Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps September Preview - Day 3: Cave Kids

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It's time for another amazing Krafty Day! Yes we are back with another fabulous preview for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps September release. Today we are featuring a set by the amazing and talented Cheryl Grant is called CAVE KIDS. This set truly ROCKS!

Not only are we previewing CAVE KIDS, tonight all three stamp sets will be released and.......since it is Saturday we are having another challenge! Lots of Krafty goodness today.

I am hosting today's Krafty challenge and our theme will be ANYTHING GOES!

Listen, it's pretty easy what you need to do now. Create a new card, layout or altered item with any stamp and enter over at the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge blog. BUT, if you use a fabulous Kraftin' Kimmie stamp on your project you will double your chances to WIN!

Join the challenge and have your name entered for a chance to win a $10 gift card to use in the shop!

Our favourite little darlings Lulu, Lexi and Lucas are simply DINO-mite in the new CAVE KIDS set.  I used the ever fabulous Miss Lulu on my card.

This lil' prehistoric cutie Lulu is styling in her fur dress. The effect was created using pink and blue Sparkly Fluff. I stamped the image twice and applied liquid glue (Zig two way glue) first to the spots applying the blue fluff, then the rest of the dress with the pink fluff. I then paper pieced the dress onto my Copic coloured image.

On the inside, I used a few scraps of my pattern paper (Bo Bunny Modern Miss and Pink Paislee Pen Pals) and added Lucus, the cute dino and two of the sets sentiments.

Don't forget to check out all of the Krafty Girls and Guests below. They have a lot of fun designs to show of from our CAVE KIDS stamp set. Check them out and remember to leave a bit of love on their blogs. We love hearing from you and we'd love for you to have a chance to WIN! That's right, you hop, comment and have your name in for a gift card to the KKS shop!

Are you wondering when you can get these Cave cuties? Join of first for the ONLINE release party.  Hang out with Kimmie and the Krafty Girls starting at 6:00 pm EST on the Facebook event page. Then after the party (around 7:00 pm EST) head to the online store and shop away!

Have a Super Saturday and happy peeking!

Tracy

Supplies:
Stamp: Cave Kids Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
Paper: Bo Bunny Modern Miss, Pink Paislee Pen Pals

Kraftin' Kimmie # 246 Bloomin' Flowers

Hello everyone, I hope you are have a wonderful weekend so far. I am here to share my card for this week's Saturday challenge at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

This week Krafty Girl Sharon is our hostess and her challenge is BLOOMIN' FLOWERS. Create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp for a chance to win a $10 gift card to the shop! Don't have a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp? No problem these challenges you can use any stamp as long as it follows our theme. Grab your stamps and lets get Krafty!

Although I am not happy to say good bye to summer, I do enjoy creating cards for fall. I just love all the fabulous images and great fall colour to work with. For my card I used Lexi from the August released Hey There, Punkin!

I just love this paper from Webster's Pages called Family Traditions. My fall flowers are all mixtures of things picked up from Michaels (Recollections and Ashland). Lexi is coloured with Copic markers and her cut little apron is paper pieced.

Inside my card I have the Lulu image from this set.

Are you feeling Krafty? I hope you will join this weeks BLOOMIN' FLOWERS challenge.

Head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge blog and see more fabulous inspiration by some of the Krafty Girls and Guests.

Don't forget to also check out the Kraftin' Kimmie shop! Why? Right now there are amazing Frugal Friday deals going on with many of your favourite stamps for 25 - 50% off. There are also a lot of new 6x6 paper pads in the shop. Check it out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a super Saturday!!!

Tracy

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - August Preview Day 2 Vampire and Dragon Queen

Welcome back to DAY 2 of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps August new release previews. Today we are showing off TWO freaky fab new Moonlight Whispers stamp sets by Annie Rodrigue! These sets are truly SPOOK-TACULAR and you are going to love the the wicked new VAMPIRE QUEEN and DRAGON QUEEN!

Today I worked with the biting beauty VAMPIRE QUEEN!

Do you enjoy creating Halloween themed projects? I do for sure! I love creating Halloween cards and projects and the Vampire queen is truly FANG-TASTIC and fun to work with!

To create that spooky feel for my card, I used paper from We R Memory Keepers Black Widow collection along with flowers (Recollections) and the fun key and keyhole charms (Beading Landing). Everything was distress and inked with vintage photo distress ink. Cheese cloth was a perfect accent and this time I used a bit of water down black paint to grunge up the cloth.

The image is coloured with Copic markers.

Here is a peek at the inside of my card.

Now it's time for you to check out all of the Krafty Girls that are showing off their Kreepy Krafty Kreations featuring the VAMPIRE AND DRAGON QUEENS. The list is below. While you are visiting the blogs please be sure to leave some lovely comments at each of your stops. We love to hear from you and there will be a lucky WINNER who will some $$ to the Kraftin' Kimmie shop.

The stamps from the August release will be available on Saturday night at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop. Join us Saturday night for the ONLINE release party (starts at 6:00 pm EST) as we celebrate this SPOOKTACULAR release. Games, prizes and you get to hang out with Kimmie, the Krafty Girls and Guests! What could be more fun than that?

Have a Freakin' Fabulous Friday and happy hoppin'!!!!

Tracy

Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday

It's Wednesday and what does that mean? Well it means I am back with a second post today and this one is for the fabulous WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

I hope that you will play along with us this week. The challenge, as always is ANYTHING GOES. Sound fun? Grab your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and lets get krafty!

For this challenge just remember that you must use at least one Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp, but what you make it up to you. Make a card, scrapbook page or altered project, any style or design you would like. Make sure your project is new and link up your projects over at the Kraftin' Kimmie challenge blog.

At the end of the month, one winner will be chosen from this months Wonderful Wednesday submissions and they will receive a fabulous Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp prize pack! There is a new opportunity to enter every Wednesday so get your krafty groove on and show us your stuff!

For my card this week I inked up Margarita. I went clean and simple for my card, which I haven't done for a while.

The image is coloured with Copic markers.

Inside the card I added a strip of patterned paper (Echo Park Summer Bliss), enamel dots (MME), flip flops (EK Success Jolee's Boutique) and a sentiment from a Stamping Bella image.

Check out the Wonderful inspiration from some of the Krafty girls over at the Kraftin' Kimmie blog. Now let's get KRAFTY!

Thanks for stopping by and happy KRAFTING!!!!

Tracy

Some Bunny Loves You

I had the chance to take a break this weekend from crafty commitments to play along with a few challenges this week. It's been a while for this.

This is my first Easter card of the season and I used one of the adorable image from Kraftin' Kimmie designed by Cheryl Alger called Somebunny Loves you.

I love the bright colours in the Lawn Fawn 6x6 paper pad called Hello Sunshine. I created a little tag that can be tucked away behind the image.

The image in coloured with Copic markers.

Inside the card I decorated with more coordinating paper and added the circle die cut to hold my sentiment (which unfortunately is a bit off centre.....oops)!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will come back soon. Happy crafting.

Tracy

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie: # 223 Spring has Sprung
4 Crafty Chicks: #187 Spring
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon # 222 - Child's Play

Yeah it's Wednesday and that means another fun challenge over at Little Red Wagon.

This is a very exciting moment for me, as this is my first time hosting a challenge with Little Red Wagon.  I'm glad you can't tell how nervous I am. My first challenge is called "CHILD'S PLAY" and I would like to see projects that are for a child. Birthday card, Valentine's, Easter, or just because, any occasion is fine! New baby, toddler or even teenager, they all work! This week is all about the kids!

January has been a very busy month for my girls and birthday parties. I have spent nearly every weekend running one or the other, and sometimes both of them to parties for their friends (usually on opposite ends of the city, with overlapping times). So of course my card for this week is a birthday card.

Since I am quite tired of what seems like a mountain of snow outside of my house, I wanted to have a card that really had me dreaming of warmer weather. For that I turned to one of my new Kraftin' Kimmie stamps called Summer Swingin! The paper is Little Yellow Bicycle "Hello Spring!"

Of course this isn't just any card.  I decided to have a bit of fun and made an easel card.

Card base is 11" x 4.25 (scored at 2.75" and 5.5"). The card front is 4.25" x 5.5"

The image is coloured with Copic markers. I also re-stamped the image on the pink background paper so when I fussy cut the Copic image, you can still see some of the detailed swirls underneath.

The inside sentiment is from Stampendous "Birthday Wish". The bottom portion of the card is raised up to support the card front. I die cut the flowers from pattern paper using My Favourite Things Layers Rose. I ran the pink flower through my Xyron and sprinkled it with Glitter Ritz fine white glitter. The Sweetest Wishes sentiment is from Tiddly inks set "Sweets for My Sweet".

Inside

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will play along with this week's "Child's Play" challenge. Just pop over to Little Red Wagon to link up your creations and remember to check out what "childish" projects the other Girlfriends have created this week.

Kraftin' Kimmie

Top Ten Finalist - Krafty Guest Contest

I am super exited to have been selected as a top 10 finalist over at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge blog for a chance to be a Krafty Guest. The top 10 are now entering round two and our challenge for the next week is KIM LOVES PINK!!! Well guess what, I love pink too. This is my first card for the round two challenge.

Challenges
Shopping Our Stash: # 136 Cabin Fever (Spring papers and summer themed image)
Cute Card Thursday: # 305 So Sweet! (I think the image is super Sweet!)
Through The Craft Room Door: Jan 27 - Feb 4 Anything Goes

Have a crafty day!

Tracy

Here Comes Santa Claus

It seems like such a long time since my last post. I have been very busy over the last week. Work has been crazy. I was part of the United Way committee at work. Last week we had our annual campaign so I was super busy with the kick off and events throughout the week. This was my first time volunteering for the United Way committee and I must say it was very rewarding and a lot of fun. Of course going into work tomorrow, I will have to catch up on everything I didn't get done last week.

I am still working on a number of Christmas projects. In addition to the many Christmas cards I am creating, my daughters and I have begun plans for this year's Christmas creations for their teachers and classmates. Stay tuned for more details.

This weekend I had the chance to use another of my Kraftin Kimmie stamps that I bought recently. This one is called Santa & Pup and it is super cute. I decided to use the stamp with the newest Deconstructing Jen sketch DS128.

Although I like the look of the square cards, I don't often make them, so I modified the sketch for my longer card. I used the Simple Stories December Documented collection. I love the colours in this collection.

I trimmed 1/2 inch from the right side of the card so you can see the striped paper added to the inside. I also love finding places to use the 3x4 cards in these collections. I don't do project life style scrapbooking, so I have a rather large collection of these cards.

The image is coloured with Copic markers. Crystal gems were added for buttons.

After applying glue (using my Zig two-way glue pen) to the trim of "Santa's" outfit, I added sparkling fluff. I also created the snow effect with the glue and Crystal Glitter Ritz micro fine glitter.

Using the Kraftin' Kimmie "Sleigh mail" stamp and Versa Mark ink, I heat embossed with Zing Chestnut embossing powder. I stamped the image on an open space of the Simple Stories paper so I knew it would match the rest of the papers I had used.

The inside of the card is decorated with a 4x6 card from the Simple Stories December Documented collection. The sentiments are from Your Next Stamp "Holiday Sentiments".

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie: # 206 "Let it Snow"
Deconstructing Jen: Sketch No. 128

Thanks for stopping by and happy creating.

Supplies:
Santa & Pup stamp, Sleigh Mail stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie
Holiday Sentiments stamp Your Next Stamp
Simple Stories December Documented
Our Craft Lounge Sparkling Fluff
Crystal Glitter Ritz white micro fine glitter
Recollection gem stones
Vintage photo brown distress ink
Versa Mark ink
Zing Chestnut embossing powder

Tracy

Baking Time

I can slowly feel myself getting more excited about the holidays as I continue to make Christmas cards. With all the stamps that I want to use, I hope that I have enough time to create. Working full time, family time and kids activities keeps me busy, so my creative window is small. I am sure it doesn't seem that way to my husband. This week I actually took my Copic markers and a few images to my daughter's dance lesson. The time just flew past.

This card features a stamp that I picked up last weekend. A local scrapbooking store was hosting a garage sale and I picked up a  lot of stamps for only $40.00. I was so excited. There were a few Kraftin' Kimmie stamps that I was so happy to give a good home.

I love the cute Baking Elf by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps.

For this card I used a Deconstructing Jen sketch DS124.

The image is coloured with Copic markers. My daughter thinks she looks like Strawberry Shortcake.

This stamp is also from Kraftin' Kimmie. It is the Built Your Own Trinket stamp combined with the sleigh mail (gingerbread man).

Challenges:
Two Scrapbooking Friend: November Craft Challenge (use a doily)
Kraftin Kimmie: Anything goes
Deconstructing Jen: Sketch DS 124

Supplies:
Stamps: Kraftin Kimmie "Baking Elf", "Build Your Own Trinkets" and "Sleigh mail".
Paper: Recollections "Sugar Plum", Echo Park "This & That Christmas"
Die: Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling card
Other: MME twine "Follow Your Heart", Ranger White enamel accents, Recollections doily.

Thanks for taking a peek at my newest holiday card. Now I feel like I should be getting my baking to do list started.

Happy creating.

Tracy