God Bless Texas - Kitchen Sink Stamps

School is out and summer is on its way to Texas. Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card features images from Classic Old Truck, Clay Pots, Bluebonnets, Stars & Stripes American Flag (God Bless), and Water Lilies (toad). The TEXAS was punched with the We R Memory Keepers word punch set! What a fun alphabet to create with! I threw together a quick watercolored background and stamped the images of SVG cut files also available at Kitchen Sink Stamps.

I don't know about you, but I am ready for a little road trip! It's time to get out of town and kick up my heels a bit! Now if I can just find an open day and an open road!

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

Path of Positivity - Challenge #121 - Anything Positive Goes

Global Design Project - Challenge #447 -Transportation

Allsorts - Challenge #782- Anything Goes

Simply Create, Too - Challenge #200 - Add an Animal

Tic Tac Toe - Challenge #247 - Truck/Free/Die Cut (electronic SVGs)

For additional designs featuring Kitchen Sink Stamps, please visit the blogs and YouTube videos of the members of the Kitchen Crew linked below:

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 Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

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Pop-Up, Stand-Up Card

I used this sensational tutorial which has been posted today in the Technique Lover's Challenge #998 at Splitcoaststampers to create this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card. It is such an easy fancy fold and folds flat to mail in an A2 envelope!

 This card uses images from the following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Hydrangea

Clay Pots

Water Lilies

Honey Bunny

Words of Comfort and Joy - Retired

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

TLC998 at Splitcoaststampers

Simply Create Too - Challenge #199 - More than One Fold

A Place to Start - April 2024 - One or More Flowers

We Love Stamping - April - Spring

Allsorts - Week 775 - For the Love of Animals

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!!

Prince Charming - Kitchen Sink Stamps

The beautiful family wedding I attended this weekend had me thinking of fairy tales and inspired this Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card! Who doesn't love a happy ending?

I used images from the following KSS sets to create this card:

Ever After Castle

Water Lilies

Ever After Greetings

Grand View Mountains

Village Stone Bridge

Tree Friends

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

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge #465 - Travel/Transport

Polkadoodles - Challenge #36 - Anything Goes

Cardz TV - Challenge #148 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Challenge #214 - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog - challenge #273 - 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!!

Spring Thanks - Kitchen Sink Stamps

This Monday I am here to share with you a Spring Thanks design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. It features images from Water Lilies, Cattails, Spring Daffodils, and Watercolor Thanks. I also used  the SVG cut stencils Cloudy Skies and Waves & Splashes.

I also used my Cricut Joy to cut the lily pads, the water lilies, the frog, and the thanks using the KSS SVG cut files which come for free with your stamps if you put them in the basket at the time of your purchase. If not, you can purchase them anytime for 99¢.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Bitten by the Bug 2 - May Flowers

Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge #248 - Use Your Favorite Colours - My favorite color is green and I have used a wide variety of them here!

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!!

Prince Charming - Kitchen Sink Stamps

My fingers were itching to create a scene for today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design so here he is: Prince Charming! 

Images from the following KSS sets were used to create this card:

Water Lilies

Birch Trees

Ever After Castle

Shoreline Rocks

Cattails

Isle of Big Bay Lake

Ever After Castle Greetings

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting Happiness Challenges - Challenge #95 - Frogs

A Bit More Time to Craft - Challenge #139 - Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog - Challenge #265 - Anything Goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge #50 - Anything Goes with a Critter

Just Us Girls - Challenge #582 - Word Week: Float

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!!

Spring Birthday

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design features images from two of the new sets which were released last week: Water Lilies and Bold Holiday Greetings (happy), For the water, I pulled out the lake from Cabin by the Lake. The sky was created using the Cloudy Skies SVG cut stencil while Birthday came for Whole Family.

If you are used to visiting my blog on Mondays to see my Kitchen Sink Stamps creations, you may have missed seeing these two I shared this weekend.

To create this card, in addition to the stamps, I used the SVG cut file for the frog, lily pad, and water lily which come free with your purchase of Water Lilies if you add it to your cart at the time of purchase. You can also purchase it later for 99¢.

If you haven't gotten into the electric cutting machine craze, I must tell you it is so awesome. No more fussy cutting. I purchased my Cricut Joy (their smallest machine because I only make cards) almost a year ago, and it has changed the way I stamp. You know how I love to create scenes! Well, with the ability to cut out my shapes to stamp on, it takes so much less time to build a scene when I don't have to do all that masking.

I thought I would show you today how I organize my cut pieces so that card-making is fast and fun! I currently have 4 photo albums which I use: Animals, Plants, Objects, and Words. I then place my cut and/or pre-stamped pieces in alphabetical order in the albums so they are ready to grab and go when I decide to make a card.

Here is a peek at my KSS Object album:

See what I mean about "ready to go!" What fun! With the use of my MISTI stamping platform, I can have a dozen of whatever ready to go in minutes! I keep a black jig cut from heavy weight card stock in the back cover of the DVD case of each stamp set so I am "good to go" each time I want to stamps images.

I hope you have found some inspiration either in stamping or organizing and will return to visit again! I am always thrilled by your visit!

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

Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple Challenge 632 - Flower Power

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Challenge 386 Spring and/or Easter

We Love Chocolate Baroque - April - Springtime

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - April - Feature a Creature

Addicted to CAS - Challenge #194 - Birthday

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!!

March Release - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Such excitement today as I get to share a whole passel of fabulous new images being released by Kitchen Sink Stamps. All of them lend themselves very well to my favorite style of stamping: scene building which I have featured on each of these Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored designs.

The new sets available for purchase today include:

Spring Nest

Build a Pine Branch

Water Lilies

Graceful Swan

Bold Holiday Greetings

In addition to Spring Nest I have also used All Year Grapevine Wreath and Fall Chrysanthemum (leaves) to create these first two cards. On this first card, I stamped and masked the entire image and then sponged a chicken wire background with a stencil.  

For this second card, I used the SVG cut files for the wreath, nest, bow, feathers and leaves. When ordering stamps, you can get the SVG cut files for free at the time of purchase. I brushed on the brick background before assembling the pieces. The bow and nest are popped up on dimensionals.

This first Build a Pine Branch sample was created adding images from Winter Cardinals and Grand View Mountains. Again, on this card I masked and stamped the entire scene on the card front starting with the pine branch before adding the cardinal and the mountains. I then watercolored the green field and added some texture to that area by using the SVG Cloudy Skies stencil with a darker green. I then add the clouds above the mountains also using one of the SVC Cloudy Skies stencils. The sentiment is from Love Letters.

Again, on this second sample, I have used SVG cut files and layered them over each other without masking. Images from Cabin by the Lake, Tiny Norway Pine (no longer available), Birch Trees, Tree Friends, and Summer Lemons (sentiment) were used in addition to Build a Pine Branch.

The new Water Lilies set also includes this fun frog! Other images on this first Water Lilies card include Cattails, Isle of Big Bay Lake,  Honey Bunny, and a sentiment from Ever After Castle Greetings. I used the SVG cut files for the frog and the lily pads with the water lilies. The designer paper is from BasicGrey.

My final sample for today's reveal features the Graceful Swan. I used SVG cut files for the birch tree trunks, the swan, and the water lily. The other images on the card are from Birch Trees, Grand View Mountains, Isle of Big Bay Lake, and Love Letters (sentiment). The sky was create with the Cloudy Skies stencil. The sentiment label was created with a Sizzix die.

I hope you find something you love in this new release. I loved creating these spring designs to show these wonderful images off for you!

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!!