Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps May Sneak Peeks DAY TWO

Oh hey there! Welcome back for another day of 

krafty peeks of the NEW clear stamp sets of May 

from KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!

Did you like what you saw from day one?

Yes?! Well... get ready to ooh and ahh over 

the sneak peek today!  It's and Ahhh-dorably

sweet and fun set by artist Cheryl Grant called 

"KEEP SWIMMING" and we think you'll WHALE-Y love it!

The set features cute kids Lucas and Lulu having some
splish splashy fun with some underwater friends!
 There are FOUR main images PLUS FIVE fabby sentiments
for a total of NINE awesome stamps in the set!

I am not kidding you, I absolutely fell in love with this set! 

I've always loved turtles and this one is extra CUTE!

Here's my card to share with you today

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

613 Avenue Create #175 - "AG w/optional twist of My Sentiments Exactly

(use a die cut to frame a sentiment)

Creative Card Crew #112 Anything Goes

All 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 just have fun with Kimmie and the Krafty Girls!  Hope to see you there!

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

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

Stella Says Catch #409 {Catch the Bug Challenges}

Hello sweet friends.  I have to laugh at myself

as I am typing this today.  It seems I always start

my blog posts the same way.  I think I need some 

new material but I struggle with what else I could say.

Should I say "What Up friends"?  Or maybe

"Hey how you doin'"?  Or something very off the

wall to see who's paying attention?  Hmmm...

will have to work on that for future posts. But

for now I'm very happy that you are here to visit me

so....hello sweet friends :o) !!!

Today is the start of another new Stella Says Sketch

at Catch the Bug Challenges - take a look at SSS#409

 It's a goodie I think - can be very simple

or can be very embellished. Can be flipped 

or it can be square - lots of possibilities I think.

Since I've been running around like a frazzled chicked

these past 3 or so weeks I decided to stick pretty 

true to the sketch and keep it simple.  No 

sentiment on this one so I can use it in a 

variety of ways later when I need a quick card

to send out to someone.  Here's my take on this fab sketch:

This sweet image is called BUGLBEAR (ladybug bear).

It's hard to see in this photo but I added some stickles

glitter glue to the middle of the flowers and the stem.

Fun right?!  Hope you like it!

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

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

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #276 "Anything Goes"

I hope you will go check out the lovely creations from 

the other talented ladies on the Bugaboo team and

then decide to link up your own creation!  

There's an awesome prize for the winner - just sayin!

Thanks for stopping in to visit me - hope you have 

an amazing day and week! Hugs D

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #330 "Layers"

Hello and welcome to my blog! 

Every Saturday there's a new challenge 

at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES

and this week the theme chosen by 

Krafty Girl Marilyn is "LAYERS".

Ohhhh I LOVE layers! Using layers is the 

perfect excuse to use up some of my 

patterned papers stash (so of course I can 

then buy more - bwahahaha).  

Today I've used one of the super fun

stamps and a sentiment from the newest 

release from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps called 

A BIT SMART ASSY 2

Here she is (drumroll).....

She looks like she is having way too much fun to 

be exercising to me!  I certainly don't look that good :o)

Let's see how many layers do I have on this?

I think I count 10!!  Swoon!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More #192 Make Your Mark

Crafty Catz Challenges #323 - Females Only
4 Crafty Chicks #297 "Sassy Woman" and GDT call
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges #276 "Anything Goes"

Next week we start giving you  some sneak peeks at the 

ahhhmazing NEW May release of clear stamps.

You are gonna love love love them!!!! 

Please come join us this week and play along for a 

chance to win some Krafty $!

Thanks for stopping in to visit me today! 

Hugs and happy kraftin'! D 

Freebie Friday - Bugaboo Stamps

It's Friday, it's Friday - I'm so happy it's Friday!!

What a week - Oye!  Looking forward to the weekend

and we are almost there now! Whoo Hoo!

Friday's are fun at Bugaboo Stamps because 

Jodie puts an adorable image out there for you

to grab for free.  Let me repeat myself...

it's Friday and there's a FREEBIE!!

Here's my card using this week's image

This card is going to special lady who's been

undergoing chemo treatments for the past month

or so.  She doesn't seem to have lost her humor 

during this whole ordeal which I think is quite amazing!

I hope this will make her smile!

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

Creative Card Crew #112 - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-CraftyChallenges #276 "Anything Goes"

Go check out the other fun creations from the

talented and lovely Bugaboo DT team at

Catch the Bug Challenges then 

Go go go grab your freebie now too!

Hugs and Happy Friday! D

Catch the Bug Challenges - Anything Goes {May 2016}

Happy Saturday to all my crafty followers!
We've got a very busy weekend planned - how about you?

Today is the start of a new month of challenges 
at CATCH THE BUG CHALLENGES!
How in the world did that last month go by so fast.
It seemed as though it was only a few sleeps 
and viola it was a new month.  

Oh well...at least we'll start seeing some beautiful flowers
in the yard and around the area.  Already the lilacs are
budding up and I can hardly wait for them to bloom!

The theme for this first Saturday of the month
is ANYTHING GOES!  Oh I know you like that one!
I do too!  For my DT creation I made this sweet baby boy
card using the adorable image called Hang in there dog

I fussed around for awhile trying to figure out where to 

put a sentiment or die cut word "baby" but finally decided

that I like it just fine without that and it's quite obviously

that its a new baby boy card.  This way it can be for a 

shower or for the actual congrats after.  

Please come play along with us this week! We love

to see your wonderful creations in the gallery! 

See you soon!! Hugs D