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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #773: 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.

#773 CAS

When Freshly Made Sketches revealed this week's challenge, I knew exactly what I was going to create. That doesn't happen often! I just needed to pick the colours. I absolutely love the Garden Blooms Suite, most likely cuz it has great floral images to colour. And we all know I LOVE TO COLOUR!

 I had a hard time with all the white space again, so I broke it up with a bit of Basic Beige. Remember to do your stamping first before running the embossing folder through.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Gallery Blooms (165211), Paper Pumpkin August 2022: Sweet Sunflower (retired)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Basic Beige (164511) Soft Sea Foam (146988)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Granny Apple Green (147095), Pecan Pie (161665)
• Stampin' Blends: Fresh Freesia (155518), Petal Pink (154893), Delightful Daffodil (154883), Soft Sea Foam (154902), Granny Apple Green (154885) 
• Accessories: Classic Black Matte Dots (retired), Beautiful Motifs Dies (165205), Gallery Blooms Dies (165212), Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder (161600), Blending Brushes (153611), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating die cut. And I also coloured up the flower again on 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 #772: 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!

 #772 CHRISTMAS

I haven't inked up this little Christmas chickadee in a long while. It was once well loved and the stamp has the ink stains to prove it. I used my watercolour pencils to add colour to the image and a window sheet to add the water splatter in the background.  

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Beautiful Season (retired)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Basic Black (121045) 
• Ink Pads: Memento (132108), Gray Granite (147118)
• Accessories: Stitched Rectangle Dies (retired), Water colour pencil (161700), Window Sheet (142314), Sparkle Gems (161288)
   

I didn't stamp the inside of the card yet as I am already late posting. But I will stamp a little part of the holly branch and give it a quick colour. As for the envelope, I just reused an envelope that I received from a friend and added the gold lined label to cover my name. Why recycle when you can reuse!

 

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