Wildlife Birthday

For this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps' sponsored design, I have created a masculine birthday card for an outdoorsman in my circle of friends. I included images from Mallard Ducks, Isle of Big Bay Lake, Simple Sentiments (retired), and Tiny Norway Pine (retired). 

This A2 design started out with a white panel of cardstock with a Distress Oxide blended background. I then stamped the trees onto the panel and attached an SVG cut duck. All inks on the trees and duck are by Altenew. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Clair Pinecone.

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

Crafting from the Heart - Challenge #9 - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels - Challenge #79 - Anything Goes

Creative Crafting Uncles - Challenge #49 - Happy Birthday

Stamping Sensations - February Challenge - Animals, Birds, & Creatures

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!!

Father's Day - KSS

This week's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored slimline design is a Father's Day card featuring images from Mallard Ducks, Ocean Waters, Shoreline Rocks, and Seaside Seagull. The clouds were created with KSS' Cloudy Skies SVG cut stencil. The sentiment is from Bold Holiday Greetings.

This Father's Day card has been entered in the following challenges:

Creative Friday - Challenge 282 - Masculine Card

Scrapping4funChallenges - Challenge #193 - Male/Father's Day

Creative Knockouts - Challenge #403 - For the Boys

A Place to Start - May 2021 - Challenge #5 - 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!!

Happy Birthday, Dad

Well, today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is another birthday card for my dad who is turning 91 this week. Although I created this card for him last week, I think 91 certainly deserves more than one card and one celebration so we will be celebrating all week!! How blessed I am to still have both my parents.

Ran into a small challenge with Dad this week. Turns out that a new law requires you present a birth certificate to renew your driver's licence in Texas. Dad says, "I don't have one."  I said, "Are you sure? Let's go look."

He looked at his home in all the places he keeps important papers and says, "There is not one here."

I say, "Let's go to the bank and check your safety deposit box. That's were I would keep it." So we head to the bank and sure enough, there is one. Turns out his mother tracked one down for him in 1945 when he turned 16 so he could get a Social Security number and go to work. So glad we dodged that bullet.

Then it was back to the DPS where he passed his vision test and got a renewed license. He is still very active in the community and drives himself and my mother to the places where they need to be. 

Kitchen Sink Stamps used to create this design include:

Mallard Ducks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps

Shoreline Rocks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Cattails Multi Step Clear Stamps

Friends of the Moon Clear Stamps

Simple Sentiments Clear Stamps

Whole Family Clear Stamps

I am entering this card in the following challenges this week:

Splitcoaststampers MISTI Monday January 2020 Challenge

Inkspirational Challenge - Challenge 204- Word Prompt - Fauna

Crafty Catz Challenge #488- Anything Goes with Optional Twist - Animals

Seize the Birthday #180 - Layer It

Fab'n'Funky Challenges - Challenge #463 - No Designer Paper

The Male Room - Challenge #127 - Anything Masculine 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!!

Canadian Birthday - KSS

Today's Let's Make a Scene Design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps is going in the mail to a friend who just returned from a Canadian vacation. Hope it brings back wonderful memories of that fabulous trip! It's still a hundred degrees here in Texas!!

To create this design I started with the Norway Pines across the bottom of the card and then added the lake working my way up from there.

The die cut Happy Birthday sentiment is by Darice.

The following Kitchen Sink Stamp sets were used to create this tall card which measures 3.75 inches by 9.25 inches.

Mallard Ducks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Minnesota Norway Pine Multi Step Clear Stamps

Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps

Created for the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Happy Birthday

Creative Friday Challenge #238 - Bingo - Stamping - Stamp - Colorful

Pattie's Creations Challenge 162 - Things That Fly

Moving Along With the Times. - Challenge 105 Things with Wings

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 #101 - KSS

It's hard to believe that I have been making and posting Let's Make a Scene cards sponsored by and created with Kitchen Sink Stamps for almost 5 years now. Being the second Monday of August means that it is time for another one, and I am proud to say that this one is #101. It's another masculine birthday card which I need many of about this time of the year.

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

Mallard Ducks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Shoreline Rocks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Cattails Multi Step Clear Stamps

Words 4 Celebrating Clear Stamps

To create this card I stamped the male and female ducks first on a 4.5 x 6.6 white panel. I then masked the ducks and added the rocks and lake. After masking the rocks, I added the cattails. To finish the card I brushed on a blue sky and dabbed on white acrylic paint clouds. Once they were dried (maybe one minute), I added the sentiment. To turn the panel into a card, I matted it with brown and attached it to a kraft 5 x 7 card.

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

Stamping Sensations - August - Things with Wings

Sweet Stampin' ~ Things with Wings

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #233 - Animals + a Sentiment

Creative with Stamps #41 - Dad (or Masculine)

SheepSki Designs Challenges - Challenge #29 Animal Madness

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!!

Scenes from Junkie Fest and Yellow Daisies - KSS

Being the second Monday of July, this is one of the days that I usually post a Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. Well, today I am sharing a couple of scenes that I created for Maria to share at Junkie Fest that mix in some of the new sets she used there that have now been released for all to enjoy.

These are the KSS sets I used to create the card above with the July releases listed first:

Mallard Ducks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Cattails Multi Step Clear Stamps

  

Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Minnesota Norway Pine Tree Multi Step Clear Stamps

Shoreline Rocks

And I paired these with images from the KSS June Release as well as older sets:

Birch Bark Canoe Multi Step Clear Stamps along with grasses from Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps and Birch Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

This second card uses the following sets from the new July release:

Minnesota Norway Pine Tree Multi Step Clear Stamps and Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps shown above.

I paired these with images from Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps, Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps, Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps and grass from Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps.

I certainly hope the participants at Junkie Fest enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed creating them! My heart just seems to belong to masculine scenes!! They are my absolute favorite type of card to create.

Also released this month is Fresh as a Daisy Multi Step Clear Stamps. The card below was created for the Thank You, Thank You Very Much Challenge hosted by my blogging friend, Jeanette Cloyd, on Virtual Stamp Night over at Splitcoaststampers. The sentiment is from Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps by KSS.

The color recipe I am sharing today is for stamping the daisies in yellow.

Fresh as a Daisy

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!!