Monthly Archives: November 2018

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps – Scrappy Challenge

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Hidee ho, good stampers!!!
Welcome back to another month of Skrappy Fun
at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!!!

We challenge YOU to make Anything BUT a Card!!!
For this challenge you can make anything you wanna….except a card! So that means bookmarks, gifts, scrapbook pages, journal art, planner pages, tags, boxes…pretty much anything that includes a krafty stamp!! You have all month long to play AND you can enter as many times as you like!

Just make sure to include a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp and make sure it’s a NEW creation! As soon as we have at least five people playing, we’ll be giving away a PRIZE!!! yep! One lucky krafter will WIN a $20 gift voucher to the krafty shop!

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I love making cards, I am a cardmaker at heart. So I did a tag for today’s anything but a card challenge. I used Polar Pals!

I also have something fun to share with you all. The benefit of working on an amazing team, and having such great people around you can learn lots. I do this regularly but I don’t normally post about it. Some of you may have looked at this tag and recognized it. That’s because I lifted the talented Melanie’s colouring, which you can see here.

I actually do this quite often when I see something I love, but I don’t normally post it anywhere. I thought this one would be fun for you all to see. So what I did was look at Melanie’s card once, then I sat down with my paints and attempted to recreate it. I learned some fun things about fur, and all that jazz. Some of which will be used regularly in my paintings in the future. That is what is so awesome about a design team, we love to create samples as ideas, and things for you to lift to help you learn, and grow in this hobby.

You have TWO full months to play along until Monday January 28th at midnight EST!
Also be sure to share your creations on the Krafty Friends facebook page because we LOVE to see your stuff!

Check out some incredible inspiration from the Krafty Design Team below, then join us for all the fun!!
Happy Kraftin’!

 

Here are a couple of creations from the design team!

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My Favorite Things – Gill Friends

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Hey all! Today I am sharing the card I made to play along with MFT Stamps Sketch Challenge #411.

MFT Stamps - Gill Friends - Jessie Banks

I really had a ton of fun watercolouring this one. I have been asked lately how long it takes me to do a card like this, well this one took me about 5 hours to complete. I only work on one fish at a time, letting layers dry inbetween, etc. But when they are finished I really do love them!

MFT Stamps - Gill Friends 2 - Jessie Banks

If you go look at the sketch for this week, you will see the sentiment bar across the rectangle, I attempted this but it covered and took to much away from the fish, so I stamped it below the coloured panel.


 

Kraftin Kimmie Challenge #457 Fall Colours

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Welcome to another great Krafty Challenge!
Are you ready for some krafty fun??
We want you all to play along and we love to see your creations so let’s get KRAFTY!

This week is all about….
FALL COLOURS!!

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Puddle Jumpers - Jessie Banks

I pulled out Puddle Pals for this fun little scene. I stamped him out while I was in Ontario and did most of his painting during lay-overs in the airports. When I got home I finished off the background, completing this little guy all in watercolour.

Each Saturday we post a new challenge and you can enter as many times as you like!!! And each submission during the month will enter you into the monthly prize which will be….
a $40 gift voucher to spend in the krafty shop!!!
What do you think? Worth playin’ for? 

We’ve also got a fun sketch for your inspiration for November! You don’t have to use it but if you need a little extra kickstart in your mojo, feel free to use it any time!

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Thanks for stopping by,
Hugz
Jessie

Check out the fabulous FALL creations from the Krafty Team!

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It’s the 15th, and 3 new stamp sets for the NOVEMBER RELEASE are now available for purchase in The Greeting Farm Store! Our first set, ANGELS REJOICE features some sweet, adorable angels who are sure to bring you happiness and delight. Next, we remind you to bloom where you are planted with the POTTED PLANTS set. Lastly, we have ALL OF US showcasing some cute animals perfect for those cards from a group.
To celebrate we are having a short BLOG HOP, where one lucky fan will take home all 3 sets!! You have until NOVEMBER 18th at 12pm CST/1pm EST to leave your comments on each Designer’s Blog and The Greeting Farm Blog. We will announce the random winner later in the week.
The Greeting Farm - Potted Plants 2 - Jessie Banks
Yup! I pulled out the Potted Plants stamps again, and did the in no lines watercolouring again. I did film this for a youtube vide. Unfortunately, my computer isn’t back from the hospital yet and my sons (the one I am using to write this) is just not strong enough to do this video editing thing in a timely manner. Let’s put it this way, the video has been rendering for over a day and probably has one more day to go lol. But it will be up as soon as I can get it finished. Plus note, pick up this stamp set and you may have it in your hands by the time I can get the video up!
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This is a short hop so definitely worth playing along! And if you can’t wait for the hop to be over, you can purchase these stamps along with their coordinating dies HERE.
We will have more cards featuring the new stamps from our Design Team Leaders starting tomorrow so be sure to stop back by The Greeting Farm Blog to see more inspiration.
Happy Hopping!
Jessie

 

The Greeting Farm – Preview Day 3 – All of Us

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He y all welcome back to day 3 of previews for The Greeting Farm November Release, you know what this means? Tomorrow you can get your hands on these babies!

The Greeting Farm - All of Us - Jessie Banks

Today’s set is called All of Us, and it is full of super adorable animal faces. You can use these in planners, making your own pattern paper or the focus of a card itself!

Thanks for stopping by,
Make sure you swing past tomorrow for the new release blog hop!
Hugz,
Jessie

The Greeting Farm – Preview Day 2 – Potted Plants

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Welcome back to day 2 of previews for The Greeting Farm November release! Today’s stamp set is called Potted Plants. It is full of suck sweet tiny little potted plants. I am over the moon in love with it!

The Greeting Farm - Potted Plants - Jessie Banks

I decided to tackle this one no lines, with my watercolours. It turned out absolutely perfect. I am so proud of this card front. But I am going to be perfectly honest, this one took me about 4 hours from start to finish. Love of glazing layers and working in different parts, blending greens into other colours. then adding the grey background, and a shelf to have then sitting on something.

Thank so much for stopping by,
Hugz,
Jessie

The Greeting Farm – Preview Day 1

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Hey everyone, let the countdown to release begin! I always love gearing up for a new release from The Greeting Farm. This time, it is the last one of the year!

Today’s set is called Angels Rejoyce. It is full of the most adorable angels that can be used in your bullet journals, cards, planners, etc.

The Greeting Farm - Angels Rejoice - Jessie Banks

I copic coloured out little angels, and die cut them with the coordinating dies. Then is typical Jessie nature I stuck them on a splashy watercolour background with a sentiment from the same set.

Make sure you check out The Greeting Farm Blog to see what the rest of the designers created.

Hugz,
Jessie

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps – Release Hop

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Yaaaaay! It’s here! It’s here!! Today we are celebrating ALL the stamp sets from our November Release at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps and all four of the new stencils!!!

ALL THREE new clear stamp sets are available NOW in the Krafty Shop!

So let’s have a big happy hop around the design team and guest blogs and check them all out in action! Grab a nice hot (or cold) beverage, sit back and relax while you hop around and enjoy all the amazing creations!!

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Krafty Love 2 - Jessie Banks

I used the adorable Krafty Love stamp for today’s card! Colouring her up with my copic markers, then adding her onto a background I created by drybrushing through the Sweater Weather stencil. Did you know stencils are one of my favorite things?

Don’t forget we also have three new Krafy Kolours in Bubbly, Blue, Garnite Grey and Totally Taupe (perfect for no lines coloring)

Also in the shop are the four new Krafty Stencils in Beautiful Burlap, Krafty Scenery, Sparkling Snowflakes and Sweater Weather.

ALL the new sets are NOW AVAILABLE individually BUT if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our November Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all THREE of the new clear sets at a discount!

The Krafty Team and Guests have lots of goodies to share with you today and you’ll find all the links below!!! Hop around to check these sweet sets in action!

Happy hoppin’ and happy shoppin’!

 

 

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps – Preview Day 4

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Welcome, welcome, welcome!
So glad you could come on back for

Day THREE of our
NOVEMBER Krafty Peeks
at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!

We’ve got a super AMAZING stamp set
to share with you today!
ALL of you will need this new set called….
KRAFTY LOVE!

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The set features a krafty chick that could be you or me or any of our friends plus it comes with some fabulous sentiment stamps that will make you giggle!!

Just imagine all the fun cards, tags, boxes and bags you can make for your fellow krafty peeps! Not to mention any scrapbook pages featuring your krafty adventures!!

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Krafty Love - Jessie Banks

Another one I made at retreat, I used the lovely Shelly Lanthier`s markers, as I left mine in Saskatchewan. So I got her all coloured up then did a splashy watercolour background. I really do love these backgrounds.

Now don’t forget!!! It’s also CHALLENGE DAY and as always, during release week the theme is ANYTHING GOES!!! So create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin’ Kimmie stamp!! 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 (until Nov 16th) and at the end of the month, we’ll announce a WINNER from all of the weekly challenges for all of November! We hope you can play along for your chance to WIN a $40 Gift Certificate to use on ANYTHING you want in the shop!! Wanna win??

All the Krafty Design Team members and guests listed below have lots of super sweet creations to share with you today featuring the KRAFTY LOVE 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 shop! The winner will be announced at the LIVE Online Release Party this afternoon, so don’t miss it! We hope you’ll be joining us for all the krafty fun!

 

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps – Preview Day 3

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Kraftin Kimmie stamps - Polar Pals - Jessie Banks

Woot, woot! It’s Day THREE of our
November Krafty Peeks
at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps!

Today’s set features some ADORABLE little characters by artist Melissa Baker-Nguyen!

It’s called ….. PERKY PENGUINS!!

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This fun set comes with lots of cutie penguins…big and small, several scenery accessory stamps and faby sentiments!! You’ll be able to design lots of quick holiday/winter cards not to mention gift tags, bags and boxes and amazing scrapbook pages! Think of the possibilities!

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Perky Penguins - Jessie Banks

Here is a nother little watercolour card I made while at the retreat! I had so much fun painting these little guys all alone at 6:15 am when I couldn’t sleep and had the crop room all to myself!

All of the Krafty Krew design team members and Krafty Guests listed below have lots of great designs to share with you today featuring the PERKY PENGUINS stamp set! Be sure to hop around and leave lots of love at each and every stop because some lucky commenters will WIN some $$ to the krafty shop! Plus we’re doing a GIVEAWAY of the ENTIRE stamp release on the Krafty Friends facebook page!
The winners will be announced at the party so don’t miss it!