Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps March Scrappy Challenge (Calendar)

Welcome to our March Scrappy Challenge at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

These challenges are a lot of fun and give you a chance to use your stamps in different ways. Your creations can be ANYTHING you would like to create with KKS, anything that is BUT a card! You still have a lot of room for creativity including, calendars, planner pages, bookmarks, pocket and traditional scrapbooking pages and other altered paper craft items. For the Scrappy challenges you MUST use a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp. You have all month to play along, so grab some stamps and let's get KRAFTY!

Our theme for March is: ANYTHING GOES

I have a personal planner, however back in December, I created a family calendar page using the Perfect Planner stamp set and really enjoyed how it turned out. I missed getting a page done in February and March, however I am getting ahead of the game and finished both an April and May calendar.

Calendars and planners are fun ways to use any number of your stamps. On this page I was able to use:

• Perfect Planner
• Hello Spring
• You Are My Sunshine
• One Cup at a Time
• Let's Celebrate
• Totally Tubular (sentiment)
• I {Heart Coffee} (sentiment)
• Itty Bitty Friends (retired)
• Fin-Tactic Friends - Sea Horses, Bubbles, Sentiment (retired)

I hope you play along with this month's SCRAPPY challenge! You can head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog to see more inspiration from the other Krafty Girls, as well as full details about this challenge.

Create any project (other than a card) featuring a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps image. You have one month to play along and you can enter as many times as you like. Once the challenge reaches 5 entries, a random winner will be drawn.

Have a fabulous and Krafty day!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Perfect Planner, Hello Spring, You Are My Sunshine, One Cup at a Time, Let's Celebrate,
Totally Tubular, I {Heart Coffee}, Itty Bitty Friends (retired), Fin-Tactic Friends (retired)

Paper: Simple Stories Hey Mom

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps March Release Blog Hop (You Are My Sunshine)

Hello and welcome to our March new release blog hop for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

This release is filled with so many cute stamps, you are surely to find one or two that you will want to add to your wish list. Sit back, grab a snack and beverage and enjoy today's hop!

For my card today, I used the sweet spring inspired set called You Are My Sunshine.

This is such a fun and simple set to work with and one that you can create endless scenes with all of the fun element.

I paper piece the umbrella and added Glossy Accents for an added shine.

Here is a look at the inside of the card. I love this fun paper from Penny Black called Painted Blooms.

My second card is one I made using the current Spring Kard Kit, which includes the You Are My Sunshine stamp.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: You Are My Sunshine (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)
Dies: Stitched Rectangle Die (Your Next Stamp)
Paper: Penny Black Painted Blooms
Other: Doodlebug Sprinkles (Lily White)

I hope you enjoy all of the projects featured in our March release blog hop. There is a lot of inspiration today, so please enjoy!

Happy Hopping.

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps March Previews Day Four: You Are My Sunshine!

Welcome back for another fun day of previews. We are now on our forth day of previews for the March release at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

Today's preview by artist and Krafty girl Becky Pearce is called YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE! This stamps set was recently previewed as part of the latest spring card kit that are still available in the shop (here).

This set is a lot of fun to mix and match the different images and it works well with the bright colours in the Echo Park Spring collection.

I used masking paper, to create my little duck and boots scene. I first stamped the image of the duck that sits in front. I stamped it again on masking paper (you can also use a post it note). Cut out the image from the masking paper and place on top of the stamped duck image. Ink up the image going into the background (the boots) and stamp. Once you remove your masking paper the boots will only stamp on the paper in thearea that was not covered with masking paper. It's a lot of fun.

Inside the card I kept everything clean and simple.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: You Are My Sunshine (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)
Dies: Stitching Marks Circles, Circle dies (YNS)
Paper: Echo Park Spring
Other: American Crafts Hemp Twine (Straw)

Remember to hop along and check out all of the fabulous previews from the Krafty Girls today. Leave a comment on each of the blogs as you are hopping 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.

Release Party
Join Kimmie and the Krafty Girls as we party and celebrate the March release. The party will be on the Facebook event page (here) on Saturday March 19 at 2:00 pm (EST). I hope to see you there.