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I watercoloured this sweet mushroom house and the background with the Artist's Watercolour set on Altenew 9 x 12 Watercolour paper.

The sentiment from the set is stamped in Obsidian Ink and heat embossed with Crystal Clear Embossing Powder. I then inked all the edges with Clear Embossing Ink and heat embossed with Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

This is a small but mighty stamp, pick yours up today!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge #597: Use Brown

 

  Good morning and welcome to another

fabulous and fun Saturday Challenge

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps !

Are you ready for another fun and krafty challenge to inspire you and help get your creative juices flowing?

We've got some fabulous ideas for you 

and can't wait to see what you create!

This week, Krafty Girl Delphine is your hostess and her challenge theme for you is: 

USE BROWN

(a little or a lot!)

Brown is such an easy colour to use and I combined it with the Woodgrain Stencil, inking a piece of kraft coloured card stock.

The Lookin' Sharp set has images super easy to pair with brown and you can see I added some shine with Gold Mirror card stock from Altenew.

Yes when it's called "mirror" they mean it! Hard to photograph projects using Mirror Card stock, you can see my reflection here, lol. I heat embossed the sentiment with Reflections Gold Embossing Powder (Michaels brand).

Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like.

These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however, using Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp products will earn you double entries!

The monthly prize is a $25 voucher to the Krafty shop!!!

Woohoo!  There are two ways to enter: you can link up your creation on the  Kraftin’ Kimmie blog page and if using KKS products,

you can upload your photo to the album in our 

Krafty Friends FB group.

Also, if you need a little extra inspiration or a jump start to your mojo, we have a new sketch each month!

Feel free to use it any time!

And don't forget about this weekend's Frugal Friday Specials!! 

We've got a selection of gorgeous stamp sets on SALE 40% OFF this weekend while supplies last!!  

Be sure to check out all the fun projects the Design Team has come up with in the links below! Happy kraftin'!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Pigment Craft Co. Frame Builder: Hello Beautiful

Hello!

I'm super excited about this brand new CANADIAN stamp company, Pigment Craft Co. !

I ordered a few items when the shop launched and my order arrived within a couple of days! Best part of all, no crossing fingers just hoping you won't get hit with duty.

The cards above are created with the Frame Builder: Hello Beautiful Stamp and Stencil Bundle and I'm kicking myself for not picking up the matching die too. 

The frame stamp stamps the leaves and sprigs, then you use the stencil to fill in the buds and blooms, adding details with the stamps from the set. 

This set coordinates with the Recipe Card Builder stamp set which is why it's open on the right side, to fit in the lines to create your recipe card. 

The sentiment is stamped and die cut with the Dashing Sentiments Stamp and Coordinating Die.

For this card I actually trimmed the frame stamp apart and stamped the separated pieces to create a full background panel. 

After inking with the stencil and stamping the details, I went back and added the light pink blooms to fill in the pattern a little more.

The sentiment is stamped on black card stock and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

You can create a soft watercolour look very easily as well. To do this, I applied dye ink to the stamp, misted it with water and stamped on watercolour paper.

To do the stencil water colouring you'll apply the ink to a slick surface such as a glass mat or acrylic block, add a little water and then apply the colour to the stencil areas.

 Don't use too much water or it will seep under the stencil, apply it to the middle and gently draw it out towards the edges.

To add the details to the blooms I found the best results by painting the stamp with the watered-down ink so you still get the soft look but don't lose all the details.

This time I heat embossed the sentiment in gold embossing powder directly on the card front, a few black ink splatters and a hint of gold on the edges finish this card off.

Click here to see everything Pigment Craft Company offers. 

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Thanks for stopping by!

Altenew Spotlight| Antique Engraving Die-Two Looks

Hello!

I often struggle to create sympathy cards that just hit the right 'tone'. While in the midst of organizing my Altenew products and watching a Jennifer McGuire video I came across the Antique Engravings cover die and decided to to create a die cut inlay card.

The outline image was die cut from grey card stock with the Antique Engravings cover die and then adhered to white card stock with liquid adhesive. I then applied Cut N Bond double sided adhesive to the back side the green leafy paper from the Altenew 6x6 Sweet Moments paper pack and ran this through my die cut machine.

The grey die cut is then adhered to a 5 1/4" x 4" white card stock and pieces from the patterned paper are inlaid within the negative spaces of the die cut.

I did have some trouble with some of the smaller pieces of the die cut but since the outline is glued on to white card stock it's not noticeable as the pattern paper has a lot of white space.

The sentiment is from the Wildflower Garden stamp set and it's heat embossed with Pure White Embossing powder.

 Lastly, I added 3 frames cut from black card stock with the Fine Frames Cover Die to frame the entire image.

Inlaying the patterned paper means I have a patterned paper die cut to use so I created a second sympathy card, I love techniques that make it possible to create two cards quickly, means efficient crafting :).

This one is super simple, just adhered the die cut to a grey notecard, stamped the sentiment from Birchland stamp set which just happens to be on sale right now :).

I added a few navy pearls from my stash to complete the card.

Thanks for popping in and taking a look! 

Happy Crafting!

Missing You| An AECP Project

Hello!

I am sharing my latest Altenew Educator Certification Project inspired by the Dynamic Die-Cutting class. So much to be inspired by in this class I had to choose between a couple of cards in deciding which to submit.

This card is based on the Partial Panelling Die cutting lesson. I love how easy it is to show off a select portion of a larger die. You can see that the focus is on the centre portion of the buildings in the Layered Cityscapes dies.

I die cut Layer A from white card stock, then inked with Distress Oxide ink in Pumice stone, the B layer was cut from glitter card stock.

I adhered both layers together with liquid glue, appling Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone through a starry stencil from my stash over navy card stock. Once the paste was dry, the cityscape layers were adhered over the navy card stock with liquid glue.

Lastly, I heat embossed 'Missing You' from the Thinking of You stamp set in silver embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look!

AECP: Magical Marker Techniques

Hi Everyone!

Thanks so much for stopping in and taking a look at this project. These Altenew classes are LOADED with techniques and ideas, it's hard to pick just one to post.

As I have recently purchased a few Altenew stencils , the lesson on markers and stencils in the  Magical Marker Techniques class was the one I wanted to work on. This is the card I created:

I placed my Altenew Cube Builder stencil on Neenah 110lb card stock and traced the stencil with my Altenew Jet Black Artist marker. I then colored in the shape with the G702 Frayed Leaf marker and edged the interior with G715 Forest Glade and, in a few places, G554 Evergreen.

Once the coloring was completed, I die cut the word HI using the Altenew Caps Bold Alpha, the word was also die cut from black card stock. I then sandwiched the black card stock and marker die cut words with foam tape.

I added the sentiments with the Altenew Thinking of You stamp set, stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I love how this card turned out! These classes are fantastic, thanks for taking a look!

Colour Your Day!

Hello!

I've had a busy last few weeks with back to back scrapbooking/papercrafting events. If you haven't checked out the Scrap Shotz blog, a local online store, click HERE to take a look; I design for the store and help out at the local events so you can see some of the other projects I created for them :).

I have another project to share as I work towards my Altenew Level 2 Educator Certification. This card was inspired by Lesson 1 of the Colour Your Day class. 

I picked up this Altenew Build A Flower Hibiscus stamp & die set from Scrap Shotz at the recent Scrapbooks and Cards Today event in Calgary. This set is GORGEOUS with 5 stamp layers in the flower!   I pulled out all my blue Altenew Inks and it was pretty cool to see how some were warm blues and others cool blues. These inks are the Glacier Caves Oval set and as the stamp set has 5 layers I double stamped the lightest shade, Arctic Frost for the 2nd layer to have 5 ink colours to use with the stamp layers.

The background was inked with the Altenew Art Deco stencil and Arctic Frost & Persian Blue inks.

The stems were stamped with Altenew Sunkissed and Firebrick ink.

Leaves were stamped with the Altenew Tropical Forest collection and all the images were die cut with the coordinating die.

Lastly, a sentiment from the Wild Hibiscus stamp set was stamped in Altenew Sapphire ink, the card panel matted on Altenew Cherry wood paper and then embellished with Pretty Pink Posh Sea Glass gems.

I will gift this card to my mom for Mother's Day, I think she'll love it!

Have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by!

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Most Favorite Card Technique!

Hi All!

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I created for the Altenew Impressive Heat Embossing class. I so LOVE heat embossing, there is something so exciting and satisfying watching embossing powder melt. I generally only heat emboss on my Christmas cards so this class opened up soooo many options for heat embossing all year round!

This first card was inspired by the lesson on heat embossing for a resist effect.

{supplies: Altenew Pattern Play Circle stamp; Versamark Ink, Ranger Clear Embossing powder, Water-colour paper; Daniel Smith water-colour Duochrome Oceanic, Cobalt Teal Blue, Pthalo Blue Green Shade; Kuretake Gansai water-colours}

To begin, I applied anti-static powder to a 5.5" x 4.25" piece of water colour paper.

I then used my Misti to stamp the Altenew Pattern Play Circle background stamp with Versamark ink. I applied ink and stamped a couple of times to ensure I had good ink coverage, covered with clear embossing powder and heat set.

The image looks like it was embossed with white embossing powder because the paper is a white.

I coated the paper with water and then began applying watercolour with the darkest ink and working my way outwards with the lightest blue-green shade of the Daniel Smith watercolours. I went back and darkened up all the ink shades with similar colours of Kuretake Gansai watercolours.

Once the paper had dried, I die cut the paper with an Elizabeth Crafts stitched rectangle die and layered it over dark silver glitter card stock also die cut with an Elizabeth crafts stitched rectangle die from the same set.

I stamped 'Missing You' in Versamark ink and heat set with Altenew Platinum Crisp Embossing Powder, the sentiment is from the Pattern Play set.

I completed the card with a smattering of Studio Katia Ocean Waves crystals.

Another lesson in this class focuses on ombre heat embossing which I have never attempted before. One of the cool things about this is that one of the best ways to showcase it is by using the solid images in layering stamp sets. Here is how you can recreate something similar 😀

{supplies: Altenew Camelia Build a Flower stamp, Crisp embossing powder platinum, rose gold; Versamark Ink; Stampendous White embossing powder; Recollections Gold embossing powder; Imagine Crafts Gold spray}

To begin, prep the card stock with anti static powder and using a stamp positioner (I used a Misti), stamp the solid image from the Altenew Camelia Build a Flower stamp set with Versamark Ink. 

Stamp the image a couple of times to ensure you have very good ink coverage for the embossing powder. Starting with the lightest colour, sprinkle a portion of the image with white, followed by platinum, then rose gold. Make sure to tap your paper firmly to ensure all loose powder does not adhere where you don't want it.

Heat set the powder with your heating tool, let cool and then prep for the outline embossing with an anti-static tool. Stamp the camellia outline stamp with Versamark ink, cover image with gold embossing powder and heat set.

To complete the card, gold emboss a sentiment from the set in the lower left corner, then embellish with drops of Imagine crafts gold spray.

Thanks for taking the time to stop in and I hope you've been inspired in some small way!

Beyond Basic...

...Backgrounds!

Hello and thanks for stopping in! Today I am sharing a card inspired by the Altenew class Beyond Basic Backgrounds, specifically the lesson on Foiling Stamped images without a Laminator.

I do own a laminator but I've heard about this technique and was excited to give it a try.

{Supplies-Altenew Winter Rose stamp, Heartbeat Crisp Dye Ink, Forest Glades Crisp Dye Ink, Label Love stamp; Versamark Ink; Ranger Sticky Embossing Ink; Heidi Swapp Minc Foil gold and mint}

I began by prepping a 5.5" by 4.25" piece of Neenah card stock with anti static powder-my Stampin' Up embossing buddy I've had for eons ;). Next I inked the outline stamp from the Winter Rose stamp set with Versamark ink and randomly stamped around the card stock. I sprinkled Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder and heat set. 

I then placed mint foil over the entire panel and burnished with my fingers. You can see from the photo above I got so-so results. I re-heated the embossed portions and placed gold foil over top, again burnishing the foil. 

You can see from the above photo I didn't get the best coverage from the foil this is what I would next time I use this technique:

1. Use a stamp positioning tool to stamp each image 2-3 times to ensure you have lots of ink for the embossing powder to adhere to.

2. Once you've completed all the stamping, hit the images with a bit of heat before attempting to add the foil.

3. Run the card stock panel with the foil placed on top through an embossing machine. You'll have to add extra card stock "shims" between the panel and top and bottom plates to increase the pressure. This will also help adhere the foil to the sticky embossing powder.

I stamped the base stamp from the Winter Rose set in Heartbeat Altenew Crisp Dye Ink and the leaves in Forest Glade Ink. I then used one of the detail stamps for the rose and leaves, following the same process as the card base. The flower is foiled in gold while the leaf is foiled in mint. 

The left side of the card front is edged with half inch double sided tape to which mint foil is adhered.

A sentiment from the Altenew Label Love set completes the card.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at this Altenew Educator Certification project 😊

Trim the Tree

Hello Friends!

I've got a number of Creative Team projects up on the Scrap Shotz blog so click here to take a look.

I saved one to share with you here:

The tree is inked with Distress Ink in Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint, then die cut with the Concord and 9th Trim the Tree die. The patterned paper is also die cut with the same tree die and adhered to a white card stock card base. 

The Distress Ink-ed tree is further die cut with the Fa La La die also from the Trim the Tree set, setting aside the inner pieces from the letters.

Inlay the tree within the negative space of the patterned paper and then inlay the die cut words along with the green pieces from the tree.

Lastly, die cut the bows from gold and red glitter paper and adhere to the top of the tree.

Thanks for stopping by!