Krafty Chicks #461 Anything But A Card

Good Morning! 

It's time for a new challenge at Krafty Chicks Challenge.

Leanne is our hostess this week 

and

she wants NO CARDS.

Krafty Chick Challenge #461 - Anything But A Card

Our son and DIL are moving in with us from Oklahoma this week.  Our DIL has never lived anywhere else but Oklahoma so it's a really big change for her.  So, I combined this week's challenge with making  a wall hanging for them as a "welcome to your new home" kind of gift.

I started by stenciling a background with Versamark and then I used Hero Arts pearl white embossing powder.   The maps I got off Google, fussy cut and added craft foam behind them for dimension.  The heart is Avery Elle and the sentiment is from "Sweet Home" by Catherine Pooler.  

Stop by the Hen House and check out the fabulous "Non Card" projects by the rest of the Design Team.  Then come play along and make Anything But A Card.

Krafty Chick Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #460 Washi Tape

Happy Thursday!

The week is just flying by!

It's time for another challenge at

Krafty Chicks Challenge!

Lori is our hostess this week.  She has chosen Washi Tape for our Twist!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #460 Washi Tape

So break out those rolls and show us what you can do!

Stop by the Hen House and see what the rest of the Design Team has created with Washi Tape and come play along with us this week!

Krafty Chick Blessings!

CAS Christmas - It's a Wonderful Life

Hello Monday!

It's halfway through June!  

So today is Reminder Day 

for

CAS Christmas Card Challenge!

Linda is our Host this month

and

her chosen theme is 

Gifts!

I chose a set of gifts from Lawn Fawn, Simply Celebrate Winter. Stamped on watercolor paper, colored with Zigs and a waterbrush and die cut with coordinating die.  I've been on a non-traditional color kick for Christmas cards so I continued it for today's card.  I cut out an extra die to add dimension to the gifts and placed them on top of a background piece made with the baby wipe/alcohol ink technique.  I die cut a piece of my inked panel to place in the middle of my scored card base.

Stop by the CAS Christmas Card Challenge Blog and see the rest of the Design Team's Reminder Projects.  Then why not come play along with us and get some Christmas cards made for your stash.  You have until June 24th to play along!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #459 Camp Out

Good Morning Crafters!

Can you believe half of June is just about gone?  Feels like it just started.

Today there is a new challenge over at

 Krafty Chicks Challenge.

Tangii is our hostess this week and the twist is Camp Out!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #459 Camp Out

I recently bought one of the Gina K Designs wreath builder templates and so I thought it would be cool to create a more masculine "camping wreath".  It was so easy creating this card!

Now stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the chicks' camping projects.  Then, link up your own Camp Out project and play along with us through Wednesday, June 19 at Noon, MST. 

Card Supplies

STAMPS: S'more Fun (Taylored Expressions); Gone Camping (Technique Tuesday); Love you S'more (Lawn Fawn); Buffalo Plaid background (Catherine Pooler Designs).

PAPER: Neenah solar white; Catherine Pooler Premium White cardstock.

INK: Rouge, Lemongrass, Sage, Spruce, Over Coffee and Icing on the Cake (Catherine Pooler Inks).

EXTRAS: Wreath builder template (Gina K Designs); Liquid Pixie Dust (Inkon3).

Krafty Chicks Challenge #458 Die Cuts

Good Morning!  

It's Thursday!

Hope you're having a wonderful first week of June!

It's time for a new challenge at Krafty Chicks today.

Amy is our hostess.

She has chosen our Twist to be Die Cuts!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #458 Die Cuts

Since it's June and the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, I decided to make a beach/sea/tropical card using some fun dies. I also used a background I had created when my friend, Bonnie Klass and I experimented with Dirty Pours about a year ago.  This background was made on canvas paper. I've been saving it for an underwater theme card so it was perfect for my school of fish dies and coral by Memory Box.  The bright orange coral is from Memory Box.  The other "coral" is actually fern/cacti dies by Spellbinders and a twig die by either Memory Box or Poppy Stamps I believe but I thought they looked a lot like coral, particularly inked up in bright colors. 

Please stop by the Hen House and check out the Team's Die Cut projects. Also, welcome our June Guest Designer, Lisa Bzibziak from Life of a BZscrapper! So glad to have Lisa here this month.  Then, come play along with us and create a project using Die Cuts for our twist or one for our always ATG challenge.  

Krafty Chick Blessings!

CAS Christmas - Gifts

Hello Monday!

Happy June!

It's almost summer in the Northern Hemisphere!  

But it's still cool over at CAS Christmas with a new challenge beginning for the month of June!

Linda is our hostess this month

and

she has chosen Gifts as the theme!

I have to admit, I drew a blank on this challenge at first.  I have a couple small Christmas gift stamps and a couple birthday ones, but for some reason my mojo went out the window.  Then, I was looking through my stash of homemade backgrounds and thought, I'll make my own gift with dies.  So I took the stitched peek a boo die, cut it from silver mirrored cardstock, trimmed it down, added an alcohol inked background in the middle and a silver bow die for the top.  Voila - a Christmas gift!  I also had the perfect sentiment, by Paper Sweeties to add.  To top it all off, I added a thin trim of the same silver mirror cardstock as a frame for my gift.

Be sure and stop by the CAS Christmas Blog for a look at all the rest of the Design Team's beautiful inspirations for this month's challenge.  Also welcome our Guest Designer for June, Leslie!

It's almost halfway through the year, which means halfway until Christmas!  Come play along with us this month and get your Christmas card stash started or added to.  We love to be inspired by you as well!

CAS Christmas Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #457 Coffee/Crazy Egg

Hello Everyone!

It's Thursday so there's a new challenge 

at 

Krafty Chicks Challenge!

I'm your hostess this week 

and

 it's also the 5th Thursday of the month.

When there are five Thursdays, our challenge is always the Crazy Egg Challenge.

This time it also has a Twist - Coffee!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #457 Coffee/Crazy Egg

Anyone who knows me well knows I have fallen in-love with sloths, particularly since getting to see and pet one up close and personal (Bart) at the Out of Africa Animal Preserve in Arizona.  Fabulous place that rescues wild animals from circuses, misguided people who try to adopt wild animals for pets, etc, that cannot make it alone back in the wild.  You can even kiss a giraffe! (Hubs did, I refrained.) LOL

Anyhow, I digress.  My point is that I have been accumulating sloth stamps now and this was the perfect time to use the coffee sloth from Newton's Nook.  It was so much fun to create this card.  I colored the "slothy cups" with Catherine Pooler inks and an ink blender pen.

Go meander over to the Hen House and see what all the Chicks have created for our special Crazy Egg/Coffee Twist Challenge.  It's also the last week for our guest designer, Carol. Come play along with us, it's Anything Goes and/or create a coffee themed project.  We love having you play!

For Following Challenges:

Krafty Chicks Blessings!

Keeping Christmas - May 2019

Good Morning!

It's a holiday weekend so I hope you're enjoying it.  Here in the South it's going to be a scorcher, record temp setting weekend.  May isn't finished yet but it seems like we've skipped all the way past to late July!  Whew!

Anyway, there's more pressing business than the hot weather right now --- Cardmaking!  LOL

It's time for the Keeping Christmas Inspiration Blog Hop.

On the 25th of each month throughout the year we have a blog hop of Christmas cards to help inspire you to build upon your  Christmas cards stash through the year.

This month I tried a "new to me" technique - Underwater Background Technique, and I thought it would be perfect to use along with the Christmas By The Sea stamp set by Flora and Fauna.  

Over at Stamp Nation there is a special month of challenges and tutorials going on with the theme "Spring Break".  Heather Little from Ink Road Stamps showed a video tutorial on how to do the underwater background.   

It did take me two tries to get the background kind of like I wanted.  I'm not completely happy with it but I will certainly do it again.  I do need to get a couple new watercolor brushes as I think that was partly the problem.  After creating the background, I stamped, colored and fussy cut all the images and heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock.  I also decided to add a little detail to the bottom of the sea by stamping a coral a couple times in black.  I gave them some shine with a Nuvo Glimmer pen. Next I adhered all of the images and shimmerd the Santa hats as well.

Now hop through the list below and visit the rest of the Design Team's blogs to see what they've created this month for their Christmas card stash.  Hopefully you will be inspired to create a few Christmas cards early yourself!

Kelly Lunceford

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater

Julee Tilman

Kim Heggin

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld (You are HERE)

Nina Forsyth

Vicki Finger

Nancy Guse

Keeping Christmas Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #456 - Sketch

Hello Everyone!

It's Thursday so you know that means a new challenge over at 

Krafty Chicks Challenge!

Leanne is our hostess this week and she has a sketch for us to follow for the Twist!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #456 Sketch

My first attempt at the sketch didn't work out how I had planned but I'm really glad now because I really love how my second attempt worked out for a nice masculine card!  

Hop over to the Hen House and see what the rest of the Chicks have created with our Sketch Twist and leave them some blog love.  Come play along with us this week and try your hand at the sketch or play in our ATG challenge.  

Card Supplies:

STAMPS: Wild About You (Catherine Pooler).

PAPER: Mirror grey , Midnight cardstocks (Catherine Pooler); Lumberjack Patterned Paper (Catherine Pooler).

INK: Queen For A Day, Lemongrass, Black Jack (Catherine Pooler).

EXTRAS: Tree ring die - Wood Slice Die (Catherine Pooler), Wolf die, pawprint die - Wild About You Dies (Catherine Pooler). Triangle stitched border die (Lil' Inker Designs).

Krafty Chick Blessings!

Hey There - Southwestern Flair

Hello again!

Sharing some cards I haven't had a chance to post.  

This one I did for the SN PenPal swap last month.  Some blingy gold Nuvo mousse, an aztec motif stencil on top of ink blending topped off with a shimmery feather and blended sentiment die.

Southwestern Bling Blessings!

Tropical Friends

Happy Saturday!

I'm sharing a card I made a while back but never shared, mostly because I wanted the recipient to receive it first.  This card was created for a SN Sistah and CP Designs employee, Erika, after the CP Designs had a FB Live PJ/Stamp Party in which Erika made a card from inspiration from the Golden Girls.  So she inspired me to create my own Golden Girls card using my Golden Girls stamp set by Kindred Stamps.

Most of the rest of the supplies were Catherine Pooler Designs - Deco Fan Stencil, Tropically Yours, Leave Me In Paradise as well as all the inks seen, plus Midnight.  I did color Blanche with Copics and the stitched window is by My Favorite things.  I also used a Life Changing Blending Brush by Picket Fences to blend the ink on the stencil.

"Stay Golden" Blessings!

CAS Christmas - Stocking Reminder

Hello!

Happy TGIF!  The weekend is here!

Today marks halfway through our monthly challenge at 

CAS Christmas Card Challenge.

The Design Team is sharing more inspiration for this month's theme --- Stocking, 

hosted by Trina.

Here is my card ---

I wanted to use a new(to me) stamp by Power Poppy, Fully Stocked.  I embossed it in WOW Fine Gold embossing powder as well as the sentiment (Cas-ual Fridays).  Then I used a blender pen and Catherine Pooler inks to color in the stocking.  Then I mounted it on a thin layer of gold mirror cardstock which then was layered on a white cardbase. 

Stop by the CAS Christmas blog and see all of the incredible inspiration by the rest of the Design Team as well as our Guest Designer, Helen.  Then why not come play along and get some Christmas cards created, you have until May 24th to share a stocking card. 

Card Supplies:

STAMPS: Stocking from Fully Stocked-(Power Poppy Stamps); Sentiment from Lovely Blessings(Cas-ual Fridays).

PAPER: Solar White cardstock - Neenah; Gold mirror cardstock -stash.

INK: Versamark; Sand Castle, Over Coffee, Twilight, Pepppermint scrub, Seafoam, Eucaluyptus, Skylight - (Catherine Pooler Inks).

EXTRAS: Fine Gold emboss powder - (WOW); Zig Blender brush - (Kuretake);

CAS Christmas Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #455 - Fairies

Hello Everyone!

It's Thursday and so it's time for a new challenge at

Krafty Chicks Challenge!

Lori is our hostess this week and she wants 

Fairies for the Twist.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #455 Fairies

I had this stenciled background in my stash and thought it was great for this fairy challenge.  I cut some leaf dies that coordinate with the leaf stencil, both by Catherine Pooler Designs.  Added the scalloped stitched frame by Pretty Pink Posh to add some depth and interest to create a fairy garden for my three die cut fairies by Poppy Stamps.  The "fairy" word die is also from Poppy Stamps and the "hugs" die is Technique Tuesday.  I cut them both three times in white cardstock.  On the top layer, I embossed it twice in WOW Oyster Glintz embossing powder and then inked it again with "stick it" powder by Stampin' Up and added WOW Aladdin embossing glitter. I added some Nuvo glimmer pen to the fairy wings and finished the card off with some clear drops by Pretty Pink Posh I believe.

Don't forget to stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the Team's cards and our Guest Designer, Carol!  Then come play along with us and our Fairy Twist challenge!

Krafty Chick Blessings!

Krafty Chicks Challenge #454 - Make Your Own Background

Hello Everyone!

Wow, Thursdays sure come around quickly!  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks Challenge!

Tangii is our hostess this week.

The twist is

Stamp Your Own Background

Krafty Chicks Challenge #454 - Make Your Own Background

I am in big need of some masculine cards and so I decided to make one with a masculine stamped background.  I really love how it turned out.  It is one of my all time favorite cards I believe.  Everything is from Catherine Pooler Designs --- from these stamp sets: Good Vibes Border Stamps (bottom border), Fearless Pursuit (dotted border); Note of Thanks, Wild Garden and the background stamp is from the April Sursee Set, which the name has left me.   I used Eucalyptus, Green Tea, Spruce and Skylight ink by Catherine Pooler.

Stop by the Krafty Chicks Challenge blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's projects with homemade backgrounds.  Then, come play along with us!

Krafty Chick Blessings!