Cupcake???

Hi everyone!

We have a new challenge at Copic marker Europe: animals.

 I think this stamp by Stamping Bella (designs by Mo Manning) is a realy cute image and the text made me smile when I saw it. And look at his adorable cheeks, I bet they are full with cake!!! Mmm, cake...

Here are the Copic colours I've used:

Hamster: E59, E37, E35, E33, E31

legs: E02

orange topper: E08, YR07, YR04, YR02, YR00

cake: E29, E25, E23, E31, E21

paper: N7, BG09, BG05, BG01, BG000

ground: C05, C03, C01

sprinkles: RV17

I want to enter the following challenges with this card:

• -Mo's Digital challenge - Anything goes with a Mo image
• Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion  - Always Anything Goes
• Ellibelle's creative moments - Let's colour linky party- anything goes
• MarkerPOP Challenge -  Critters

Hugs,

Deborah

Krafty Tips And Tutes: Multicoloured foiling

Hi Krafty Friends!!!

Krafty girl Deborah for you today. Welcome back for another tutorial, this time I'll show you how you can foiling with more than 1 colour and we all love foil, right?

Ok, what do you need?

-Versamark ink stamppad

-Wow! Bonding powder

-Heat gun

-Stampset: Buds & Blooms (So versatile!)

-2 or more foil colours (here Wow Fab Foil)

optional: anti static powder tool

 If you have an anti static powder tool, first rub your paper in with it, then you stamp some blooms with your versamark ink on the white cardstock, add some bonding powder over it and let it melt with your heattool.

Move your heattool enough over the paper, so the paper won't get any strange shape.

When the embossed part is still hot, you need to a put a part of the foil, with the shiny coloured side up, onto a spot of the paper. Do only small parts at one time, you want to have it multicoloured, so not too much of the same colour onto 1 rose. 

Repeat until you have done about 1/2 of the images, so heat the embossed part again and then you can add some extra foil again.

Repeat again with the golden foil until everything is coverd.

Here you can see the effect it gives with the 2 foil colours together.

And here's my finished project. I made a pillowbox to put a present or some money in.

It's so hard to photograph foiled things, but I hope this gives you an idea. It's so shiny!

The textlabel of the stampset "Butterfly Dreams" is embossed with golden embossingpowder to give some extra dimension.

Foiling is really popular at this moment, so I hope you can give it a try and be sure to share your foiled Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps creations!

Happy kraftin'!

Have a magical day!

Hi everyone!

Ok, I have a new creation for you but I just wanted to say something different first.

As you all may know, I live in Belgium. We had some attacks yesterday in Brussels, on the number 1 airport of our country and in a metro, by some crazy terrorists of IS. It was terrible but me, my family and friends are all safe! My thoughts are with the family's and friends of the dead and hurted people. And for everyone who helped the wounded people, thanks you're an angel on earth!

I was a big shock for everyone but life goes on, we can't let them win!!!

So here's my creation for the Wonderful Wednesday challenge at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

Remember, it's always anything goes and there's 1 winner a month.

For today's card, I've used a super cute new stamp that has just been released at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, and it's called "Teacup Fairy". Isn't she the cutest?? I think she's very comfortable in that teacup! I hope for her the teacup is empty... :-D

I used a circle die and a scallop die by Spellbinders. The stitched retangle die is by CreaLies "Crea-Nest-Lies XXL No. 24". The papers are by MME "Jubilee Sherbet"

She's coloured with my Copic markers, here are the colours:

skin: E04, E11, E00, E000, R22, R20

hair: E59, E37, E35, E31

purple: V09, V17, V15, V12

green: G28, G17, G02,G00

yellow/green: YG13, YG03, YG00

pink: RV69, RV66, RV63

eyes: E35, Y28, Y21/C5, C3 , C1

stars: Y15

ground/teabag: W5, W3, W1, Blender

All the white dots on the cup are made with the blender.

I hope you'll join us!

I want to enter a few challenges with this card:

• 7 Kids College Fund - 2W, 3E, SIR - #148 - Anything Goes (Week 1 of 2)
• Addicted to Stamps and More - W - C10 - #186  Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination - W, F- #78 Always Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes
• The Crafty Addicts M, 1st Wednesday of M, E #10 - Anything Goes/ Add A Charm (Week 2 of 4)
• Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (March) Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps - W, 3E, F - Anything Goes

Deborah

Krafty Scrappin: pillowbox!

Hi everyone! 

Welcome back for another month of Krafty Scrappin!!!

For this challenge you can create ANYthing your little heart desires as long as it's NOT a card!!! Calendars, bookmarks, pocket pages, traditional scrap pages, holiday gifties, planner pages... you get the picture! Come play along with us each month and let's get some of those photo's out of boxes and on to something creative and fun!! You will have a whole month to play along and you can play as many times as you like! 

For this challenge I made a pillowbox to give for someone when they are giving a party. I rencently bought a die to make these boxes, and I love them. If you want to see the die, here's the link:

 CreaLies box nr 3.

I used the gorgeous stampset "Buds & Blooms" for this box. I foiled them in 2 colours, gold and teal. Next week I'll post a tutorial how to do this. It's so hard to take a good picture of it. It's so pretty and shiny in real life. and the sentiment is from the set "Butterfly dreams".

I embossed the sentiment with golden WOW! embossingpowder.

 Here are a few things to remember...

THIS MONTH'S THEME: ANYTHING GOES!!!

1. Create ANY scrap page, Project Life Layout or pocket page cards, altered item, etc. JUST NOT A CARD!

2. MUST be a NEW creation (created on or after this post date)

3. MUST use Kraftin Kimmie stamps to be entered in to the drawing.

4. You have a month to play, enter AS MANY TIMES as you'd like!

5. PRIZES?!? Of course there are prizes!! Once we've reached 5 entires, we draw a random winner (winner will be drawn at the close of the challenge)!!

6. You have until Monday, April 18th @ 9:00 pm Eastern to get your entries in.

7. Be sure to also share your creations on our Krafty Friends FB page so we can all drool and OOHHHH and AHHHHH!

Krafty hop: Come fly with me!

Hi everyone!

It's finally here!!! 

The RELEASE of our MARCH 2016 clear stamp sets!!!

We've released ALL seven of the new clear stamp sets that we've been previewing all week and we're celebrating with an amazing krafty HOP! So grab a nice hot beverage and put your feet up because you will need a few relaxing minutes to enjoy all the gorgeousness by our design team!!

We have two beautiful sets from artist, Annie Rodrigue called ROSIE FAIRY! and TEACUP FAIRY!

We've got a FAIRY cute new set by artist Emilie Goulet called

FAIRY LOVED!

 For this card I've used some new papers of Doodlebug "Spring garden". I just love the bright colours in the paperpad. The image is coloured with my Copic markers.

There are TWO new home sets by artist Cheryl Grant called

HAPPY NEW HOME! and WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD!

And lastly we have two fun new sets from artist, Becky Pearce called YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE! and BUTTERFLY DREAMS!

And here's a card I made with the Spring Kard Kit wich also include the You Are My Sunshine stamps!

I want to enter the following challenges with my card:

• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W,(W2) anything goes 
• Scrappers Delights  M, First Saturday of the M  Always Anything Goes 
• Artbymiran Challenge - 2W , SIO, 3E, no digital projects - No.54 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 190 - Spring
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.159 - (W2 of 2) - Things With Wings

You will get to see ALL of the new sets in action as you sit back and enjoy the hop! Then head on over to the Krafty Shop because ALL of the new stamp sets are NOW AVAILABLE!

And if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our March Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all SEVEN of the new sets together and at a discount! But only for a limited time!

Now let's celebrate with our NEW release and get

hoppin' and shoppin'!!

Krafty peeks day 5: Butterfly Dreams!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to day 5 of our March Krafty Previews!!!

We're back today with our final set of the new release of clear stamps! We've got an absolutely stunning set

from artist Becky Pearce!

This beautiful stamp set is called BUTTERFLY DREAMS! and has so many gorgeous elements to get creative with plus a bunch of lovely sentiments for a total of THIRTEEN stamps!

And here's the card I made with it:

This card is REALLY something different than my usual cards. I bought some new distress ink pads and I wanted to play with them.

First, I embossed the butterflies with my golden WOW! embossing powder. Then I played with my ink pads and I was thinking about using my new mister. So I sprayed some water over it and dept the water away with some kitchen paper. When it was completely dry I thought it was still too clean, I missed something. So I've platterd some white acryl paint over it.

After that, I embossed a sentiment with the golden WOW! embossing powder on a piece of vellum. 

For the final touch I've added some sprinkled by MME. They look so dark on the pictures but they are actually as gold as the embossingpowder. They are so beautiful and glittery.

I've added the paper on a piece of foiled paper and glued it on a cardbase.

It's also Challenge Day and our hostess is Krafty Girl Jessie! The challenge is Anything Goes 

You'll see so many unique creations today from our amazing Krafty Girl Design Team in the blog hop! Below you'll find links to all the joyful new designs and while you're visiting the blogs, be sure to comment and leave some love for our designers because one lucky krafty person is going to WIN a gift card to the shop!

All of our new March clear stamp sets will be released THIS AFTERNOON! Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party beginning at 2pm EST! 

Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes and just have fun with the Krafty Girls and me! Hope to see you there!

Challenges I want to enter with this card:

• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W,(W2) anything goes 
• My Sheri Crafts 2W (W2) spring fever 
• Scrappers Delights  M, First Saturday of the M  Always Anything Goes 
• Cards in Envy - 1st & 3rd Mondays, E3, A2 Cards only (4.25x5.5") no more than ¼" thick, no square cards - (Week 2) Butterflies
• Hiding in my Craft Room W,1E  blending 
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - W, E4, Must Be Square or Rectangular #128 Anything Goes with a twist: Spring is in the Air
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, JFF - (W1 of 2) - B for Beautiful Butterflies
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.159 - (W2 of 2) - Things With Wings
• Wags 'n Whiskers - 2W, 2E, SIO - No. 174 - (W1 of 2) - Wings (last challenge)

Happy hoppin'!

Shop 'til you drop!!!

Hallo allemaal! 

Het voorjaar is er weer en dan krijg ik altijd weer een verschrikkelijke shopdrang, haha.

Als de eerste zonnestraaltjes er zijn wil ik al nieuwe schoenen en kleding in de nieuwste lentekleurtjes.

Ik heb me de voorbije 2 weken weer eens goed laten gaan. Mijn bankrekening is wat minder blij, maar met mijn 5 paar nieuwe schoenen en een hele serie kledingstukken, ben ik volledig klaar om het nieuwe seizoen weer buiten te komen!

Het kaartje die ik vandaag voor jullie gemaakt heb, is een beetje op mijn shopavontuur gebaseerd.

Begin maart was er een hobbybeurs in Kortrijk (België) en daar heb ik deze stempel gevonden van Whimsy Stamps "Shop 'Till You Drop". Deze kon ik natuurlijk ook weer niet laten liggen, dus die is in mijn mandje beland.

Vandaag wil ik jullie tonen hoe ik de stippen op de achtergrond heb gedaan.

Allereerst heb ik de stempel gekleurd met mijn Copic markers en heb ik haar een grond gegeven om op te wandelen. Die heb ik aangezet met C5, uitgeblend met C3 en vervaagd naar buiten toe met C1.

Ik heb voor de achtergrond een blauwgroene kleur gekozen omdat die ook in het designpapier zit waarmee ik graag had gewerkt. Ik zet eerst rond mijn stempel overal stippen met de lichtste kleur BG70. Fijne en grove stippen door elkaar, het maakt niet uit, zolang ze maar niet te heel dicht bij elkaar staan.

Daarna is het de beurt aan de volgende kleur BG72. Opnieuw stippen aanbrengen langs de stempel maar niet zo ver zoals de vorige keer, ik schat tot ongeveer aan de helft van de vorige stippen. Doe er vooral je eigen ding mee, niets is fout!

Omdat de kleuren BG70 en BG72 qua kleur nogal ver uiteen liggen (de BG70 is echt super licht), gaan we de 2 kleuren mengen. Daarvoor gebruik ik een acrylblok en duw met de zijkant van de BG72 zachtjes op het blok zodat er inkt achterblijft. Herhaal dit enkele keren zodat je voldoende op je acrylblok hebt.

Nu kan je met de tip van de BG70 wat inkt, die op de acrylblok ligt, meenemen. Je ziet dat het tipje dan wat donkerder is. Zo krijg je een kleur die mooi tussen de twee bestaande kleuren in ligt. Met deze techniek kan je dus ook nog eens stippen plaatsen rondom de stempel en zo de kantjes ook wat verzachten. Dan krijg je dit eindresultaat.

Hier heb ik dan ook nog een kaartje mee gemaakt. Het is heel eenvoudig geworden met een designpapiertje van Authentique "Classique: Pretty", zwart parelmoer cardstock en nog wat pailletjes.

Dan volgen nu nog alle kleurtjes die ik ervoor gebruikt heb:

huid: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, E93

haar: E21, E29, E25, E23

ogen: B37, B34, B32/C3, C1

zwart: 100, C7, C5, C3, C1

roze: R89, R85, R83, R81

Aqua: BG78, BG75, BG72, BG70

grond: C5, C3, C1

I want to enter some challenges with this card:

• 7 kids college fund: #147 Anything goes
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers -  2W , 3E, No totally digital projects - No.105 - (W1 of 2) Anything Goes
• PDE Linky Party - W,JFF - #115 - Anything Goes
• Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 25 (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (March) Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes

Fijne dag nog!

Krafty peeks day 4: You are My Sunshine!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to day 4 of our March Krafty Previews!!!

You may recognize this sweet stamp set by artist, Becky Pearce! It is the fabulous clear set that comes with the limited edition Spring Krafty Kard Kit!! (We only have a few of them left, by the way!) This new set is called.....YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE!

For today's card I wanted to use some new dies I bought recently. The rainbow and the sun are by My Favorite Things, the clouds are by Lawn Fawn and the grass hill is by CreaLies. I coloured the rainbow and the sun in the right colours with my Copic markers.

The umbrella and the little ducks are coloured with Copic markers too.

You'll see this set in action today in lots of sweet creations by the Krafty Girl design team in today's hop! Below you'll find links to all the gorgeous creations and while you're visiting the blogs, be sure to comment and leave some love for our designers because one lucky krafty person is going to WIN a gift card to the shop!

All of our new March clear stamp sets will be released on Saturday afternoon! Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party beginning at 2pm EST! Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes and just have fun with the Krafty Girls and me! Hope to see you there!

I want to enter some challenges with this card:

• Cardz 4 Galz 2W,3E #18 Cute & Cuddly (W1 of 2) 
• Craft Rocket Challenges 2W,3E #11 Anything Goes (W1 of 2) 
• Crafting With An Attitude M,1st Thurs,3E Always Anything Goes
• Crafty Girls Creations 2W,3E Always Anything Goes
• http://7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.be/2016/03/challenge-147-anything-goes.html
• http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ - Cute and cuddly
• Creative Knockouts W,2E,C8 #133 Spring Is On The Way

Happy hoppin'!

Krafty peeks day 3: Happy New Home!

Hi everyone!

Today it's day 3 of our March Krafty Peeks!!!

Today we are sharing TWO new sets by artist, Cheryl Grant! This month they are a little different than her usual kid creations. This time we've designed some HOME stamp sets!!!

They're called HAPPY NEW HOME! and WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD! Each set has the super sweet main image PLUS two perfectly coordinating sentiments!

I think you'll agree....they're awesome!

I made this card for my niece who bought a new house and she moved last weekend.

I've used an older paperpad by Echo Park "Fine And Dandy". I coloured a little scène and added some clouds and grass.

Here are the Copic colours I've used:

clouds: C3, C1, C0, B60, B63

sky: B00, B000

mushroom: E47, E43, E41, E40

hat mushroom: E29, R59, R46, R35/W3, W1, blender

yellow: YR04, Y17, Y08, Y06

pink: RV17, RV55, RV52

bunny: C5, C3, C1, C0

You'll see today's sets featured by our amazing Krafty Girl Design Team in today's blog hop! Below you'll find links to all the gorgeous creations and while you're visiting the blogs, be sure to comment and leave some love for our designers because one lucky krafty person is going to WIN a gift card to the shop!

All of our new March clear stamp sets will be released on Saturday afternoon! Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party beginning at 2pm EST! Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes and just have fun with the Krafty Girls and me! Hope to see you there!

I just want to enter some challenges with this card:

• 2 Creative Chicks (M, P1) #8 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft  (2W,  P1/15, E3) #16 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore (M, P1, E3) Make a Card
• Just Keep On Crafting (M, P1) Anything Goes
• One Crazy Stamper (M,P1,E5) Anything Goes
• Scrap N' Challenge (M, P15) Anything Goes
• The Sisters of Craft (M, P1) Always Anything Goes

Happy hoppin'!

March Krafty peeks day 2: Fairy Loved!

Hi everyone! 

Welcome back to day 2 of our Krafty peeks!

Today we are sharing previews featuring a FAIRY cute new stamp set by artist Emilie Goulet! We just know you are going love it! It's called FAIRY LOVED!!

The set features two main fairy images and a sweet little butterfly accesory stamp, plus three coordinating sentiments!!! They're such fun! 

If you know me a little, you know I love Emilie's stamps so much. Look how cute this stamp is! I just love fairy's and cats so much! I made a little shakercard with it.  The paper is the new paperpad "Spring" by Echo Park. I bought 2 of them, so I could use them! Haha. I just love the bright colours.

I've used a new die by Nellie Snellen MFD079 - Round Scalloped. In the shakercard there are 3 different sequins.

Here are the Copic colours I've used:

skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

hair: E37, E35, YR23, Y21

aqua: BG18, BG13, BG11, BG10

pink: RV17, RV55, RV52

cat: C5, C3, C1

You'll be able to check out lots of inspiration using the new set from our amazing Krafty Girl Design Team in today's blog hop! Below you'll find links to all the gorgeous creations and while you're visiting the blogs, be sure to comment and leave some love for our designers because one lucky krafty person is going to WIN a gift card to the shop!

All of our new March clear stamp sets will be released on Saturday afternoon! Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party beginning at 2pm EST! Come join us to help celebrate the new release, check out lots of krafty kreations, have a chance to win some prizes and just have fun with the Krafty Girls and me! Hope to see you there!

I want to enter in these challenges with this card:

• 7 Kids College Fund - 2W, 3E, SIR - #147 - Anything Goes (Week 2 of 2)
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #89 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist use a Spring Has Sprung (Week 1 of 2) 
• Fab 'n' Funky - W,1E, C10 - #296  Spots and Stripes
• Inspiration Destination - W, F- #77 Always Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Cute and Cuddly
• Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch - W, C3 - #186  Tic Tac Toe* (sequins, feminine, die cut)

Happy hoppin'!