Krafty Chicks Challenge #835: 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!

 #835 MASCULINE

I decided to play along with The Paper Players Challenge this week. It's Ann's turn to host and she created a lovely sketch.

I needed to replace the flower with something more manly and the fairly recent (April 2026) Lakeside Retreat Paper Pumpkin kit came to mind. When I opened the box, the bicycle ephemera was sitting on top and right underneath it was the beach scene already cut to size. All I needed now was to cut the stripe patter paper, stamp my sentiment and add the rock embellishments.

 

 Products used: everything but the card base (Thick Basic White) is from the April 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Lakeside Retreat.

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by just adding some DSP and a coordinating image. 

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 #825: 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.

#825 CAS

While scrolling through Facebook to pass the time, I came across a beautiful CAS card from Kerstin Ruter, a talented crafter on Stampin' Up!'s Artisan Design Team.

 I loved the soft and subtle colours, the white silhouette foliage, and the dainty pearls. So I CASED it. I went on a hunt for a colour challenge and found one on The Paper Players blog.

 I picked Strawberry Slush and Coastal Cabana for my background. For obvious reason the fern is in Lemon Lime Twist and although the background created a shade of purple with the blended colours, I stamped my sentiment in Gorgeous Grape.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Fern & Flora
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist
• Ink Pads: Strawberry Slush, Lemon Lime Twist, Coastal Cabana, Gorgeous Grape
• Accessories: Blending Brushes, Fern & Flora dies, Jewel Basic Pearls, Stitched Rectangles die
   

 

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 #635: All Occasions

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. All Occasions is the theme, so pretty much anything goes. Here's my card:

 I was running late with my card this week. Lots of things happening in life, had a little cold that slowed me down a bit and some fall cleaning. But I got 'er done! I absolutely love the Kindest Gnomes bundle in Stampin' Up!'s Holiday Mini Catalogue. I know, they don't call it that any more but I still do. It was first on my list for pre-order. And I got the coordinating DSP too. It helped me cheat a bit tonight! There's a sheet of large mushroom houses that I was able to fuzzy cut (or used my die if I had thought of it) quickly as my focal point.

I followed the sketch on The Paper Players Challenge site.

Supplies I used: (links to come)

• Kindest Gnomes stamp set: 159616
  
• Early Espresso ink pad: 147114
  
• Bermuda Bay card stock: 131197
• Calypso Coral card stock: 122925
• Crumb Cake card stock: 120953
• Storybook Gnomes DSP: 159615
• Paper Snip scissors: 103579
• OR Gnomes dies: 159625 with Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine: 149653
  
• Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430
  

I fussy cut a couple more mushroom house for inside of the card and the envelope. Kept everything CAS and added some DSP onto the flap of the envelope.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for All Occasions 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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Alyson (Guest Designer)