Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps August Krafty Peeks...Day Three! Fall Breeze!

   Today is our third day of Krafty Peeks for the August Release

 at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Today we are 'peeking' a fabulous set 

from artist Michelle Houghton

 and it's called.....

FALL BREEZE!

We're so excited to bring you this gorgeous set of leaves and beautiful sentiments that is going to be a must have Fall set!

I Copic coloured the leaves and the background as well, the images below accurately showcase the colours in this card.

I don't have a smooth blend on this background but I don't mind because it adds some depth to the leaves.

The sparkle on the leaves is Cosmic Shimmer Sunset Orange Opal Blaze Polish included in the add on bundle. A scatter of Dazzling Dots completes the card front and I edged all sides of the card base with Kraftin' Kimmie Mossy Meadow Hybrid Ink prior to adhering the card front.

Check out FALL BREEZE! in so many creations today as you hop around the Krafty Team's blogs! You'll also see the new stencils, Add-Ons and hybrid ink along the way!  Be sure to leave some love at each stop on the hop because there will be a giveaway for some krafty $$ to the shop! 

You'll see more of our August goodies tomorrow, and then everything will be released after our LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday afternoon at 2pm ET in the Krafty Friends facebook group!  

For now, check out all the beautiful projects in today's hop!

See you tomorrow!

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Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps August Krafty Peeks...Day TWO! Driving By!

 

Welcome back to Day TWO of our August Krafty Peeks!

Are you excited about what you've seen so far!?  Are you ready for more?

I hope your answer was yes because we've got more fabulous fun for you today!

The stamp set we are 'peeking' for you today is from 

artist Allison Cope

 and it's called.....

JUST DRIVING BY!

You'll be zipping around in style, wishing a friendly hello for any occasion with these classy fellows!

I envisioned this rabbit swirling the fall leaves on the road behind as he zips through the mountains.

 Check out JUST DRIVING BY! in so many awesome creations today as you hop around the Krafty Team's blogs!  You'll also see the new stencils, Add-On bundle and hybrid ink along the way! 

 Be sure to leave some love at each stop on the hop because there will be a giveaway of some krafty $$ to the shop! 

You'll see more of our August goodies all week, and then everything will be released after our LIVE Online Release Party on Saturday afternoon at 2pm ET in the Krafty Friends facebook group!  

For now, check out all the fantastic goodness in today's hop!

See you tomorrow!

 

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Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps August Krafty Peeks...Day ONE! A Krafty Komeback-Witch Way

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps August Sneak Peek...Day One! A Krafty Comeback, Witch Way!

   Who's ready for lots of brand new Krafty goodies?!

It's time for our August Release Peeks to begin 

at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Today's featured set is a Krafty Komeback set 

with images by Emilie Goulet!

 and it's called.....
WITCH WAY!

These images were originally released in rubber,

and we're so excited to bring it back in clear for you!!

This bewitching set features two fabulous freaky friends with several awesome sentiments and two spooky seals - perfect to celebrate with for Halloween!

This fun girl is super easy to colour with copic markers and I layered her over purple glitter card stock cut with a hexagon die.

After inking the white card stock with the new Cool Cantaloupe Hybrid Ink, I added DecoFoil Gel with the Tire Tracks stencil and, once dry, ran through my Minc machine with black foil.

As you hop around the design team's blogs today you'll be able to check out WITCH WAY! in action 

in combination with a lot of our other new 

August Kraftin' Kimmie products!  

You will spot our newest addition to the Kraftin' Kimmie Hybrid Ink rainbow!  It's a gorgeous new mouthwatering colour.....called COOL CANTELOUPE! 

As always it will be available in full sized ink pads, ink cubes and ink refills!

We've got TWO new Krafty Stencils for this month's release to help add some funky fun to your creations!  

They are called....
FALLING LEAVES!

and TIRE TRACKS!

Both designs are perfect for all your cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media and more!

Plus we have our exclusive AUGUST ADD ON BUNDLE!

Our exciting Add-On bundle this month features several amazing products which will coordinate with our new goodies and will help you enhance your new creations!! 

This month's special curated Add On Bundle includes:

• P13 Four Seasons Autumn 6x6 Paper Pad
• P13 Autumn Tags
• Fall Leaves Chipboard
• Prima Pumpkin & Spice Metal Leaf Charms
• Opal Blaze Sunset Orange

  This package is going to sell for the amazing price of $37.99CAN, and a limited number will be available in the shop on Saturday afternoon after our Live Release Party! Get ready to get krafty!!

You'll get to see all of our brand new goodies in action over the next few days of the August Krafty Peeks and everything will be released at our LIVE Release Party 

on  Saturday, August 14th @ 2 pm ET in the Krafty Friends group!

For now, hop around and check out some amazing creations from the Krafty Team and be sure to leave some love at each stop on the hop!  Your comment could be a WINNER of some krafty $$ to use in the shop!  (Not to mention our designers are incredible and you should tell them so!  😉  )

Come on back tomorrow for some more krafty fun and goodness!

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Kraftin' Kimmie August Skrappy Challenge...Anything But A Card

 Hello Krafty Friends!

It's August and that means it's time for a brand new
SKRAPPY CHALLENGE

with Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

I'm excited to share my very first project as a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Design Team member 😊.

I've created a journal to track my workouts. I scored a 5 1/2" tall x 9" wide piece of white card stock at 4 1/4" and 4 1/2". I then taped the Semi Circles Stencil over the front and added the Wonderful Waves Stencil over top then stencilled with Designer Denim. I then taped the stencil circles over the wave stencilling, adding the Krafty Kaidescope Stencil over top and inking with Amazing Azure Hybrid Ink.

I stamped these cute koalas from The Wild Side stamp set and coloured them with W1,2,3,4 and 6, R000 and R21. The bamboo is coloured with E25, E50, YG41 and YG67. B22 is used on the clouds and Y02 and YR20 for the sun. I fussy cut all the images and glued them to the front cover, using one of the clouds to title the journal.

The inner pages are A5 planner inserts from my stash and I trimmed the holes off, rounded the corners and folded in half. I added stencilling to the inner pages with the Rugged Rope stencil and Amazing Azure Hybrid ink. 

I then pierced along the fold with the bookbinding guide and piercing tool from the We R Memory Keepers Journal Book Binding Punch Guide. I folded the cover along the scored edges and also then pierced stitching holes down the centre. 

The final step is to stitch all the layers together and the journal is done!

Make sure you head to the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps to join the Linky Party and see what the Design Team inspiration for the challenge.

Happy Crafting!

Altenew Craft Your Life Summer Retreat 2021

I'm super excited to share I will be teaching at this first ever event!

Click HERE for all the details and to sign up!

 

Altenew Educators "Anything But A Card" Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

 Hello Friends and Welcome to another Altenew Educators Blog Hop!

You should have arrived from Penny Pynnonen 's blog and if you get lost at anytime along the hop or would like to go to the beginning, you can head back to Altenew by clicking the preceding link.

This post contains affiliate links, shopping through these are at no extra cost to you and helps support this blog to offer inspiration to you :). I appreciate and thank you for your support!

So, so many options for projects for this hop so I went back to my crafty "roots" as a scrapbooker for this 'Anything But A Card' project:

A sketch is a great starting point for a layout and I used this sketch from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, rotating it for the layout:

I inked the upper left side of a white card stock base with the Feathered Leaves stencil, Shadow Creek and Mountain Pine Crisp Dye inks. After inking the stencil I spattered the paper with Altenew Watercolor Brushmarkers in Purple Wine, Mango Smoothie and Cotton Candy.

I then used a dinner plate to trace a half circle shape in two different places on the 12x12 Wildflower Fields paper from the Wildflower 12x 12 paper collection and hand cut the shapes. I adhered the pink half circle directly to the white card stock and then layered the green over top with foam adhesive lining the straight edge up with the edge of the white card stock.

After choosing my photos, and their arrangement, I added them with foam adhesive. I then played around with pieces from the Wildflower Pink Posy Ephemera and Wildflower Bitty Bits Ephemera, trying out different ones until I was happy with my choices. I attached them with foam adhesive, sometimes adding the foam just behind the bloom/buds and using liquid adhesive for the stems. I die cut a couple of leaves with the Mini Flower Cluster Layering Die Set from the Wildflower 6x6 Paper Pack

To finish off the layout I added Antique Gold sequins around the layout and on one of flower centers and also a hand drawn border with the 02 pen from the Altenew Fine Liner Pen Set.

Here's another look at the full layout :) 

Do you keep a paper planner? I do off and on and like to add a few crafty touches to my monthly spread at a minimum so this hop theme was perfect!

I stamped these floral images in the corners with a mini-stamp set that I received as a gift from Altenew, you can probably find a similar mini-stamp in the Altenew store. I stamped the image in Permanent Crisp Black ink which is alcohol marker friendly and colored the blooms with R301 Rouge, Y204 Mango Smoothie for the center and G702 Frayed Leaf for the leaves.

I then added some pencil crayon colouring with my Prismacolor Pencils:

I hand wrote June, on a diamond die cut from the Fine Frames Diamond die that was trimmed down, with the brush marker from the Fine Liner Pen Set and backed the letters with a swipe of color with B201 Sea Glass Artist Marker. I also edged the die cut with the same Artist marker, backed it with Gold Mirror Card and then adhered with foam adhesive over the stamped and colored blooms.

I balanced the spread by adhering the gold mirror card stock fine frame in the bottom right of the facing page over the stamped and colored blooms.

I inked a few images from the Watercolor Bouquet stencil on the right and left side pages with Rouge ink along with adding a strip of the lightest color of washi tape from the Tea Party Washi tape bundle.

It didn't take long to add a few decorative touches to my monthly planner spread and this is another way to use your favorite Altenew supplies beyond cardmaking.

Now, what's a blog hop without prizes? Wonder no more!!

Prizes:

$200 in total prizes! Altenew is giving away a $35 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/04/2021 for a chance to win. 

There’s MORE!

What’s a hop without YOU?! We have included an Inlinkz at the Altenew blog for you to enter your gorgeous Altenew “Anything But A Card” creations. We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate!

 

Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/06/2021.

Don't forget to leave a comment to get your name in the draw and hop on over to the lovely and talented Irina Fonina to check out her projects and leave a comment for another chance to win!

Thank you SO MUCH for stopping by!

Below is the full Hop List:

Altenew Card Blog 

Terri Marie Koszler 

Neha Aggarwal 

Bridget Casey 

Tenia Nelson 

Nandini Karmarkar 

Teri Stokes 

Rachael Shedeed 

Fiona Duff 

Eva Bussom  

Nenette S. Madero 

Roteja Galvan 

Karen Brown 

Sandra Woodson 

Helen Kalb 

Penny Pynnonen 

Rosie Neustaedter 

Irina Fonina 

Rebecca Sogn  

Nancy Souza 

Virginia Lu 

Pigment Craft Co.: Celebration Bouquet

I finally found some time to play with the Pigment Craft Co. Celebration Bouquet and Celebration Bouquet fillers stamps.

I stamped and die cut the images with the two sets named above, super easy to use! I then adhered them to a background I created with Distress Oxide inks, my Gel Press and the Altenew Tropical Jungle stamp set.

The sentiment from the Dashing Sentiments stamp and cut with the coordinating die after being stamped and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Lastly, I added some Studio Katia Gold Foil to the flower centres and around the images.

I stamped a few of these blooms with different ink colours and decided to create a background with two of the die cut blooms.

I popped up the die cut blooms with foam adhesive and then layered the Split Sentiments Congratulations die on top. "So happy for you" is stamped and cut with the coordinating from the Celebration Bouquet stamp set.

I added some Studio Katia Clear Drops to the flower centres and the card base. I love how this turned out and I'll be making more of these as this came together easily.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look!

Fun Times at An Altenew Virtual Workshop

 Hello Crafty Friends,

I recently attended my fellow Altenew Certifed Educator Penny's workshop and it was lots of fun and informative! I never realize it's possible to colour white glitter card stock with alcohol ink, although I chose to die cut my pieces from pre-coloured glitter card stock.

We made three cards with the Hibiscus Garden 3D Die Set and Penny walked us through putting this these layered die cuts together and shared a few tips and tricks along the way.

Here's a closer look at the first card:

I just love all the gold on this card, the gold mirror card stock adds such great shine. I used the sentiment from the Wildflower Garden stamp set and stamped it in Enchanted Gold pigment ink.

This next card is a shaker card, the shaker window is created with the base die cut.

What I really like about this card is that it uses just a few of the die cut layers from the large bloom to add detail to the shaker winder. This was very easy to make.

This is my favourite of the three cards. The sparkle from the glitter paper is so gorgeous in real life. I used glitter papers from Memory Box but Penny showed us how to create custom coloured glitter card stock with white glitter card stock and alcohol inks.

I added a few more flowers than Penny's sample card but I love how this turned out!

I had so much fun putting together these. layered hibiscus flowers I cut a few extra and created a fourth card.

I added some black splatters with Jet Black Watercolor brushmarker and also stamped the sentiment in Enchanted Gold pigment ink.

I so enjoyed this workshop with Penny and look forward to future ones from her.

Thanks for taking a look!

Altenew Educators Supporting Educators

 

Hello!

Thank you for joining the Altenew Educators as they share their support for all educators. 

I'm sharing some details on the cards I created for this Instagram hop. If you'd like to be eligible for the prizes, please visit my Instagram @rosieneust for all the details and to leave a comment there, yes you can comment from your computer if you haven't already :).

This post contains affiliate links, shopping through these are at no extra cost to you and helps support this blog to offer inspiration to you :). I appreciate and thank you for your support!

I've had the Teacher's Rule stamp and die set in my stash for a long time but haven't used it in quite awhile so this was the perfect opportunity to do so. 

While looking at it, I was thinking the simple image would work well with a "pop art" style and here's an example of what that is :) 

and here are my cards:

I pulled out some bright coloured card stock fro my stash and then chose the following Altenew Crisp Dye Inks to stamp the apples, from left to right:

- Sweet Leaf, Hunter Green

- Heartbeat, Vineyard Berry

-Eastern Sky, Azurite

-Pinkalicious, Razzleberry

-Sunkissed, Autumn Blaze

I die cut 5 squares with one of the dies from the Halftone Squares Die Set and then embossed with the following 3D embossing folders:

- Organic Linen

- Angled Mosaic

- Mod Squares

I edged the sides of the embossed squares and the die cut apples with the brush marker from the Fineliner Pen Set.

This was an easy design to duplicate, I stamped the sentiment in the same place on each colour of card stock with my stamp positioning tool.

I adhered the apples with dimensional (foam) adhesive.

These cards came together very quickly once I had worked out the initial design. I've always appreciated my kids teachers but after online schooling my 13 year old I have an overwhelming appreciation for all that teachers do :).

Thanks for stopping in!