7 Kids Crafts: Beary Merry Christmas

Hello Crafty Friends,

I hope you're having a lovely day. Today I decided to work on a Christmas card using this 'beary' sweet stamp. You can find a wide selection of Dreamerland Crafts stamps here.
This Dreamerland Crafts stamp is called Beary Merry Christmas, the die is called Snowy Sky Scene Die by Hello Bluebird and the snowflake paper is called Winter Wonderland by Doodlebug Designs and the sentiment is by The Greeting Farm, Secret Santa stamp kit. To give the snow some depth I used Distress Oxide Speckled Egg. If you shop at 7 Kids Crafts use this code at checkout for a special discount:  GRSWYCSUFB

If you'd like to see how I colored the bear, you can watch it in real time here:
How to color Dreamerland Crafts: Beary Merry Christmas stamp

Dreamerland Crafts: Beary Merry Christmas

Hello Bluebird: Snowy Sky Scene Die

Doodlebug Designs: Winter Wonderland

For fun monthly games, prizes and sales check out:

7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook page

Thank you for stopping by.

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: Fauna Meadowdancer Artist Trading Coin

Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to share some of the details for the Artist Trading Coin I created on Facebook live at
7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook page you can check out this video here: Facebook Live Fauna Meadowdancer ATCoin This was my very first Facebook live but I wanted to do something to help celebrate 7 Kids Crafts' anniversary.

To start, I used is digital stamp Fauna Meadodancer by Sweet November Stamps. I reduced the size and cropped her so I can fit her into an Artist Trading Coin size which is a 2 and half inch circle. In this case for the 2 and half inch circle I used a punch from Recollections. The wings I used were from a clear stamp set called Fairy Mouse by Pink Ink Designs - that set is no longer available in the shop but there are other sets from the same company available that have wings you can use, such as this one: BEE-utiful.

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Fauna Meadodancer by Sweet November Stamps 

Fairy Mouse by Pink Ink Designs

Polychromos:

Skin: White, Cold Grey VI, Warm Grey IV, Black, Dark Flesh or Rose Carmine

Eyes: White, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Ochre, Burn Umber, 

(Copic mulitliner Black or Polychromos color pencil Black for the pupil)

Cadmium Yellow, Sakura Gelly Roll - White for catch lights or eyelights.

Lips: Madder and White 

Flower/Leaf: Permanent Green, Cadmium Yellow, Dark Cadmium Yellow and White

Wings: White, Dark Flesh, Light Cobalt Turquoise, DecoArt Galaxy Glitter (glue)

Hair: (I didn't keep track of my Spectrum Noir marker colors but I used a Red and a Dark Grey) 

White, Madder, Cadmium Yellow

Background: Cadmium Yellow, (Spectrum Noir marker a mid to dark green)

Hookers Green

Here is the full set of Artist Trading Coins.

Don't forget to join us at:

7 KIDS Customers Create! Facebook page

for exclusive stamps, freebies, games, live tutorials, 
Artist Trading Card/Coin Swaps,

and lots more fun! 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Katya Bess

7 Kids Crafts: Vintage ATC

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are all having a wonderful day. For today's card I wanted to share some Artist Trading Coins. These ATCoins feature some mixed media items and if you didn't know, at 7kidscrafts.com there is a section called Vendor of the Month, the special sale all month is for The Greeting Farm Stamps and for Mixed Media. For the 20% discount items just click this link: Vendor of the Month Sale category and make sure to use code: TGF

The theme for these Artist Trading Coins was Vintage. Everyone has a different opinion of what vintage means and that is quite alright but most people that have posted their Vintage ATCoins
made their images in an antique, aged or worn fashion.

I made 8 to swap with the participants plus 1 more to keep for myself.

Items used:

Inkjet printed photograph

Ranger: Glossy Accents

Mod Pondge

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Micro Glaze

2 1/2 Circle Punch

Sponge, Dauber

Stamperia - Rice Paper Gear Wheels & Clock

Graphic 45 - Old Curiosity Shoppe cling stamps

Vilda Stamps - Steampunk Kit - V695

Chocolate Baroque - Steampunk Butterfly

Tim Holtz - idea-logy Clipping Stickers

Keep in mind that 7kidscrafts.com is a one-woman-small-crafty-online-shop,
so some items are sold in limited amounts. BUT Kelly also brings new items in
very frequently so it's always exciting to watch for the items
especially when she shows us the Facebook live videos.

To check out work from the other DT members,
7 Kids Customer designs, games, and fun Live Videos

check out the FB group:  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/7kidscreate/

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Katya Bess

entering ATC's at:
https://crafteezee-shop.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-challenge-vintage.html?fbclid=IwAR2G1Z9eL0yO-kXt9Ey1anM8hyXrffUnQ8NwP_B6XktW1eZJpL8sdYV1ZU4

7 Kids Crafts: Unicorn ATC

Hello Everyone! 

I hope you are having a nice day. I want to share some Artist Trading Cards I've been working on this month. They were a labor of love for sure. This is my second time making ATCs ever and both times I've done them were for 7 Kids Customers Create! Facebook group. I used a stamp called Kylee's Unicorn, it's not longer at 7 Kids Crafts but there are plenty more items from Picket Fence Studios @ 7kidscrafts.com  I definitely want to buy more of them they are really fun to color. 

I used mostly all Copic markers to color them.

I colored in the pupils, the eyelashes and some of the grass with 

Polychromos pencils. Some of the flowers I colored up with 

watersoluble pencils Supracololor II from Caran D'ache.

I didn't list the skin colors this time but I did record the rainbow colors

and some of the grass colors because it's what I used on all of them mostly.

I wanted all of them to have different colored hair, eyes, skin and dress colors. 

They all have these colors in common for the background
(some varied if my marker was drying out and it's where I put "or")

Rainbow:

V15, B05, G09, Y06, YR04, R17
Sky:
B01 or B000

Meadow:
YG07, YG17 or YG09, YG17

Here's a closer look at each one:

I hope you like the Artist Trading Cards I created
and it would be nice if you would participate in the next 
7 Kids Customers Create! ATC swap, I'm told that
it may be a Coin ATC, it's still to be announce.

I also make a YouTube video, I still get nervous
making / speaking on videos I don't know why but
you can see them there as well, just click the link:
Unicorn ATC Swap YouTube video


Thank you so much for visiting. 

Katya Bess 

March Kraftin' Kimmie Release Day Hop

Woohoo! It's here! It's here!!

Today we are celebrating the 

amazing release of ALL of our 

NEW March Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!!

ALL THREE new sets will be available this afternoon 

in the Krafty Shop!

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

First up is

KICK ASSY BIRTHDAY!

....then BIRTHDAY BIANCA!

and lastly....NINO-MITE PALS!

ALL the new sets will be available individually BUT if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our March Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all THREE of the new sets together and at a discount! But only for a limited time and while supplies last!

Happy hoppin' and happy shoppin'!

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Happy Sunday Everyone!

 I hope you've enjoyedall of the fabulous cards everyone had created for the 

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp Sneak Peeks.

Thank you very much Kim Reid the KKS Guest DT package and  for letting me join in this month. 

I had loads of fun creating all of the cards for the hop/

Here I'm using Birthday Bianca again because I just love this image! :P

I colored Birthday Bianca with Copic Markers,
The sentiments are from the same Birthday Bianca set
and the design paper is from Doodlebug Design.

Here's a close-up

Copic Recipe:
E50, E51, R20, R30, E04, E11
E23, E37, Copic Multiliner Black, Uni-Ball Signo White Angelic
Y08, Y19, Y26, Y28
V04, V06, V05, V06, V09
RV06, RV17, RV09
BG02, BG05, BG07
YG06, YG07, YG17
YR04. YR07, YR09

Distress Ink:
Spun Sugar and a tad big of Gathered Twigs
but then I filled/blended it in with Copic E42 and E43
Dies are from:
My Creative Time and from CC Design

Thank you so much for visiting. 
Don't forget to check out all of the fabulous
Kreations (links below)

~Katya Bess

12 Days of Inspiration YouTube Hop

Hey Everyone,

Just doing a quick post for a YouTube Hop I participated in, it's called 12 Days of Inspiration and it's hosted by Jamie Peters from the Not2Shabby Shop on Zibbet. Here is the link to the shop
https://www.zibbet.com/not2shabbyshop here is the link to the Facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/103832353026882/ and here is the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ScrappinStampers

Okay So I made a gift that you can give to co-workers... that is hand sanitizer stocking stuffers. LOL
I used Dolly With Gifts She's a rubber stamp from The Greeting Farm but I bought her from Jamie's Not2Shabby shop.

 I colored her up with Copic Markers

I used several dies from http://www.my-creative-time.com/

http://shop.my-creative-time.com/Stitched-Lollipop-Holder-Die-MCT-D08.htm

http://shop.my-creative-time.com/Bunch-of-Fun-Circle-Dies-MCT-D76.htm

http://shop.my-creative-time.com/Scalloped-Stitched-Rosette-Dies-MCT-D53.htm

The project was very quick and easy... just make sure you have 

your glue gun hot and ready. 

 I bought the smallest hand sanitizers I could find 

and it was just right for this die.

This is how the back looks. 

I made sure to use a cardstock that had designs that would be not be upside down

when the diecut was creased and folded.... I hope I didn't loose you there... LOL

Thank you for looking. 

Here is the video for the YouTube hop

If you watch from the YouTube page you can see

all of the links for the hop. 

I hope you liked my little project.

Katya Bess

I will be entering this project at:

http://thegreetingfarm.com/blog/?p=2634

Winter

SBS DT: Hot Hot Christmas

Hi Everyone.

I'm a little behind on posting through blogland but I have posted these a few days ago (Saturday 15th) on facebook though the SBS fan page, Kit  & Clowder and Digi galore. So if you have seen these I hope I don't bore you with the same stuff. LOL Just wanted to share a little bit of the process that goes in the way I made my cards.
So here we go. Were to use some Summer 1950's styled beach babes and turn them into Christmas cards. You can buy them singular or you can buy the bundle and I'll share the links with you.

So here is the bundle (4 images and sentiments):  http://simplybstamps.net/item_3000/Summer-Babes-Digi-Bundle.htm

So now to the image I used for the first card:
Summer Time Betty here's the link:  http://simplybstamps.net/item_3004/Summer-Time-Betty-Digi.htm

 I used Copic markers to color her up. 

I also drew my own background and lined it with a Copic multiliner to give it that 

Christmas in the Caribbean/Central America, Hawaii,

or Florida. LOL Anywhere but where I'm at now... where it's co-co-co-cold.

Don't get me wrong I do love to go see the snow and make real snowmen and snow angels and what not... I just can't deal with cold for too long.

YouTube...

This one is Anne '50's Summer Beauty and here's the link: http://simplybstamps.net/item_3002/Anne-50s-Summer-Beauty-Digi.htm

 Same as the previous image I drew my own background except the palm tree... I did add the string or Christmas lights though. This was inspired by Sandy Allnock's Snoopy Video

I used some different colors because I didn't have what she had but the technique was all her idea.
Here's a little process video on Youtube.

Thank you for visiting.

Katya Bess

entering my 1st card at:

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/2014/11/udfordring-86-julekort-eller-ske.html
Christmas card or box


http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/challenge-29-colouranything-goes.html

color/anything goes

http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/doodle-pantry-digital-challenge-52.html

use any digi

http://imagination-craftschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/imagination-crafts-november-challenge.html
Anything Goes
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Entering my 2nd card at:

http://emeraldfaeries.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/challenge-61-christmas-non-traditional.html

Christmas non-traditional colors

http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-challenge-september-winner.html
Bright colors

http://memascrafts.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-challenge.html
Anything Goes

TTPH DT: Theme Distressed

Hi Everyone!

Hope hopefully you all had a great weekend! I didn't do much this weekend but I did get a date night when the hubby- and I had loads of fun. :)

Okay so This is my very first project as DT member at http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/ I saw an announcement on Facebook that they needed some design team members and decided to give it a shot at least for now. So far I have seen that the ladies are so much fun and all so very supportive.

Delicious Doodles is the sponsor this week and I'm using the image Blossoms (just click on the link and it'll take you right to the shop.)

Thank you so much Teri Sherman for sponsoring our DT group your images are beautiful. 

 I colored my image with Copic markers and some areas with my Sakura Pigma Sensei pens.

I tore the edges for (distressing) then I used Distress Inks.

 I fussy cut extra blossoms and butterflies then embossed them with my stylus to get the 3D effect on the card.

I hope you liked my card.
I also made my first card share on YouTube.

KB Delicious Doodles Blossom

there you can see the card in better detail. 

by the way there are several challenges going on at 

http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/

for the blog's birthday. Make sure to check those out as well. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katya Bess

I entered my card at:

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-28.html
Anything Goes

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-125-bright-and-sunny.html
Bright

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/ltscb-34-scheming-crafters.html
Color Scheme: Pinks and Greens

http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.com/2014/07/winner-and-top-3-challenge-73.html
Make your own background. - (I hope it counts since I added lots more petals and color dots)

http://lauralcraft.weebly.com/dragonfly-dreams-challenge/challenge-7-use-something-from-your-birth-month
Use something from your birth month. (Mine is blooming blooms- Or spring- I was born in April)