KSS Monday: Stampin' Out Alzheimer's

The Stampin' Out Alzheimer's site is now officially open and ready for business! There's a full week ahead of challenges and prizes for scrappers, stampers, and cardmakers alike. If you haven't joined yet, you can click on the SOA widget in the left sidebar of my blog to make a small donation and join the site.

Kitchen Sink Stamps is thrilled to be one of the sponsors and supporters of SOA. For this week's installment of Kitchen Sink Monday, I'm sharing the card I made for the KSS challenge on the SOA site. Maria's challenge is to create a card or other project with the theme of remembering someone you love. This can be interpreted different ways, like a project in memory of someone you love, remembering and depicting someone you love at a younger age, or remembering a loved one who's far away. Projects uploaded to the SOA gallery by May 31 at midnight EST using the tag kss4soa are eligible to win a fabulous prize. One random participant will be selected to receive "Everything But the Kitchen Sink"--a mystery box of goodies from Kitchen Sink Stamps worth at least $75 and including stamps, inks, embellishments, etc., all from KSS.

I went with a card to send to a missed loved one who's far away. I used the flower image from the 3 Step Get Well Teddy stamp set to create the image panels on my card. To get the silhouette look from this image, I stamped the first step of the stem and the second step of the flower only using brown ink. My panels have a monochromatic blue color scheme--love how these three different SU! In Color blues look together! It's hard to see in the photo, but I brushed a light coating of Angel Wings Shimmerz over the flowers for some subtle sparkle.

I added the simple "miss you" sentiment from the Ready 4 Any Holiday stamp set on a pair of ovals. A wooden button was added as an embellishment, keeping with the earthy tones on the card.

To see what the rest of the Kitchen Sink Crew has created for the challenge, you can stop by the Kitchen Sink Stamps blog to see them all.

Materials Used:

3 Step Get Well Teddy and Ready 4 Any Holiday stamp sets (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento); Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Kraft, and Very Vanilla cardstock, Fall Flowers designer series paper, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); cream grosgrain ribbon, button, twine (Papertrey Ink); oval dies (Nestabilities); Angel Wings paint (Shimmerz)