Thank You Card - Mod Squad Challenge with Kitchen Sink Stamps

 Hello Crafters! I have created a Mini Slimline Thank You card for Maria Colosimo of Kitchen Sink Stamps. She has the most beautiful stamp sets that I've ever seen! They make very detailed and realistic images. The Modsquad Challenge is to create a Thank You card for Maria using Kitchen Sink Stamps.

I used the very first stamp set that I ever purchased from Kitchen Sink - Hearts & Roses. To create each rose and leaf image there are three to four stamps that you just layer with coordinating ink colors to achieve the intricate and detailed final images. All of her stamps are so detailed and fun to create.

I started with the flowers and used inks from Gina K Designs and Pinkfresh Studio from the palest pink to a really pigmented pink to achieve the look of the roses pictured. This set does not have a die set to match but Kitchen Sink Stamps offers an SVG file with their sets. I can use that SVG file on my Cricut Maker or Explore to cut out all of the images (and as many as I want). After I cut the images with my Cricut I just stamp the cut outs. 

I die cut the white and teal cardstock with the Pinkfresh Studio Mini Slimline Die Cut Bundle. Then I used the Harvest Stencil from Gina K Designs and a pink ink to create a soft background. I die cut the vase from GKD Fearless Joy stamp & Die set to place my roses in and inked it in a teal color.

The 'Grateful' sentiment is a GKD die from the new Fluttering Fall Bundle.

While I was stamping these beautiful roses I decided to grab more coordinating ink colors and made many more roses in different colors for future projects. They are so addicting to make!

Well, I hope that you enjoyed seeing my Thank You card for Maria! I hope she enjoys it also! Hop on over to the Modsquad Challenge Blog and play along!

Thank you for dropping by! Until next time, Happy Crafting!

A Mod Squad Challenge, A Thank You Card & Gina K Designs

 

Hello Crafts! This month the Mod Squad Challenge Blog is giving thanks to their sponsors and this week the thanks goes to Gina Krupsky of Gina K Designs. It is so appropriate that this card is for Gina since I started following Gina, watching her weekly videos, making cards along with her (and buying as much as I can hide from my DH 😂), and joining her online group at the very start of the lockdowns last year 😷! Through all of this and with Gina's creative inspiration it really helped me get my mind off of what terrible things were going on in the world. So I am grateful for Gina being so uplifting and motivating me to continue to create. I am very honored to make a thank you card for her!

I used Caring Flowers and Sketched Flowers Stamp Sets to create this card. I stamped the flowers from the Caring Flowers set in GKD Black ink. I then colored the entire image with my Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. If you've never colored with pencils and gamsol you need to watch this video. Gina shows you exactly how to do this!

After coloring, I used a black glaze pen and a white Gel Roll pen (both by Sakura) to define the stamens in the center of the three flowers. I die cut the panel down with a Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables die and die cut a black cardstock layer with a GKD Master Layout #1 die.

I then stamped the sentiment from the Sketched Flowers stamp set in VersaMark and heat embossed it with GKD black embossing powder. 

I adhered the top two layers onto a Tranquil Teal card base. I always love to add a little something to finish my cards off so I grabbed Gina's Clear Dew Drops and glued a few here and there on the card using Connect Glue!

I stamped a sentiment on the inside from the Friendship Blooms stamp set and stamped two of the inside corners with the Caring Flowers stamp in Tranquil Teal. I even stamped the front corner and back flap of the envelope with the same stamp. 

 

My Thank You card is finished and ready to send to Gina! She gives so much of herself to all of us each week and I'm just giving her a small bit back to let her know that everything that she does is very much appreciated. 

Thank you also goes to the Mod Squad Challenge Blog for this great challenge!

So until next time, Happy Crafting!

Supplies used: 

Stamps - Caring Flowers, Sketched Flowers, Friendship Blooms

Cardstock: GKD White, Black, Tranquil Teal 

Pencils: Prismacolor

Gamsol

Pens: Sakura Black Glaze, GellyRoll 

Embossing Powder: GKD Black

Ink: VersaMark, GKD Black

Dies: GKD Master Layout #1, Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

GKD Clear Dew Drops