Hope and Grace!

Well, last night's class at Scrappin' Great Deals was a HOOT!! Wasn't it ladies?? We were full again, as usual and we made four really great cards. The gals seemed to really enjoy themselves....I know I did.

Today's card features a sweet stamp set from The Greeting Farm. It's called Hope and Grace and it's the first time I inked them up. The sketch is actually from a challenge from somewhere and I made it a week or so ago, so I can't remember where I found the layout now...hehe.

The card base is Purely Pomegranate and the teal colour I used for matting is by Bazzill. The patterned paper is from the new Lemonade line by Basic Grey. I used my Nesties to cut out the popped up layer with Regal Rose for the matting and added some PPomegranate ribbon. I stamped Hope on Neenah smooth cardstock and coloured her in using the dp as inspiration. The Copic marker colours I used are: E00, R20, BG11, BG13, R39, R81, R83, E25 and E27.



I cut Hope out and pop dotted her on the focal layer. I stamped the sentiment on dp and used my oval punches to cut them out, then pop dotted them too. I finished it off by adding a trio of tiny Basic Grey buttons!

Well, it's a rainy one here in Ontario today. That's okay, because I have to go to work anyway. Ick. Hope you have stampin' good Friday!!

Just Beeee-cause.....and Some Exciting News!!

Good Thursday morning stampers! Firstly, I just want to tell you that I took the girls to see the new Harry Potter movie yesterday! We got there early (already ordered our tickets online) and stood in line so we could get good seats. When they opened the doors, Emileigh went right into the theatre and got seats in the very back row in the middle....it was fabulous....and Kelsey and I made a bee-line for the concession stand and got our pop and popcorn. When the show finally started, we were so excited! Kelsey has never read the books (*gasp*...I know), but Emileigh and I know them back to front and it's so amazing to see your favourite characters and stories come to life on the big screen. Well....we all agreed that this was EASILY the best movie yet. It was simply fantastic and we can't wait until it comes out on DVD! Have you seen it....what did you think??

Anyhoo, on to today's card. This one features stamps from the newly released Bumble B. Bear set from Cookie Crumbs Designs at All That Scraps. Diane Zechman designed these adorable bears and bees and some wonderfuls sentiments to go with them. I used the beehive and the bee to create the focal layer. The card base is A2 sized in Basic Black with some yellow Bazzill cardstock for layering. I stamped the images on Neenah Solar Crest smooth white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them in with my Copics. I used: C3, C5, YR20, YR21, YR23 and R85. I used my Nesties to cut it out and added a scalloped layer of Regal Rose. I stamped the sentiment and punched it out with my Word Window punch and pop dotted everything. I added some buttons with hemp twine, some velvet ric rack and finished it off by outlining parts of the image with my Stardust Sakura gel pen.



Now for the super exciting news!!! Christine at All That Scraps has designed and put together for the very first time, an adorable Stamp Kit!!! It's all about Fall and will take you from School to Hallowe'en to lots of Fall Fun and it features the very popular Emma and Trevor Sugarplum stamps!! You can get some peeks at some of the images here on the blog and I can tell you that you will receive 5 Emmas, 3 Trevors, 6 accessory images and a set of coordinating sentiments. This is a limited edition Stamp Kit and is only available for purchase from now until July 28th and will ship soon after purchase. These images will not be available again until our September release and at that time they will only be available as individual stamps. I have seen them all and trust me.....you want them!! I can't WAIT until they arrive in MY mailbox!! Heehee!

Alrighty, is that enough excitement for one day?? I've got a class to teach tonight, so I'll be spending my day packing my stuff up and preparing to teach my cards. Maybe I'll also get a little bit of stamping done in between several loads of laundry! Heehee! Have a super stampy Thursday!!!

Heidi and Madison!!

I haven't had a chance to do much stampin' lately. Summertime is so busy with lots to do outside and places to go....and of course work always gets in the way. So if I skip a day of blogging here and there throughout the summer, I'm not gonna stress about it. And I hope you'll keep checking back in anyway, here at Kraftin' Kimmie's Korner.

This card was made this weekend while my parents were visiting. Mom and I had a little (and I do mean little) bit of time to spend in my crafting sanctuary. It's so rare that we get to do that but I so enjoy it.

I stamped the Heidi and Madison image, which is from the new release from High Hopes, on Neenah Solar white smooth cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The patterned papers that I used are from Cosmo Cricket...the Girl Friday collection, I believe. I used Kraft cardstock for the 6x6 base and Blue Bayou for the large layer, then Pumpkin Pie for matting the main image. I sponged Antique Linen ink on everything and then used my open scissors on all the edges to distress them. I stamped the sentiment on green, pop dotted everything, added buttons and hemp twine and finished it off by adding a row of piercing at the top and bottom. The Copic markers I used to colour them are: E00, R20, E41, E43, E44, R83, R37, YR14, BG18 and YG95.



Well, today is the release of the newest Harry Potter movie and Emileigh and I are stoked!! It's always our tradition to see the movie on opening day. We buy tickets ahead of time, go early and stand in line so that we get good seats (take that to read that we get seats in the very back row, because there's nothing worse than having some loser kicking the back of your seat through a 2 1/2 hour show!) and enjoy the movie we've been waiting yeeeeears for!! They say it's the best one yet....I let ya know tomorrow!!

Have a stampin' good Wednesday!!!

Thoughtful Kimmie!!

NO, I'm not tootin' my own horn or anything......High Hopes named a stamp after me!!! Can you believe it??!! I was so excited when the new release stamps went live on the HH website on Friday night and I saw the name attached to this little girl stamp! I just can't contain myself! I've been immortalized in rubber!! Could there BE anything more special for a stamper??? (Said in my best Chandler Bing impression!) I wonder how I'd look in braids....hmmmm.

So I used Thoughtful Kimmie and several other new release stamps to create the scene on this card, which I'll be teaching at the Copics class this week at Scrappin' Great Deals!

All the cardstock used on this card is Bazzill regular cardstock or Bling and the patterned paper is by October Afternoon. Firstly, I stamped the Country Stand on Wausau bright white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then I stamped Thoughtful Kimmie, Bucket of Sunflowers, Poppies and Daisy separately, coloured them and cut them out. I also stamped Fresh Picked on the top of the stand itself.

To colour the wood, I coloured the entire area using E31, then streaked overtop with E33, E43 and E57, then went over it all again using E31. That techique seemed to turn out really well. Then I placed Kimmie (heehee) in the stand and layered the three buckets of flowers in front, pop dotting the middle one. The rest of the Copic markers I used are: E00, R20, R85, R21, YG03, Y35, E25, E99, C1, C2, BG13 and BG72.

I added some corner punches, a border using my Fiskars punch and some frilly ribbon across the middle. Then I pop dotted the main layer! Ain't she a pretty picture??




As I said, this class is on Thursday night, July 16th at 6:30pm and there are only a couple of spots left. We'll be making this card and also this card, plus two more as designed by Andrea. So call Sheila today before we're all filled up!

OH and the winner of my Emileigh stamp giveaway is.............Margaret De Witt who said "How cool is that Kimmie!! Your daughter must be so thrilled to have a stamp made after her. Love your card too." Congratulations Margaret and be sure to email me with your shipping information!

Alrighty then, I'm off to work this afternoon, so I plan to do a little stampin' this morning in between a couple of loads of laundry. Have a super stampy Monday!!!

High Hopes Challenge #39!!!

Well, good mornin' stampers!! It's Sunday and you know what that means....it's time for another creative challenge over at the High Hopes blog!!

This week, the talented Anna has called her challenge Upsy Daisy!! She would like us to use daisies somewhere on our designs. So you can use stamped daisy images, daisy punches, daisies on your patterned paper or paper flower daisies. And if you participate in this week's challenge, you have a chance of winning ALL of the stamps used on Anna's card! (Check out the blog to see it!)

For my card, I decided to use the Open Ark stamp from the new release! Isn't it adorable? Look at the sweet faces on those animals! I stamped them on Neenah Smooth cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them in with my Copic markers. Here are the colours that I used: W1, W5, E30, E31, E34, E44, E47, E00, E55, E57, YG03, BG10 and BG23.

The card base is a 6x6 Chocolate Chip square with Pumpkin Pie matting. I also used light green and peach Bazzill Bling for layering. The patterned papers are by My Mind's Eye and the layout I used is from last week's Sketch Saturday challenge. Love this layout!

I used some flower punches with white cardstock and attached them with yellow brads to make my daisies, added the Keep the Faith sentiment and pop dotted everything. The final touch was adding some crystal lacquer to the waves!



Be sure to hop on over to the HH blog and check out the creations by the rest of the design team! Then get inky and show us your daisies!!!

Have a super stampy Sunday!!

High Hopes Release Day!!!

Good Saturday mornin', stampers!! Well, it's the big day....release day!!! The High Hopes website has been updated overnight with all the adorable new images ..... and there are a LOT!!

The card I'm going to show you today features a stamp that was named after my stampin' soul sistah....it's called Andrea's Kitties!! How cute is it?? I couldn't wait to ink her up and colour her in!!

I pulled out my new Cosmo Cricket patterned paper to use for inspiration and coloured her in using my Copic markers. The base is a 6x6 square of Chocolate Chip and I also used So Saffron and Real Red for matting and layering. The layout is a Kimmie Original, so feel free to CASE it...haha! I used my Nestie to cut her out and emboss her and used Antique Linen ink to sponge all the layers. I layered some Prima flowers and the center ones are from the $ store...what a score, right? Then I added the sentiment and pop dotted everything.



Now hop on over to the High Hopes blog and check out all the amazing designs from the Divas....you'd better get a fresh cuppa coffee and be prepared to sit awhile! There's LOTS to look at!!

It's Your Day....Have a Ball!!

Here is yet another fabulous new image from the July release of High Hopes Rubber Stamps! This handsome devil is named after my dad, Retired Raymond!! Heehee! And I used it to make a Father's Day card for the real Raymond!!

I used some striped Bo Bunny patterned paper for my inspiration and all the cardstock is textured Bazzill Bling....mmmmmm. I stamped Raymond on Wausau bright white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured him in with my Copic markers. I cut out a big circle of white cardstock, then ran it through my Cuttlebug with a dotted embossing folder and turned it over to make it look like the divets in a golf ball (my Dad is an avid golfer, in case you hadn't guessed). I attached some Basic Grey brads and pop dotted everything, including the sentiment, which is also a new stamp!!

In case you are interested, here are the Copic markers that I used: E21, W1, BG000, Y32, E44, G14 and B02!



So I gave Dad his card on Father's Day and I told him that this stamp was not even released yet and that when it was released, it would be named after him. He got quite a chuckle out of that.

Well, tomorrow is the big day......overnight tonight, the new images will be added to the High Hopes online catalogue so you can check them out!!! You can get up tomorrow morning, sit down with your cup of coffee and check out aaaaaallllll the new stamps!! Just plug in HOTP for Hot Off the Press and they'll all come up! Be sure to hop around to some of the Divas' blogs (there is a list on my left hand side bar) and you'll get some sneak peeks of more cute designs!!

Have a stampin' good weekend!!