All Aglow - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I am having such fun designing with Kitchen Sink Stamps' Christmas Lights 2020. What could be more colorful and festive for a holiday card? This card is my KSS sponsored design for this week! The sentiment is from Big & Bold Christmas Greetings, also by Kitchen Sink Stamps.

This one layer design was stamped with Altenew inks on an A2 white cardbase.

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

Splitcoaststampers -  Clean and Simple Challenge #771

The Paper Players - Challenge PP669 - Theme - Christmas

Inspire. Create Challenge - Challenge #157 - Theme - Christmas

613 Avenue Create - December 2023 - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist - Any Winter Holiday

Less is More - Challenge #497 - D is for Deck the Halls

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!!

Holiday Lights - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Last weekend I went hog-wild making a large tub of  holiday lights from the Kitchen Sink Stamps set Christmas Lights 2020 so that I could get serious about creating my Christmas cards for this year. This delightful little set has three different light bulbs and two styles of sockets, as well as a wire stamp which you can use to connect the lights into a string. There are also several tiny one layer light bulbs. What a bargain for $10.50!

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I have used the small round bulb and straight socket for the first card and the large bulb and slanted socket for the second! Black cording was used for the wire, framing, and bow. The pine sprigs and sentiments are from Christmas Poinsettia.

For both of these 5 x 7 inch holiday cards, I stamped images from Snowy Pine Trees on a white panel and laid a designer paper oval frame cut from a holiday pad from the Paper Studio over them before adding the sockets and light bulbs. I fussy cut the bulbs and sockets. After gluing them down, I added the black cording and sentiments.

This first card has been entered in the following challenges this week:

Stamping Sensations - November Challenge - Get Ready for Christmas

Peace on Earth - Christmas Challenge #52

Allsorts Challenge - Week #756 - Colors of Winter/Anything Goes

As You See It - Challenge #312 - The Most Wonderful Time - Christmas - The festive holiday lights are part of what make this season so magical to me. They are popping up everywhere in my neighborhood!

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!!

Happy Holidays - Kitchen Sink Stamps

The turkey and dressing are ready for the oven, but here at my house, the Christmas card bin is almost bare!! I have never been this unprepared for Christmas. For that reason today's Kitchen Sink sponsored design is a slimline holiday design featuring images from Christmas Lights 2020, Icy Pond, Owl & Autumn Moon, Snowy Cabin, and Christmas Poinsettia. The sentiment was embossed with gold, and I added some glittery holly stickers from the Paper Studio. The lights and wires were stamped with Altenew inks.

This card has been entered in the following challenges this week:

Hobby Vision - Challenge #139 - White Christmas

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge - Challenge #59

613 Avenue Create - November 2023 Challenge - Embossing - Wet or Dry

Allsorts Challenge - Week 755 - Christmas Time

Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #303 - Seasonal

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!!

Merry Christmas from my Beach to Yours!! - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I'm CERTAIN this never happens at your house, but it has happened again to me this year. Just when I get all my Christmas cards created, signed, addressed, and mailed, here comes another one from an unexpected  source.

So while I thought my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card today would be one celebrating the New Year, instead I am still cranking out Christmas cards.

Today's card features images from Palm Trees, Christmas Lights, and Christmas Poinsettia (the sentiment).

I will be celebrating Christmas with my little "core" family at the beach again this year. We have grown by two members in 2022: a fiance' for granddaughter#2 and a precious baby boy for granddaughter #1 and her husband).   What fun awaits!!

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!!

Trim the Tree - Kitchen Sink Stamps

With no one planning to be here for Thanksgiving, I have decided to get out my Christmas decorations and trim the tree this week! I so enjoy the twinkling lights on the tree in the evening so I expect that it will lift my spirits as we move toward Christmas and the New Year that follows. I am certain that most, like me, are ready to see 2020 come to an end.

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is a slimline holiday card created using the following sets:

Gingerbread Family

Teardrop Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Lights 2020

Big & Bold Christmas Greetings 

Color Recipes Used Today

Pines using Stampin' Up Inks

Layer 1 Cucumber Crush
Layer 2 Garden Green
Layer 3 Mossy Meadow

Gingerbread Boy and Girl using Aletnew Inks

Layer 1 Buttercream

Layer 2 Rocky Shore

Layer 3 Mocha

Light Sockets using Stampin' Up Inks

Layer 1 Mossy Meadow

Layer 2 Forest Foilage

Light Bulbs using Stampin' Up Inks

Layer 1 Watermelon Wonder

Layer 2 Real Red

Layer 3 Berry Burst

Teardrop Ornaments using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 Lavender Fields

Layer 2 Deep Iris

Layer 3 Midnight Violet

Pine Cones using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 Rocky Shores

Layer 2 Rocky Shores

Layer 3 Mocha

Layer 4 Espresso

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!!