7 Kids Crafts: Hello Spring

Hello Everyone!

Hoping that you are home safe, healthy and getting crafty.

Here are the two cards that I worked on this weekend with the same stamp, dies, and paper line.
These new The Greeting Farm stamps are available at 7 Kids Craft Store as well as other The Greeting Farm stamps and dies. The paper is by Doodlebug Designs called Hello. As you can see, I designed both cards the same way but depending on the color value and hue the card can look different.

I hope you like both cards

and enjoy a little social distancing. 

Don't forget there are weekly live videos 

and ATC swaps going on.

Also, catch special sales or promotions at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Puppy Love Instagram Hop

Hello Everyone!

Today, 7 Kids Crafts kicks off it's very first Instagram Hop!!! Our wonderful and talented Design Team at 7 Kids have each created a special card for the event featuring the Sweet November "Puppy Love" release.

To participate,  visit each team members Instagram account, leave a comment on their post. When you're finished head to @7KidsCraftStore and leave a comment on their post that you completed the Hop!

You have until 2pm MTN on Wednesday Feb 19th to comment. One random winner will win a $20 gift card to the store!

Without further ado, our design team members are:

Amy Young @Amyyoungforever

Beata June @Craftybee34

Bonnie Kohane @grandmabonnie2 

Danni Bindel @dannisdreams 

Janice Wilson @jwilson809 

Jenn DuBell @jenngarydubell 

Katya Bess @SnappyKatty

Kerys Sharrock @craftybritmama 

Marcia Caradinta @thefrolickingfairy 

Monica Edwards @monicascrapstreasure 

7 Kids Craft Store @7KidsCraftStore

Let's get Hoppin!

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For my card, I used several Sweet November Digital Stamps. I colored the entire image

with Copic markers. The sentiment is from The Greeting Farm and inked it with the Versafine Clair. I had so much fun creating this scene of the little friends taking their pups out for a walk at the city park. I think it's so cute! 

Coco and Pebble

Ben and Jerry

City Park - Background Builder

Don't forget that there is also a sale going on 23% off today only, there are some exceptions - 

Use the code: LOVE

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Anything Goes ATC Jan 2020

Hello Everyone,


Hoping all is well and that you are getting artsy and crafty. These are the Artist Trading Cards I started a while ago and just had them unfinished. I was delighted to read that 7 Kids Crafts was going to have an "Anything Goes" theme so I happily finished them up. Oh what a happy feeling to finish up old projects. The little Lavinia door stamp is called Fairy Door Large. I also use other small stamps from The Greeting Farm, C.C. Designs and from Studio Light to add to the scene or background. The little fairy inside is a vault image from Sweet November that I shrank to fit inside of the little fairy door.

Lavinia - Fairy Door Large

Lavinia - Fairy Orbs

Lavinia - Lavender

All of the little doors open and close to reveal a little Sweet November fairy. 

I am sure you can try it out with one of the tiny Lavinia stamps but I don't have any 

that are really small.

I hope you like these Artist Trading Cards.

I am so excited to see which ones I get back. :D 

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.

Everyone who participates this month will get an exclusive Tot 
next month or you could possibly win all of next month's release as well.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Love Letters

Hello Everyone!

I've been having so much fun with The Greeting Farm stamps and Doodlebug Designs papers and Odds & Ends. This The Greeting Farm stamp is called: Miss Anya Samoyed and the Doodlebug Designs are from the Love Notes collection. The Mama Elephant die is called FT- Artist Mat 


I'm loving that I can use these papers plus the odd & ends for Valentine's, thinking of you, but also Spring or any time type of card that is cheerful and fun. I colored her up with Copic markers and I wanted her outfit and hair to match the little envelopes on the paper.

The Greeting Farm: Miss Anya Samoyed

Doodlebug Designs: Love Notes

Mama Elephant: FT- Artist Mat die

I hope you liked my card.

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.

Everyone who participates this month will get an exclusive Tot 
next month or you could possibly win all of next month's release as well.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: stylin' Miss Anya Buckles

Hello Everyone!

I hope all is well. Just wanted to share the card I created with one of the images I colored on this past Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day over at 7 Kids Customer's Create! Facebook page. This stamp set is by The Greeting Farm and it's called Miss Anya Buckles. Because of MLK Day and Black History month approaching I wanted to color someone of African Decent and create these braids. I like to see more variations in coloring skin and hair. 

The cutting dies are from Avery Elle and the background inks are Distress Oxides.

Miss Anya Buckles

YouTube process video

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.

Everyone who participates this month will get an exclusive Tot 
next month or you could possibly win all of next month's release as well.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: I Heart U Anya

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well. With this card I was thinking of all of the flowers that are given at this time, especially roses. I got this Doodlebug Designs paper at 7 Kids Crafts store from the Love Notes collections. This collection works well with Valentine's theme, Spring, Birthday or other occasions- they are some really pretty papers to work with. The stamp is from The Greeting Farm called I Heart U Anya that I've had since last year and I don't think I colored her up until now. You know when you get stamps that you have to have?! LOL Well it was definitely time to color her. Then I ordered some dies, one is called Love You also from The Greeting Farm and a new company in the store called Poppystamps by Memory Box, the die I got is called Whittle Birds. These cute birds are the perfect size to pair with I Heart U Anya and they didn't even need to be colored...

Copic markers used:

W9, W7, W5

N0, N4,

R27, R17, R05, R30

RV55, RV52

E0000, E000, E01, E11, R21, R20

G05, G16

I hope you liked the card
and I hope that you can grab some 

Doodlebug Designs papers + embellishments,  The Greeting Farm stamps + dies,
and some Poppystamps dies

Don't forget to participate all month long with this new release.

Everyone who participates this month will get an exclusive Tot 
next month or you could possibly win all of next month's release as well.

Also, catch special sales or promotions going on at:

7 Kids Create! Facebook group

Thank you so much for visiting.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Spread a Little Holiday Cheer

Hello Everyone!


I hope you all are having a great day. For this card I mixed some digi, clear and rubber stamps. First I printed Emaline's gift (Sweet November vault digi stamp) on Kraft Cardstock because I find it easy to color with my Polychromos pencils.  I also printed another one of her the same size on basic printer paper so I can create a mask.

After fussy cutting that mask I used some daubers to color in the background with Distress Oxides and the snow at the ground was with ColorBox Frost White. You can probably hit that with the heat gun but because of my erratic schedules I just set it aside and worked on it the very next day. All of the inks were completely dry, and I felt it needed a little more of something.

I realized that I had purchased this Snowy Afternoon Flakes stamp by Studio Light from the 7 Kids Crafts. I was afraid that I wouldn't get a good impression but the impression was pretty good. I stamped it with  StazOn Pigment Snowflake. I did mess up on my card though. LOL I'll show you my practice paper so you can see how good it stamped on the very first try and then I'll explain what I did wrong on my final card. Hopefully you won't make the same mistake as me or if you do how you can disguise the little accident. (My kids say "Happy little Oops" that they learned from their art teacher or maybe it's a "Happy Little Accident" as Bob Ross would say. haha 

Yes, I keep pieces of scratch cardstock and reuse them because I don't like to waste my  paper...

Can you see? That was just one stamp and I didn't have to condition the stamp at all. The paper was nice and flat but on my card I had a slight shift on the snowflakes because my paper was slightly curved and I should have used a washi tape to hold it down. The stamp is large and covers about

5.5 x5.5 so I couldn't use a magnet on the top of the card. So my suggestion is to use washi tape

but as I mentioned before I failed to do that part. 

Here you can see that I was trying to hold it down as I was trying to put the stamp press on it

and it's where I should have used the washi tape instead. 

I didn't mention that I did cut a piece of paper

to a rounded shape so I can cover the face. I know snow goes everywhere but because I put so much emphasis on her little facial features I didn't want to cover them up with snowflakes. 

To try to fix my error I tried to use a Sakura Gellyroll Clear star to hide some of the flaws in the snowflakes that I messed up on. It's not too noticeable now. The sentiment stamp is from The Greeting Farm, and the cursive writing I wrote myself because I felt there was too much negative space. 

Anyway, that was too much rambling on my behalf. I hope you learned something and I hope you like the card even though there are human errors on it. LOL  

Thank you so much for stopping by, in a couple of days Sweet November Stamps will have a brand new release. All I can say is that is Halloween-ish. heehee

Don't forget to check out the rest of the 

Design Team's cards and live videos

at: 7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook page.

Thank you,

Katya Bess 

7 Kids Crafts: Happy Birthday

Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to share my latest birthday card. I haven't made too many 6x6 cards this year but I wanted to add lots of birthday balloons to make the card look more festive. (the balloon dies are from a CC Designs that I purchased a long time ago and name is not on the insert) The Happy Birthday die and the stamp are both from The Greeting Farm. You can find the clear stamps from the Miss Anya Samoyed set here. The birthday die cut I used is Happy Birthday and I loved it because it was smooth cut without me having to trim off edges or fussy around with it and it's also on a good deal. The fun papers are from Doodlebug 6x6 pads: Fairy Tales and the other one is called dot-grid-daisy-strope rainbow petite prints

Miss Anya Samoyed 

Happy Birthday

I colored the image with copic markers and stamped

the dress and bow on one of the Doodlebug 6x6 papers: Fairy Tales pad

because I thought it was a cute and festive for a party or birthday dress. 

Don't forget to join us at:

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook page

for exclusive stamps, freebies, games, live tutorials

and lots more fun! 

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Time to Party!

Hello Crafty Peeps!

I colored up another one of the fairwees from Sweet November Stamps this one is called
Mia's Confetti. You can tell she's the life of the party with her expression and pose. She is full of life and happiness. I colored her up with Polychromos color pencils and I used some Distress Oxides for the background.

Here's a little excerpt of her: "Mia is a wee little ball of energy zooming in a showering everyone with a burst of sparkling fairy dust and colorful confetti! 

Another reason Mia is so happy is because Kelly over at 7 Kids Crafts is having a nice sale,
23% off total purchase (excludes: new arrivals, digitals and mitform castings) Make sure to use code: Humbled 
Just a heads up, the sale ends today.

Polychromos:

Ivory, Burnt Umber, Burnt Siena, Dark Flesh, Rose Carmine, White and Black

Black, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and White

Dark Flesh, Rose Carmine, Madder, White and Light Cobalt Turquoise

Distress Oxide:

Fozzilized Amber, Broken China, Chipped Shapphire and a little bit of Black Soot

For the sentiment I used:

 The Greeting Farm Clear stamp set called It's Your Birthday

Don't forget to join us at:

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook page

for exclusive stamps, freebies, games, live tutorials

and lots more fun! 

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Aloha!

Good Morning! 

Just wanted to share a card I made with the rubber stamp I colored for Day 25: of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. This one is from the Aloha Kit. All of the stamps in the Aloha Kit are super cute and I have colored only one before this one. I had this Doodlebug paper out on  my desk so I decided to pull out my Aloha Kit- good thing I had already cut the rubber stamps too. The aloha sentiment is also from the same kit I just stamped and cut around. The rectangle die is from Our Daily Bread Designs, the small circle die is from My Creative Time and scalloped die is from

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

HB2U Francisco

Good morning!


Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I made for my brother Francisco. Chico (Francisco's nickname) has a big birthday today, he turns 30 years old.

Chico is very caring, giving, helpful, thoughtful and a funcle. heehee Chico doesn't have children of his own so he likes to get little toys or books from Walmart or Thrift Town for my kids and my nephews too. The kids could of been having a bad day but when they hang out with Uncle Chico he makes them laugh with silly/corny jokes, most of the time he makes them two or three batches of quesadillas, gives them soda (which we don't buy for our home) or he gives them ice cream and blows up lots of balloons for them likes it's a somebody's birthday.

For today's card I also used my Day: 6 and Day: 26 images of The 30 Day Coloring Challenge. For Day: 6, I colored Buddy Ian from The Greeting Farm. For Day: 26 I colored the HB2U from the Mini-Remix Balloons set by The Greeting Farm and the cloud shapes are from a die I made into a stencil from Land of Oz set by Stamp AnnieThing. Then I tried to draw a little bit of the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge peaking out from the Bay Area fog. I don't really like the fog when I'm driving but it does really look cool (when I'm not driving. ha) Another thing is that a lot of the redwood trees get watered with fog. I still haven't gone up that hill next to the Golden Gate to take that must do photoshoot that most tourist seem to do. When you look at it in person or in photographs it seems like you're up in the clouds with all of the angels. heehee or at least that's how I think of it.

Oh yea so on to the card, I popped up the balloons with foam tape and drew some thing lines with silver Copic atyou Spica only because it's not really that shimmery and makes pretty thin lines.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Hello Gorgeous

Hello Everyone!

I hope you're  having a wonderful day.

I'm finally showing the card I created with the image I colored for Day: 19 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. I used one of the Cheeky Girly Girls and one of the sentiments from the same set from The Greeting Farm. I used paper from Doodlebug Designs called Hello. 

Copic markers used. 

E00, E11, E13, E25, R21

E18, E15, E13

W9, W7, W5

RV13, RV17, RV19

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Happy Birthday to You

Hello Crafty Friends!

I feel like I haven't colored in a long time and it's only been about a week. heehee I guess it was just a pretty long week being the last week of school I've been running all over the place.

Today I'm excited because today is the first day of The 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at Kathy Racoosin's page. I usually participate on IG and use hashtag #thedailymarker30day After finishing the card I took a break to cook and feed the family and I'm proud I finished the card. I got inspiration from card sketch of a Kraftin' Kimmie card I saw from http://alexiscsmith.blogspot.com/

I'm always in need of birthday cards so I used Echo Park - Lets Party 6x6 Paper Pad from 7 Kids Crafts for a fun and festive look. The stamp I used is from The Greeting Farm called HB2U Anya. I love this sentiment set called called Say Bday from the The Greeting Farm. To color the sweet  HB2U Anya stamp and add dimension to the balloons I used Copic markers. The die balloon die and the rectangle for the card layer are both from My Creative Time.

Echo Park - Lets Party 6x6 Paper Pad

HB2U Anya

Say Bday

Copic markers used:

E0000, E000, E11, R20, R30

W9, W7, W5

BG32, BG34, BG18, R05, R17, Y15, Y19 

R22, RV21, RV55, RV32, Y08, Y18, 

Day 1 - The 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Entering at:

The Daily Marker (Day 1 of 30 days)

7 Kids Crafts: Nom Nom Nom

Hello Crafty Friends!

I hope you're all having a wonderful day. Today I tried something new, I made a card with Washi Tape. The Washi Tape I used today is called Doodlebug Designs- Washi Tape: Perfect Combo and the stamp set is called Nom Nom Nom from The Greeting Farm.  This month Kelly has items from Dreamerland Crafts and Washi Tape  included in the Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7 Kids Crafts just make sure to enter code: DREAM for 20% off discount.

Doodlebug Designs- Washi Tape: Perfect Combo 

The Greeting Farm -  Nom Nom Nom

These cute little stamps from this set are quick and easy to color 

and even though they are small they are still fairly easy to fussy cut. 

Since it's also June, in the USA we celebrate Father's Day

and I thought it would be cute to make a card for a dad, or any special guy in our lives.

To color the image I used Copic markers.

E000, E00, E11

W5, W7, W9

E25, E27

Y17

YG25

E21, E33

R17, R24

B23, B97

R46, R59

W1, W3

Thank you for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Dreamerland Windy Days Together

Hello Crafty Friends!



I hope you're all having a wonderful day. I wanted to work with a combination of watercolors and color pencils. For this card I used a rubber stamp from Dreamerland Crafts called Windy Days Together. I wanted to show you a card with this stamp because Dreamerland Crafts and Washi Tape are both items included in the Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7 Kids Crafts just make sure to enter code: DREAM for 20% off discount.

I started with Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolors (first time using this one) on Canson Mixed Media 138 lbs paper. It's not very a heavy paper so I made sure not to over saturate it with water. After watercoloring and drying the image, I went in on certain areas with Polychromos just to outline certain areas and to give her a plaid look on her dress and hat. For the purple flowers on the bush

I used a Caran D'Ache Supracolor Watercolor pencil. The Dreamerland Crafts stamp did not come with a sentiment but I have another really cute set from The Greeting Farm called Hey Pretty Kitty and I use one from there. When I was all done I used a Picket Fence Studios - Life Changing Brush with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo to well make it look like a vintage photo. To give it a 

finished look I used a rectangle die from Our Daily Bread Designs. 

Winsor & Newton (Cotman) Watercolors:

Ultramarine, Chinese White, Alizarin Crimson Hue,

Viridian Hue, Yellow Ochre and Burn Umber

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Hello Spring

Hello Crafty Friends,

Kelly's has a nice offer called The Vendor of the Month Sale over at 7kidscrafts.com is Picket Fence Studios and Cardstock, please be sure to use PAPERHOARDING to save 20% on those items. (Note: This does not include New Arrivals.)

I used some Echo Park 12x12 Collection Kit, Hello Spring 

which is discounted and it's still available at 7kidscrafts.com 

I used Copic marker to color this cutie from

Tiny Plans (The Greeting Farm stamps)

The circle dies are from My Creative Time

and Our Daily Bread Designs for the card layer.

E000, E00, E11, R20

RV32, RV34

E55, E57, E59

E70, YG25, YG67

B01, BG32, BG72

Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star for the rain drops

and a little sparkle in the puddle.

Nuvo Jewel Drops Sea Breeze for the puddle shine


Don't forget there's a brand new release
coming up May 1st by Sweet November Stamps at
www.7kidscrafts.com
There will be live videos and games going
on at the Facebook page 
7 KIDS Customers Create!

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Friend life would be boring without you

Hello Crafty Friends,

I been looking at all of the stamps I've been hoarding for years and thinking of ways to use them.
I found a few sets I wanted to mix and put together to make this cute little scene. The large "friend" word is from CC Designs: More Scripted Sentiments ARI095. The small sentiment phrase is from The Greeting Farm called: Because of You. The cute turtle and bunny is from The Greeting Farm as well and it's called Down by the Pond. In the background I sort of colored in a little wonky pond just to set the scene. I used Copic markers to colored everything and I added a little bit of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on the turtle's shell. The rectangle die is from My Creative Time.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

Will enter this card at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/103832353026882/

April Challenge: Bunnies

7 Kids Crafts: Hibiscus

Hello Everyone!

Here is another new image I want to share with you using Red Hibiscus Designs - Botanicals - Hibiscus by artist Luisiana Lowry, who also designs for www.7kidscrafts.com. You can find the rest of her beautiful digital art here: Red Hibiscus Design digial stamps

Red Hibiscus Designs - Botanicals - Hibiscus

Copic Markers:

RV21, RV23, RV25, Y08, T1, N2 

Y14, YG17

Distress Ink: 

Mowed Lawn

Taylored Expressions 6x6 Designer Stencil:

Mosaic Leaves

The Greeting Farm sentiment: 

Bloom Kit

Rectangle dies is from:
My Creative Time

When I saw this hibiscus, I thought about Hawaaii and it's lush green landscapes

with many colorful flowers and yummy fruit. 

I have this stencil from Taylored Expressions that I wanted to use. 

First I masked the hibiscus with a printer paper mask I made. Then,

I used Mown Lawn Distress Ink all around it but tried not to be

too heavy. When I had enough coverage I place the stencil over the 

card layer and used the same Mown Lawn Distress Ink. I wanted to have

leaves in the background but I wanted them to be subtle. 

I used a rectangle die from My Creative time and sort of gaged

where I wanted to place the sentiment and chose one from The Greeting Farm's  

Bloom rubber stamp kit. I used Gold tinsel embossing powder from Martha Stewart.

Here you can see the tinsel embossing a lot better. 

I hope you liked the card and I hope to see you all over at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7kidscreate/
for all of the fun stamp releases and events going on.

Thank you for visiting,

Katya Bess 

7 Kids Crafts: Go For It!

Happy Sunday Everyone!

This month Kelly is also having a 20% off sale for most The Greeting Farm stamps and lots of Mixed Media, check out the vendor of the month sale here: http://www.7kidscrafts.com/vendor-of-the-month-sale/ make sure to use code: TGF

I had lots of fun merging the different images to create this scene at the gym. All of us who love or maybe not so much love but need to go to the gym could benefit from having a gym buddy to give us that extra push or inspiration.  I'm usually looking like the little gal in the back of the gym unless it's Zumba then I would probably be more like the girl in the front. heehee I like to use a planner and every now and then I use these cute little planner stamps to decorate but I don't spend time coloring them. I do however, love to use these small and cute The Greeting Farm : Tiny Plans to add characters to the background. If you purchased The Greeting Farm: Go For It Anya! stamp set from 7 Kids Crafts then you would have received the Sweet November digital: background builder- workout room  for free until Kelly ran out of the clear stamp set. The background is now available for so sale, just click the link here. 

For this card I used: 

Sweet November digital: background builder- workout room 

The Greeting Farm   Go For It Anya
The Greeting Farm : Tiny Plans

Catherine Pooler 8.5 x 11 Premium White Cardstock

I colored everything with Copic markers. First I printed the Sweet November- Workout Room, colored it then stamped the TGF stamps separately. After fussy cutting the TGF stamps I carefully glued them on the workout background. 

Don't forget for fun games, live tutorial, sales

 and exclusive Sweet November 

stamp releases join the 

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook Page.

I hope you liked my workout card. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Hope Your Day Takes Off

Happy Sunday Everyone,

Today I wanted to make a card with an old time feel to it- so I colored it a sort of sepia tone. This month Kelly is also having a 20% off sale for most The Greeting Farm stamps and lots of Mixed Media, check out the vendor of the month sale here: http://www.7kidscrafts.com/vendor-of-the-month-sale/ make sure to use code: TGF 

For this card I used The Greeting Farm clear stamp set: Up I colored it with Copic markers and Distress Inks. I did lots of masking for this look and lots of shading on the hot air balloons to make them stand out from the background. 

 The Greeting Farm clear stamp set: Up

Here's some of the masking paper on top of the the Distress Inked clouds

the background clouds were made with Stamp Anniething clouds from a Wizard of Oz set 

I have but everything else is from The Greeting Farm clear stamp set: Up

Distress Inks:

Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain

Copic markers:

E40, E41, E43, E44, E47, E49

The stitched die to cut frame the colored layer is from:

My Creative Time. 

Don't forget for fun games, live tutorial, sales

 and exclusive Sweet November 

stamp releases join the 

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook Page.

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Katya Bess