Daisy Heart Valentine - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is a Valentine featuring images from Sweetheart Daisies and Bold Holiday Greetings. I created the background using the SVG cut stencil Cascading Hearts, Distress Oxide Inks, gold acrylic paint, and bubble wrap.

The daisy heart was stamped on an SVG cutout. The fun thing about SVGs is that you can alter the size to make a matching mat for the stamp. I wanted more contrast between the daisies and the handmade background, so I cut a white heart mat by increasing the size of the SVG by .4 inches. I love how it turned out! 

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

TGIF Challenges - Challenge #457 - Inspiration

Tic Tac Toe - Challenge #239 - heart/embellishment/pink

613 Avenue Create - January 2024 - Anything Goes

We Love 2 Create - Challenge #1 - Anything Mixed Media

Allsorts - Week 765 - Anything but Square

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!!

One Cup at a Time - Kitchen Sink Stamps

For this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I reached for the Coffee & Friends set, as well as Heart & Roses (which was the very first KSS set I ever purchased way back in 2008). I am never able to start my day without a heavily creamed cup of steaming coffee. It always gets the day off to a good start and sets the tone for tackling the challenges of the day!

Today for the first time, I stamped the coffee cup and saucer twice. Once in reds and once in yellows. I then trimmed the yellow cup off of its saucer and glued it to the top of the red cup and saucer. I like the contrast of color and hope you do, too! The cup and saucer, as well as the rosebud, stem, and leaves  were stamped on cut SVG files also available at Kitchen Sink Stamps. They were then arranged and glued on the speckled pink cardfront. All inks are by Altenew except for the Versafine Clair Pinecone sentiment.

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

Night Owls - Challenge #33 - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Week #764 - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - U is for Under Something

Simply Create Too Challenge Blog - Challenge #196 - Warm & Cozy

Just Us Girls - Challenge #710 - Moodboard

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!!

This Moose be Love - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I have chosen to share a non-traditional masculine Valentine (or it could serve as an anniversary card) as this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design. It uses images from Mighty Moose and Birch Trees. The sentiments come from Mighty Moose, Coffee Mate Greetings, and Bold Holiday Greetings. The 3-D embossed tree ring background is by Sizzix. The heart-shaped die is by Spellbinders.

The moose and the birch trees were stamped on SVG cut files also available from Kitchen Sink Stamps for use with your electronic cutting device. I use the Cricut Joy to cut all of mine.

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

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Challenge #190 Theme - Feeling Sentimental

Allsorts Challenge - Week 762 - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - T is for Texture

Craft Rocket Challenge - Challenge #110 - Use Embossing

The Male Room - Challenge #182 - Funny/Pun

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!!

Sending New Year Cheer - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps' sponsored design was created to welcome in 2024 and to wish you each a wonderful new year filled with peace and hope.

This A2 card has a blended and embossed background which was spritzed with water. Once it had dried, I added giant glitter glue confetti. The Champagne flutes were stamped on cut SVG files and then adhered to the card front of the card along with the sentiments.

Stamp Sets Used to Create this Design are:

Champagne Cheer

Coffee Mate Greetings

Christmas Poinsettia

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!!

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!!

Pines and Pinecones - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is my final holiday card for 2023. It was created with images from: All Year Grapevine Wreath, Build a Pine Branch, and Christmas Poinsettia. 

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

Peace on Earth - Challenge #54 - Anything Christmas Goes

Allsorts - Week 759 - Christmas Flowers and/or Wreaths

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - MTTC #523 - Holidays Around the World

Star Stampz Challenge Blog - Challenge #53 - Christmas

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!!

All Aglow - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I am having such fun designing with Kitchen Sink Stamps' Christmas Lights 2020. What could be more colorful and festive for a holiday card? This card is my KSS sponsored design for this week! The sentiment is from Big & Bold Christmas Greetings, also by Kitchen Sink Stamps.

This one layer design was stamped with Altenew inks on an A2 white cardbase.

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

Splitcoaststampers -  Clean and Simple Challenge #771

The Paper Players - Challenge PP669 - Theme - Christmas

Inspire. Create Challenge - Challenge #157 - Theme - Christmas

613 Avenue Create - December 2023 - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist - Any Winter Holiday

Less is More - Challenge #497 - D is for Deck the Halls

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!!

Holiday Lights - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Last weekend I went hog-wild making a large tub of  holiday lights from the Kitchen Sink Stamps set Christmas Lights 2020 so that I could get serious about creating my Christmas cards for this year. This delightful little set has three different light bulbs and two styles of sockets, as well as a wire stamp which you can use to connect the lights into a string. There are also several tiny one layer light bulbs. What a bargain for $10.50!

For today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I have used the small round bulb and straight socket for the first card and the large bulb and slanted socket for the second! Black cording was used for the wire, framing, and bow. The pine sprigs and sentiments are from Christmas Poinsettia.

For both of these 5 x 7 inch holiday cards, I stamped images from Snowy Pine Trees on a white panel and laid a designer paper oval frame cut from a holiday pad from the Paper Studio over them before adding the sockets and light bulbs. I fussy cut the bulbs and sockets. After gluing them down, I added the black cording and sentiments.

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

Stamping Sensations - November Challenge - Get Ready for Christmas

Peace on Earth - Christmas Challenge #52

Allsorts Challenge - Week #756 - Colors of Winter/Anything Goes

As You See It - Challenge #312 - The Most Wonderful Time - Christmas - The festive holiday lights are part of what make this season so magical to me. They are popping up everywhere in my neighborhood!

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!!

Autumn Blessings - Kitchen Sink Stamps

 Autumn Blessings is today's Kitchen Sink Stamps slimline sponsored design. It was created with images from Kitchen Sink Stamps' Autumn Squirrel (a retired set), Trees, Autumn Greetings, and Turkey Blessings. I ink blended the background with Distress Oxides inks and stamped all of the images on SVG files cut with my Cricuit Joy. All of today's images were stamped with Altenew dye inks. Although the squirrel is retired, I couldn't resist throwing one on the card since I feed them peanuts everyday here at my house!

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

All Sorts - Challenge #753 - The Great Outdoors

Crafty Calendar Challenge - November - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #265 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge #688 - Stamp Act Week 1

Creative Inspiration Challenge - Challenge # 8 - 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!!

A Moment Like This

I am making a couple of these to add to my stash as masculine cards of congratulations. I mixed Kitchen Sink Stamps' Father's Pocket Watch with a sentiment from Love Songs 2 from Impression Obsession. The 3D embossed background and the Paper Doll are by Tim Holtz Idea-ology. 

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

Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog - Challenge #496 Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Week #752 - Embossing

Can You Handle the Pressure? - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - October Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge - *It's Alive*

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