Kraftin' Kimmie's Saturday Challenge #25-For the Boys

Super Talented Krafty Girl Melanie has challenged us to create a masculine card this week! Fun! I have a tendency to make more feminine cards, so masculine is good! I think Gone Fishin' is the perfect image for this theme! Huck and Lady are in for a fun filled day at the Fishin' hole on a sunny Saturday afternoon.


this card was fairly quick and simple to create. I coloured the image with many copics adding road in with warm greys and some blades of grass! The DP is from Jillibean and the Base cardstock is from Prism and has just a wee hint of green, but closely matches the buff colour of the polka dots. The punch is from Martha Stewart and the Big Brads from DCWV. You won't want to miss the rest of the Krafty Girls creations........and make sure you check out Melanies blog to see what stamp one lucky player who inks up their Kimmie stamps will win this week!

Happy Stamping!

Christmas Stamping All Year Long and Our Craft Lounge Sketch Combined and some Blog Candy!

I'm covering a couple of challenges with this card! The sketch is for the OUR CRAFT LOUNGE Friday Sketch Challenge #9........ isn't it a neat sketch? For details on how to play along to win a prize, visit THE LOUNGE today to get all the details The second challenge is for Christmas Stamping All Year Long. Our Challenge this week was to use Die Cuts on our card. I chose to use my new Octagonal Nestabilities. The stamp set is Called Holiday Cruiser . There sure are some fun images in this set!



I coloured my main image in with Copics and then sponged some grey ink to the bottom of the die cut and some sky blue ink to the top. I added some white gel pen to highlight the fenders and some stickles to the fun and funky garland! Other supplies include Star Cuttlebug embossing folder, Olive and Primary Blue Cardstock and Primary Blue Brads


Hey! would you like to win this set from me? This blog candy is exclusive to my blog. In order to win, you must be a follower. Link your creation using the rules of either challenge, sketch or using die cuts on your card by 9 p.m. est next Thursday evening and one random winner will receive the Holiday Cruiser set. You must also be a follower of my blog to be eligible to win.

Add your creation to Mr. Linky! can't wait to see what you come up with!

Don't forget to check out the Lounge and The CSAYL Blog to get all the details on these fun challenges

Happy Stamping

Stamptique Designer Challenge # 5 ~ It's a girl thing

This week, the very talented Kim Prince has challenged the DT to create a Girly Girl Card! Use your imagination on this one~ Just add some feminine touches~~~For my card, I have used Linda and Gibi two Daniel Torrente images available at Stampotique Originals

The Yummy DP is Double Sided and From Jillibean....The sentiment also available at Stampotique as well as the Spiral Background



The images are coloured with Copics, Flowers from Prima........metal Embellies.....unknown

For a chance to win this week's challenge, make sure link up your creation (please copy & paste the direct link to your Stampotique Designer's Challenge) to Mr. Linky on the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog. Links that are not direct to your creation will be deleted.

Theme:Create a Girly Girl Project using your Favourite Stamps

Our Craft Lounge Sketch Challenge #8

I created this card for the Friday Sketch Challenge over at Our Craft Lounge. I'll keep it short and sweet today as I have a nasty flu bug and just pretty much dragged myself out of bed to do a quick post. The focal point of the card is the sentiment, which is from the Say it Big Clear Stamp set. You can find out where you can purchase this set by visiting Our Craft Lounge.

I've had these pre made cards kicking around my cupboard forever! They're from We R Memory Keepers Boho Chic Collection. I Cut up two or three cards to form the various layers in this card. I cut the sentiment out with my scalloped rectangle Nestie and sponged in with Rust Coloured Ink. The Ribbon was a coordinating ribbon for the Collection and the flowers are3 made with my new Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die. This card was made for my sweetheart...who'sBirthday was yesterday. Thank goodness I managed to get through the festivities before the flu bug hit, but I sure hope that I didn't make anyone else sick. Jon had been ill from Friday-Sunday and I was almost positive that I had managed to keep myself from cathing it.............NOT~
So if you'd like to play along with the OCL sketch, here are the deets (copied from the Lounge Blog)

You can even WIN A PRIZE – any one Our Craft Lounge stamp set of your choice. ONE WINNER will be selected for each MONTH. On the first of each month, we will select a winner for the previous month. This means that you could have four or five weeks to be able to participate. You can participate as many times as you would like. A random winner will be selected and posted on theon the first of each month.

Here are the rules:

• use any Our Craft Lounge stamps that you wish – but you must use OCL stamps to be eligible to win the prize

• link to your card/project at the bottom of this post using Mr. Linky – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link**

• use the sketch as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the sketch

If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCLDT08.

Happy Stamping~

Kraftin' Kimmies Super Duper April Release Blog Hop!

Today Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is releasing their new April images! Annie Rodrigue has gone Medieval on us this month! As you may have seen over the last few days with our krafty peeks, we have a princess, a queen, a knight, a minstrel and a dragon!!! Also we’ve got another one of Annie’s incredible paintings made into a stamp with Marie Antoinette!! Also we have a super sweet single image featuring Cindy and Mindy called, You Make Me Happy! You’ll get to check out all the new stamps throughout our fabulous blog hop today!!

If you want to start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog! 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 stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie store, because ALL the new images are NOW available! OH and did we mention? Each and every order placed on Sunday, April 11th and Monday April 12th are eligible to be entered in the draw to win one of three postcards featuring Annie’s original painting, Le Messager!!

If you've just arrived here from the Challenge Blog, then you're in the right place!!! Your next stop: The Extremely Talented Jeanne Streiff.

And now, about my card! I used the Very Sweet You make me Happy Stamp as my main image. This little girl and bear make me smile!!! I used Sketch 162 from Card Positioning Systems, which is being Sponsored by Kimmie! DP is from the green at heart collection , Basic Grey. Olive Cardstock makes the base. The image is coloured with Copics, the Brads from Memory Makers.

I used Punches from MS and EK success to decorate the inside of the card and a Scalloped Oval Punch to highlight the sentiment! Hope that you're as excited about this fabby release as I am ~


Happy Stamping!

Kraftin' Kimmie's Saturday Challenge #24 and Day Three of Peeks!

This week Donna, one of our Fabulously talented Krafty Girls presented the rest of the Krafty Clan with a colour challenge: Red, White and Black........what a yummy combination! I thought that Red would be perfect for the fabulous Ball Gown on Marie Antoinette, Illustrated by the extremely talented Annie Rodrigue and available on Sunday over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps



There's not a lot to say about the details of this card other than the fact that it was coloured in Copics and the DP is from a company unknown to me. Flowers are from Prima!!!

Be sure to pull out your Kimmie stamps and play along. For all the details of how you can participate and win a prize, please visit Kraftin' Kimmie's Blog!

Oh and one more exciting announcement!...........Kimmie is introducing her Junior Krafty Girls Team today! Head over HERE to meet the very talented Hannah, Katie, Jaime and Ainsleigh

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the Krafty Girls Blog Hop~~~

Happy Stamping!

C4C 32 It's easy as 123!

Welcome to another Crazy challenge!!! Our sponsor again this week is The Greeting Farm! This weeks challenge is as easy as 1, 2, 3!!! All you need to do is make a card or project that includes 1 ribbon, 2 buttons or brads and the use of 3 different punches! See, easy huh?!?! Before you get started, check out the Crazy girls inspiration by clicking the links on my sidebar!

For my card, I used Twisted Tea a very fun digital image from the Greeting Farm. I coloured her with Copics. Designer Paper is from K&CO.....punches from Martha Stewart Goo border and EK Success-Bird and Scalloped Border.




Very Sleepy tonight, so that's it for now!

If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C32. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.