Wonderful Wednesday

It's Wonderful Wednesday time!!  We hope you can play along!!  As always....it's ANYTHING GOES!!  Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!!

There are still some Surprise Rubber Goodie packages left!  Choose the price package that works for you!!!

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 on this post until July 5th 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!!

In addition to the great Krafty Challenges & Wonderful Wednesday, each month we will post a Sketch.  The sketch will last all month long and if you use it in ANY of our Challenges or WW's during that month you will get an additional chance to win a store gift card!  You do NOT have to use the sketch, it's just a little extra boost for your mojo if ya need it!  Here is June's sketch...

Hi everyone! Danielle here as your hostess for this week's
anything goes challenge.  I LOVE to combine stamps from
different sets on my projects.  There are so many great
Kraftin' Kimmie stamp sets that it's super easy (and FUN)
to do.  On my card today I used three different sets
The Ocean Background (sentiment and scene on the inside)
Oceans of Love (that adorable little octopus)
and Keep Swimming (sentiment on the inside)

Here's the front view

 and here's the inside

 

Krafty Tips and Tuts - Combining Stamp sets with four techniques

Happy Monday krafty friends!

Krafty Girl Danielle here with your

Krafty Tips and Tuts for the week.

We love Monday's at Kraftin' Kimmie 

because it's our chance for the DT to show you

something a little different in hopes that we might 

inspire you to try something new!  

Kraftin' Kimmie's stamp sets are not only AWESOME

on their own but they are also great to mix and match

on your creations!  Today I'm going to show you how 

to use four different stamp sets with four different 

stamping techniques.  Are ya' ready?? Great! Let's go! 

The techniques I'm going to show you are:

Triple-Time stamping

Masking

Heat Embossing

Spotlighting

To start I die cut 3 panels with stitched rectangle dies

(sizes are 2 3/4" x 4", 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" and 3 3/4" x 5")

Then I used a temporary adhesive to stack them.

It's important that you make sure they are pretty stuck

to each other so they don't shift when you are stamping

across the panels (trust me I've done that and it's a bummer!) 

You can use a permanent glue to do this - but I like 

to add layers in between after I've stamped so I use

a temporary glue (just enough to keep the pieces together).

This is the panel that will be used for the 

Triple-Time Stamping technique

Now you start stamping - you'll want to make sure that  

some of the parts of your images cross over each panel.

I used the adorable Fairy Loved, Buds and Blooms and

part of a sentiment from  Let Your Light Shine for this step.

Notice how the flowers and leaves overlap each other?

This is the second technique - Masking.

 I first stamped each flower on a piece of stick note and 

and then fussy cut each one. The flowers from 

Buds and Blooms are really easy to fussy cut around.  

After layering the flowers I then applied my masks

and stamped some leaves around them.

Next I added the rest of the sentiment by first stamping it 

with Versamark ink and then heat embossing it (technique #3).

This is another sentiment from Let Your Light Shine - 

the fabulous NEWEST stamp set that was just released

earlier this month (such a great versatile set).

This is kind of fun just as it is with the pops of 

color but.... I still have a fourth technique for you

called Spotlighting.  Keep reading to see it :o)

Spotlighting is adding color to just a part or parts of the images.

In this case I kept all my color on the top layer panel only. 

I colored this using my copic  markers and Wink of Stella pen.  

And now this is what we have...

I also added some dots from the Buds and Blooms set and

some pretty little orange butterflies from Butterfly Dreams.

Then I re-heated my embossed sentiment and added some 

dazzling diamonds to the Sparkle sentiment.  After that was

set I finished coloring my little fairy and added a little shading.

When you are finished with all your panels you can gently

take them apart and add a colored cardstock mat to get

more depth and dimension to your layers (now you know

why I said to use temporary adhesive :o).  

Then add your finished panel to a card base (I used

 the largest die for the last panel (size 4 1/4" x 5 1/2").

Here's the finished card - ta da!! 

Here's an angled view of the layers and 

shimmer on the sentiment and wings (wink of Stella).

As a recap...the four stamp sets I used are:

Fairy Loved

Buds and Blooms

Butterfly Dreams

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and Let Your Light Shine

BRAND SPANKIN' NEW - June 2016

 What do you think? Wanna give it a try?  

I hope you enjoyed my Tips and Tuts today

and that maybe I've inspired you just a little! 

Challenge #337, Wedding/Special Occasion

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

We always enjoy your creations 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!! In keeping in line with the rest of our challenges (Wonderful Wednesday and our NEW Krafty Scrappy Challenge), we will be drawing one winner per month from all Saturday Challenge entries to win a $20 gift card!! You can enter as many times per month as you'd like!!

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!!!

Kimmie's giving away the farm!!!!  lol There are still some Surprise Rubber Goodie packages available with a price to fit all budgets!!!  Oh and Frugal Friday Specials are UP!

In addition to the great Krafty Challenges & Wonderful Wednesday, each month we will post a Sketch.  The sketch will last all month long and if you use it in ANY of our Challenges or WW's during that month you will get an additional chance to win a store gift card!  You do NOT have to use the sketch, it's just a little extra boost for your mojo if ya need it!  Here is June's sketch...

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 July 1st at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!

Pull out those fabby stamps and play along!  Have some krafty fun and join us this week!! 

Hi everyone!  It's me Kelli here as your Hostess!!!  This weeks challenge is to create a card for a Special Occasion/Wedding.  I did just that, especially as TODAY is our anniversary (22 years).  SO, I guess I forced myself to have a card done!  LOL

I used the SUPER cute set called Let's Celebrate!  It's one of the Annie Rodrigue sets AND it happens to be part of the FRUGAL FRIDAY SALE!!!!!  WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!  I kept my card CAS and added some Glitter Washi from Stampin Up and Viva Pearl Pen in Gold.

Wonderful Wednesday

It's Wonderful Wednesday time!!  We hope you can play along!!  As always....it's ANYTHING GOES!!  Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!!

Have you seen the news?!?!?  Kimmie's selling a SURPRISE RUBBER PACKAGE!!!  You choose your price package and you're guaranteed at least doube the value in fabulous KKS Rubber stamps!!  Head over to the Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Friends FB page and read the "pinned post" for details!!!!

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 on this post until June 28th 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!!

In addition to the great Krafty Challenges & Wonderful Wednesday, each month we will post a Sketch.  The sketch will last all month long and if you use it in ANY of our Challenges or WW's during that month you will get an additional chance to win a store gift card!  You do NOT have to use the sketch, it's just a little extra boost for your mojo if ya need it!  Here is June's sketch...

Hi Everyone!!! Hope you are having a good week so far - Krafty Girl Alexis here today sharing my Wonderful Wednesday creation featuring the wonderful Floatin' Fiona!!! She is just so sassy on her dolphin lounger floating away!!! I know as a kid I had one - did you? Hope you can play along with us this week!

   

Krafty Skrappy (ANYthing but a Kard) Challenge

Hey yall!!  Tangii here, welcome back for another month of Krafty Scrappin!!!  

For this challenge you can create ANYthing your little heart desires as long as it's NOT a card!!!  Calendars, bookmarks, pocket pages, traditional scrap pages, holiday gifties, planner pages... you get the picture!  Come play along with us each month and let's get some of those photo's out of boxes and on to something creative and fun!!  You will have a whole month to play along and you can play as many times as you like!   Here are a few things to remember...

THIS MONTH'S THEME: ANYTHING GOES!!!

1.  Create ANY scrap page, Project Life Layout or pocket page cards, altered item, etc.  JUST NOT A CARD!
2.  MUST be a NEW creation (created on or after this post date)
3.  MUST use Kraftin Kimmie stamps to be entered in to the drawing.
4.  You have a month to play, enter AS MANY TIMES as you'd like!
5.  PRIZES?!?  Of course there are prizes!!  Once we've reached 5 entries, we draw a random winner (winner will be drawn at the close of the challenge)!!
6.  You have until Monday, July 18th @ 11:59 pm Eastern to get your entries in.
7.  Be sure to also share your creations on our Krafty Friends FB page so we can all drool and OOHHHH and AHHHHH!  

Here are a few ideas from the Krafty Girls from the Krafty Files!

Now some of the Krafty Girls have created some amazing eye-candy to give you some more inspiration.  Hop around, wave to the girls then go get your SCRAP on!!  Don't forget to link up your creation back here!

Now we want to see what YOU create!

Krafty Tips & Tuts - Lip Gloss Gift Tag

Hello!  This is Krafty Girl Becky from Cards by Becky 

with a guide for how to make a lip gloss gift tag.

SUPPLIES:

KKS Let Your Light Shine stamp set ( just released - new! )

Paper, Pencil, Ruler, Razorblade, etc.

STEP 1
First I tried cutting some slits and sliding in the lips gloss,
but this makes the paper bend (see lip gloss on the left).
To make it lay flat on the paper,
use a small strip of paper wrapped around the lip gloss. 


STEP 2
I made a template and marked where I would cut the slits
for the little paper wrapped around the lip gloss.


STEP 3
With a razorblade, I cut where I had marked with the template on the paper.

 

STEP 4
Then, I put the little piece of paper
(that would wrap around the lip gloss) into the holes and taped it on the back.

STEP 5
Lastly, I slid the lip gloss in place.
TIP!  To keep it in place, put a sticky dot on the back of the lip gloss.

 

 

Thanks for following along!   Have a lovely week!

 

  

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE

 

 

JUNE  -  NEW RELEASE

Now Available!   Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop

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