How is Halloween almost here!

Can you believe Halloween is only 2 months away!

The Halloween Isn’t Even Scary Stamp Set has some of the most adorable critters decked out in their Halloween costumes. This stamp set is surprisingly versatile and not just for Halloween. Check out this super playful patriotic themed card I created using this stamp set. 

Well I’m off to treat myself with some coffee, no tricks about that! Toodles!

The Mistress of the Dead

Quite the ominous title huh?  Well, that's the name of the newest digital image from Annie Rodrigue over at Moonlight Whispers.  Just check out this creepy lady.....

I'll admit that this image was a challenge to color.  But a lot of that had to do with the fact that I chose to color her using the "no lines" technique.  I'm a glutton for punishment like that. 

I used two Authentique paper pads to make this card.  Nightfall and Romance.  Yeah, they do not sound like they go together at all, but I think, given the subject matter of this card, they worked out just perfectly.  I also created a couple of flowers using the Sweet Peony stamp and die set from Heartfelt Creations, and paired them with some flowers I had from Wild Orchid Crafts. I accented with Distress oxide ink in Candied Apple, a black satin ribbon, and Nuvo drops. 

Copic Markers used: 

Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, R20, FYG1, YG0000

Hair: T9, T7, T5, T3, T1, Jelly Roll silver glitter pen

Eyes: YG0000, E37, YG99, C2, 0 colorless blender

Dress: BV25, BV34, BV13, BV23, BV01

Chair: YG99, YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91, E37, E34, E31, E30

Skulls: W3, W1, W00, Y08, FYG1, YG0000

Walls: C3, C1, C00

Carpet: R89, R39, R29, R24, R14

If you're interested in this, or any of the images (both physical and digital) from Moonlight Whispers, please visit Annie's Etsy store at this link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/moonlightwhispers

Hope you all enjoyed today's post, and I hope to see you all back here agin soon! Toodles!

Spooky clouds

Happy Saturday everyone! Welcome to another challenge at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can have a chance to WIN a $20 gift card to the Shop!! Show us your stuff!! In keeping in line with the rest of our challenges (Wonderful Wednesday and our NEW Krafty Scrappy Challenge), we will be drawing one winner per month from all Saturday Challenge entries to win a $20 gift card!! You can enter as many times per month as you'd like!!

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends fb group?? It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing YOUR creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends' creations!!!

SO, let's get down to the good stuff shall we?  The theme this week is.... Distress Inks!  Since I've just been getting my feet wet with the distress ink thing, I thought this would be a super fun challenge to join in on!  Here's my creation:

I used black soot distress ink and a sponge to get the cloud effect in the background of little miss Witchy-Poo here. I colored her up with my Copics and cut her out using a stitched circle die from Gina Marie Designs. I even added a few glittery Nuvo Drops! Oh so fancy! 

Well, I hop to see you joining on the fun this week!  Post your awesome creations so we can all see!  Have a wonderful weekend!  Tootles! 

A tiny little pumpkin carving witch

Here's the blurby...
It's Wonderful Wednesday time!! We hope you can play along!! As always....it's ANYTHING GOES!! Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get krafty!!

The shiney new September release is LIVE in the Krafty Store! 

I'm keeping it halloween this week with this adorable little witch from the "My best friends are witches" set.  You've seen me color the other girl from this set, now it's time to give this sweet one some love!

I just adore her and her fun little attitude!

We want EVERYONE to be able to play along so your submission can use ANY stamp and can be any theme, any style, any design and it can be a card, a scrapbook page, an altered item....you name it!! It must be a NEW creation and you can enter on this post until September 26th at midnight! At the end of the month one random winner will be chosen from all the submissions for the whole month and will receive a $20 Gift Card to the shop!!! What do you think.....wanna WIN?? Let's see your krafty stuff!!

Sweet little monsters!

Welcome to Day THREE of ourSeptember Krafty Peeks at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

We've got a super sweet stamp set to share with you today! This one is from artist Becky Pearce and it's called MINI MONSTERS!

These chubby little kiddos are dressed up and having fun as MONSTERS!!! They are ready for some spooky fun! The set comes with several main images, lots of cute accessory stamps and five fabby sentiment stamps for a total of SEVENTEEN stamps in the set!

It's also challenge day and our hostess is Krafty Girl, Tangii! And as always during release week, the challenge is ANYTHING GOES! 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. You have a week to play with this challenge and at the end of the month, we'll announce a WINNER from all of the weekly challenges for September! We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $20 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!! Wanna win??

Here's my "card" using these silly little monsters! I mad a 3D box card that folds flat so you can mail it! 

You'll see the new stamps in action and featured in today's blog hop with the Krafty Krew and Guests!! Their links are below and be sure to leave some love at each stop because one lucky stamper from all the comments this week is going to WIN a gift voucher to go shoppin'! 

ALL of our new September stamps will be available this afternoon at the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Shop!!! Be sure to join us on facebook for an hour of celebrating the new stamp sets, fun and prizes today at 2pm EST at our LIVE ONLINE RELEASE PARTY!!  Tootles! 

An Electrifyingly awesome release!

Did you love yesterday's peek?? Well guess what? We've got TWO MORE ladies from artist Annie Rodrigue for you today!

First up is DEVILISH DEBORAH!
This creepy chick has a few little ghoulish friends! Also her hair and dress are SO fun to colour!! Plus there are three fun sentiments!

Next is ELECTRIC EVELYN!
Check out this hilarious image featuring the Bride of Frankenstein!! Not only is the image amazing but the sentiments are HILARIOUS!!! Don't you love this fabulous new stamp set?!

All the Krafty Design Team members and Guests listed below have lots of gorgeous creations to share with you today featuring the DEVILISH DEBORAH and ELECTRIC EVELYN stamp sets! 

I chose to use Miss Evelyn today and made this sweet gift bag to fill with candy and give to a friend as a treat. Check it out! 

I got the paper piece from Paper Creations By Mindy, and the stitched oval die from Gina Marie Designs, I colored Evelyn with my trusty Copic markers and glued the whole thing to the front of a paper gift bag.  I filled it with treats and it's ready to go! 

Be sure to hop around and leave lots of love at each and every stop because one lucky commenter will WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop! Also we're giving away the ENTIRE new release over on the Krafty Friends Facebook page!! The winner will be announced at the LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday afternoon, so don't miss it!

Happy hoppin'!

Spooktacular Release!

Woot, woot! It's time to start the SPOOKY PARTY!!!  
Welcome to Day ONE of our Halloween release of at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Today we're kickin' off the party with a totally creepy set by artist Annie Rodrigue!
It's called GRIM GRETCHEN!!!

I adore this girl and her spooky eyes and that dress was sooooo much fun to color! I love her attitude and the font on this sentiment is AWESOME! he he he! 

This ghoulish stamp set comes with one large main image and three fabby sentiments!!

You'll get to see all the SCARY stamp sets as we share them each day this week! Be sure to join us at the LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday afternoon at 2pm EST! We'll be checking out ALL of the FOUR new clear stamp sets, sharing fabulous creations, giving away prizes and having tons of krafty fun!

All of the Krafty Krew design team members and Special Krafty Guests listed below have lots of sweet designs to share with you today featuring the GRIM GRETCHEN stamp set! Be sure to hop around and leave lots of love at each and every stop because one lucky commenter will WIN a gift voucher to the krafty shop! Plus we're doing a GIVEAWAY of the ENTIRE release on the Krafty Friends facebook page! The winners will be announced at the party so don't miss it!

A little something spooky

It's Wonderful Wednesday time!! We hope you can play along!! As always....it's ANYTHING GOES!! Break out your Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and get crafty!!

I decided that I couldn't go any longer without showing you guys the Witch I began coloring on a color along not so long ago.... so here's the finished card! 

I use a TON of Stickles on this card, and it's a shame you can't see it in the photo, but this thing glitters like there's not tomorrow... the background is made with the distress inks you see in the photo and then i used a flat paint brush to paint streaks of glittery Stickles behind this sweet little witch. The papers are from Doodlebug.

We want EVERYONE to be able to play along so your submission can use ANY stamp and can be any theme, any style, any design and it can be a card, a scrapbook page, an altered item....you name it!! It must be a NEW creation and you can enter on this post until September 19th at midnight! At the end of the month one random winner will be chosen from all the submissions for the whole month and will receive a $20 Gift Card to the shop!!! What do you think.....wanna WIN?? Let's see your krafty stuff!!

Use a what?!?!?!!?

Ok, we all know that Saturday Challenges at KKS mean a "themed challenge." It's fun, it gets you creative, makes ya think...... but when I read that I had to "use a doily" on my card I thought, "what the heck?!?!?"

Ok, so I scoured my house, craft stashes, asked a few friends, went to the craft store (twice) (both times I got a lot of other things, then got home and realized that I forgot to look for doilies) and still had no doilies.  What the heck is a girl to do?  OOOOHHHHHH!!! IDEA!!!!!

Ya see what I did there? I used my Cricut machine to cut a "doily" into a piece of acitate! Oh yeah! I colored up Alice in Wonderland all Halloween style and fussy cut her, because I'm pretty sure that fussy cutting is my new form of therapy. 

Ok, so I was a little bit of a rebel yet again, I'm sure that doesn't surprise any of you at all. But I couldn't find a real doily and this was a creative way to still be able to play along.  I hope that you can use this as inspiration and play along in the challenge with us this week!  Have a great weekend... Tootles!

A Sweet Little Zombie

Welcome to Wednesday, ain't it grand?  I'm so glad that this week is half way over! ha ha ha! Seriously though, I'm just ready to lock myself int he Room of Requirement and have a little me time.

I think that my mood was a little dark when I sat down to make this card.... because our sweet little Rosie Fairy has taken a turn to the dark side.....

I found this scrap of vivid damask print paper and used it as my inspiration for this card.  I figured with Halloween just around the corner, that this little fairy could dawn some grey skin and be thinking of sinister things. I added a few flowers because, I mean, she IS a fairy after all. I stamped the sentiment directly on a little wooden sign that I've had in my crafty stash for years.

I hope that this little card inspires you to play along with us this Wednesday, remember it's always "anything goes." make something fun and spooky and just have a good time. I know I feel better now after creating something a little "different." Can't wait to see what you make! Tootles! 

All my best friends are witches!

Hi Krafty People!!!

Guess what it's time for? Yeah time for that Krafty Chamber of Secrets to crrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk open and reveal another one of it's secrets! This time it's a set that is/was crazy popular and so incredibly cute!  It is: ALL MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WITCHES!!!!! 

I created this card by stamping this fun and spooky girl on Copic Express-it yardstick and coloring her with my Copic markers. I used Stickles glitter on the potion to make it sparkle.  I then used my Distress Oxide Inks, more Stickles, and Mixed Media yardstick from Canson for the background.  The potion paper is from Doodlebug of course and then just some cool black twine as an accent. 

Copic Markers list: E000, E00, E02, E11, R20, BV29, C7, BV23, V17, V09, V06, V12, V12, BG75, BG49, BG15, BG10, W3, W1, W0

I sure hope you like it!  So now RUN (don't walk) to claim yours today! No seriously, there's only a limited number of these available! Once those sell, you'll be put on a pre-order list, so when more are made you can still (maybe) get one.  THAT'S why you need to get one asap! AAHHHHHH!!!

Hope you all have a spooky Halloween! Tootles! 

It's getting a bit spooky!

Well hello there, welcome to a challenge... a fun one... a Saturday Challenge with Kraftin Kimmie Stamps! Woohoo!!!! I'm going to start by saying one thing: PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT WHEN YOU CHECK OUT THIS POST, PRETTY PLEASE! 

So you all know by now that there is a themed challenge every Saturday at KKS and this Saturday is no different.  Today the challenge is.... wait for it.... Enamel Dots!!!!! BoooYah!!!! I LOVE enamel dots!  So, pull out some Doodlebug, or Recollections, or even Nuvo and get to work people! This is gunna be fun!  Wanna see what I made? Wanna, wanna? Huh, huh, huh?  Well here ya go!

I decided that our sweet Fearless Farrah needed a makeover for Halloween, so I zombified her and replaced her bricks with a pile of skulls! She's got some red eyes going on and a whole lotta sass too! I just love her! 

We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can have a chance to WIN a $20 gift card to the Shop!! Show us your stuff!! In keeping in line with the rest of our challenges (Wonderful Wednesday and our NEW Krafty Scrappy Challenge), we will be drawing one winner per month from all Saturday Challenge entries to win a $20 gift card!! You can enter as many times per month as you'd like!!

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends fb group?? It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing YOUR creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends' creations!!!

Frugal Friday specials are up and there's a new Krafty Komeback in the house!! The super cute Smarty Pants set has made a comeback in CLEAR!!! 

Don't forget peeks for the August release start this coming week, this time on THURSDAY! Mark your calendars and see ya there!

Now create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp or any other stamp and be sure to use our THEME as a starting point for your creation!!! You will have until August 11th at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!
Pull out those fabby stamps and play along! Have some krafty fun and join us this week!!

I just can't wait to see what you all make!  Have a great day! Tootles! 

Forget about Christmas in July...

I know, I know, I know... BAH HUMBUG! 

But seriously people, everyone is already doing that Christmas in July thing... we're forgetting something seriously important here.... HALLOWEEN!  I mean, since I was little I've always LOVED Halloween.... but NOT in the "normal" ways.  I am NOT big on candy, don't get me wrong, I love me some York peppermint patties, and I LOVE milky way midnights (OMG YUM), but..... and this is a very large but..... I HATED going out and going Trick-or-treating. Just wasn't my thing.  So, in what was did I love halloween? I'll explain, ...... DUDE..... It's the one day a year that you get to all out dress up for no good reason and spend the entire day as something totally fictional!  How is that not the MOST AWESOME THING EVER?!?!?!?!?!? 

So, with all of that tangent off of my chest... let's get to the card shall we? He he he! So, it's Wonderful Wednesday and that means time for an ANYTHING GOES challenge over at Kraftin Kimmie Stamps.  I love anything goes challenges because you can really show off your creativity! Here's the deal... I wanted to take a "Normal" stamp and make it into something totally NOT normal. Behold: I give you..... drum roll..... ANGIE as a COFFEE ZOMBIE!

Copics used: 

Skin: C5, C3, C1, C0 and Colorless Blender

Hair: G99, YG67, G05, YG06, YG13, YG23, and YG00

Bathrobe: V09, V06, V04, V01, V000

Cup and hair clips: R85, R83, R81

Eyes: B28, B32, B12, BV02, C01, C0, colorless Blender, Multiliner .05

Clip and coffee paper from Doodlebug

"Boo!" paper from My Mind's Eye

Purple textured paper from The Paper Studio

Ribbon from Recollections

Okie dokie party people.... go forth and create something awesome.  remember: anything goes! You have until July 31st to enter your card not he KKS Blog and there's a $20 gift card to the shop up for grabs.... so let's see what ya got and enter to win a prize! Woot Woot!  

I gotta go eat some candy now, maybe another cup of coffee, and I'll check ya all later! Tootles!