Challenge #378, 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 Specials are UP!!!  Every Friday Kimmie grabs a handful of sets to put on sale! (secret tip... if you tune in to the KKS Friends fb Group, on Thursday's she frequently asks for requests!!).  This is a great way to build up your stash and save some $$$.

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 April'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 April 28th 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, Lisa here! I'm your host today, and I want to see flowers! Yes - FLOWERS! I'm longing for summer now, and this might help a bit. The flowers can be stamped or as decoration - your choice. This is the lovely couple from the set Let's Celebrate.

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!!

April Release sets are up in the Krafty Store now - Happy shopping (if you haven't already) ;-)  

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 April 25th 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 April's sketch...

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share a spring card! I am completely in love with our April Release and I have used one of the sets that has just been released - Puddle Pals! Isn't this happy little fox just adorable? I coloured him in Copics and combined him with with a few dots and Doodlebug DPs!
  

   

April Release Krafty Hop!

Woohoo!!!  It's finally here!!!
The April Release is NOW available!!
at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!!

The FOUR new clear stamp sets that we've been sharing all week are NOW up in the krafty shop and we're celebrating with a Krafty HOP!

So grab a nice hot beverage, sit back and relax while you hop around and enjoy all the amazing creations from the 

Krafty Design Team and Guests!!

First up we have TWO magical new stamp sets from artist Annie Rodrigue!  First is SNOW WHITE!

And of course, CINDERELLA!

Then we shared the sweet RAINY DAY LULU from artist Cheryl Grant!

And lastly these adorable PUDDLE PALS by artist Emilie Goulet!

You will get to see ALL of the new sets in action as you sit back and enjoy the hop!  Then head on over to the krafty shop because they are ALL available NOW!

 And if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our April Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all FOUR of the new sets together and at a discount!  But only for a limited time and while supplies last!

**SUPER SECRET KRAFTY KLUB!**
Don't forget that you have until MONDAY to get your order in for the Secret Klub set!!  (I've extended the deadline!) The only clues I'm giving you for this set are 1) it's a set by artist Emilie Goulet and 2) the theme is....BEACH!!!  
Feel free to order the secret set plus any new sets or extra goodies and I'll ship everything together later this week!


Happy hoppin' and happy shoppin!!

April Krafty Peeks....Day FOUR! Puddles Pals and a Challenge!

Welcome Day FOUR of the APRIL Release

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Can you believe the springtime sweetness that just keeps on comin'!!?

Today is the final day of peeks and the release party is this afternoon at 2pm EST on Facebook!  Our final set is from artist Emilie Goulet! 

It's called PUDDLE PALS!!

This sweet set features two main images of some super adorable woodland creatures in the rain!  It also comes with two coordinating sentiments!

It's also challenge day and our hostess is Krafty Girl, Jammie!  And as always during release week, the challenge is ANYTHING GOES!  So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with any stamp but if you use a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp you'll double your chances to WIN!!  Use any sketch, any design, any embellishments because Anything Goes!   Have some krafty fun and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs.  You have a week to play with this challenge and at the end of the month, we'll announce a WINNER from all of the weekly challenges for April!  We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $20 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!!  Wanna win?? 

I hope you can join us for all the fun and excitement and prizes this afternoon beginning at 2pm EST!!  You can come hang out with the me and Krafty Team at our 

LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!

All of the Krafty Krew and Guests listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you featuring these awesome new stamps!  And while you're hopping around, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away a gift voucher!!!  You could WIN some Krafty $$$ to spend at the shop!!!!  There will be one winner from all the comments this week and it will be announced at the party today!

Happy hoppin'!

And now we wanna see what you've got to share!

April Krafty Peeks.....Day THREE!! Rainy Day Lulu!

Welcome to Day THREE of our Krafty Peeks
at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

What's springtime without a little rain to bring up those beautiful new flowers and buds?  And you know there's always sunshine after the rain!  So here's our new set from artist Cheryl Grant!

It's the adorable RAINY DAY LULU (and friends)!!

This sweet new set features an adorable main image of Lulu in her raincoat plus three fun sentiments!  Such a perfect spring set to send sunshine to a friend!

You will see today's set in action as you hop around the Krafty blogs!  You'll see the list of Krafty design team members and Krafty Guests 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 FOUR of the new April clear stamp sets will be released on Saturday 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!

April Krafty Peeks....Day TWO! Cinderella!

Welcome to Day TWO of our April Krafty Peeks
at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

How about another fairytale princess???
We've got another stunning design by artist Annie Rodrigue!
It's CINDERELLA!

This is such a magical image featuring the sweet princess and her gorgeous ball gown!  Plus the set comes with three fabulous sentiments!

All the Krafty Team and Guests listed below have lots of beautiful creations to share with you today featuring the  CINDERELLA stamp set!  You'll see her in so many different colours and scenes!!  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 LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday at 2pm EST, so be sure to join us for all the krafty fun!

April Krafty Peeks.....Day ONE! Snow White!

Welcome to the April Release of amazing new spring stamp sets at
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!

The first stamp set we are sharing with you might look a little familiar because you may have seen a little peek of this gorgeous new set by artist Annie Rodrigue!  It just happens to be the Secret Krafty Klub set that we sent out to the members in February!
It's SNOW WHITE!

What a precious scene of this sweet princess with her woodland friends!  It's a beautiful big image to colour up along with three sweet new sentiments!  And think of the fabulous scenes you could make with clouds and grass and some background dies and stamps!!

All the Krafty Team and Guests listed below have lots of joyful designs to share with you today featuring the

 SNOW WHITE 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 LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday, so don't miss it!

WOOT, WOOT!

Challenge #376, Easter

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 in Kitchner at Scrapfest this weekend!  If you're local pop in and say "hey", and if you're not local, well Kimmie left us with some goodies while she's out!!  There are raffle tickets, $10 for 3 tickets!  On Monday she'll do a drawing for 3 $25 gift certs to the Krafty Store!

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 April'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 April 14th 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! Krafty girl Jasmine here to host a new Saturday challenge! 
Since Easter is around the corner, I thought we could have a Easter themed challenge ;) 

On my inspiration card I used Witch Wanda and coloured her up as a Swedish Påskkärring, roughly meaning Easter witch. On of the traditions during Easter in Sweden is for the kids to dress up as a Påskkärring and walk around the neihbourhood knocking on doors to get sweets. Kinda like Halloween, but it's Easter!
Do you have any fun Easter traditions? :)  

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!!

Guess what?!?!?!?!?!?  April PEEKS start this time next week!!  You're going to LOVE this month's release, trust me!!! ;-)

The winner of the March Wonderful Wednesdays is Cynthia O!!!  Congratulations Cynthia, please email Kimmie to claim your prize!

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 April 18th 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 April's sketch...

Hey there Krafty Friends, Jessie here, and it's my turn to host this week's challenge! For my card this week, I have used the super cute Unicorns and Rainbows set...and I gotta say, I love it the most! It always brightens my day to color it! I paired it with some fun Doodlebug paper too, which is always bright and cheerful, too! 

   

Spotlight on Krafty Girl Deborah!

Hey yall!  Krafty Girl Tangii here, next up on SPOTLIGHT ON A KRAFTY GIRL is Deborah!  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 Miss Deborah...

 1. How long have you been krafting and what got you started?  I started with crafting after high school, when I was around 20 years old. I saw a scrapbooking box in a local bookstore and I was very interested. I bought that box and started to search for scrapbooking on the internet. I didn’t find that much info, but I started on my scrapbook anyway. I was so proud of it when it was ready, but now I think it’s so ugly, haha! My aunt made 3D cards and when it became winter, I did the same thing. It was great to watch tv and cutting the image at the same time. First I made 3D cards, I just cut the image and glued it to a card with a golden or silver sticker sentiment. Then I saw that there were stickers in figures and I coloured them in with some gel pens on cards, glass or plastic. And then there was a time when I discovered stamping and since then I’m hooked! I started my blog in October 2010 and I was colouring using my Derwent Coloursoft pencils and a few weeks later I bought a lot of Copic markers second hand. In January 2011 I found the stamping love of my life: Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!!!

2. What is your favorite Reason/Season to kreate?  I always love to kreate around spring. It’s still too cold to be outside and the days are getting longer, more sunshine, the trees are in blossom.... There’s always a bunch of new craft stuff in the craft stores with tons of pretty papers and happy colours. Just my kind of things.

3. What is your favorite krafty tool? That must be the Misty tool! It gives you the most perfect image and you can do different techniques with it. 

4. What is your “go to” source for inspiration when your mojo has taken a vacay?      If I need some inspiration, I take a look at Pinterest or Instagram and I search for sketches or just looking at cards from others and going through my stamps and dies and see what’s never been used before. 

5. What is your favorite paper line? That’s so easy! I love very happy colours and cute designs, so Echo Park and Doodlebug are my favorite! I’m always amazed at their new lines and I like it so much that they always have coordinated enamel dots, I think that’s my biggest addiction lately. I hoarded so much paper over the years and now I don’t use that many paper anymore, so I try to buy not too much paper lately. Now I only buy paper if I don’t own anything like that (design, colours,…) 

6. What is your favorite coloring medium, type and/or brand (markers, watercolor pencils, chalk pencils, combination of, etc.)?  I don’t need to think about that, my Copic markers! I really enjoy colouring with them and I do it on Neenah White Solar by Crafter’s Companion. It’s a perfect match for me. Lately I try to finish my colouring using some of my old Derwent Coloursoft pencils. I’m thinking about buying a box Faber Castell Polychromo’s, but it’s so expensive. 

7. What is your biggest challenge when krafting? The time! Some people are making a card in 2 hours and I in about 6 hours or so. I’m such a slacker. I wished I could colour and get the card together a bit faster. But hey, it’s a hobby, so you do it for fun!

8. What other hobbies do you have?  It has something  to do with colouring too, make-up! I’m currently following a class to become a make-up artist. I hope that a dream can come true. I really enjoy making people prettier and more confident than they already are. 

We also asked for some eye-candy!!! We ALL love pictures!!!  Here's a pic of Deborah's Kreative Space!  "That's my craftspace in our living room. The desk at the left and the closet is all mine, the desk at the left is from my boyfriend. So we can be together in the evening when he's working on his computer and I can crafting on my desk. You can spot the emty petbed under the desk. Well, that's for my cat. She always want to be with me and enjoys sleeping there."

Next up we have Deborah's FIRST KKS Kreation... This is LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, love those colors?!?!?  (Red is no longer available).

And last, but certainly NOT least, we asked for something using either her favorite Stamp set or her favorite card... This is Deborah's favorite card, it features a stamp from the ALL STAR set!  Deborah says this is her favorite because... "I just love the colour combo, the sparkling behind the image and the fun and happy feeling you get when you see this stamp."

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 Deborah's blog, here!  Don't forget to tell her "hi" when ya stop by!

Challenge #375, Yellow-ish

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!!

The winner of the March challenges is Mindy!!  Congratulations, be sure to email Kimmie to get your KKS Giftcard!  Speaking of, lol... did ya see?  There is now a "Winner Tracker" blog button on the right side of the blog, look below the Challenge Buttons!

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!!!

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 April'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 April 7th 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 there! Lisa here and that is not a joke... LOL
I hope they won't fool you too much today.
My challenge for you is to create something "Yellow-ish" and that's since we'll probably see lots of yellow things soon. I've used the train from All Aboard and made some paper piecing.
Happy creating!