Krafty Chicks Challenge #796: MASCULINE

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

   

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. MASCULINE is the theme this week and good luck to you. I struggle with cards for men. I love flowers and frills so I tend to buy more feminine stamp sets and play with those. I'll have to dig deep for masculine stamp set and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #796 MASCULINE

While cleaning up my craft space, I had to put away many stamp set on the shelf. I also took the time to reorganize my themes. Not sure why they get messed up... I'm the only one touching them and obviously NOT putting them back where they belong. That's when I found this deer. It's perfect for a masculine card and it's still hunting season for a little while yet in Alberta.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Nature's Beauty, Guy Greetings, Buffalo Check
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Garden Green
• Ink Pads: Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Garden Green
• Stampin' Write Markers: Basic Black 
• Accessories: Stitched Rectangle Dies (retired), Linen Thread, Streaked Dots, Blender Pen, Watercolor Pencils
   

 

 

 I kept the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by stamping a coordinating image and the buffalo check patter..

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration from the Design Team for MASCULINE week . There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #795: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#795 CAS

You can't imagine just how much fun I had creating this week's cards. It was so fun that I created two, one in pinks and one in blues.

 

I was inspired by Denise, one of the other Design Team members of the Krafty Chicks. See the card on her blog The Crafty Den. I'm also playing along with a couple of other challenges, one from Stampin' Up! and the other from a Stampin' Up! Demo Facebook group. They can be found in my fun/inspo Facebook group: Diane's Craft Space . It's a colour combo and use snowflakes.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Festive Friends, Delicate Pines
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White 
• Ink Pads: Memento, Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, Afternoon Azure, Melon Mambo
• Stampin's Blends: Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Afternoon Azure 
• Accessories: Blending Brushes, Paper Snip Scissors, Foam Adhesive Strips or Stampin' Dimensionals.
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. I also used a strip of cards stock. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #794: CHRISTMAS

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

Time for another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Welcome to week 2 of our challenges and that's to use a CHRISTMAS or any holiday/winter theme on your project. I chose to put the spotlight on Christmas this week!

 #794 CHRISTMAS

I had a couple of friends over one night and we all brought something to play with to the table. One lady had 3-4 kits to finish up and the other lady brought some Mix & Match Ephemera. I needed to create Christmas cards anyway, not just for this challenge, so I thought it best to slightly alter the October 2023 Paper Pumpkin kit. 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Home For The Holidays (Paper Pumpkin October 2023), Ho Ho Ho (Paper Pumpkin October 2022)
• Card Stock: From the Home For The Holidays PP kit
• Ink Pads: Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black 
• Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals
   

I loved the envelopes included in the kit. I didn't have to do anything, just left it as is. For the inside of the card though, I added a strip of card stock and some little trees to coordinate with the card.

 

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for CHRISTMAS week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #793: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Well, I blinked and it's now November. Week one has a BIRTHDAY theme on the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Create any paper craft with a birthday theme, male, female, kids, card, scrapbook or even home decor. We hope to see you in the gallery. Now let's get started with the challenge.

#793 BIRTHDAY

This card uses only scraps, except for the card base of course. I only had to trim the DSP to length and then weaved them in a random pattern. 

Here's a close up:

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Hello Cupcake
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White
• DSP: Design A Daydream
• Ink Pads: Afternoon Azure, Blackberry Bliss
• Accessories: blending brush
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside of the card and the envelope. Keep it simple with a little DSP.

 Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for BIRTHDAY week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Love To Craft Challenge Blog: Anything Goes #88

 Good day my Crafty friends! We made it to November and it's time to play along with the Love To Craft Challenge Blog. It's a wonderful group of crafty people creating and motivating the viewers to participate in the easy Anything Goes challenge every other month. You have six weeks to make time in your craft space and play along. I can handle that! Can you??

 

Today, I’m playing with the Paper Pumpkin Add-On die and some of last year's designer paper. It's also one of the simple Inspiration Layouts in the Annual Catalogue. In order to add dimension to the sentiment, I die cut the word JOY 4 times and stacked them. It's the same height as the popped up tag using Stampin' Dimensionals.

 

 

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Keep it simple with just a little DSP and a left over die cut.

 

 

Hope you enjoyed my card today and that it motivates you to get creative. We all need a little me time, why not get crafty?? Upload your project for this week's Anything Goes theme on the

Krafty Chicks Challenge #792: ATG (AnyThing Goes)

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

This week on the Krafty Chicks Challenge blog, it's ANYTHING GOES week. One of the easiest challenges because you can have any theme you like. It can be a card, (fancy fold even), a treat package, home decor, or a scrapbook page. Literally ANYTHING GOES!

 #792 ANYTHING GOES

This time around I created a Friend card. I created it for my Facebook group, Diane's Craft Space, for a Weekend Creative Challenge at the beginning of this month (October). Create a project featuring ANIMALS. It was a hard choice between the hippos, sheep, or donkey. So Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe!

Products used

• Stamp set: Darling Donkeys (retired)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Razzleberry Bliss,
• DSP: Design A Daydream (retired)
• Ink Pads: Memento, VersaMark
• Stampin' Write Blends: Smokey Slate, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Petal Pink
• Accessories: White embossing powder, heat tool, paper snips, Stampin' Dimensionals

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple with just a little DSP.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for ANYTHING GOES week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

 

Krafty Chick Challenge #791: MASCULINE

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

  

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. MASCULINE is the theme this week and good luck to you. I struggle with cards for men. I love flowers and frills so I tend to buy more feminine stamp sets and play with those. I'll have to dig deep for masculine stamp set and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #791 MASCULINE

For this week's card, I played around with last month's Paper Pumpkin kit. I altered one of the designs, as I often do to get MORE out of the supplies. I also added a bit more colour to the corn stalks and pumpkins.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Fall For Toile, September 2025 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Cajun Craze, Basic Beige
• Ink Pads: Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
• Accessories: Embossing Folder (can't remember the name at the moment), Water Painter, sequins, Stampin Dimensionals
   

 I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by just adding some DSP and a coordinating stamped image.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration from the Design Team for MASCULINE week . There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog