FLLC Hidden Kiss

Good Morning! Well after a much needed stampin break my mojo is back:) I'm just thrilled with the out come of this project. I stamped the heart and embossed it with silver. I did DTP using chalk ink. I cut the heart out and used a black sharpie around the edges. I wanted a little pocket to hold a couple of Hershey Kisses so I messed around with the idea until I came up with this. The words are stamped on Shrinky Dink using Black stazon. The words in the set are much larger. This set is from Flourishes LLC it's called Lace Heart. I took a couple of pictures to show you what the heart looked like before putting it on my card. I stamped the tissue using the reindeer from Flourished Christmas. I placed one Hershey Kiss inside:)
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Dee

More Gifts

Good Morning! Things are slowly getting back to normal here. Although I haven't stamped in days! I think I'm all stamped out:)I have a few more gifts to share. The card totes using Kitchen Sink 3 Step Daisy were made for my mom and sister. Each tote holds 6-8 cards with envelopes. I know some of you maybe wondering if I threw out all my other stamps since this set is the one you have seen the most. This was the set I decided to use for most of my stamped gifts this year. The tin set has Fireside, cookies, and some chocolate. I covered the tin in red cardstock and used puff paint on the foam. The lid of the tin has the same BG Figgy paper as the cookies. I really thing this is a cute set. The stamp set used is SU! Like it a Latte.
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Dee

Did Santa Bring You Something Fun From The Kitchen?

Hi There! I hope you had a Merry Christmas!! Ours was wonderful. I haven't stamped anything the past two days but I did want to tell you about a sale going on today 12-26-07 ONLY!! Over at Kitchen Sink Stamps. Why fight the traffic and crowds when you can get everything you want from The Kitchen Sink online today only with a great sale price? Maria over at Kitchen Sink knows Santa was very busy and may have missed some of the fun things you can find at Kitchen Sink Stamps! so she is having a one day sale of 15% off!! Use the promotion code BOWS to recieve the 15% discount. Happy shopping!!
The Kitchen Crew is all fired up for 2008!! You ain't seen nothing yet!!:) Get inspired from the gallery found here or check out the design teams gallery on SCS Have a wonderful day!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Another Gift Using Toile Blossoms

Hi There! I've had this idea for this box for months, I've colored hundreds of images trying to get the color right. I refused to give up!! Yippee I did it! I'm so excited I'm really happy with the results. I used shimmery white cardstock I love that stuff. I did the coloring with ink pads and blender pens. Can you believe to get the color on the leaves right I used Old Olive, Garden Green and on the outer edge Caramel. I have 2 pictures to share. There's some kind of strange glare on the close up the shading is soft and pretty IRL :) I hope everyone is ready for Christmas!! This will be my last post until after Christmas. Have a Wonderful Holiday! Be safe.
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

From My Kitchen to Yours!!!

Hi there! I found these recipe holders over a year ago at Target. I bought a bunch of them and decided after making one using dp it was way to much work! Fast forward to Christmas 2007 and my Kitchen Sink Stamps and WOOHOO!! I've been cranking these out like nobody's business:) So here is one set I made for my neighbor who just love's everything I cook LOL. She flipped when I gave this to her along with some of my favorite recipes. I stamped this directly on the box. I stuck my large acrylic block inside the box and added cardstock on top of the block until the box was firm. It stamped up like a dream:) I have so many gifts to show you but I want to wait until each person has recieved it,btw I still have stuff to mail so who knows it maybe next year before you see them all:) sad but true.
I hope you are getting all your stampin finished. If not maybe this will inspire you to make a recipe holder with matching cards for someone on your list.
Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

SC155, Something for Valentine's Day!

Good Morning! Finally finished with all my Christmas stamping Yippee!!! So I thought I'd get a head start on Valentine's Day:) The card and candy tote both feature the birds from the Love Nest set made by Flourishes. I used Prismacolor pencils and baby oil to color. I love my cuttlebug so I used that as well.
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Dee

FS45 Birthday Card Using KS Stamps

Hi there! Today's FS was the inspiration for this card. As you know I totally love this set:) 3- Step Daisy from Kitchen Sink Stamps I needed a card for my sister's birthday this is what I made. I'm having a love affair with hunter green I love it with garden green on all the leaves from KS. I use it on the holly as well. I used the Blue Frost Spectrum pad for the flowers and garden green and hunter for the leaves. The dew drops were a wonderful gift from a very special someone:) Thank you so much I love them!! Well have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Sharon's no layer challenge & LSC146

Good Morning! Sharon posted a challenge on her blog to make no layer cards. This has always been a challenge for me so I thought I would give it a shot. Lucky for me my new stamp set Lace Hearts arrived yesterday! The card is pretty basic no layers, white card base. Black and red ink only. The scallop along the bottom was made using the heart in the set. I only inked part of the top of the heart. For the limited supply challenge on SCS you could use layers but had to use white as your card base. So this works for that as well.
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Dee

KS Fireside Tins

Good Morning! I wanted to share with you a great recipe and my super simple packaging idea. Inside the tin I made my special winter mix called Fireside.


Here's the recipe you will love this:)
2 cups instant hot chocolate
2 cups coffee creamer
1 cup instant coffee
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Mix well. Store in airtight container or glass jar. Add 2 tablespoons of mix ( or to taste) to 6-8 oz of hot water. Stir and enjoy!

I also put a few chocolate dipped candy cane sticks and some assorted chocolate candy. I used my cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder for the top of the tin and wrapped it up in cellophane. I made a tag using Playful Christmas stamp set from Kitchen Sink Stamps
On the back of the tag I put the recipe:)
Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Open To Love New Release

Good Morning! Open To Love is now available from Flourishes LLC. For this card I used my cuttlebug to emboss the background. The vase is from the Open To Love set the Thank You is from Flourished Words set. I colored this with markers. The layout is from today's SC154. I'm still finishing up Christmas projects I hope you are finished with your shopping and crafting!! Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Kitchen Sink Candles!

Hi there! Gift giving has been so easy this year thanks to so many great stamps on the market! I love the WOW factor. Non stamper's would never guess it was so easy:) Gotta love that. I made these candles in literally minutes and I love the way they turned out!! Yep you guessed it I will be in auto mode cranking these babies out. I've seen so many great tutorials on stamping on candles that I decided to just link to the one that's on SCS I used the Holly and Mistletoe set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I'm amazed at the results everytime I use this set! Well I'm off to make more candles. Have a great night!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Stamps: Holly and Mistletoe (Kitchen Sink Stamps)
Ink: Mellow Moss, Artichoke, Hunter, Caramel, Red, Bravo

New Release from Flourishes LLC

Good Morning! Flourishes has two new releases available later this month. I thought you might enjoy a little peek at what's coming:) The set is call Love Nest. I'm still hard at work trying to knock out my Christmas projects sigh...
Have a great day!
Dee

CPS42 Fantasy Floral

Good Morning! Well I'm so excited! I had happy mail my Flourishes stamps arrived. This is the card I made for the CPS42 featuring Fantasy Floral Garden by Flourishes LLC. I wanted this to look aged so I used distress ink while the stamped images were still wet so it would smear. I also shadow stamped the images. I used a scallop punch and overlaped the artichoke ones so my main image would stand out. I apologize for the bad photo the sheer ribbon placed on the very edge made this hard to crop.
Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day:)
Dee

KS CC143

Good Morning! I used the snowflake embossing folder on the celery card stock. I layered that on old olive. I stamped the trees from Playful Christmas made by Kitchen Sink Stamps in celery and old olive. I backed part of the cut out tree with black cardstock so it would pop. I used small rhinestones for the tree topper.
Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Still time to get your discount!

Today Dec 3, 2007 is another exciting day over at Kitchen Sink Stamps. Maria has a 10% sale going on today only!! Here's the best part she also released 4 new sets Use the promotion code SCSDEC to recieve the 10% discount. Happy shopping!!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Flourished Christmas CPS42

Good Morning! Flourishes will be the feature company on the CPS blog this week. The sketch is wonderful! The featured stamp set is Fantasy Floral I don't have it yet but I really wanted to play:) So I pulled out my Flourished Christmas set and decided I would make a black and white Christmas card. The large panel uses the antlers only from the reindeer. I used tape to mask off the face and body of the reindeer and just repeated the process until I was happy with the result. If you have this set you really should try this I love the way it turned out, I hope you do to.
I know it seems I've been MIA but I've been working hard making gifts and cards for Christmas. You've seen most of what I've been making. I hope to have some new things to share with you in the next few days.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Dee

SC152 Good Friends

Good Morning! I made this card for today's challenge. I really love these two stamps together. I colored the image on shimmery white card stock using pastels. I used a copper paint pen on the edges. I'm not sure I will be using this layout for my Christmas cards for close friends but I do know I will be using these stamps.
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo, Lizzie Anne
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Shimmery White
Ink: Black
Accessories: Stampin' Pastels, Copper Paint Pen, Ribbon, Oval Punch
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Playful Christmas Basket

Good Morning! This is one of my top sellers. Last year I made hundreds of these and had to stop taking orders for them. This year I'm making the ones I did last year as well as some using a few new stamp sets. For this basket I used Playful Christmas from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I love this set:)Inside this basket there's Hershey nuggets, Hot Cocco, Mixed nuts, and Peppermint candy.Here's a few from last year




I made these using Michelle Fischer on SCS. Thanks again Michelle for the wonderful directions:)
So as you can see I've been stamping up a storm! I hope you will be inspired to make some of these fun little baskets.
Stamps: Playful Christmas
Paper: Mellow Moss, WW,
Ink: Artichoke, Garden Green, Mellow Moss
Accessories: Brads, Ribbon, Tag Punch, Ticket Punch, Rhinestones
Enjoy the day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Cut and color when needed

Good Morning! In the past I have colored and cut out tons of flowers. I never seem to have the color I need cut out. With this set I decided to do things different I stamped all the images in black stazon and cut them. Now when I need the images I can quickly color to match my project. See the pictures:) I love doing it this way I hope you will too.
Have a great day
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Happy Thanksgiving, and WT141, Mojo12 card

Good Morning! I know I should be cooking or cleaning but I just had to do the challenge lol. I saw Julee's Mojo Monday card on SCS and loved it. I wanted to try the layout. I think I'm really going to like the set from SU! So many things about this card aren't my normal style but it's fun sometimes to jump out of my box:)
Supplies used:

Stamps: Time Well Spent
Paper: Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink, Artichoke, WW
Ink: Black, Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink, Old Olive
Accessories: Rhinestones, Ribbon, Foam tape

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Thanks for stopping by.
Dee

SC151 Time Well Spent

Good Morning! I want to thank all of you that contacted me with the information on the unknown snowman:) I'm happy to say I ordered him and can't wait to have him back in my stamp collection. Thanks so much you ROCK.
Yesterday I recieved my free set from SU! I stamped a full sheet in black stazon and cut them out that way I can just color and go. I really like the way this turned out. The dp is BG Figgy, I used old olive and whisper white cardstock as well. I colored this with markers.
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Dee

CC141 Unknown Snowman

Good Morning! I love this snowman I have no idea who makes him. He was lost many years ago when we moved. My husband found this stamped image in a box in the garage. I wanted to cry...I had forgotten all about this stamp. If you know where I can this snowman please let me know. This card was made for the color challenge. Colored it with markers. I distressed the edges a bit. The card stock is Wild Wasabi, Pretty In Pink, and Natural White.
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Dee

The Secret's Out!

Good Morning! I have some exciting news to share. I'm on the new Flourishes design team!! I'm thrilled to be designing with these awesome talented ladies. I quickly fell in love with these stamps and look forward to creating some cool projects for all of you. Here is the first project I'd like to share with you. I love the way this Christmas tin turned out. The stamps are so elegant your projects look like a million bucks with little effort. I purchased the tin at Hobby Lobby and the Fern- Rhinestones from Jacksonbelle's store.
ETA: Congratulations Ladies!! I look forward to designing with you:) The links are listed on my side bar.
Flourishes Design Team
Jan Tink
Kelly Sampson
Leslie Miller
Lisa Somerville
Natasha Trupp
Sharon Johnson, Design Team Leader
Tracy Durcan

Have a wonderful day :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Dee

Gift Bag

Good Morning! Well I've been a very busy girl:) Most of which I can't show you yet. I'm sure you remember the gable box and Christmas card I made earlier. This is the quick and easy gift bag I made to put all my yummy treats in. This time I cut a sheet of WW cardstock in half. I stamped all the half sheets with the words first. I then stamped all of the one step stamps on each half sheet of cardstock repeat with step two and three. For the berries I only did step one and two. By stamping all your half sheets with each step it makes this project super fast and easy. It would take forever to make this if you completed each holly one at a time:)I found the gift bags at Hobby Lobby 2 for a dollar:)You can purchase the 3-Step Holly and Mistletoe set from Maria at Kitchen Sink Stamps
Supplies used:
Gift Bag
Stamps: Holly And Mistletoe (Kitchen Sink Stamps), One Of The Joys by (Stampabilities), Itty Bitty Background (SU!)
Cardstock: Whisper White
Ink: Mellow, Garden Green, Hunter, Saffron, Real Red, Black
Enjoy the day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Sc150 Something Sweet For You Today:)

Good Morning! Every year I make chocolate Christmas cards. Chocolate Chip is my hands down favorite cardstock color. I love today's sketch and I love this card *blushing* Well I do!! Anyway the only ink used was Chocolate Chip:)
Once again stamp one full sheet of cardstock and cut, another super simple Christmas card!
Have a great day
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

CC140 Pollen Petals

Good Morning! I made this card for today's color challenge on SCS. I put a little extra time into this one (wink) I hope you have a great day:)
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Petal Prints, Pollen Dust,, Paisley, Thanks With Style ( KS)
Paper: Pom, Kraft
Ink: White Craft, Rose Red,
Accessories: Matpack, Ribbon, Swirl Clip

Dee

Super Simple Elegant Christmas

Good Morning! As I mentioned to you before this year my Christmas cards need to be simple, and easy to mass produce. I also wanted to make cards that didn't require extra postage. I love this card design the colors are so elegant IMO:) I used Adia Cloth background stamp with versamark on hunter green card stock only for the card base. I stamped a full sheet of WW with Baroque Motifs and the berries from Peaceful Wishes. I used hunter green ink and real red.I stippled the edges with artichoke ink.
Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

Storage Solution For Clear Stamps

Good Morning! Today I want to share with you my idea for storing Kitchen Sink and other clear stamps. I'm sure most of you use CD cases however I wanted to keep my stamp sets all together the 3-step daisy set would have to go in two cases. So check this out:) I kept the stamps on the sheets they came with.
Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee

*****BLOG CANDY CLAIMED!!!*****

Hi there! Just a quick post to let you know that Jan did email me so we do have a WINNER!!!
Thank you all so much for the awesome gift ideas. I'll be back tomorrow with a couple of things to share:)
Have a great Saturday!!
Dee

Jan Scholl Where are you???More Cards For Mom

If I haven't heard from Jan Scholl by tomorrow I will draw another winner for my blog candy!
Hi there, This time I made no layer cards. These are for my Mom it's a set of six. Mom wanted cards that didn't require extra postage so I'm trying to do just that:) I colored the image with chalk and q-tips.
Have a great stamping day!
Thanks for stopping by:)
Dee
Stamp: Inkadinkadoo
Ink: Black Stazon, Stampin Pastels

Simple card

Hi there! I was talking to my mom yesterday and she mentioned she would like some of my cards to give to friends and ladies at church. I wanted to make something pretty that didn't need extra postage. This is what I came up with. I love the paper but can't remember who makes it sorry. I colored this using ink and blender pens.
Have a happy day!
Dee

And the WINNER IS............& SC149 Holly Gift

Good Morning! The Winner is.................. Lucky #2
******* Jan Scholl*********** Come on down!!! Please email me so I can get your gift certificate to you!! You're gonna love shopping at Jacksonbelle's store:)
Here's what Jan said.

Jan Scholl said...
Since I really dont do the whole family gift thing at Christmas, my favorite hand made thing to do is get out my home printed checks (I have made my own for 15 years now), fill them in by hand and then deliver them to my favorite charities the day after Christmas. I write them out on December 25 and put them in envelopes and stamp them up pretty.

November 1, 2007 1:18 AM

Thank you all for the great gift idea's!!! They're wonderful. I'll be sharing mine with you in the next few days.

Here's my card for today's SC 149 this is a bit out of my comfort zone but I had some leftover stamped paper from the cards I made on friday. It was just to pretty to trash but really not big enough for a card. Then I remembered I'd bought a tag punch a few years back and my card was born!! I hope it looks like a gift to you lol. The strip going across the middle of the card is backgrounds and borders from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I stamped it on WW with Garden Green ink. Don't you love it?
Stamps: Mistletoe and Holly , Backgrounds and Borders Kitchen Sink Stamps,
Paper: non SU! green and red, WW
Ink: Mellow, Artichoke, Garden Green, Real Red Cranberry, Saffron
Accessories: tag punch, jewels, ribbon, cord
Have a great day!!
Dee

Last day for blog candy comments!!!! TLC141

Good Morning! Today is the last day to enter for my blog candy giveaway!! I will draw the winner Nov 7th in the morning. If you didn't leave your email address make sure you check back. Wow!! The gift ideas listed in the comments are fantastic. I really enjoyed reading all of them. Some I will use this year as well. Thanks so much for taking your time to share!!
Here's my pocket card for TLC141 These are hard to take pictures of sorry for the poor quality. The finished card is 5x5. I love the One Of The Joys stamp from Stampabilities.
Have a great day:)
Dee

More Kitchen Sink 3 Step Daisy's

Good Morning! This notebook came together just beautifully. I bought the book at Target. At first I thought I would stamp on SU! Kraft CS to get my colors and placement down before I stamped directly on the book. So I cut my paper to the size of the book and started stamping I used the 3 Step Daisy and Backgrounds & Borders Sets from Kitchen Sink I used several different colors of ink all SU! for the daisy I used Red, Ruby Red, Bravo Burgundy, Chocolate Chip, Cocoa, and Black. The last three were for the centers. The greens I used were Artichoke, and Garden Green.

Don't forget to enter my BLOG CANDY!! Just scroll down a few post. Good Luck!!
Have a great day,
Dee