Krafty Chicks Challenge #557- Anything Goes

 Can you believe April is almost over?? It’s getting nicer out and we’ve started working in our garden. It’s all tilled up and hubby planted his onions already. My seedlings are growing at a faster rate with the extra daylight hours, I’ve already transplanted them into bigger pots. And I’m just itching to get out to the nurseries for some pretty flowers.

It’s Krafty Chicks Challenge Thursday today, so here’s my card.

My grandson was over for a sleep over this past weekend. I usually spend all my time with them when they are visiting; no cleaning, no chores, and I don’t usually make cards unless I involve them in some way. And since I needed a card, I asked Kenley to first find me a stamp set: Garden Wishes. Then by looking at the stamps, pick one or two colours: Blue and Yellow. He's good at this!

I let him stamp the image and then colour it. (He is at the age of not posing for the camera anymore and loves making funny faces. Best pic I could get!) Once he was done colouring, which I touched up a bit, we used my Big Shot to die cut the dandelions. Both my grandkids love playing with the Big Shot. We also cut a couple of sizes of Stitched Rectangles and Nested Labels before settling on this layout.

 For the sentiment, I introduced Kenley to the Heat Tool and Embossing powder.  Although he looks bored in this pic, he was quite impressed when the powder changed into a glossy sentiment. My feelings exactly every time I play with embossing powders. I did the fussy cutting though and by that time he was actually tired of crafting but I think he wanted to get back to his electronics game.

So I finished the card by first adding fun tone-on-tone water colouring on the Coastal Cabana panel, it was too faint and didn't have the effect I was looking for. So in comes the mask and the Blending Brush. That's it! That's what it needed!

As no card would be complete without finishing the inside and decorating the envelope, I stamped and coloured the dandelion image and stenciled on the flap and corner of the envelope and on the edge of the card.

Supplies I used:

• Garden Wishes stamp set: 154408
• Thick Basic White card stock: 159229
• Coastal Cabana card stock: 131297
• Bermuda Bay card stock: 131197
• Basic Black card stock: 121045
• Crumb Cake ink pad: 147116
• VersaMark ink pad: 102283
  
• Watercolor Pencils: 141709
• Water Color Pencils Assortment 2: 149014
• Water Painters: 151298
• Heat Tool: 129053
• White Embossing Powder: 109132 (product will be retiring as an individual item but return in the new Annual catalogue as a bundled product with other colours on May 4th.)
  
• Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine: 149653
• Stitched Rectangle Dies: 151820
• Stitched Nested Labels Dies: 149638 (Retiring product, discounted 20% until May 3 or while quantities last.)
• Dandy Wishes Dies: 154315
• Retired Masks (stencil)
• Blending Brush: 153611
• Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430

I had fun crafting with my grandson. Hope we have more session in the future before he really gets too old to spend time with his Grandma.

 Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details, more inspiration and link up your project for this week's Anything Goes Challenge. I also encourage you to visit the Design Team's personal blogs and see what going on in their craft space.

Leanne's Blog

Lori's Blog

Nance's Blog

Melanie's Blog (Guest Designer)

Krafty Chicks Challenge #555 CAS

Today we start a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks Challenge. We are sharing projects that are CAS, Clean And Simple. 

KRAFTY CHICKS CHALLENGE #555

I've been playing with my soon-to-be-retiring stamp sets, trying to show them some love. There's a few sets that haven't even seen the light, while others like this one have gotten some use, although it has been a while. I'll admit: I get distracted easy with the new toys. Good Morning Magnolia, fare thee well.

I tried going for the No-Line colouring look but I needed to stamp off more than once so that the image would just be a faint outline. I stamped my image in Crumb Cake ink and then traced it using my Watercolor Pencils, first pressing firmly, then lightly where shadows would be. Then using a Blender Pen, I went over the inside of my outline and pulled the colour towards the center for the leaves. I heat embossed the sentiment and fussy cut around the shape. I really love this look. Popped that up and tucked in a bit of copper thread. I added splatters because I thought there was too much white space, I has issues with that but am getting better. I even inked up the edges for a vintage feel, not shown in picture was the sponge daubers.

I repeated the process for the inside of the card, which was really my first attempt. I have well juiced ink pads and forgot to stamp off so it was really dark. It's not a bad look, just not what I was going for. I couldn't do my usual decorating of the envelope since I didn't use any DSP, so I went with stamping the image in the corner for the front and centered for the flap and splatters to coordinate it with the card.

List of products used:

• Good Morning Magnolia stamp set: 149298 (Retiring May 3 or while supplies last)
  
• Crumb Cake card stock: 120953
• Petal Pink card stock: 146985
• Very Vanilla card stock: 101650
• Basic Black card stock: 121045
• Crumb Cake ink pad:147116
• Watercolor Pencils: 141709
• Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2: 149014
• Blender Pen: 102845
  
• Sponge Daubers: 133773
• VersaMark: 102283
  
• White Embossing Powder: 109132 (sold individually until supplies last, then in a bundle)
• Heat Tool: 129053
• Paper Snips: 103579
• Retired Copper Thread
• Flicking Brush for splatters
• Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430

I really enjoy playing with this stamp set, I haven't decided yet if it will make it to the KEEP pile or the FOR SALE pile .I love the big magnolia image and the font used for the sentiments. For now it's a keeper until May 3.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to get more details and inspiration for  this week's CAS challenge. There's a place for you to link up your projects at the end. I do hope you play along with us.

You can also get more details on each Design Team member's cards on their personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Lori's Blog

Nance's Blog

Melanie's Blog (Guest Designer) 

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #554 - Christmas

Good day everyone! Welcome to another edition of Krafty Chicks Challenge.  It's Christmas week, even though we just celebrated Easter. I love making Christmas cards and I love this stamp set, Peaceful Boughs (150541). So sad that it is retiring. 

KRAFTY CHICKS CHALLENGE # 554

 The Last Chance Product List is an exciting yet sad time. It's time to say goodbye to some favourite products and make us rush to get everything on our Wish List. It's also time though to introduce the new Annual Catalogue, where new wonderful products start to shine for demonstrators.

 I played with some scrap for the stripes. Do you keep all your scraps?? For I while I did keep them all but when the stash of scraps didn't get used, lots went to the trash and I start all over again. I vowed to use them more often, hence decorating the inside of cards.

Other supplies used for this card:

• Shaded Spruce card stock (146981)
• Basic White card stock (159276)
• Soft Suede card stock (115318)
• Red Red card stock (102482)
• Old Olive card stock (100702)
• Early Espresso card stock (119686)
• Shaded Spruce ink pad (147088)
• Early Espresso ink pad (147114)
  
• Beautiful Boughs dies (150661)
• Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755) 

 

I kept a similar layout for the inside and envelope using more scrap strips. And a little bough poking in the corners to tie it all together.

Now head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog and see what the other Chicks have for inspiration and play along with us. Upload your project, Christmas theme this week, and share your love of paper crafting.

You can also visit the Chicks on their personal blogs for even more. You could even drop them a line in the comment section to show them some love.

Lori's Blog

Nance's Blog

Leanne's Blog

Melanie's Blog (Guest Designer)

 

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #551 CAS

 Hello everyone! Welcome to Krafty Chicks Challenge Thursday. I'm hosting this week with a CAS theme. We want to see your Clean And Simple projects. My card is truly that: SIMPLE.

I didn't have much time to play in my craft space lately since it was hubby's 70th birthday last weekend and we HAD to celebrate that. My daughter and grandsons came for a sleep over and we were also able to "gather" at a restaurant (separate tables) with John's son and his family. He was totally surprised and so happy.

Back to card making, I'm so happy it is CAS week and this card came together quickly. Using a Thick Basic White  (159229) card base, I layered the recently retired SAB Flower & Fields DSP onto So Saffron card stock (105118). Then used the 1 1/2" Circle Punch (138299) on Basic Black card stock (121045) as a back layer to my focal sentiment element. On a 3/4" Basic White (159276) strip, I centered it in the Everyday Labels punch (144668), punched it out, then stamped THANKS from the Ornate Thanks stamp set (149471) in Memento Black ink (132708). Pop that up on Stampin' Dimensionals (104430) and it's done.

I do not have a pic of the inside, I forgot to take one before giving it away but I kept it simple with just a band of DSP on the bottom. And I did not decorate the envelope this time. But if one wanted too, one can stamp flower images on the front bottom left corner and use more DSP on the flap.

Now head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the other Hens have for inspiration. Please upload your projects so that we can see what your are up to in your craft space.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #548 - All Occasions

 Welcome to Thursday! And a brand new challenge over on the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog: ALL OCCASIONS. A few weeks ago, sadly a friend needed a sympathy card. These are some of the hardest cards to prepare. 

KRAFTY CHICKS CHALLENGE #548

 

Sale-A-Bration 2021 has a stamp set called Heal Your Heart (155291) that has condolence type messages. I stamped one message with Shaded Spruce ink (147088) randomly on the Shaded Spruce card base (146981) and again on Mint Macaron card stock (138337), then punched it out using the 2" Circle Punch (133782). Next I used the Waterfront Stamp set (146386) to create a scene. Used Balmy Blue ink (147105) for the speckles in the sky, Highland Heather (147103) for the mountains, Mint Macaron (147106) for the grassy area, and Shaded Spruce (147088) for the trees. I also liked the birds from the High Tide stamp set (143006), stamped them in Balmy Blue (147105). I did have a few attempts to create a this beautiful scene. And a few more attempts at creating the right angle with the Stitched Rectangle Dies (151820). But it was worth the struggle to get it just right.

 Then I created a similar scene for the inside of the card and the envelope.

Don't forget to stop on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog and see what the others in the Hen House have created for inspiration. As always, I invite you to play along, link up your project or post it on a Facebook page, we love seeing what you're up to in your craft space.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #545 - Stamp Act

 Good morning my crafty friends! So it's Thursday and I'm back with another Krafty Chicks Challenge card. Stamp Act, where you need at least one thing stamped on your creation.

While scrolling through my FaceBook news feed last week, I stumbled across a similar gem created by Jo-anne Rogers. She is a talented Stampin' Up! demonstrator from Blackfalds, AB (my neck of the woods). This is the link to her blog post on Design With Jo.

Her card is similar to the one on the right. I just went on a creative spree with this layout and separate components. Starting with the Rainbow Glimmer Paper (153056) cut to 5.25x4 backed it with Adhesive Sheet (152334) and running through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (149653) with the Detailed Heart Die (151440). I repeated this process with Coastal Cabana card stock (131297) and Basic White card stock (159276). I used Press 'N Seal to keep all the bits together and carefully started peeling off the background on the Rainbow  Glimmer Paper and Coastal Cabana card stock and adhered it to the Thick Basic White (159229) card base. For the Basic White panel, I peeled the outline only and adhered that to a Coastal Cabana card base.

Then I thought the Press 'N Seal would be my friend and make an easy job of pasting all the hearts into place in one step. As I was peeling off the backing to the Adhesive Sheet, the hearts were sticking to my fingers. I tried using a piercing tool/tweezers combo, that worked better but still a slow process. Eventually I plugged in all the itty bitty hearts into place, not necessarily in their rightful place but it got filled!

To finish off the card, stamped the Valentine heart from the Heartfelt stamp set (151417) in Rich Razzleberry ink (147092) and punched it out, along with a scalloped heart in Rich Razzleberry card stock  (133675) using the Heart Punch Pack (151292). Popped that up on Dimensionals (104430) and called it done.

 No card is complete without finishing the inside and the envelope. What's a few more hearts!!!

Don't forget to stop on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to get more inspirations from the other Chicks. And please upload your project so that we can see what's going on in your craft space.

Happy Stampin'