Running With Scissors…

Happy Monday to all!  I hope you had a very nice weekend and, Moms, a wonderful Mother’s Day.  Mine was very sweet.  I came in from the garden to find cream-colored roses on the dining room table, along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and one of those musical cards my husband knows I get such a kick [...]

Perhaps you know from previous posts how much I love my Kitchen Sink Stamps.  I have a new set called Lilies, and today I’ve made a card with it. You can go many different directions in size, style, and color with the stamps in this set, as with all KSS sets.  Today, I felt like [...]

I have a co-worker who occasionally asks me to make cards for his mother to use…”Something Mom would like.”  Well, let’s see…what would Mom like?  I’m sure he’s thinking along the lines of prim & proper, or maybe I just think that’s what he’s thinking.  After all, his mom is not much older than me.  I tend [...]

I guess I’ve been hanging onto this set long enough and it’s time I had a little playtime with it.  Christmas happened and then, well…you know… These are the KSS Pansies I fell in love with at first sight.  They sure made up into a colorful bouquet!  I did a lot of masking to put [...]

I tried to avoid making this look like a Christmas card, but I’m not too sure . . . it looks suspiciously like a Christmas card to me.  It’s a thank you card for a Christmas present, though, and that’s what I love about this little snowflake stamp from Kitchen Sink — it’s the perfect [...]

Finally, I stamped!  I was beginning to wonder if I would finish my Christmas cards but I had so many other things to do — shopping, wrapping, decorating, cleaning, candy making . . .  I decided to put the stamping on hold while I caught up with those other things. Today, I pulled out my [...]

I think I’m at my stamping happiest when I’m working with an image that allows some sort of coloring.  With Kitchen Sink Stamps’ multiple steps I don’t actually color the stamped image, itself, but the color selection process — testing out different combinations and imagining others — is just as enjoyable.  Once I’ve gotten my [...]

Today I’ve used my Kitchen Sink Stamps Hearts & Roses again.  I’m a little bit awestruck over how realistic the stamps in this set are.  There are four steps to this rose.  You begin with a “blank” that doesn’t look like much of anything, but progressively darker layers yield amazing results.  Anyone can make this rose with [...]

This is the 3-Step Daisy from Kitchen Sink Stamps but I decided to make mine a dahlia.  I had one exactly like this in the garden a few years back.  Unfortunately, it clashed with everything around it so I gave it away.  I’d mail ordered orange and purple dahlias, thinking they’d be a striking drift of color.  [...]

I’m thinking ahead to my September anniversary for today’s coloring tutorial.  I may change my mind later…there’s lots of stamping to be done between now and then.  You know how anniversaries are named — golden, silver, etc…  Shouldn’t there be a chocolate anniversary?  Why was that option overlooked? My card uses Kitchen Sink Stamps’ Hearts [...]