Exciting Shop News at KennyK

It's official! Kenny and Elena have made the move to their brand-new shop at kennykstamps.com!

30% off your first purchase with coupon code: MYFIRSTPURCHASE (please make MYFIRSTPURCHASE bold)

All of KennyK's rockin' digi stamps AND clear stamp sets are now available under one roof. 

Lots of newsletter and social media discounts & sales coming your way for 2016!

Here's a question from Kenny & Elena for you card makers:  "What stamp design or theme do you always seem to be looking for, but can never find?" We want to know!

Come on in to the new KennyK Stamps and join the party!

A Christmas Tipple with KennyK

It's the last challenge of 2015 at KennyK's Krafty Krew and it's Anything Goes.

I made this wine bottle gift tag using Stud Santa.

I do love colouring KennyK's hunky men - they're such fun.

Ooooo I could look at him for ages!

I cut the tag and  Stud Santa on my Silver Bullet Cutting machine.

The sentiment is typed in Bellwethers font & printed.

I added holly leaves & border by doodling - something I't not often brave enough to do.

I coloured him using Copics

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04 with R20 Cheeks.

R24, R27, R29, E59, W7

C2, C3, C5

We put our tree up today and the bauble I made last month with Happy Holidays fits perfectly. 

There are exciting things coming up at KennyK so make sure you're signed up to the newsletter & keep an eye on the Facebook page.

Chirstmas with That Craft Place

It's time for Christmas over at That Craft Place. 

Now we're into December I'm loving the fact it's feeling more Christmassy. I visited a local Christmas Market last Friday which was lovely. I won't put any decorations up until later in the month, but I love the Christmas spirit and all the happiness.

This card shows all I love about digi stamps - they're so flexible. I've taken one digi, duplicated it twice and tweaked the two copies by height and width to make them look different. I know they really are the same, one, but I could make them just about different enough to give the illusion of three.

I had such fun colouring these Three Christmas Kings. I kept them in traditional colours & had fun making the crowns appear metallic and the gems shine.

The gems each have three Copics, White gel pen, Sakura Stardust pen & Glossy Accents. I may have gone a little over the top there, but it worked :P 

I really hope you like my Christmas Kings and really hope you come over and join us at That Craft Place Challenges xxx

Need more inspiration?  why don't you join us in our Natter page

on facebook, DT adds lots of inspiration plus you can add your creations

on there as well, we also do a swap each month.

That Craft Place Natter and Chatter Facebook Group

Lisa also runs an online facebook shop which is

connected to her bricks and mortar shop, each day lots of new crafty products

are added and she also runs a pay at the end of the month scheme.

That Craft Place

And if you're a lover of Digi Stamps then look no further then our 

gorgeous digi's.

That Craft Place Etsy

Northern Lights with Make it Crafty

It's time for the December challenge at Make it Colourful and wow it's a stonker!

Ok so this was one of those challenges that gave me sleepless nights - I mean proper cold sweats & nightmares type of sleepless nights. I just couldn't get my head round how on earth to tackle it and had a complete brain block & panic. 

In the end I decided to pull my big girl pants on and just go for it, and wow I'm pleased I did.  It's one of the things I love about these challenges - they really push you out of your comfort zone - but you often end up creating something you never dreamed you could.

I printed the scene out twice and fussy cut around the lake and hills before adding quicky glue around the top edge. Once it had dried into a repositional adhesive I placed it down as a mask. I then used my Copic Airbrush System to create the sky. It's the first time I've used it and I love the results. As a final touch I added twinkling stars with Sakura Stardust Gel Pen.

I added a very subtle hint of the Aurora colours on the snow covered hills along with Wink of Stella. I do love how shimmery snow can reflect light and colours. I added shimmery snow (Sakura Stardust) to the upside of the tree branches.

Products used:

Icy Lake Scene

Copics Used:

Wink of Stella

Sakura Stardust Gel Pen

I really hope you like it. I'm over the moon with how it turned out.

Id like to enter this into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Winter

Simon Says - Let it Snow

Without Words - Winter Birthday Mines this weekend so I totally understand what you mean about December birthday's being overlooked. Sorry to hear your closing your challenge :(

Make it Crafty Advent Calendar - Day 2

Day 2 of the Make it Crafty Advent Calendar I made - here we go :D

Products Used:

Whimsical Pine Tree Digi

You can see videos of me being daft & opening the doors each day on www.periscope.tv/lucyscollins1 Each video is available on reply for 24hrs

Make it Crafty Advent Calendar - Day 1

Well here we are! It's December already 

and that means it's time to open the first door of the advent calendar that I made. 

I can't believe it's time already - when I finished it it seemed so far away.

Zoe wanted to see the door opening so I filmed it on Periscope. It's my first attempt at it so be kind. I'll do a short video each day - you can watch them live, or watch on replay for 24hrs if you'd like to. The link is www.periscope.tv/lucyscollins1

So here we go - Door Number 1

I designed the calendar and the doors and then cut them on my Silver Bullet Cutting Machine. I left the small joining tag so the doors didn't pop open before it was time.

and here we are....

The Butterfly Mask from the Masquerade Masks Digi set.

Copics Used:

Copics Used:G14, G17, G28, R24, R27, R29

Signo Gold Gel Pen

Wink of Stella

Products Used:

Masquerade Masks Digi set

I hope you like it. I'll continue to post daily updates on Instagram & on Periscope so you can see how it develops

Christmas with Through the Purple Haze Challenges

It's the final challenge of the year at Through the Purple Haze Challenges and fittingly the theme is Christmas. We had some topper and background sheets from Aspire Crafts to work with. This is what I created. 

Using Road to Bethlehem Toppers & Gold Foiled Background

A Gatefold Card
Two of the toppers and a section of the foiled background

 A Card 

made with the gold foiled background, one of the toppers, a section of red ribbon and a sentiment embossed with Wow Rich Gold Embossing powder.

It's so difficult to capture the shine of the foiling in photos.

Gift Tag

Simply punched a hole in a topper & threaded with ribbon

Two Christmas Tree Decorations

Made by punching a hole in toppers with my Big Bite and then dipping them in UTEE

It's not a completely clean finish, but they're nice and firm for decorations.

Using Winter Reindeer Toppers & Background

Card with Velum

I covered the backing paper with two sheets of velum to make the pattern more subtle to balance to card. Brads, a rectangle of DCWV Metallic Blue cardstock (I didn't have the right ribbon but this worked perfectly)

Card with homemade background

The background is blue cardstock that I doodles silver snowflakes on.

Toppers mounted on foam pads.

Side fold card

Card base made from black card. I trimmed the left hand topper so there was only one moon on the card (two would have just been confusing). Sentiment embossed with Wow Silver Metallic embossing powder. 

I hope to see you over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges.