Wishing You Joy - Kitchen Sink Stamps

With my final Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card of 2023, I am wishing you joy this blessed Christmas Day!

This scene-building design includes images from the following KSS sets:

Snowy Cabin

Snowy Pine Trees

Alpine Mountains

Build a Pine Branch

The sentiments were pulled from the following KSS sets:

Coffee Mate Greetings

Christmas Poinsettia

Should Santa stuff your stocking with some Christmas Crafting Cash, you may want to snag some of your favorite in stock KSS images which are currently on sale through midnight December 28. The promo code to use at checkout is CHEER!

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

Peace on Earth - Christmas Challenge #54

Allsorts - Challenge #760/1 - Cold and Ice

Sweet Stampin' - Christmas

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Christmas Themed

Creative Knockouts - Challenge #511 - Time to Be Merry

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!!

Rustic Christmas - Kitchen Sink Stamps

This Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored holiday scene depicts my wishes for a quiet, peaceful, snowy Christmas! I doubt that it will happen. Maybe the quiet and peaceful parts, but there will likely not be any snow here on the Texas Gulf Coast. The last time that happened on Christmas was in 2004. 

Images used on this scene building design are from:

Christmas Poinsettia

Icy Pond

Snowy Cabin

all by Kitchen Sink Stamps

This is a 5 x 7 inch design with the cabin and trees stamped directly on a white card front. The poinsettia and leaves were stamped on a separate white panel, fussy cut, and glued to the bottom forefront of the card. All inks except the black are by Altenew. The sentiment and sleigh were stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne.

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

Make My Monday - Oh! Christmas Tree of Forest Trees

Star Stampz Challenge Blog - Challenge #53 - Christmas

Bastel-Traum Challenge Blog - Challenge #127 - Winter Landscape

We Love Stamping - December Challenge - Winter Flowers and/or Foliage

Crafty Calendar Challenge - December Challenge - Christmas Themed

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 Holidays - Kitchen Sink Stamps

The turkey and dressing are ready for the oven, but here at my house, the Christmas card bin is almost bare!! I have never been this unprepared for Christmas. For that reason today's Kitchen Sink sponsored design is a slimline holiday design featuring images from Christmas Lights 2020, Icy Pond, Owl & Autumn Moon, Snowy Cabin, and Christmas Poinsettia. The sentiment was embossed with gold, and I added some glittery holly stickers from the Paper Studio. The lights and wires were stamped with Altenew inks.

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

Hobby Vision - Challenge #139 - White Christmas

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge - Challenge #59

613 Avenue Create - November 2023 Challenge - Embossing - Wet or Dry

Allsorts Challenge - Week 755 - Christmas Time

Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #303 - Seasonal

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!!

Christmas at the Cabin - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Most of my Christmas cards, including this one, are headed to the post office today. I am hoping they all make it to their destinations on time, even the international ones!

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design features images from Snowy Cabin, Snowy Pine Trees, Friends of the Moon, Christmas Poinsettia, and Owl & Autumn Moon.

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

International Art & Soul - Challenge #148 - Winter

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #29

613 Avenue Create-Challenge #202212-Anything Goes with Twist - Up in the Sky

Sweet Stampin' - Christmas Creations

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Winter Cards 4 Kids

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!!

Merry Christmoose - Kitchen Sink Stamps

 I am getting pretty close to my Christmas card goal this year. Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is my 84th Christmas card for 2022 which is very, very close to enough.

Today's holiday card features images from Mighty Moose and Snowy Cabin. The embossed falling snow is a Stampin' Up embossing folder and the die cut tag is by Sizzix. The rose gold glitter paper and card front are from the Paper Studio.

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!!

Warmest Wishes - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Because this is a busy week for birthdays around my house, my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is a clean and simple masculine birthday card that celebrates winter, as well. 

This one layer design was created by first brushing in the snowy slopes using torn paper. After adding the blue sky above, I then added the bare trees, the snowy pines, and icy pond. Last came the silhouette figures and sentiment stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.

Kitchen Sink images used to create this design come from

the following sets:

Snowy Pine Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps

Greetings from the Woods Clear Stamps

Make a Big Statement Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Snowy Pine Trees

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow

Layer 2 Memento Olive Grove

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Old Olive

Color Recipe for the Icy Pond

Layer 1 Memento Summer Sky

Layer 2 Memento Summer Sky

Layer 3 Memento Summer Sky

Today's card is being entered in the following challenges:

Lil Patch of Craft Friends Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog - Challenge #297

Cardz TV- Anything Goes Challenge #105

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - Challenge #166

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!!

Kitchen Sink Stamps - Winter Cardinal

It is hard to believe that December is here, and I don't have near enough Christmas cards to put in the mail to my family and friends. It is a good thing my calendar is pretty open this week so I can focus on finishing up my cards and getting them in the mail.

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps' sponsored card is a snowy holiday scene featuring stamps from the following sets:

Winter Cardinal Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps

Birch Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

and

Big & Bold Christmas Greetings Clear Stamps

This card was created by stamping the birch tree trunks first and then masking them. I then stamped the cabin and the evergreens over the masks. I next brushed layers of snowbanks across the width of the card using torn paper panels. The final step before removing the masks was to brush in the blue sky.

I was then able to remove the masks and add the bushes, horse sleigh, pines, cardinal, and Merry Christmas sentiment.

This card is 5 x 7 inches in size and it took me an hour and 10 minutes to complete it.

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!!

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

Creatalicious Challenges - Challenge #176 - Anything Goes with optional Winter

The Artistic Stamper - Christmas is Coming

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge #411 - Christmas Scene

Click the Kitchen Sink Stamps logo at the top of my left sidebar to enter the store!

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!!

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.

Envelope Art and Non-Traditional Valentine - KSS

Since I spent yesterday watching football instead of card-making (both my teams LOST by the way), I woke up this morning without my Kitchen Sink sponsored design ready for posting. When that happens on occasion, I head over to Splitcoaststampers to see what the challenges might be for the day.

I found one that was just to my liking - Technique Challenge 726 - Envelope Art. I don't usually take the time to create a matching envelope for my cards, but it sure is fun when I do.

For today's design I have crafted a non-traditional Valentine using the following stamp sets from Kitchen Sink Stamps. As you can see, I am keeping my wintery images busy during these cold winter days.

Figure Skates Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps

Love 4 Ducky & Teddy Multi Step Clear Stamps (sentiment)

Color Recipe for the Skates

Layer 4 - Memento Gray Flannel

Layer 5 - Memento Tuxedo Black

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite on the blades and Going Gray on the shoe

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Going Gray on the blade and PTI Soft Stone on the shoe

The sky is Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass.

The trees, sentiment, and skaters are Stampin' Up Soft Suede.

All layers of the icy pond are Stampin' Up Baja Breeze. Each time stamped off once from the pervious layer.

Today's card is entered in the following challenges:

Technique Challenge 726 at Splitcoastampers - Envelope Art

Just Stamping at Daring Cardmakers

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - #154 Snowy Days/Nights

Card Mania Challenge #112 - Baby It's Cold Outside

Also creating beautiful designs with Kitche Sink Stamps:

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


Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Let's Make a Scene - Winter Birthday KSS

I'm getting a little bit of a late start in posting my Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps this morning, but today is a very amazing day for a dear friend and her family so I wanted to create something very special. My sweet friend is celebrating  her 107th birthday today! What a remarkable feat! She is not accepting gifts at her party this afternoon and actually had her family pass out 107 red roses to our church members yesterday. It is just like her to always think of others first!

With much of our nation blanketed in snow this week, I decided to make a winter theme. I can image that in her youth, Lucile may have had the pleasure of riding in a horse-drawn sleigh through the snow! I will ask her this afternoon at her party!

The frame is popped up over the stamped background and the snowman is popped up on the frame. I crocheted a scarf to add a little fun texture to the design! The sentiment is die cut and angled across the frame.

Kitchen Sink Stamps used include:

Snowmen Multi Step Clear Stamps

Tiny Norway Pine Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Color Recipes

Trees

Layer 3 Distress Oxide Gathered Twigs

Layer 1 Distress Oxide Peeled Paint

Layer 2 Distress Oxide Pine Needles

Snowman

Layer 3 Memento  Summer Sky

Layer 2 Memento Summer Sky stamped off

I did not stamp Layer 1 but traced around it with pencil and cut out the snowman.

Hat

Layer 3 Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 2 SU Gray Granite

Layer 1 Memento Summer Sky stamped 3 times

Coal - Versafine Onyx Black

Carrot - SU Only Orange

Sky - Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass

I am entering my card today in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #170 - Snowman

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge 388 Winter Birthday

Visit the Kitchen Sink Crew for more layered stamping inspiration!

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


Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Winter Treat Box

I bought this File Box die by QuicKutz before Christmas thinking it would be a great way to share holiday treats with friends and family. Well, time got away from me and that didn't happen. But now that I have extra time on my hands, I decided to get started on party favors for an upcoming February birthday party, and I love them!! I hope the birthday girl will as well!!

Kitchen Sink Stamps used include:

Figure Skates Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Icy Pond Multi Step Clear Stamps

Color Recipe for the Figure Skates

Layer 5 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite stamped 3 time

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Gray Granite

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Going Gray

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone on blades only

I will stage the boxes on burlap and doilies with fake pine needles and real pinecones. Today I have filled the box with crinkle cookies that were coated with powder sugar before baking!

Visit the Kitchen Sink Crew to see their latest creations:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

SCS TLC720 - Assembly Line Stamping with Kitchen Sink Stamps

A busy and eventful weekend kept me from getting my Kitchen Sink Stamps Let's Make a Scene design ready for posting last night, and as luck would have it, I am glad it did. 

I decided to check on the Splitcoaststampers Technique Challenge this morning and see if I could use it for today's card. The challenge is Assembly Line Stamping. Nothing could be more perfect for me today because I have mailed out all my Christmas cards and have started receiving some from new people who were not on last year's Christmas card list. I need a bunch in a hurry!

Although I am a pretty fast stamper, it usually takes me about 45 minutes to create a Let's Make a Scene design. Using the Assembly Line Method, I was able to stamp 5 cards in an hour which is just how many I want to send out today!! Win-win!!

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

Splitcoaststampers Technique Challenge 720

Cards of Envy (flat cards only) The Spirit of Christmas

Incy Wincy Designs: Create Your Own Background

Kitchen Sink Stamps images used came from the following sets:

Snowy Cabin Multi Step Clear Stamps

Snowy Pine Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Owl & Autumn Moon Multi Step Clear Stamps

Friends of the Moon Clear Stamps

Big & Bold Christmas Greetings

Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps (smoke from chimney)

Color Recipes

Pine Trees

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Forest Foliage

Layer 2 PTI  Ocean Tides

Layer 1 Stampin' Up Granny Apple Green

Log Cabin

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Soft Suede on the logs and Creamy Caramel on the stones

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Cabin Roof

Memento Summer Sky all layers

Moon

Layer 3 Stampin' Up Pineapple Punch

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Barely Banana

I did not stamp layer one but make a mask of it to brush on the sky.

I used the following Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz for the sky:

Squeezed Lemonade

Blueprint Sketch

Black Soot

The door wreath is Distress Oxide Lucky Clover

The berries on the wreath are Distress Oxide Candied Apple

The smoke from the chimney is Distress Oxide Hickory Smoke and Black Soot.

The snow line was inked with Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass.

Santa and his reindeer as well as the sentiment were stamped

with Versafine Onyx Black.

Here are a few pictures of the process. I hope they are helpful.

I stamped the moon and trees first.

I then masked the moon and brushed on the sky. That was followed by stamping the stars, Santa, and sentiment.

Lastly I stamped the log cabins on separate panels and cut them out to mount on the cards.

Maria and Jeanne also have new creations to share:

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


Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz