C4C97 Shake it up baby!

Hi everyone and happy Saturday. It's challenge time again here at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and our challenge hostess Cindy has another fun challenge for you. Today we are making Shaker Card's. Here is a Tutorial for your Shaker Card!!

If you decide 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 C4C97. Don't forget to go back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

For my card, I used this adorable image, Stanley the Snail from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps. The palm tree and sentiment is from The {Stamps} of Life  July stamp of the month-Island2visit. the little sand dollar embellie is also made with a stamp from this same set. Image is coloured with Copic Markers and the shaker is filled with Ultrafine Sand Flower Soft. Border punches from EK Success.

Check out what's shakin' with my sweet crazies!

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lynda Benden
• Maria Bell
• Silke Kittmann
• Silke Ledlow
• Tammy Hershberger
• Frances Byrne

Have an amazing weekend and Happy Stamping!

Crazy4Challenges 26 and Kraftin' Kimmie #19

Today I've combined the Kraftin' Kimmie and Crazy4Challenges Combo

At C4C, our fabby February Hostess Robin has asked us to use three different textures on our card. For my texture I added Buttons and Bows (which incidentally is the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge this week, hostessed by one of my fave Krafty Girls, Andrea) a flower and some cuttlebugged Basic Grey DP! I used Polly the Bar Wench . I coloured Polly with Copics and used a combination of Coral Cardstock and Basic Grey Designer Paper. The Flower is a Prima Beauty!

Would you like to win the Puppy Love... Stamp set from Kraftin' Kimmie??? Just head on over the the KK Challenge blog to get all the details on how to play and win!

Totally Stampalicious is our C4C Sponsor this week! Head on over to the C4C blog if you want to play along with us

Last but not least, please follow the links on my sidebar to see my fellow Crazies and Krafty Girls creation..........eye candy for sure!!!!

Happy Stamping~

Kraftin' Kimmies Challenge 17-Scene it!

Hey! I get to be the Hostess for this weeks Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge!!! Use your Kraftin' Kimmie stamps to make a scene (gee, I could think of a LOT of stories in this regard, but I better just focus on the Challenge........lol). One lucky winner will receive the Billy Blythe Stamp.

I sure hope you'll play along. Head over to the challenge blog to see the great DT creations, to link up your card/project and to get all the deets!!!! Also, hop on over to KK Stamps to check out the sweet Pirate release!

Happy Stamping!

C4C21 KK14 Oliver's in the Pink!

Today I'm doubling up my Kimmie and C4C Challenges again. Let's talk about Kimmie's Challenge First. Our Fabulous Guest Designer Donna really challenged us this week when she said "absolutely NO embellies!!!" No Ribbon, No Buttons, No Embellishments! WHAT???? eeeeeeek.......lol , I don't think I've made a card without Ribbon since Carter had Liver Pills. What was I to do............my guy calls me Button.....because more often than not, you'll find at least one button on my card (oh yeah and he thinks I have a button nose!). Soooo I had to put on my thinking cap.........hmmmmmmm what to do. What to do!!!! Yes Donna, it was a great challenge!!! If you spend much time around me and know me well, you will know that I am a THINKER.........sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes not so much! I can over process things TO death!!! Any in this case it was a great thing! I loved the challenge 'cause it required me to think!! If you want to play along with us the key word would be KKSC14 and you can link up your card over on Kimmie's Challenge BLOG. One lucky winner will receive the stamp that Donna uses on her creation.........you'll have to take a gander over to her blog to see as I'm prescheduling posts and haven't seen it yet!

And now for the C4C Challenge! Think Pink! Yep, Pink. Lori, our fabulous hostess for this month wanted us to use Pink in our creations. Our Sponsor over at C4C this month is the greeting farm! If you'd like to play along with this challenge, the Keyword is C4C12 and you can link up your card on the Challenge BLog.

Last but not least, check out my sidebar to see the Krafty Girls and C4C Crazies Creations!

Happy Stamping!

Double Dog Dare ya!!!! Kraftin' Kimmie 13 and C4C 20 Challenges

I Love sketch challenges almost as much as I love colour challenges! This week I got the best of both worlds when I was able to combine the two. A good thing, because I'm coming down to the crunch getting everything done before I leave for CHA! This week over at Kraftin' Kimmies Challenge Blog Kimmie is the hostess and you can win a free image just for playing along! Be sure to visit the Challenge Blog to link your creations and if you're loading into SCS the keyword is kksc13. The Challenge is to use Pink, Red and Brown in your creation.......and if you like, an option is to use a heart on your card!

For the C4C Challenge, it's a sketch. I didn't have time to upload it, but if you pop over to C4C, you can get it there. The Sponsor for this week is The Greeting Farm. Unfortunately I don't have any of their stamps, but they sure are sweet!!!! You can link you challenge card up on the Blog so we can check out your creations. I'm attempting to have a look at the players cards, but unfortunately with all my time constraints, I find it hard to comment on them all given the huge number of players, which makes me extremely happy!!! I'm making an effort to comment on at least 20 per week.......that being said thanks so much for supporting our challenges and coming out to play with us.

Lavinia is one cool creature! I chose a salmon pink paper to coordinate with the colours in my Basic Grey Infuse DP! Coloured with Copics and the sentiment is Steampunk Sayings a full sentiment set, which coordinates with the Steampunk Characters released earlier this week!

Have a great weekend!

Getting Punch Happy and Touchy Feely!

Is that sounding a little aggressive? lol~~~ Actually I'm keeping my hands to myself! Punch Happy is the C4C Challenge this week (week 13) and Touchy Feely is the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge for this week (Week 8). Again, I combined the two challenged to create my Stuck on You card. What do you think of Bonnie and Clyde? They are quite the couple aren't they? Do you think they're being extra cautious not to Tangle their porcupiney quills? Do you suppose they have a prickly relationship..........lol! Okay enough already.........Bonnie and Clyde are new December release stamps from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and illustrated by Crissy, who happens to be our Challenge Hostess this week!

The challenge is to add elements that would create texture in the card. To do so, I cuttlebugged the brown layer, added a metal photo corner and ribbons and a button of course!!! Make sure you check out the Challenge Blog to see the DT creations and to find out exactly how you can win a free stamp by playing along with us.

Over at Crazy4Challenges we're pulling out our punches to go full out and get punch happy on our cards. I just picked up this very cool MS Daisy Punch this week at M's. The Scalloped border is also a MS punch. Kraftin' Kimmie has been our sponsor this month and if you head over to the C4C blog, you are going to see some great samples for the upcoming release from our very talented Crazies!

Here's another sneak peek for you. It's Daddy's Little Girl..............she'll be available this December release as well!

Don't forget to come back tomorrow..........Kimmie, the Krafty Girls and Krafty friends will be Hoppin'!

See you then!

*****Vicki~~~~~

Crazy4Challenges with Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps C4C12

I can hardly believe that we are on Challenge 12 for C4C. It seems that our group just started. I am so excited that we have so many followers and players each week. I truly appreciate your support for this blog and although I don't have time to comment on each and every creation, I am so happy that you play along. As you can see, our Challenge Hostess Frances, has designed a fabulous sketch for us this week.

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps is our November Sponsor! I took a fairly loose interpretation of this challenge and although it isn't exactly as specified, I think it will pass.........hmm well I hope so anyway!!!

As for our Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge- It's a Winter/Christmas Theme and is hosted this week by our very talented Diana! Be sure to hop on over to her blog and take a look to see which stamp you can win by participating in the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge.

Deets on the Card??? I used this Years Christmas Paper from SU!, One of my last purchases before I retired as a demo. IT is a rather pretty colour isn't it? I coloured CLARA with Copics, using the BG and Warm Grey series of marker. I made a rather interesting Ribbon Slide with a Metal Frame...........still not sure whether I like it or not. The sentiment is also from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps........you can find both stamps on the website!!!

Please feel free to play along with both challenges!!! and don't forget to see what the C4C Crazies have come up with for you this week as well as Kimmie's Kraftin' Girls! The talent of all of these women never cease to amaze me!

Link up your creations on the C4C Blog and Over at the Kraftin' Kimmie Blog

Happy Stamping!

*****Vicki~~~~~