CCEE2244 - Silhouettes

Maryann Einam, our CCEE Stampers challenge hostess says, " I love the simplicity of the a silhouette, and a lot of companies have them whether they are stamps or dies." She has requested that this week the CCEE Stampers create a card with a beautiful silhouette. She says it can be a scene or a stand-alone image.

Well, I LOVE silhouettes and love creating with them. Since I am WAY behind on my Christmas cards this year, I have made 10 copies of this card to add to my stash. This design was created using Tim Holtz Vault Series: Christmas 2021 while the sentiment is from Joyful Song by The Project Bin.

Linked below are the cards the CCEE DT created featuring silhouettes:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

A Beary Merry Christmas - Kitchen Sink Stamps

With Christmas fast approaching, I have used this weekend to get started on my Christmas cards for 2022. I am getting a very late start this year so expect my Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored cards for upcoming weeks to all be Christmas designs. I'm finally in the Christmas spirit!

Today's card features images from Bear in the Woods and Snowy Pine Trees with a sentiment from Christmas Poinsettia.

The front snow pine and bear were both stamped of SVG cut files which are available from KSS for these stamps sets. The designer paper is from the Paper Studio.

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

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Challenge #420 Wood/Trees

My Time to Craft Challenge Blog - Challenge #494 - Critters

Craft Rocket Challenges - Challenge #98 - Christmas/Winter

The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - Challenge #127 - Anything Christmas

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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!!

Walk Your Dog Week - CCEE2243

It's a brand new month whick means it is time for a new hostess at the CCEE Stampers.  Maryann Einam will be hosting the CCEE Challenges for the rest of the year.

According to the days of the year calendar, this week is walk your dog week. Walk you dog week is a week long holiday dedicated to bringing your dog a healthier lifestyle. Maryann has asked that the CCEE Stamps make a card with our furry friends in mind.

Time for me to get focused on Christmas cards so I pulled out an old favorite, Crazy Dogs by by Tim Holtz.

Our dog lover friends need to check out these cuties:

 Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Scary On - Halloween 2022 - Kitchen Sink Stamps

With Kitchen Sink Monday falling on Halloween this year, I felt I needed to add one more Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored scary card to my Halloween mix. This one will be going with a plate of cookies to my new neighbor who is celebrating Halloween in Texas for the first time. He is a little anxious about how we do things in the Lone Star State. He's about to find out!

 

The KSS sets I used to create this design are:

Scaredy Cat

Owl & Autumn Moon

Friends of the Moon

Pumpkins

Tree Friends

Honey Bunny

I am entering this Halloween design in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Halloween/Autumn

Stamping Sensations - October Challenge - All Things Autumn

Allsorts Challenge - Week 700 - Let's Celebrate Any Special Occasion

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Challenge 221 - H is for Halloween

Sweet Stampin' - Halloween/The Colours of Halloween

I hope you have a delightful and fun-filled Halloween!! Thank you for dropping by to visit today. I'm always thrilled by your visit!!

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!!

CCEE2242 - International Animation Day

 Lynn McAuley here with the final CCEE Stampers Challenge for October.

Friday is International Animation Day. What joyful and action-packed entertainment has filled our lives through the talented creations of the world's amazing animators. In honor these animators' remarkable work, choose one of your favorite animated characters to feature on this week's CCEE design. How fabulous would it be if you included the name of the animator who created your character!

I have gone with the King of Animation, Walt Disney and his classic characters, Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

This card has no stamping. It was created with a Disney die cut called Romantic Stroll. The sentiment was created with a die from Momenta. I attached them to a 3-D embossed heart panel.

Let's see what animation characters the rest of the team features:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Autumn Greetings - Kitchen Sink Stamps

Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design is going to a dear friend of mine who has an obsession with moose! I know she is going to love this 5 x 7 card!!

Sets from Kitchen Sink Stamps used to create this card include:

Mighty Moose

Isle of Big Bay Lake

Autumn Greetings

I also sponged the tiny leaves using the SVG cut Falling Leaves stencil and resized the maple leaf from the SVG Cut File for Big Leaves to create the leave-shaped window in the card front.

This card is being entered in the following challenge this week:

Path of Positivity - Challenge #105 Celebrate Something You Love about Your Favorite Season (falling leaves)

International Art & Soul - Challenge #145 - Happy Fall Y'all

Stamping Sensations - October Challenge - All Things Autumn

Craft Rocket Challenges - Challenge #97 - Autumn/Halloween

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!!

CCEE2241 - Reptiles

Thursday means it's time for a new CCEE Stampers Challenge. I am Lynn McAuley, and as this month's hostess I have chosen reptiles as the theme for today's challenge.

Friday, October 21 is National Reptile Day. I am asking the CCEE Stampers to be sure to feature on your cards the reptile of your choice: an alligator, a lizard, a turtle, a snake, a dinosaur! Or use them all! You choose!

There sure are lots of reptiles creeping, crawling, slithering, cheering, and dancing on the cards of the CCEE Design Team members' creations!!

 Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Happy Haunting - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I just added Halloween candy to my shopping list as I am beginning to see ghosts and goblins and pumpkins appearing in the yards of my neighborhood. I guess that makes today the perfect time to share a Halloween design sponsored by Kitchen Sink Stamps. All of the stamped images were stamped on pre-cut SVG shapes cut with my Cricut. The SVG files are available at Kitchen Sink Stamps to match the images I have used on this card.

Stamp sets included in this design come from the following sets:

Graveyard Raven

Scaredy Cat

Birch Trees

Pumpkins

Owl & Autumn Moon

This card has been entered in the following challenges:

Crafting Happiness Challenges - Challenge 135 - Halloween All Month Long

Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog: Halloween/Spooky

Cupcake Inspirations - #555 - Halloween Fun

Crafty Calendar Challenge - October Challenge - Halloween

Sweet Stampers Challenge Blog: Challenge #73 = Autumn or Halloween

Thanks for visiting here today!!

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!!

CCEE2240 - U.S. Navy Birthday Celebration

Welcome back to another week of challenges from the CCEE Stampers. I am Lynn McAuley, and I am serving as hostess for the month of October.

In the United States of America , October 13 is the day that the U.S. Navy celebrates as their birthday. To honor the men and women who have stepped up to serve our nation as members of the Navy since its inception, create a  card with a nautical theme.

Here are the wonderful samples from our talented design team created to honor past and present members of the Navy:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Slimline Crayon Thanks - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I'm still getting birthday gifts, so I need to mail out more thanks to friends and family. Today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored slimline design is a thank you card featuring images from Watercolor Thanks and Back to School Supplies.

I only stamped layer one of the Watercolor Thanks because I wanted it to look like the red crayon had been used to write it. I can't begin to tell you how much fun I am having with the Back to School Supplies.

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!!

CCEE2239 - National Bring Your Bible to School Day

 Lynn McAuley here to kick off the month of October with new challenges for the CCEE Stampers.

In the United States, today is National Bring Your Bible to School Day. For that reason, our challenge for this week is quite simple: use a Bible scripture as the sentiment on the front of your card design.

My card features the 23rd Psalm stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps which I often use on sympathy designs. It was stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturn ink over the layered mountain and pines stencil by Altenew. The Cloud stencil is by A Colorful Life Designs. The texture on the card front was stamped with a background stamp from Impression Obsession.

Below are the beautiful creations from our design team members, and the wonderful scriptures they have chosen to use with their stunning designs:

Kelly McKown-Santi

Lois Bak

Liz Williams

Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Butterflies - Kitchen Sink Stamps

STAMPtember has come to an end over at Simon Says Stamp and many of you were able to grab up Butterfly Kisses before it sold out. I thought for today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored designs I would show a few quick and easy ways to put your new set to good use. 

This first example is a table decoration using the butterfly with a Mason Jar. I just hot glued a rainbow colored braid around the jar and popped up a couple of butterflies in colors on the braid over the top of it. I had more than a dozen of there ready for a church event in less than 30 minutes. I had butterflies and flowers in all the colors found in the braid.

Next is the simple 5 x 7 card with a stenciled fern background and two blue butterflies. The SVG cut file for this Kitchen Sink Stamps stencil can be found here.

This last 5 x 7 card is made with a yellow butterfly popped up over a gorgeous piece of Graphic 45 paper from the Blossom Collection.

Those of you who were not able to get Butterfly Kisses before it sold out, can purchase instead Butterflies which includes a larger unique butterfly as well as this one which is slightly smaller than the one in Butterfly Kisses. Take a look and I think you will see that you can get similar results using any of your favorite sentiments with the beautiful butterflies in this set.

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!!