Inspirational Wednesday : shake it up

                            

 Hello Krafty Friends! 

It's INSPIRATIONAL WEDNESDAY,

 the day we provide you with a bit of extra krafty inspiration to help you get creative with your krafty stamps!

Today it is my turn, Krafty Girl Anna Blankina, 

to inspire you with a fun clear stamp set 

from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

I have chosen the super cute clearstamp set shake it up  ,

I love this set there are 

reindeers, penguins, pretty sentiments and lot's of great elements.

I have made a shakercard, 

I have stamped and coloured  two layers of Copic paper .

With a die I have cut an opening in the front panel 

and have added acetate underneath after I had coloured everything..

A sweet Christmas card is ready, if you make some Christmas cards a month you do not have to rush in December :). 

Inside I have added some bits and pieces

from the 

 shimmers add on bundle and some rocailles beads .

I have used Copic to colour 

and found some matching krafty kolours ink .

yellow combination : 

Y 000, Y 15, Y 19 with yummy yellow ink,

orange combination : 

YR 20, E 02, YR 15 with tempting tangerine ink

pink combination: 

 RV 10, RV 21, RV 25 with  precious pink ink,

purple combination : 

 V 000, V 01, V 04 with  whimsical wisteria ink

green combination : 

YG 00, YG 05, G 05  with charming chartreuse ink , 

blue combination : 

B 00, B 12, B 14 with amazing azure ink 

The little reindeers were coloured with 

E 95, E 11, E 13, E 18

E 31, E 35, E 37

and rainbow combination see above 

If you don't have this super sweet set in your KKS collection this is your opportunity to scoop it up at a very special SALE price of 40% OFF!! The sale only lasts for one week so don't delay!

Hugs Anna

Challenge #548 - Create a Scene

 

Challenge #548 - Create a Scene

Good morning and welcome to another

fabulous and fun Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps !

Are you ready for another fun and krafty challenge to inspire you and help get your creative juices flowing?

This week, krafty girl Melanie is your hostess and her challenge  for you this week is:

CREATE A SCENE!!

Hello everyone! Krafty Girl Melanie here for

our Create a Scene challenge. Lots of possibilities for your projects...use one of our sets that feature accessory stamps for creating a scene, combine several stamp sets or draw your own background!

I stamped out two of the main images from BE a MERMAID in our Wicked Black Hybrid Ink, sketched in a background and watercoloured the scene (I actually started this card during a recent Kolour-Along video on the Facebook group). 

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like.

These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however, using Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and products will earn you double entries!

The monthly prize is a 25$ voucher to the Krafty shop!!!  Woohoo!  There are two ways to enter: you can link up your creation on the  Kraftin’ Kimmie blog page and you can upload your photo to the album in our Krafty Friends FB group.

Also, if you need a little extra inspiration or a jump start to your mojo, we have a new sketch each month!

Feel free to use it any time!

As I'm sure you all know, this weekend is also our VIRTUAL KRAFTY RETREAT! 

Make sure to check out all the happenings on the Krafty Friends Facebook Group. Holding our retreat virtually has opened up the possibility for everyone worldwide to attend! The entire Krafty Team is so excited to spend this weekend creating and hanging out with ALL our customers! So make sure to join in the festivities...three days FULL of challenges, live videos, craft alongs, specials, prizes and SO MUCH FUN!

Now we couldn't hold this amazing event without an equally amazing SALE!!! In lieu of Frugal Friday this week, check out our Retreat Sale!! Head on over to the KKS Shop to place your orders!

Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #543 Use A Sketch!

 

Good morning and welcome to another

fabulous and fun Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps !

Are you ready for another fun and krafty challenge to inspire you and help get your creative juices flowing?

We've got some fabulous ideas for you 

and can't wait to see what you create!

This week, krafty girl Karla is your hostess and her challenge theme for you is:

....Use A Sketch! - you get to choose the sketch!

Hello friends! 

 It's Karla here today with a fun challenge for you! I love starting with a sketch - I always find it takes me in different directions than I would have gone if I just sat down with my supplies. For today's card, I'm using the August Kraftin' Kimmie Sketch you can see below and I used  fun backgrounds I created with Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Stencils.  

I coloured up the adorable NEW Be A Mermaid Stamps with Copic Markers and popped them up on foam dots over the background. 

You can see the Summer Sunbeams Stencil peeking out from the first layer, which I created with Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays and then embossed one of the sweet sentiments from the Be A Mermaid. (You can check out fun Sunbeam Stencil techniques in this video HERE!) Next I layered a watercoloured background that I created in this video HERE with the Nautical Netting Stencil and Distress Oxide Sprays. For the third layer I added part of a background created with the She Sells Seashells Stencil (try saying that 5 x's fast!) and Kraftin' Kimmie Inks. And for the bottom layer I took an inky background I had in colours that matched and stamped seashells from the Be A Mermaid Stamp Set with Sandy Shores Ink. I added in some pretty NEW Summer Krafty Dots and my card is finished!

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like.

These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however, using Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp and products will earn you double entries!

The monthly prize is a 25$ voucher to the Krafty shop!!!

Woohoo!  There are two ways to enter: you can link up your creation on the  Kraftin’ Kimmie blog page and

you can upload your photo to the album in our 

Krafty Friends FB group.

Also, if you need a little extra inspiration or a jump start to your mojo, we have a new sketch each month!

Feel free to use it any time!

Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inspirational Wednesday - Ewe Are Amazing

Hello krafty friends!
It's INSPIRATIONAL WEDNESDAY,
the day we provide you with a bit of extra

krafty inspiration to help you get creative

with your krafty stamps!

Hello, it's Krafty Guy Stephen here!

I recently started to learn how to spin...and by spin, I mean yarn. I have really enjoyed learning this new craft and it has opened my eyes to a whole new world...the fibre arts. I am almost finished my class and I knew I wanted to make a card for my teacher to thank her for sharing her knowledge with me. I immediately thought of the Ewe Are Amazing stamp set.

This set features several lovely sentiments and two super cute sheep.  I stamped  the sentiment and image in  Wicked Black ink and used my Copics to colour the image . I also used some coloured pencils and got to use some new skills  I learned from fellow KKS DT member Paula while attending the Kraftin' Kimmie retreat a few weeks back. To finish off my card, I added a strip of black cardstock and some striped pattern paper.

I hope you like my card creation and look forward to seeing you around the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Friends FB group with your own creations.

Until next time - Stephen

Ewe Are Amazing is on sale this week so hop on over to the shop to scoop it up. 

Thanks for visiting!

Inspirational Wednesday: Christmas in September!

Hello krafty friends!
It's INSPIRATIONAL WEDNESDAY,
the day we provide you with a bit of extra

krafty inspiration to help you get creative

with your krafty stamps!

Hello, it's Krafty Girl, Melanie here!

Since our September release featured Christmas themed stamps and products, I felt it would be fun to continue an early festive mood by revisiting one of our older holiday sentiment sets, CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS SENTIMENTS. 

This set features several lovely sentiments in different fonts perfect for so many Christmas projects. I stamped one of the sentiment in  Wicked Black ink on some patterned paper. All paper edges were sponged in Marvelous Mocha ink then topped with gold paint and bit of gold frantage that was hit with a heat gun. I added a chipboard ornament painted in gold and finished it off with a few dots of red stickles. 

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS SENTIMENTS is on sale this week so hop on over to the shop to scoop it up. 

Don't forget to check out all the new release goodies from this month. We have new stamps, stencils, dots and ink!

Thanks for visiting!

Kolour along video : Fawn'd of you

Hi all Kraftin Kimmie friends,

Krafty Girl Anna here, I have a little Kolour along video for you.

I will share the video I have created during  the colouring process

of the making of the card with the super fun and sweet clearstamp set 

Fawn'd of you,

which was released last month.

Step by step you can see how I have masked the stamps

and how I have created the background with one of the sentiments 

of this sweet clearstamp set. Using the pretty in pink Krafty Kolours ink.

Are you ready ? 

You can pause the video when ever you want..

Hope you enjoyed watching

..and that I will have inspired you to try this technique :).

Kraftin Kimmie goodies used :

Fawn'd of you

springtime dots

pretty in pink ink

wicked-black-mini-cube

Copic : 

Y 13, Y 15, Y 18

E 00, E 11, E 13, E 21, E 23, E 29, E 99

G 24, G 14, G 17

BG 02, BG 05, BG 09

RV 11, RV 13, RV 32

C 2, C 4, C 5

Hugs from Krafty girl

Anna Blankina

Challenge #474 - Spring!

Hello and welcome to another fun
Saturday Challenge!
Are you ready for some krafty fun?
We can't wait for you to play along and share your amazing krafty kreations!

This week our hostess is Krafty Girl, Melanie and

your challenge is....
SPRING!

Happy Saturday everybody! 
For my Spring challenge card, I created a watercoloured scene using two of our stamp sets.

I first stamped the adorable little deer from our brand new Fawn'd of You set...such a perfect set for our Spring theme! I also pulled out an unexpected set: Spooky Silhouettes. While this set was included in a Halloween release, I find the tree stamp to be extremely versatile! I stamped both images in our Totally Taupe Ink on Arches cold pressed watercolour paper.  I started by dropping in the sky and grass. I then worked on painting the tree canopy as pink blossoms. As the tree was stamped in a light brown ink, I was still able to layer a few different brown paints to create a bark-like texture. I used a little white gauche to paint the spots on the fawns's backside.

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like!  These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however using a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp will earn you double entries!  Each submission will enter you into the monthly draw of a $40 gift voucher to the krafty shop!

We've also got a brand new sketch to inspire you for the month of March!  You don't have to use it but it's there for you to use if you need a little kickstart....feel free to use it any time!  

There are two ways to enter our challenges!  1) you can link up your entries at the bottom of this post and 2) share your KKS creations in our Krafty Friends facebook group!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Also don't miss this weekend's FRUGAL FRIDAY SPECIALS!
We've got a selection of stamp sets on SALE 40% OFF this weekend only and while supplies last!


Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #460 - Stencils!

Welcome to another fun Krafty Challenge!

Are you ready for some krafty fun??

We want you all to play along and we love to see your creations so let's get KRAFTY!

This week is all about....
STENCILS!

We know how much fun you've been having making creations featuring our brand new Krafty Stencils and Hybrid Inks!
So that's this week's challenge!

Hello Krafty friends! I hope that many of you have had the chance to get your fingers on our new inks and stencils...they are amazing! They have quickly become "must have" items! For my card this week, I stamped one of the snowmen from the Super Cool Pals stamp set in our Totally Taupe ink on cold-pressed cotton watercolour paper. After watercolouring the image (I actually started this project during a live colour-along video earlier this week on our Facebook page) I used our Sparkling Snowflake stencil and some white gouache to create the snowy sky. I then flicked some drops of white on the sky to add some smaller "flakes." I also added a pattern to the snowman's jacket with our Beautiful Burlap stencil and Marvelous Mocha ink. 

Every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you can enter as many times as you like!  Each submission will enter you into the monthly prize......which is a $40 gift voucher to the krafty shop!

We've also got a fun sketch for your inspiration for December!  You don't have to use it but if you need a little extra kickstart in your mojo, feel free to use it any time!

ALSO don't miss our 12 Krafty Days of Khristmas going on on this blog every day with chances to WIN prizes!  And don't miss our FINAL FRUGAL FRIDAY of 2018! 


Happy kraftin'!

Inspirational Wednesday - Treat Yours-elf

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday fellow krafters!!!
Welcome to another Inspirational Wednesday post!

Each week one of our amazing design team members will be here to inspire you to get creative with your krafty stamps!

This week Krafty Girl, Melanie is sharing her creation with the Treat Yours-elf clear stamp set.

Happy Wednesday stampers! It's Krafty Girl Melanie taking over the blog today with a fun Christmas card featuring our clear stamp set TREAT YOURS-ELF; this set comes with two fun little holiday helpers and several coordinating sentiments. I pulled out my watercolours to paint the sweet little girl elf and then stamped the sentiment in our Marvelous Mocha ink. 

As an added bonus Kimmie has put the 

TREAT YOURS-ELF stamp set on SALE... be sure to scoop it up today at 40% off!

Happy Kraftin'!

Inspirational Wednesday - Heavenly Holiday

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday fellow krafters!!!
Welcome to another Inspirational Wednesday post!

Each week one of our amazing design team members will be here to inspire you to get creative with your krafty stamps!

This week Krafty Guy, Stephen is sharing his creation with the Heavenly Holiday clear stamp set!

Coloured with Copic makers, background is created using Krafty Kolours Inks in Yummy Yellow, Ruby Red, and Marvellous Mocha 

I stamped out the image with Wicked Black ink and coloured it up using Copic markers.

The background was created by masking off the image then ink blending using a stencil with Ruby Red and Yummy Yellow Krafty Kolour inks. To achieve that vintage feel, I ink blended the edges with Marvellous Mocha ink.

As an added bonus Kimmie has put the 

Heavenly Holiday stamp set on SALE! 

Be sure to scoop it up today at a SPECIAL price!

Happy Kraftin'!