Milk Chocolate Day - CCEE1630

These are Joanne's instructions to the CCEE Stampers this week:

Today is National Milk Chocolate Day.

  Let’s make some deeeelish designs showing 

chocolate in some form or using the color chocolate.

I have used Eat Your Cake & Nap Too by House-Mouse Designs stamped with Memento Espresso Truffle on Recollections white paper and colored with Copic Markers.

The sentiment is computer generated.

Here is a sampling of the chocolate delights shared by the CCEE Stampers:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

Stamp Selfie at the Beach - KSS

I had such fun doing a couple of cards for SCS's Technique Challenge last week which involved creating stamp selfies that I decided to create one for this week's Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. I hope you enjoy this card from the bears at the beach!

Stamps by Kitchen Sink Stamps:

Teddy Bear Wishes Multi Step Clear Stamps

Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Things 4 Ducky & Teddy Multi Step Clear Stamps

Greetings from the Woods Clear Stamps

Papers

Buckaroo Blue and Ruby Red by Stampin' Up

Pier 45 by Graphic 45

Recollections White

Tools

Spellbinders Square Die

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Star Dies

The Kitchen Sink Crew:

 Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE1629 - Beaches

Joanne, our CCEE Stampers Challenge hostess for July says.....

July, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere,

is one of our warmest months.

 When I think of hot days, I think of the beach.

  Let’s create cards that honor beaches in some way.

Beaches are big here on the Gulf Coast of Texas, as well!! Here is my beach inspired design:

Stamps: Anchor by Our Daily Bread Designs

Hardwood by Stampin' Up

Dies: Anchors Away by Spellbinders

Seashells by Cuttlebug

Sea Birds by Impression Obsession

Here are more beautiful beaches to explore:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More Palm Trees - KSS

It is hot, hot, hot here in Texas this week. Nothing but sunshine! It has inspired me to pull out the Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps for this week''s 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More designs sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps and dream of some time in the tropics!

10 Minute Card

Stamps: Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps, Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps, and Aloha Multi Step Clear Stamps

Papers: Recollections White, Stampin' Up Coastal Cabana and Soft Suede

Inks: Memento Olive Grove, Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart, Dandelion, Tangelo

Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps, Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps, and Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps

Paper: Recollections White

Inks: Memento Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart, Dandelion

Stampin' Up Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar, and Tempting Turquoise

See more Kitchen Sink Designs:

 Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE 1628 - Cow Appreciation Day

According to our CCEE hostess, Joanne, tomorrow is National Cow Appreciation Day.

She has asked us to create a card with a cow or two on it. Those without cows in their collection were allowed to use any other farm animal of their choice.  We were to finish off the card with the sentiment of our choice.

My cows are from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps' Landscape Silhouettes. My sentiment is from Verve.

What a fabulous herd of cows the CCEE Stampers have to share today. Look here:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne

Maryann Einam

In addition I am entering today's card in the following challenges:

DCC713 - It's  Man's World

Simon Says: Create a Scene

Oh La La Creations - Challenge #208 - Something beginning with F (farm)

Let's Make a Scene - Hummers and Lilacs - KSS

My friend Margaret is getting a new knee this week. I decided to put together hummingbirds and lilacs for this week's Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps to bring a little of the outdoors inside to cheer her as she recovers. I really love how they work together so well! I sure hope you do, too!

Kitchen Sink Stamp sets used to create this scene include:

Hummingbirds Multi Step Clear Stamps
Lilacs Multi Step Clear Stamps
Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps
Birch Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps
Words of Comfort & Joy Clear Stamps

Here is the order in which I created the scene:

1. hummingbirds
2. lilacs
3. leaves
4. lake
5. far shore
6. near shore
7. sentiment

The only masking on this card was the lowest leaf to add the lake.

Here are the color recipes I used on each element:

Hummingbirds: Versafine Onyx Black; Memento Gray Flannel, Rose Bud, Grape Jelly, and

Lulu Lavender; Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores and Aqua Mist

Lilacs - Layer 3 Memento Rose Bud, Layer 4 SU Purely Pomegranate, Layer 2 SU Pretty in Pink, Layer 1 SU Pretty in Pink

Leaves - Layer 1 SU Certainly Celery, Layer 2 SU Lucky Limeade, Layer 3 SU Old Olive

Lake: Layer 1 Memento Summer Sky, Layer 2 SU Baja Breeze

Background Trees - Memento Olive Grove

Grass - stamped and sponged - Memento Bamboo Leaves

Sentiment - Versafine Onyx Black

Embellishment: Ribbon

I am entering this week's Let's Make a Scene design in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #184 Use Birds or Feathers or Both

Amusing - Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Come & Get It - Make Your Own Background

Polkadoodles - Week 27 - Add Ribbon or Twine

Crafty Ribbons - Challenge 159 - Things with Wings



Thank you so much for your visit today! For additional KSS inspiration visit the Kitchen Sink Crew:

Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE 1627 - Ice Cream

Today we welcome Joanne as our July CCEE Stampers Challenge hostess.  Here is her challenge for us today......

July is National Ice Cream month.  We have some
 great sources for fresh creamy ice cream 
in our area, and I am sure that is true

 of the places where you live. 

  Let’s celebrate by having ice cream

 in some form on our cards. 

Check out the cool treats the CCEE Stampers Design Team members have created to share with you today!

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

Summer Living - KSS 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More

Many families are getting out for the 4th of July weekend and doing  a little sweet summer living. I hope you and those you love are able to squeak out some time together to celebrate our nation's birth!

My 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More designs sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps this week feature some much cooler and more peaceful places than where I'll be! But, I can dream, can't I?

10 Minute Card

Stamps: Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps, 
Pine Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps, Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps,

and Greetings from the Woods Clear Stamps 
by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Crumb Cake by Stampin' Up

Inks:  Cabin - Layer 4 Memento Espresso Truffle

Layer 3 Memento Rich Cocoa

Layer 2 Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft

Layer 1 Papertrey Ink Fine Linen

Pine Tree - Layer 3 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Layer 2 Memento Cottage Ivy

Layer 1 Memento Bamboo Leaves

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Trunk - Memento Espresso Truffle

Sentiment - Memento Espresso Truffle

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps, 
Pine Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps, Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps,

Grizzly Bear Wishes Multi Step Clear Stamps, 
and Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps

 by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Crumb Cake, Wild Wasibi, and Soft Suede by Stampin' Up

Recollections White

Inks:  Cabin - Layer 4 Memento Espresso Truffle

Layer 3 Memento Rich Cocoa

Layer 2 Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft

Layer 1 Memento Peanut Brittle

Pine Tree - Layer 3 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Layer 2 Memento Cottage Ivy

Layer 1 Memento Bamboo Leaves

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Trunk - Memento Espresso Truffle

Grizzly Bear - 4 Memento Espresso Truffle

3 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

2 Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft stamped twice

1 Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft

Sentiment and Deer - Memento Espresso Truffle

Sky Sponging - Memento Summer Sky

Grass Sponging - Memento Cottage Ivy

Embellishment - Richard Garay Embossing Folder

Find additional Kitchen Sink Stamps inspiration  on the blogs of the Kitchen Sink Crew:

 Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator