{TI} Dreaming of Spring

This week we have a challenge over at Tiddly Inks that really is a challenge for this girl!! Spring themed cards. Guess what? It's pretty hard to make a cheerful spring card when everywhere you look is covered in a blanket of white and the snow will NOT quit falling!! I can't take it much more, lol!! I need spring to….well…spring! Enough already Mother Nature! Take your meds and lets get green already! haha!

I've used the sweet TI image: Wryn- Hanging Around on my card today. I love how she is hanging upside down! I coloured her with copics and a wee bit of pastels, using the colourless blender to add some texture to her shorts. I used a TCP cloud border die and SU ink to sponge in some clouds in the background. The sentiment is from a TCP set. I added some enamel dots and machine stitching. 

{SSSC213} Shore do love you!

Hey there! I've got a fun card to show you that features some really cute stamps from Reverse Confetti! It's been awhile since I've done some good old fashioned stamping, without getting all hung up in the colouring department, so this was a fun challenge for me (even though there is a bit of colouring on the lighthouse)! I felt a bit rusty, but a really great sketch always helps the ball rolling, and this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge was just the thing I needed! Plus, it's a smaller card this week (3.5x5.5), so it's perfect for these smaller stamps!! Win-Win!

The stamp set that I used is called Happy Harbour. 

I used circle STAX from MFT, the wave die is TE and the little heart is the PERFECT size for a little heart accent…it's Reverse Confetti's Love Note die set and I LOVE it! I added a little vellum flag (My pal Sarah has me hooked on vellum ;) ) for the sentiment.

I used this month's Reverse Confetti colour challenge…I hope it's okay that I added that pop of red ;)

Here is the SSSC sketch: 

Check out what the other Sweet Stampers have in store for you this week!!

• Barbara Anders
• Dana White
• Jackie Pedro
• Karen Giron
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put- Taking the week off 
• Sarah-Jane Kalé
• Tracy Clemente - Taking the week off 
• Vicki Burdick

{KKS} Spring had Sprung!

Welcome to another Kraftin' Kimmie weekly challenge!

This week our hostess with the mostest is KAREN !! And her challenge is SPRING HAS SPRUNG!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp that features spring in some way!! Have some krafty fun and join us this week!!

I've used one of my favourite stamps from artist Emilie Goulet, What's Up, Gnomie?  Dies are by MFT, as well as buttons and twine. I machine stitched in both straight and zig zag stitching. I also added some fun little enamel dots in various colours. The layout is this weeks Deconstructed Sketch #144.

Of course, we’ve got our FrugalFriday Specials on this weekend with 25-50 percent off a dozen of our fave stamp sets!

We’ve also got LOTS of brand new 6x6 paper pads…
and restocks of EZmount and HOT KNIVES, while supplies last!! 
(P.s. Have you seen our new video, Working with Unmounted Stamps?)

Now check out the wonderful creations by our Krafty Girls and special Krafty Guests featuring this week’s challenge!! We’re sure you’ll be inspired!! Then join us, play along and you could WIN!!

Happy kraftin’!!

{SSSC212} Foxy Friend!

ERMAGERD!!! I am so excited that I finally made my first Reverse Confetti card! I'm not gonna lie, I have a few sets and dies, but I am a little intimidated by graphic stamping or whatever it's called *basically all I am comfortable with is colouring, LOL! and the rest of the card seems to just fall together somehow. Without colouring, I really have no idea what I'm doing!! True story. So anyway, on my last confetti order, this adorbs little Frieda Fox found her way into my cart! Now I only wish I had ordered her bunny friend….Oh well, next time!

She is of course, coloured with copics and she has a wee denim paper-pieced dress (which is not real denim, just a nice pc of DP!). I added glossy accents to her ears (hearts! OMG!), nose (eek! another heart!), the flower centre, the big heart and her shoes….

I used a Confetti Cut Love Note die for the little heart and the heart border strip. I added an MFT button and twine to the centre of the die cut heart. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the sentiment that comes with the set! There are a few but this is my fave!

I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge for my layout, rotating it to the side:

Check out what the other girls have to show you!!

• Barbara Anders
• Dana White
• Jackie Pedro
• Karen Giron
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put
• Sarah-Jane Kalé
• Tracy Clemente (sitting out this week)
• Vicki Burdick

{KKS} Happy Birthday to Moo!

Well, welcome back for another fabulously FUN challenge here at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!! We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can WIN MORE rubbah!! Show us your stuff!!

This week our hostess is KIMMIE!! And her challenge is PRETTY IN PINK!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp that features the colour PINK in some way!! Have some krafty fun and join us this week!!

I used the new set Down on The Farm 2 (yes, I am obsessed with this one!!) to create this feminine birthday card. Dies are by MFT *there's a little light pink button tucked into that rolled flower that is also MFT- just just can't really see it in the picture real good…I added some jute twine- that stuff is great for 'country' cards!! I added glossy accents to the bucket, her eyes and hair bow, the cows eyes, nostrils and hooves. The image was coloured with copics and pastels added in for shading.

Of course, we’ve got our FrugalFriday Specials on this weekend with 25-50 percent off some specially chosen stamps!!

We’ve also got LOTS of brand new 6x6 paper pads…
and restocks of EZmount and HOT KNIVES, while supplies last!! 
(P.s. Have you seen our new video, Working with Unmounted Stamps?)

Now check out the wonderful creations by our Krafty Girls and special Krafty Guests featuring this week’s challenge!! We’re sure you’ll be inspired!! Then join us, play along and you could WIN!!

Happy kraftin’!!

{KKS} Cowgirl Birthday

Welcome to another Wonderful Wednesday challenge for MARCH!! And as always....it's ANYTHING GOES!!

Your submission must use at least one Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp but 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 on this post until Tuesday, March 25th!! What do you think.....wanna WIN??

Sooooo, you might have noticed that I did a wee bit of stamp altering with this little 'fella' from the Down on The Farm 2 set to make he into a she!! I used my copic multiliner to draw in some pig tails to make a custom birthday card for a friends little girl, who loves horses! What do you think? I used a sentiment from the set I {heart} You and pieced the little heart with patterned paper. I made a little twine lasso and added a MFT horseshoe die and button combo.
Have you seen Krafty Girl Cheryl's awesome new tutorial on distressing? I followed some of her tips for the inside circle panel. You can check out her tutorial HERE. Trust me, it's good. And she has nice scissors if you're in to that sort of thing ;)


**Please note that you are more than welcome to combine this Wonderful Wednesday Share to Win challenge with other challenges, BUT not our regular weekly challenges. This must be a new and different creation than anything you create for our Saturday challenges.

Don't forget....we've got a bunch of new 6x6 paper pads in the shop, the Pastel Pencils are back in stock AND some new limited edition stamps in the Krafty Singles section! Happy shoppin'!!

Here is this week's Wonderful Wednesday inspiration to get you kraftin', thanks to our fabulous Krafty Girls!! Then....let's see YOUR kreations!!

{SPD} Embellish It!

Time for another regularly scheduled monthly challenge from SugarPea Designs! This month we are changing it up from our usual 'anything goes' to something different! GASP! By now the DT and you (I hope!) have been building up our SPD stamp collection, so challenges can be a bit more specific! This month it's still pretty non-denominational, if you will ;) We are challenging you to use embellishments on your card....so get out those  flowers, buttons, brads, eyelets, ribbon, twine, gems, whatever you have piling up around you, and add it to your card!!

I used the ADORABLE Take a Load Off stamp set, adding to th clothesline the teddy and a pair of socks! So fun how you can customize your laundry! Most of this was coloured with copics- I added some white paint specks to her red shirt. I pieced the socks (using white paint to add the toe and heal detail), the shirt on the line, and the girls headband and undershirt. I masked and used an ink pad, sponge and cloud border die (TCP) to make the sky. I machine stitched around the image panel to give it a nice finish. I added the sentiment on a vellum flag with a snippet of yellow DP in a smaller flag underneath. The banners are anchored by a button and double twine bow (MFT). 

I love that this stamps is large enough that you don't need much else! This is a standard A2 card, just to give you an idea on the size of the image.

Rules for our challenge monthly challenge are really simple! You must use a SugarPea Designs stamp set, and you need to link up your card on the SPD blog! Easy peasy, right? Just by playing along, you'l have the chance at winning some SPD cash, and your creation might just catch our eye enough to be featured as an Sweet Find! Fame and fortune, I tell ya!

{TI} Sweet Birthday Girl

I used the brand new Flower Girl Extraordinaire Faythe! Isn't she precious!! I made her into a birthday card. I might give this to my niece, who turns 7 in a few days! 

I did some machine stitching and used dies by MFT (circles, flags) and The Cat's Pajamas (butterfly, border). I added a little MFT button and twine combo on top of the butterfly. The sentiment was printed out on my computer.

Check out what the other Tiddly Inkers have come up with for the Birthday Challenge! There are some amazing projects this week!! And there is a 48 hr SALE going on now!! Everything on sale including the new digi's!!

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

{TI} St. Paddy's Birthday!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I have a sweet little Irish friend that just so happened to turn the big 4-0 a few days back, so I thought I would make her a card using this sweet Tiddly Inks image! I hope she loves it!

I used Good Luck Chloe (she was free for a few hours as a sweet Facebook St. Paddy's gift from Christy, but now she has been moved into the store). Don't fret if you missed out on the freebie- she's only $1.00, so go on and pick her up!

I added a computer generated sentiment, which was a verse I saw on my friends FB page today! I think she'll get a kick out of it! The clovers are an MFT flower die, of which I snipped out one of the petals to make the lucky four ;) I added in black buttons to cover up the damage I did with the scissors, lol!

{KKS} March Release Hop!

We're so excited! It’s our MARCH RELEASE Day at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!! And we’re celebrating with a KRAFTY HOP!! So grab yourself a cuppa joe, sit back and be prepared for some krafty eye kandy! We're going to inspire your creations with our fun, new stamps!

Over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, we have shared lots of AMAZING new stamps from all our artists for our March release! We’ve got something for everyone!! We’ve got a very unique new SLOTH set from Thai called WANNA HANG? There's an awesome new a-MOO-zing new set from Cheryl called DOWN ON THE FARM 2! Lastly, we are SO excited to share a SASSY new Moonlight Whispers stamp set....SHOW STOPPERS!

You will get to see ALL of the new images today as you sit back and enjoy our MARCH Krafty Hop! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of these incredible stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are available NOW! And don't forget...if you NEED it all, we have a Gimme Kimmies Kit which features ALL the new March stamps at a discount!!

OH AND we have a bunch of new PAPER PADS in the shop for you today!! There are brand new lines by Simple Stories, Bo Bunny, MME, American Crafts, Graphic 45 and Kaisercraft!! There are also a bunch of restocks of most requested paper pads!!!

Now let's celebrate with our NEW RELEASE and get hoppin' and shoppin'!!

I stamped the cutie from Down On The Farm 2 onto X-press Blending CS and coloured her with copics and pastels. I added white paint pen to highlight. I inked with distress ink and did some machine stitching around the main panel. The flower die is by MFT, as well as the twine. The button is from an October Afternoon collection. DP is MME- Dilly Dally, which happens to be ON SALE in the KKS shop right now! 

I used this weeks sketch from SSSC (#211) for my layout.

Please hop on over and see what the Sweet Sunday Stampers have created for you this week.  You will definitely be inspired!

• Barbara Anders
• Dana White
• Jackie Pedro (she'll be posting a bit later on Sunday)
• Karen Giron
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put
• Sarah-Jane Kalé
• Tracy Clemente
• Vicki Burdick

{KKS} Farm Friends

Welcome back to day THREE of our MARCH Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks!!! The awesome new stamps just keep on comin'!!

We are SO thrilled to share the newest set of THREE images with matching sentiments from CHERYL! With the popularity of a set we released last year, we have continued on with the farm theme so today we're showing you the new set called DOWN ON THE FARM 2!!

This week our challenge hostess is TANGII! And her challenge is ANYTHING GOES!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp with no restrictions! Use any sketch, any design, any embellishments because Anything Goes! Have some krafty fun and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs. We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN some NEW Kraftin' Kimmie rubbah!!!

Would you like to know who won the new stamp sets that we've previewed this week???!! Well, you'll just have to wait until TONIGHT at this month's ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!!! Hope you can join us for all the fun and excitement and prizes!!! We'll be releasing all the new stamps you've seen this week after the party at 7pm EST!! You can read all the details about how you can join us RIGHT HERE!

All the Krafty Girls listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you featuring these sweet new stamps from Cheryl! And while you're hopping around, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away some stamps!!! You could WIN the new set stamps!!!!! {All of this week's winners will be announced at the online party tonight!}

So come and hang out with us tonight for all the LIVE action krafty fun at the release party and then come on back here tomorrow to check out the release day blog hop! ALL the new stamps will be available on TONIGHT at the KKStamps Shop!!

Happy hoppin'! 

{KKS} Show Stoppers!

Welcome back to Day TWO of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps MARCH previews!!! We are back with a fabulous new Moonlight Whispers stamp set!! You'll love these two SASSY showgirls along with the FOUR fun sentiments!!

Today the Krafty Girls and I are thrilled to share with you.....SHOW STOPPERS!! There are lots of amazing creations on today's hop featuring both new images and sentiments from the set!! We know you are just going to LOVE these classy, sassy ladies and be inspired by all the fun designs!!

I used this weeks Deconstructed Sketch and did a lot of distressing! I coloured her with copics and pastels, and fussy cut her out. I used stickles and rock candy loose glitter, as well as glossy accents on her lips and eyes. I added some black enamel dots and SU rhinestones. the dies are all MFT. This card was super fun to create, just because the image is so spunky!! Making her come to life was a treat :)


Below you will find all the Krafty Girls who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN a package of today's stamps!! Woohoo!!!

ALL of our MARCH stamps will be available on Saturday night at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!! We'll be celebrating at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! It's over at our KKS Facebook fan page! Join us for all the fun!! You can find more details here!!

{KKS} Take a nap....

Welcome to day ONE of our MARCH Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks!!! Today we are excited to share a supah cute new set by artist Thais Narciso!! We'll guarantee you haven't seen anything like these adorable SLOTHS before!!! We are sharing samples today featuring.......WANNA HANG?!

All the Krafty Girls and Guests listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you, so be sure to hop over to each of them! And while you're there, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away one of the new sets and YOU could WIN!! {All of this week's winners will be announced at the online party on Saturday night!}

Then come on back tomorrow to check out MORE fun new stamps we have to share with you! And ALL the new MARCH stamps will be available on Saturday night at the KKStamps Shop!!

{KKS} Wine Wednesday!

Welcome to another Wonderful Wednesday challenge for MARCH!! And as always....it's ANYTHING GOES!!

I've used the super swanky set Wine Me, Dine Me. I coloured with...Prisma Pencils...GASP!! I know. I feel like an adulterer . My copics are very upset with me. I stamped in memento onto kraft CS and fussy cut the bottle and wine glass, popped that up, and then just the wine glass and popped it up. The glass has a layer of glossy accents. I adhered a strip of damask pattern DP to the bottom portion along with two large black brads. The sentiment was stamped onto the kraft base and then I ran it through a EF.

Your submission must use at least one Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp but 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 on this post until Tuesday, March 18th!! What do you think.....wanna WIN??

**Please note that you are more than welcome to combine this Wonderful Wednesday Share to Win challenge with other challenges, BUT not our regular weekly challenges. This must be a new and different creation than anything you create for our Saturday challenges.

Don't forget....we've got a bunch of new 6x6 paper pads in the shop, the Pastel Pencils are back in stock AND some new limited edition stamps in the Krafty Singles section! Happy shoppin'!!

HEY!!! Did you know....this week is RELEASE WEEK at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps???! We'll start previewing three fabulous new stamp sets starting TOMORROW!!! Eeeeeeeeeee!

Here is this week's Wonderful Wednesday inspiration to get you kraftin', thanks to our fabulous Krafty Girls!! Then....let's see YOUR kreations!!

{SPD} Sugar Sketch 01

 Exciting news here today! SugarPea Designs will now be hosting not one, but two challenges every month! We will still have our usual challenge, which will vary by theme month-to-month, but we are now offering another way to play along with your amazing SPD stamps and WIN!! This one will be our SugarPea Designs Sugar Sketch (SPDSS01) debut!

I've used Love You Bunches, and coloured with copics and just a touch of pastels, adding freckles with a wine coloured copic multiliner. I used MFT dies and some machine stitching. I also added glossy accents to her eyes, teeth (is that weird?), hair baubles and the centre of the flower. Paper is MME.

Important details:

• Create a new card or project using the SugarSketch provided.
• SugarPea Design stamps are NOT required to play along but would be appreciated 
• You may rotate/flip the sketch & replace shapes – so long as the original sketch layout is recognizable 
• Upload to your blog or other Online Gallery using Keyword: SPDSS01 so that we may check out your beautiful work

  There will be a $5 gift certificate up for grabs. Winner will be randomly chosen. Winner will be announced on Sunday,

 April 13th.

Head over to the SPD blog to see what the other Pea's have been up to :)

{SSSC} Just Roll with it!

I have another cute SugarPea Designs card to share with you tonight! This is one of our latest releases 'Rice Rice Baby' and I LOVE him!! I paired him up with some little fishy patterned paper and black brads. This card is really clean and the focus is on this little cutie!

Here is this weeks awesome SSSC (#210)...we'd love to have you play along with us!

Visit the other Sweet Stampers to see what beautiful cards they have this week!

• Barbara Anders
• Dana White
• Jackie Pedro
• Karen Giron
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Motz
• Lisa Henke
• Lori Tecler
• Lynn Put
• Sarah-Jane Kalé
• Tracy Clemente
• Vicki Burdick

{KKS} Scrappy Cat

Well, welcome back for another fabulously FUN challenge here at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!! We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can WIN MORE rubbah!! Show us your stuff!!

This week our hostess is STEPHANIE!! And her challenge is to Stash It UP!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp that uses some leftover stuff in your stash! We love to see flowers!! Have some krafty fun and join us this week because not only can you WIN with us, but there’s something extra special going on!!!

I've used a dreamy kitty from the set Feline Great......copics, pastels, glossy accents and a white paint pen were used for the image, as well as various OA papers in my 'stash' (not sure the lines), an OA button and black jute. the flag die is by MFT. I threw in some sequins just for fun!

We are ALSO sponsoring the month long challenge over on the Kit and Clowder blog!!! Their challenge is WINGS so if you create a card featuring stuff from your STASH AND WINGS, you can enter it into BOTH challenges for DOUBLE the chances to WIN!!! How awesome is THAT?!?

Also BIG NEWS is that Alyce from Kit and Clowder will be doing a LIVE COLOUR ALONG online on March 29th and she’ll be using the HANNAH HEARTS stamp set by Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!!! So if you’d like to join this fabulously fun and FREE feature next month, be sure to scoop up Hannah who just happens to be ON SALE 20% OFF right now!!! Be sure to order her right away so that she has time to arrive in your mail!!

Of course, we’ve got our Frugal Friday Specials on this weekend with 25-50 percent off some specially chosen stamps!! We’ve also got LOTS of brand new 6x6 paper pads…
while supplies last!!

Now check out the wonderful creations by our Krafty Girls and special Krafty Guests featuring this week’s challenge!! We’re sure you’ll be inspired!! Then join us, play along and you could WIN!!

{SPD} Have a Rice Day

Ack! Is this not the cutest penguin-sushi set out there? Well, it might be the only one...but if not, then it's still the cutest! My littlest boy loves this guy and wants to name him after himself! So around here, we're calling this guy Sushi Chef Hayes! It's actually called Rice Rice Baby, but don't tell Mr. Hayes that ;) 

This little fella has the FUNNIEST sentiments to go with his good looks!! You are gonna love him! I coloured with copics, and added some glossy accents to the nose and feet. Dies are by MFT and TCP. The button is OA and I added some black jute twine and sequins. The DP reminded me of the Karate Kid movie for some reason! lol! 

This is the final day of SugarPea Designs Sweet Sneaks, and all of the stamps will be released Thursday, in theSugarPea Designs online shoppe immediately following the release party.  The party will be on our FB page between 8-9 EST. Winners from all of the daily commenters will be announced then! One winner for each set, as well as a grand prize winner of the entire release!!

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