KS Monday – May 10th 2010

 

Hello and happy Kitchen Sink Monday everyone~

I hope you had a fabulous Mother’s day Sunday! My kids made strawberry cupcakes for me :):) They were so yummy and absolutely cute!! I attach the photo on the bottom if you want to check out :)

Today is my brother’s birthday! I haven’t celebrated his birthday together for over 15 years…Sometimes I wish I just fly to Tokyo to see him and back in one day…:( I miss him so much!! I hope he is having a wonderful birthday with his wife and 2 beautiful daughters!

 

 

Today’s card is a little different from ones I always create for KS Monday. After I saw the this tutorial by Beate Johns, I just had to try the beautiful 3D flowers for myself :):) I don’t have the same die she used but I found out I could cut flowers from my neglected Cricut machine! I used flower 2 (Shadow Blackout) from Georgia cartridge. I followed the tutorial HERE by Kathy Files. She has some great ideas using Cricut machine…and I got a lot of inspirations from her blog and video. I’m sure my hubby will be so happy if I start using the machine more ;) My daughter, Kimberly also loves to make those dimension flowers, too!!

After I cut the flowers with the distress designer paper from Basic Gray, I stamped with 3 Step Letter from the Past and Big & Bold Swashes and inked on the back with brayer. Then I started building the rose. You can easily customize your roses with some stamping and inking :):)

The sentiment from 3 Step Hearts & Roses was simply stamped on the white mat and the mat was dry embossed with the embossing folder.

 

Don't forget to check out what the rest of KS Crew square projects!!

Connie * Julie * Lisa * Lynn * Maria

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• KS Crew Challenge #25 (KSCC#25) will close on May 28th. All entries that are used Kitchen Sink Stamps will have a chance to win one of three KSS gift certificates!! Leave the dirty dishes in the sink and get dirty with some Kitchen Sink Stamps, lol!

 

 

Stamps: 3 Step Letter from the Past, Big & Bold Swashes, 3 Step Hearts & Roses (KSS)
Paper: sweet blush, dark chocolate (PTI), classic white (Flourishes) designer paper (BG)
Ink: Memento rich cocoa (Tsukineko), Distress ink worn lipstick (Ranger)
Accessories: ribbon
Tools: Label 1 Nestablities, CB embossing folder

 

 

Lastly, this is the cupcakes my kids made. The cupcakes were made with their grandma the day before and they decorated with marshmallows and sprinkles on Mother’s Day morning. I didn’t help any…they saw one of the women’s magazine. Aren’t they cute or what?

Thank you for stopping by.

Maki