CCEE1944 - Halloween or Harvest

For her last challenge as hostess for the CCEE Stampers for the month of October Kelly says, "Let's keep it simple and create a card with anything Halloween OR Harvest -- costumes, candies, spooky things, or just use orange and black!"

The die cut sentiment is by Tonic while the stamped images are from Zombies by Hampton Art.

Below are links to the cards created by the CCEE Design Team:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

SCS Sketch Challenge 773

Since the beginning of October, I have been helping to supply samples for the lovely ladies who make up the Design Team for the Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge. Here is a link to this week's challenge: SC773. 

For this week's sketch I decided I wanted to do a holiday scene card and include all three of the circles in the scene. To accomplish this, I stamped two copies of the same exact scene using my stamp positioner. I then die cut the larger center circle from one and the two smaller circles from the other. This made lining them up a breeze.

The images are from Snow Front from the holiday mini by Stampin' Up. The sentiment is by Verve. I mounted them on a panel embossed with a 3-D embossing plate by Sizzix.

Sending a Cup of Christmas Cheer

I have been working for weeks on some table toppers and name tags for a church event which all featured these tiny hands by Impression Obsession. I still have tiny hands scattered everywhere, and I felt they would look adorable presenting this cup of coffee from Kitchen Sink Stamps' new Coffee & Friends set. So my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card today included them as well as words from Coffee Mate Greetings and Christmas from the Limited Edition Gingerbread Hugs which sold out at Simon Says during their STAMPtember Event.

Color Recipe for the Cup and Saucer

Layer 4 Memento Rhubarb Stalk stamped 3 times

Layer 3 Memento Love Letter

Layer 2 Memento Lady Bug

Layer 1 Memento Lady Bug

Coffee Recipe

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Layer 2 SU Creamy Caramel stamped 2 times

Layer 3 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 4 Memento Espresso Truffle

Embellishments include:

Die cut hand by Impression Obsession

Bow sticker by the Paper Studio

Washi Tape Diamonds by the Paper Studio

Paper Doily

I have entered today's card in the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #461 - Anything Christmas Goes

Art Impressions - Holiday Cards Challenge #269

Mod Squad Challenge - Sentiment Says It All

Moo-Mania & More - #202 Die Cuts and Punches

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!

KSS - Cup of Hope & Healing

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card, I have added the newest KSS set to the Coffee & Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps set to create this autumn get well design. The new sentiment set is called Coffee Mate Greetings Clear Stamps and is a fabulous tag- along set for both Coffee & Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps as well as Keep Calm Coffee Mug Multi Step Clear Stamps.

This fabulous set will be arriving in the store any minute and is expected to start shipping on October 25.

Color Recipe 

for today's Coffee Cup

Layer 4  Stampin' Up Only Orange stamped 2 x

Layer 3 Momento Tangelo stamped 3 times

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Mango Melody stamped 2 x 

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Mango Melody

Color Recipe 

for today's coffee brew:

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel

Layer 3 Memento Toffee Crunch

Layer 4 PTI Dark Chocolate

Sentiment stamped with PTI Dark Chocolate

Designer Paper from Happiness Collection by The Stamps of Life

Embellishments: leaves punched with McGill punch, bow, and plastic spoon sticker


For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!

CCEE1942 - National Fossil Day

According to Kelly, yesterday was National Fossil Day. A fossil is a preserved impression of a once-living thing from a past geological age, including plants, animals, shells, and more.
Her challenge to the CCEE Stampers is to create a card including anything that has been found as a fossil -- dinosaurs, leaves, amber, footprints, etc.

Paper: BasicGrey

Sentiment: Word Punch Board by We R Memory Keepers

Car Die by Sizzix

Ink for exhaust: Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide by Ranger

Let's see how everyone else celebrated fossil day!

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

I'm Caffeinated - KSS

When I saw this week's Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers, I knew that I would be reaching for my Keep Calm Coffee Mug to create today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card. The challenge is called "Drama" and at my house I am always careful to avoid drama by making sure the coffee pot is the first one "awake" and perking at my house!

When I suggested this set to Maria, I knew it would be one of my favorites because: 
1) Coffee is my favorite beverage!
2) Most of my friends love coffee!
3) I could dress the cup up or down depending on the need or season

Thanks, Maria, for creating this fabulous set. I keep an assortment of colored mugs stamped and ready to go at all times, and I reach for them often!!

Here are a couple of tips I want to share about working with the mug. Because of its large size, I need to use full-sized pads to get the ink smooth. I also ink each layer with Versamark before adding the colored ink. Here is the last thing that I have discovered with the mug. Mine have always come out best when I stamp every single layer in the same exact color. I start with layer 4 and work backwards. This mug was stamped with Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel. The sentiment was stamped with Memento Espresso Truffle and the rings and blops of coffee were made with Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy.

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!

CCEE1941 - The Rainforest

October CCEE hostess, Kelly McKown-Santi let us know that this week is World Rainforest Week. She has therefore challenged the CCEE Stampers to create a card showing the rainforest or any animal you'd find in the rainforest.

I used images from Sloth-some by Art Impressions and designer paper from Wild Heart by Crate Paper.

Here are links to the rest of the CCEE Design Team creations:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Warm Christmas Wishes - KSS

Good morning to my coffee-loving Kitchen Sink Stamps friends!! I wanted to share with you this morning a new companion set called Coffee Mate Greetings which pairs beautifully with the just released Coffee & Friends and Keep Calm Coffee Mug.

You can PRE-order this great set with shipment expected to be October 31. Just in time for your Thanksgiving and Christmas wishes for your coffee-addicted friends (like ME)!!

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card I have created a holiday card with Coffee & Friends. I had to pull together sentiments from here and there because I don't have Coffee Mate Greetings in my hot little hands yet, either!! But when I do, watch out!!

Color Recipe for Cup

Layer 4 - Memento Rhubarb Stalk

Layer 3 - Memento Love Letter

Layer 2 - Memento Love Letter

Layer 1 - Memento Lady Bug

Color Recipe for Coffee

Layer 1 - Memento Desert Sand

Layer 2 - PTI Fine Linen

Layer 3 - SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 4 - SU Baked Brown Sugar

Designer Paper and Stickers - the Paper Studio

Today's card has been entered in the following challenges:

Crafty Friends - Challenge #120 - Christmas

Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Anything Goes and Optional - Christmas Decorations

Cute N' Crafty Christmas - Challenge 18

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!

CCEE1940 - National Techies Day

Kelly McKown-Santi is our CCEE hostess for the month of October.  She tells us that today is National Techies Day.  I am so grateful to have the technology that we do!  Create a card with something 'techy' on it (computers, cell phones, etc.) or simply create a thank you card. 

Sentiment by Stampabilities

Designer Papers - Girl Squad by Pebbles

Sticker by the Paper Studio

Hand Die by Impression Obsession


Cards by the CCEE Design Team can be seen here:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Coffee Cups in the Kitchen

As promised yesterday, the two new coffee sets are available for sale at Kitchen Sink Stamps today. They are:

Coffee & Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps

and

Keep Calm Coffee Mug Multi Step Clear Stamps 

Today's cards sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps was created with Keep Calm Coffee Mug, Rubber Ducky, and Fishing 4 Bass.

This mug is so much fun to personalize with the words or images of your choice for your favorite coffee drinkers.


Here is another one I have done for an angler friend of mine:

The fun never ends with this fabulous set!!

Maria and Nancy also have some coffee goodness to share! Check it out!

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

For those wishing to purchase Kitchen Sink Stamps, click SHOP HERE. It will take you directly to the store as well as let Maria know that you are a fan of my work! Thanks so much!!