :)

Thanks again for joining us!!

:)KathyJ

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Welcome to Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog's first ever BLOG HOP and the very first ever “Challenge Blog Owner” Blog Hop! We are so happy to have you come visit us! The blog hop will be running from September 25th until MIDNIGHT on Oct 1st. Each participating challenge blog has it's own challenge for you.. with great prizes! You will want to make sure you visit ALL of the challenge blogs during this blog hop and do as many as the challenges as you can do in a week!!

Thank you for inviting us to participate ***scrapsketch*** !! If you came here via The Chirper Challenge, you are going in the right direction.You will find a link to the next blog in the HOP below. Here are all the participants and the order of the Blog Hop:

***scrapsketch***
All About Me Challenges
Whimsical Scraps & Bugs
SP Color Combos
Sewn Together/Sew Many Cards
The Chirper Challenge
Peachy Keen Stamps
Practical Scrappers
Just Buggin’
Creative Twist
ScrapFIT
The Crafting Pot
Scrapbooks n' Stuff

The guidelines set up for your entry are:
1. Sign up as a follower on all of the blogs listed
2. Leave a comment in this post
3. Make a card/LO with the PKS sketch (below), for your submission on OUR blog and link it to your post with Mr. Linky below.

(We have challenges once every two weeks. Most are fairly simple card sketches, but sometimes we throw a wrench in the works, just for fun. We give away a prize at the end of each challenge and the winner is announced at the start of the new challenge. We are a fairly new blog and we like to encourage beginners, so we use pickrandom.com to choose our winners).

Here is your sketch for the Blog Hop challenge:

We have a great group of talented designers that graciously extend their time to make cards for us. Vivienne Holden, Lorie Souther, Diane Markle and Sonia Kertznus (currently away). Welcome please, our two guest designers for the blog hop, Emma Aguilar and Lauri Ingram. Thank you so much to all of our designers for their quick thinking and their awesome samples!

Lauri Ingram is a guest designer this week! Lauri used PK-319 Snickerdoodle Happy Elf to make her card. You have to go check it out.. IT SPINS!

Emma Aguilar is also a guest designer and she too is super talented!
Look at her adorable take on this sketch! She used our Monster's n More Faces and one of our Pumpkin Faces.

LOL.. "It's Fall Y'all" is by Diane Markle. Diane made the perfect Fall themed card with a face stamped on the acorn, from one of our Simple Simon's Face Sets.

Viv's beautiful "Cherry Wishes!" card was made using our PK-239 Faceless Fruit. I wonder if she air-brushed the edges of her lighter cardstock with her Copics?
I know I will have to go and read on her post!

Lorie's card floored me with delight!
How amazing our PK-311 Snowmany Thanks looks when done up by this pro!!

Kathy's (that would be me) was made using PK-319 Ice Skating Penguin Couple.
These two look to be skating together in perfect rhythm!

This picture shows what you could win if you follow the the guidelines in our Blog Hop Challenge.
2 pkgs of Doodlecharm 6 x 6 cardstock packs, 4 Peachy Keen Stamps packages & an acrylic block!

Your next stop is Practical Scrappers. Have fun!

Thanks again for visiting and good luck to all that enter! We are so happy to be a part of this BLOG HOP!!

Kathy xx

BLOG CANDY - Good through Oct 23, 2009

....AND THE WINNER IS...... #22 Julie T!!


CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS, JuLiE!!!!
Please email me with your address at your earliest convenience so I can ship your goodies off to you!

THANK YOU, absolutely... EVERYONE for playing along with our blog candy and we hope you will return to participate in our challenges! We are having a great time seeing all of your creations. We have a Halloween challenge for you.. watch for details on the 29th! :)

Have a great weekend everyone!
Thanks again!!
Sincerely,
KathyJ






Welcome to Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog!

Dave and I are continually brainstorming for ways to repay our debt to our customers for spreading the word about Peachy Keen Stamps through their blogs, comments and message boards. This is just one thing we can do to show our appreciation to all of you for giving us such a great reputation online. You have created so many beautiful projects with our stamps, shared with so many and we can't thank you enough!!

I am learning as I go with blogging... and found the missing link! It is BLOG CANDY! Look at all these YUMMY TREATS! One lucky winner will get EVERYTHING in the pic. I am totally using Sonia's Blog Candy post as an example to set this one up. This candy is up until, Friday, October 23rd midnight CST. The winner will be drawn and announced on Saturday, October 24th.

To qualify for entry to win this drawing:

• You must sign up or already be signed up as a follower on our challenge blog. I would LOVE for you to sign up to follow our designer's blogs too! They are an awesome group! Although it is not required.. this is a bonus - if you should win and we find that you follow all of the designers listed - you will receive an additional gift! A $25.00 gift certificate to http://www.peachykeenstamps.com/!! For your convenience, our design team list is under the blog candy pic on the right.
• You will need to post the blog candy on your blog's side bar as a gadget (choose html/java script) The code can be copied and pasted from the right column on this blog.
• Post on your blog "Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog Candy" to announce to all of BLOGLAND that we have candy :)... LOL.. You do know that I am totally winging this right?
• Leave a comment in this post - just one per person please.
• Hook up your name with Mr.Linky below to your post of the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog Candy post on your blog.

ALL FIVE tasks must be accomplished in order to qualify to win.

Included in our BLOG CANDY:

• 4 packages of Miss Elizabeth's Scrapbook Papers: Braun, Lodge, Jewels, and Fairytale Princess(6 pages per package)
• Peachy Keen Stamps PK-303A Tubular Star Snowman Small
• Peachy Keen Stamps PK-320 Snickerdoodle Gift Elf
• Peachy Keen Stamps PK-311 Snowmany Thanks
• Peachy Keen Stamps PK-404 Sugar n Spice Gingers Small
• 12 Ice Stickles: Gold, Crystal, Arctic Ice, Grape, Blueberry, Lime, Cherry, Strawberry, Silver, Coffee, Lemon and Mint
• 12 Offray Grosgrain Ribbon Spools 3/8": White, Cranberry, Island Blue, Ant White, Black, Lt Pink, Shock Pink, Blue, Lemongrass, Lemon, Yellow Gold, Oatmeal (two of these are at the bottom of the stack behind the long acrylic block)
• 3 SUPER acrylic blocks with grid lines and finger grooves, Sizes: 3.5" round, 4.25" round and 8" x 2.5"

Thank you so much for taking the time to read, post and ENTER!!
Sincerely,
Kathy (and Dave) Jakopovich

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 12

Hello!

We are running a bit late today... My apologies as I still can't find my camera! I had to scan my design samples instead this morning. :(

It has been an insane two weeks for us over at peachykeenstamps.com! We have had record-breaking sales in the month of September and it shows no sign of stopping. We appreciate all that you have done to help us get the word out about our stamps! Thank you all so very much!!

Here is a super fun challenge! Make an ornament! We would love to see what you come up with for this.. !! Just look what our designers did with their take on this challenge!! They are just amazing! We are still running on the 2 week schedule - this entry is due on October 4th at Midnight (CST).

Congratulations to our Challenge 11 winner: Jamie Greene - number 10 on last week's Mr.Linky! Jamie's winning card is posted below.



Our prize for Challenge 12 is Fiskar's Antique Elegance Circle Border Punch! Good luck to all who enter!

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Look what Lorie has done with Curly the Snowman from
PK-481 Christmas Character Faces 1 1/8"!!

WHOA.. who wouldn't want a tree loaded with these!
Viv's take was made with PK-311 Snowmany Thanks!

How cute! Diane made our PK-M11 Winter is for the birds into an ornament
and made him look like a little penguin!

Here are my ornaments (Kathy's) made with PK-405 Sugar n Spice Ginger Boy
and PK-406 Sugar n Spice Girl.
We also have a much smaller version of them in our store PK-404.

CHALLENGE 11 --------- WINNER --------- WINNER --------!!!

Congratulations, Jamie on your winning entry! Please email me with your address and I will get your prizes off to you in the mail!

Uh-oh! Blog Roll List MISSING

Uh-oh...

I was updating our blog roll list and noticed that one of the blog addresses was in there twice. I wanted to delete ONE of the duplicates and I DELETED the entire list. UGH!

If you would like me to add you back to our blog roll.. I will be working on that this week. Please send an email to kathy@peachykeenstamps.com please use BLOG ROLL as the subject line and in your email I will need your name (as you would like it to appear on the list) and your full blog address beginning with http://

I apologize for the inconvenience!

Sincerely,
KathyJ