31 March 2014

Krafty Tips and Tutes - Week #12: Easter Egg Treat Box/Table Favour!

Welcome to another week of Krafty Tips and Tutes here at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!  Each week one of our fabulous Krafty Girls will be sharing a little post with some sort of tip or tutorial for you and we hope you find them inspirational!  This week our hostess is KERRY!!!  And she's prepared a fabulous step by step tutorial with with photos and instructions showing how to create an Easter Egg Treat Box featuring our SPRING SWEETIES stamp set!  Enjoy the tutorial and then go ahead and get krafty and make your own!  We'd love to see what you create!!



I have a love/hate relationship with the month leading up to Easter! I absolutely love Cadbury’s Easter Cream Eggs and they start appearing right after Valentine's Day!   Argh!   I have no willpower - and so I fight a battle with myself until they disappear in the weeks following Easter!  But I took one for the team when I found this super cute treat box that’s sized perfectly for the aforementioned egg - I had to buy one to put in my sample, right?!   Cause you wouldn’t want to just look at the empty box - it’s not nearly as cute that way! Ha!

Anyway, I found this treat box here, but she states she found it somewhere else and can’t remember where after much searching. If it’s yours - let us know in the comments and we’ll credit you properly! I switched the sizing up slightly - I have a bit of a rule about how things like this must be symmetrical - so my measurements are slightly different.

Ready? You’ll need:
1 piece of 8.5 x 11” card stock
Trimmer
Scoring board (or blade on your trimmer)
Scor-tape or Red line tape
1.25” circle punch or nestibility
And of course - a Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp of your choice! I’ve used an image from Spring Sweeties for mine!
Assorted patterned papers (a great way to use scraps), ribbon, embellishments and whatever else you’d like to use to decorate your box


For the egg box:
Cut a piece of card stock 5” x 2.75”
On the long side (5” side) score at: 1/2”, 2&1/4”, 2&3/4” and 4&1/2”


On the short side, score at 1/2” and 2@1/4”


Cut all the 1/2” squares out (there are 6)


Punch or cut a circle out of one side and on that same side, add your adhesive tape to the three tabs


Construct the box



For the Cover:
Cut a piece of card stock 8&3/8 x 1 &3/4”

On the long side (8&3/8” side) score at: 3/8, 2&7/8, 3&3/8, 5&1/4, 5&3/4, and 8”


Add adhesive tape to the middle square, and the two half inch pieces on either side


Decorate the front cover and the back if desired.  Adhere the egg box to the cover and then stick the 1/2” pieces to the sides of the box.

Front:


Back:


Side:



So what do you think?  Cute, no?!  I hope you'll give one a whirl!  


Happy kraftin'!


30 March 2014

It's a new Krafty Kover Girl!

Have you heard about our fun feature,
Krafty Kover Girls???
Just share your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps creations in our
challenges or on our Facebook page and YOU
could be our Krafty Kover Girl next week!!

With that in mind, I'd like to announce that our 
Krafty Kover Girl for this week is
......ANNIE ROSE!!!

Check out this sweet card that she created 
featuring one of our Rachelle Anne Miller stamp sets...

Congrats, Annie Rose!

29 March 2014

Challenge 223 - Spring Has Sprung!!


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!!


First off, the random winner from last week’s challenge isDanielle!       Check out the gorgeous pink card she made featuring our Hey, Hot Stuff! stamp set!!  Congratulations and be sure to email or message me with your shipping information!


This week our hostess 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!! 

We are also thrilled to welcome PEGGY TOOLE
to our list of fabulous Krafty Girls!!
Be sure to check out her creation today and welcome her to the
Krafty Girl team!


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’!!










JENNY





and Special Krafty Guests...











28 March 2014

It's Frugal Friday!

Welcome back to another week of fabulous
FRUGAL FRIDAY SPECIALS!!!


If you didn't already know this, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
has something called Frugal Friday Specials
that go up every weekend (except during release weeks).


 We put several of our most popular stamps 
on special 25-50% OFF just for the weekend!
And just because I felt like it,
This week there are a DOZEN sets on special!


We've also restocked with EZmount AND
the new Hot Knives (contact me for a shipping quote)!

Have you seen our new
Working with Unmounted Stamps Video??


And this weekend is your last chance to scoop up the March
Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes ALL the new stamps
at a DISCOUNT!!

26 March 2014

News on Shipping!

Hey krafty friends!  I just wanted to give you a heads up on the SHIPPING situation at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

As happens every year, Canada Post is raising the price of shipping....AGAIN.  Of course this makes things so difficult for small businesses like myself because, let's face it, who wants to put out extra $$ for shipping?  Not me.  

I will NOT be raising regular shipping costs. I've only raised them once in the almost five years I've been in business and I'm going to absorb the raise again.  HOWEVER, orders that include thicker, heavier items such as paper pads, mounting supplies, hot knives, etc will be charged actual shipping costs.  So I may email you after you've placed your order with an additional cost for shipping.  You can ALWAYS email me before you place your order to get an estimate!  I'm sorry to have to do this but I am losing money on shipping costs for larger orders.  Orders of stamps only are much thinner and I can ship a lot of stamps in a package as lettermail because they will fit through 'the slot' but thicker and heavier packages have to be shipped as parcels.  I hope you all understand.

BUT before I start this practice I'd like to have a quick FREE SHIPPING promotion!!  It will run today and tomorrow!  So all CDN and US orders will receive FREE shipping with a $65+ order!!!  So hurry and take advantage of this promotion before tomorrow night!!  Use the coupon code FREESHIP!

Happy shoppin'!!

Last Wonderful Wednesday for March!

Welcome to another Wonderful Wednesday challenge and the last one 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, April 1st when the winner for March will be announced!! 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.

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



















24 March 2014

Krafty Tips and Tutes - Week #11: Stippled Backgrounds!

  Welcome to another week of Krafty Tips and Tutes here at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!  Each week one of our fabulous Krafty Girls will be sharing a little post with some sort of tip or tutorial for you and we hope you find them inspirational!  This week our hostess is TRACY!!!  And she's prepared a fabulous step by step tutorial with a video showing how to create STIPPLED BACKGROUNDS for your creations featuring our SWEET DREAMS stamp set!  Enjoy the tutorial and then go ahead and get krafty and make your own!  We'd love to see what you create!!


Good morning, Krafty Friends!!  Tracy here today and I would like to share with you how I created this beautiful night background using a stippled background. When I do night backgrounds I use quite a big of colors layered on each other.  There is no right or wrong way to do it and it's pretty forgiving. I have found that sometimes I am not quite happy with it but once it dries it all seems to come together nicely.

Here is what you will need:
Image - I am used one from the Sweet Dreams set.  The "You know Whoooo!" set would worked quite well with this technique as well.
Copic Colors - C6, C5, C3, C2, C1, B0000, B000, B00, BG72, BG75, BG11, BV20 and BV23
Now, sit back, grab a cuppa coffee and enjoy!!