Ooohhh...meloves me some steampunk!

To celebrate the release of 4 new steampunk images the new challenge at Kenny K Krafty Girlz today is METAL EMBELLISHMENTS.

Our sponsors are - Bearly Mine Designs (2 Digi sets of winner's choice)
Kenny K - 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

I chose Scarlett West for my card and I coloured her with Copic markers exlusively for a change. :) I did add some accents with Sakura gel and Stardust pens but those do not count as colouring. At least in my little twisted world they don't, lol

The sentiment is from Whimsy Film Strip Sentiments and is cut out with a matching die. The idea to stamp it on acetate is shamelessly nicked from Ann.

I used Fancy Ribbon Sliders and Gears Galore laser cut chipboard by Make It Crafty, giving it a good coating of metallic rub-ons.

I also tore a strip of cork board for added texture and used loads of metal flowers (LOVING them atm) and brads to make sure I totally adhere to the challenge as I've been cheating a lot lately...

Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge - 1E, JFF - M is for metal
Glitter Geeks - 2E, C10 - rock and roll
Totally Papercrafts - bling
Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - anything that will make someone smile/enjoy your day
Stampin' B's - JFF - use ribbon
Crafts and Me - #45 ribbon
7 Kids College Fund - 2W, 3E - texture (2nd wk)

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Anything goes
Victorine Originals - 2W, SIO - 2nd week - Bling
Totally Papercrafts - bling
4 Crafty Chicks - bling

Thanks a million for popping by!
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Whimsy July Release Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps July rubber release BLOG HOP!

The Whimsy July rubber release happened last week on July 13th, but today we are hosting our blog hop to showcase the 9 fabulous new rubber stamps and 2 new Shapeology metal dies now available at Whimsy Stamps! These new goodies are available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favorites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Deb Routledge, Elaine Hughes, Niki Estes and Zoe McGrath.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 6 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful July release rubber stamps and dies:

5 stamps from Kenny K
Boogie Down ~ Holla Back Girl ~ Hot Weave ~ Spy Chick ~ Victory Kid

4 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
A Touch of Elegance ~ Adventure Mini Postage Stamps ~ Vintage Bottle Labels ~ Vintage Transportation

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Dress Form Die (coordinates with ‘A Touch of Elegance’ stamp set) ~ Elegant Flourishes

If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Lori’s blog.  The hop starts today (Wednesday July 20th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday July 27th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have one grand prize draw where one lucky hopper will win a selection of new release stamps for hopping along with us. We also have 5 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp!

For my card I chose Spy Chick by Kenny K and a sentiment from Vintage Transportation set.

I also used new Elegant Flourishes Dies set - cut them out from the designer paper and rubbed on some metallic rub-ons with my finger.

The image is coloured with Copic markers and some accents added with Sakura white gel pen and gold Stardust pen.

The papers are from Crate Paper School Spirit pad - I know the the card doesn't have anything to do with school but the colours and patterns were exactly what I wanted :)

The cogwheel and filigree jewels are laser cut chipboard by Make It Crafty. I used metallic rub-ons on jewels/medallions and copper leafing pen on the cogwheel.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. The next stop on the hop is the super talented Iris's Blog. Be sure to pop over and see what she has for you today. And then remember to leave comments and enter for your chance to win the prizes on offer along the hop too! 

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash - C10 - #9 Technique not used for a while  (distressing with leafing pen)
Try It On Tuesday  -  Steampunk
Tuesday Throwdown - #58 Something Metallic
Happileigh Scrappin - SIO - Make your own embellishment
 Make My Monday - Vintage shabby chic, torn or crumpled 
Gingerloft - 2W - 2nd week - Make it Sparkle
Lollipop Crafts - July challenge - Anything goes
Ellephantastic - M, 1E - July: Celebrations 

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and we hope you enjoy all of the DT creations!

Kenny K Krafty Girlz blog hop

Good Morning Kenny K Fans, today we're celebrating the 1st year Anniversary of the Kenny K Challenge blog with a Blog Hop and 8 Fabulous New releases from Kenny K called the Showbiz Celebrities that are now available at Kenny K Downloads

The Kenny K Krafty Girlz have all created some fantastic cards for you showcasing these new images

If you'd like to participate in the Kenny K 1st Year Anniversary blog hop and you didn't arrive here from Karina's Blog, then click here to start at the beginning on Donna's Blog

The Blog hop starts today and runs until July 23rd at midnight UK time.

On your way around the Hop, some of the Krafty Girlz will be offering up a candy of their own as a small token of thanks for stopping by! 

For my Blog Hop Creation I used Dr Phil-Me-In digi stamp.

I coloured the image with Copic markers and used papers from Cosmo Cricket Wanted pad.

(insert your card here with description)

When you've finished hopping we have a challenge (everyone's favorite.....ANYTHING GOES) AND a MAJOR prize from some fantastic sponsors

Here is a list of our sponsors and the fabulous prizes they have donated

is offering a Bev's bag of blooms

Bunny Zoe's Crafts is offering  one KENNY K rubber stamp
of the winner's choice

Cult Pens is offering TWO sets of the Copic Ciao's in addition to offering KENNY K fans a SPECIAL DISCOUNT for the two week's only of 10% off your COPIC purchases using this discount code at the checkout

KK10

Offering 5 Die Sets worth £61.95

offering a £10 Gift Voucher

offering 5 Tria Markers of the winner's choice

is offering a $15 Gift Certificate

is offering a special dispenser full of ribbons worth £25

 plus they are also offering a special collection of ribbons for Kenny K that normally retails for £25, but for the Kenny K customers, you can get it for only £15....how awesome is that!

is offering a £10 gift voucher

is offering a £15 gift voucher

and in addition to all this.........Kenny is offering

TEN rubber stamps (winner's choice) plus a $30 Gift Certificate to his shop 

And that's not all...........he's also giving away

a tub of pearls

a selection of web ribbon

head pins

I Am Roses gorgeous blooms

Sakura Jelly white Opaque pen

Total Prize value over £300

Conditions for being eligible for the MAIN prize:

You MUST leave a comment on EVERY BLOG, there are only 23 and you have got a whole two weeks to leave comments, that’s almost 2 or 3 a day! You are also asked to make a card for the Anything Goes Challenge using a Kenny K image and link it after completing the blog hop. The big prize Winner of the challenge will be picked by Random.Org.

We hope you have fun hopping around the Krafty Girlz and special guest’s blogs, leaving comments along the way and can find enough inspiration to get your creative juices flowing so that you can enter our challenge for the next two weeks for your chance to win the GRAND PRIZE

Good Luck!

Here's a complete lineup of the blog hop girlz and special guests
Donna
Carina
Arjette
Bettina
Denise (Special Guest)
Judith
Heidy
Deb
Kimmi
Vanessa
Trine
Christine
Elaine (special Guest)
Vicky
Sarah
Dena (Special Guest)
Angela
Katarina
Patty
Marilyn
Karina
Annika
Renata
Kenny K Challenge Blog 

Now it's time to head to Renata's Blog and see what gorgeous card she's created

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Kenny K - red, white and blue

It's not an easy colour combo for me but I hope I rose to the current challenge at Kenny K Krafty Girlz. :)
hooray for the red white and blue

Sponsor of the challenge is Crafty Ribbons plus Kenny K offering 5 digi stamps!

Our Guest Designer is Debbie Pamment


And here's my card:

The colouring is pure Copics job - used my fave combo of E000/00/02/21/11/15 on the skin and dark brown for deep shadows in red.

The papers are from Lily Bee and I made the flowers myself. The leaves I just hand-cut from denim scrap which I had previously treated with pearlized acrylic paint. Some edges are treated with dark blue micropearls.

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to you!!
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Kenny K - Fathers Day

There's New release at Kenny K Downloads and new challenge at  Kenny K-s Krafty Girlz - the theme is Fathers Day. And the new release is full of my favorites - cool dude images from Kenny. He can sure do fun guy stamps.

Sponsors Crafty Ribbons is offering an absolutely yummy prize

as well as Kenny offering 5 digi's of the winner's choice!

Guest Designer is Marcea. Her work is famously fabulous so do check it out!


And now to my card :) I grabbed that fun image called very appropriately Remote Control.

I whipped both sentiments up in Gimp - once again no art there but I'll stick them to end of the post in case you'll have a need of them.

Copic Colours are:
Skin:E53/51/50
Top: G21/20, BG93/99/00
Hair: E49/29/37/35/33
Pants: B99/45/34/32
Mouth R39/37/14, N7

Click before saving. Warning - totally non-professional job!

Challenges
 Creative Inspirations - 2W - use a Digi
AiFactory - 1E, SIO - Challenge #078: Anything goes
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - 1E - #7 use a digi



Thank you so much for looking and happy crafting!
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Kenny K challenge - Anything Goes

If you are looking for WHIMSY STAMPS new release blog hop and prize draw then you can find my post HERE.

Today there's a real fun and easy challenge at Kenny K-s Krafty Girlz: ANYTHING GOES.
Our Guest Designer is Karla - welcome! 

The digi I am using is called Strong Island.

Sponsors are - Michelle's Scrapbooking Store

 - offering $15 gift certificate to her store as well as Kenny offering 5 digi's of the winner's choice.

The image is coloured with Copic markers - nothing else in sight. I didn't  write down the colours though - sorry!!

The denim flowers I made myself from my toddlers ripped jeans which I had to turn into shorts. You know, with a scissors. :) Suddenly I had these bits of denim fabric I was reluctant to toss. All it took was some cord, scissors and glue gun and voila - cute flowers!

Oh, and the paper is Little Yellow bicycle Twig which I ADORE!

Challenges:
Fabulous Friday - Homemade/handmade embellishment.
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes
Do You Stack Up? - 3E, SIO - Challenge #15: Scallops
Pals Paper Arts - Use flowers
The Rubber Cafe - SIO - Challenge TRCC#13: Use fabric.
Stamp Insanity - SIO - Challenge #SISC55: Flowe power.


Luvs ya!

Tutorial: colouring tousled dark reddish brown hair

Here is my next tutorial coloring Kitty Katastrophe. I am colouring a rubber stamp from Whimsy Stamps but there's also digi version available from Kenny K Downloads.

The markers I am using are YR14, E59/19/08. The paper is a marker blending card from Make It Crafty, takes a lot of abuse, that stuff!!

You can watch it on Youtube HERE.

Next week I will have a little tutorial on colouring her clothing and boots.

Thanks a million for dropping by!
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Here's a secret - I just can't do pink

First of all - happy Mother's Day to all who are celebrating today!

I struggle every single time with pink - especially if Copics are involved. Somehow it's very hard to achieve a good pink with those for me.

But the challenge at Kenny K-s Krafty Girlz is Pretty In Pink so I had another go. And no, not happy with the result.

The challenge sponsor is Wild Orchid crafts with a huge and very yummy prize

and also 5 digis from Kenny K Downloads.

Our guest designer this week is Debbie Lanci.

I am using Super Mom from the new release of images -  was kinda sneaky and did a very pink card with very little of pink on image itself, lol.

I was trying to give her honey blonde hair and it actually came out pretty well, glad I wrote the combo down! :)

COPICS:
Skin: E50/51/53
Hair: E99, YR24, Y26/32
Blues: B28/25/23/14, BG78
Top: R05/02/01, N3/5

Thank you so much for looking and happy crafting!
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Tutorial: Colouring Facial Features With Copic Markers

I finally managed to put together a video tutorial and as colouring face was one of popular requests I started there. I am still learning and struggling with video editing so be merciful.

I am using Kenny K rubber stamp Kitty Katastrophe from Whimsy Stamps  and marker blending paper from Make It Crafty.

DISCLAIMER:
1) I am NO expert. Don't even have Copic certification and can't get certified here in Ireland either, as far as I know.
2) I do have strong accent and poor-ish English. Brace yourselves.
3) I'm a waffler. 'Nuf said.

First video requires following markers:
E13/11/01/00/000/0000 (the last one is optional)

You can watch it on Youtube HERE - the quality options are better there.

The second video is a very short one on colouring eyes and lips. It was originally part of the first one and butchered in editing to ultra short. It's thus fairly useless but I just didn't have time to re-edit. :( I'll plan things better next time (well, I hope to).

You will need B02/05 and R12/14/39

You can watch it on Youtube HERE - the quality options are better there.

I hope you find them useful. Let me know if you have any tips for future.

And just a little reminder - I don't have a card today but Kenny K Krafty Girlz has a new challenge today - there's a new release and fab prizes to boot!

Thanks for dropping by!!
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Annika

Kenny K challenge and a question regarding tutorials you'd like to see

 I am so sorry I haven't been commenting much - I do stalk your blogs but the keyboard of my laptop is totally loose after my youngest had a go at it and typing is a major challenge since the keys keep flying off. The courier was supposed to have picked it up on WEDNESDAY to take it to the manufacturer for repairs - still no cigar! grrrrrrr

This week's challenge at Kenny K Krafty Girlz is a very simple recipe:
3 DP, 2 ribbons, 1 image

Sponsors for this challenge are Fantastic Ribbons - offering 4 rolls of ribbon of the winner's choice

and Kenny is offering 5 digi's of the winner's choice.

We also have a mega-talented guest designer joining us - Joe-Anne Farnsworth.

I love Kenny K-s male images - I think those were the first ones of his I seriously coveted. And to give them even more credit - even my husband likes that card - and that's sayin' something! lol

The image is coloured with Copics - no list though, cause I never wrote anything down...
The papers are from OA, distressed and treated with texture paint.

And now to my question -  I just recently got a camcorder (woo-hoooo!) and am finally planning to start dishing out proper tutorials since so many people have asked for those. I need you to tell me which ones would you mostly be interested in though:
Copic colouring or Prismacolor pencils (I am not particularly savvy with inks and watercolours but if you want I can share the little I know about those too)
Backgrounds (skies, clouds,ground, basic shadows, abstract backgrounds, dotted backgrounds)
People (facial features, skin in general, hair, clothing, pleats, textured materials)
Good colour combinations and basic blending
Prismas on kraft
Prismas on Copics
etc.

If you have any requests and wishes just leave them in comments and I'll put them onto my to-do list. Your input would really help me to get my act together.

Challenges
Tellen's Place -  sports
Bronte and Bella's Challenge - Let's Hear it for The Boys
Freshly Brewed -  Spots and dots
Paper Pretties - masculine
Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations -  Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Birthday
Incy Wincy Designs - for the boys
Ooh La La Creations - It's a man thing
Nettie G's Digital Gems - use 5 papers (at least 3 patterned, 1 solid) - I used 3 patterned, blue and white solid

Thank you so much for coming to see me! :)
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