Inspired by a Song - CCEE1431

Shirley is ending her month of challenges for the CCEE Stampers with a fun one: Create a card related to a song title. Since I am in holiday card-making mode at the moment, I have chosen the classic Christmas carol, We Three Kings.

Stamps: sentiment from Seek Him Still by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Papers: Basic Black and Lost Lagoon by Stampin' Up

Lost & Found Two by My Mind's Eye sponged with SU Lost Lagoon

Tools: Nativity Die by Taylored Expressions

Star Die from Born This Day by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black and SU Lost Lagoon

Embellishment: Yellow Chalk and Rhinestone

See what the following songs have inspired the CCEE Design Team to create! Then choose a song and create a card to share with us!

Frances Bryne - Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
Joanne Grzelak - High Hopes

Anne Harmon - I Love Paris

Vicky Gould - Ebb Tide

Sabrina Friel - On the Road to Find Out

Lois Bak - You're the Cream in My Coffee

Amber Hillman - These Boots Were Made for Walking

Liz Williams - Tangled Up in Blue 

Maryann Einam - Funny Face

KSS - Blackberries

This week's Kitchen Sink Stamps fruit of choice is the blackberry/raspberry from Multi Step Berries. I chose it today because my husband's favorite summertime dessert is blackberry cobbler, and I just put one in the oven. Fortunately for me, Marie Callender makes the one he loves! I'll add a dollop of Cool Whip when it comes out of the oven, and he will be one happy camper!  (Post sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps).

10 Minute Card

 Stamps: Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, Stampin' Up Blackberry Bliss

Ink Layers: Berries - 3 SU Blackberry Bliss, 2 SU Blackberry Bliss stamped off once,

1 SU Blackberry Bliss stamped off once

Stem and Leaves - SU Mossy Meadow

Sentiment: SU Blackberry Bliss

Tools: Sizzix Dies, Dimensionals

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps and Hey, Chick Multi Step Clear Stamps 
by Kitchen Sink Stamps
Papers: Recollections White, Stampin' Up Blackberry Bliss and Lucky Limeade
Ink Layers: Berries - 3 SU Blackberry Bliss, 2 SU Blackberry Bliss stamped off once,
1 SU Blackberry Bliss stamped off once
Stem and Leaves - SU Mossy Meadow
Sentiment - SU Blackberry Bliss
Sponging - SU Pale Plum
Background Flowers - Memento Pear Tart
Tools: Oval Nestabilities, Dimensionals, EK Success Punch
Embellishments: Ribbon and Crystals

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! I hope you have time to look in on the Kitchen Sink creations being shared today by the rest of the Kitchen Crew!

  Connie - designer
 Lisa - designer
 Maria - owner and creator

CCEE1430 - Follow the Recipe

This week Shirley has asked the CCEE Stampers to follow a recipe! The cards for Challenge 1430 must include 2 circles, 1 oval, and 2 or more octagons (or hexagons/decagons).

I looked around my desk and decided to use the papers, stamps, and embossing folder I had used to create a birthday card earlier this week! I turned out O.K., I think. I hope you like it.

Stamps: World of Dreams and Wetlands by Stampin' Up

Paper: Recollections White, SU Certainly Celery and Mossy Meadow

Inks: SU Centainly Celeery and Mossy Meadow

Tools: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Octagon Nestabilities, Circle Punches,

Oval Punch, Dimensionals

Drop in and see what the rest of the design team cooked up with this recipe!

Frances Byrne
Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

Now it's your turn! What can you create with 2 circles, 1 oval, and 2 or more octagons? Play along and link your creation to the CCEE Stampers Blog!

Peaches

Some of my favorite childhood memories of visiting my grandmother's house in the summer were the hot afternoons we would spend at her kitchen table eating the sweet concoction she would pull from her freezer during our visits. The recipe was simple: sweet Texas peaches, cream, and sugar blended together and frozen in an ice cube tray. The resulting treat can only be described as heaven on earth! Although she has been gone for over 30 years, I still treat myself to her Peaches and Cream at least once a summer and I am flooded with sweet memories of the summer days my sister and I spend in her care.

Today's Kitchen Sink designs were created with their Peach Multi Step Clear Stamps set. I really love the color recipe I used on the layers today. I think I will be using it again!  (Post sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps).

10 Minute Peach

Stamps: Peach Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, SU Crisp Cantaloupe and Pear Pizzazz

Ink Layers: Peach - 3 Stampin' Up Crisp Cantaloupe, 4 Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie,

2 Memento Cantaloupe, 1 Memento Cantaloupe

Leaves - 3 Memento Olive Grove, 2 Memento Bamboo Leaves, 1 Memento Bamboo Leaves

Stem - Memento Rich Cocoa

Sentiment - Stampin' Up Tangelo Twist

Tool: Sizzix Die

20 Minute Peaches

Stamps: Peach Multi Step Clear Stamps 
and Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, SU Crisp Cantaloupe and Pear Pizzazz

Ink Layers: Peach - 3 Stampin' Up Crisp Cantaloupe, 4 Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie,

2 Memento Cantaloupe, 1 Memento Cantaloupe

Leaves - 3 Memento Olive Grove, 2 Memento Bamboo Leaves, 1 Memento Bamboo Leaves

Stem - Memento Rich Cocoa

Sentiment - Memento Bamboo Leaves

Tool: Oval Nestabilities

Embellishment: Doily and Dimensionals

See the latest Kitchen Sink inspiration from the Crew!

  Connie - designer

 Lisa - designer

 Maria - owner and creator

CCEE1429 - Chickens

The CCEE Challenge 1429 posted today requires that you use a chicken. There is no stamping on my card this week. I just used papers from Graphic 45's French County. So today's design just involves cutting, punching, scoring, and gluing!

Papers: Graphic 45 French Country

SU Garden Green and Basic Black

Tools: Martha Stewart Leaf Punch

Embellishment: Sunflowers by Prima

Check out the cute chicks created by the rest of the CCEE Team!

Frances Byrne
Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

Sweet Summer Pineapple

One of the things I love most about this time of the year is the grocery bins filled with the fresh, sweet fruits of summer. For the next few weeks I am going to be focusing on some of the beautiful Kitchen Sink Stamps fruit images.

Today I am featuring the pineapple from Aloha Multi Step Clear Stamps, one of my favorites! Both of today's cards are 4.25 inch squares.  (Post sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps).
10 Minute Card

Stamps: Aloha Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, SU Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, and Really Rust

Inks Layers on Pineapple: 3 Memento Potter's Clay, 2 Memento Cantaloupe, 

1 Memento Cantaloupe,

1 again with Memento Pear Tart on top and bottom only

Top of Pineapple: 1 Memento Pear Tart, 2 Memento Bamboo Leaves, 

3 Memento Olive Grove

Sentiment: Memento Potter's Clay

Sponging - Memento Peanut Brittle

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Aloha Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, SU Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, and Really Rust

Inks Layers on Pineapple: 3 Memento Potter's Clay, 2 Memento Cantaloupe, 

1 Memento Cantaloupe stamped off once

Top of Pineapple: 1 Memento Pear Tart, 2 Memento Bamboo Leaves, 

3 Memento Olive Grove

Tool: Martha Stewart Edge Punch

Thanks so very much for your visit today!

Don't miss the opportunity to drop in on the rest of the Kitchen Crew!

 Connie - designer

 Lisa - designer

 Maria - owner and creator

CCEE1428 - Repurpose Something

It's time for another CCEE Stampers Challenge and Shirley Quarry has another great challenge for us all.

Let's repurpose something. We all have bits and pieces of things we have saved in our stash for those "just in case we need it moments".

For my repurposing adventure, I cut a section out of an aluminum pie pan, put it in an embossing folder, and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I then roughly trimmed around the embossed image and colored the aluminum with my Copic markers. Finally I coated it with Versamark and clear embossed it three times.

Stamps: Hardwood by Stampin' Up

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar by Stampin' Up

Inks: SU Baked Brown Sugar, Versamark, and Copic Markers

Tools: Darice Embossing Folder

Other Materials - Clear Embossing Folder, Aluminum Pie Pan, Dimensionals

The card below card uses the same techinque but I die cut the cross with the cross die from Our Daily Bread Designs. The background is stamped with an image from ODBD's Never Give Up and the sentiment is from ODBD's Anchor. This card was chosen today as Customer Card of the Day over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

Please visit the CCEE Stampers' Design Team to see more repurposed gems!

Frances Byrne
Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

Perfect Light

I am continuing to build my Christmas stash and today have used my newest die, Nativity Border from Taylored Expressions. My goal is to have all my Christmas cards completed, addressed in envelopes, and ready to mail Thanksgiving weekend!

Stamps: the sentiment is from Seek Him Still by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Papers: Lost&Found by My Mind's Eye, Bermuda Bay and Basic Black by Stampin' Up

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black and SU Bermuda Bay

Tools: Nativity Border by Taylored Expressions

Embellishment: Crystal and Yellow Chalk

Enjoy the Ride

I am setting a goal for myself this week to take my bike down to the corner service station and get the tires aired up so that I can get out in the evenings when it is cooler and get some exercise. In honor of this personal fitness goal, I have used my Kitchen Sink Stamps Bicycle Multi Step Clear Stamps to create my 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes more cards.  (Post sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps).

10 Minute Card - I am entering this card in CAS on Sunday #37 - One Layer Wonder.

Stamps: Bicycle Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Recollections White

Ink Layers on Bicycle: 2 Memento London Fog, 3 Memento Gray Flannel,

4 Memento Tuxedo Black, 1 Memento London Fog stamped off once

Ink Layers on Basket: 3 Memento Rich Cocoa, 2 Memento Rich Cocoa stamped off once,

1 Memento Desert Sand

Inks on Flowers: Memento Love Letter, Memento Rhubarb Stalk,

Memento Olive Grove, and Memento Northern Pine

Sponged Pavement - SU Going Grey

Sentiment - Memento Tuxedo Black

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Bicycle Multi Step Clear Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps
Paper: Recollections White, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, and
Apricot Appeal by Stampin' Up
Designer Paper by Graphic 45
Ink Layers on Bicycle: 2 Memento London Fog, 3 Memento Gray Flannel,
4 Memento Tuxedo Black, 1 Memento London Fog stamped off once
Ink Layers on Basket: 3 Memento Rich Cocoa, 2 Memento Peanut Brittle,
1 Memento Cantaloupe
Dots: Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Sentiment - Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishment: Seam Binding Ribbon

Find more Kitchen Sink excitement on the blogs of the Kitchen Sink Crew!

  Connie - designer
 Lisa - designer
 Maria - owner and creator

And find more Multi Step Bicycle samples in the Kitchen Sink Gallery!

CCEE 1427 - Red, White and Blue

We are all seeing plenty of red, white, and blue here in America this week as we celebrate the birthday of our great nation! Therefore, I have created a patriotic card for this week's CCEE Red, White, and Blue Challenge!

Stamps: Ready 4 Any Holiday by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Recollections White, SU Real Red and Not Quite Navy

Ink: Memento Nautical Blue

Embellishment: Jolee's Duel Tone Prizm

Tools: Heart Nestabilites, SNSS Star Die

Sending my wishes for a wonderful 4th of July weekend for you and your family and friends! 

Join us at CCEE with a creation to show what red, white, and blue means to you!

Visit the CCEE Design Team to see their red, white, and blue designs!

Frances Byrne
Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam