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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #790: 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.

#??? CAS

This card was created for a very dear young lady who is becoming a beautiful teenager. Her favourite colour is light purple. And in case you don't know: I'm not a fan of purple unless it's a flower but I do LOVE this card. 

The close up shows all the texture that makes this card so great, from the torn edges to the embossing folder, even the dimension on the 13.

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 #789: 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!

 #789 CHRISTMAS

I was playing with a One Sheet Wonder (OSW) pattern a few weeks ago. I featured the cards in my Facebook Group: Diane's Craft Space. As you know I embellish the inside and the envelopes for most of my cards. And now that I've switched to different envelopes (to keep the cost down), I had a bit of left over pieces that I just didn't want  to throw out. so I assemble the triangle bits to fit the background pattern. Almost zero waste! 

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Nests of Christmas (Paper Pumpkin October 2024)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Cherry Cobbler
• DSP: Elegant Pine Snowflakes
• Ink Pads: Memento Black, Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler, Pecan Pie 
• Stampin' Blends: Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie
• Accessories: Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 To keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I  added 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 #788: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Holy Moley! It's now October, which means fall or autumn. Where did the time go?? 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.

#788 BIRTHDAY

I was just having fun in my craft space one evening, I even dug out my stencils. When I saw the honeycomb one, I knew I had to use it. I used some yellow and orange ink and added a touch of Cajun Craze for the shading. The bees I had left over from an older Paper Pumpkin kit. Just what the card needed to finish it off..

Here's a close up:

Products used are mostly Stampin' Up! such as card stock, ink and even the retired dots. Only the stencil and the die cut sentiment are off brand. Not even sure which company as I stored it out of it's packaging. I do know they are a few years old , so it's most likely unavailable for purchase. 

 

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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #787: 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!

 #787 MASCULINE

 

As I was scrolling through TikTok, I watched an doodler, an artist really, create a beautiful background with colourful marker strokes. And I thought: I can do this too. My first attempt did NOT look anything as pretty. My strokes were uneven and wonky. Then I remembered that I might have a stencil that can do the trick. It's not quite like the original doodle but I didn't mind how it turned out.

 The stencil is a Vicki Boutin (she's Canadian, from Ontario) design. I love her style! I ran my markers into each space in rainbow colour from Stampin' UP!'s Brights family. It was a little flat when I removed the stencil so I traced each stroke. Love that I wasn't exact, it added whimsy! I also created a border to anchor it.

  I did more strokes on the inside of the card and the envelope to finish off the card set.

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 #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