Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Saturday Challenge #589 - Christmas Animal Pals! Plus A Christmas In July Weekend!!

 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  

Melanie is your hostess and her challenge theme for you is: 

Christmas Animal Pals!

I decided to create a cute little gift card holder with a sweet little reindeer from the Reindeer Games Stamp Set! Seriously, these guys are the cutest!! 

I coloured him up with Copic Markers and layered on some sweet Doodlebug Design papers, a Happy Holidays washi and a candy cane I found in my Christmas Stash!

I added one of the sentiments from the Reindeer Games Set to a tag I cut to fit inside the gift card holder! I added a few stars from the set stamped with Krafty Kolours Ink, a little bell sticker and some twine. Now I have one gift card holder and matching tag ready to go!! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

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

you can upload your photo to the album in our 

Krafty Friends FB group.

Also, if you need a little extra inspiration or a jump start to your mojo, we have a new sketch each month!

Feel free to use it any time!

This weekend we have some extra fun Christmas In July holiday events you'll want to check out in the Krafty Friends FB group! Join us for challenges, prizes, inspiration and of course a Huge Sale!!

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

Book Lovers Gift Card Holder

Hello friends! I'm over on the Wild Whisper Blog today with a pretty gift card holder using the Watercolor and No Place Like Home paper packs along with the One More Chapter Stamp Set and Sequins! The Pinkfresh Studio Fillable Gift Card Holder was perfect to create a trifold holder, perfect to give to any book lover!

By diecutting two holders I created a trifold that flips open and of course I had to add extra details!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to stop by the Wild Whisper Blog to see all the details and inside!! And don't forget to use the code DTKARLA at the Wild Whisper Shop to save 10% off your purchases. Have an amazing and creative week friends!

Canvas Corp Brands Creative Crew Challenge - Think Pink!

Hello! I sure hope you've had an awesome week 💗 Mine was great, but flew by so fast! Today I'm sharing a pretty gift bag for my daughter's teacher. Her birthday was today and Amie, who is 11, just adores her.  She's had an amazing school year so far - isn't that awesome when that happens?!! Amie even went in early with some class mates to decorate the classroom and the teacher was so surprised and thought it was very sweet. This gift bag goes along with our Pink Theme for our Crew Challenge this month on the Canvas Corp Brands Creative Studio blog in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

I fussy cut a lovely tea pot from the printed Bags and Beans Canvas sheet and painted it with the Tattered Angels Mists. I then added some French knot embroidery stitches and glued it down with tacky glue. I used the Tattered Angels Mists on a piece of plastic packaging to add a ‘smooshed’ effect to the canvas bag as well as the Happy Birthday tag and then used the Mists again to colour the seam binding ribbon to match.

I was able to stamp directly onto the white paper mini bag using Archival ink and a fabulous coffee stamp from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies, designed by Pam Bray. I then used the Tattered Angels Mists and paints to add colour to the image. The bag is the perfect size to slip a gift card into.

I tucked the decorated mini bag into the tiny tote and added a happy birthday tag for a very special gift card presentation. A few sparkly SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and a pretty pink handmade flower from Little Birdie Crafts finish it off.

Canvas Corp Brand Supplies:

Canvas Corp Canvas Mini Tote 5x4 Canvas Corp Mini Bags White Canvas Corp Main Collection To You Tags Canvas Corp 12x12 Bags and Beans Canvas Sheet Tattered Angels Rose Gold Glimmer Mist Tattered Angels Tutti Frutti Glimmer Mist Tattered Angels Chalk Chalkboard Mist Tattered Angels Light Pink High Impact Paint

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Creative Studio blog to see all the other amazing pink entries, and I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Kitty Bee Designs - Coffee Gift Card Holder!

Hello! I hope you’ve been having a wonderful week friends! We are finishing off the last week of school here and getting our teacher gifts together. I thought this adorable Kitty Bee Designs - Venti Coffee Panda Girl was just perfect for the front of this sweet coffee gift card holder greeting card!  

I used Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers to colour in the cute image and then I cut it out with a Waffle Flower stitched die before layering on the Tim Holtz Gift Card Holder Bag from Sizzix. The pretty, bright papers from Your Next Stamp matched the colours I used on the image and I got inspiration for the design from the June Scrap Shotz  card sketch. (You have until the end of the month to enter!) 

I cut a piece of patterned paper to create a tag and stamped on a sentiment from a Pretty Cute Stamps set with Pink Distress Oxide Ink. I’ll attach a coffee gift card to the tag with glue dots so it can easily be removed. Some pretty SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and a Little Birdie Crafts Burlap flower, altered with some shiny yellow Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, finish off the card. 

We are so thankful for the amazing teachers the girls have been blessed to have this year, and this card is just a small token of our appreciation for them!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the Kitty Bee Designs blog for lots of amazing KBD inspiration, the KBD Shop and our current challenge 'Under The Sea' at the KBD Aloha Friday Challenge Blog for a chance to win a prize!! 

Linked to:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper June Challenge - AG

SSS Monday Challenge - Food/Drink

Word Art Wednesday - AG

FCCB #315 - Winter!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge! To all my US friends, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week!! It wasn't a holiday here in Canada, as we had our Thanksgiving last month, but I did take advantage of some online shopping and got some great deals - getting most of my Christmas shopping done! 

Challenge #315-Winter
Make a project about the winter (sports, snow, etc)!

This Weeks Sponsor



Dreaming Tree SVG's

The winner will receive a $20 Gift Certificate!

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

For my project today I've made this sweet little gift card holder using the Dreaming Tree Christmas Gift Tags, which is a free download and includes 2 tags. I've used the Snowflake tag, which I just love! I also used the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2 Cricut cartridge for the treat favor box, adjusted to hold a gift card, and the Merry & Bright cartridge to cut the Merry Christmas label, shown on the opposite side, below.

The Tim Holtz plaid Christmas paper was just what I was looking for to cut this little bag! I paired it with some Kaisercraft beachy paper for the tag and a Lawn Fawn plaid paper for the snowflake, and I stamped on the to: and from: sentiments from a Lawn Fawn tag stamp set. These beautiful SpiegelMom Scraps Shabby Chic Christmas sequins were just perfect to scatter around the tag and coordinated wonderfully with the gems on the snowflake. I used some black burlap string to tie my tag to the top of the bag.

On the other side of the bag I used foam dots to pop up the Merry Christmas label after covering the sentiment with Glossy Accents for shine. 

A few more sequins finish off the back side!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to stop by the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog to see what all the other designers have come up with, and enter your own Winter project (with a Cricut cut) for a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsor, Dreaming Tree SVG.  I hope you get some great Cyber Monday deals today if you're doing a little early Christmas shopping 😉 and have an awesome week!

 

Kitty Bee Designs - Bunny Gift Card Holder!

Hello crafty friends! I'm posting over at the Kitty Bee Designs blog today and showing off this adorable Sleeping Mushroom Bun Kitty Bee Designs Digital Stamp on this cute folded gift card holder!

We are coming up to the end of the school year, and I have lots of gift cards to give out to teachers. I thought this would be a cute way to dress them up and add a special touch to their end of the year gifts! I coloured this cute digi stamp in with my Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers, added white gel pen for highlights, and then used a Spellbinders die to cut him out.

I embellished the box with SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and a sparkly clear jelly roll pen for some sparkle, a loopy ribbon bow, and a button from Buttons Galore and More.

Here's a look at the box opened up. I added a little adhesive Velcro tab to keep it closed and wrapped the gift card in some pretty patterned tissue paper wrapped with bakers twine and a tag.

 If you want directions to make your own folded box you can follow along with this video by Angie from Chic'n Scratch!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Kitty Bee Designs store to pick out your favourite stamp, and I hope you have a great week!!

Linked to:

FFC #189 - AG

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper - May Challenge

Word Art Wednesday - AG
Pile It On - Animals
DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Furry Friends

SSS Monday Challenge - Little Critters

Pretty Cute Stamps March Challenge - Anything But A Card!

I really cannot believe March is over half over! It seemed like we were getting an early spring, and then this week - eek - snow! I know it won't hang around too long, but I'm ready for warmth and sunshine!

The great thing about this week, though, is our March Challenge over at Pretty Cute Stamps! This month the challenge is Anything But A Card. The sky is the limit! Tags, boxes, bags, wall art... we'd love to see what you do with this challenge using a Pretty Cute Stamp!

I've chosen to make a gift card holder, which I gave to my husband for his birthday. I cut the Basic Gift Card Holder 1 Cutting Files from Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons with my Cricut Explore and used the Jawsome stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps. 

I used some fun sentiments from this set both on the outside of my gift card holder as well as inside (see below) A few foam dots pops up my scalloped circle to add dimension.

I used Prismacolor Markers to colour in my image, which I stamped on the circle diecut.

Behind the gift card I stamped the 'You're Freakin' Jawsome!!' sentiment. 

I used the write feature to write Happy Birthday on my gift card holder and added some fun sequins!

Here's a look at the cute stamp set and cut files I used:

Jawsome

Basic Gift Card Holder 1 Cutting Files

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Pretty Cute Stamps blog to see what all the other Design Team members have come up with, and enter your own project for a chance to win a fantastic gift card!