Krafty Chicks Challenge #802: 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!

 #802 CHRISTMAS

This card turned out better than I imagined. I wanted something quick and simple but a little busy and not loud. And this is it!

Products used:

• Stamp Set: November 2022 Paper Pumpkin (PP) kit: From The North Pole, October PP kit: Hohoho
• Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Real Red Basic, White
• Ink Pads: Crumb Cake, Real Red
• Accessories: 2 1/2" circle punch, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

To keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I stamped more candy canes and snowflakes. 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

Love To Craft Challenge #90: ANYTHING GOES

 Good day my Crafty friends! Happy New Year! 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??

 

 

I’m still playing with the December 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit: Something For Everyone. Created an easy layout using all kit components except for the card base.

 

 

As always I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Keep it simple with just a little DSP and a coordinating image.

 

 

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.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #801: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Happy New Year!! It's the beginning of 2026! 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.

#801 BIRTHDAY

Just playing around and trying to get caught up on older Paper Pumpkin kits. You're going to hear me say this A LOT this year. I love Paper Pumpkin! The kits are fabulous! But I think I have too many stamps and things to play with that I push them aside and eventually forget about them. I also probably overwhelm myself by always trying to create alternative designs.

New Year's Resolution: finish all kits (past or current) within the monthly period. So if I haven't created alternatives, I will just finish the kit as the kit was designed. It's designed to be SIMPLE crafting! It's designed to be RELAX crafting! It's designed to be NO STRESS crafting!

But here's an alternative design using the December 2019 PP kit: Something for Everything. 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Something For Everything PP December 2019
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White
• DSP: from the kit
• Ink Pads: Terracotta Tile (retired)
• Accessories: from the kit 

 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

Krafty Chicks Challenge #800: MASCULINE

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Sorry I'm late with my post this week, it's been hectic around here. I'm sure it was for many of you as well. My family celebrated the holiday yesterday. We had an enjoyable, loud, busy, fun day, as always. I'll be honest, it's nice to have a quiet lonely day today.

 

Now, welcome to another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. MASCULINE is the theme this week. Here we go!

 #800 MASCULINE

I ordered some new playthings as an early Christmas present to myself. I'm not a farm girl, a true city slicker here, but I wanted/needed more masculine stamp sets to get creative with. And since my little town is surrounded by farms and acreages, this stamp bundle will get enough use.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Tractor & Co
• Card Stock: Pretty Peacock, Basic White
• DSP: Plaid Tidings (retired) 
• Ink Pads: Memento, Garden Green
• Accessories: Tractor & Co dies, Spotlight On Nature dies, Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (retired), Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots (retired), 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 #799: 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.

#799 CAS

We are just one week away from Christmas, I hope you're ready. My cards have been done months ago, but they haven't made it to the post office yet. EEK! I still have two more gifts to buy and then wrapping. The menu is finalized. So not much more to worry about here.

I think this flower looks like a peony or it could be a double poppy too. For this card, I went with bright pink because I wish my peonies were this colour. Mine are a light soft pink, still pretty and very fragrant. I used my blending brush and Melon Mambo ink to create the ombre effect on the embossed specialty paper.   

 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Simply Said, Garden Blooms
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Basic Black
• DSP: Irresistably Yours 
• Ink Pads: Memento, VersaMark, Melon Mambo
• Stampin' Blends: Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Pool Party 
• Accessories: Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Blending Brush, More Messages Die, Gallery Blooms Die, Banner Die, Purple sequins
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating banner. 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 #798: 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!

 #798 CHRISTMAS

Try to play catch up with my many unfinished Paper Pumpkin kits. I had a couple of friends over and made time to play.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Home For The Holidays. October  2023 Paper Pumpkin kit
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White
• Ink Pads: Night of Navy
• Accessories: Stitches Shape Dies, Merriest Trees Dies, Gold Foil sheet, Toile Tidings Glitter Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 

To keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I  fussy cut one of the houses in the kit and added a strip of card stock. 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 #797: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 We've arrived to the last month of the year. Already December and I'm not ready for it. 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.

#797 BIRTHDAY

I bought a new stamp bundle (Swirled Designs) and wanted to play with it right away. I loved the sample card Stampin' Up! provided and was sold on it right away. I think I love the dies more than the stamp set but time will tell. 

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Poppin' Birthday March 2019 Paper Pumpkin
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry, Fresh Freesia
• Ink Pads: Lost LAgooon, Fresh Freesia
• Accessories: Beautiful Pattern Embossing Folder, Swirled Designs Dies, Words of The Season Dies, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 

As always, no card is complete without finishing the inside of the card and the envelope. Keep it simple with a little card stock and 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