Day One Sneak Peeks - Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!

Who's ready for lots of brand new Krafty goodies?!

It's time for our July Release Peeks to begin 

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Today we have a beautiful underwater set to start off the week

designed by Neda Sadreddin,

 and it's called.....

MERMAID KISSES! 

You'll find three enchanting mermaids ready to share their magic and of course, in true Neda style, so many fantastic accessories!! 

As you hop around the design team's blogs today you'll be able to check out MERMAID KISSES! in action in combination with our other new 

July Kraftin' Kimmie products!  

We've also got TWO new Krafty Stencils for this month's release to help add some funky fun to your creations!  

They are called....
SASSY SEASHELLS

and 

UNDERWATER SCENERY

Both designs are perfect for all your cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media and more!

Oh my heavens! I’m sooo in love with today’s stamp set and the gorgeous new stencils! Take a look at what I made to share with you today! 

You'll get to see all of our brand new goodies in action over the next few days of the July Krafty Peeks and everything will be released at our LIVE Release Party 

on  Saturday, July 10th at 12 pm noon EST in the Krafty Friends group! 

For now, hop around and check out some amazing creations from the Krafty Team! Our fabulous designers can't wait to share their inspiration with you!

Come on back tomorrow for some more krafty fun and goodness!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

July 2020 New Release Peeks - DAY TWO - Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps

Hello and welcome back to my blog

for DAY TWO of the July New Release Peeks

for KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

Allow me to introduce you to BE A MERMAID!

The fabulous new set designed by artist

Sabrina VanVloten is sure to make you

smile with delight (and have your fingers

itching to add to your shopping cart lol).

I had a lot of fun coloring these adorable little images 

and I got a chance to use my newest die cut that 

seems soooo perfect for this set.  Take a Look:

 Those sparkly little enamel dots are from the 

KKS Heavenly Dots collection. The two 

sentiments were stamped with Purple Pansy ink. 

We have even more inspiration for you today too!

All you have to do is go down to the photos and links

of the rest of the Krafty Krew DT and you will be

able to pop into their blog and see what they've made

to share with and inspire you.  

Don't forget to leave a comment at each stop because

each time you do you increase your chances of being 

the lucky release commentor who will win some 

krafty $$ from Kimmie to spend in the KKS Store!

PLUS we do truly love to hear what you think 

about the goodies and our creations! 

All the new goodies will be available in the KKS Shop

following the LIVE Online Release Party 

on Saturday, July 11th at 2pm EST in the 

 Krafty Friends Facebook Group.  It's always a fun

time with Kimmie so I hope you will join us! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another AWESOME stamp

set to share with you for the final day of the peeks 

and a new Anything Goes Challenge.  

Thanks for stopping in today. Crafty (cyber) hugs! D

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - June 2019 New Release DAY TWO Peeks

It's DAY TWO of the sneak peeks for

the June NEW Release at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!


This is such a beautiful and fun set!
It's called YOU ARE MER-MAZING.
Look at these great images and awesome sentiments.
Artist Neda Sadreddin really wowed with this one!

See what I mean? Fin-tastic!!

I used the main mermaid image and the gorgeous
WONDERFUL WAVES stencil with the new Salty Sea ink
(can you also see the waves on the darker panel?)

I had so much fun coloring her purple hair!
Notice those lovely enamel UNDERWATER DOTS too?

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs: Summer Fun

Little Red Wagon Challenges #501 "Sea It"

My design is based on the June KKS Sketch (see below)

We have one more day of peeks and 

another stamp set to showcase tomorrow.  

And I know you'll be excited to know that 

tomorrow everything will be released and

available for purchase right after the LIVE Release Party

in the Krafty Friends Facebook Group at 1 pm EST.

  Join us for a fun time! 

So off you go now to visit the links of the rest of the

krafty krew who have made some ahhhmazing

creations to share with you too!  Thanks for 

visiting me!  Hugs! D

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges -Challenge #387 "Circles"

Oh hey if you are here to visit me today I'd like

you to pat yourself on the back and say 

congratulations for making it to the weekend!

Here we are already at the last Saturday challenge

of this month (wow!) at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE 

and the theme for this week is CIRCLES. 

Oh my gosh...as I typed this I started singing the

phrase in my head "You spin me right round round..."
and I don't even know what song that is from - hehehe.

Funny about the power of suggestion and I apologize if

I've now stuck that (or another song) in your head too - lol!

Anyway...back on track here...we want to see you use

circles on your creation this week.  It could be lots of circles

on the background or it could be images in circles or it could

be a circle card or circle tag.  Okay I'll stop - I think you get it!

Here's my card to share with you using one of the newest

mermaid stamps called SANDY SEAWATER.  I used a

sentiment from one of the other fun mermaid sets called

Serena Sparkles. Of course I used lots of circles too :o)

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #247 - Make Your Mark 

and 5th Birthday Celebration (Congrats to the ATSM team!) 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #334 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Use Patterned Paper
Crazy4Challenges #391 - C4C391 Lap Day -Show some water
Sweet Stampin' Challenges - Lots of Layers

Come play along with us for prize opportunities.  All 

entries in all challenges are eligible to be put in the pool

for a $20 gift certificate to the KKS Shop.  Go get

krafty and show us your own beautiful creation using circles!

Can't wait to see what you make!  Hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #383 - Color combo PINK, ORANGE & GREEN

Hello friends! Happy weekend!
I'm looking forward to busy weekend of family
and fun! We have some nieces, nephews, cousins
and kids of friends graduating from high school over the
next couple of weeks and there are lots of celebrations
happenin'!  Hoping for lovely weather too so maybe
I can get some flowers for my front porch.
Whatcha' got going on this weekend?

I hope whatever it is you also have some time to
play along with our newest challenge at
KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES!

Krafty girl Jasmine is the hostess and she has
picked a pretty color combo that's perfect for
either spring or summer.  For challenge #383
we want to see you use the colors PINK, ORANGE & GREEN.
 You can use other colors too but we'd like these three to
be the predominate colors on your creations pretty please!

My creation this week features the uber adorbs mermaid
FLORENCE FINBOTTOM.  She was so much fun
to color with my copics.  Do you like her hair?

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges;

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #124 "2 or more Designer Papers"

Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Friday Challenges #190 Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends Challenge #44 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' Challenges - Use up Your Stash 

(Doodlebug stickers and doilies)

I won't keep you here reading when you have lots 

of stuff (including crafting) to do!  Remember that  every 

entry you submit at Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges for ANY 

of the challenges puts you in the running to WIN a $20 

gift card to the Krafty Shop!  Come play along with us!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps NEW Release DAY FOUR and ANYTHING GOES Challenge

Happy weekend crafty peeps! 

I get the pleasure of being your hostess for this week's 

challenge and because it's peek week for the May NEW releases

at KRAFTIN KIMMIE the theme is ANYTHING GOES!

Today is the final day of peeks and the release party
is this afternoon at 2pm EST on Facebook!
I hope you can join us for all the fun and excitement and prizes! 

Our final sets are by artist Annie Rodrigue! We know that so many
of you LOVE Mermaids And we've got TWO new one for you!
 First up is FLORENCE FINBOTTOM!

And the second one is SANDY SEAWATER!

I used Sandy Seawater on my card today - take a peek:

I stamped these images in Memento London Fog (light grey) ink
so I could try the no-lines technique.  Many of my krafty DT
teammates have this technique mastered but I've only done it one
other time before.  I'm pretty happy with this second attempt, but then
I think it would be hard to mess up this beautiful image too much :o)!

I'd like to also enter this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Going Dotty
Craft Rocket Challenges #37 - Fantasy
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #328 - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks Challenges 4CC #350 "Celebrating Women

Okay so it's back over to you now!  Remember it's ANYTHING GOES
so you can create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with any stamp
but if you use a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp you'll double your chances to WIN!
Use any sketch, any design, any embellishments! Have some krafty fun
and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs.
You have a week to play with this challenge and at the end of the month,
we'll announce a WINNER from all of the weekly challenges for May!
I hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $20 Gift Certificate
to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop! Wanna win?

Don't forget to pop on down to the links below and visit the
Krafty Krew and Guests listed below.  They have lots of super FUN
designs to show you featuring these awesome new stamps!

  

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges - Wonderful Wednesday "Anything Goes"

Oh hooray it's Wednesday!! 

My favorite day of the week (other than Saturday)

and time for another fun Anything Goes challenge

for Wonderful Wednesday
at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE Challenges.

My card today features one of the lovely mermaids

from the clear stamp set called "Mermaid Friends".

 I LOVE this set!

I added some sponged "waves" with a die cut 

that I used as a stencil.  The layout is from 

the awesome July sketch at Kraftin' Kimmie 

and of course I had to add some of my favorite

embellishments - enamel dots.

Do you have a favorite embellishment? 

How about your least used?  

My least used would be ribbon. 

Anyway...come play along with us this week for

a chance to WIN a Kraftin' Kimmie gift certificate.

The newest release is up and it's awesome - there's 

witches and unicorns and dragons...oh my!!!!

Go check it out!  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenges #202 - Make Your Mark

Just Us Girls Challenges #351 Trend Week "Sponging"

Til next time sweet friends...hugs and happy kraftin'! D 

Sketch Saturday #418 - Bugaboo Stamps Sponsor Catch the Bug Challenges - Color challenge

Happy Saturday friends and followers!

It's time for a new sketchy challenge 

at SKETCH SATURDAY! 

Our sponsor this week is the wonderful 

BUGABOO STAMPS

The super prize offered this week is 

7 Bugaboo digital stamps of the winner's choice.

There's also a new weekly challenge up at
CATCH THE BUG CHALLENGES
and this week it's a color challenge

 What a pretty color scheme - don't you think?!

Here's Sketch #418 

and here's my card using it 

with the color scheme and 

featuring Ava Mermaid by Bugaboo Stamps

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges #318 - anything goes

The Outlawz - Twisted Thursday challenges w/

optional twist "Show Us Some Water"

Creative Fingers Challenges #112 "anything goes"

Thanks so much for visiting me today.

I'll be working for a while and then volunteering

at a Lion's Club fundraising event.  It's a car 

show so that should be fun!  

Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Sketch Saturday #415 {A Day for Daisies Sponsor}

Happy Saturday!
Do you have any plans for the weekend?
It's supposed to be really warm here 
and I'm happy about that :o)
I can't wait to be outside to soak up some sun!

It's time for another weekly sketch challenge 
at SKETCH SATURDAY!

 A Day For Daisies is back this week

to sponsor Challenge #415! 

The prize this week:
$12 A Day for Daisies gift certificate.

Here is sketch #415:

My card features a previous freebie from A Day for Daisies

This sweet little mermaid image is colored with

copic markers.   I'm loving the pretty color combo!

Do you like it too? This wonderful patterned paper

(from Echo Park) was just sitting in my stash waiting for me 

to use it.  I was excited to find it because it seemed so perfect

 for this image.  The strip of glitter ribbon is from 

Close to My Heart, and the sparkly gems were a $1 purchase

at my local craft store. There's a whole sheet of lots of

pretty sparkly colors.  That makes me happy!   

The sentiment is from one of the newest 

clear mermaid stamp sets at Kraftin' Kimmie

called Treena Twinkles.  

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create #178 - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More #196 - Anything Goes

The Alphabet Challenges - "G" is for Girlie

I hope that you will go visit the challenge blog today. 

My friend and Krafty Girl sister Alexis Crossland-Smith

 is our guest designer this month.  Pop in and say "hi" 

to her and the other lovely and talented ladies on 

the Sketch Saturday team.   And then...come back and

share your own fabulous creation using this week's sketch!

Thanks so much for visiting me today!

Have a most awesome weekend! 

Hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday Challenge - Mermaid Friends & Oceans of Love

Happy Wednesday crafty friends and followers!

I'm not sure if I think this week is going by slowly or too fast.

 Too fast for all the crafty projects I want to get done

and too slow for the weekend to be here - LOL.

But here's the best news about today...it's time

for another fun Wonderful Wednesday challenge

at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE!!  

The theme as it always is for the Wednesday challenges

is ANYTHING GOES!  Who doesn't like that right?!

You can make any type of project with any theme 

and use any stamp or crafty medium you wish.

Just have fun with it and share it with us for an 

opportunity to win some Krafty $ to spend in the 

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps store - whoo hoo!!

My card today uses one of the brand newest 

stamps from the beautiful MERMAID FRIENDS

and a sentiment from OCEANS OF LOVE (currently

sold out but will be back soon) - take a look:

I've been seeing the use of vellum a lot lately so I thought

I'd pull some out of my stash and play with it at bit

Those waves are actually the puffy cloud border dies from

Your Next Stamp.  I think it turned out kind of fun ;o).

I used the sketch from MOJO Monday #449 this week

(as you can see I flipped the orientation of it though)

for the layout.  I also wanted to play along with 

the current challenge at 613 Avenue Create #177

which is Anything Goes w/optional twist of  

Create your Own Challenge Series.  I used

the A2 Card type, Thinking of you as the event, and 

gold/metallic and sequins for the trends part of the challenge.

I would also like to enter this in these challenges too:

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenges #109 - Just Us Girls 

{PIN}spirational Challenges #166 - Anything goes

Hope you will consider joining us this week at KKS.

There are some more lovely creations from my 

sweet and talented Krafty Girls teammates -

go check them out too.  You'll be glad you did!

So that's it for me today. I'm sure glad you stopped 

in to visit me!  Hope your Wednesday is great and it

goes by as fast or as slow as you like it to :o)

Til next time...krafty hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps May Release Blog Hop!

Hello krafty friends!  Do you have a favorite drink

ready to enjoy while you hop along with us today 

at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE 

while we show you a final day of the amazing

NEW clear stamps of May? 

Have you  had a favorite so far? 

That's a tough one to answer for me as

I love every one of them this month. 

Well whether you have a favorite or love them all, 

ALL of these amazing new sets are now available

and in the store for you to snatch up.

My card today uses another one of artist Annie's 

gorgeous mermaids called Treena Twinkles:

I uused some more of my favorite Doodlebug
Patterned papers and the sketch from
MOJO Monday #447 for inspiration.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenge:
613 Avenue Create #176 Anything Goes

I hope you enjoy the hop today.
The Krafty Girls always have some
fabulous inspiration to share with you.
Sea you soon! Hugs D

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps May Sneak Peeks DAY THREE

Hello!  It's DAY THREE of the May

release sneak peeks for the NEW clear stamps

at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

Did you think we were done with the MERMAIDS??? Nope!!
 Today we are sharing previews featuring a set that I KNOW
will make a splash! We're so excited to share the new set of fin-tastic
images by artist Emilie Goulet called MERMAID FRIENDS!

The 4x4 clear stamp set features two beautiful mermaids
with their water-ful friends PLUS five awesome sentiments!
They're such fun!

For my creation today I wanted to use watercolors 

and create what I hope looks like an underwater image

take a look and let me know what you think!

I embossed this lovely mermaid first and then 

watercolored over the entire panel with distress inks.

After it  had dried a little I washed out some of 

the color from the mermaid and fish and then added

some other colors.  As a last touch I added some

shimmer to her tail using Wink of Stella clear pen

and some Stickles glitter glue on her hair pin.  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew #112 Anything Goes

All of the new May clear stamp sets will be released this weekend! 

 Be sure to join us on Saturday at the LIVE Online Release Party 

beginning at 2pm EST! Come join us to help celebrate 

the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance 

to win some prizes and just have fun 

with Kimmie and the Krafty Girls! Hope to see you there!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Sneak Peek DAY ONE!

Oh my goodness I'm so glad that you are here because....

it's DAY ONE of the fabulous sneak peeks of May for 

KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

I am over the moon for this month and I think you

are gonna love it too! Especially today if you 

are partial to the SEA!!!

The theme is UNDERWATER and we are kickin' things off
with THREE FIN-tastic new designs to inspire you
from artist, Annie Rodrigue!

First there are TWO new stamp sets featuring BRAND NEW MERMAIDS!
Each stamp set has several super cute and funny coordinating sentiments!

They SHORE are beautiful and they are called 

 SERENA SPARKLES

 and TREENA TWINKLES!

Annie has also designed the perfect BACKGROUND stamp set
to go with these new mermaids and many other summer stamp sets
 OR to just use it by itself!!
 How gorgeous is this underwater scene called THE OCEAN!!?

I combined The OCEAN background stamp and the 

SERENA APARKLES stamp to create this fun card.

I wanted to make the coral and plants look like they were 

moving a bit in the water so I double stamped the image.

I used various distress ink colors for the watercolor effect. 

You can't see it very well in the photo :O( but I added 

some wink of stella on her tail and fins and face.  

It's very pretty IRL.  Sometimes I wish I was a mermaid :o)!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenges "Emboss It"

(I used dry embossing on the botton panel and heat

embossed the main image and background scene)

The Alphabet Challenge Blog - E is for Embossing Folders

Crafty Catz Challenges #323 - Females Only 

All the NEW May clear stamp sets will be released on Saturday afternoon! 

Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party beginning at 2pm EST!

 Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots 

of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes 

and just have fun with Kimmie and the Krafty Girls! Hope to see you there!

See you tomorrow with another sneak peek! Hugs D