Krafty Chicks Challenge #729: 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.

 

Today I'm playing with Stampin' Up! new line of products: Mix & Match. It's designed to make card making easy by starting with a card base, adding Ephemera die cuts and finishing it off with simple embellishments. I also use d a simple layout: Sketch #2 from page 22 of the Annual Catalogue 2024-2025.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: none
• Card Stock: Soft Sea Foam (146988)
• Ink pads: none
• Accessories: Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack (163762), Saying Something Ephemera Pack (163761), Bright & Beautiful DSP (161449), Linen Thread (104199), Adhesive Backed Sparkle Gems (161288), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
  

No card is complete without finishing the inside with DSP. Same goes for the envelope, I even added a little trio of flowers ephemera to the front. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team have 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

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge 728: CHRISTMAS

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!

 

 

I went with a clean and simple design for this Christmas card. Added a little colour with a Blending Brush and fancied it up a bit with a multi-loop gold bow.

 

 Products used:

• Stamp set: So Many Stars (retired)
  
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159226), Lost Lagoon (133679)
• Ink Pads: Pretty Peacock (150083)
• Accessories: Christmas Classic dies (retired), Gold Thread (retired), Blending Brushes (153611), Stampin' Dimensionals
  

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

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #727: Stamps

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

 

It's the first week of a brand new month, which means it's our STAMP week challenge. As long as something is stamped on your project, (rubber, polymer or digi) (sentiment or image), it qualifies for the challenge. 

 

Our Guest Designer for this month is Rachelle again. We are enjoying her visit to the Hen House and appreciate all her wonderful inspiration. Let us welcome her back with open arms and send her some love in the comment section of her blog: Red Cre8s

For our stamp challenge this week, I created a birthda card. Here's a close up:

I love the way it turned out. I used black embossing powder for stamped my image so that I can colour with my Stampin' Blends. Such a beautiful effect, leaves a shiny crisp outline and no bleeding. I made this card a while back and have since lost the product list. Mostly, I used retired products from my over grown stash. The stamp was from an old Paper Pumpkin kit, DSP is a retired SAB freebie, and the card base looks like the old In-Color Groovy Guava (I could be wrong though).

No card is complete without finishing the inside with more DSP. Same goes for the envelope. Keep it simple.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #726: All Occasion

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you! Only today is Friday, I'm a day late with my post.

 

 

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog.

 

All Occasions is the theme. Just create something that is suitable for any special event, like wedding, sympathy, thank you and so on. I happen to think friendships are special and need to be recognized and celebrated.

Products used:

• Stamp set: Cheerful Daisies (161290)
• Card stock: Wild Wheat (161725), Moody Mauve (161723), Basic White (159726)
  
• Fresh As A Daisy DSP (retired)
• Ink pads: Moody Mauve (161649), Wild Wheat (161651), Mossy Meadow (147111)
  
• Accessories: Cheerful Daisies Dies (161296), Tinsel Gems 4 Pack (161623), Scalloped Contour Dies (155560), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
  

 

 I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by just adding some DSP. For the envelope, more DSP was added and the extra flower die cut adhered.

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

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #725: 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.

 

This week's card features the July Paper Pumpkin kit and a few bits laying on my desk from other projects. It is a gorgeous card kit! I can't wait to create more alternatives with it. Using my Stampin' Blends, I coloured the frames, the border on the sentiment die cut and the rhinestones. Did you know you could do that?? Try it with any colour to coordinate your project. Here's a close up:

Products used:

• Stamp set: July 2024 Paper Pumpkin - Painted Petals
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Basic Beige (164511)
• Ink pads: Memento (132708)
• Stampin' Blends: Calypso Coral (154881), Old Olive (154892), Basic Black (154843)
• Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies (159183), Paper Snip Scissors (103579), Rhinestone Basic Jewels (144220), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

 

 

For the inside of the card, I just cut part of the card base to add a coloured strip. And the easiest envelope decor ever, use one from the Paper Pumpkin kit. They are pretty!

 

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team have 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

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #724: CHRISTMAS

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!

 

This card came together rather quickly since most of the die cuts were in my stash already waiting to be put together. All I needed to do was stamp the sentiment and die cut some stars. Here's a close up:

Products used:

• Stamp sets: Merriest Trees (), Peaceful Christmas October 2021 Paper Pumpkin (retired)
  
• Card Stock: Pool Party (122924), Pretty Peacock (150880), Basic White (159276), Gold Foil Sheet (132622)
• Ink pads: Pretty Peacock (150083)
• Accessories: Merriest Trees dies (162047), Dimensionals (104430)
   

To keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, I stamped the tree and used more die cuts. 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

Rachelle (Guest Designer) 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #723: Stamp

Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you! And Happy Independence Day to my American followers!

It's the first week of a brand new month, which means it's our STAMP week challenge. As long as something is stamped on your project, (rubber, polymer or digi) (sentiment or image), it qualifies for the challenge. 

 

For our stamp challenge this week, I created a very easy encouragement card. Here's a close up:

I didn't have much time to craft this week. So using the May 2024 Paper Pumpkin kit, The Best There Is, I stamped a couple of trees on the mountain background layer and the sentiment on one of the banners. It was quick and easy!

No card is complete without finishing the inside with a coordinating image. Same goes for the envelope. Kept it simple here too.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Rachelle (Guest Designer)