Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - October NEW Release Blog Hop

Hi!  Thanks for popping in to visit me today!

We at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps have a special

Blog Hop for you today in celebration of the

fantastic October NEW Release.  

Settle back and get comfy and then enjoy hopping

to each of the links below to see some awesome 

creations from the krafty krew and guests 

using the NEW products for this month.  

My card features a combination of 

Caroling Cuties (from Day Three) and
Snowflake Kisses (from Day One) stamped
with the new gorgeous Stormy Sky ink. 

Kind of makes you wanna sing doesn't it?! 

Maybe it's just me but suddenly I'm ready 

for Christmas music lol!

ALL the new products are in the shop now 

so you can go shoppin' after you go hoppin'.

And if you loved it all this month, you are in 

luck because there's the GIMME KIMMIE Kit

which is a fantastic deal.  

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

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 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 

The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge & Your Next Stamp Sketch Challenge #59

Hello friends and followers!  I've been coloring a little

something every day this month as part of 

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge (March 2017).

The idea is to color something every day this month - 

even if it's just for a few minutes.    

So far I've been successful with the coloring part

but have only actually finished two cards to share.

On Day 7 I colored the tiny little sun shown below. 

Today - Day 15 - I had some fun water coloring 

the background panel and finished this card

using the little sun I has colored earlier too!

This adorable stamp set is from Your Next Stamp. 

It's called Little Notes and it also has coordinating dies.

I used the YNS Sketch Challenge #59 for my design. 

I'd also like to enter this card in these challenges too:

Creative Moments Challenge #113 - Anything Goes w/option "Blue" 

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #150 "Anything Goes"
Happy Little Stampers - March Watercolour Challenge

Thanks for stopping in to visit me!
Hope you have a very sunny day today and every day!

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #365 - Square Cards

Hi there!  So happy that you've stopped in to visit me.

It's Saturday so we have a new theme challenge for you

at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES!

This week our hostess Larisa chosen
SQUARE CARDS
as the theme for all of us.  

I personally love to make square cards!

I go in spurts where I'll make a bunch of 

them in a row before I go back to regular A2

size cards.  Square cards are awesome for

larger stamp images such as Belle from 

the BEAUTY stamp set.  Here's my square card:

I had previously watercolored this panel and it was

just sitting on my craft desk waiting to be put on a card. 

The sentiment is from LOVE STORY SENTIMENTS.

I decided to keep the style clean and simple but

with layers.  I just always seem to need layers 

on my cards :o).  CAS with only one layer is 

veryyyyyy difficult for me to do -  LOL.  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
The Brown Sugar Challenge Blog: challenge #234 Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenges #333 - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #123 - anything goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - Fun Friday Challenge #172 Always Anything Goes

Have a wonderful weekend ya' all!  Hugs D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #361 - CAS with a Sentiment

Hello friends!
Pat yourself on the back in congratulations for
making it to the weekend - I know I am!

Each Saturday we have a new challenge starting at
Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges and this week
the theme is CAS (Clean and Simple) with a Sentiment.
I hope that you will come play along with us this week.

I played around with some bright colored Zig clean brush
markers and some Ranger distress inks to make my
CAS creation.  The sentiment (from Love Story Sentiments)
is heat embossed on the watercolor paper.
That adorable snail and the mushrooms are
from Snail Mail (one of my favorite sets from 2016).

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

4Crafty Chicks 4CC#328 - No patterned paper

Crafting from the Heart #139 Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Design - Anything Goes Challenge (12/6)

The Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #229 - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today! 

We always enjoy your creations at Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges 

so be sure to submit them so you can have a chance to WIN 

a $20 gift card to the Shop!! Show us your stuff!! 

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends fb group?

 It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well 

as sharing YOUR creations and getting inspired by others!

And don't forget about the Frugal Friday Specials which are up NOW 

 through Sunday... happy shopping!

Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday - July 20th {Buds and Blooms}

Hello and happy Wednesday friends!

I'm back again today with a card to share

with you for the newest Wonderful Wednesday

challenge at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE Challenges.

The theme, as it always is on Wednesday, is

ANYTHING GOES!   Yahoo!!

My card today uses some water coloring 

and velum flowers - take a look: 

I started by water coloring with distress inks on my 

die cut panel and then stamping the little dots randomly

around the panel and adding a bit more water color. 

Then I stamped and embossed the flowers and leaves 

in white from Buds and Blooms and colored the back

side of them with my copic markers before fussy-cutting them.  

I was going for a soft effect but if you wanted more of a stained 

glass type look you would want to go with your darkest 

marker in the color family as the vellum really lightens 

up the colors when done this way.  I think I used V25  

on my flowers and G24 on the leaves.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #121 - Anything Goes

Will you join us this week?  I sure hope so! 

Thanks for stopping in to visit me today.

Enjoy the rest of your week!  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

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

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Monday everyone, hope you've

had a good start to your week! 

Today I'm sharing a Mother's Day card

that I made for my mom.  

I recently got some more Zig markers from Simon Says Stamp

and was dying to play with them.  So... I grabbed a stamp set

from Close to My Heart and did some stamping, heat embossing 

and coloring with them.  I love how these markers are so vibrant 

yet create such a cool watercolor effect at the same time. 

I find them pretty easy to use but I need a bit more practice 

to get the variation and depth in the colors.   

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

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenges - Emboss It

The Brown Sugar Challenges #197  - Mother's Day 

613 Avenue Create #175 - Anything Goes w/optional twist

of using die cuts to frame or showcase a sentiment

(I used two circle dies)

Addicted to Stamps and More #192 "Make Your Mark"

Come and Get it Challenges #117 Card for a Woman

Sweet Stampin' Challenges '"May Flowers"

Thanks for visiting me today! Have a wonderful
rest of the week won't you?!  Hugs D

Keep Your Face to the Sunshine - Watercoloring w/distress inks

Hello friends hope you are having a wonderful day!

I'm sharing a card that I made today using one 

of my newest crafty purchases from Unity Stamp Co.

called "Face the Sunshine". Take a look:

Lately I've become obsessed with water coloring with

distress inks.  It's so satisfying to create this way!  

I'm also kind of obsessed w/plaid paper lately :0).
I guess there are worse things to be obsessed with - right?? 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Unity {show & tell} - Unity Girl Challenge March 24 - 31

My Time to Craft #318 - Girlie

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #271 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenges - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #335 - For the Love of Water

(use water coloring or water color techniques)

Try it On Tuesday "Add a Quote 29th March"

Thanks for stopping in to visit me today.
Gotta go get ready for my date with the hubster
to celebrate our 25th anniversary.
He's taking me to a really yummy restaurant.
I've tried not to eat too much today so I can
really enjoy tonight!!
Til next time...hugs and happy craftin' D

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - March NEW Release Sneak Peeks DAY FIVE and Anything Goes challenge

Welcome back for the final peek at the new release of clear stamps!
 Today we have an elegant and very beautiful NEW clear

stamp set by artist Becky Pearce to show you.  It's called

"BUTTERFLY DREAMS" and it's absolutely stunning!

This set has so many gorgeous elements to get creative with PLUS
 a bunch of lovely sentiments for a total of THIRTEEN stamps!

Just wait 'til you see this in action in the hop.....you won't believe
 all the amazing things you can do with it!

It's also Challenge Day and our hostess is Krafty Girl Jessie!
 The challenge is Anything Goes (as it always is during release week)
so create a card, altered item, scrapbook page with any stamp
BUT if you use a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp, you'll double your chances to WIN!
 Use any sketch, any design, any theme because anything goes!

Here's my creation to share with you today:

I've been itching to play with my new distress inks after watching
a video by Jennifer McGuire on this technique that basically washes
away some of the color from the image and then adds others back in.
 I started by embossing the beautiful butterflies and then added
two different blue distress inks with the felt pads until the
entire white panel was covered.  Then I began the washing process
(adding water with a brush to the image) and then used some other
colors and water colored them into the image. I was absolutely thrilled
with how this turned out! And it was so much fun to do!!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Try it on Tuesdays #105 Nature (butterflies)
Creative Fingers Challenges #105 - Always Anything Goes

 I hope that you will join us this week with your own lovely creations!
At the end of the month we'll announce a winner from all the creations
submitted for the month of March! We hope you can play along for your
chance to WIN a $20 gift card to the krafty shop!

If you loved the stamps from this release the GOOD NEWS is that
all of them will be released THIS AFTERNOON!
 Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party
beginning at 2pm EST!  Come 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! Happy hoppin'!

Sketch Saturday #404 - Hello

Happy Saturday sweet friends and followers!

Have you got plans for crafting or other such fun?

I will be busy working on our taxes :o(  but the hope

is that I may get a refund that I can use to buy more 

crafty supplies - LOL! 

Are you ready for another great sketch challenge at 

SKETCH SATURDAY?!  I sure hope so 'cause it's a goodie!

Here is Sketch #404

And here is my card to share with you today using it:

I had some of these lovely flowers laying on my craft desk 

(from the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps set called "Buds & Blooms")

that I had left over from a previous water coloring play. 

So, I decided to use one with these great patterned papers. 

I do love how it turned out! Honestly one of the quickest cards

I've ever made and aren't the colors yummy?! Perfect for spring!

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

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #185 - Photo Inspiration

Crafty Creations Challenges #311 Spring Fever

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenges - March

Creative Knockouts Challenges #133 - Spring is on the Way

My Time to Craft Challenge #317 - Flowers 

Ruby's Rainbow Challenges #125 "The Earth Laughs in Flowers"

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges 3/19/16- Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in to visit me today.

Please go visit the reset of my lovely DT teammates to

see what they've made to share with you today. 

Then go create and link up your own beautiful creation with us!

Til next time...hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #321 - CASE a Krafty Girl or use the March Sketch

Hello lovelies! Happy Saturday!

It's time for another fabulous weekly challenge at
KRAFTIN' KIMMIE.

I took the last month off due to some personal and work 

commitments that were causing me too much stress to keep up 

with my DT responsibilities and fun.  I'm so happy to be back 

though and to be the hostess for this week's challenge.

Last month the Krafty Girls absolutely rocked the

February release!  I practically had to sit on my hands

to stay on task and keep from coloring and crafting along

with them.  I saw so many amazing creations from my

fabulous krafty family that I was inspired to choose the theme 

for this week of CASE a Krafty Girl (which includes Kimmie).

What does that mean?  Well...CASEing is the art of

Copying and Self Expression.  That is you copy or mimic a 

creation or style and put your own personal twist of some sort 

on it.  It's quite flattering to be CASEd (I think {smiling face})
and it gives you a chance to stretch yourself a little bit
and try something different. You can CASE any current or past
Krafty Girl creation (or style - for example Krafty Girl Jessie
uses lots of buttons in the most fabulous way on her creations).   

All of the Krafty Girls have such AMAZING talent

and variation of styles.  I wanted to CASE them all!

If CASEing isn't your thing - the other option for this

week is to use the fabulous March sketch instead. 

I saw an amazing card that Krafty Girl Deborah made last month

using the NEW Buds & Blooms clear stamp set and a gorgeous

watercoloring technique and decided that this was the one I needed

to CASE.  And here is Deborah's gorgeous card that I CASEd.

I'm sure you can see why I was so inspired!

And here is my CASEd card:

I don't very often watercolor so I was really looking forward

to playing while I made this one.  My self expression was to use
a different sentiment from "Love Story Sentiments"
and add it in a different way to the card. 

I have a feeling you'll be seeing more water coloring from me.

This was so much fun to do! 

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

The Alphabet Challenges - A is for Anything Pink

Creative Knockouts Challenge #131 - Flower Power

Just Us Girls Challenges JUGS #333 - Word Week "Flowers"

Try it on Tuesdays - Feminine and Fancy

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Touchy Feely (sequins)

Creative Moments - Challenge #88 Anything Goes

I hope that you will be joining us this week too! 

We love to see your creations in our gallery so be sure to submit them
 so you can have a chance to WIN a $20 gift card to the KK Shop!
Show us your stuff! There will be drawing one winner per month from all
Saturday Challenge entries! You can enter as many times per month as you'd like!
You will have until March 11th at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends Facebook group?
 It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing
 YOUR creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends' creations!

Thanks so much for visiting me today!  Hugs D

Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Koffee Krop - Special Challenge 1:1:1

Oh hello again!! Today is a super special day

at Kraftin' Kimmie!  While Kimmie and her peeps are

partying and crafting at the LIVE Krafty Koffee Krop 

the rest of us get to play along too in a couple 

SPECIAL ON-LINE Koffee Krop challenges!!

I'm delighted to be a hostess for the second challenge

of this special event and my challenge is 1:1:1.

To decode this for 'ya it means...make a 1 layer card 

(or use just 1 layer) with 1 sentiment and 1 image. 

Hopefully you've already seen the first challenge from 

Stephanie which is paper piecing.  If not, pop on

over to the KK challenge blog (click here) and

check it out.  But....not before you check out my

challenge below - LOL!! 

Here's what I came up with for 1:1:1

(I went w/the only 1 layer option)

Don't  you LOVE the happy faces on that sweet 

Punkin Family?  To keep my card as a 1 layer only

I stamped and embossed the image first then added 

some color with my watercolor pen and inks.  After drying the
panel w/my heat gun the sentiment - from the NEW
"My Best Friends are Witches" stamp set - was added and
embossed.  I'm pretty tickled with how this turned out since
this is a style that is a challenge for me too 

(what WAS I thinking?) LOL!!

Oh HEY did I tell you that there are some AWESOME PRIZES 

up for grabs for each of the special challenges by some
wonderful event sponsors!!! For example this

 $20 Gift Certificate from Paper Temptress - WOW!

Next up will be Kelli at 2pm EST.
Make sure you check it out and play along
with us at Kraftin' Kimmie!

I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Catz #292 - Autumn Colors

Creative Knockouts #106 - CAS
Simon Says Wednesday Challenges - Use a Stamp
Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #161 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in to see me! Have a wonderful
weekend! Hugs! D

Kraftin' Kimmie Saturday Challenge #285 - TRY SOMETHING NEW

Hi everyone! Welcome to another weekly challenge at 
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

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

I've been kind of experimenting lately with different techniques and styles

so I thought it would be fun to make my challenge "Try Something New"!

Now don't let that scare you... it doesn't have to be a technique or style.

Your "try something new" could be a new color combo that you might not

have tried otherwise, or a new embellishment (like wood or charms or washi 

tape).  It could also be using a new/different type of coloring medium.

For example, I usually color with copics - but it might be fun to use

pencils or crayons instead.  If you are really not so hot on trying something

new then use a new stamp and make a creation to share with us.  

Not so scary right??!  Just tell us what your "New" is please.

For my "Try Something New" I made two cards using water techniques
(both of which I learned recently from my talented friend Cindi C). 
The first one is made by giving a piece of watercolor paper a good
soaking with a water and dropping candy sprinkles on it to dissolve
(yep, like the kind of sprinkles you put on your cupcakes or donuts).
I used some quite large sprinkles that took a long time to dissolve so
I'd recommend the smaller little hard sprinkles if you try this.
I can tell you though that this smells good enough to eat - LOL!

I used one of the new Itty Bitty Friends stamp set (Clarabelle)

and a sentiment from the "Make A Wish" sentiment stamp set .
I also have a sweet little button and mini doily on this
card that I got from the Kraftin Kimmie Shop.  

I'm entering this card in The Outlawz Challenges
Twisted Thursday - Theme of "Things w/ Wings"

My second card also uses water but this time I gave
a panel of watercolor paper a good watercolor wash
with a large paintbrush and some Rich Razzleberry ink
(from Stampin Up) then I dropped some kosher salt
crystals all over the panel while it was still wet to
let the salt dissolve the color in areas where it sat.
After it was dry (heat guns are awesome for this) I embossed
a sentiment (from the "Words of Inspiration" stamp set)
in black - sadly I got it a little crooked - and then added
a bunch of prima flowers and some black rhinestones and
that amazing button on the largest flower middle.  This is
a different style for me as I don't usually go so dark with my
colors - but I do like how it turned out with the variation of
colors due to the salt.  Hope you like it too!

I hope that you will be joining us this week for the Kraftin' Kimmie Saturday Challenge!

We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can WIN

 a $10 gift card to the Shop!! Show us your stuff!!

Now 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! You will have until June 26th at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends fb group??
 It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing YOUR
creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends' creations!!!

If you are looking for a good deal then hear this...
Frugal Friday specials are UP!!!
 There are some awesome KK Stamps on SALE this weekend -
what a great way to work on your wishlist :o)

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today.
Til next time...hugs and happy kraftin'! D