Wonderful Wednesday (May 31st) - SKY'S THE LIMIT

Hello friends!  This week I get the pleasure of being your krafty girl 

hostess for Wonderful Wednesday at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES
 - the very last one of May 2017. 

Are you as stunned as I am at how fast this year is going by?  

Tomorrow we are half way through the year and before you 

know it it will be Christmas time again. Gulp!

  

Now that I've depressed you (LOL) how about I cheer you up 

with a fun little creation using Lucas and his sweet pup 

from "SKY'S THE LIMIT" ?!  You have to smile when you see this duo!

I made this card as a special request for a little boy who will soon

be a Big Brother to twin siblings!  I'm told he loves planes and 

dogs so how much more perfect can it get than to use this stamp set?

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge: Challenge #195 "For the Boys/Men"

Crafting by Designs - June "anything goes"

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes 

Okay so enough from me.  It's time for you to crank up your

crafty engines and propel yourself into your crafty space to

create something to share with us this week.
We want EVERYONE to be able to play along so your
submission can use ANY stamp and can be any theme, 
any style, any designand it can be a card, a scrapbook page, 
an altered item....you name it!  It must be a NEW creation though.  
At the end of the month one random winner will be chosen from
all the submissions for the whole month and will receive a
$20 Gift Card to the shop!  Let's see your krafty stuff!

Thanks for popping in to visit me today! Hugs! D

Happy Birthday Diana {aka Nana Diana} - Surprise Hop!

Oh hello! Thanks so much for being here to visit me!

Today is a very lovely (and super sweet) lady's birthday.  

We  have a special birthday hop at
KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS
to celebrate in her honor.  

Please say a BIG Happy Birthday to Diana (aka Nana Diana)!

I used the super sweet Unicorns and Rainbows to make this 

card for Diana - I hope she will like it!!

Diana I sincerely hope that your day is as WONDERFUL

as you are - you deserve it!  Hugs dear lady! 

Pop on down and visit the links below for more
cards celebrating Diana's birthday!  Happy Tuesday y'all!

Before I sign off, I would also like to enter this card
in the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #149 Animals
Seize the Birthday - A.G. w/Optional topping Something Sweet
(I didn't use the topping option)

Crafting From the Heart Challenges #161 Always Anything Goes

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 - Krafty Komeback "DandyLion"

Happy Fri-YAY!  

Today we have another fantastic re-release of

a retired rubber stamp set.  We call it the 

KRAFTY KOMEBACK at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

If you aren't familiar with the krafty komebacks they are

previously retired rubber stamps.  When Kimmie

switched to the fabulous clear stamps the original

rubber ones were no longer made.  When they were sold 

out they were gone for good. However, Kimmie was able to
have her artists re-make some of the fan favorites
in the new fabulous clear sets.

I'm so excited about this month's krafty komeback 

because she was on my wish list for a long time 

and then when I decided to get her she was gone.

I was jumping for joy to see her again (with some 

new subtle differences that  make her even cuter)!

Meet DANDYLION! She was one of the most popular
images from artist Annie Rodrigue!

Here's my creation using this AhhhhDorable stamp

My background is made with Distress inks and the NEW 

Distress Oxide inks.  I love love love how fun they are

to use.  I only  have two colors right now but will most

definitely be getting more! I also watercolored 

Miss Dandylion with the regular distress inks and 

added some depth with Prismacolor pencils. Such a

fun card to make!  I'm so tickled to share it with you today!

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

The Crafty Addicts Challenge 36 "Anything Goes"

Always Fun Challenges #7 Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #160 Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft #40 Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #330 anything goes

DANDYLION is now available in the Krafty Store!!!

Ready set GO!!! You know you want her :o)

It's also Frugal Friday and there's FOUR fabulous sets 

on SALE 40% OFF! But only for the weekend and only while 

supplies last! So be sure to check them out!

Thanks for visiting me today! Please pop on down to the links 

below and see what some of the other krafty crew have to 

share with (and tempt/enable) you too!  Hugs! D

Wonderful Wednesday at Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges - May 24th

Hello friends!  Happy hump day! 

The end of my work week is in sight 

and it's a long holiday weekend!

Today we have another WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY

challenge for you at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE and you know 

what that means...the theme is ANYTHING GOES!  

We hope you can play along! Break out your 

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!

We want EVERYONE to be able to play along so your 

submission can use ANY stamp and can be any theme, 

any style, any design and it can be a card, a scrapbook page, 

an altered item....you name it!! It must be a NEW creation and you 

can enter until May 30th at midnight! At the end of the month 

one random winner will be chosen from all the submissions for 

the whole month and will receive a $20 Gift Card to the shop! 

What do you think.....wanna WIN?? Let's see your krafty stuff!!

A little birdie told me that something fun is happening 

on Friday! Make sure ya tune in to see what's going on! 

My card today features the NEW clear stamp set called 

BUGS and KISSES combined with some pretty 

flowers from BUDS and BLOOMS.  

I used a combo of copics, zig clean color markers

and distress inks to make this card.  I cut the sentiment 

apart (gasp!) so I could arrange it a little differently.

I'm pretty tickled with how it turned out and I 

absolutely ADORE these little bees!!

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

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #363 "Sunshine"

Crafty Creations Challenges #342 Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #160 Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting me today!  Have a wonderful 

rest of your week! Hugs D

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - May 2017 NEW Release Blog Hop Celebration

Happy Mother's Day!

Are you ready for some amazing inspiration today?!
I sure hope so because the SIX new clear stamp sets that we've
been sharing all week for KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS are
  NOW available in the krafty shop AND we're celebrating
with a Krafty HOP! The Krafty Krew and our fantastic 

guests have pulled out all their creative genius karma

and have some amazing creations to share with you today
featuring the new stamps for May!

This month of new releases has been my favorite so far 

(okay I know I've said that a time or two before but really

I think it is!!!).   Grab your favorite beverage, get comfy
and start hopping along with us.    

I'm using one of the two fantastic new sets by artist Cheryl Grant

called "COWS IT GOING".  Take a peek!

I got some Prisma Color colored pencils for my birthday 

this year (a set of 72). This is my first real attempt at coloring 

the entire image with them.  I'm pretty happy with how it looks :o) 

This stamp set just steals my heart.  I love cows! 

Thanks so much for popping in to visit me today. 

Now off you go to the next person in the list.  Enjoy! 

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 Stamps NEW Release May 2017 DAY THREE Peeks {Just Chicken In}

Hello Hello Hello sweet friends!

How's  your week been?  Who's glad it's Friday?!

Oh yessssss my hand is way up in the air!

I'm so happy you are here to visit me again today because

the sneak peeks of the NEW clear stamps sets release

for this month at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE continue and
today we are featuring a couple super cute NEW animal sets
 by artist Cheryl Grant. What's springtime like down on the farm? 

Lots of FUN according to these kiddos and animals!


I'm featuring one of the sets called JUST CHICKEN IN.
Oh my goodness I just LOVE this set!
There's a main image featuring Lexi feeding her chicks
(with a lending paw from her kitten), and two additional
animal images  with a mother hen and a gorgeous pony!
And there's four punny coordinating sentiments!



Here's my card to share with you today:


I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More #241 Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart Challenges #158 Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon challenge #393 Punny Projects

You will see both of today's sets in action as you hop around the Krafty blogs!
 You'll see the list of Krafty design team members and Krafty Guests
below and be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky
commenter is going to WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop!

ALL SIX of 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 hang out with all our krafty friends! Hope to see you there!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps NEW Release May 2017 DAY TWO Peeks {Summer Aviva}

Hello friends and welcome back for DAY TWO of 

the fantastic sneak peeks of May from 

KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

Today we are featuring an absolutely beautiful stamp

with two wonderful sentiments by another new to us artist -

and our amazing design team member Jasmine Turandar!
It's called SUMMER AVIVA!

This sweet set features a beautiful main image with a
lovely summer dress that has lots of folds to color! And there are
also two fabulous coordinating sentiments to go with her!

Isn't she beautiful?! I think she's just amazing and really enjoyed
creating  this card to share with you today.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges today too:

Craftaholics R Us - May - Spring Colors or Flowers

The Crafter's Cafe Challenges #172 - Feminine

Create and Inspire Challenges #62 - Anything goes w/option of add Flowers

Always Fun Challenges #5 - For a Female or Mom 

Make My Monday Challenge Blog  #45 - May Flowers

Crafty Card Makers #188 - Add a sentiment

{PIN}Spirational Challenges #190 (flowers and purple)

Thanks for visiting me today!  Pop on down to the links below

and go see what the rest of the krafty krew has to show you! 

See you tomorrow with another peek :o)  

Kraftin" Kimmie Stamps - May NEW Release Peeks DAY ONE

Whoo Hoo!  I'm so excited that  you are here to visit me

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

the May release at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

This month is so fantastic I can  hardly believe it myself!

The first set we have to show you has so many sweet 

little images and lots of ways that it can be used.

It's called BUGS & KISSES by new artist Melissa Baker-Nguyen!
We are so excited to add her to the KKS team and can't wait for you
to see her unique flair in our new stamp sets!
This fun set features lots of cute little bugs, accessory stamps,
sentiments and of course a fabulous jar to put them in!!
There is a total of THIRTEEN awesome stamps in the set!
I am totally in LOVE with this set!

I used my mini Misti (my birthday pressie from my kiddos)  

to line up my stamps, then I embossed everything on 

watercolor paper.  This is colored with Zig Clean Color 

markers.  I fussy cut a few extra leaves and popped them 

up a bit around the bottom. A last step was to add some 

glitter glue around the little lightening bug's bums

for their special glow :o).  Someday I hope to actually

see a lightening bug.  Have you seen them before?

I wonder if they are as adorable as these guys :o).

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

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #241 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenges #369 Anything Goes w/optional

twist of Use 5 of Something (I have 5 red hearts)

Crafty Creations Challenges #341 - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting me today.  Please go visit

my lovely DT pals and guests (links  below) to see what 

they have to share with you today too!  Hugs! D 

Crafting by Designs - May 3rd "Anything Goes" - Guest Designer

Hello lovely friends! 

Is your week going well so far?  Have you had any time to be crafty?

For me...in some ways I think "wow it's finally Wednesday" 

and then I think "oh my goodness it's already Wednesday"!

Do you know what I mean?  So it goes sometimes :o)

I'm happy you are here to visit me today!  

A while back I entered Challenge #114 "For A Man"

at CRAFTING BY DESIGNS and my card was one of

the ones chosen as a Top Pick.  To my delight I was 

asked to be a Guest Designer for a future challenge.

Of course I said "yes" and today is that day :o) 

The Theme this week is ANYTHING GOES 

which is super easy and fun!  Always a favorite of mine.

I made this card for my daughter's boyfriend recently.

He's a football player and loves the Denver Broncos

(as do I !).  I thought this was perfect for him. 

The main image is from a stamp set called ALL STAR 

(by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps) and the sentiment is from 

a set called Stay Strong (by SugarPea Designs).  

Those number stickers have been in my stash for years

(literally).  I bought them with some scrapbook layout

in mind but had never used them.  I'm honestly quite

surprised that they stuck to the card (hope they are

still sticking on there - lol)!  

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon Challenges #392 Time to Celebrate

Seize the Birthday Challenges "Anything Goes"

Jo's Scrap Shack Challenges FFC #186 Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends Challenge Blog #43 - Anything Goes

Come and Get it Challenges - Make it Square

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #157 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes

Thanks so much to the Crafting by Designs DT for 

having me as a guest this week!  Please come 

play along with us too.  I can't wait to see what you make! 

Hugs! D