Daffodil Thanks - KSS

There have been so many kindness shown to me during this strange time in our lives. So I continue to need to add Thank You cards to my stash. They seem to headed to the post office as fast as I make them. 

So today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card is a spring thank you card featuring the wonderful images from Spring Daffodils Multi Step Clear Stamps with a hint of grass from Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps and the Thanks from Forest Toadstool Multi Step Clear Stamps.

Color Recipes for the Daffodils

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Barely Banana

Layer 2 - Memento Dandelion

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Crushed Curry

Layer 4 - Memento Peanut Brittle

Color Recipe for the Stems and Leaves

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Granny Apple Green

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Color Recipe for the Frog

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Pistachio Pudding

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Pear Pizzazz

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Color Recipe for the Dragonfly

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Smoky Slate

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite

NEWS from the KITCHEN
Be on the lookout for new stamp releases before the month is over!
I am so excited about sharing the new images with you!

I am entering today's thank you card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' - Thank You

Crafty Friends Challenge 135 - Flowers

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Challenge #132 - Always Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Say It with Flowers

Gem of a Challenge - Week 10 - Anything Goes Craft & Card Making Challenge

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!!

Fungus and Fern - KSS

Well, Mother's Day is behind us so that means it is time to get the thank you notes out. If I don't do it today, I'll keep putting it off and putting it off until it never gets done (like Christmas last year- my bad)!

I belong to a lovely group of ladies over on Splitcoaststampers who create cards focusing on the letters of the alphabet! This week's letter is F so for this Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored thank you card today, I have included fungus and fern using images from Forest Toadstool Multi Step Clear Stamps and Big Leaves Multi Step Clear Stamps. The designer paper is from Wild Heart by Crate Paper. The cardstock is Blushing Bride and Soft Sea Foam from Stampin' Up.

Color Recipe for the Mushroom

Layer 1 for the cap and stem - Stampin' Up Petal Pink

Layer 2 for the cap - Stampin' Up Petal Pink

Layer 3 for the Cap - Stampin' Up Grapefruit Grove

Layer 4 for the cap - Stampin' Up Apricot Appeal

Layer 2 for the stem - Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel

Layer 3 for the stem - Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Color Recipe for the Fern

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Garden Green

I omitted Layer 2

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Forest Foliage

The sentiment was stamped with Stampin' Up Forest Foliage

I am entering today's card in the following challenges:

Splitcoaststampers Alphabet Challenge - the letter F

Crafting Happiness Challenge #48 - Anything Goes with Options Twist - Nature

All Fun Challenges - Challenge #8 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Weeks 571/2 - Anything Goes

Gem of a Challenge - Week 10 Anything Goes Craft and Card Making Challenge

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!!

Let's Make a Scene - Fairy Ring - KSS

Today's Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps was inspired by something I saw while out walking in the neighborhood this week.  One of my neighbors had a circle of toadstools growing in their front yard. In many countries they call a circle of toadstools is a fairy ring. There are many legends surrounding a fairy ring. Some of them are quite dark and scary, but some of them suggest that finding one can actually bring you good luck. Here is a link to an interesting article about fairy rings from Garden Collage magazine.

I have chosen a sentiment that could work for bad luck (when said sarcastically) or (said literally) for good luck.

Kitchen Sink Stamps Sets Used:

Forest Toadstools Multi Step Clear Stamps

Spring Daffodils Multi Step Clear Stamps

Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps

Ladybug Hugs Multi Step Clear Stamps

Words 4 Celebrating Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Toadstools

Stem

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 1 Momento Desert Sand

Cap

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Calypso Coral

Layer 2 Momento Tangelo

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Crushed Curry

The tree trucks were created with a woodgrain stencil by Momenta. Some of the grass was cut with a Grassy Edges die by My Favorite things and the stamped grass was from KSS Honey Bunny.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations - May Challenge - English Country Garden

The Fairy and The Unicorn - May Challenge - Anything Goes

Your Next Stamp - Challenge #113 - How Does Your Garden Grow?

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!!

Let's Make a Spring Scene - KSS

Today's Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps is a card I make for Mother Mark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge #554 over at Splitcoaststampers last week. One of my cyber stamping friends has been battling some serious health issues in the past few months, and the Teapotters (of which I am one) wanted to cheer and encourage her with cards of her favorite type - scenes!! Well, they are my favorite, too, and hers is one of the sweet cyber friendships I have made and hold dear over my years on the internet.

So here is the card that went in the mail to Tonda this week! It is an expanded version of the card I made last week. Today's card has an added peek out the kitchen window at the bluebonnets growing in the yard!

The designer papers are from My Mind's Eye. The window die is from Poppy Stamps, and the small jar die is from Stampin' Up.  I used part of the crocheted edge from an antique handkerchief to trim the tablecloth and a bit of twine around the jar.

The Kitchen Sink images come from the following sets:

Bluebonnets Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Forest Toadstool Multi Step Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Bluebonnets:

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Blueberry Burst

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Balmy Blue

Layer 2 Memento Summer Sky

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Barely Banana (tips of flowers only)

Leaves and Stems - 

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Old Olive

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Spring or Green

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog - Create a Scene

Additional Kitchen Sink Stamps inspiration can be found linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

I have one potted bluebonnet that is just beginning to put on flowers, so it won't be but another week or two before the fields along Texas roadsides will be filled with them!!!

An interesting fact about bluebonnets, when they have bloomed out (in about a month) and go to seed, you can actually hear the seed pods pop open scattering seeds for next year's crop.

Backporch Texas - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's card sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps is going to a dear friend who has helped me in so very many ways. On Valentine's Day I received the sweetest card from her saying she wanted to visit the San Felipe de Austin Museum to tour the site as well as see the fields of bluebonnets that blanket it. My son has worked on this project since its conception over ten years ago and continues to be the site manager there since its opening in April of 2018.

Well, the Texas bluebonnets have started blooming and will be covering the fields there in about a week! This card is going to her today as an invitation for a private tour of the museum and site. It helps to have connections!

To create this card which I have titled Backporch Texas, I have used images from the following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Bluebonnets Multi Step Clear Stamps

Spring Daffodils Multi Step Clear Stamps (dragonfly)

Forest Toadstool Multi Step Clear Stamps (sentiment)

The orange table cloth is a nod to the Indian Paint Brushes that line the Texas highways during this colorful time of the year as well!!

Color Recipe for the Bluebonnets

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Blueberry Burst

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Balmy Blue

Layer 2 Memento Summer Sky

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Barely Banana (tips of flowers only)

Leaves and Stems - Stampin' Up Old Olive

Color Recipe for the Dragonfly

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Gray Granite

Layer 2 Versafine Onyx Black

The mason jar die is from Stampin' Up, and I added crocheted lace trim for the tablecloth and a twine wrap and bow to the jar.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - For a Special Female

The Paper Players - #431 Spring Fever

Allsorts - #509 - What's Your Favorite Season

Craft Dee Bowz - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow

View More Kitchen Sink Stamps Goodness Below!

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

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Toadstools, Ladybugs, and Quail

As I promised last week, today is the day that Kitchen Sink Stamps is releasing three wonderful new sets:

Forest Toadstools Multi Step Clear Stamps

Ladybug Hugs Multi Step Clear Stamps

and

California Quail Multi Step Clear Stamps

Since today is the 4th Monday of October, I have chosen one of them to feature in today's Let's Make a Scene design:  Forest Toadstools Multi Step Clear Stamps. Because of the size of the toadstools and the cute snail that comes with them, I had little need to use much from any other set. The only thing on this design which is not a part of Forest Toadstools is the grass at the bottom which most of you know I pull from Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps. One great thing about the toadstool set is it includes a base stamp for each of the three large toadstools which makes joining the cap to the stem so easy when you start to stamp.

I am entering this card in the Stamping Sensations October Challenge - Shades of Autumn.

I stamped all three of the toadstool base stamps first in Memento Desert Sand.

Color Recipe for the Toadstool Stems

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 - PTI Classic Kraft

Layer 1 - Memento Desert Sand

Color Recipe for the Caps of the Toadstools

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Only Orange

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Mango Melody

Layer 1 - Memento Cantaloupe

Color Recipe for the Snail

Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 - PTI Classic Kraft

Layer 1 - PTI Fine Linen

Once these were stamped, I masked the three toadstools and the snail to brush on the background. I then added the baby toadstools and dotted them with spots of white paint. The grass was stamped last and then the sentiment added on top.

My ladybug card uses only images from the Ladybug Hugs Multi Step Clear Stamps set. I stamped the ladybug directly on my designer paper from Simple Stories: Wood and Gingham Basics by the Paper Studio.

Color Recipe for the Ladybug

Layer 1 - Memento Ladybug

Layer 2 - Memento Love Letter

Layer 3 - Memento Rhubarb Stalk

Layer 4 -  Memento London Fog

Layer 5 - Memento Tuxedo Black

Layer 6 - Versafine Onyx Black

Once the ladybug was finished, I added the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black. After attaching the stamped panel to the black and red mat, I tied a double twine bow around it and added a sunflower and die cut leaf. That was then glued to the kraft card front.

This card has been entered in the Sunny Day Crafting October 15 - November 14 Challenge - Always Add an Animal.

This final card for today features the California Quail Multi Step Clear Stamps set. I stamped it using the color recipe which Maria uses on the packaging for this set. I love the colors and wouldn't change a thing if I could! The bird was stamped on an ivory panel and then attached on top of the designer paper which is Botanical News from the Botanicabella Collection by Graphic 45. I then added a fishtail banner across the bird panel with my birthday sentiment.

This card is being entered in the October Birthday Challenge at Always Happy Birthday.

Please know that both Maria and Jeanne have created new designs to share with you using these awesome new images. 

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


Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Thanks for your visit today!! I hope you see some multi step stamping that inspires you to give it a try!