Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges - #500 "Use 1 or More Stencils"

Hello friends and happy weekend.
This week at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS
we are celebrating 10 wonderful years and
the 500th Challenge!!! What an amazing milestone!

This week our hostess for Challenge #500 is Krafty Gal Anna.
She is challenging us to  Use 1 or More Stencils on our creations.
And guess what??? Kimmie is offering a special prize to 
one lucky winner from this next week's entries...
5 - yes FIVE - stencils of the winners choice!

Since Kimmie started carrying stencils in the krafty shop

I've hardly used my patterned papers.  The stencils are so fun

to use and they work so beautifully with the KKS hybrid inks.
They also work great for dry embossing.
If you haven't checked them out you should!

My DT card today uses 3 of the stencils for the background
BATS & MOONS, CREEPY COBWEB and LOTS O' DOTS
and one of the not so spooky monsters from
MONSTER MASH with a sentiment from PUMPKIN KISSES
and added couple of the fun enamel SPOOKY DOTS.

This is one of the funnest cards I've made in a while.

The first color I used on the background was 

GOBLIN GREEN (leaving some white space around the bottom

and outer edge.  Then I added some SPARKLING SAPPHIRE

in the white areas I had left.  For the stenciled layers, I first 

sponged some GRANITE GREY over the top of the 

Creepy Cobweb stencil.  Second layer was to add some bats

through the Bats & Moons stencil. The sentiment was 

added in Wicked Black (same as the bats) and then I

sponged with PURPLE PANSY ink through the 

Lots o' Dots stencil.  Isn't it fun? I love how the green

glows through the web! Spooky Cool!

Thanks for visiting me today! I hope you find some time

in your weekend to get krafty and join the challenge. 

Your entry needs to be a new creation and you can use

any type stamp product. BUT...  We love to see what you make

with your KKS Stamps, inks, stencils and dots!  

So.. if you use KKS Stamps and products you'll

and products you get double entry points!

I'm also entering the following challenges today

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenges #293 -September "Anything Goes"

Crafty Catz Challenges #473 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting me today! Krafty Hugs! D

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #486 - No Patterned Paper

Happy weekend!

It's time for another weekly theme challenge 

from KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES.

Challenge #486 is "No Patterned Paper".

I can remember a time when that would cause my

heart to quiver in anxiety to make a card without

patterned paper.  I have a very large amount of

it in my crafty stash - it's kind of an addiction LOL.

But...lately I've been having so much fun using stencils

that my poor patterned paper stash is quite neglected.

I used the PAWPRINTS Stencil and the Beautiful Burlap Stencil

with two different blue hybrid inks to make the background
for this pet sympathy card.  I colored the sweet dog to
resemble the doggie that the family lost.

The main image and sentiment are from 

the clear stamp set called FURRY ANGELS .

There's velum panel over the top of the base
that I stamped the sentiment on.  It's never
fun to make a sympathy card, but I do believe
that it really touches people's hearts to know
that we care enough to make something
especially for them in their time of sorrow.

I hope you'll make and share your own
beautiful creation with us this week
without any patterned paper.
We LOVE to see what you create.
Thanks for stopping in to visit me today!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps BLOG HOP Celebration for June 2019 NEW Release

It's BLOG HOP DAY!
I love this day of the new release each month.

It's so fun to see all the different ways that the

KKS DT  and our special guest designer use all the new products. 

I played with HIP HIPPO-RAY! and the

WONDERFUL WAVES STENCIL to create a fun scene. 

The waves were created with the NEW Salty Sea ink.

The sentiment was stamped with Wicked Black ink.

(Just as a little side plug - the wicked black ink

is a must have in my book.  It's amazing!)

I also used some of the pretty UNDERWATER DOTS.

I'm so happy you've stopped in to visit me today.  I hope that 

you will hop on down to the rest of the links and enjoy some

more inspiration created for you by the krafty krew DT. 

All THREE new clear stamp sets are NOW available over at the Krafty Shop,

along with our new Salty Sea inks, TWO new stencils and the new

Underwater Krafty Dots! Yaaaay!

You can pick and choose - or for those of you who loved it all there's

an awesome deal called GIMME KIMMIE kit which contains one

of everything from this month at a discount (but only for a limited time).

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - June 2019 New Release DAY ONE Sneak Peeks

It's DAY ONE of the sneak peeks for the 

June Release from KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

I'm so excited to share this with you - I've had so

much fun creating and playing with the new

WONDERFUL WAVES STENCIL, SALTY SEA hybrid ink, 

UNDERWATER DOTS and....HIP HIPPO-RAY
stamp set by artist Melissa Baker-Nguyen!

Super cute images and four fun sentiments too!

Here's the card I made to share with you today:

Isn't this hippo the CUTEST thing EVER???!

Just out there floating and enjoying the sun

(rays made from the LOTS OF DOTS stencil

and Yummy Yellow hybrid ink).

The waves were made with three of the Krafty hybrid inks -

Salty Sea (NEW), Lovely Lagoon and Mermaid Melody.

These inks just blend so nicely through the stencils.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafting By Designs: Summer Fun
Little Red Wagon Challenges #501 "Sea It"
Seize the Birthday #167 Anything (Birthday) Goes
Craft Rocket Challenges: Challenge#60 - June 2019 - Summer is Coming
Cute Card Thursday: Challenge #586 CAS
and
As You Like it Challenge: Favourite Stamp Brand and Why
Although I'm sure most of you are going to guess that
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps are my favorite stamps.  And
guess what??? You are Correct!!  I am completely a sucker for
cute stamps.  KKS has lots of  fun, whimsical
stamps that just seem to work for so many occassions.
They stamp so crisply and beautifully and are so much
fun to color and create with.  And of the owner, Kimmie
Reid, is an absolute doll.  I am living the dream to be
able to design with her stamps and share my creations with you.

For the next three days we will be wowing you with
creations from the DT and guests featuring the new
release products.  Everything will be released and
available for purchase at the LIVE Release Party
in the Krafty Friends Facebook Group at 1 pm EST
Saturday, June 15th.  Join us for a fun time!


Now that you've visited me, make sure you
hop on down and pick a link to the other
members of the krafty krew and our guest to
see some more of the creations we made with this set!

I'll be back tomorrow with another peek!! Hugs D

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Kraftin' Kimmie May 2019 New Release Peek & Anything Goes Challenge

Hello lovely friends!  The May 2019 NEW Release

peeks from KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS continue.  

It's also the start of a new challenge and the theme is

ANYTHING GOES (as it always is during peeks week).

I'm totally lovin' the NEW "MAKE A WISH" stamp set

by Nedra Sadreddin (you can order this tomorrow afternoon)!
It's just so cute I can hardly stand it!

To make my card, I pulled out my very lonely watercolors 

and made a fun background for the genie and Aladdin. 

Then I added some fun polka dots with the NEW

PINK PIZZAZZ hybrid ink and LOTS OF DOTS stencil 

before adding the fussy cut images and a few of the 

FRUITY DOTS.  I added some die cut vellum clouds also

because I thought it would be fun to make it seem

as if the genie were floating in the clouds with a mist 

of magic around him from the bottle being opened.

Here's how it turned out. I kind of like it!

I'd like to enter this card in these challenges as well:

Creative Craft Cottage Challenges #118 - Use INK - as 

much or as little as you want.  I colored with 

copic markers and inked through the stencil (as well 

as the sentiment).  

Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Friday Challenges FFC#281 -Always Anything Goes.

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog #218 - Make your Own Background and

use Dies and/or punches.  

I hope that you'll join in on the Anything Goes Challenge 

this week! I can't wait to see what you make and share! 

Tomorrow is the LIVE ONLINE PARTY in the 

Kraftin' Kimmie Friends Facebook Group.  You'll get to

see all the new products and can purchase them from 

the store right after the event.  I hope that you will

join us! It's always a fun time with Kimmie!!

Until then pop on down to the link below and go

visit the krafty team to see their fabulous

creations using the last NEW stamp set to

be release this month - BERRY SWEET. 

  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

I Love You a Bushel and a Peck - Valentine {SugarPea Designs}

Hello and happy hearts day! 

I had a good day celebrating the ones I love 

and feeling loved myself :o)  

Hope you did too!

This is the card I made for my daughter for 

Valentine's Day and to celebrate how very much 

I love her sweet self :o)

This little sweetie is from SugarPea Designs
called "A Bushel and a Peck" and I colored her with copics.
I made the main card panel using a brayer and then a
stitched rectangle die once it was dry.  It had been sitting
on my craft  desk for quite a while so I decided it wasa
time to use it and the color was perfect for Valentine's day.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
SugarPea Designs Mix It Up Challenges #28 "Lots of Love"
(my inspiration was the pink and the LOVE theme"

Cards in Envy - Be My Valentine Challenge

The Crazy Challenge CCH#242 Color Combo

Pile it on Challenges #126 "hearts on fire" 
Just Us Girls JUGS #380 - Trend Week "Hearts"


Thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today!
Hugs to you! D