KSS Monday

Hi and Happy KSS Monday. I can't believe how fast January is going by. This is my third week as Guest Designer for Kitchen Sink Stamps and I am having so much fun working (really playing, it's too much fun to call it work) with the stamps. Today I am featuring stamps from the new release Multi Step Bunch O' Balloons and Multi Step Li'l Elephant. As soon as I saw the balloons , I knew I wanted to put them together with the adorable elephant. My layout is based Connie's Friday Carte Challenge. You can find the different crew challenges at the Kitchen Sink Stamp Forum.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will visit the other Design Team Members to see what wonderful creations they have made.

Angela • Connie • Julie • Lisa • Lynn • Makiko • Maria

Color recipes: (All inks used are Adirondack)

1st balloon -- 1 cloudy blue, 2 sailboat blue, 3 stonewashed, 4 denim

2nd Balloon -- 1 shell pink, 2 cool peri, 3 purple twilight, 4 eggplant

Elephant -- 1 lake mist, 2 pebble, 3 slate, 4 archival black

Masking challenges

The Compendium of Curiosities challenge this week is  Distress Misting Masks from p. 60 of Tim's book. By coincidence, Simon says Stamp and Show masking. Stampotique also has the challenge of masking.The masks I used are the music mask from Tim Holtz and the butterflies from Heidi Swapp. The distress mist is a combination of shabby shutters and pine needles distress inks and sparkle perfect pearls. Over the masked butterflies I added outline stickers which i distressed with black soot alcohol ink. I added rock candy and antique linen stickles inside the butterflies and antique linen distress ink for the flower centers. The sentiment is a See-D stamp and roughly translated means best wishes.

Bloggers Challenge 186

I love it when a few challenges work together. In this case it's a sketch, a color, and a technique challenge that worked themselves into my card. First, Bloggers challenge was a sketch (on the left) challenge  this week. The challenge at Oh Alice is to share something that helps you capture your holiday memories, like a layout, mini-album or picture holder of some kind, OR to use an icy blue color scheme! I don't scrap, therefore, it's icy blue for me. At Tuesday Throwdown the challenge use background stamping on your project.

To begin my card I created the background panel by stamping images of the white rabbit using the Depth of Field technique from Technique Junkies on light blue paper. The next panel was

embossed using a portion of a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I especially wanted the clock with the gears around it. I used a blue panel and highlighted with denim distress ink. For my third panel I cut out an image of the white rabbit and dressed him in blue, using Copics. The sentiment was stamped on white satin ribbon with Stazon ink. "Oh my ears and whiskers"; that was fun!

Angel

I had a lot of fun today letting my muse run wild. This card meets the criteria for two challenges. The Sunday Challenge at Ink on My Fingers was diamonds. This week Simon Says Stamp and Show some masking. The image and sentiment stamps are from Stampotique. First I stamped Angel in fuschia. I masked her and stamped Angelboy behind her. I masked him and then using a gold paint dabber on a background stamp, stamped the diamonds. Finally I stamped the angel definition and added the flower. The image panel was matted with a blue panel and attached to a gold card base.

Critter Sketch Challenge 47

This week Critter Sketch is hosting a sketch challenge. My card has images from Beyond The Sea, an Artistic Outpost stamp sheet. The image was colored with Creative Inspirations paints. The background panel was texturized using and embossing folder and then highlighted with fairy dust for the shimmer. I think it gives the look of waves shimmering in the sunshine.

KSS Monday

It's time for another Kitchen Sink Monday! This week I decided to share a Valentine's card with you. Yes, Valentines Day is only a little over a month away. I used the new release, Multi Step Sweet Heart Roses. I think that this heart is so beautiful.

My card is a CAS card (clean and simple). I think the heart image speaks for itself. I first made the frame from light pink cardstock using a Cuttlebug folder. I cut out the center oval. The hearts were stamped on a white panel to fit beneath the frame. I stamped the first heart and then masked it. I then stamped the second heart. For a sentiment I stamped the xoxo (kisses and hugs). I highlighted the frame with spun sugar distress stickles. This gives the frame a pretty sparkle. The panels were attached to a deeper pink base card.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will visit the other Design Team Members to see what delightful creations they have made.

Angela • Connie • Julie • Lisa • Lynn • Makiko • Maria

Created by Hand for the Play Date Cafe

This week there was a color challenge at the Play Date Cafe--grass green, gold and silver. By coincidence the challenge at Created By Hand was  “In with the New/Gold”.  On my card I used a stencil with gold stencil paste to create my image. The image panel was cut from grass green cardstock using a Spellbinders die. the background panel is silver metallic cardstock which was embossed in a texture fade. The sentiment is from Club Scrap. The base card is metallic gold. Of course, scanning flattens the shimmer of the metallics, but IRL it's there.