Challenge #336, Flowers

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!!!

Frugal Friday sale is UP!  Lots of great stamps at fabulous prices, this is a great time to build up your stash!

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 June 24th 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 All!!! 
Krafty Girl Alexis here today with my challenge - flowers!
I wanted something this week that no matter the type of card you make you could participate - you can have flowers on the paper, on ribbon - in someone's hair or like mine below..paper flowers.
 On my card I used one of the mermaids from MERMAID FRIENDS! I just love these two mermaids by Emilie - they are so fun and their animal friends are just too cute!!
Hope you can play along with us on this challenge

 

Hey!!! It's Frugal Friday!

It's our favourite day of the week!!!
It's FRUGAL FRIDAY!!!!

Welcome to our weekend SALE where I've put 
a dozen of our favourite stamp sets

on special 25-50% OFF just for the weekend!
And only while supplies last!!

Also, as always, all CDN and US orders $100+ receive 
FREE SHIPPING!!!

This week's Frugal Friday Specials are:

EWE ARE AMAZING - 25% OFF!

LET'S CELEBRATE - 25% OFF!

ESMERELDA - 50% OFF!

FABULOUS FRAMES 2 - 50% OFF!

HAVE AN ICE DAY - 35% OFF!

MERRY CHRIST-MOUSE - 50% OFF!

ELISHA THE MAGE - 50% OFF!

KIERSTEN THE KNIGHT - 50% OFF!

ONCE UPON A TIME 3 - 50% OFF!

WILD ABOUT YOU - 50% OFF!

LIL' SWASHBUCKLERS - 50% OFF!

LEILANI - 30% OFF!

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!!

The totally Beachin' June release is up in the Krafty Store, *ahem*, the NEW store!!!!!!  Go shopping and go drool over the pretty new store!

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 21st 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 Krafty Friends, Krafty girl Deborah here with some Wonderful Wednesday inspiration for you! I just love the last release. I'm a big fan of the beach, so I've created this little scene featuring "Sandy Toes" and the "At The Beach" background stamp. I can't get enough of them, there are so many ways to use them!!

   

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Krafty Tips & Tuts - Shrink Plastic

Hi Krafty Girls!
Lisa here, and I'm gonna shrink your kids.
Just kidding, but I'm gonna shrink my stamps!

Have you ever played with shrink plastic?
Give it a try, it's fun and easy and you can make the most wonderful decorations.

First - sand paper your shrink plastic. Especially if it's really blank. When you do this it's easier to get the colors stuck on the plastic if you would like to paint it. As the plastic shrinks LOTS you won't notice these scratches when you are ready. 

Stamp your images! StazOn is one of the best ink pads for this, as it dries fast even on plastic. But note - if you want to use solvent based pens or markers to color your image, those will also solve the black line so be careful. 

I decided to go for a bunch of flowers too. 

Fuzzy cut your images. As it shrinks, the white area around it also shrinks so you don't have to be pitty.

All cutted out.

I colored mine with my polychromos pencils.

If you want to hang them up - do holes. And make those bigger then you think looks nice - as the holes also shrinks! 

Use something that can take heat to hold your pice in place when you are going to shrink it. The pink underneith here are a heat mat, so it can take the heat. Make sure you don't burn something and keep your fingers out of the way from the heat.

A short video showing how fast the pieces shrinks if you use your heat tool. The instructions often say you shall use the owen, but this is much faster and you don't forget about your pieces.
Watch your fingers! 

When it shrinks it also curls - don't worry! Let it be, and continue to heat until it shrinked as much as it can. Then stop the heating. 

If the piece is a bit warped just press a acrylic handle on top of it right away when it's still warm. There you go - shrinked and ready. 

(Sorry for my text in the video is in Swedish, but the reason is that there is so many english videos and not so many in Swedish. The text under the video window tells the same in English.)

Lots of shrinked pieces! To tell you the secret... my camera went crazy and the first photos was gone, and so was the video. Had to do everything twice!

Here you can compare how much they've shrinked. Pretty much huh!? 

The stamp set is: Buds & Blooms

And so did these! 

The stamp set is: A Purr-fect day

Hope you want to give it a try. 

You'll see my card with some of the shrinked pieces this coming saturday 

if you are curious how I used them.

Hugs Lisa