November Krafty Peeks....Day THREE! Cocoa Friends & Adventure Time!

Welcome back to another day of amazing peeks!!!  

What do you think of what we've shared over the last two day?  Super sweet, right?  Well, there's MORE! 

It's Day THREE of our November Krafty Peeks and today features TWO fun stamp sets by artist Cheryl Grant!  They are both all about Friendship!

The first one is for the girls and it's called COCOA FRIENDS!

The second is for the boys and it's called ADVENTURE TIME!

Each set features one larger main images of these kiddos having fun together and sharing fun times with friends!  And the sentiments that come with each are fabulous!  Perfect for the kiddos in your life!

You will see today's set in action as you hop around the Krafty blogs!  You'll see the list below and be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky commenter is going to WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop!

ALL of the new November clear stamp sets will be released on Sunday afternoon!  Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release party beginning at 2pm EST!  Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes and hang out with all our krafty friends!  Hope to see you there!

November Krafty Peeks....Day TWO! Bear Big Hugs!

Welcome to Day TWO of our
November Krafty Peeks 

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

We've got another sweet and cuddly stamp set to share with you today!  This one is from artist Becky Pearce and it's called
BEARY BIG HUGS!

These chubby little bears are ready for the cooler weather with lots of cocoa and goodies!  The set comes with several main images, lots of cute accessory stamps and four gorgeous sentiment stamps for a total of FIFTEEN stamps in the set!

You'll see the new stamps in action and featured in today's blog hop with the Krafty Krew and Guest!!  Their links are below and be sure to leave some love at each stop ecause one lucky stamper from all the comments this week is going to WIN a gift voucher to go shoppin'! 

ALL of our new November stamps will be available on Sunday afternoon at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!!  Be sure to join us for an hour of celebrating the new stamp sets, fun and prizes on Sunday at 2pm EST at our 
LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! 
 Come hang out with the Krafty Girls and me!!

Happy kraftin'!

November Krafty Peeks.....Day ONE! Eskimo Pals!

Welcome to the November Release
at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!
This is our last release for 2017 and we can't wait to share it all!!

Today we're kicking things off with a super sweet set of 

characters from artist Emilie Goulet! 

It's called ESKIMO PALS!!!

It features two main images of adorable eskimos having some fun in the snowy tundra!  It also comes with three COOL sentiments!

Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party on Sunday afternoon at 2pm EST!  We'll be checking out ALL the SIX new clear stamp sets, sharing fabulous creations, giving away prizes and having tons of krafty fun!

All the Krafty Krew design team and Guest listed below have lots of wintry designs to share with you today featuring the ESKIMO PALS stamp set!  Be sure to hop around and leave lots of love at each and every stop because one lucky commenter will WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop!  The winner will be announced at the party so don't miss it!

KRAFTY TIPS & TUTES - CORNER PUNCH DOILIES

Hi, this is Krafty Girl Marilyn with a tutorial on making Corner Punch Doilies!  I don't know about you but I have a lot of corner punches just sitting there collecting dust.  I've been using these to make doilies for some of my cards.  It's quite simple to do and a great way to use up some of those scraps of paper.  There are many of ways to make these but this is my take on it.

 

SUPPLIES

 

Cardstock

Corner Punches

Circle Cutter

 

 

My circles measure 4 1/2 inches.  Just a little note the finish doily is almost the same size as the circle you started with.  I usually use the 4 1/2 inch circle but bought doilies or dies are about 4 inches. The finished size depends on you but the procedure is still the same. Also make sure the little wings are closed.

 

Once you've got you circle and punch ready it's time to have some fun!

 



 

Make sure you have the punch upside down facing you so that you can see where to make the first cut.  Place the punch at the very end of the circle as shown above.  Then cut!

 

This is what it looks like after the first cut.  Then it's just a matter of lining it up and cutting completely around the circle.

 

 

Now, this is not an exact science.  Sometimes you get a perfect cut and other times you don't.  But that's alright you can just hide it behind the image, flowers or the sentiment.  No one will know but you!!

 

Just to show you that it can come out with a perfect cut, here is one done with the same punch and the same size circle.

 



I know you could figure it out mathematically but I'm not patient enough to do that.  Another tip, if you do get a perfect cut trace it onto another circle so you will have it for next time!!

 

 

Here are some doilies made with different punches to give you an idea of what you can create with punches!!

Just a few cards that have doilies on them made with punches.  One is done with an oval shape.  The first one features the Pretty As A Princess stamp and the second features Rosie Fairy. 

 

I hope I have inspired you to give this a try!!  We would love to see whatever you have created!!  

 

 

Challenge #357, Use NON-Traditional Christmas card colors

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 specials are up yall!!  Happy shoppin'!

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 November'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 November 18th 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!! 

Hey yall, Krafty Girl Tangii here as this week's fabby challenge hostess!!  This week's challenge theme is actually Miss Martha's idea... NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLORS!  So I chose pink, green & white!  I LOVE this idea, while I absolutely love a rich red and deep green combo, sometimes by the time Christmas gets here I'm a little burned on it! I used THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS set.  Oh yes, and I used this month's sketch!

An InLinkz Link-up

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 a few days left to pre-order your Surprise Krafty Guest Kit!!!  Head on over to the KKS Friends FB page for deets!  While you're there, Kimmie's also doing a Dear Santa giveaway!!

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 November 22nd 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 November's sketch...

Hi! Krafty Girl Lisa here. Today I've made very small cards... ATC!
ATC stands for Artistic Trading Cards, and you swap them among friends. You know - like "baseball cards", but this is something for us crafters. So much fun, and so much inspiration!

Join the fun and swap some inspiration!

Hugs Lisa

   

An InLinkz Link-up

Spotlight on Krafty Girl Alexis!

Hey yall!  Krafty Girl Tangii here, next up on our NEW feature here called SPOTLIGHT ON A KRAFTY GIRL is Alexis!  We've sent a list of "We wanna know's" to each of the Krafty Girls and the beginning of each month we'll share their answers with you!  

This is Alexis with the "love of her life", Auggie.  He's trying to play it cool, he secretly LOVES the camera! 

  

1. How long have you been krafting and what got you started? I started krafting mainly in 2001 after a trip to France, although I had been making paper collages before then LOL. 

2. What is your favorite Reason/Season to kreate? How about a favorite time lol – late at night that is when I have my mojo time. I do really enjoy krafting on rainy days and I love making Christmas cards.

3. What is your favorite krafty tool? Stamps….lol…no but seriously they are super versatile and fun to use ;) I also like my Silhouette and my dies.

4. What is your “go to” source for inspiration when your mojo has taken a vacay?     PINTERST and our FACEBOOK group. Everyone is so talented and you can find some really awesome ideas there.

5. What is your favorite paper line? DOODLEBUG !!!! I love their fanciful paper lines but I am also partial to Simple Stories.

6. What is your favorite coloring medium, type and/or brand (markers, watercolor pencils, chalk pencils, combination of, etc.)? Copics, however I have been getting back to using my watercolors off and on.

7. What is your biggest challenge when krafting? Card layouts. I find that part the most challenge and will often create the card and get it all ready and then color the image up.

8. What other hobbies do you have? Reading and drinking coffee!

We also asked for some eye-candy!!! We ALL love pictures!!!  Here's a pic of Alexis' Kreative Space!

Proof that a Kreative space doesn't have to be pink to to be able to make amazing projects!!

Next up we have Alexis' FIRST KKS Kreation... Look at sweet Willard's face! <3 <3

And last, but certainly NOT least, we asked for something using either her favorite Stamp set or her favorite card... Alexis' favorite kreation is this great Steampunk card using All Steamed Up (this set is retired).

Well that's a wrap!!!  We hope you enjoyed this Spotlight on a Krafty Girl, we hope you'll tune in every month!  Be sure to check out Alexis' blog, here!  Don't forget to tell her "hi" when ya stop by!

Welcome our newest Krafty Krew member...

Please join the Krafty Girls in welcoming Alberto Gava to the team!!!  I'm sure you've seen his amazing works over the past month as our guest, and he's got mad skills with Kraft cs and pencils!!!   We are all elated to have him joining us as a "full time" Krafty Krew member!!  Here are a few words from Alberto...

I'm alberto, I'm 21 years old and I've been into craft for 8 years now! I've always been in love with kraftin kimmie since a long time now and I'm super happy to have been chosen as dt member and share with you all my love for kks!

PBe sure to pop on over to Alberto's blog and say "hey"!  Here are a few of his Kreations from last month...

Tune in tomorrow (Tuesday) for our next Spotlight on a Krafty Girl!

KRAFTY TIPS & TUTES - HOLIDAY ORNAMENT TAG

Hello!  This is Krafty Girl Becky from Cards by Becky 

with a guide for how to make a holiday tag,
which can be used as a gift tag or ornament for the tree!

SUPPLIES:

KKS Christmas Blessings Sentiments set ( just released - new! )
Melissa Frances Large Frames, purchased from Amazon.com

Paper, Memento Ink Pad, etc.

 

STEP 1
Measure the paper to fit inside the frame and stamp.
I used Memento Brown Ink to make it pop on the blue pattern paper.

STEP 2
Cut ribbon and fold in half to make a loop for hanging.
Tip!  Use pinking shear scissors to stop the ribbon edges from fraying.


STEP 3
Glue the paper to the frame and hot glue gun the ribbon loop.

 

Thanks for following along!   Happy Holidays!

 

 

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS SENTIMENTS

 

OCTOBER  -  NEW RELEASE

Now Available!   Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop

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  Check the KKS Blog for more Tips & Tutes!