Monday, August 31, 2009

One more week for a New KS Crew Challenge, but while we wait ...


One more week and it will be the first Monday of the month ... you know that means? It means that the KS Crew will have a brand new challenge to dish out!

Smiley from millan.net
In the mean time, I thought I would pop in and give an update on the most recent Multi Step™ Color Recipes that have been added to the KSS Idea Gallery. All of KSS' Multi Step™ Color Recipes can be found and download from HERE.


The most recently added are:

Blueberries from the stamp set: Multi Step™ Berries (using Tsukinekio & Stampin' Up! inks)
Click HERE to download a pdf file for Blueberries.

Multi Step™ Humming Bird from the stamp set: A Year of Thanks
(using Tsukinekio)
Click HERE to download a pdf file for Humming Bird.

Click HERE to download a pdf file for Hibiscus Flowers and HERE for a pdf file for Hibiscus Leaves.

You can read more about these cards and project on my blog: In the Sink News.

Happy Stamping!

Monday, August 24, 2009

KS Crew Challenge #16 Winners!

Our Guest Hostess, Emilia, sure gave us a fun challenge with this month's KSCC#16.... and it looks like from all the fabulous entries, no one felt their creativity was stuck in a corner! he-he

Thank you all for playing and sharing your beautiful creations with us!!!!!

Now, on with announcing the winners!
The winners were picked by a random generated number.
And the winners for KS Crew Challenge #16 are ....









1st prize: the winner's choice of one large KSS set goes to... #11 - Susan Vilar.

2nd prize: the winner's choice of one small KSS set goes to #6 - Shelley.

3rd prize: a full size pad of Opalite Ink (color is winner's choice) goes to #10 - Brandi H.

Congratulations Ladies!!!
Please email me your choice of stamp set or color of ink, along with your mailing address.

All 100 % KSS entries to this challenge can be viewed in the Crew Challenge Customer Gallery.

Our next KS Crew Challenge Give Away will be Monday, Sept. 7th with our Crew Hostess, Makiko.

Happy Monday!




GASP!!!!! A forgotten POM!

Have you ever had the nagging feeling that you forgot something? Only to discover later... (and in this case, a lot later) that something was forgtten!!!!!
Yes, it is true... I plum forgot to tell you all here on the KSS Blog, about July's POM!!!!

Smiley from millan.net I sure do!

Not only do I owe Julie a huge apology, but I owe you all an apology as well for telling you about Julie's project a month late! (yikes!)

Julie really came up with the cutest project ever!!!

She took plain, ordinary wooden blocks and transformed them into ... not just one adorable set but 3!!!!!!!!! Smiley from millan.net You will just have to see them all for yourself on her blog, Stampin with Julie!

Here is a little taste and the full tutorial can be found HERE and part 2 can be found HERE.

Smiley from millan.net Thank you so much Julie for the inspiring & versatile project ... that is just too cute for words!!!

Monday, August 10, 2009

KSS August's POM













There is a new Project of the Month in the Kitchen... and if you really want your socks knocked off, you don’t want to miss Lisa's incredible Concertina Book! Thanks Lisa for sharing this amazing project & tutorial with us! You can find Lisa's awesome tutorial HERE.

Monday, August 3, 2009

KS Crew Challenge #16 with Guest Hostess



KS Crew Challenge #16 with Guest Hostess, Emilia.

It is always a pleasure to have Emilia stop in the Kitchen for a visit. Emilia lives in Finland and has had a very busy summer on the go visiting her family and friends in Rome, Italy, followed by a trip to Stockholm, Sweden with her husband. All her traveling this summer has not quiet taken her to the four corners of the earth... yet, but her challenge this month might! LOL!

Emilia's challenge for us is:
DECORATE YOUR CARD CORNERS
You can use any embellishment, below you find a list of some embellishments you can use but feel free to use any product that you think might look good on your card corners:

-half pearls
- rhinestones
- dew drops
- peel-off stickers
- punched flowers
- stamped images
- ribbon
- glitter
- photo corners
- brads
- eyelets


To get our creativity going, is this beautiful card using Multi Step™ Berries and Plaid Plus! by Emilia! Grazie mille Emilia for coming up with this fun challenge to stretch our creativity out to the edge!

To get to know Emilia better, you can read more about her HERE.



For more beautiful samples to inspire you,
visit Emilia, and the rest of the KS Crew

AngelaConnieDeeJulieLisaLori

LynnMakiko Maria Emilia (Hostess)


Again, this month's challenge will be picked by a random number generator ... so, everyone has a chance to win!


For all the info about the challenge go HERE.




This month's prizes are:

1st prize is winner's choice of one large KSS set.

2nd prize is winner's choice of

one small KSS set.

3rd prize is a full size pad of Opalite Ink - color is winner's choice.









Please leave your link below in the Mr/ Linky box below.

Deadline to Emilia's challenge is Friday eve. - Aug. 21st, midnight EDT. Please leave one link per challenge sample. You can enter as many samples as you like. When uploading to you favorite gallery, please use KSCC#16, kitchensinkstamps or KSS as the keyword or tag.






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