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!!

Birthday Love

My Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design for this week is a spring birthday card for a dear friend. It uses images from Tiger Lily and Words 4 Celebrating. I created the background with SVG cut stencil and speckled it with copper acrylic paint.

Color Recipe for the Lilies using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 - Pastel Sunrise
Layer 2 - Pastel Sunrise stamped twice
Layer 3 - Orange Cream
Layer 4 - Mocha
Layer 5 - Espresso

Color Recipe for the Leaves using Altenew Inks

Layer 1 - Limeade
Layer 2 - Lime
Layer 3 - Fresh Leaf 

Sentiment stamped with VersaFine Clair Pinecone

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

Dream Valley - Challenge #313 - Spring Colors

A Place to Start - April 2024 - Anything Goes with a Twist - Add a flower or 2

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #122 - April 2024

The Four Seasons Challenge - April 2024 - Anything Spring Goes

Allsorts - Week 773-774 - Anything Goes

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!!

Easter Bunny

This fun Easter card is going in the mail today to my precious little bunny, Beckett! Wish I could be out finding Easter eggs with him on Sunday!!

My 5 x 7 card was created with die cuts made with Spellbinders Floral Bunny Basket and Rainboot Bouquet dies. The sentiment is from Jesus Paid It All by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. 

Bluebonnet Prayers

With only a few short weeks left of fields of bluebonnets here in Texas, I have chosen to feature them again this week on my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design. The images I have used come from Bluebonnets, Trees, Rolling Hills, and Trees. I pulled the sentiments from Watercolor Prayers and an old retired set called Ribbons with a Cause. 

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

613 Avenue Create - March 2024 Challenge - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Weeks 773-774 - Anything Goes

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #713 Easter/Spring

Cardz 4 Galz - Challenge #221 - Spring Flowers with Dies or Punches

I Spy With My Little Eye - Challenge #13 - Something Yellow

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!!

Happy 80th

This die cut design was created for a dear friend who is celebrating his 80th birthday this week. Wood working is one of his many skills so I knew I wanted to use Spellbinders All the Tools dies by Nancy McCabe. Also from Spellbinders are the Jersey Numbers. The happy die is by Altenew and the th was cut using Alphanumeric 3/4 inch lower case letters by Sizzix.

I used a woodgrain embossing folder by the Paper Studio to create the textured background.

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

Creative Inspiration Challenge Blog - Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

The Paper Funday Challenges - March 2024 Challenge #63 - The Dies Have It

Unicorn Challenge Blog - Challenge #96 - For the Boys/Men

Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge #312 - Dies and/or Punches

Thanks for your visit today! 

It always brings me joy to see you here!

Polka Dot Boots to Welcome Spring

I have been collecting the Spellbinders Large and Small Dies of the Month for about 6 months now, but haven't taken the time to create and post with most of them. Hopefully that is about to change. I need to stop collecting and organizing and get to creating instead.

This card uses Rain Boot Bouquet (small die for March 2024) and some flowers from Floral Bunny Basket (large die for March 2024). The sentiment I paired with them is from Heartfelt Thoughts by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

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

Cardz 4 Galz - Challenge #221 - Spring Flowers with Dies

little red wagon - Challenge #748 - Florals

The Paper Funday Challenges - Challenge #63 - The DIES Have It

Make My Monday - Challenge #221 - Spring, Flowers, Weather

Stamping Sensations - Spring is in the Air

Thanks for your visit today! 

It always brings me joy to see you here!

Bunny and Tulips

I love this sweet bunny and am including him on all of my Easter cards this year!! On today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design, I have paired Honey Bunny and Tulip Garden and sentiments from Bold Holiday Greetings and Coffee Mate Greetings. 

This is a single layer card with the tulips, grass, and sentiment stamped directly on the A2 card front. The bunny was stamped on an SVG cut file also available at Kitchen Sink Stamps and cut out using my Cricuit Joy. It was attached over the grass and tulips.

Color Recipes using Altenew Inks

Bunny

Layer 1 - Sand Dunes
Layer 2 - Rocky Shore
Layer 3 - Mocha
Layer 2 - Espresso

Tulips

Layer 1 - Baby Pink
Layer 2 - Baby Pink
Layer 3 - Fuchsia
Layer 2 - Magenta

Leave and Stems

Layer 1 - Limeade
Layer 2 - Parrot
Layer 3 - Lime

Grass - Grass Field

Sentiment - Espresso

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

Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Challenge #192 - Easter or Mother's Day

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 772 - Feather and/or Fur

Cut It Up Challenge Blog - Challenge #299 - Colors of Spring

Simply Create Too, Challenge Blog - Challenge #198 - Bunnies & Blooms

Star Stampz Challenge Blog - Challenge #56 - 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!!

Spring in Texas

I warned you last week that you would be seeing Texas bluebonnets on this post since they are beginning their annual appearance along the highways and byways of Texas. I am so thrilled that I will be making a road trip or two in the coming weeks and get to experience the beauty of Texas wildflowers. The beauty absolutely takes your breath away!!

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design features images from Trees, Tree Friends, Honey Bunny, and Bluebonnets. This slimline design is made on a white panel where I stamped the tree, stone path, grass, and sentiment. I then added the SVG cut bunny and bluebonnets in the foreground. 

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

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral - Challenge #14

Stamping Sensations - March Challenge - Spring

Crafting Happiness Challenges - Challenge #165 - Green

Cut It Up! Challenge Blog - Challenge #299 - Colors of Spring

Simply Create Too - Challenge#198 - Bunnies & Blooms

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!!

Easter in the Garden

I am calling today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card, Easter in the Garden. It is so wonderful to have warmer days and brightly colored flowers popping up everywhere! We are so glad to have the winter gloom behind us for another year!

This design features images from the following Kitchen Sink Stamps sets:

Trees
Tree Friends
Honey Bunny
Spring Daffodils
Hydrangea

All images were stamped with Altenew inks except for the sentiment which is VersaFine Clair Nocturn. This is a 5 x 7 design.

 

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

Triple B Challenge - March - Birds-Blossoms-Butterflies

Allsorts - Week 770 - Spring

As You See It - Challenge #318 - Easter

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge 528 - Create Your Own Background

Simply Create Too - Challenge #198 - Bunnies & Blooms

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!!

Hopping into Easter

In one short month it will be Easter, and I need to get started on Easter cards. Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design was created using images from Clay Pots, Honey Bunny, Spring Daffodils, and Bold Holiday Greetings.

The background was created using blended Distress Oxide inks by Ranger. The rabbit, clay pot, and daffodils were stamped  with Stampin' Up inks onto SVG shapes cut with my Cricut Joy and layered on the Distress Oxide Ink background. The SVG cut files are available for purchase for these sets. If you add them to your cart when you purchase the set, the file for that set will be free!

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

Stamping Sensations - Animals, Birds, and Creatures

My Time to Craft - Challenge #528 - Create Your Own Background

Tic, Tac, Toe Challenge #241 - Flowers, Lucky Image (rabbit's foot), Bunny

Gem of a Challenge - February - Week 4 - Anything Goes

Send a Smile for Kids - Easter/Spring Cards for Kids

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!!

Wildlife Birthday

For this week's Kitchen Sink Stamps' sponsored design, I have created a masculine birthday card for an outdoorsman in my circle of friends. I included images from Mallard Ducks, Isle of Big Bay Lake, Simple Sentiments (retired), and Tiny Norway Pine (retired). 

This A2 design started out with a white panel of cardstock with a Distress Oxide blended background. I then stamped the trees onto the panel and attached an SVG cut duck. All inks on the trees and duck are by Altenew. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Clair Pinecone.

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

Crafting from the Heart - Challenge #9 - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels - Challenge #79 - Anything Goes

Creative Crafting Uncles - Challenge #49 - Happy Birthday

Stamping Sensations - February Challenge - Animals, Birds, & Creatures

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!!

Valentine with Non-Traditional Colors - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored card is my final Valentine of the year created using non-traditional colors along with images from Guitar, Heart & Roses, and Sweetheart Daisies (the sentiment).

 This is an A2 card with the guitar, roses, and leaves stamped on cut outs made with SVG cut files which are also available from Kitchen Sink Stamps. All inks used are from Altenew with the exception of the sentiment which was stamped with Versafine Clair Pinecone.

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

Triple B - Birds, Butterflies, and Blooms - February Challenge

The Paper Players - Challenge 675 - Theme - Love

We Love Stamping - February Challenge - Romance

Creative Knockouts - Challenge #514 - Love/Valentine's Day/ Anniversary

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!!