Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - January Skrappy Challenge!

 Good morning & Happy New Year krafty friends!

It's January and that means it's time for a brand new
SKRAPPY CHALLENGE

with Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

 The theme of course is ANYTHING BUT A CARD!

For this challenge you can make anything that strikes your fancy....except a card!
So design a new scrapbook page, bookmark, tag, altered item, planner page, art journal, ATC cards...whatever you like! 

I am sharing a cinnamon bun recipe I've adapted from an old family tea biscuit recipe, which is one of our favourites! If you decide to try the tea biscuits, just stop before adding the cinnamon sugar and cut with a round cookie cutter. They are excellent! I used the adorable Krafty Elves Stamp Set and some more fun Kraftin' Kimmie goodies that you can see below to create a one of a kind recipe card!

And just to show you how good they are.... Sometimes we add icing, but they are delicious either way!

Just make sure to include some Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps products and make sure it's a new creation!  As soon as we have at least five people playing along, we'll be giving away a $10 gift voucher to the krafty shop as the monthly prize!  

I decided to share exactly how I make my yummy cinnamon buns! Following the recipe, roll out the dough on a floured surface. I'm using a rolling pin and pastry mat I picked up from Amazon. 

Add a layer of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon over top. You want a good amount!

Roll up, tapping each end in towards the center so it's fairly even in size and cut into four pieces.

Then, cut those four into three each. I find this is an easier way to get 12 pretty equal slices. I am baking on my Pampered Chef Stone pan - love!

Here's a look at them when they come out of the oven! They smell amazing!!

We added a little icing to these just after they came out!

To create this cute recipe card I cut a piece of Bristol Smooth Cardstock to 4x6". I used the Trippy Triangles Stencil with Berry Bliss and Pretty In Pink Krafty Kolours Inks. I added 'Hand Made' and 'Created by' stamps from the Handmade Sentiments Stamp Set in Sparkling Sapphire Ink and stamped the 'Made With Love' from the Christmas Is Love Stamp Set with the Berry Bliss Ink. I coloured up this adorable baking elf from the Krafty Elves Stamp Set with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. Feel free to right click on the image and save this recipe for yourself!!

I can't wait to see what you share for this Anything But A Card Challenge!!

You have until Monday, February 1st to enter and you can submit as many new creations as you like on the Kraftin' Kimmie Blog and/or Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps' Krafty Friends facebook page because we love to see your stuff!

Check out some more inspiration from the Krafty Team below and be inspired to get krafty!!

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Farmhouse Recipe Holder and Cards!

Hello! I sure hope you have all had a great weekend. Today I'm sharing a pretty recipe card holder and mini folders to hold recipe cards. I find I often just look up recipes online now, but I do have my favourites that I love to use over and over, as well as a few that have been passed down. It's nice to have a home for those ones and a pretty place to keep the one I'm using safe and tidy. I started out with a chickenwire frame from the dollar store and stained the wood a light brown colour. Then I tucked a piece of green cardstock inside the backing, along with a mason jar cut out.

My family loved this Sweet Potato Scones recipe I found online and I wanted to make sure I kept it handy to make again! The Farmhouse kitchen sign was easy to make with some white corrugated paper covered with a silver stain so that it resembled corrugated metal. I cut out the words from a larger piece of cardstock and layered it all together.

I used the chicken wire paper to cover the front of the mini file folders and then added some fun labels. The paper itself was black and white so I chose a few colours that would coordinate with the frame and painted in the details.

I used some Little Birdie Crafts flowers and chipboard, along with some more images cut from different papers, to create a pretty cluster on the corner of the frame.

Here's few closeups of the details, along with the yummy scones!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have an awesome and very crafty week 💚

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Inspiration Saturday!

Hello friends! I know I'm getting this posted a little later than normal, but it is still Saturday, and you still have lots of time to check out all the inspirational sites I found this week!!

1) I've been playing around with decorating my Happy Planner this week and my daughter, who also has one, wanted some printables. Well, I was so excited to come across the Victoria Thatcher website - with amazing free downloads!! Here's a link to her adorable Oh Deer printable, and if you check out the right side of her blog there's a direct link to all of her printables in either EC or HP size. You don't even need to have a planner to enjoy these adorable images!! Grab a coffee and have fun looking through all the awesome designs she has - and if you're feeling generous, leave her a little thank you in her 'coffee fund' on the right side as well for all her hard work!

2) And, while we're talking about planner printables, here's another cool website with amazing Free Planner Printables! Visit Fit Life Creative to check out all the fun goodies they have available!! You can sign up for email notifications to find out whenever they have a freebie available. 

3) I tried these yummy Molasses Drop Cookies this week - and they were sooooo good! I sub'd the shortening for veg oil and actually made half the recipe, which still made a lot of cookies. I used my Pampered Chef small scoop and the PC stone baking sheet and they turned out great!

4) I thought this video from Lindsay at the Frugal Crafter was so cool! I've seen the new animated stamps before and she shows you a way to create this effect with any stamp. She really has some awesome videos available!

5) And, lastly, May Flaum has a free Camp Scrap class starting on Monday! I just love her crafty style, and you can check out Camp Scrap on her BLOG, where she'll be creating a new post daily - sign up for emails so you don't miss anything - and join the Facebook Group to join in the fun! She has prizes she'll be giving away and lots of inspiration.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend <3

Inspiration Saturday!

Hello friends! I'm back today to share some inspiration websites, blogs, downloads and even a recipe with you!

1) If you are looking to sharpen your colouring skills, a great place to check out is Kit And Clowder - an online colouring and craft class website. As well as offering classes, they have freebie digi files, giveaways in their Facebook group and lots of helpful info on their FAQ page, including Marker Blending Sheet Downloads (at the bottom) showing you what markers to combine to get the colours you're looking for.

2) Dreaming Tree SVG is a fantastic site full of wonderful SVG files - many that are 3D! There are lots of FREEBIES for you to try out with your own electronic cutter, and they often have a free gift with purchase offer. Their service is really great, and there are videos to show you exactly how to put the files together after you cut them!

3) There are also some really cool free cutting files on the My Crafty Life blog that I recently came across. It doesn't look like Dan is blogging much anymore, but fortunately, he still has these awesome downloads available!

4) The Free Pretty Things For You website has some amazing downloadable images, papers and clipart! You are really going to want to take a look through Keren's beautiful site and print off some goodies for your stash!

5) And, lastly I thought I'd share a recipe for Oatmeal BlueberryMuffins I recently made! I wanted to have lemon blueberry - so I substituted the milk for 1/2 cup of lemon juice mixed with 1/2 cup of water. They were really good!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Happy Birthday Masculine Card using Wild Whisper Products!

Hello! Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend! We celebrated my husband's birthday on Friday and I made this birthday card for him using some wonderful supplies from Wild Whisper! I layered the beautiful papers from the Focus On You 12x12 Paper Pack in the background, using more of the masculine colours in the collection, and stamped the camera and feathers from the Focus On You Wild Whisper Stamp Set using a gradient ink pad. I love that you can use all the elements from these paper packs - and the strip of cameras at the bottom of one of the patterned papers was perfect to add as a border along the top of my card! I added a sentiment from one of the Tim Holtz chit chat sticker packs and used my Dylusions Paint Pens to add some hand drawn stitching lines.

I fussy cut around the feathers and then popped one up with foam dots when I got them layered they way I wanted. I added a bit of Stickles for bling - cause every birthday needs bling! Then, I topped it with some gorgeous sequins and a cork star from SpiegelMom Scraps as well as some of the Focus On You sequins, which were designed exclusively for Wild Whisper by SpiegelMom Scraps! They coordinate beautifully with the collection!

Here's a look at the inside, where I added another of the Tim Holtz stickers and a Happy Birthday stamp from the Wish Big Pretty Cute Stamps set. I wanted to coordinate the envelope, so I used the camera from the Wild Whisper stamp set again with some of the stamps that look like a flash! P.S. I used my 3 new ink colours from the Tim Holtz Oxide Distress Inks for the flashes and I LOVE how these inks stamps! I'll definitely be sharing more on these as I build my collection ;)

Here's a Project Life page I made with the PL App! If you want to try the recipe for the Pumpkin Spice Bread that I used to make Mike's gluten free cake you can find it HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope your weekend was fantastic and you got some time for yourself!

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PDE Friday Linky Party - Homemade Granola and Crocheted Owl Basket!

Happy Friday friends! I'm sharing this recipe for Homemade Granola over at the PDE Linky Party blog today.  This is something that I made as a gift for my sister, including it in a handmade crocheted owl basket with a few other yummy goodies. You can find the recipe online here!

I recycled a jar that I cleaned well and added a pretty hand dyed ribbon along with a label sticker and a circle of patterned paper to cover the top of the jar. I really believe presentation is everything, and even a small gift can be very special with a little effort!

I added the jar of granola to this cute owl basket along with some chocolate covered popcorn and some Banana Bread Tea from David's Tea - one of my fav tea places!

I followed a pattern that was in a magazine, but I did find a free online pattern that looks very similar here. 

After my sister took her goodies out of the basket she filled it with some pretty red ornaments. 

Thanks so much for joining me today! Be sure to stop over to the PDE blog to see all the fun things the other designers have come up with and enter your own creative project in our Anything Goes Linky Party! 

Hobby Dough

My mother recently sent my daughter a 'Robin Hood' Hobby Dough book with a recipe for salt dough and instructions to make several different ornaments and gifts.  I actually remember this book and making these dough ornaments with my sister when I was younger!  We had lots of fun molding the dough and then baking it or air drying and painting our masterpieces.  Funny, some of the cheapest crafts provide the most memorable entertainment!

One of the best parts - mixing the dough with your hands!

Ready to bake

The finished product!

Recipe for salt dough:

2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 cup Salt
4 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
1 cup Water

Mix dry ingredients, add vegetable oil and stir in.  Add water a little at a time and stir until it holds together.  Knead 5-10 min's until dough feels smooth.

Store in airtight container or ziploc bag to prevent drying out leftovers.

You can air dry for 48 hours or until dough is hard and white in appearance or bake at 325 degrees or lower (if pieces are thinner than 1/4") on a cookie sheet, allowing 1/2 hour baking time per 1/4" of dough.

You can varnish or use acrylic sealer on both sides after painting to protect dough from absorbing moisture.

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