Two Celebrations - Kitchen Sink Stamps

There are two celebrations going on in my life this week! The first one is my youngest granddaughter's birthday She and her sweet husband have just returned from a Greek honeymoon so I have decided to create a Texas beach card for her big day! Our beaches don't compare to those on the Mediterranean Sea, but I hope she will get a kick out of it.

This Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design uses images from the following sets:

Summer Splashes

Beachcomber's Bounty

Make a Big Statement

Rubber Ducky

I folded a scrap of designer paper to create the towel and added some sticker jewels to embellish the flip flops! 

This card has been entered in the following challenge:

Cardz 4 Galz - Challenge #227 - Summer Fun

The second celebration, of course, is Father's Day. My dad has always delighted in putting out the American flag on this front porch on patriotic holidays. At 95 years old, he is no longer able to manage that trip up the ladder. As part of his Father's Day gift this year, my sister and I have enrolled him in the "Lease a Flag" Program sponsored by a local Boy Scout Troop.  They will place a flag in his front yard the week of every patriotic holiday throughout the year! I think he will love his gift!!

Below is the card I have created to let him know about his gift.

It was created with Stars & Stripes American Flag and Bold Holiday Greetings by Kitchen Sink Stamps.

This card was entered in the following challenge:

 Allsorts Challenge - Week 785 - Masculine

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 Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

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Sun & Fun - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I am offering up more Sun & Fun with today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card. This design was constructed using the following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Beachcomber's Bounty

Sea Shells (sand dollar)

Summer Splashes (sentiment)

Lighthouse (seagulls)

Seaside Seagull (marsh grass)

The ocean waves were created using the SVG cut stencil Waves & Splashes.

I have entered this card in the following challenges this week:

Wednesday's Creative Inspiration Challenge Blog: July Challenge - Feathered Friends

Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #295 - Use Stencils

As You See It Challenge: Challenge #304 - Summertime and the Livin' is Easy

Fab' n' Funky Challenges - Challenge #578 - Summer Fun

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Tropical

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!!

Tiki Time - Slimline Pop-Up Card - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card is a fun slimline pop-up card created to celebrate the beach!! I have used images from the following KSS sets to construct this design:

Summer Splashes

Tiki Time

Beachcomber's Bounty

Palm Trees

Seaside Seagull

Hawaiian Greetings

Plumeria

I have entered this design in the following challenges this week:

Stamping Sensations - Summer Flowers

Daring Cardmakers - Summer Drinks

Secrets to Stamping - Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #62

Little Bit of Rainbow - BB90 - It's Hot As July

My Time to Craft - MTTC #512 - Summertime Waterplay

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!!

Perfection - Best Day Ever! - Kitchen Sink Stamps

What could be better than a day on a Hawaiian beach? I wasn't sure that Hawaii had lighthouses, but I checked it out, and sure enough, they do! So I created this Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card featuring all the elements that would make up my Best Day Ever!

My intention was to create the spray of plumeria across the top of the card by masking and stamping it directly on the card front. I got all the way to the last plumeria at the bottom when I made a horrible misstep and ruined the whole thing. But, guess what!! SVG cut file to the rescue! I restamped the lower plumeria more to my liking on the SVG cut out and glued it over the boo boo! Card saved!!

The images used to create this card come from the following KSS sets:

Plumeria

Lighthouse

Cabin by the Lake

Summer Splashes

Beachcomber's Bounty

Sea Shells

Hawaiian Greetings

Color Recipe for the Plumeria Using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 Blush
Layer 2 Pink Pearl
Layer 3 Rouge
Layer 4 Coral Bliss
Layer 5 Vintage Berry
Layer 6 Mocha

Color Recipe for the Leaves Using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 Parrot
Layer 2 Just Grass
Layer 3 Shadow Creek

Color Recipe for the Lighthouse Using Stampin' Up

Layer 1 Creamy Caramel
Layer 2 Close to Cocoa
Layer 3 Baked Brown Sugar
Layer 4 Chocolate Chip

Color Recipe for the Flip Flops Using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 Blush
Layer 2 Pink Pearl
Layer 3 Rouge
Layer 4 Coral Bliss

The hibiscus from Hawaiian Greeting was then stamped on the SVG cut flip flops using Deep Iris. I then glued on jeweled flower stickers by the Paper Studio as additional decoration for the flip flops.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - August Challenge - Summer Fun

Gem of a Challenge - Challenge 18 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Lots of Layers

Crafter's Castle - August Challenge #44 - Anything Goes

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!!

SCS Free 4 All Challenge - End of Summer

I still had these bits and pieces laying around on my desk when I read about the End of Summer Free 4 All Challenge at Splitcoaststampers. Pulled this card together in no time at all! The beach ball and sentiment are from Summer Splashes which released on Monday. The waves were created with this SVG cut stencil.

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!!

5 O'Clock is CHEER!! - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I can't seem to put down these wonderful tropical images from Kitchen Sink Stamps. They take me to the beach when I am not able to get there! For today's cards I have used something from every one of the new release sets and then some!

Tiki Time

Plumeria

Summer Splashes

Beachcomber's Bounty

Hawaiian Greetings

Sea Shells

Ocean Waters 

This first card was created for Sketch Challenge #867 at Splitcoaststampers. I used a brick embossing folder on the card front and added an angled strip of Graphic 45 designer paper. The tiki mug, plumeria, umbrella, and board sign were cut from white card stock using the KSS SVG cut files before they were stamped.

For this second card, I grounded the flip flops and shells by stamping the fishnet from Ocean Waters across the bottom corner of the card at an angle before attaching the stamped images.

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!!

Summer Fun - Kitchen Sink Stamps

The Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card I am sharing with you today uses two of their newly released beach themed sets: Summer Splashes and Beachcomber's Bounty. 

The companion SVG cut files for Summer Splashes were used to cut the sentiment and the beach ball. The hands were cut using dies from Impression Obsession. The ocean was created using the SVG die cut stencil Waves and Splashes, also from Kitchen Sink Stamps.

This card has been entered in the following challenges:

Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog - Challenge #429 - Water/Beach

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - August Challenge - Summer Fun

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - Challenge 185 - Beach/Under the Sea

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!!

A Trip to the Beach - Kitchen Sink Stamps

We are celebrating one of the best places on earth to be during these final days of summer with the newest releases from Kitchen Sink Stamps: THE BEACH! There is no place I would rather be, any time of the year. 

Available for purchase today at Kitchen Sink Stamps are these fabulous new sets:

Summer Splashes

Beachcomber's Bounty

Plumeria

Tiki Time

and

Hawaiian Greetings

I will be sharing you Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored cards I have created with these delightful sets throughout the week, but thought I would get started today with the following cards.

This first slimline design features the fabulously fun flip flops and some of the great sentiments which are a part of the Summer Splashes set. The flip flops which were cut with the SVG file available for this set are decorated with a hibiscus which is an image found in the Hawaiian Greetings set. The small shell is an image from Beachcomber's Bounty while the small star fish is from the Sea Shells sets which has been in the store for a good while.

Color Recipe for the Flip Flops
Using Altenew Inks

1 - Blush

2 - Pink Pearl

3 - Rouge

4- Coral Bliss

The hibiscus were then added using Deep Iris

The striped designer paper making the towel on the beach is from American Crafts while the torn ocean papers and kraft beach are by the Paper Studio.

The sky is Bazzill blue and the card base is Watermelon Wonder by Stampin' Up as is the Painted Texture embossing folder used on the sand

This second card features the gorgeous Plumeria set which contains three different blooms and two leaves. I also used the SVG cut files for these flowers and leaves which make for easy arranging of the stunning blossoms and leaves without the need for masking. Attached is the color recipe I used for the flowers. You will notice on the color recipe that I did not stamp layer one as I wanted white highlights on the blossoms. The sentiment if from Hawaiian Greetings.

Color Recipe for the Plumeria
Using Altenew Inks

Color Recipe for the Plumeria Leaves

Using Altenew Inks

1 Grass Field
2 Hunter Green
3 Evergreen

This final card today is a Happy Hour card using images from Tiki Time, Plumeria, Sail Boats, and Palm Trees. The card base is Orchid Opulence and Watermelon Wonder by Stampin' Up. The table was created with woodgrain paper by the Paper Studio while I stamped the images on Recollections white card stock. SVG cut files were used for the plumeria, the tiki cup, and the drink umbrella.

Color Recipe for the Plumeria 
Using Stampin' Up Inks

Color Recipe for the Tiki Cup
Using Altenew Inks

1 Sand Dunes
2 Rocky Shore
3 Mocha
4 Espresso

I'll be back tomorrow with more fun card using this new sets from Kitchen Sink Stamps. Thank you for coming by to see my work today!!

For additional designs featuring these wonderful new images from 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!!