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Come join me in the NEW Kitchen Sink Stamps Forums and Gallery from Noon to Midnight EST, there will be plenty of fun Challenges, Games, Prizes, and Giveaways. I'll be sharing a special discount code at Midnight, you'll also be able to see and order the NEW January releases!
Click here to enter the forums, then be sure to register to get started!
Good morning! Everyone ready for New Years?? I just realized that I never shared this card here (or if I did, I can't seem to find it, so sorry!!). There's still time to take advantage of the sweet savings at The Cat's Pajamas! until Dec. 31st everything is 25% (oops, except the Kitty Kat or Poochie Pack) and if you go to SCS and look for the banner ad you can save even more!! Maybe you'll need to pick up this adorable little set, You Suit Me, another of those cute ouou illustration sets (if you ask me, you need them all - lol!)!
The CAS challenge this week on SCS (CAS99) is a color challenge, green, brown, white & kraft - I love these colors together so I thought I'd play along. I pulled out Beyond Borders from Mint Motif, available at i {heart} papers and started playing around with the different border strips. There is so much you can do with this set!
I'm just popping in with a commercial break . . LOL! Seriously though, every year I renew my goal to be better organized, to actually show up at appointments on the right day and time, not a day early or 2 hours late (I've heard stories, not that I have first-hand experience here . . .), to remember birthdays, publication call deadlines, release days . . . you get the picture right?
Hello my stampy friends!! It's the last Monday of 2010 - really, hasn't it just flown by?? Well, I'm so excited to let you know that there are some fun things happening at Kitchen Sink Stamps in 2011! For one, KSS is going to have their every own Forum and public Gallery! One place to ask questions, find information and inspiration, share your own KSS creations and chit chat with us in the Kitchen…. and a whole lot more! :)
When you might ask? At the Grand Opening of the KSS Forum/Gallery on New Year’s Eve - which is this Friday, December 31 from noon to midnight EST. The location will be announced on Maria's blog on the 31st. We hope you will join us for the countdown in our New Forum …. there will be Challenges, Games, Prizes, & Give-Aways …. oh, and a new stamp release …. available first only to those in attendance in our Forum at the stroke of Midnight (EST)! :)
Hi everyone! Just popping in very quickly to let you know about a few sales you might want to take advantage of while you still have your Christmas money - lol! :)
It's getting to be that crazy time when so many things need to be done and there's so little time left! My husband's work party is tonight so we'll get to enjoy a nice dinner out. I confess though that not much stamping is taking place lately - how about you?? It's hard to fit it all in isn't it? I did manager to find a cute little card from that last The Cat's Pajamas release that I never shared here on my blog.
I'm having more fun playing with the newest Kitchen Sink Stamps set, Multi-Step Invisible Snowman! It's fun to play with different colors for all the "pieces" of the snowman! I started by using this week's great sketch from The Sweet Stop with some fun Echo Park paper.
Oops, I think I lost a day! These are such busy days before the holiday aren't they? I know you all are running around just as much as I am so you'll forgive me for some spotty posting, right?!
I have another fun little card for you using What a Card from Mint Motif at i {heart} papers. This was really such a quick and easy card to make and I love the pop of the red and black!
I searched around a bit to see what I could do with this fun little bauble. Turns out you can reverse paint on the underside of them for a neat look, but I don't paint. Then I found these - totally fun right? And super easy to make! The hardest part was deciding what color to make. I pulled out my box of Swarovski crystals and settled on shades of blue which just seemed to "pop" on the clear ring! Basically, I just turned the flatback crystal over, added a small bit of Glossy Accents to the back and put it on the ring (a little tool like this made this much easier to set the crystals without getting glue all over the ring!). 
Good morning! I loved Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch this week - a real classic for sure! So I pulled out some fun Mint Motif stamps and came up with a great masculine card. Aren't those always the hardest? We always here people saying, what can I send my brother/father/uncle/husband, etc.?? Well this set, What a Card, from Mint Motif, available only at i {heart} papers, is just perfect! Actually, it's great for anyone who loves games and cards (which, btw is such a hot trend now too!).
Oooop, late again ... story of my life lately - lol! Hello my friends! It's TCP Tuesday and this week's hostess is Susan and she's challenged us to get in the spirit and use any holiday stamp from The Cat's Pajamas this week! Now I bet you can do that!
In my "alterables" closet (come on, you all have one of those right?) I've had this nifty little file box and I think I found the perfect use for it! I used PC Santa (which just cracks me up!!) to make a tag box all ready for giving.
The hot pink cover of the box helped me pick out the fun non-traditional holiday colored paper from Echo Park and it was super easy to measure the box and adhere the paper to the front and back. Inside the box were 5 file cards from the same dark kraft color as the box. I cut them down a bit and used them for the tags. I used a couple of the new Cut-Ups from The Cat's Pajamas. First, the Apron Border die was used to make a cool border on the tags - I love the look of this!! Then I used the new Snowflake die to make glittery little snowflake embellishments using shrink plastic. I'll be honest here, it didn't always work great since the shrink plastic is thick and stubborn, but I found that if you use a new plate under the cutting blade and an extra piece of cardstock to thicken it up a bit the cut was clean enough that I just needed to use a craft knife on a few areas.
I used Your Gift to make 2 other tags, complete with glittery snowflakes and some Divine Twine on the top. Won't this be a fun little gift for someone - I know I never have enough tags for my gifts - seriously!!
It's December and the first Monday so it's time for a new Kitchen Sink Stamps Crew Challenge!! This time Angela is our hostess and she's giving us permission to CASE - pick one of your favorite cards by the KSS Crew and put your own spin on it!! I cannot wait to see what you all make this time, such a fun challenge!
I chose this beauty made by Angela - I loved the design here and can see so many different elements used in place of the strawberries! I chose to use the gingerbread men from Multi-Step Garland and some fun October Afternoon paper. Using the dp gives my card a much busier look but I still think it works.
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