Peaceful Wishes

Today's card is my final Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design as a design team member since the store will be closing shop at midnight PST on Wednesday, July 31. I have had the remarkable pleasure of working with Maria and her amazing art almost from the beginning of Kitchen Sink Stamps. My first purchase from her was the classic Heart & Roses. Although KSS is closing, you will still see her beautiful images showing up in my work from time to time. Her realistic, layered images are themselves timeless. They will therefore never go out of style and will always be among my favorites. Thank you, Maria for the beauty and joy you have brought into my life with your exquisite talent.

Thank you to each of you who have followed by work here as well as at Splitcoaststampers and left such sweet comments. What a blessing you have been to my life.

I chosen to create with the Graceful Swan today since it is still in stock in the store. I know many people shy away from white images so I am including the color recipe I used to create the swan today. My main advice to you when trying to stamp a layered white image is to ALWAYS leave off Layer 1. Start stamping with Layer 2 in the palest gray you have and go up from there.

Color Recipe for the Swan
Using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 - omit this layer

Layer 2 - Limestone stamped off once

Layer 3 - Limestone

Layer 4 - Silver Stone

Layer 5 - Silver Lining

Layer 6 - Industrial Diamond

Layer 7 - Jet Black

Kitchen Sink Stamps Used:

Graceful Swan

Isle of Big Bay Lake - sold out

Cattails - sold out

Shoreline Rocks - sold out

Greetings from the Woods - sold out

Receive a 40% discount using the promo code INKYHUGS from now through midnight PST, July 31.

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

Dragonfly Dreams - July Challenge - Christmas in July

Rudolph Days Challenge - July Challenge

Daring Cardmakers - Christmas in July

Simply Create Too - Christmas in July

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit:

 Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

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!!

A Day at the Beach

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored slimline card was inspired by my upcoming sunrise trip to the beach on my husband's birthday next week.

All of the images were stamped on SVG cut pieces which were them stamped and glued to the watercolored background. SVG cut files are available for purchase with most sets at Kitchen Sink Stamps.

 

Images are from the following KSS sets:

Classic Old Truck

Palm Trees

Lighthouse

Seaside Seagull

Shoreline Rocks

Make a Big Statement

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

613 Avenue Create - For the Guys

Daring Cardmakers - At the Beach

Crafty Catz - Challenge #674 - Make It Masculine

Creative Friday - Challenge #362 - Maritime

Aloha Friday - Challenge #11 - Masculine

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit :

 Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

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!!

Dog Days of Summer - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Well, the dog days of summer with soon be coming to the end, and we hope to get some relief from the sweltering heat we have experienced in 2022 here on the Texas coast.  For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I am offering up a tiki toast to the relaxing evenings on the beach.

Images used to create this design come from the following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Tiki Time

Summer Splashes

Seaside Seagull

Shoreline Rocks

Beachcomber's Bounty

The ocean water was created using the KKS SVG cut stencil Waves & Splashes.

All images were stamped with Altenew inks on SVG cut files which coordinate with these stamps and cut using my Cricut Joy.

This card has been entered in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - August Challenge Food and/or Drink

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #236 - Anything Goes

My Time to Craft - Challenge #487- Ocean/Sea - beside or on or underwater topics

C.R.A.F.T. - Challenge #647 - Summer

Aud Sentiments - Challenge #296 - Summer + A Sentiment

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

thehopefulcrafter by Tracy Shultz

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!!

Mama's Gone Fishing - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I had a lot of fun with today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design. It seems like mothers everywhere face some of the same problems daily. There are always mouths to feed. I used images from the following sets by Kitchen Sink Stamps to create this tongue in cheek outdoors design I call "Mama's Gone Fishing!" It is a mini slimline design measuring 3 inches by 6 inches.

Bear in the Woods

Trout Fishing

Shoreline Rocks

Honey Bunny

Isle of Big Bay Lake 

The two color recipes I am sharing today feature inks from Stampin' Up.

Color Recipe for the Bear

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Creamy Caramel

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Early Espresso

Color Recipe for the Trout

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Soft Seafoam

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Mellow Moss

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Garden Green

Layer 4 Stampin' Up Always Artichoke

Layer 5 Versafine Onyx Black

I then brushed a touch of Stampin' Up Flirty Flamingo on the belly.

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

Get Creative Challenges - Challenge #103 - Show Water

Sweet Stampin' - Create Your Own Background

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Challenge #153 - Trees

Corrosive Challenge Blog - Challenge #7 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!!

Answered Prayers - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I created today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card for a friend who has been through some tough times, of late. She has been on my heart and in my prayers as well as the prayers of many others for quite awhile. In recent days, positive things have finally started to come together and are moving in a very positive direction for her life.  Her own prayers and faithfulness have played a huge part in this, for sure.

Images used to create this card are from the

following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Sunflowers
Watercolor Prayers
Spring Daffodils (dragonfly)
Honey Bunny (grass)
Shoreline Rocks (stone bench)

Color Recipes using Altenew Inks

Sunflowers

Layer 1 Fresh Lemon
Layer 2 Warm Sunshine
Layer 3 Honey Drizzle
Layer 4 Mocha
Layer 5 Espresso

Stems and Leaves

Layer 1 Parrot

Layer 2 Grass Field

Layer 3 Evergreen

Watering Can

Layer 1 Limestone

Layer 2 Silver Stone

Layer 3 Silver Stone

Layer 4 Industrial Diamond

The fence was created using designer paper from the Paper Studio. The clouds were created with the Cloudy Skies SVC cut stencil by KSS. I also used the SVG cut files from KSS to cut the sunflowers, the watering can, and the word prayers.

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

All Sorts - Week 630 - Use Design Paper (my fence is design paper)

Daring Cardmakers - Into the Garden

Little Red Wagon - Challenge #607 - Waling on Sunshine

Double "D" Challenges - Signs of Summer

Taylormadecards4u - Challenge #6 - June - Use Your Words

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!!

Gratitude and Grief - KSS

This past week has been one of gratitude and grief for me. I have been so blessed by the love and generosity of friends during this time of isolation. A thank you at the front door when they drop off a bowl of homemade ice cream or on the phone when they connect me with the perfect person to clean my gutters before the rain is just not enough. So the first of today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored designs is one of the thank you cards going out to these lovely people.

It was created using the newly released set Old World Door Multi Step Clear Stamps with a little help from Potted Topiaries Multi Step Clear Stamps (pot) and Coffee Mate Greetings Clear Stamps (thanks). I turned the door into a window by cutting out sections of the door and adding a bit of brick below the windowsill. An inside peek shows some of the climbing roses in a pot on the kitchen table.

Color Recipe for the Brick and Window

Layer 5 PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 4 SU Soft Suede

Layer 3 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 1 Memento Desert Sand

Color Recipe for the Pot

Layer 1 SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 2 Memento Potter's Clay

Layer 3 Memento Potter's Clay

Layer 4 SU Soft Suede

Color Recipe for the Leaves and Vines

Layer 1 SU Sage Shadow

Layer 2 PTI Ocean Tides

Color Recipe for the Roses 

Layer 1 Memento Lady Bug

Layer 2 Memento Love Letter

Layer 3 SU Merry Merlot

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamp & Fun = Creativity - Challenge #369 - Nature or Flowers

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge #252 - Flowers and A Sentiment

The second KSS sponsored card is a sympathy card for a dear friend who lost her husband unexpectedly on Wednesday. She and I both live on the Texas Gulf Coast so I have created this masculine design using Lighthouse Multi Step Clear Stamps, Seaside Seagull Multi Step Clear Stamps, Shoreline Rocks Multi Step Clear Stamps, and Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps.

Color Recipe for the Lighthouse

Layer 4 SU Early Espresso

Layer 3 PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 2 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 1 Memento Desert Sand

Recipe for the Pier

Layer 4 SU Soft Suede

Layer 3 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 1 Memento Desert Sand

Recipe for the Seagull

Layer 4 Memento Tuxedo Black

Layer 3 SU Gray Granite

Layer 2 PTI Soft Stone

Layer 1 (head and body masked) beak and legs PTI Soft Stone

I leave the masks on the birds to sponge on the sea and the sky, leaving their bodies white.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - PIP Challenge #2022 - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #508 - Anything Goes with Option "at least 2 layers"

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!!

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!!

Soar High, My Friend - KSS

Today's card sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps is a masculine sympathy card created using stamps from the following KSS sets:

Lighthouse Multi Step Clear Stamps

Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Cattails Multi Step Clear Stamps

Shoreline Rocks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Tree Friends Multi Step Clear Stamps

Simple Sentiments Clear Stamps

My favorite method for creating clouds is to dab my finger in white acrylic paint and pat it around until I get the cloud shapes I want. It is quick and easy and like real clouds, I get a variety of shapes.

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

ARTastic Challenge - July Use Paint

Do-Al (l) Kreatives Challenge #34 - On the Wave

JFF Monthly Challenge - July - At the Shoreline

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!!

Owl by Big Bay Lake - KSS

Today's Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps is one of the cards I created for display at Junkie Fest in Minnesota last month. It is the final card I rushed to finish before shipping the prepared cards to Maria. It was down to the wire so I didn't get any notes recorded about the colors on this card. Therefore, there won't be any color recipes today, but I hope you enjoy this night owl and full moon card anyway!

Kitchen Sink Sets Used in this design include:

Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps

Isle of Big Bay Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Cattails Multi Step Clear Stamps

Shoreline Rocks Multi Step Clear Stamps

Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps

Friends of the Moon Clear Stamps

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

Dragonfly Dreams - Things with Wings

Sweet Stampers Challenge #34 - Summer

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Bird or Beast and WHY? - The owl is my current favorite bird. As I sit on my patio after dark, I can hear one calling in the distance but have yet to spot it!! I hope to soon!

Simon Says - Make Your Own Background

Also don't miss the chance to see the latest designs from the Kitchen Crew linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

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!!