Introducing Jean Grant!! AND Cindy and Mindy!!

I am so thrilled to introduce you to the newest artist to join the Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps team of illustrators!! Her name is Jean Grant and she has such a unique style! As soon as I saw her drawings of her main characters, Cindy and Mindy, I fell in love....and you will too!!

Drawing from a very young age, Jean watched her sister and her mothering love of her beloved bear, Mindy. Jean on the other hand was more of a tomboy. Not having a 'motherly' bone in her body. She was more interested in playing baseball, fishing, building things, and hanging out with the guys. Girls were boring, and too prissy for her. And while her sister was having tea parties with her bear and stuffed animals, Jean would sit for hours under her favorite Dogwood tree and draw and paint.



Cindy is a sweet little girl that is a blend of both her sister and herself (Jean). She has unusually long legs and unkempt braids. At times, one of them may not even be a braid. All frazzled and stringy. She is usually sporting Mary Janes, and her favorite colors are red, blue and green. She is both a little 'prissy' and a little 'tomboyish'. . .but NEVER without her bear Mindy.

We are releasing two of Jean's images tonight, along with 4 by Annie Rodrigue, 4 from Crissy Armstrong and 2 fabulous sentiment sets.



The first image I worked with is the adorable Daddy's Little Girl! I stamped Cindy and Mindy on Neenah white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured her in with my Copic markers. The papers I used are from Pebbles Inc. and the cardstock is Bazzill and SU. I used my D'vine Swirls embossing folder and Apron Lace border punch. I used my Nesties to cut out and emboss the main image, added some Prima flowers, some celery twill and pop dotted everything. Daddy's Little Girl comes with the sentiment that I used, Beary Special Friend, as well as Thanks!



The second image we are releasing is called Small Talk and I think it is just precious! Cindy and Mindy are having a little chat with their feathered friend! It comes with the sentiment I used, You're Tweet!, as well as the sentiment Happy Birdday!! I used all Bazzill Bling cardstocks, some frilly ribbon and another border punch. I attached some big Prima flowers with a large glitter brad and pop dotted everything again!



I know you will love these fun images by Jean as much as I do!!

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for an awesome December Release Blog Hop and check out a bunch more samples using the new images AND you'll have a chance to win some of the new images!!! The fun starts over at the Challenge Blog tomorrow morning!!

When is Release Day??

WOW!! I must say you gals certainly are excited about new rubber, aren't you?? Heehee! Almost as excited as I am!! ALMOST!!

So you've met our amazing illustrators.....and you've met our fantastically talented Krafty Girls!! I bet you'd like to know when you can get your inky little fingers on these babies.....yes??? Well, the official release date is Monday, October the 5th.....just over a week away!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeek!! Can you believe it?? And we will start previewing the designs on the Friday before and every day leading up to release time!!! Woohoooooooo! Now we may also share some snippets of images too between now and then...so keep your eyes peeled!!!

If you are local to southwestern Ontario, you may want to mark Sunday, October 4th off on your calendar and make plans to join me at Scrappin' Great Deals !!! The totally generous owner of SGD, Sheila, is throwing me a LAUNCH PARTY!! Can you believe that??? All afternoon you'll be able to come in to the store and celebrate with us!!!

And my Krafty Girls are SO fabulous, that all the local chickies (and some NOT so local) will BE THERE to stamp with!!!! The DT gals that will be on hand to yak with, shop with and stamp with are Andrea, Diana, Tara and Vicki!! And not only THAT.....but one of Kraftin' Kimmie's super amazing artists will be coming HOURS to hang out with us! CRISSY is gong to be on hand to do a colouring demo and show us her skillz!!! Besides all that amazing-ness, we'll have snacks and refreshments, free make and takes.....OH and of course....NEW RUBBER!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhh! I can't stand it!!! (Oh and I'll be there too.)

So I hope you can make it out to help me celebrate my new adventure in stamping!!

Let's Meet the Artists!!

Thank you SO much for your love and support! I can't tell you how much that means to me! It seems as though you are almost as excited about Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps as I am!!! Well, almost!! Haha!

Today I'd like to introduce you to the totally talented gals behind the images. If you took a good look at the banner I showed you in the last post, you might have recognized her style. I know you've heard her name before, as she's been illustrating in the rubber stamping industry for about four years now. Did you guess Crissy Armstrong?? You're right!



Crissy and I had worked together for about two years on the High Hopes design team. She was the artist and I was the design team coordinator. Well, when Crissy decided to leave them and pursue other avenues earlier this summer, I felt like I should approach her to work on a stamp line with me. I knew that if I didn't ask her, someone else would! When she agreed, I was over the moon and the ball just started rolling!

Crissy has been drawing most of her life, taking lots of art courses through college. She especially loves doing stamp images because she gets to create fun designs which is a joy in itself, but then she gets to see what the stampers create with her images when they add colour and paper and embellishments!! I'm so thrilled to be working with such a sweet and wonderful person and I'm so excited to show you the adorable images she has been working on!!





The second artist for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps is Annie Rodrigue!! She is totally new to the stampin' scene but is going to make a huge splash, let me tell you! She is definitely not new to illustrating and is a 2002 college graduate in classical animation from the Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Annie worked as a freelance illustrator and animator part-time for 4 years, but since November 2006, she decided to take her craft even more seriously by working full-time at home or in studios.

Annie is both a painter of fantasy and an animator at heart and her unique style is going to knock your socks off, I promise! Her designs have such personality and her style is so totally different from anything I've ever seen!

Now, be sure to come back soon and I'll introduce you to the talented design team of Krafty Girls!!!