Kraftin' Kimmie May Release BLOG HOP!!

We're so excited! It’s our MAY RELEASE Day at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!! And we’re celebrating with a KRAFTY HOP!! So grab yourself a cuppa joe, sit back and be prepared for some krafty eye kandy! We're going to inspire your creations with our fun, new stamps!

Over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, we have shared lots of AMAZING new stamps from all our artists for our May release! We know these new stamps will 'float your boat'!! We’ve got an adorable new nautical kids set from Cheryl called AHOY, SAILOR! There's a FIN-tastic new set from Thais called UNDER THE SEA! Lastly, we are SO excited to share a GORGEOUS new summer stamp set from Annie called....BEACHY KEEN!

As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of these incredible stamps from the new release!! When you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are available NOW! And don't forget...if you NEED it all, we have a Gimme Kimmies Kit which features ALL the new May stamps at a discount!! But only for a limited time!

SO??? Whaddaya think? Awesome release, right? I have to say I had a LOT of fun playing along with these amazing ladies this month - a HUGE THANK YOU to Kimmie and the rest of the girls for allowing me to join you all this month!

For my final card, I used only a sentiment from the "Under the Sea" set - a lovely quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson...combined it with a Freshly Made Sketches sketch from a couple weeks ago and came up with this CAS card:

Now let's celebrate with our NEW RELEASE and get hoppin' and shoppin'!!


 

Kraftin' Kimmie Sneak Peek Day Three - And an ANYTHING GOES Challenge!

Hello again, everyone and welcome back to day THREE of our MAY Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks!!! The awesome new stamps just keep on comin'!  We are SO thrilled to share the newest set of FOUR images with matching sentiments from THAIS! This FIN-tastic set is perfect for summer and it is called UNDER THE SEA!!

Isn't it adorable???  The sentiments are absolutely perfect for these images and can also be used with many other sets - I've got some of the KKS mermaids and will be combining these two sets for sure!

I've got a fun, CAS card to share with you - so many of the girls had already done amazing things with the other images so I wanted to use one that hadn't been showcased yet...

Are you planning to join us for our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!???!! Hope you can join us for all the fun and excitement and prizes and it's all happening THIS MORNING!!! We'll be releasing all the new stamps you've seen this week after the party (beginning at 10am.....that's only a couple of hours away) at 11am EDT!!

Not only is it time for the online release party, it's also time for a new KK Challenge and this week our hostess is DEBORAH and her challenge is ANYTHING GOES!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp with no restrictions! 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. We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $10 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!! Wanna win?? It couldn't be easier!!

All the Krafty Girls listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you featuring these awesome new stamps from Thais! And while you're hopping around, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away some stamps!!! You could WIN this new set of stamps!!!!! {This winner will be announced later this week!}  So come and hang out with us in a couple of hours for all the LIVE action krafty fun at the release party and then come on back here tomorrow to check out the release day blog hop! ALL the new stamps will be available TODAY at the KKStamps Shop!!
Happy hoppin'!




 

Kraftin' Kimmie Sneak Peek - Day Two!!

Hello again and welcome back to Day TWO of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps MAY previews!!! We are back with a fabulous new Moonlight Whispers stamp set by Annie Rodrigue!! You'll love these two summer ladies along with the THREE fun sentiments!!

Today the Krafty Girls and I are thrilled to share with you.....BEACHY KEEN!! There are lots of gorgeous creations on today's hop featuring both new images and sentiments from the set!! We know you are just going to LOVE these summery ladies and be inspired by all the fun designs!!

I LOVE the images in this set and got a really "retro" vibe from the images so I decided to go with a black-and-white-with-a-pop-of-yellow color scheme and found some awesome patterned papers that worked perfectly:

Below you will find all the Krafty Girls who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN a package of today's stamps!! Woohoo!!!

ALL of our MAY stamps will be available on Saturday morning at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!! We'll be celebrating at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! It's over at our KKS Facebook fan page! Join us for all the fun!  Happy hoppin'!!

 

Kraftin' Kimmie May Release - Sneak Peek Day ONE!!!

Welcome to day ONE of our MAY Kraftin' Kimmie Previews!!! Today we are excited to share a cute new set featuring Lulu, Lexi and Lucas! It's by artist Cheryl Alger and we're SURE it will 'float your boat' ! We are sharing samples today featuring.......AHOY, SAILOR!!

For my card, I used the adorable little boy - I tried to keep the colors somewhat nautical and rustic.  The addition of a weathered button and twine in the top right corner give it that little bit "extra:"

All the Krafty Girls and Guests listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you, so be sure to hop over to each of them! And while you're there, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away one of the new sets and YOU could WIN!! {All of this week's winners will be announced at the online party on Saturday morning!}

Then come on back tomorrow to check out MORE fun new stamps we have to share with you! And ALL the new May stamps will be available on Saturday morning at the KKStamps Shop!!
Happy hoppin'!

 

Hey everyone! It's time for a brand new Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge and this week's theme is "Girly Girl" hosted by Sherri!  So dig out all of your girly-girl KK Stamps and get busy this long weekend.  We are supposed to get rain most of the weekend (should have guessed) so I will be playing in my craft room - join me!!!

For my card, I used one of my favorites - an older Moonlight Whispers image - Alicia the Strawberry Pirate.  AND...if you love her as much as I do and NEED to have her come live at your house, she JUST happens to be on SALE this weekend as part of the Frugal Friday Sale at KKS!!!  There are some other ADORABLE images on sale - why stop at just one?

For my card, I combined this week's Color Throwdown combo with last week's Deconstructed Sketch - I love how it turned out!!!

Isn't she adorable!??? 

OK, everyone - enjoy your long weekend!  Don't forget to come back on Thursday for the first day of Sneak Peeks for the brand new KK release!  You're gonna love all of these new sets  - I promise!!  See you soon!

 

Kraftin' Kimmie Guest Designer & CQC241 & SSSC219

Good morning, everyone!  Remember WAYYYYYY back in January/February when I was in the running for a Guest Designer spot over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps?  Well, I was lucky enough to win one of the spots for the month of May and this is my FIRST post!!!  :)  The upcoming new release is amazing - I know you're going to love it...but for now, you get to see a card using one of the older sets, Perfect Poison.

It is also the time of the week for a brand new Colour Q challenge and this week's combo sure had me scratching my head...metallics are not a usual "go-to" color for me:

I also used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch but made mine a square instead of the rectangular size in order to fit the image:

I hope you will play along with us over at the Colour Q Challenge as well as the Kraftin' Kimmie Anything Goes challenge!  We'd love to see your creations!  I will be back on Saturday with another Kraftin' Kimmie post - see you then!


 

I Love You ... {CQC227} & {RS100} and Another Krafty Guest Submission

Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping in today - I have a sweet little card to share with you today for a couple of challenges.  The first one, since it IS Tuesday, is for the brand new Colour Q challenge.  Arielle has chosen some more colors that, together, work perfectly for those Valentine's Day cards you might be making.  Take a peek:

The second challenge is for Retrosketches 100TH sketch!  Holy smokes!  That's almost two years of awesome and amazing sketches from Arielle and the girls.  Thanks to all of you for some fantastic inspiration!  Here's #100:

And, since I've got one more day to submit cards for the Krafty Guest Contest over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, I figured I might as well make one more.  This card uses one of the images from the Josephine stamp set - but, again, I can't find it in the KK store.  :(  All of my faves seem to be retired?  At any rate, it worked perfectly for these colors and sketch:

Thank you for stopping by today - I hope you enjoy your day wherever you are!  See you on Saturday for my second week as Guest Designer for Just Us Girls! 

 

It's a SUPER-AWESOME Saturday!!!

Hi everyone! I am so excited today! I have TWO very important reasons for this Saturday post and I am thrilled to be able to share them with you.  :)

First of all - the amazing group of ladies over at the Just Us Girls Challenge have asked yours truly to join them as a Guest Designer for the whole month of February!  I was so excited I nearly squealed when I got the email - of course I said YES!!!  So thank you to Vicki and all the girls!  The first challenge this month is a SKETCH challenge - take a peek:

And the SECOND piece of awesomenosity?  Remember back at the beginning of January when I submitted this card to the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Contest???  Well, yours truly made the top ten!!!  SO, now the challenge is to make another card (or two...) using this round's theme, "Kim Loves Pink!"  I must say that I also enjoy pink so didn't really have a hard time with this challenge - the hard part was trying to pick which KK stamp I was going to use!!!  I finally decided on Goldilocks which, I just discovered, is NOT even available in the KK store anymore!!  I hope that's OK and doesn't disqualify me?  At any rate, some pink and green paper set the tone for the rest of the card, I added some Rose Red seam binding, a button, some teeny-tiny pearls on her skirt et voila:

Thanks for stopping in today - things around here are slowly finding their way back to normal after me being away in Disneyland.  I will be back on Tuesday with another Colour Q combination and *maybe* one more submission for this Krafty Guest contest...stay tuned!  Enjoy the weekend!

Did Someone Say Krafty Guest...? {Colour Q #223 & RS #96}

Hello everyone!!! WOW...it has been a week since I posted last and, I must say, I am quite enjoying only *having* to make a card once a week!  If course, I will likely make more than that some weeks but this week was super-busy and I just didn't have time to sit down and craft.  It will likely be much of the same this week and next as I prepare to go to Disneyland with a friend to run the Tinkerbell Half Marathon, the 10K and a 5K all in the same weekend.  Yep, we're certifiable!!!  We actually will probably be walking most of it since she tore her MCL back in August and it still hasn't healed enough to run but we're going to get those medals, darn-it-all!!!

In the meantime, I've got a fun card to share with you today...with a COLORED image!!!  It has been EONS since I colored an image and this never-before-inked Kraftin' Kimmie image was the perfect one to get me back in the groove.  The colors are from the new Colour Q combo...Little Red Riding Hood, anyone?

The sketch is this week's RetroSketches:

 I even decorated the inside, something I don't normally do but wanted to add a bit more to make the "Oops!" on the front make sense:

Now, since this is a new year, we should all try to do things that make us a bit uncomfortable so here it goes...I am also going to submit this card for the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Contest!!!  Why does this make me uncomfortable, you ask?  Quite honestly, the Krafty Girls are soooooo UBER talented - how could that not make ANYONE uncomfortable?  I would LOVE to be a Krafty Guest for a month!  The challenge is to make a card using a KK image and some sparkle - I didn't use very much sparkle but the sequins on the buttons and then on the inside do the trick, don't you think?

Okie dokie, ladies and gents...that's it for me!  I will be back next week for one more card before I'm off to California!  See you then!

 

Oh, How I LOVE Kraftin' Kimmie...

I absolutely ADORE the Moonlight Whispers stamps.  Annie Rodrigue is a freakin' GENIUS and so is Kimmie for turning the art into stamps!  I recently acquired the Batty Princess stamp and knew I HAD to use it for this week's Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge to make a "spooky" card.  Perfect.  And to kill two birds with one stone, it's a spooky card challenge over at Stampin' Royalty too!

I knew I'd likely have to make a square card because the image is almost too big for a regular card so I was THRILLED when I found Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch - it is a square AND the main image panel is rather large.  Unfortunately, the image is *still* a bit too big so I had to improvise and have it hang over the edge a bit:

Recipe - Stamps: Batty Princess (Kraftin' Kimmie)  Ink: Onyx Black Versafine  Paper: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, polka dot paper (Daisy D's), black bat paper (Cosmo Cricket)  Accessories: Black satin ribbon, paper piercer, Spiral Edge punch, Modern Label punch, twine, Copics, dimensionals, Scor-Tape

I wish I had a better camera because I don't think this picture really does the card justice - the colors are so much more vivid in real life.  I had a TON of fun coloring this girl... and she has wings so I have accomplished the City Crafter Challenge Blog to create a card that has wings on it.

That's it for me tonight - don't forget to check back tomorrow morning for a new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!  Later peeps!

PPC #33 and TWO Celebrations!!!

Oh MY GOODNESS!!!  This week's Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo screams "fun" and I immediately knew I wanted to ink up one of my Kraftin' Kimmie's that has never seen ink...(I'm sure none of you have stamps like that, right?  *wink*)

So, imagine my surprise when I clicked over to the Kraftin' Kimmie blog and discovered that they are CELEBRATING their one year ANNIVERSARY with a fun blog hop and this week's challenge is to create a "celebration" card!  How fun!  So, alright...I've got the colors, the theme, the stamp...all that's missing is the sketch.  So, off I went to the Just Us Girls challenge blog and, lo and behold, they TOO are celebrating their one year anniversary!   Both blogs even have prizes to make the party more fun so if you have time, make sure you stop by to play along.  Anyhoo...the JUGS girls have a sketch for us this week:

Once I got started, I realized that my image was a bit too big to make a regular size card so I went with a 5-1/4" square instead:

Stamps: Goldilocks (Kraftin' Kimmie)  Ink: Garden Green  Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, various SU! DSP  Accessories: Sewing machine, Copics, Optic Dot border punch, adhesive pearls, So Saffron striped ribbon, Twizzle embossing folder, button, hemp twine, Lots of Tags Label One Sizzlit, dimensionals 

I figured that the sentiment was pretty versatile and could celebrate many different occasions - a birthday, an anniversary, friendship or even a get well soon or thinking of you...  Isn't she adorable?

I hope you will play along with us over at Picture Perfect Creations - we always love to see how you interpret the colors and make them your own.  :)  If you have time, check out the other PPC Creators' blogs to see what they made using these colors.

Enjoy your Monday - see you again soon!