National Catfish Day

After discovering that June 25th is National Catfish Day, Lois Bak (our June CCEE Challenge Hostess) has asked that the CCEE Stampers create a card that has some kind of fish or sea life on it.

I don't have a catfish in my collection, but I do have a bass!

Want to see what sea creatures there rest of the CCEE DT featured?

Check below:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

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!!

Summer Pleasures - Kitchen Sink Stamps

This clean and simple one layer card, sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, was created using images from two of the newest KSS releases - Fishing Creel & Reel Multi Step Clear Stamps and Fisherman's Hat and Tackle Multi Step Clear Stamps. The sentiment is a part of the Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps set.

This card was stamped directly on the cardfront with the fisherman's hat being stamped first.

After the hat was completed, I masked it and stamped the creel. I added a mask for the creel before completing the card. 

To finish the card, I added the fly, the float, the grass, and the sentiment before removing the masks.

The responses I received about my new visual color recipes were all positive so I plan to continue adding them to my posts. They are very helpful to me, as well as my readers, for future reference.  The color recipes I have posted below are the ones I used to complete this design.

Fisherman's Hat

Fishing Creel

Fishing Fly

Fishing Float

The grass was brushed on with SU Certainly Celery and the sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.

I am entering this card in the following challenges today:

Splitcoaststampers Clear and Simple Challenge #539 - Summer Activities

Crafter's Cafe #221 - Boys/Men

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #118 - AG + You're the Man

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog Challenge #41 - It's a Man's World

See more fabulous fun summer KSS designs by visiting the work of the Kitchen Crew:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

CCEE1925 - National Pink Day

This Sunday (June 23) is National Pink Day. Lois has an easy challenge for the CCEE Stampers this week - make a pink card.

I had two non-stamper friends over to make cards yesterday afternoon. They have been getting their cards at the Dollar Store. I wanted to show then just how quickly, easily, and beautifully they could create their own cards. And inexpensively, too, when their friend has all the tools and materials they will need to share with them. We used just distress oxides, Versafine Onyx Black, silhouette stamps, and sentiments. They left very happy!!

While they worked on their cards, I took three minutes to create this pink one for today's challenge.

See more pink goodness below:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

Pulling in the Bass - KSS

I have been having the best time this past week stockpiling fun scene cards in my masculine card basket. This card, sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, was created mixing this fabulous fish image from their newly released Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps with images from Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps.

I am trying out a new feature on my blog today with the main color recipes I used to create today's card. Instead of just listing the colors, I am going to stamp and photograph the progression of the image and the color used as I stamp it. The order in which I stamped the image will start on the left and read to the right. I usually stamp darkest to lightest, but not always. So sometimes the layers will be out of order, but by reading left to right you will be able to see how I stamped it.

I am starting first with the bass today. My photography on this is not the best on my first try, but I think you get the idea. Be sure to let me know it this is helps you better understand layered stamping.

Color Recipe for the Bass

Color Recipe for the Log Cabin

The bass and the cabin were the only things that needed masking to create this scene.

The trees are images used at last year's Junkie Fest Workshops and are no longer available for purchase.

Find more beautiful creations with Kitchen Sink Stamps images created by the Kitchen Crew and linked below:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

This card as been entered in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar - June - Masculine

Crafty Catz - Challenge 466 - Anythings Goes with Optional Twist: Male/Fathers

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #166 - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenges - Challenge #60 - June 2019 - Summer is Coming

CCEE1924 - Sewing Machine Day

Lois Bak is continuing her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers Challenges.  Since today is National Sewing Machine Day, she asked the team to make a card with some stitching on it -- either actual stitching, faux stitching or stitch-edged dies.

Stitched Dies by Gina Marie Designs

Image by Unity

Sentiment by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Check out the fun stitching on the cards of the CCEE DT below:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

Let's Make a Fishing Scene for Dad - KSS

What a fun day in the Kitchen this June morning. This Let's Make a Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps was created using three new sets being released today which are absolutely perfect for the fishermen in your life!

 They include:

 Fishing Creel & Reel Multi Step Clear Stamps

Birch Bark Canoe Multi Step Clear Stamps

Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps

Other KSS sets used as well include:

Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Tiny Norway Pines Multi Step Clear Stamps (no longer available)

Birch Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps

Lighthouse Multi Step Clear Stamps

Greetings from the Woods Clear Stamps

Here are the color recipes I used for these fabulous new images:

Creel

Layer 4 PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 3 Memento Potter's Clay

Layer 2 Memento Toffee Crunch

Layer 1 PTI Fine Linen

Reel

Layer 4 Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3 SU Gray Granite

Layer 3 SU Going Gray

Layer 1 PTI Soft Stone

Canoe

Layer 4 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 3 SU Creamy Caramel

Layer 2 PTI Fine Linen

Layer 1 Memento Desert Sand

Trees

Layer 3 SU Baked Brown Sugar

Layer 2 SU Always Artichoke

Layer 1 SU Old Olive

Lake

Layer 2 SU Baja Breeze

Layer 1 Memento Summer Sky

Grass

Distress Ink Peeled Paint

Sky

Distress Oxide Ink Tumbled Glass

Sentiment and Silhouettes

Versafine Onyx Black

To create this card I followed these steps in this order:

  1. Stamp and mask the creel.

  2. Stamp and mask the reel.

  3. Stamp and mask the canoe. 

  4. Stamp the lake.

  5. Brush on the ground and sky.

  6. Dab on the clouds using my finger and white acrylic paint.

  7. Stamp on the trees.

  8. Stamp on the water's edge grasses.

  9. Remove all masks now.

 10. Stamp the bottom edge grass.

 11. Stamp the sentiment and silhouettes. I used a black finepoint sharpie to add the fishing line.

One other awesome set which also goes with the fishermen's theme is available for pre-order today and will ship on June 14.

Fisherman's Hat & Tackle Multi Step Clear Stamps

This final card I did for Technique Challenge 746 - Ink Blending at Splitcoaststampers today using the new Fishing 4 Bass Multi Step Clear Stamps set.

These are the three inks I blended for the background: Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, and Faded Jeans. The designer paper is from Echo Park.

Color Recipe for the Bass

Layer 4 Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3 SU Lucky Limeade

Layer 2 SU Certainly Celery

Layer 1 SU Barely Banana on the belly only

See what the Kitchen Crew has created for you with these new images:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Masculine

Sweet Stampin' - Father's Day

Fabrika Fantasy Challenge Blog - Challenge #31 - For the Men/Boys

CCEE1923 - Back to School

This is the 60th anniversary of CCEE June hostess, Lois Bak's graduation from high school -- June 9, 1959.   So her challenge for the team this week is to make a card depicting our favorite subject in school.

Well, my favorite subject was art! I guess that is why in retirement, it continues to be such a huge part of my everyday life.

I have created a card with features a wonderful Picasso quote which I purchased from Deep Red.

What subject did everyone else love?

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Time 2 Celebrate Dad! - KSS

Today's Father's Day card sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps was created with words pulled from a variety of KSS sets and the wonderful watch from Father's Pocket Watch Multi Step Clear Stamps. The background is designer paper from the Paper Studio.

Color Recipe for the Watch

Layer 3 Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 2 Stampin' Up Gray Granite

Layer 1 PTI Soft Stone

The sponging and most of the sentiment was done with Stampin' Up Merry Merlot.

Dad was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black

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!!

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

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #175 - For a Boy/Man

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - For a Man/Boy

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog - Challenge #41 - It's a Man's World

Thanks for stopping by! It's always a joy when you visit!

CCEE1922 - What's Cookin'?

Before we get to our CCEE challenge for this week, we have something very sad to let you know. Our dear team member, Joanne Grzelak, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday morning. Joanne had been on a leave of absence for a number of months due to health issues, but had intended to come back and play with us, shortly. Joanne was always so very supportive and was much loved in the stamping community. We will miss her so much. Farewell, dear friend. Your beautiful work delighted and inspired us week after week.

May is apparently Barbecue Month and the 28th of May is Hamburger Day so our hostess, Frances Bryne, has asked the CCEE Stampers to think BBQ's and/or Hamburgers when creating our cards this week … 

I went ahead and included both with this adorable set from Newton's Nook Designs called Winston's BBQ which was a gift to me from CCEE DT member, Kelly McKown-Santi. Thank you, Kelly!

Check out more grillin' going on below:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

Let's Make a Memorial Day Scene - KSS

Sometimes in the trips to the beach, the backyard bar-b-ques, and the picnics at the park we take part in on this holiday, it seems like the true meaning of the day is often lost.

In today's Let's Make a Memorial Day Scene design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps, I hope we all have a chance to look at our nation's flag and remember those brave men and women who have given their lives in service to our nation for our freedom.

You might also wish to take part in the National Moment of Remembrance at 3:00 pm your local time.

Kitchen Sink Stamp Sets used to create this card include:

Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Palm Trees Multi Step Clear Stamps

Sail Boats Multi Step Clear Stamps

Vintage Words Clear Stamps

Love 4 Ducky and Teddy Multi Step Clear Stamps (Always)

Color Recipe for the Palms

Layer 3 SU Mossy Meadow

Layer 2 SU Lucky Limeade

Layer 1 SU Lemon Lime Twist

Color Recipe for the Tree Trunk

Layer 1 SU Soft Suede

Layer 2 PTI Dark Chocolate

Color Recipe for the Water

Layer 2 PTI Spring Rain

Layer 1 SU Baja Breeze

Papers used are from Recollections, My Mind's Eye, and the Paper Studio.

The window die is from Poppy Stamps.

Check out the creations of the Kitchen Crew
for more Kitchen Sink Stamps inspiration:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

CCEE1921 - To Die For

May CCEE Hostess, Frances Byrne, has challenged the CCEE Stampers this week to create a card that uses at least one die.

For my card I used one Tim Holtz Crazy Dog die and one Quote Bubble die from EK Success. The designer papers are from the Paper Studio. The sentiment is from Gina Marie Designs.

Visit the CCEE Design Team Members to see what dies they have chosen to use:

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne
Maryann Einam
Kelly McKown-Santi

Let the Summer Begin!!! - KSS

Today's one layer card sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps celebrates the beginning of my summer. Two friends and I are headed to Mo Ranch (take a virtual tour if you would like) near Hunt, Texas on the beautiful banks of the Guadalupe River at the end May. Which is ALMOST here! I am so excited!

There is so much fun to be had on and around the river, but I doubt I will be in one of the canoes with my klutzy balance. 

Kitchen Sink Sets Used for this Card Include:

Cabin by the Lake Multi Step Clear Stamps

Tiny Norway Pine Multi Step Clear Stamps (no longer available)

Honey Bunny Multi Step Clear Stamps

Greetings for the Woods Clear Stamps

Berries Multi Step Clear Stamps (Summer)

Color Recipe for the Cabin

Layer 4 SU Soft Suede on the wood and SU Creamy Caramel on the brick

Layer 3 SU Baked Brown Sugar on the wood and Creamy Caramel on the brick

Layer 2 PTI Fine Linen

Layer 1 Memento Desert Sand

Color Recipe for the Tiny Norway Pine

Layer 3 PTI Dark Chocolate

Layer 2 SU Mossy Meadow

Layer 1 Memento Cottage Ivy

Color Recipe for the Lake

Layer 1 Memento Summer Sky

Layer 2 PTI April Rain

Sentiment - PTI Dark Chocolate

Grass - Distress Oxide Peeled Paint


Looking for more KSS inspiration? Here it is:

Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nana loves stamping by Jeanne Frontz

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

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

Clean and Simple Challenge #534 at Splitcoaststampers

Addicted to CAS - Card Challenge #159 - Horizon

Creative Craft Cottage - Challenge #118 - Use Ink (as much or as little as you like)

I am so happy that you came by for a visit today.  I hope you saw something you liked and will want to visit again!