Krafty Chicks Challenge #765: 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!

 #765 MASCULINE

This card is made up from elements of an old Paper Pumpkin kit. I'm slowly working my way through stacks of kits sitting in a corner on one of my desks.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: The Best There Is May 2024 PP kit
  
• Card Stock: Crumb Cake (120953), Early Espresso (119686)
• DSP: May 2024: The Best There Is PP kit
  
• Ink Pads: Early Espresso (147114)
  
• Accessories: Linen Thread (104199), Solid Gems (retired), May 2024 PP kit die cuts, Stampin' Dimensionals (104430) 
  

 

 I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by just adding a stamped 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 #764: 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.

#??? CAS

I often save card designs on my phone and/or iPad as inspiration for a later time. I found this one by Melissa Faust on Facebook way back in January. And I'm just getting to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) it this week. If you click on her name mentioned above, you can see her stunning creation.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Umbrella Days (164891)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159299), Basic Black (121045)
• DSP: Plaid Tidings (retired)
  
• Ink Pads: Pretty Peacock (150083)
• Stampin' Write Marker: Basic Black (162481), Daffodil Delight (161696)
• Accessories:Umbrella Days Dies (164894), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a bit of DSP. 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 #763: 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!

 #763 CHRISTMAS

I dusted off the October 2024 Paper Pumpkin kit: Nests of Christmas for this card. I loved the chickadee die cuts so I had to use them and the arched DSP was the discarded centre of one of the sample cards of the kit. I felt it was still missing a little something and the pine branches filled the white space.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: October Paper Pumpkin 2024: Nests of Christmas
• Card Stock: Thick White (159229)
• DSP: October Paper Pumpkin 2024: Nests of Christmas
• Ink Pads: Shaded Spruce
  
• Accessories: October Paper Pumpkin: Nests of Christmas die cuts, Classic Blc Dots (retired), Stampin' Up! Dimensionals (104430)
   

This kit has beautiful envelopes so I didn't have to do anything there but I did stamp more pine branches and added a strip of DSP on the inside of the card to finish it off.

 

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 #762: BIRTHDAY

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Well, I blinked and it's now April. 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 challenge

#762 BIRTHDAY

This card came about while I was playing around with the March 2025 Paper Pumpkin kit: Daisy Daydream. I always like coming up with alternative designs and showing my customers how to expand their kits with a few extra products from their card making stash.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: March 2025 Paper Pumpkin: Daisy Daydream, Happiest Hive
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229)
• DSP: Bloom Impressions (retired)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Coastal Cabana (147097), Crushed Curry (147087)
• Stampin' Blends: Crumb Cake (154882), Shaded Spruce (154903), Soft Suede (retired)
• Accessories: Stylish Shape Dies (159183), Linen Thread (104199), Sequins (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

 

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 #761: 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!

 #761 MASCULINE

I had so much fun creating this card. I'm glad I dusted off this old retired stamp set and dies. I was kind of feeling blue that day too so how fitting is the sentiment: Just A Note To LIFT Your Spirits. 

Hack: instead of fiddling with dimensionals for the big balloon, it was much easier to die cut 3-4 more and adhere them for layers.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Lift Me Up (retired)
• Card Stock: Pool Party (122924), Pretty Peacock (150880), Daffodil Delight (119682), Basic White (159276)
• DSP: Sunshine & Rainbows (retired)
  
• Ink Pads: Pretty Peacock (150083), Melon Mambo (147051), Granny Apple Green (147095)
• Accessories: Up & Away Thinlits (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

 

 

 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 #760: 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.

#760: CAS

Here's another alternative card design I created using the February Paper Pumpkin Kit: Hello Spring. Went REAL CAS with this one. And I added a bit of shimmer but my pics don't show it so well. Just a little watered down Pearlized Enamel Effects for the bee wings and every flower did the trick using my Water Painter. Wink Of Stella (141897) would work beautifully here but I didn't have any.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Hello Spring February 2025 Paper Pumpkin
• Card Stock: Soft Sea Foam (146988),Basic Black (121045), Lemon Lolly (161720)
• Ink Pads: Memento (132708), Soft Sea Foam (147102)
• Accessories: Spring Is In The Air Dies (166237), Pearlized Enamel Accent (156310)
   

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 #759: 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!

 #759 CHRISTMAS

I thought since it's March and this month is usually associated with the colour GREEN, that I would create an all green Christmas card with a splash of gold. I went digging though my retired DSP for different patterns to use the background ornaments.

.Products used:

• Stamp Set: Ornament Keepsakes (retired), More Merry Messages (retired)
  
• Card Stock: Shaded Spruce (146981), Basic White (159276)
  
• DSP: Tis The Season (retired)
  
• Ink Pads: VersaMark (102283), Shaded Spruce (147088)
  
• Accessories: Blending Brush (153611), Gold Pen (retired), Heat Tool (129053), Gold Embossing Powder (165678), Ornaments Framelits (retired), Gold Thread (retired),Christmas Bulb Builder Punch (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
   

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