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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #626: All Occasions

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. All Occasions is the theme, so pretty much anything goes. Here's my card:


 I sure had some fun with this card. Went to Pinterest for inspiration and I cased Melody from Stampin' Through The Catalog on Facebook.

I made this card with two girls, age 8, in mind. I thought fussy cutting would be time consuming and most likely boring to repeat 4 times (though I love the effect and the dimension it gives to the card). I pulled out my Stamparatus instead, I'd bet they'd love playing with that tool. And it was simpler to do rainbow colours, then I wouldn't need to figure out favourite colours. I didn't use This Birthday Piggy because I knew these girls love cows. I used the Hippest Hippo stamp set (FREE SAB product with a $60 purchase), instead. I stamped and coloured all three of the hippos, one was a gray hippo, one was a brown cow and the last was a black spotted cow. Can you tell I'm a city girl?? This gave the girls options and they were not stuck with doing exactly as my card.

 As it turns out the girls wanted to create last week's CAS card, using different decorative masks and colours. One coloured a hippo and the other a brown cow. And they had a blast getting all artsy and would love to do it again. Might have to host a kids class!


Supplies I used:

  • Hippest Hippos stamp set: 159921 (SAB, available until August 31, 2022 or supplies last)
  • Paper Pumpkin sentiment: retired
  • Poppy Parade ink pad: 147050
  • Pumpkin Pie ink pad: 147086
  • Daffodil Delight ink pad: 147094
  • Granny Apple Green ink pad: 147095
  • Pacific Point ink pad:147098
  • Gorgeous Grape ink pad: 147099
  • Staz-On ink pad: 101406
  • Stampin' Write Markers, Neutrals: 147158
  • Stampin' Write Markers, Brights: 147157
  • Stampin' Write Marker, Subtles: 147156
  • Thick Basic White card stock: 159229
  • Gorgeous Grape card stock: 146987
  • Stamparatus: 146276
  • Stampin' Cut & Embossing machine: 149653
  • Hippos Dies: 159928 (SAB, available until August 31, 2022 or supplies last)
  • Sponge Dauber: 133773
  • Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430

Ok, so I'm a dork! I didn't show you a pic of the inside. Oops! I put a 1/2" strip of DSP that's all, the one that matches the envelope. I kept it CAS but really it's because I didn't want to colour another cow on the inside.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for All Occasions 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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #625: CAS

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge? I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS, as in Clean And Simple. Here's my card:


I created this card for a class I had last week. It was a last minute thing (we haven't gotten together since the beginning of June, so long overdue) and I had one grandson sleeping over, which translates into: quick, easy, and CAS. I followed a one layer challenge from Inkspirational Challenge and a colour challenge from Cupcake Inspirations. 

Pink and gray screams hippopotamus to me. And this stamp set is so adorable. You'll find it in the Sale-A-Bration brochure, which means FREE with a $60 order. But how did I make it one layer?? I used Masking Paper. I stamped my cute hippo on the card base and masking paper. I fussy cut the image for the mask as close to the outline as possible, sadly the dies won't do for this technique. Then covered the image on the card base, laid my decorative mask (stencil) over it and added colour with my Blending Brush. Once I was happy with the background, I peeled off the hippo mask and returned it to the backing paper. I now store it in the stamp case for future use; might be able to get 4-5 uses or more depending on the technique.

Then I coloured my hippo with Stampin' Blends. If you've ever coloured with them you know that the colour seeps through the card stock. And I don't like that look. So I added a spinner for the inside.

To create the spinner layer: cut your card stock 11" x 5 1/4", score on the 11" side at 4" from each end and at 5 1/2". You need to cut out the center using your trimmer, leaving 3/4" on each end and 1" deep. Tape a length of clear fishing wire or dental floss into the middle fold then you can adhere the card stock to the card base. The next step is to create a mirror image by first die cutting a blank hippo. Stamp in Memento ink onto a silicone matte then use the silicone matte to stamp onto back of the die cut (or as I did using a gel plate designed for mirror imaging). Be aware that the image isn't stamped as clear as direct stamping, it'll look a little blurred. If that bothers you, use a journalling pen to crisp up the outline. Then colour.

Supplies I used:

I normally like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope just as CAS. All except for the spinner layer, it's pretty much that, CAS. But the spinner layer isn't so hard.

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team have 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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #624: Christmas

Yeah, it's Thursday! Time for another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Let's put the spotlight on Christmas this week! 

Another new bundle from the July-December Mini Catalogue. I already had a retired stamp set with candy canes in it but I felt I needed this one too. Here I'm following the August Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers sketch again.


I tried real hard making a monochromatic card but I couldn't accept a red Christmas card without a bit of green. I kept it to a minimum though, so it's a soft passing grade.

In this close up, I tried the tip I posted in my Facebook Group, Diane's Craft Space. Using a fine tip glue in a decorative pattern (dots and dashes) to adhere the vellum card stock. Genius idea! I need to practice a bit more, I think I didn't put it on thick enough or I was too slow at setting it up. Still looks good!

Supplies I used:

I finished off the inside of the card and the envelope with a couple of candy canes and some DSP. Easy Peasy wow factor! Truly worth the extra effort and only takes a couple extra minutes.

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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #623: Stamp Act

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Let us welcome August, the last month of summer vacation for most people. We've gotten lots of rain this season, which is good for the garden and the grass and our farmers but I think it can taper off now any time. Weather is so unpredictable, especially in Alberta. This weekend is going to be a scorcher (by our standards, lol) with a high of 27 degrees Celcius and full sun. Let's enjoy it for the next couple days and till Wednesday.

Onto my card for this week's Krafty Chicks Challenge : Stamp Act. As long as something is stamped, be it an image or a sentiment, it qualifies for the Stamp Act challenge.

I'm playing along with the August sketch from a Facebook group called Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers (BYSHC). You can find their blog here BYSH Cardmakers. I'm going to be using this sketch at least once a week this month. Oh did I mention, life is settling down now and I'll be back in the Craft Space more doing the things I love again. Let's hope I didn't just jinx myself!!


I finally played with my lovely new gnomes stamp set. I had fun colouring this guy with my Stampin' Blends. Who am I kidding? I love colouring anything with my Blends.


 Since I used the snowflake pattern from the Storybook Gnomes DSP, I used every shade of blue Blends that I have. Ain't he just the cutest??? Starting your Blends collection can be very daunting. Where does one start?? This is how I started. I looked at my stamp collection to find what images I have most of: FLOWERS. Flowers need green, so I picked 2 different ones: Old Olive and Mossy Meadow are my favourite shades of green. Then picked out a pink, a red, and a yellow (Flirty Flamingo, Real Red, Daffodil Delight). I bought the combo packs of course, that's a dark and a light version of each colour. And that was enough to get me started. I practiced and practiced and disliked my results at first but then I got better and so now I'm still practicing and getting even better. Honestly unless you're an artist, that's the only way you'll get the hang of it. My collection is not complete YET but I do have lots. Every other order or so I included one or two new shades.

Supplies I used:

I kept the inside of the card and the envelope CAS. I just added some DSP scraps and a few snowflakes.

Need more inspiration for the Stamp Act challenge, hop on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to get the details. 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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 

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