Krafty Chicks Challenge #811: 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!

 #811 CHRISTMAS

Today's card is following another great layout from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. This layout also gets you using your scraps, I had enough smaller pieces to trim to size that I didn't have to cut into a sheet.

I already had the deer die cut ready to use, so this card came together quickly... after I figured out the DSP measurements. Here's a close up:
 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Dashing Deer
• Card Stock: Real Red, Early Espresso, Basic White
• DSP: Retired from my stash, I don't recall the name
• Ink Pads: VersaMark
• Accessories: Heat Tool, Gold Embossing Powder, Detailed Deer thinlits, Tasteful Labels Dies, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

To keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I  added a deer die cut and a little more DSP. Quick and easy and done.

 

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 #810: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you! 

New month, new challenge starting today. Week one brings us 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.

#810 BIRTHDAY

Decided to play with some new stamps sets today and pause on the Paper Pumpkins. This wreath is not actually a wreath but three curved sprig connected to look like one. I went a little overkill with the purple background, it's a little dark to my liking. Tip for next time, even though you think there's not much colour on the page, stop and dry fit your element to know when to stop. The lovely sentiment (love the font) is from the POM (Product Of the Month) January 2026. Stampin' Up! started this new promotion in December 2025: purchase a qualifying order ($100 CAD) and get the POM for $5 CAD.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Delicate Whispers, Fabulous Sayings (POM)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist, Basic Gray
• Ink Pads: Basic Gray, Highland Heather, VersaMark
• Stampin' Blends: Highland Heather, Lemon Lime Twist, light Shaded Spruce
• Accessories: Delicate Whispers dies, heat tool, white embossing powder, blending brush

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

 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 #91: ANYTHING GOES

 Good day my Crafty friends! 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 another class kit extra that was just piled and waiting. This is a NO STAMPING card, the Ephemera did all the work for me. Here are the pieces I'm working with and the original card.

 

 

I did add some DSP in the background to play along with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and change the orientation.

Instead of an official tag, I layered some Nested Dies and popped up the Ephemera flower. My dots are more strategically placed than lined up in a row too. Here's the thing about a sketch: you take what you need from it and make it your own. Doesn't have to be a perfect replica! Play, and have fun! That also goes with the Love To Craft challenge.

 

 

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Kept it simple with just a little DSP and card stock this time.

 

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 LOVE TO CRAFT CHALLENGE BLOG.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #809: 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 sets and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #809 MASCULINE

Taking a break from my high stack of old Paper Pumpkin kits and to play with old kits I have lying around. These kits are extras from previous classes I've hosted and extras for Facebook Lives, in case I goofed and needed to start over. They are not as big a stack as the PP but as I'm decluttering out my new craft space, they need to move along. Here are the pieces I'm working with and the original card.

Instead of staggering the DSP, I just created a rectangle background. Making it a simple design and still keeping the Octopus circle as the focal image. I also changed the orientation and used different dots.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Robot Buddies Card Kit for the sentiment
• Card Stock: Pool Party, Basic White
• DSP: Maritime 
• Ink Pads: Night Of Navy
• Accessories: Stitched Shapes dies,Toile Tidings dots, Stampin' Dimensionals 

 

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

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration from the Design Teamfor 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 #808: 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.

#808 CAS

I've been playing with the January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Special Delivery this past week and created a few alternative designs. If you're looking for an easy, no thinking craft with pretty cards at the end, then Paper Pumpkin kits are the perfect thing for you. And if you're an avid crafter who loves creating something different with the same components, then Paper Pumpkin kits can do that too.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Special Delivery January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Basic Beige (card base)
• DSP: Kit envelope cut to size 
• Ink Pads: Blueberry Bushel
• Accessories: Kit die cuts, Blending Brush (changed the colour of the sentiment from pink to blue), Stampin' Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating die cut and DSP (envelope). 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

The Creative Crafters Challenge #97

 Good day my Crafty friends! I hope all is well and that you are creating some crafty time for yourself. I try to get creative at least 3 times a week. It helps that I'm on the DT to some fun and easy challenges. Today I'm showcasing my DT card for The Creative Crafters Challenge #97.

As always, we keep things simple and fun and our challenge is ANYTHING GOES. It doesn't even need to be a card, any paper project hand-made by you counts.  

 As soon as I saw this new Suite Collection in the pre-order for the March Exclusives, I didn't hesitate to put in my cart. Both my grandsons are playing home league indoor soccer. It's a pleasure to watch them play. My husband was a soccer player till his mid forties and to say he is fan of  the sport is just putting it mildly! Fan isn't enough to describe it but hooligan is too much. 

I coloured the jersey with red stripe for his favourite team: Olympiacos, one of Greece's great teams.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Match Day
• Card Stock: Real Red, Basic White
• DSP: A Wonderful Match
• Ink Pads: Memento
• Stampin' Blends: Real Red
• Accessories: Match Day dies, Wonderful Stars Puffy stickers, Stampin' Dimensionals

I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. It's a little extra but it doesn't take long. Keep it simple! A coordinating image and a strip of DSP is enough to make it special.

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 Creative Crafters challenge.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #807: 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!

 #807 CHRISTMAS

I wanted a CAS design so I went looking for a layout on one of my favourite sites: Freshly Made Sketches and settled with #201

I knew right away which stamp set and which DSP to play with. And from there the card quickly came together.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Beary Cute
• Card Stock: Balmy Blue, Basic White
• DSP:  A Walk In The Forest
• Ink Pads: Memento, Garden Green
• Stampin' Blends: Smoky Slate
• Accessories: Bear Punch, Glitter sequins, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I stamped a coordinating image and a little more DSP. Quick and easy and done.

 

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