Krafty Chicks Challenge #809: 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 sets and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #809 MASCULINE

Taking a break from my high stack of old Paper Pumpkin kits and to play with old kits I have lying around. These kits are extras from previous classes I've hosted and extras for Facebook Lives, in case I goofed and needed to start over. They are not as big a stack as the PP but as I'm decluttering out my new craft space, they need to move along. Here are the pieces I'm working with and the original card.

Instead of staggering the DSP, I just created a rectangle background. Making it a simple design and still keeping the Octopus circle as the focal image. I also changed the orientation and used different dots.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Robot Buddies Card Kit for the sentiment
• Card Stock: Pool Party, Basic White
• DSP: Maritime 
• Ink Pads: Night Of Navy
• Accessories: Stitched Shapes dies,Toile Tidings dots, Stampin' Dimensionals 

 

 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 #808: 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.

#808 CAS

I've been playing with the January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Special Delivery this past week and created a few alternative designs. If you're looking for an easy, no thinking craft with pretty cards at the end, then Paper Pumpkin kits are the perfect thing for you. And if you're an avid crafter who loves creating something different with the same components, then Paper Pumpkin kits can do that too.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Special Delivery January 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Basic Beige (card base)
• DSP: Kit envelope cut to size 
• Ink Pads: Blueberry Bushel
• Accessories: Kit die cuts, Blending Brush (changed the colour of the sentiment from pink to blue), Stampin' Dimensionals
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating die cut and DSP (envelope). 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

The Creative Crafters Challenge #97

 Good day my Crafty friends! I hope all is well and that you are creating some crafty time for yourself. I try to get creative at least 3 times a week. It helps that I'm on the DT to some fun and easy challenges. Today I'm showcasing my DT card for The Creative Crafters Challenge #97.

As always, we keep things simple and fun and our challenge is ANYTHING GOES. It doesn't even need to be a card, any paper project hand-made by you counts.  

 As soon as I saw this new Suite Collection in the pre-order for the March Exclusives, I didn't hesitate to put in my cart. Both my grandsons are playing home league indoor soccer. It's a pleasure to watch them play. My husband was a soccer player till his mid forties and to say he is fan of  the sport is just putting it mildly! Fan isn't enough to describe it but hooligan is too much. 

I coloured the jersey with red stripe for his favourite team: Olympiacos, one of Greece's great teams.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: Match Day
• Card Stock: Real Red, Basic White
• DSP: A Wonderful Match
• Ink Pads: Memento
• Stampin' Blends: Real Red
• Accessories: Match Day dies, Wonderful Stars Puffy stickers, Stampin' Dimensionals

I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. It's a little extra but it doesn't take long. Keep it simple! A coordinating image and a strip of DSP is enough to make it special.

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 Creative Crafters challenge.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #807: 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!

 #807 CHRISTMAS

I wanted a CAS design so I went looking for a layout on one of my favourite sites: Freshly Made Sketches and settled with #201

I knew right away which stamp set and which DSP to play with. And from there the card quickly came together.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Beary Cute
• Card Stock: Balmy Blue, Basic White
• DSP:  A Walk In The Forest
• Ink Pads: Memento, Garden Green
• Stampin' Blends: Smoky Slate
• Accessories: Bear Punch, Glitter sequins, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 

I like 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 #806: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you! 

It's the beginning of February! Let's start it off with a great challenge. Week one brings us 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.

#806 BIRTHDAY

I dusted off the February 2025 Paper Pumpkin to follow through with my goal of reducing the pile of orange boxes. There isn't much left in the kit after this play session.

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Hello Spring Paper Pumpkin 2025, 12 Days of the Crafting Advent Calendar
• Card Stock: Old Olive, Balmy Blue, Basic White
• DSP: Hello Spring Paper Pumpkin 2025
• Ink Pads: Old Olive
• Accessories: Streaked Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals

 

 

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