One Cup at a Time - Kitchen Sink Stamps

For this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I reached for the Coffee & Friends set, as well as Heart & Roses (which was the very first KSS set I ever purchased way back in 2008). I am never able to start my day without a heavily creamed cup of steaming coffee. It always gets the day off to a good start and sets the tone for tackling the challenges of the day!

Today for the first time, I stamped the coffee cup and saucer twice. Once in reds and once in yellows. I then trimmed the yellow cup off of its saucer and glued it to the top of the red cup and saucer. I like the contrast of color and hope you do, too! The cup and saucer, as well as the rosebud, stem, and leaves  were stamped on cut SVG files also available at Kitchen Sink Stamps. They were then arranged and glued on the speckled pink cardfront. All inks are by Altenew except for the Versafine Clair Pinecone sentiment.

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

Night Owls - Challenge #33 - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Week #764 - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - U is for Under Something

Simply Create Too Challenge Blog - Challenge #196 - Warm & Cozy

Just Us Girls - Challenge #710 - Moodboard

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!!

CCEE2045 - Letter to Santa

 Hostess Kelly McKown-Santi is sharing a delightful holiday challenge for the CCEE Stampers this week. Christmas will be here before you know it, so Kelly is getting us started on some holiday fun!

This week, she has asked the CCEE Stampers to make a card featuring a letter to Santa. 

I have used images for Gingerbread Family and Coffee & Friends by Kitchen Sink Stamps to create this holiday card. The letter was computer generated.

I'm going to head over the the CCEE Stampers Blog and read the Santa letters used by the rest of the CCEE Stampers Design Team! Come with me!!

Kelly McKown-Santi
Anne Harmon

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Manal Habib

Hazel Estibeiro

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!!

Another Coffee Valentine - KSS

Most of my dearest friends are coffee-lovers, so I am still working on coffee Valentines to get to the post office today! This simple Valentine sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps uses the coffee cup from Coffee & Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps and words  from various KSS sets! The designer paper if Clean Cup by American Crafts.

A Latte Love is another coffee inspired Valentine I am sending out to a friend this week!

Color Recipe for the Cup and Saucer

Layer 4 Memento Love Letter stamped twice

Layer 3 Memento Lady Bug stamped twice

Layer 2 Memento Lady Bug

Layer 1 Memento Lady Bug

Color Recipe for the Coffee

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Layer 2 SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 3 ST Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 4 Memento Espresso Truffle

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!!

But First...Coffee KSS

I have been waiting a while for Maria to put out her fabulous new coffee sets, and now that they are here, I can't seem to put them down. Who could resist two of their favorite things combined together: stamping and coffee? The Keep Calm Coffee Mug is so much fun to decorate.

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card, I have  stamped the Keep Calm Coffee Mug using Stampin' Up Bashful Blue on all 4 layers, and then decorated it with wintery images from Icy Pond and Snowy Cabin. The images you see through the window are also from the same two sets. The sentiment is from Coffee & Friends.

The designer paper wallpaper is from Early Bird Collection by Bo Bunny while the woodgrain tabletop is designer paper from the Paper Studio and the window die is by Poppy Stamps.

Color Recipe for Mug

All layers for the mug and the lake were stamped with SU Bashful Blue. All the silhouettes were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black

Color Recipe for the Cabin

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 2 Memento Toffee Crunch

Layer 1  Memento Desert Sand

Layer 1 of the Roof Stampin' Up Bashful Blue on the top ridge of the roof only.

Color Recipe for the Pines

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Forest Foliage

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Old Olive

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Always Artichoke

Skeleton Tree in window and sentiment - Memento Espresso Truffle

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

CCEE Stampers 1945 - Coffee

the Paper Players - Challenge PP466 - Into the Woods

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - #117 - Anything Goes

Pixie's Crafty Workshop Challenge #364 - Anything Goes

Avenue 613 Challenge #227 Anything Goes w/optinal twist: Scrap Your Stash

  I used a Bo Bunny scrap for the wallpaper and a scrap from the Paper Studio for the

  woodgrain tabletop.

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!!

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!!

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!!

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!!

Coffee, Please! - KSS

I am starting today exactly the way I start every morning, by putting on a pot of my favorite coffee! I guess you could say it is an obsession. I can't start my day without it!

So you know for sure, how excited I am that my two Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored cards this week were created with two brand new coffee sets being released by Kitchen Sink Stamps tomorrow.

The first set is called Keep Calm Coffee Mug. It is a simple, unadorned mug ready for you to stamp with the words or designs of your choice. The set comes with a fun mix of sentiments which are coffee related, of course.

Kitchen Sink Stamps Used in this Design

Keep Calm Coffee Mug Multi Step Clear Stamps

Enchanted Dogwood Multi Step Clear Stamps

Baby Multi Step Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Coffee Mug:

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink stamped twice

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink

Layer 1 Memento Angel Pink

Color Recipe for the Dogwood:

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Strawberry Slush

Layer 3 (petals only) Stampin' Up Strawberry Slush

Layer 3 (center only) Stampin' Up Certainly Celery

Layer 2 (petals only) Stampin' Up Regal Rose

Layer 2 (center only) Stampin' Up Certainly Celery

Layer 1 (petals only) Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink

Layer 5 Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade

Color Recipe for the Spoon

Layer 3 - Memento London Fog

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Granite Gray

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone

Sentiment and Steam - Memento Espresso Truffle

The second set is called Coffee & Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps and also has a great assortment of fun sentiments. All the images on this card come from that set.

Color Recipe for the Coffee:

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel

Layer 2 Memento Desert Sand

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Color Recipe for Coffee Cup:

Layer 4 PTI Hawaiian Shores

Layer 3 PTI Aqua Mist

Layer 2 PTI Aqua Mist

Layer 1 PTI Aqua Mist stamped off once

Sentiment - Memento Espresso Truffle

This card has been entered in the following challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - #504 - Include a Beverage

Fusion - Coffee

I can tell already that I am going to have a great time crafting cards for my coffee-drinking friends with these two fabulous sets!! My mind is spinning with ideas!!

Thanks for visiting today! If you love coffee like I do, head over to 
Kitchen Sink Stamps

tomorrow morning and add these wonderful sets

to your stamp collection!

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!!