Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp May Release Blog Hop - Oceans of Love

I am so excited! It is time for us to celebrate the May release for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. On today's blog hop you will SEA a lot of WHALEY amazing projects. Sit back and enjoy this amazing release.

To recap this amazing release, we started the previews off with three gorgeous sets called Serena Sparkles, Treena Twinkles and a background set The Ocean.

Next we featured those darling Krafty Kids Lucas and Lulu along with a few ocean friends in Keep Swimming!

 Then there was a lovely mermaid set called Mermaid Friends.

Finally we finished out the week with a super cute of underwater creatures called Oceans of Love. This is the set that I am featuring on our hop today.

I love the sweet sea creatures it this set. They are fun and easy to colour and great for fussy cutting to add to a fun ocean background.

I again used the distress inks for by background, however I wanted to incorporate colours that were found in the fun Photoplay paper Summer Day Dreams.

For this background I started with four inks (Twisted Citron, Peacock feathers, Abandoned Coral and Carved Pumpkin). I applied these colours directly to my nonstick craft sheet and sprayed the ink with water. I took my water colour paper and laid it on top of the watered distress ink. Once I picked it up, I used a paper towel to pull up any splotches of ink then heat set. I used the remain ink on my mat to add the little splotches of colour. Heat setting in between. After to pulling in a darker blue, I added the Mermaid lagoon to my craft sheet, added water and dipped my distressed background into the ink for additional blue.

Once it was dry I used my circle die and cut out the section of the background I wanted to showcase on my card.

Here is a look at the inside of the card.

Supplies Used
Stamps: Oceans of Love (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)
Dies: Stitching/Piercing Circle and Circle Die (Your Next Stamp)
Other: Magical Pastel Gumdrops (Your Next Stamp)

I hope you enjoy all of today's projects that are featured in the May new release blog hop for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

Happy Hopping!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps May Previews - Day Four: Oceans of Love (Plus a Challenge)

Welcome back for another fun day of previews for the May release at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. We are now into our fourth day and I am positive that you will love today's adorable set. Today we are featuring another underwater set, this one by artist Becky Pearce called OCEANS OF LOVE!

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 KKS, you will double your chance to win. You have all week to play along with this challenge. 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.

I created a clean and simple card using the sweet octopus and highlighting him on the card with a touch of distress ink (Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers).

Here is a look at the inside of the card.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Oceans of Love
Paper: Fancy Pants Nautical
Ink: Distress Ink (cracked pistachio, peacock feathers), Memento Tuxedo black, Versa Fine onyx back

Remember to hop along and check out all of the fabulous previews 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 May release. The party will be on the Facebook events page (HERE) on TODAY, Saturday May 14 at 2 PM (EST). Hope to 'SEA' you there!