Thursday, September 22, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #630: 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 love the way this card turned out. I had so much fun creating it. I had the embossed background in my stash of "finish it later" basket, all it needed was a little bit of colour. I started with Blending Brushes then decided the flowers need deep colour, so out came the water painters. I followed along with September's Su! Colour Challenge on Facebook.


 Supplies I used:



I finished the card set with a little DSP to the inside of the card and the envelope flap. And for the final touch to tie it all together: butterflies. Clean and Simple!

Now 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

Judy (Guest Designer) 


 
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #629: CAS

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge? I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS, as in Clean And Simple. Here's my card:


 I created this card for my Tuesday Night Live @ 7pm for last week. I had some technological issues and my video wouldn't record like it normally did. I tried again this week and I had some other issues and got very frustrated before I gave up.

I love sunflowers, actually I love most flowers. Heck, some of  them are even considered weeds. But this time of year, I think of sunflowers. It was obvious when I saw the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set that I was buying it. It'll be a keeper for a long time.

Supplies I used:


 

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope CAS as well. Just a little DSP and some splatters will do  the trick.

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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Judy (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #628: Christmas

Yeah, it's Thursday! Time for another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Let's put the spotlight on Christmas this week!

I prepared this card for an upcoming Christmas Stamp-A-Stack (SAS) and I followed 52 Christmas Card Throwdown  sketch challenge. A SAS is an event where you make stack of cards. In this case, we will be making 9 cards total with coordinating envelopes. Participants will create 3 cards of each 3 designs. I'm going to say this is the more technical one but still quick and easy to assemble.

Supplies I used:

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope Clean and simple just by adding a bit of DSP and a coordinating stamp, like the holly leaves here.

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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Judy (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #627: Stamp Act

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Welcome September and let's hope there's a bit more summer left. It's almost Pumpkin Spice season but let's hold off for as long as we can. In Central Alberta we are in the middle of another heat wave. While I'm loving it on my days off, it's a bit too hot in the pizza shop. Thank goodness for cool nights though!

Anywho!! Onto my card for this week's Krafty Chicks Challenge : Stamp Act. As long as something is stamped, be it an image/digi or a sentiment, it qualifies for the Stamp Act challenge.

It's also sunflower season. I love sunflowers but my husband won't let me grow them. He thinks the root ball is difficult to dig out when cleaning the yard in preparation for winter. So I admire them in my craft space. 

The background was fun to create. I love getting messy in the craft space. I used the Blending Brushes to rub some pink, orange and yellow and overlapped them to create even more shades.
 

When I was happy with the background, I sprinkled some water with a spritz bottle. I was sure to add some bigger droplets as well as fine mist. Then I watered down a bit of the White ink refill and splattered it with a water painter. I could have skipped this step however, it didn't look much whiter than the spritzed water.

I put some adhesive sheet behind my background where I was going to die cut my sunflower. Then I placed each individual petal in the right spot. If you receive this card, know that I love you or really appreciate something you've done for me. It was fun and calming though, so I would go through the trouble again.

Once all the little bits were in place, I then removed the sunflower outline die cut and I'm saving it for another project. Wait till you see that one! Added some dimensionals to the background. So the petals are flat on the card stock and the background is popped up.

Supplies I used:

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple with some left over bits of blended card stock and leaf outline die cuts. You don't need much to make it pretty and have it coordinate.

Need more inspiration for the Stamp Act challenge, hop on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to get the details. 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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Judy (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #626: 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 sure had some fun with this card. Went to Pinterest for inspiration and I cased Melody from Stampin' Through The Catalog on Facebook.

I made this card with two girls, age 8, in mind. I thought fussy cutting would be time consuming and most likely boring to repeat 4 times (though I love the effect and the dimension it gives to the card). I pulled out my Stamparatus instead, I'd bet they'd love playing with that tool. And it was simpler to do rainbow colours, then I wouldn't need to figure out favourite colours. I didn't use This Birthday Piggy because I knew these girls love cows. I used the Hippest Hippo stamp set (FREE SAB product with a $60 purchase), instead. I stamped and coloured all three of the hippos, one was a gray hippo, one was a brown cow and the last was a black spotted cow. Can you tell I'm a city girl?? This gave the girls options and they were not stuck with doing exactly as my card.

 As it turns out the girls wanted to create last week's CAS card, using different decorative masks and colours. One coloured a hippo and the other a brown cow. And they had a blast getting all artsy and would love to do it again. Might have to host a kids class!


Supplies I used:

  • Hippest Hippos stamp set: 159921 (SAB, available until August 31, 2022 or supplies last)
  • Paper Pumpkin sentiment: retired
  • Poppy Parade ink pad: 147050
  • Pumpkin Pie ink pad: 147086
  • Daffodil Delight ink pad: 147094
  • Granny Apple Green ink pad: 147095
  • Pacific Point ink pad:147098
  • Gorgeous Grape ink pad: 147099
  • Staz-On ink pad: 101406
  • Stampin' Write Markers, Neutrals: 147158
  • Stampin' Write Markers, Brights: 147157
  • Stampin' Write Marker, Subtles: 147156
  • Thick Basic White card stock: 159229
  • Gorgeous Grape card stock: 146987
  • Stamparatus: 146276
  • Stampin' Cut & Embossing machine: 149653
  • Hippos Dies: 159928 (SAB, available until August 31, 2022 or supplies last)
  • Sponge Dauber: 133773
  • Stampin' Dimensionals: 104430

Ok, so I'm a dork! I didn't show you a pic of the inside. Oops! I put a 1/2" strip of DSP that's all, the one that matches the envelope. I kept it CAS but really it's because I didn't want to colour another cow on the inside.

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

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #625: CAS

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Are you ready for this week's challenge? I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS, as in Clean And Simple. Here's my card:


I created this card for a class I had last week. It was a last minute thing (we haven't gotten together since the beginning of June, so long overdue) and I had one grandson sleeping over, which translates into: quick, easy, and CAS. I followed a one layer challenge from Inkspirational Challenge and a colour challenge from Cupcake Inspirations. 

Pink and gray screams hippopotamus to me. And this stamp set is so adorable. You'll find it in the Sale-A-Bration brochure, which means FREE with a $60 order. But how did I make it one layer?? I used Masking Paper. I stamped my cute hippo on the card base and masking paper. I fussy cut the image for the mask as close to the outline as possible, sadly the dies won't do for this technique. Then covered the image on the card base, laid my decorative mask (stencil) over it and added colour with my Blending Brush. Once I was happy with the background, I peeled off the hippo mask and returned it to the backing paper. I now store it in the stamp case for future use; might be able to get 4-5 uses or more depending on the technique.

Then I coloured my hippo with Stampin' Blends. If you've ever coloured with them you know that the colour seeps through the card stock. And I don't like that look. So I added a spinner for the inside.

To create the spinner layer: cut your card stock 11" x 5 1/4", score on the 11" side at 4" from each end and at 5 1/2". You need to cut out the center using your trimmer, leaving 3/4" on each end and 1" deep. Tape a length of clear fishing wire or dental floss into the middle fold then you can adhere the card stock to the card base. The next step is to create a mirror image by first die cutting a blank hippo. Stamp in Memento ink onto a silicone matte then use the silicone matte to stamp onto back of the die cut (or as I did using a gel plate designed for mirror imaging). Be aware that the image isn't stamped as clear as direct stamping, it'll look a little blurred. If that bothers you, use a journalling pen to crisp up the outline. Then colour.

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I normally like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope just as CAS. All except for the spinner layer, it's pretty much that, CAS. But the spinner layer isn't so hard.

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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 

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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Krafty Chicks Challenge #624: Christmas

Yeah, it's Thursday! Time for another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Let's put the spotlight on Christmas this week! 

Another new bundle from the July-December Mini Catalogue. I already had a retired stamp set with candy canes in it but I felt I needed this one too. Here I'm following the August Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers sketch again.


I tried real hard making a monochromatic card but I couldn't accept a red Christmas card without a bit of green. I kept it to a minimum though, so it's a soft passing grade.

In this close up, I tried the tip I posted in my Facebook Group, Diane's Craft Space. Using a fine tip glue in a decorative pattern (dots and dashes) to adhere the vellum card stock. Genius idea! I need to practice a bit more, I think I didn't put it on thick enough or I was too slow at setting it up. Still looks good!

Supplies I used:

I finished off the inside of the card and the envelope with a couple of candy canes and some DSP. Easy Peasy wow factor! Truly worth the extra effort and only takes a couple extra minutes.

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

Melanie's Blog

Lori's Blog

Marcia (Guest Designer) 


 

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