Krafty Chicks Challenge #786: 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.

#786 CAS

Over the weekend, my Paper Pumpkin kit was delivered but I didn't have time to play with it. Too busy playing and having fun with the grand kids. But I knew I'd have plenty of time to create on my days off (Tuesday and Wednesday). 

This is my first alternative using the September Paper Pumpkin kit: Fall For Toile. It was hard to leave all that "white" space so I added the sequins and some Wink Of Stella on the pumpkins. 

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. I used the envelope from the kit and just added some pumpkins. 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 #785: 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!

 #785 CHRISTMAS

For this card, I used the card bases and envelopes that coordinated with the Beary Christmas Memories & More pack and DSP from the Suite. Even the polar bear is fussy cut from the DSP. Only thing stamped is the sentiment. So let's just say this was a quick and easy card!

To keep the inside of the card simple, I add a little strip of 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 #784: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Well, I blinked and it's now September. 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 challenge.

#784: BIRTHDAY

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

 Good day my Crafty friends! I can’t believe it’s already September and 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??

I’m playing with an older Paper Pumpkin Kit. I only added a bit of ink blending on the background and some yellow ribbon.

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope.

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. This Anything Goes challenges runs from today, September 1 to October 15th. Plenty of time to get inky!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #783: 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!

 #783 MASCULINE

So I was thinking about how I don't have much manly Designer Series Paper when I happen to look on my right and see the craft bins rack full of old (I mean really OLD) dsp. I soon found a suitable pack to play with. It's dated Fall 2008 and there's not much left of it but that's ok, it's meant to be used up and not forgotten. I found an old stamp set as well, dated back to 2011 at least (not sure if it's older, didn't want to get lost down the Google rabbit hole).

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Countryside (retired)
• Card Stock: Soft Sky (retired), Basic White (166780)
• DSP: Muirfield (retired Fall 2028) 
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Balmy Blue (147105), Old Olive (147090)
• Stampin' Blends: Old Olive (154892), Crumb Cake (154882), Afternoon Azure (161672), Balmy Blue (154830), Smoky Slate (154904), Lost Lagoon (161680)
• Accessories: Saying Something Mix & Match Ephemera pack (163761), Tinsel Gems (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430) 
   

 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 #782: 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.

#782 CAS

I took inspiration from this photo I found while scrolling on Facebook. The artist didn't leave their WaterMark so I can't give them proper credit.

Are seagulls truly the new rage?? I'm seeing them everywhere. What attract my eye to the card was the bold yellow card base and the pop of red. Also the fact that it's CAS worthy. As I didn't have any seagulls to play with, I used another bird: the wise owl.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Adorable Owls (retired)
• Card Stock: Crushed Curry, Basic White
• Ink Pads: Memento
• Stampin' Blends: Smokey Slate, Pecan Pie, Gray Granite, Crumb Cake, Real Red
• Stampin' Write Markers: Crushed Curry, Basic Black 
• Accessories:Wonderful Gems (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals 
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. 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 #781: CHRSITMAS

 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!

 #781 CHRISTMAS

I love looking through my Christmas stamp sets and picking which one I want to play with next. I also separated the Christmas/Winter themed Designer Series Paper (DSP) so it would be quicker to get creative when I'm feeling motivated to craft. And this is what has come of this week's session.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Snow Much Fun (retired)
• Card Stock: Soft Sea Foam (146988), Basic White (166780)
• DSP: Trim The Tree (retired)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), VersaMark (102283)
• Stampin' Blends: Pumpkin Pie (154897), Afternoon Azure (161672), Pool Party (154894), Old Olive (154892), Lemon Lime Twist (161682), Smoky Slate (154904), and Basic Black (154843)
• Accessories: Heat Tool (129653), White Embossing Powder (165679), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

 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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #780: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Well, I blinked and it's now August. 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 challenge

#780: BIRTHDAY

Randomly picked another Paper Pumpkin kit off my other desk. I had already cracked this kit open, created a couple of cards but never finished playing with it. Now I have put it on my calendar for the weekend.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Ornate Style (retired), Birthday Banners (retired), Painted Petals, July 2024 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708) 
• Accessories: Painted Petals, July 2024 PP kit components, Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside of the card and pairing with the kit's already pretty envelope. Keep it simple with a little DSP and a birthday wish.

 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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #779: 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!

 #779 ANYTHING GOES

This time around I created a Thinking of You (sort of) Friendship card. I absolutely love the design in this DSP (Designer Series Paper). Such pretty flowers and lots of green. I went with a simple design today because I really didn't have time to craft. It's the end of the quarter so I had to finish up some bookeeping and pay the government their due.

Products used

• Stamp set: Gallery Blooms (165211), Paper Pumpkin, June 2025: Full Of Charm 
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Daffodil Delight (119683)
• DSP: Lovely Garden (165524)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Garden Green (147089)
• Stampin' Blends: Daffodil Delight (154883), Granny Apple Green (154885)
• Accessories: Something Fancy Dies (160424), Garden Blooms Dies (165212), Yellow Ribbon (retired), Starburst Sequins (165539), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

 

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