2022 - Bring It On! Kitchen Sink Stamps

Looks like 2022 is going to be another challenging year for us all! I am busy making plans on just how to take it on successfully! I  hope my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design this morning reflects my resolve!

May we all approach the on-coming year with hope, strength, wisdom, and faith as we work together instead of against each other to tackle the problems and challenges we face as families, as communities, as nations, as a planet.

Wishing you all the best in 2022.

My card today was created with the newly released Champagne Cheer. The year was die cut using Alphanumeric Shadow Numbers by Sizzix. The Bring It On sentiment was computer generated. 

I layered 4 champagne glasses to create a chipboard type embellishment over the sentiment strip and clear embossed the top stamped layer to create a glass like surface for the champagne flute.

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

thehopefulcrafter by Tracy Shultz

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!!

Holiday Packaging

Now that all my holiday cards are complete and in the mail, I have this week to get my gifts wrapped and under the Christmas tree.

Today's Technique Lover's Challenge 878 over at Splitcoaststampers gave me the opportunity to do just that. For this challenge participants were asked to create holiday packaging that could hold a gift card. Challenge Hostess Lyn created a Box in a Bag using this tutorial. It looked like a fun and fast way to construct a gift bag for small treasures so I used it, too! She listed several other options, as well, if you would like to take a look.

For this Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored project, I used images and a sentiment from Christmas Poinsettia. I created a border for the bottom of the bag with the pines and pine cones and an SVG cut poinsettia as the center decoration. The sentiment is also stamped on an SVG cut file which is available with the purchase of this set. I can't find any identification on the designer paper so I'm not sure of its origin.

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

thehopefulcrafter by Tracy Shultz

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!!

Christmas Around the World - CCEE2150

 

Lynn McAuley here with the final CCEE Stampers Challenge for 2021. Last week we shared Christmas traditions within our families. Today's challenge might involve a bit of research on your part.

I would like for all those who are taking part in this challenge to select a country or culture other than their own and feature on the front of their cards a unique element or tradition from that country or culture's holiday celebrations!

I have chosen Holland. Every year during the days leading up to Christmas, Dutch children eagerly place their shoes by the fireplace in hopes that Sinterklaas will fill them with small gifts and tasty treats in the night. Traditionally, carrots are left in the shoes for Sinterklaas' loyal white horse named Amerigo.

In years past, naughty children would receive a potato in lieu of gifts!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our CCEE Fans!

We look forward to seeing you back for more fun challenges in 2022!

The CCEE Design Crew:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Holiday Cheer - Kitchen Sink Stamps

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored holiday card, I wanted to share a new color recipe with you for the Amaryllis. I chose to go with pinks for this Christmas card which also features sentiments and pine from Christmas Poinsettia. 

Color Recipe for the Amaryllis using
Stampin' Up Inks

Layer 1 Pretty in Pink

Layer 2 Polished Pink

Layer 3 Magenta Madness

Layer 4 Raspberry Ripple

The pines were stamped using only layer 1 in Mossy Meadow. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Claire Nocturne and the edges were sponged with Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide ink.

I still have more Christmas cards to go. Most of my holiday cards this year are featuring the amaryllis. The blossoms are so beautiful and it is so easy to stamp.

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!!

CCEE2049 - Family Traditions

As the hostess for the CCEE Stampers this December, I have asked the CCEE Stampers to create a project that represents one of the Christmas traditions celebrated at their house. I told them that mine may just be one of the wackiest!

At my house we have many Christmas traditions that we hold fast to each year, but the wonderfully wacky one involves a rubber chicken that one person in the family receives every year. They must then find an ingenious way to repurpose the chicken and pass it on to someone new the following year.

Below I have photographed 2 scrapbook pages that I did in 2013 which features "Chick Flicks" made for me by my granddaughter, Piper, in 2012. Beside that page to the left you see "Wild Chicken Whisky" presented to my husband by our son in 2015. I can't wait to see who gets the chicken this year, and what it will look like!!

My chicken card today features a chicken from Stampin' Up and a sentiment from Impression Obsession. The designer paper is Graphic 45.

Learn about the Christmas tradition in the households of our other CCEE Design Team Members below:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

December Stamp Release - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I am posting an array of KSS sponsored cards in this post so that you can get a good look at the four new stamp sets releasing today at Kitchen Sink Stamps. 

The December 2021 sets include:

Angel's Wings

Champagne Cheer

Musical Things 4 Teddy

Bubbles All Around

This first card features images, SVG cut files, and sentiments from Angel's Wings. It was done for the Technique Lover's Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers. The clouds were cut with a cloud die from Fawn Lawn. You can read about the Sentiment Down Under Technique here. 

This second card is a card for a friend whose husband passed away just over a year ago. It was done with a light watercolor wash background on watercolor paper. I used the SVG cut files for the wings. The heart was created with a Darice die.

The new Champagne Cheers set is packed with lots of fun sentiments, confetti, streamers, and the champagne flute. It is perfect to create a card of celebration for so many occasions! Such fun! The streamers and champagne flute were cut with my Cricuit Joy using the SVG files available at KSS. Don't forget that they are free if you add them to your cart at the time that you purchase the set.

On this second card with Champagne Cheers, I used the new Bubbles All Around set to create the background.

I added the trumpet from Musical Things 4 Teddy to Teddy Bear Wishes, Things for Ducky and Teddy, and Christmas Poinsettia to get another Christmas card made. I am so, so far behind!! The embossed holiday background is from Tim Holtz and the holly designer paper is from the Paper Studio as is the holly sticker. All the KSS images were stamped on SVG cut images.

Don't overlook the awesome creations Maria and Nancy have for you using these new images!!

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!!

Celebrate with Song - CCEE2148

It is my honor to get to host the December challenges for the CCEE Stampers as we close out 2021.

Music plays a huge part in the celebration of the Christmas holidays for many, many people. We hear holiday music played in churches, piped to us in stores, coming through our radios, and featured on holiday specials on T.V. throughout the month of December.

For today's challenge, "Celebrate with Song," I am asking that the CCEE Stampers use song lyrics from a holiday song (either secular or religious) as the sentiment on the front of a Christmas design. 

I have chosen one of the songs I always loved hearing at Christmas Eve services during my childhood. It still gives me goosebumps to this day.

Images used to create this card include:

Come to Bethlehem by Stampin' Up

Cover-a-Car Universe by Impression Obsession

Sentiment by Stampabilities

Visit the blogs of our Design Team to see their creations inspired by holiday songs!

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam