Online Krafty Krop!

Hidee ho, krafty friends!! 

Welcome to a weekend full of fun at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!

We are celebrating over 2000 peeps in our new Krafty Friends facebook group AND it's my birthday on February 3rd, so what better time to celebrate?

Today we're kicking things off with an all day Krafty Krop!! Every two hours the Krafty Girls will be posting a challenge for you to try! Each challenge includes a sketch plus an extra element! If you use the sketch AND the extra element and submit your creation, that's TWO chances to WIN! There will be Krafty Ka$h vouchers up for grabs AND you have all week to play along! It's going to be so much FUN! I hope you can get krafty with us!

Also to celebrate, I'm having a special SALE this weekend! Since I'm turning 44.....eeesh......I've chosen 44 of our fabulous rubber stamp sets and put them on SALE at 44% OFF!!! So scoop them up because it's only for the weekend!!! And please, no extra coupons are to be used during this sale. Thanks!

Aw heck!!! Why not give away a FREE stamp too, I say!!!? With every $50+ order this weekend, I'll be including a special stamp set!! Since Valentine's Day is quickly approaching, you'll receive either LOVE BIRDS! or CANDY HEARTS! with your order but only for this weekend!

There will be more excitement posted throughout the day! I hope you can join us for all the krafty fun!!!

KKS: Let's monkey around!

Hi everyone!

Welcome back for another Wonderful Wednesday at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

As always it's anything goes!

Do you remember this stamp from the adorable set "Safari Fun"?

The girl and the little monkey are so cute!

For this card I've used an old paperpad from Prima Marketing "Madeline Collection". For this card I went out of my comfort zone. Green and brown are not my favourite colours, but I like the result.

These are the Copic colours I've used:

Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20

Hair: E29, 25, 23, 21

Brown part monkey: E39, 37, 35, 33, 31

Trousers/shoes: E79, 77, 74, 71

Green: YG99, 97, 95, 93, 91

Socks: N5, 3, 1

Banana: Y29, 15, 11

Are you joining us on Saturday for Kimmie's Birthday & 2000 friends celebration BASH?? It's an all day party with challenges, prizes, chatter & hanging with your Krafty friends!!! Head on over to the Krafty Friends FB Page for all of the deets!

I hope you liked it!

If you have some time, it would be awesome if you took part at the challenge!

Deborah

The Paper Nest Dolls: It's all about the shoes!

Hi everyone!

Today I'm back with a card I've made for The Paper Nest Dolls as guest designer.

I just LOVE the Fairytale Collection!

Cinderella was one of my favourite fairytales so I had to do this one "Ballgown Ella"!

For this card I've used so many things from Scrapberry's:

Paper: Floral Embroidery paperpad

Gems: Floral Embroidery 

Ribbon: Shabby white ribbon 10mm

and all the flowers except the big pink one.

I've used a few dies:

The butterfly die is from Tim Holtz, the circle and the leaves from Marianne Design and the big edgedie from Noor!design.

If you would like to know wich Copiccolours I've used:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R32, R20

Hair: E59, E57, E55, E53, E50

Blues: B99, B26, B14, B12, B000

White: N5, N3, N1

I hope you liked it!

Deborah

KKS: Have a great adventure!

Hi everyone!

Today I'm the hostess at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and my challenge for you all is "All about boys".

So make a card with a boy or for a boy and enter our challenge!

Next week it's the birthday of my little nephew, he turns 6, and I thought it would be a great card for him.

Some boys dream about going to see the moon or something like that.

He is so fascinated about the stars!

I'm so lucky to have him in my life!

For this card I've used one of the stampset "Great adventures!" (guess what, he's on sale NOW!! woohoo!) and the paperpad "Bowties" from Basic Grey. His favorite colour is orange, so I used it a lot on this card!

Here the Copic colours I've used:

skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

hair: E57, E55, E53, E50

reds: R59, R37, R35, R32

orange: E19, YR07, YR04, Y17, Y15

stars: Y17, Y15, Y11

sky: W7, B97, B95, B93

And I made some white accents with my Molotow marker and used Glossy accents on the window of the raket!

I hope you liked it!

Deborah

flower challenge at Copic Marker Europe

Hi everyone!

Today I'm here with the new challenge for the Copic Marker Europe blog.

Our new challenge is very easy and fits so many cards:

Flowers

We want to see flowers in your image,paper or on your card, so let's get started!

Here's my inspiration for you:

For this card I've used an image of  one of my favourite designers: Hannah Lynn. I love to colour their faces and hair! 

I kept my card very simple, because the image was already big enough.

The beautiful papers are from Studiolight, I think they are so romantic!

I've added some tule under the paper and added a bow in white satin with a blue embellishment.

I didn't use a sentiment, now it's an all-round card ;-)

Here are the colours that I've used:

skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R32, R20

hair: E59, E57, E55, E53, E50

pink: R85, R83, R81, RV10

eyes: B37, B34, B32/ W1

lips: R89, R85, R83

wings: BG13, BG11, BG10, RV10

green: G28, YG17, YG13, YG11

butterfly: V17, V15, V12

sky: B00, B000, B0000

Have a nice day!

Deborah

Candy at Copic Marker Europe!!!

Hi everyone!!!

Who loves candy???? Me, me, me!!!

We've reached the 1500 followers at the Copic Marker Europe blog.

We thought it would be nice to give a candy to thank you!

It's a Copic carrying case!!!

There is place in this case for more than all your 358 Copic markers, you can also put your Spica's or Multiliners in it.

It is very lightweight, incase you want to travel accompanied by your markers.
We will send it only to European contires and the Middle East.

Check the Copic Marker Europe blog for the rules and join us!!!

Have a great day!!

Deborah

Krafty tips and tutes: embossing paste on a card

Hi everyone!

It's my turn to show you a tutorial or tips at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps blog.

Did you ever tried embossing paste on your card or other creation?

It's not so difficult as it seems, give it a try and find out!

I bought the embossing paste and used them on my Christmascards to add a snow texture. You can do so many other things with it after Christmas!

For this example I'm using my card of the last previews from Cheryl's new fabulous set "It's a beautiful day!", a stencil (with bricks this time), embossing paste and a spatula. I also used a paintbrush and some masking tape but it's not on the picture.

First I've used some masking tape to get the stencil stick on the right spot, so it can't move.

I looked for the smallest bricks on the template, so it compared with the card.

Take with your paintbrush some paste and fill the bricks that you want to have on your card.

Go over your bricks with the spatula and watch over it that the bricks are completely filled with the paste.

Remove the stencil from your card/paper. Now you can first clean your stencil, paint brush and spatula.

I did it with a babytowel, but you can do it in water and soap too. If there's some paste on the card that you don't want, you can take it off with your brush. So easy!

Now it's time to let it dry! You can wait till it dries from the air but you can also use your heater!!

And that goes FAST! It need to go fast for me, because I don't have the patience to wait, hehe.

After it's dry you can use some inkt, panpastels or some other things to give it a colour, but I liked it white this time.

And now you can finish your project!

And this is the card I've made with it!

I hope you liked it! Thank you for reading my post!

Hugs, Deborah

It's a boy!

Hallo iedereen!

Ik heb het idee dat er een babyboom in de maak is. Er zijn zoveel mensen uit mijn omgeving die een kindje verwachten. Dat is altijd een blijde gebeurtenis en daar hoort natuurlijk ook een zelfgemaakt kaartje bij!

Ik heb er al eentje klaar voor een jongetje en daarvoor heb ik een digitale stempel van Mo Manning gebruikt en daarbij een passend baby-paperpad.

Het is een kaart geworden van 14x14cm, het design heb ik vrij simpel gehouden.

Behalve het designpapier is alles verhoogd opgeplakt.

De Copickleurtjes die ik hiervoor gekozen heb, heb ik deze keer bewust wat lichter gehouden. Dat kun je doen door de grootste vlakken met de lichtste kleur in te kleuren. Met de donkere kleuren doe je enkel een aanzet. Op babykaartjes zijn pasteltinten schattig en fris. De beer heb ik ook een structuur gegeven, die moet er zacht en knuffelbaar uitzien!

Dit zijn de kleurtjes die ik heb gebruikt:

Huid: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

Haar: E57, E55, E53, E50

Groen: YG67, YG17, YG13, YG11

Blauw: BG49, BG18, BG13 BG11, BG10

Beer: E79, E77, E75, E71

 Met deze kaart doe ik ook mee aan de "anything goes" challenge bij Digitalpenciltoo van Mo Manning.

Tot de volgende!

KKS: Hop!!!

Woohooooo!!! 

We're so excited! It’s our JANUARY RELEASE Day at KRAFTIN' KIMMIE STAMPS!! And we’re celebrating with a KRAFTY HOP!! So grab yourself a cuppa joe, sit back and be prepared for some krafty eye kandy! We're going to inspire your creations with our fun, new rubber stamps!

Over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, we have shared lots of amazing creations featuring new stamp sets from all of our artists including a new one, for our January release! We know these new stamps will inspire you to make your own fabulous creations!! We’ve got an elegant new sentiment set called WORDS OF INSPIRATION!! There's a supah cute new kids set from Cheryl called IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY! And of course, we are SO excited to share a new steampunk stamp set from Annie called....ALL STEAMED UP! Lastly we are thrilled to introduce Emilie Goulet to you with her gorgeous new set, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!

This time I've used one of my favourite paperpads ever from Teresa Collins "Tell your story". I love the colours on the pad so much! 

I combined an image of the wonderful set of Emilie "You are beautiful" and the sentiment is from Becky's new fabulous set "Words of inspiration". They are amazing together!

The copic colours I've used: 

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E59, E57, E39, E35, E33, E31, E50

Eyeshadow: E79, E77, E74, E71

Eyes: B37; B34, B32

Lips: R27, R24, R22, R20

Aqua: BG18, BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10

Orange: YR07, YR04, YR02, YR00

Background: N1

Frame/brush: N9, N7, N5, N3, N1

You will get to see ALL of the new images today as you sit back and enjoy our JANUARY Krafty Hop! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because one lucky stamper will win a $10 gift card at our shop!! When you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’Kimmie shop, because ALL the new rubber stamp sets are NOW available!!

And don't forget...if you NEED it all, we have a Gimme Kimmies Kit which features ALL the new January stamps at a discount!! But only for a limited time!

Now let's celebrate with our NEW RELEASE and get hoppin' and shoppin'!!

KKS: peeks day 4 and a challenge!

Hey everyone!! 

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

Today we are SO thrilled to share the newest set of elegant sentiments by artist BECKY PEARCE! This set features some thoughtful quotes in beautiful fonts and is called WORDS OF INSPIRATION!! This set includes NINE lovely sentiments!

For this card I've used my brand new paperpad from Doodlebug and one of my favourite Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps ever "You know whooo!" from our past designer Thais!

Aren't they the cutest???

I thought the sentiment would be perfect for it!

For the Copic fans, here are the colours:

Pinks: RV17, RV06, RV04, RV02, RV00

Reds: R59, R29, R27, R24, R22

Orange: YR07, YR04, Y17

Greys: N5, N3, N1

Grass: YG17, YG13, YG11

Wood: E59, E37, E35, E33, E31

Sky: B000, B0000

This week our challenge hostess is JENNY! And her challenge is ANYTHING GOES (as it always is during release week)!! 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??

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 TONIGHT beginning at 6pm 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 Becky! 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 tomorrow!}

Happy hoppin'!

KKS: peeks day 3 "It's a beautiful day"

Hello again all!! 

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

Today we are SO thrilled to share the newest set of awesome kiddos by artist CHERYL GRANT! This adorable set features our kids Lexi, Lucas and Lulu and is called IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!! This fun set includesTHREE main images plus SIX sweet sentiments!!

For this card I've used the paperpad from My Mind's Eye "The sweetest thing". I drew a house-shape on some cardstock and cut it out. With some embossingpaste I've added some bricks. I completed the scéne with some punches and dies.

Copic colours I've used for this one:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E59, E37, E35, E33, E31, E50

Pinks: RV17, RV55, RV52

Blues: B05, B02, B00, B000

Cat: N7, N5, N3, N1

Window: W7, W5, W3, W1

Background: E42, E41

Branch: E37, E35, E33, E31

Leaves: G28, YG17, YG13, YG11

Orange: YR07, YR04

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 6pm EST!! Hope you can come hang out with 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 tomorrow!}

Happy Hoppin'!

KKS: peeks day 2: All steamed up!

Hi everyone!

Welcome back for Day TWO of the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps JANUARY 2105 previews!!! Wait 'til ya see the new Moonlight Whispers stamp sets by Annie Rodrigue!! It'll have you all STEAMED UP!!!

For this card I've used a paperpad from Carta Bella "Well Traveled" and I thought it would be perfect for those steampunk stamps! I tried to add some metal things to the card, like the corner at the right and the pearls (golden). I've addes glossy accents to her eyes, and all the metals.

Instead of stamping with black, I'ved used Rich Cocoa. The lines are not so hard now.

Here are the Copic colours I've used this time:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000; R20

Hair: E37, E35, E33, E31, E50

Blacks: 100, N7, N5, N3

Reds: E29, E59, E37, E35, E32

Eyeshadow: E79, E77, E74, E71

Eyes: YG67, YG63, YG61

Gold: E35, YR23, Y21

Skull and feather: E47, E43, E41

Today the Krafty Girls and guests are thrilled to share with you....ALL STEAMED UP!! You'll find so many amazing creations on today's hop featuring both new images and sentiments from this new STEAMPUNK set! We know you are just going to LOVE this awesome lady AND GENT and they'll have you all GEARED UP to create some incredible designs!! Each set comes with the two fabulous image stamps, plus FOUR coordinating sentiments!! 

Below you will find all the Krafty Girls and Guests who have goodies to show you today and while you're visiting their blogs, be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper is going to WIN some $$ to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!! Woohoo!!!

ALL of our JANUARY stamps will be available on Saturday night at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!! Be sure to join us for an hour of celebrating the new stamp sets, fun and prizes on Saturday evening at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!! Come hang out with the Krafty Girls, Guests and me!!

KKS: First day of peeks and a new designer!!!

Hey everyone!! 

Welcome to day ONE of our JANUARY 2015 Kraftin' Kimmie Peeks!!! We have so many goodies in store for you for our first release of the year and we're thrilled about today's new set especially! So here we GO!!

Today we are THRILLED to introduce a new artist to you! Well, actually you may remember that she used to design for us a couple of years ago and now SHE'S BACK!! It's the totally talented Emilie Goulet!!! Be sure to welcome her back and we are previewing her very newest AMAZING set today!! It's called YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!

For this card I've used a paperpad and a brad from My Mind's Eye "Heirloom".

The die behind the stamp is from Noor!Design and I've used some pearls at the edge of the frame.

I've added some flowers and the leaves are a die from Marianne Design.

I've coloured her with the no-lines technique. Instead of stamping your image in black, I did the same thing in "Desert Sand" from Memento. You get a very soft look with this technique.

If you are interested, here are all the Copic markers I've used:

Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E57, E55, E53, E50

Reds: R59, R29, R27, R24, R22

Mirror/lipstick tube: N9, N7, N5, N3

Eyeshadow: E77,  E74, E71

Eye's: YG67, YG17, YG13

Earrings: W5, W3, W1

Background: R32, R02, R00

These gorgeous framed ladies and sentiments are perfect for those thinking of your cards to tell someone just how special they are!! They're also great for scrapbook pages or your pocket page books as well!

As you hop around the blogs today, I know you will agree that the designs the Krafty Girls and Guests have created with them will knock your socks off!!! Be sure to leave some love at every stop because one lucky random WINNER will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!! All of this week's winners will be announced at our LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday evening!!! ALL of the new rubber stamp sets that we're previewing this week will be released on the KKS shop site right after the party!!

Happy hoppin'!!

Tea rose fairy

Hallo iedereen,

Eerst en vooral wil ik jullie een fantastisch en gezond 2015 wensen! 

En de gezondheid is natuurlijk het belangrijkste, de rest komt wel vanzelf!

Dit jaar zal er voor mij iets anders uitzien. 

Wij zijn pas verhuisd naar het huis dat we eind 2013 hadden gekocht en een jaar lang in verbouwd hebben.

We zijn nog niet helemaal rond, maar de rest kunnen we intussen wel afwerken.

En een huis is eigenlijk nooit af ;-)

Vandaag heb ik voor jullie een kaartje gemaakt die eigenlijk enkel uit de gekleurde digi bestaat van Hannah Lynn.

Haar werk vind ik zo fantastisch en sprookjesachtig. Ook mijn moeder is er verzot op en deze afbeelding had ze graag ingekaderd.

Het is een kaartje geworden van 14cm op 10.4 cm.

Na het uren kleuren heb ik met stickels wat glitter toegevoegd op haar vleugels. Ik heb haar gemat op witte cardstock en daarna op een blauwe kaart.

En dan nu de lijst met de Copic kleurtjes:

Huid: E13, E11, E00, E000, RV23 (wangen)

Lippen: RV29, RV25, RV23, RV21

Ogen: BG05, BG01, BG11, BG000

Oogschaduw: E77, E74, E71

Haar: E59, E37, E35, E33, E31, E50

Blauwgroen: BG18, BG13, BG11, BG10

Rozen: RV69, RV29, RV25, RV23, RV21

Groene blaadjes: G28, YG67, YG17, YG13, YG11

Gouden medaillon: E35, YR23, Y21

Zwart: N9, N7, N5, N3

Roze vleugels: R83, R81, RV10

Achtergrond: B0000

Tot de volgende!