Kraftin' Kimmie Saturday Challenge- Celebrations

   Good morning and welcome to another

fabulous and fun Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps !

Are you ready for another fun and krafty challenge to inspire you and help get your creative juices flowing?

We've got some fabulous ideas for you 

and can't wait to see what you create!

This week, Krafty Girl Delphine is your hostess and her challenge theme for you is: 

CELEBRATIONS!

I thought the Party Animals stamp set would be perfect for this challenge! Such a happy stamp set!

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like.

These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however, using Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp products will earn you double entries!

The monthly prize is a $25 voucher to the Krafty shop!!!

Woohoo!  There are two ways to enter: you can link up your creation on the  Kraftin’ Kimmie blog page and if using KKS products,

you can upload your photo to the album in our 

Krafty Friends FB group.

And don't forget about this weekend's Frugal Friday Specials!! 

We've got a selection of gorgeous stamp sets on SALE 40% OFF this weekend while supplies last!!  

Be sure to check out all the fun projects the Design Team has come up with in the links below! Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Supplies~

Kraftin' Kimmie Party Animals Stamp Set, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics, Catherine Pooler Cardstock, Nestabilities Circle Dies, Recollections Happy Cake Day 12x12 Paper Pad, SU Cardstock, Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Kolours Goblin Green Ink, Kraftin' Kimmie Dots, 

Happy Birthday You Party Animal

I am trying to give out birthday cards at work this year to more people so I decided I better build up my stash!

I thought the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Party Animals stamp set was a fun one to start with. Don't they look like they are just having so much fun? 

I would love to be able to celebrate with these animals. Many years we've gone to the zoo on my birthday. This year we're going to go out to eat at Bonefish Grill and then the following week we're off to the races! I can't wait! Just a local racetrack but I'm excited as I have always enjoyed watching the races (and even thought at one time about being a driver!).

My designer paper is from a Michael's Hot Buy Paper Pad. I had never heard of these and never bought any until my friend, Alicia from Call Me Crafty Al talked about them. I just happen to be at Michael's recently when they were on sale and accidentally came home with 3 of them. LOL! I thought this Happy Cake Day pad was super fun and will come in handy for birthday cards!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Supplies~

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Party Animals Stamp Set, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics, MFT Stitched Oval STAX, Recollections Happy Cake Day 12x12 Hot Buy Paper Pad, SU Island Indigo Cardstock, SU Island Indigo Ink, Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen, MFT A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX set 1, MFT A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX set 2, Kraftin' Kimmie Summer Dots, 

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Safari Fun Trio

Today's card is for the current CCEE Stampers Challenge of Zoo Lovers Day, one of my favorite days! You must have at least one zoo animal on your card.

As I was driving to work after seeing this challenge I thought of a card to create. Fast forward a day or so and then I couldn't remember it at all and was so frustrated until I took my daughter out to practice driving and it came back to me, yay!!

I thought the retired Safari Fun stamp set from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps was perfect for this challenge and even more fun to use it on a slimline card!! And then I got out my stamps and realized that they were too large to use them all on a slimline so I had to rethink my plan. LOL! Such is the creative process, right? 

I then had a brilliant idea, if I do say so myself, and decided it would be so fun to create another side flap trifold card!! You can see the first one I made HERE!

And then as I was stamping I decided that the side flap just wouldn't work with all the images so I just decided to make three separate cards because I really wanted to color up all these cute stamps! Yup, creative process is all over the place sometimes!

I really had fun coloring up these fun stamps and creating with them. So thankful for challenges to keep the creativity flowing!!

Have a super day!

Supplies~

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Safari Fun Stamp Set, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics, MFT A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX set 1, Distress Oxide Ink~Salty Ocean, MFT Mini Cloud Edges and Micro Cloud Edges Stencils, My Mind's Eye 6x6 Designer Paper Pad Collectable "Remarkable" Collection, SU Real Red Cardstock, SU Real Red Ink, SU Stitched Shapes Framelits, SU Pacific Point Cardstock, SU Pacific Point Ink, SU Rococo Rose Cardstock, SU Rococo Rose Ink, SU Retired Label Punch, SU Enamel Shapes,

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Friends come in all shapes and sizes

Today I'm continuing on my quest to use all of the Sweet Sunday Sketches in order. Today I have #21!

Most of the time I choose my image first and work everything else for the card around that but today I started with the sketch and then worked from there. Sometimes it's good to shake up your routine, right?

I used an older Stamping Bella stamp by Tiddly Inks called Friends come in all shapes and sizes. Super cute!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Stamps~ Stamping Bella~Tiddly Inks~ Friends come in all shapes and sizes,
Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Berry Burst, 
Cardstock~ Copic Xpress-it, SU Lemon Lime Twist, SU Berry Burst, 
Designer Paper~ Basic Grey~ Lemonade
Other Goodies~ copics, square punches, Gold Wink of Stella pen, Kaisercraft rhinestones,

April Whimsy Stamp and Die Release!

Welcome to Day 1 of our ...

April Rubber Stamp and Die Release

Over the next 3 days we will reveal *BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps and stamp sets and  *BRAND NEW* die/die sets. They will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Wednesday.

  

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Crissy Armstrong, Time for Tea Designs, Lizzy Love stamps and dies being released this month!

For my card today I used the new stamp by Crissy Armstrong called You Float my Boat! (my photo turned out a bit dark but goodness is this a fun stamp!!)! I also used a die from the Corner Die set!

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PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

Debbie Eastman 

Shelby Thomas

Danni Bindel--that's me!

Chitra Nair 

Cindy Hoesel

Shannah Bartle 

Maya Go 

Louise Roache

Lizzy Smith

Bridget Curnow 

Thanks so much for visiting us today. Happy hopping!

Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks Day 3 and a Challenge!

Oh my goodness! I have been waiting for this day!! I am 100% in love with the CUTE stamp set being shown today! If you know me--you know that going on an African Safari is the number 1 thing on my bucket list and you also know that I am 100% a zoo nerd (my newest name that I call myself and now even some co-workers at work call me this! I accept it proudly) so this set just SCREAMED my name!!

Welcome back to day THREE of our DECEMBER Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks!!! Have you been enjoying the peeks so far?? All of our brand new rubber stamp sets will be released TOMORROW!

Today we are SO thrilled to share the newest set of adventurous kiddos by artist CHERYL GRANT! This adorable set features our kids Lexi, Lucas and Lulu having some fun with some new animals and is called SAFARI FUN!! This fun set includes THREE main images plus EIGHT awesome sentiments!!

This week our challenge hostess is Tracy ! And her challenge is ANYTHING GOES!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with any stamp but if you use a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp you'll double your chances to WIN!! Use any sketch, any design, any embellishments because Anything Goes! Have some krafty fun and join us this week because we'd LOVE to see your KKS designs. We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $10 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!! Wanna win??

For my card today I used the cutie pie with the giraffe since we have a new baby giraffe at the zoo! Actually we have tons of babies right now--I'm so excited to see them all today when I get off work! Anyhoo--you can see our sweet little giraffe HERE! Did I mention that I totally LOVE this set..hehe!

Are you planning to join us for our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!!! Hope you can join us for all the fun and excitement and prizes TOMORROW beginning at 2pm EST!! Hope you can come hang out with the me and Krafty Girls!

All the Krafty Girls and Guests listed below have lots of super FUN designs to show you featuring these awesome new stamps from Cheryl! And while you're hopping around, be sure to leave a comment because we are giving away a gift card!!! You could WIN some Krafty $$$ to spend at the shop!!!! {This winner will be announced at the party tonight!}

Happy hoppin'!

Dutch Dare Card Challenge #166

I haven’t played along with a challenge for a while so I thought maybe I’d find a few to play along with this weekend. The first one to catch my eye was The Dutch Dare Card Challenge #166 which is a sketch~

I decided to use my newest Pure Innocence Giraffe Girl. I think she’s a doll. For once I made sure she’d fit in my nestabilities oval before I started, I don’t know how many times I set out to do a sketch and then choose an image too big for the circle/oval. LOL! I have to admit I had an ulterior motive for choosing this stamp…when I was doing the Basic Grey week I found the cutest giraffe/flamingo paper in the Basic Grey Sugared paper so I just “had” to pair it up with Giraffe Girl!


I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with my copics and ShinHan Art Touch Twin Markers. I also masked her and sponged some ink to add a little more depth/interest. I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black also.
To finish the card I added some buttons, scrappers floss, and stickles! I also found an older Cuttlebug embossing border so I tried it out. Amazing what you find when you look around in your crafty area!
Have a great day! and for my US friends, Happy Memorial Day--remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.