Flip Flap Interactive Card

I have been busy working on some samples for some new Kitchen Sink Stamps sets coming out in the next few weeks, so I didn't get today's card designed until TODAY! I hate when that happens, but sometimes it does!

And when it does, I usually check in at Splitcoaststampers to see what kind of challenges they have posted for the day. The Clean and Simple Challenge was to create a card with candles. That didn't appeal to me so I moved on to the Try a New Technique Challenge. Sabrina Friel, the hostess for this challenge, asked participants to create a Flip Flap Card. Well, I don't usually go in for fancy folds as they require too much precision and fiddling around to get them to work properly. After reading the SCS tutorial by Beth Rush and watching her YouTube video twice, I decided to give it a go.

So here are two views of today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card:

Here are the results of my efforts:

Front

Pull the tab and:

Kitchen Sink Stamp Sets Used:

Fisherman's Hat and Tackle Multi Step Clear Stamps

Fishing Creel & Reel Multi Step Clear Stamps

Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps

Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Words 4 Celebrating Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Hat

Layer 4 - PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 3 - SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 - SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 1 - PTI Desert Sand

Layer 5 - Memento Pistachio

Color Recipe for the Creel

Layer 4 - PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 3 - Memento Potter's Clay

Layer 2 - PTI Fine Linen

Layer 1 - Memento Desert Sand

Recipe for the Bass

Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3 - SU Old Olive

Layer 2 - SU Sage Shadow

Layer 1 - SU Barely Banana

 This card was entered in the following challenge:

Splitcoaststampers TLC761

A Place to Start - September, 2019 Challenge - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Masking 

Alphabet Challenge - M is for Masculine

Simon Says Stamp: Interactive

Stinkin' Inkers Challenge Blog - Fancy Folds

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!!

National Catfish Day

After discovering that June 25th is National Catfish Day, Lois Bak (our June CCEE Challenge Hostess) has asked that the CCEE Stampers create a card that has some kind of fish or sea life on it.

I don't have a catfish in my collection, but I do have a bass!

Want to see what sea creatures there rest of the CCEE DT featured?

Check below:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

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 - Marlin Birthday

I have a fisherman friend who is having a birthday this coming week so today's card, sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, was created with him in mind. It features the large marlin from Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps and the fishnet from Ocean Waters Multi Step Clear Stamps.

The embossed anchors are made using the Yacht Club Embossing Folder by Bella Carta. The die cut steering wheel is from Couture Creations. The die cut starfish is by Cuttlebug and the punched grass is by Martha Stewart.

Color Recipe for the Marlin:

Layer 5 - Stampin' Up Blueberry Bliss

Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Balmy Blue

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite (lower half of fish only)

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Gray (lower half of fish only)

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone with Memento Dandelion added to the stomach area

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge #441 - Animals

Ike's World - #117 - B for Blue

Papercraft Challenges #31 - All the Critters

More Kitchen Sink Stamps Creations Can Be Found Below!!

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,
the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Summer's End at Salty Kisses

Today's Let's Make a Scene card sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps was inspired by a long gone burger joint at Quintana Beach in Brazoria County called Jeff's at the Jetties. My husband and I would love to go there just before sunset with friends to enjoy the beauty of the beach as well as the fabulous burgers, adult beverages, and hours of adult conversation! We closed that place down many a warm summer night.

So for my card today, I have stamped a palopa roofed cabana which I named Salty Kisses in the foreground and the sunset in the back.

Here are the sets I used to construct this design:

Palm Trees Multi-Step Clear Stamps
Ocean Waters Multi-Step Clear Stamps
Deep Sea Marlin Multi-Step Clear Stamps
Sail Boats Multi-Step Clear Stamps
Honey Bunny Multi-Step Clear Stamps

The seagulls are die cuts from Seagulls on Piling by Memory Box.

I have entered today's  card in Challenge 75 "Create a Scene" at Always Fun Challenges.

Be further inspired by the work of the Kitchen Sink Crew:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Summer Home - KSS - Let's Make a Scene

I must apologize in advance! I know this is not the second or fourth Monday when I always post Let's Make a Scene designs sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, but this card has been haunting me in my dreams, and I could not force myself to save it for next week! I love it too much!! It also fits perfectly in International Art & Soul's current challenge - #40 Marine, Ocean or Sea.

Even though I only spend a few days renting a condo on the beach each year, I always love every minute of it. This year the temperatures were in the freezing range when I was there in December, but I loved it just the same!

The places I have rented are always decked out to the nth degree in sea creatures and images of every nautical kind. I knew the Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps would be a perfect fit for this seaside cabin.  I mounted the small marlin on a wood plank oval and make a Salty Kisses plaque out of the sentiment. Outside the window is a sailboat headed in to dock for the night.

I love making inside-the-house-looking-out scenes. You may remember this one I made for my daughter-in-law for Mother's Day and this one I made for a dog-loving friend's winter birthday.

The designer paper I used for wallpaper for today's nautical design is from Ahoy There by Alisha Gordon & Kasie Fry for Carta Bella.

Kitchen Sink Stamps Used for this Scene Include:

Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Ocean Waters Multi Step Clear Stamps

Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Sail Boats Multi Step Clear Stamps

Baseball Multi Step Clear Stamps (wooden oval for the marlin)

Color Recipe for the Marlin

Layer 5 - Memento Danube Blue

Layer 4 - PTI Hawaiian Shores

Layer 3 - SU Going Gray on belly side only stamped 3 times

Layer 2 - SU Going Gray on belly side only

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone with SU Pineapple on the belly

The window die is by Poppy Stamps

Maria and Jeanne each have wonderful Kitchen Sink Stamps creations to share with you today. Don't miss a chance to see what delights they have designed.

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,
the owner and creator of KSS


Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today.

What's Cooking in the Kitchen?

Today is a big day for Kitchen Sink Stamps with 4 brand new sets being released. Two of the sets are ocean related: Ocean Waters Multi Step Clear Stamps and Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps.  The other two may just inspire you to get started on your holiday cards. They are Figure Skates Multi Step Clear Stamps and Big & Bold Christmas Greetings Clear Stamps.

And, of course, it is the second Monday which means I had the opportunity to work one of them into this week's Let's Make a Scene design. I think it makes the perfect January birthday card for my "way up north" friend.

KSS Sets used in this scene include:

Figure Skates Multi Step Clear Stamps

Tiny Norway Pine Multi Step Clear Stamps (Junkie Fest 2018)

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Skates:

Layer 5 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite

Layer 3  - Stampin' Up Going Gray

Layer 2 - PTI Soft Stone

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone on the blades and back edge of the right skate only

Color Recipe for the Tiny Norway Pine:

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Old Olive

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Lemon Lime Twist

The card front was embossed with snowflakes and die cut snowflakes were glittered and layered as embellishments.

Next up is a masculine birthday card created with Ocean Waters Multi Step Clear Stamps and Deep Sea Marlin Multi Step Clear Stamps.

This card was entered in the Allsorts Challenge Blog Week 480/1 From Boys to Men Challenge.

Color Recipe for the Marlin:

Layer 5 - Stampin' Up Blueberry Bliss

Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Balmy Blue

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite (lower half of fish only)

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Gray (lower half of fish only)

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone with Memento Dandelion added to the stomach area

Color Recipe for the Ocean Waters

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Balmy Blue

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Soft Sky

A die cut sand dollar, starfish, and seaweed sprigs were added as embellishments on the fish net which was stamped in Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar.

I am ending today's preview of the new stamp sets with this clean and simple one layer Christmas card which was made with Big & Bold Christmas Greetings Clear Stamps, Build a Garland Multi Step Clear Stamps, and Christmas Lights Multi Step Clear Stamps.

I have entered this card in the challenge at Sweet Stampin' - Christmas in August.

Recipe for Pine Sprig

Layer 3 - Memento Olive Grove

Layer 2 - Memento Bamboo Leaves stamped twice

Layer 1 - Memento Bamboo Leaves

Recipe for the Light Bulb

Layer 4 -  Memento Rhubarb Stalk (top of bulb only)

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Lovely Lipstick (top of bulb only)

Layer 2 - Memento Lady Bug (top of bulb only)

Layer 1 - Memento Love Letter (top of bulb only)

I hand cut a socket for the lightbulb out of red rubber and stamped it with Memento Olive Grove. The wire was hand-drawn with a Copic marker. The glow of the bulb was brushed on with Distress Oxide Barn Door. The sentiment was also stamped with Barn Door.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing the new releases. Visit Kitchen Sink Crew members Maria and Jeanne to see more projects with these new images.

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz