Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps January Preview: Day Five - Totally Paw-some PLUS a Challenge!

Hello everyone and welcome back to the fifth days of previews for the January release at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

Today we have another darling set from artist Becky Pearce called Totally Paw-some!

Since it's Saturday and a release preview day, we are also excited to present a new ANYTHING GOES challenge. Create a new project (card, scrapbook page or altered item) and share it with us on the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog or on our Krafty Friends Facebook page. All stamps are welcome, however if you use a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp you will double your chance to win. You have all week to play along with this ANYTHING GOES challenge. Then at the end of the month, a winner will be selected from all of the weekly challenges to win a $20 gift certificate to use in the shop.

Although I have never owned a dog (or a cat), I just love these sweet animal sets. There are so many great cards and project you can make. Today, I am sharing a another note holder for 3x3 paper. The paper is Simple Stories So Rad!

For a tutorial on how to make this simple note holder, you can see this post (here)

Now it's time for you to hop along and check out all of the fabulous projects from the Krafty Girls. Leave a comment on each of the blogs as you hop along. There will be one lucky winner selected from all of the comments this week to WIN some Krafty $ to spend in the KKS store.

All of the January new release stamps will be available Saturday afternoon after the release party!

Facebook Release Party

Join Kimmie and the Krafty Girls as we party and celebrate the January release. The party will be on the Facebook events page (here) on Saturday January 16 at 2:00 pm (EST). Hope to see you there.

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping.

Little Red Wagon #292 Use it Up

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Little Red Wagon challenge. Heather is the hostess for this week and she is asking us to "USE IT UP"! To be specific she would like you to grab something from your stash that you haven't used before and get crafty with it!

I have a large collection of 6x6 paper and I was shocked to see a few paper packs that have never been opened. My 'USE IT UP' for today is making a dent in one of my unused packs of paper.

For this simple note holder I used an older Your Next Stamp image Ellie Loves School along with paper from American Crafts Serendipity collection.



I am not sure why this paper has sat so long. I really think it's the washed out look of the colours. I have a few similar paper pads that I tend to pass over in favour of the more bold or vibrant paper collections.

This note holder was a gift for my daughter's teacher.

Thanks for stopping by today. I really hope that you have time to play along with our USE IT UP challenge. Link up your projects over at the Little Red Wagon blog. If you are looking for some inspiration, please check our my fab GIRLFRIENDS creations this week.

Hey crafty friends, Little Red Wagon is having a DT Call. You can check out the post here for more details. You have until June 15th to apply. 

Have a fabulous and crafty day friends!

Your Next Stamp - April Guest Designer

I am so excited to announce that I am a guest designer with Your Next Stamp for the month of April.

I have been a huge fan of YNS images for such a long time. They are a fabulous Canadian stamp company with a wonderful variety of rubber and clear stamps, digital images and dies.

I am looking forward to working with many great YNS images over the next month and showcasing my work alongside Karen and her very talented design team.

For my first project I used the super cute Ellie Loves Sunflowers to create a fun and decorative note holder. I love the Ellie images and this is one of my favourites.   The holder fits a 3x3 pad of note paper. 

The base for the easel card is 4.5 by 11 (scoring at 5.25, 5.5 and 8.25). I used a small butterfly image to stamp the notes and yes I did stamp every page.

Ellie is coloured with Copic markers. I also added a bit of glitter to Ellie's boots by applying glue (Zig two-way fine tip glue pen) and glitter (Glitter Ritz micro fine white glitter).

Have a wonderful day and happy creating. Please come back soon.

Tracy

Supplies:

Image: Ellie Loves Sunflowers

Paper: MME Adorbs 6x6 paper

Punches/Dies: EK Success Butterfly punch, Spellbinders standard circles & scallops small

Other: Recollections gems, Satin Ribbon (Michaels), 3x3 post it notes.