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

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #778: 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!

 #778 MASCULINE

This week I'm follow a sketch from Steph's Stampers (a Facecbook group). I first went looking for some masculine DSP. I think I've said this before: I am a paper curator (some call it hoarder) but I don't have much masculine DSP in my large stash. I'll have to change that in my next purchase. Once that was decided, it was easy to pick the birthday stamp set with the party hats!

 

Products used: (INFO TO COME)

• Stamp Set:
• Card Stock: 
• Ink Pads:
• Accessories:
   

 

 I went real simple with 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

Krfty Chicks Challenge #777: 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.

#777 CAS

I played with the Decorative Masks (aka stencil) from the Thankful Garden Suite this week. Such a quick and fun way to add colour to this beautiful hydrangea. Kept things extremely simple to let the flowers be the star of the show.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Thankful Garden (165526)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229)
• DSP: Lovely Garden (165524) 
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Old Olive (147090), Mossy Meadow (147111), Gorgeous Grape (147099), Fresh Freesia (155611), Highland Heather (147103)
• Accessories: Thankful Garden Dies (165533), Thankful Garden Decorative Masks (165538), Blending Brushes (153611), Banner Triple Punch (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image and a bit more DSP. 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 #776: 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!

 #??? CHRISTMAS

While rummaging through my Christmas Paper Pumpkin kits, I found this kit with very few bits and pieces left so it was an easy choice to finish it off and recycle the box.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Joy To The World (PP October 2020)
• Card Stock: Basic White (159276)
• DSP: from the kit (PP October 2020)
• Ink Pads: Soft Sea Foam (147102), Shaded Spruce (147088), Cherry Cobbler (147083)
• Accessories: Blending Brush (153611), Twine (from kit), 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 #775: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Well, I blinked and it's now July. 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

#775 BIRTHDAY

I created this card with the June Paper Pumpkin kit using last week's layout from Freshly Made Sketches. I like to get creative with the kits each month and make some alternative to show my customers how versatile Paper Pumpkin is: you can assemble the beautiful cards from the kit as intended and enjoy a simple crafty session or if you dare, chop up the card stock, trim the die cuts and create from a vision from your imagination.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Full Of Charm (Paper Pumpkin June 2025)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Berry Burst (144243)
• DSP: Full Of Charm (Paper Pumpkin June 2025)
• Ink Pads: VersaMark (102283), Mossy Meadow (147111), Berry Burst (147143), Pretty Peacock (150083) 
• Accessories: Blending Brush (153611), Gold cord (retired), Gold Sequins (from the kit), Heat Tool (129053), Wow White Embossing Powder (165679), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

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 #87: Month

 Good day my Crafty friends! It's already July 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??

As I left things to the last minute…again, story of my life, I went with a quick and simple Inspiration Layout on page 24 of Stampin’ Up!’s Annual Catalogue 2025-2026. I did a masculine version of this layout last week for a different challenge and I’ll have a kids version for Sketchy Saturday on my Facebook group.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Natural Botanicals (164831), Hello Spring (PP Feb 2025)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Afternoon Azure (161719)
• Ink Pads: VersaMark (102283), Granny Apple Green (147095), Crushed Curry (147087), Pecan Pie (161665) 
• Accessories: Heat Tool (129053), Wow White Embossing Powder (165679), Starburst Sequins (165539, Online Exclusive)

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Kept it simple with a few stamped images.

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, July 1 to August 15. Plenty of time to get inky!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #774: 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!

 #774 MASCULINE

I have owned this stamp set for a really long time. Bought it used online and have never played with it once. Isn't that crazy?? My grandson's birthday is coming up and he's really into cars. Started when he was a toddler by collecting many Cars (the movie) vehicles. He would line them up along the coffee table and he would know the name of each one. I know McQueen and Mater.

 Here's a close up. I used Layout 6 from Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalogue as a starting point. By Basic Beige at first, I was thinking the card would be muted as it's not part of the layout but then it looked unfinished. You know me and CAS designs: too much white space! Then by adding the blue outline the beige looked like shading and I liked it so I coloured it in with my water pen.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Happiest Birthday, You Are Amazing, Need For Speed (all retired)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Afternoon Azure 9161719)
• Ink Pads: Afternoon Azure (161663), Lemon Lime Twist (147145), Basic Beige (163806)
• Accessories: Watercolour Pen (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104403) 

 I kept the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple just by adding the car image and colouring it in. I will go back and add the beige for shading, it'll look so much better. 

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