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A Postcard Post

Happy KSS Monday… and AUGUST 1st!

Today I would like to share another project from Ohio’s Workshop this last June… a seed packet postcard. Yes, I did mail mine to my KSS traveling buddy, Traci, who this time couldn’t join in on the stamping fun in Ohio.

I think everyone enjoyed the project, which gave them lots of masking experience.

The drop shadow on the banner was created with a mask and then colored in copic markers (I don’t have the talent to draw in a drop shadow freehand like many of those at the workshop.

The color recipe for Multi Step Lettuce, can be found HERE.

Interested in making your own post cards… they can be found in the KSS store: HERE.

Have a FABULOUS Monday!!!

Please check what the rest of the KS Crew has cooked up for you today.

Angela • Connie • Julie • Lisa • Lynn • Makiko

August 1, 2011 at 1:02 am 4 comments

From the garden and into the Kitchen!

New stamps, storage and more are now available TODAY in the KSS store!

Here’s a bit of what you’ll find.

Please check what the rest of the KS Crew has cooked up for you this KSS Monday.

Nail Biting news from Kitchen Sink

I return (again) from the silent corner of the Kitchen

… but with exciting news!!!

The past 5 months has kept me feeling a lot like this guy in the photo. Anyone remember this gentleman’s act from the Ed Sullivan Show (am I dating myself? LOL)??? I do and as a kid, I was mesmerised watching the plates spin as the performer would add another plate and another without any of them dropping. For anyone who isn’t familiar with this entertaining act… as each spinning plate would begin to slow down and start to wobble … the performer would run over, just before the plate fell and get the plate spinning again. He would run from plate to plate, saving each just before falling and shattering on the floor. Back then… it was a real nail bitter! OK… so I digress.

While the above describes what life has been like over past 5 months, you might be asking “why” or “WHAT” has kept me on the run in a “nail biting” state. Our happy little 1922 – California Bungalow (which seemed so BIG when we first moved in with only an 18 month old in arm), has begun to pop at the seams due to our growing family, growing boys and growing business! The GOOD NEWS …we found the perfect place for our family AND business to stay together and we are moving! Kitchen Sink Stamps, Inc. will continue to be a “cottage industry”.

To celebrate our exciting news and the Memorial Day weekend … we are having a MEMORIAL-MOVING DAY SALE… all weekend long!!!

25% off everything in stock!

Starting this Friday until Monday (May 27 to 30th – midnight, PST)

Promo Code: MOVEKSS

Don’t worry about placing orders or contacting us… everything will be business as usual!

But, that is not all of my exciting news…

While waiting for all this “house stuff” to fall in place (I really don’t do well with waiting) I have been busy getting ready for our next KSS Work Shop & designing up a storm! YaHoo!

There’s still time to sign-up & multi-step stamp with me all day on Friday,

June 17, 2011

at Toyrifix, Smithville, OH

… and again with Stamping Around‘s workshop, Friday eve. & all day Sat. at Toyrifix. I can hardly wait to meet up with Julie Masse and (finally meet) Tammy Hershberger as well as the other SA instructors!

As for the WBPS …it will be hiatus for the summer as we move and get settled.

Giant Inky Hugs to you ALL!!!!

xoxox

May 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm 6 comments

WBPS… is up! :)

Time for Kitchen Sink Stamps’ Wednesday Blue Plate Special!

This is where you can find random items on sale for 24 hours only! You will never know what might be on sale! No promotion code is needed

May 3, 2011 at 11:58 pm Leave a comment

A Heartfelt Thanks to all KSS readers!!!

I am so deeply touched for all the emails of well wishes. Thank you so much!!!

First, I am just fine… and so is KSS!

I have been silent from my blog the past weeks and on the run, lending my Dad (who just had his 83rd birthday!) a big helping hand. He had some health issues at the beginning of the year and he is doing much better now.

…. and as for the WBPS (which has escaped me more times than I care to admit this month) I am having a special sale to make up for those missed Wednesdays this month! Thank you all for your patience.

A Special Kitchen Sink Stamps’ Wednesday Blue Plate Special!

Get 20% off everything in the store from Wed. until Friday (midnight)

Use PROMO CODE: THANKS

Thank you all again for the kind thoughts and best wishes…. and to a wonderful crew who have kept the Kitchen Sink forum & gallery going while I was absent. I will still be on the run for the rest of April and May… and hope the dust will have settled in time for me to head out to Ohio…. and stamp away with Julie & Tammy!!!

There is still time to sign up and join us!!! Go HERE for all the info for KSS & Stamping Around Workshop in OHIO

Giant Inky Hugs to you ALL!!!!

xoxox

April 27, 2011 at 1:17 am 3 comments

silent helping hand

learn more HERE

March 17, 2011 at 11:30 pm Leave a comment

Happy St. Patty’s Day… and a winner!

Congratulations Erin!

You were the first to give number of sets used - 6.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day & Happy Stamping!!!!

March 17, 2011 at 9:16 pm 3 comments

The W(BLUE)PS… has been gone GREEN!

Time for Kitchen Sink Stamps’ Wednesday Blue GREEN Plate Special!

Some tricky Leprechauns have taken over the W(BLUE)PS and have turned it GREEN … plus, they rigged the KSS Store to offer 15% off everything in the store!!!

But only until March 17th – Noon – PST.

Use the Promo Code: GREEN

March 16, 2011 at 9:49 am 2 comments

All that glitters is ….. GREEN!

Happy Kitchen Sink Monday…

I have a fun project to share with you today … a St. Patrick’s Day Coaster POSTCARD!

Stamping on coasters, whether round or square, sure can be fun! SO, when a dear friend of mine showed me a RECTANGLE coaster… (the perfect size for a postcard) … I started to drool and knew I had to have some. How fun would that be to stamp a POSTCARD!!!!

So here is my take on a St. Patty’s postcard … it is going to another dear friend with the last name of Dooley… thought it would be most appropriate! AND for some St. Patty’s fun….. the first reader to guess HOW MANY stamp sets I used to create this post card… will win a set of 6 post cards of their own. Leave a post here on this post to enter. Deadline is March 16th, midnight PST. I will announce the winner on March 17th!

NOTE: the stamp used for the address lines on the back of the postcard will not count since it is from a retired KSS set.

Good Luck …. I am off to go count how many myself!

Please remember to check what the rest of the KS Crew has cooked up for you this KSS Monday.

Angela • Connie • Julie • Lisa • Lynn • Makiko

March 14, 2011 at 11:26 am 11 comments

Some exciting news to share … and the WBPS

I have been so inspired and thankful with all the KSCrew has been cooked up for you in the KSS Forum & KSS Gallery with their beautiful cards, awesome tips and inspiring challenges! They sure are a wonderful (as well as talented) group of ladies!!!!

I sure have missed stamping these past few weeks!!! But, my MIA has not been in vain… I have been cooking up some exciting additions & changes that I hope to share with you all very soon!

In the meantime … I CAN share that KSS will be packing up and hitting the road for another workshop this June.

KSS is joining up with Stamping Around and going to OHIO – June 17 & 18, 2011!

I am so excited to meet up with Julie Masse, (one of the talented KS Crew) on one of her Stamping Around weekend workshops! When she asked me “so many months ago” if I would be interested in going to Ohio… (where Tammy Hershberger, a KSCrew Alumni, lives) and host a full day of KSS classes + a class for SA on Sat., I did not have to think twice to answer… YES! Actually, come to thinking of it…. I may have been so excited about putting 1 + 1 together ….ie: Julie + Tammy, @ Tammy’s well know place of work… Toyrifix, I think…. I might have invited myself to join in the stamping fun before Julie could even finish her sentence … I don’t remember! LOL! But… that doesn’t really matter …I am going! YaHOOOO!