Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps May Challenge - Flowers or Something that reminds you of Mom

  Good morning and welcome to our new 

Monthly Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Are you ready for another krafty challenge to inspire you and help get your creative juices flowing?

We've got some fabulous ideas for you 

and can't wait to see what you create! 

This month our Saturday Challenge themes for you are: 

Flowers OR
Reminders of Mom!

You can choose one theme or incorporate both themes - whatever inspires you!
It's a Choose Your Own Krafty Adventure!

Hello friends! Thanks for popping in to visit me today. These are great challenge themes to choose from. I chose “Something that reminds you of Mom” as the inspiration for my shaker card. Every mom has something special and unique about her - truly one of a kind - just like the beautiful butterflies that I used on this card.

Here’s a list of the supplies used

Krafty Scenery 4 (clouds)

TRANQUIL TEAL hybrid ink

Butterfly Dreams stamp set

Mini butterfly shaker pieces (All Dressed Up)

Curvy dies (Lawn Fawn).

I used the Ink Of The Month, TRANQUIL TEAL, which will be on sale all month long!! You can get the

Ink Pad, Ink Cube and/or Reinker! Grab it now to add to your collection - you will be happy you did!

We also will be back later in the month with 
a mid-month inspiration post for you!

Every month we post a brand new challenge with a choice of themes to choose from, and a mid month inspiration post with even more creative ideas! You are welcome to enter as many times as you like.

These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however, using Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp products will earn you double entries!

*Our Challenges are now combined with the 

Skrappy Challenge (first Tuesday of the Month)

and the Christmas Challenge In the Krafty Friends FB group! So feel free to enter any or all of these - the monthly prize is a $20 voucher to the Krafty shop!!!

Woohoo!  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Catch the Bug Challenges - New Release Tuesday (Aug. 30th)

Hello sweet friends and followers!

Today is a bittersweet post for me

as it's my last official DT post for

CATCH THE BUG CHALLENGES.

I've had the pleasure of being on the Bugaboo Stamps 

design team for nearly a year and a half (total with 

guest designer spots) but lately life and work has 

been knocking me for a loop and I find it very hard 

to keep up with everything.  Something has to

give for a while so I've decided I need to step down 

from the team as I can't continue to give it my

best attention - even as much as I love being part 

of this amazing group. Thank you Jodie and 

crew for having me with you and for being so 

understanding and supportive of my decision. 

So...back to the fun part of this post

and that would be to show you

the fabulous NEW Release digital image

for this week featuring flowers and butterflies!

It's so beautiful!! 

This is colored with my copics but I also

want to try it with watercolors too. 

Go check out the creations from the other 

ladies and see what they've done with this 

image as well.  You'll be glad you did! 

Hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #341 - Summer {Buds and Blooms & Butterfly Dreams}

Happy weekend crafty peeps! 

We have an exciting weekend planned. 

My first niece is getting married today!! 

So amazing and exciting and a little sad that 

she is already old enough to be married! 

Also my son got home last night for a week's visit 

so we will be cramming in as much fun as we can

over the next few days with him. 

Today a new Saturday challenge begins at 

KRAFTIN' KIMMIE challenges 

and the theme this week is  "SUMMER".

Oh how perfect is that?!  Our summer so far

has been very mild - especially for July.  

I made this card to share with you today using

the Buds and Blooms and Butterfly Dreams 

clear stamp sets - take a look:

Once again I used the spotlighting technique

by only coloring some portion of the images 

so they really stand out.  Isn't this color 

combo just lovely?  It sure feels summery to me!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges -Things with Wings
Dragonfly Dreams Challenges "Anything Goes"
Outdoors at Sweet Stampin' Challenges
Creative Moments challenges #98 "Anything Goes"

Come play along with us this week! 

I can't wait to see what you make!

Hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #336 - Flowers

Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekend and another

fun theme challenge at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE!

Our hostess this week is Krafty Girl Alexis 

and her challenge theme for us is...FLOWERS!

The criteria are pretty easy for this one  - as long as we can see flowers 

somewhere on your creation you are qualified to link up your entry

(you can have flowers on the paper, on ribbon, in or on the image, 

or added flowers as an embellishment).  Easy peasy right?!

I used two beautiful summery stamps on my card today

Butterfly Dreams and Buds and Blooms 

I began by masking the flowers and heat embossing the 

stamped images on a panel of watercolor paper and

then directly dabbing my mini distress ink pads 

on the stamped/embossed images (using the corners of

the pads and dotting within the image with large and small

dabs - trying not to completely fill in the image).  

Then I spritzed the panel with water to let the colors

blend a little but the watercolor paper I used is very

heavily textured and the colors didn't spread out as much

as I anticipated that they would so I used a brush

and added more water to blend out the inks some more.

As a last touch I added some pretty sequins. 

Do you supposed I get bonus points for having the 

word "Flowers" on my card? :o)  

I'm really happy with how it turned out!  Hope you like it too! 

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

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Animal Magic
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #46 - photo inspiration

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #180 "Anything Goes w/twist

of Create Your Own Challenge" 

 I chose A2 card type , with Thinking of You/Encouragement

for the event and watercolor and sequins for the trends. 

Crafty Creations Challenges #317 Tic Tac Toe

I used flowers, image (butterflies) and Summer theme

(I think it could also qualify for Sentiment, Flowers, Leaves)

Stamping Sensations - June Challenge "Feature a Creature"
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #430 - Little Bugs/Butterflies

Now it's your turn to create a card, scrapbook page or altered item

 with a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp or any other stamp and be sure to use 
our THEME as a starting point for your creation!
We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them 
for a chance to WIN a $20 gift card to the Shop!   
You have until June 24th at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in.

Have some krafty fun and join us this week and show us your stuff! 

Don't forget to check out Kimmie's brand spankin' new
store website and the Frugal Friday specials this weekend.
There's also lots of inspiration to be found in the
Kraftin' Kimmie Friends Facebook Group.  If you
don't belong to this you are missing out - so go Like and Join us!

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

Catch the Bug Challenges - BINGO (April 2016)

Hello friends and happy weekend!
Oh how I love Saturdays (happy dancing)!

The challenge this week at 

CATCH THE BUG CHALLENGES

is B...I...N...G...O!!!

Are you singing that song in your head now? I am!

 You know the drill  :o) - you get a BINGO by using

the three elements from any row or column

 - vertical or horizontal.  Or a Black out BINGO

by using all the squares on the board. 

Here's my card using the middle row of the board 

{Flower, Pearl, Butterfly} and the beautiful

digital image called friendship roses .

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
The Alphabet Challenge Blog - D is for Dots
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges - April 2016
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Let's Do the Polka
Creative with Stamps Challenge #1- Butterflies
(this is a brand new challenge started by one of our
former guest designers, the delightfully sweet and
very talented Monika Reek.  Hi Monika!)

I hope that you will decide to join us this week for the
BINGO challenge. So many possibilities with this
great board!  Go see what my lovely DT pals have made
to share with you too won't you?  Thanks so much
for visiting me today! Hope you have an amazing weekend!
Hugs D

MOJO Monday #263, 4CCC-112 and Lollipop Crafts #92 - {Happy Birthday Mom}

Hello friends - a sunny but chilly Sunday here is Montana.  I look out the window and think that I really should go outside and get some vitamin D but have decided that I need card making therapy more than I do sunshine at the moment - lol!  Hope you are all having a fine day.

Thursday was my Mom's 70th birthday and I made this card for her using the MOJO Monday #263 sketch. 

Usually when I need to create a card in a bit of a hurry, I just go out on the internet to my favorite challenge sites such as MOJO Monday and grab a great sketch to jump start my inspiration and can quickly put my card together.  In this case though the sketch generated so many ideas that I changed my mind about 4 times before I got it finished (not so quick this time).   My first thought was to put a punched cupcade in the circle with a birthday hat at the top (where the flower is in the sketch).  Then I was going to put a big heart where the small circle is and a smaller heart in place of the flower.  Then I was playing around with a cute image of a bird and a cupcake.  Finally... I decided that I wanted to use butterflies and viola the card was completed - whew! And my mom loved it. So now I have the start of 3 other cards that I can finish all as a result of this sketch :o) Funny how that happens sometimes isn't it?

I am also entering this card in the Lollipop Crafts Challenge #92 - "Happy Birthday" and the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #112 - Dry Embossing.   My dry embossing is on the middle strip, the flower  and the blue butterflies.  Too bad there wasn't a "pearl it up" challenge to participate in too - lol!

Thanks again for stopping by to visit.  Til next time - Hugs and Happy Crafting!!!

Supplies (all from Stampin Up!): Cardstock - Primrose Petal, Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse and Baja Breeze.  DSP - Patio Party. Sentiments - Petite Pairs (one of my "go to" sets) and fabulous phrases.  Punches - Blossom, Elegant Butterfly, Curly Label, 2 1/2" Circle, 1 1/4" circle. Embossing texture folders - Perfect Polka Dots, Argyle.  Beautiful Wings Embosslets (butterflies).  Other - Basic Pearls and Midnight Muse classic ink.