Ist. Krafty Peek Day for Kraftin' Kimmie's July Release!

Well, as the title says, we are starting our Kraftin' Kimmie Previews today and will continue to do so until Sunday, when all the new Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps will be up on the site and available for sale. I don't know how our artists keep doing it, but I swear their images just keep getting better and better.

Today we are all showcasing a new Sympathy Set. This is a new venture for KKS, but I am really happy about it as I seem to make more sympathy cards than anything else. This set comes with the beautiful flower, which you see here and 8 lovely sentiments. I chose 'Thinking of You in Your Time of Loss'. I coloured the flower with my Copics and used some lovely Linen Closet patterned papers.

I used Kraft card stock for the card base and matted a striped piece of the paper onto it. I put a rectangle of a matching paper in the centre, matting it onto Kraft C.S. Across it, I put a piece of the Kraft C.S. on which I had stamped the sentiment. I popped the flower alongside the sentiment and that's it. Simple, but effective, I think. Now we want you all to visit all of the Krafty Girls' Blogs and leave a comment at each, for more chances to win this lovely set. I believe the winner will be announced tomorrow, so you'd better get crackin'.

Be sure and come back tomorrow and see what else the Krafty Girls have made for your perusal. There will be a winner then too. What could be better?!!

Have a wonderful day,
Diana

Hydrangea Sympathy

Good morning everyone, I do hope you are having a good day. Right now, my dear daughter, Kraftin' Kimmie should have landed in Chicago along with our design teams' Andrea and they will be meeting up with Jeanne Streiff, another Krafty Girl from Texas. They are going to CHA. It will be the first time for Kimmie and Andrea to meet Jeanne in person, although they do a whole lot of chatting online. Kim was so excited, I hope they all have a great time, I'm sure they will.

Well, this morning, I am posting a card I made yesterday to send to my Uncle in England as my dear Aunt passed away last week. These are sure not my favourite cards to make, I'd much rather be playing with my Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. I have lost two aunts and an uncle in the last couple of months, so I hope the trend stops for quite a while.

For this card, I used the Hydrangea stamp from Stampin' Ups' Flower Garden. I coloured it with my Copics to match the Almost Amethyst cardstock I wanted to use. I cut the image out with one of my Labels Four Nestabilities, then cut one size larger in Almost Amethyst. I then cut out a border along each side of a piece of cardstock. (I planned to use some lovely twill ribbon Kimmie had given me, but I could not find it. It's in this room somewhere, grrrr!) I placed the border piece across the front, behind the image layer, added the sentiment and then some Prima Hydrangea flowers. I matted this all onto some more A. Amethyst, then onto the card base of Whisper White. The toughest part of all this was writing the inside.

Well, I hope you all have a great day and happy stamping.

Blessings,

Diana