CCEE 1635 - Bokeh Background

Lois, our CCEE hostess for September, is starting the month off with a Technique Challenge. She has picked a simple technique she loves called Bokeh Background.

Here is a link to the Splitcoaststampers' tutorial which describes this method: Bokeh Background.

Dog: Crazy Dogs by Tim Holtz
Sentiment by Funny Bones

See how the rest of the CCEE Stampers used this fun technique:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

Ten Minutes and Ten Minutes More KSS Bells

I chose to used the set 3 Step Bells for today's 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More designs sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. The bells are great for making cards for the holidays as well as anniversaries so I made one of each!

10 Minutes

Stamps: Bells Multi Step Clear Stamps and Poinsettia Multi Step Clear Stamps
by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Recollections White and Stampin' Up Garden Green

Inks: Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3 - Memento Gray Flannel

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Gray

Layer 1 - Papertrey Ink Soft Stone

Sentiment - Stampin' Up Old Olive

Embellishment - Nuvo Indian Gold Embellishment Mousse

Poinsettia Ribbon

20 Minutes

Stamps: Bells Multi Step Clear Stamps and Heart & Roses Multi Step Clear Stamps
by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Recollections White and Black

Inks: Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3 - Memento London Fog

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Gray

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Going Gray stamped off once

Sentiment - Versafine Onyx Black

Embellishment - Nuvo Pure Platinum Embellishment Mousse

Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Embossing Folder

Number and Letter Dies

Silver Embossing Powder

Silver Cord

If you are looking for more Kitchen Sink Stamps inspiration, it can be found here:

 Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

More Herbs, Less Salt Day - CCEE1634

Today is More Herbs, Less Salt Day!! Herbs and plants add so much to our lives, so in honor of this unusual day, our hostess, Liz, has asked the CCEE Stampers to make a card with an herb or plant on it. Many of you love gardening, so any of these images would work great. You might even want to add colors that are named after herbs and plants: sage, thyme, lavender, cinnamon, nutmeg, mint, celery, olive, or cocoa, as well as all those you can think of. Have fun with it.

This is the closest thing I have which looks a little like flowering chives. I think the sentiment helps it fit today's celebration of herbs!

Images from:

Wild About Flowers by Stampin' Up

...head up-heart strong by Unity

Bucket Die Cut by Impression Obsession

Visit the rest of the CCEE Stampers:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

KSS Let's Make a Scene #34

On this fourth Monday of August, Let's Make a Scene #34 sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps features the Multi Step Lighthouse used to create a sympathy card. The images were stamped on watercolor paper so I could watercolor the sky and the sea. I still need lots of practice and possibly some lessons with that!

The stamp sets used to complete this card are:
     Lighthouse Multi Step Clear Stamps
     Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps (pine trees)
    Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps
    Other Important People Clear Stamps (Heartfelt)
    Heart & Roses Multi Step Clear Stamps (Sympathy)

Embellishment:
     Die Cut Seabird by Impression Obsession

Also creating with Kitchen Sink Stamps:

Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE1633 - Aviation

Tomorrow is Liz's birthday,  and also Orville Wright's. Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation to make it National Aviation Day, to honor Orville Wright. She thought it would be fun to hunt down an image of something man has made fly in the air. It might be an airplane, helicopter, rocket, jet, or hot air balloon. If none of these are available to you, how about a kite or a simple birthday balloon? Our bonus can be to make it a birthday card!!!

Die Cuts - Around the World - in'spire by Spellbinders

Stamp from Start Something New by Unity

Aviation Cards by the CCEE Design Team

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne

Maryann Einam

KSS - LMS033 - Bicycle Birthday

My calendar and I had a senior moment this week, and I am posting the Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps which should have been posted last Monday. August is jam packed with birthdays among my family and friends so I added the birthday greeting from Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps to images from Bicycle Multi Step Clear Stamps, Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps, Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps, and Daisy Multi Step Clear Stamps to create this end of summer birthday design.

Drop by to see more KSS designs from the Kitchen Sink Crew:

Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE1632 - Fishing

For this week's CCEE Challenge, hostess Liz Williams puts the focus on fishing! The month of August is National Catfish Month. Fishing is a year round sport and hobby along the Texas Gulf Coast, especially saltwater fishing. So, for the challenge this week, find a fish, or someone fishing and it might make a perfect masculine card for your stash!!

 Images by Stampin' Up
from
By the Tide and Gone Fishing

See the fishing card from the CCEE Design Team:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne

Maryann Einam

KSS 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More Kittens

I realized while looking through my stamps today that it had been a long time since I have designed anything with these adorable kittens. I couldn't resist using them for this week's 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More designs sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. I hope you find them as cute as I did!

This is the color recipe I used for the kittens on both of today's cards:

Layer 3 - Memento London Fog
Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Grey
Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black
Layer 1 - Papertrey Ink Soft Stone

10 Minute Card

 Stamps: Kittens & Pup Multi Step Clear Stamps  
and Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps 
by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: SU Sahara Sand

20 Minute Card - for this one I die cut the moon and grass and fussy cut the kittens to mount them on the black cardfront.

Stamps: Kittens & Pup Multi Step Clear Stamps 

and Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps

by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Recollections White and Black, Stampin' Up Naturals Ivory and Mossy Meadow

Visit the members of the Kitchen Sink Crew for more KSS designs:

 Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator

CCEE1631 - Sisters

Aug. 4 is Sister’s Day! Liz Williams is our CCEE hostess for August.  As many of you know, or perhaps you don’t, Liz and I are sisters. When we were asked to join the CCEE team at the same time, we both thought it would be fun to be doing this together. So, for your sister card, find an image of a pair or group of ladies or girls who just might be sisters doing things that sisters like to do.

Here is mine:

This image which is colored with Copic Markers is from the set

Impossible to Forget by Unity Stamp Company.

Below are links to the sister designs of the CCEE Design Team:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More Daisy - KSS

For today's 10 Minutes and 10 Minutes More design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, I have stamped the 3 Step Daisy using the same colors on two different backgrounds. For the 10 Minute Card I stamped the daisy on one layer of SU Blushing Bride. For the 20 Minute Card I created a watercolor background using the reinkers and drying it with my heat gun before stamping the daisy.

10 Minute Card

Stamps: Daisy Multi Step Clear Stamps and Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps
 by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Blushing Bride by Stampin' Up

Color Recipe for Daisy: Layer 1 Stampin' Up Peekaboo Peach 

Layer 2 Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Purely Pomegranate 

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Color Recipe for Leaves: Layer 1 Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Old Olive

Sentiment: Stampin' Up Purely Pomegranate

20 Minute Card

Stamps: Daisy Multi Step Clear Stamps and Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps
 by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Paper: Pumpkin Pie and Purely Pomegranate by Stampin' Up

Watercolor Paper

Color Recipe for Daisy: Layer 1 Stampin' Up Peekaboo Peach 

Layer 2 Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Purely Pomegranate 

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Color Recipe for Leaves: Layer 1 Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Old Olive

Sentiment: Stampin' Up Purely Pomegranate

Watercolored Background: SU Peekaboo Peach and Purely Pomegranate Reinkers

Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst Reinker

Also creating with Kitchen Sink Stamps:

Lisa Somerville - designer

 Maria Colosimo - owner and creator