Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps Challenge #630 “Animals”

  Good morning and welcome to another

fabulous and fun Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps !

Are you ready for another fun and 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 week, Krafty Girl Karla is your hostess and her challenge theme for you is: 

ANIMALS!

My card features one of the 

Adorable Pandas from Panda-Monium!

on an easel card. 

This sweet set has six main images, several 

little accessory images and seven adorable sentiments. 

So many different ways you can use it!

The main panel die cut is from CC Designs,

the patterned papers are from Doodlebug Designs,

and the die cut sentiment is from Hello Bluebird. 

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and 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!

The monthly prize is a $25 voucher to the Krafty shop!!!

Woohoo!  There are two ways to enter: you can link up your creation on the  Kraftin’ Kimmie blog page and if using KKS products,

you can upload your photo to the album in our 

Krafty Friends FB group.

And don't forget about this weekend's Frugal Friday Specials!! 

We've got a selection of gorgeous stamp sets on SALE 40% OFF this weekend while supplies last!!  

Be sure to check out all the fun projects the Design Team has come up with in the links below! Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

My Time to Craft #302 - Easel cards

Hello again sweet friends.

I'm back with another card for the newest

challenge at MY TIME TO CRAFT.

For the next two weeks we'd like to see your 

easel cards and creations.  I love to make easel

cards but don't do it very often for some reason.

They really are super easy and are a nice change of pace. 

Since this year seems to be going by so very fast, 

I'm getting a jump on my halloween cards - take a look:

I really love sentiment only cards lately!  This sentiment in

the moon is one of several awesome fall/halloween sentiments

in a stamp set called "Spook-tacular Sentiments" by 

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.  I used several die cuts - a circle, clouds,

and the fence.  Then I added those adorable "Scaredy Cat"  buttons.

The black cat has a lot of glitter on it which made it terribly

hard to photograph well.  There isn't anything wrong with

your eyes - trust me :o) and sorry about that. It almost makes 

you feel a bit dizzy as you look at it - arrghh!!

Do you love fun buttons but struggle with putting them on your creations?

I sure did but I found this fabulous tool called a button shank remover 

that easily snips off that pesky plastic loop on the back of  the 

buttons so you can adhere them easier on your creations.

Now that I have this I can get lots more cute buttons! 

(I got the buttons from the Kraftin' Kimmie Store). 

The papers are by Doodlebug Design - LOVE them!

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

Stamping Sensations August challenge - Anything Goes w/a stamp & a die

Virginia's View Challenge #17 - All things Embellished (buttons)

Crafting from the Heart - Challenge 72 "Anything goes"

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges - August "anything goes"

Please go visit the rest of the DT at Sketch Saturday and 

see what they have made for your inspiration this fortnight.

Summer is busy but I sure hope you will find time to join us too. 

Thanks for visiting me...til next time...hugs! D 

Merry Christmas - Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Designer Call

Hello friends - another post for this chilly Saturday morning.

I woke up this morning about 7AM and it was 10 degrees outside.

About an hour ago we started getting sleet and snow and

now the temp (without the wind chill) is below zero

 BRRRRR.......

I promised my daughter that we would go have lunch, 

do a little Christmas shopping and get a tree

to decorate this evening.

Guess I'd better suck it up and bundle up - LOL!

Before I go brave the cold and the crowds I have a

Christmas card to share with you that I made to enter
in the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Designer Call - take a look:

card front - stamp by Krafin' Kimmie

and opened into an easel card

A while back I was fortunate enough to receive

some of Loll's card candy (the poinsettias

and flourishes).  I found them in a bin

of forgotten treasures and knew immediately 

that I wanted to use them.  Aren't they fabulous?

The finished size of this card is 5 3/4" square.

It will need to be hand delivered as it will cost

me a small fortune to mail - lol.

In September I had the honor to be a
Krafty Guest Designer for Kraftin' Kimmie.
I only had a couple stamps but I loved so many
of them that I thought I'd give it a try.
Now I'd describe myself as a bit of an KK stamp addict.
So....here's hoping I get another shot at being a guest designer :o)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday Challenges (Nov)

Addicted to Stamps and More! #123 Holiday

Simon Says Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenges #213 - Happy Everything (any holiday)

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C264 - Squares

Kit and Clowder - November Challenge "Christmas"

Creative Card Crew #75 - Stripes

4 Crafty Chicks #222 - Die Cuts

Just Us Girls #269 - Wild Card Week "Anything Goes"


That's it for me for now - thanks so much for stopping by today
Wish me luck with the chilly shopping day :o)
Til next time....hugs and merry crafting! D

My Time to Craft - Recipe Challenge - Catch the Bug Challenges - Pick up/Get Well

Hello friends and followers and happy weekend to you all!

The challenge this week at My Time to Craft .  MTTC #247 is a Recipe Challenge 

We'd like you to pick 3 items from the following list for the recipe this week:

2 images

stripy design paper

3 or more eyelets

double bow (ribbon, twine, cord etc)

gate fold

easel card

blue

3 flowers

3 buttons

It's also time for another new challenge at Catch the Bug Challenges 
this week the theme is Pick Up/Get Well.
As May's Biggest Fan I get the honor of having my card featured for this challenge.

Without further ado, here's my card for MTTC #247 - Recipe and
Catch the Bug Challenges - Pick Up/Get Well
My 3 recipe ingredients are stripy paper, easel card and blue.

Digital image by Bugaboo Digis: Kitchen chicken - soup

I love making easel cards so this challenge was a no-brainer for me :o)
You can get this great digital image in the Bugaboo Digis Store.

I hope that you will decide to join both of these challenges this week!
My lovely DT buddies at MTTC have made some fabulous creations to inspire you.
There's terrific inspiration on the Catch the Bug Challenge by the DT there as well.

Can't wait to see what you create :o)
Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Mo's Digital Challenge #190 - Use Bright Colors

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well! My card today is for the wonderful and kind husband (Bob) of one of my wonderful, kind and terrific friends (Nette) who fashioned a jewelry organizer that hangs on the wall for my daughter.  He patiently, and perfectly, placed lots and lots of little hooks on this jewelry organizer for necklaces and bracelets.  My daughter was absolutely over the moon excited to have it.  We wanted to thank Bob for doing such an awesome job and were delighted to see this Fixer Boy image in Mo's gallery that would work so perfectly for his card.

Since I was going to use a Mo Manning image I decided to see what the current challenge - it's been a while since I've  had a chance to participate in one of Mo's Digital Challenges.  To my delight  Mo's Challenge #190 is to Use Bright Colors.  So I pulled out some of my bright copic markers and went to town coloring this darling image. Did you notice that some of his tools are even brightly colored?

This is my second easel card. I'm delighted that it turned out so well.  Easel cards are so much easier to make than I thought.  I wish I hadn't waited to so long to give it a try. I promised the ladies in our Crafty Cars Gals group that I would post instructions and photos on how to make an easel card. So I best be planning to make another one soon ;O)

Well... guess I better get going for now. Thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did. Til next time... hugs and happy crafting! D

Sequins and Pearls - 52CCT Embellishment Challenge #18

Hello dear friends and followers! Time for another great challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown (52CCT).  Good gracious where has this past week gone?  We had such fun last week viewing your amazing ornament Christmas cards and this week we are looking forward to being wowed by your creations for the next challenge - 52CCT - Embellishment Challenge #18.  Are you ready for this?  This week at 52CCT we want to see your Christmas cards using sequins and/or pearls.

This photo evokes very pleasant memories for me.  Every year my Grandma would order one of these ornament kits for my two sisters and me.  We would take turns adding the pearls and sequins and fancy stick pins to create our own lovely ornament to hang on the Christmas tree.  I still have one of them that I put out each year that looks similar to the one in the photo (except its green).  

I was a bit panicked at first that I wouldn't have any sequins to use on my card - and I really wanted to use both (although I didn't have to).  So I dug through my stash drawer and lo and behold I found two small packages of sequins (not sure what I even bought them for but was sure glad to find them) so I set to work making my very first easel card.  Take a look...

I had a bit of trouble getting the sequins on this card - those darn little things get very staticy and want to stick to your fingers :o) but I managed to get them on (maybe not perfectly straight or even - but glued on).  I used my Big Shot and the large scalloped circle die to make the base and front panel - leaving just a wee bit of space at the top of the folded cardstock as I ran it through the machine so that the pieces would stay together.  I had never done this before so I googled it and found a great example on the Splitcoast Stampers site (thanks for that).  Wasn't nearly as challenging as I thought it would be and I can't wait to make another.

So enough about me. The rest of the lovely ladies on the DT for 52CCT have made some really wonderful Christmas cards to share with you this week as well using Challenge #18.   What will you make this week for our Embellishment challenge this week using sequins and/or pearls?  I can't wait to come visit you and see!  Til next time... hugs and happy crafting! D