Author: Pam Sparks

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Nickie’s Birdie from Inky Impressions…

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Here’s a new super cute image to color by Inky Impressions… I loved coloring Nickie’s Birdie but I have never tried so hard to get a good photo in all my card creating life!  lol   Her shoes are sure cute in red!  I still remember the pair of red shoes I had in eleventh grade…oh,  I LOVED those shoes!

Maybe this close up will show the detail a little better….I hope! ugh!

Nickie is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  I used the elongated rectangle nestabilities dies….I really use that size a lot…it surprises me! The border punches are from Martha Stewart, I just used the lattice part of the deep edger….pattern paper is Quite Contrary from My Minds Eye.  I made the flowers with Nellie Snellen punches.  The sentiment “a little birdie told me” is from Hero Arts.

I made this to play in the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge Blog this week… a fun sketch,  although with just using the corner of the scallop 12×12 paper,  I had to take a little liberty with the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by ….Happy Weekend!

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All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday…

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Meet “Honey“… isn’t she a doll!  Christine has drawn some adorable kids again!

The challenge this week on the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog is to create a paper cone.

Lots of inspiration on the other design team members paper cones…Take a look HERE.

here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…hope you can join us!

  • every week there is a new and exciting prize being offered
  • in order to be eligible to win, your card must include a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store. Whether it is any of our wonderful in house designs or from the various other stamp companies that ATS carries (Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, etc) the choice is yours.
  • be sure to link up your creation with Mr Linky by next Tuesday at 10pm est
  • Use the challenge, “paper cone” for your creation
  • only one entry per person please!

Honey is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored with Copic Sketch Markers,  Glossy Accents on her sunglasses, sentiment is Amy R’s Big words and additions stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, waves are the Fiskars Boundary Waters border punch (the best waves ever IMO), Martha Stewart fence border punch, EK Success Beach/Castle border punch (punched out of fine sand paper), Sun is an old Paperkins EK Success medium punch,  kraft paper cord from JoAnns and Bazzill dot card-stock.

I like to link to other challenge blogs…this is a fun one this week… The ABC challenge blog – “u” for unused stash!  I could play in that forever! lol

Thanks for dropping in for a visit!  Enjoy Everything!

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Inky Impressions Challenge #34

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I loved coloring this new Water Lili for Inky Impressions Challenge Blog this week.  She is so pretty!  I just love her hair and that hat is just perfect on her!

Crystal challenged us to create “Summer” –  I’m not ready for Summer myself  but it was great fun to look around for what I had to go with this Lili…

♥ This challenge will be is for TWO WEEKS so you have plenty of time to come and join the fun. ♥ No need to use Inky Images but if you have them we would love to see you use them! ♥ To be eligible to get Inked by the Inkettes you must have all creations uploaded to Mr. Linky by May 10th Midnight Eastern Time. ♥ Check out the Inky cards by the design team gals HERE.

I followed the sketch from Mojo Monday 137 – a great sketch to work from!

Happy stamping! Thanks for stopping by….

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Midsummer Tilda…

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Midsummer Tilda is from the Fairytale collection…just love the flowers in her hair and the way it waves.  Fun to color…trying distress ink coloring again…not sure why ‘cept that it’s a challenge! lol  I made this for the Just Magnolia Challenge blog,  a sketch this week. Love the simplicity of it too!

♥ Tilda is stamped with ♥ Versafine Onyx Black ink on ♥ hot press Arches watercolor paper (comes in a big sheet).  Then painted/colored in with ♥ Distress Inks. The papers are from ♥ K&Company… ♥ card-stock is prism and via…the cool paper ribbon is from a pack of ♥ Capella Basic Grey ribbon doilies…pretty cool stuff (purchased it at Archivers).  I put ♥ Martha Stewart ribbon  through the ribbon doily after I inked it good with ♥ walnut stain distress ink.  All the edges of everything are edged with  ♥ Walnut Stain distress ink and the ♥ Ink Blending Tool.  The ovals are die cut with ♥ oval Nestabilities dies. Can’t do words without using the ♥♥♥ Stamp a ma jig,  I ♥ that thing!!!  Tutorial on using it in my post right before this one.  “Thank You is a Hero Arts stamp D4903.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  I can say I used some scrapbooking paper today anyway!  And took some pictures!  Doesn’t matter that it was just of a card! lol

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Masking and Stamp-a-ma-jig tutorial…

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Close up…

This gal is dreamin’…enjoying the day for sure!

  • She’s inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
  • Colored with Copic Sketch Markers
  • Nestabilities standard square and scallop square dies
  • Masked with Eclipse tape
  • Positioned with the Stamp a ma jig
  • Making Memories brads
  • Basic Grey pattern paper 6×6 pad –  Blush (old pattern)
  • Distress inks – Tumbled Glass,  Pumice Stone,  Black Soot for aging the papers
  • Ink Blending Tool for aging the papers
  • Martha Stewart border punch – Spring
  • Tonic trimmer
  • Martha Stewart scoring board

I’m linking my card to Sketch For You To Try, Our Creative Corner, Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge blog

Now…on to my masking and positioning tutorial! FINALLY!  I’ve been thinking of doing this forever! Holler if you have any questions. (photos will all enlarge if you click)

1. Start by stamping your main image on your card-stock and on a piece of Eclipse tape (thin paper with adhesive on the back,  wonderful for masking because it is so thin)…

2. Next you will want to cut out the image you stamped on the Eclipse tape,  CUT ON THE INSIDE OF THE STAMPED LINE, when you place this mask over your image you want to barely see the stamped line of the image you stamped on the card-stock,  trust me,  you want to!!!  I only needed to cut out her bottom half for this card.

3.  Peel the backing off your mask and place it over the image you stamped on your card-stock.

Take your Stamp a ma jig and place the imaging sheet into the corner just like you see in the photo. (the imaging sheet is translucent plastic,  a little rough on one side,  stamp on the rough side)

Ink up your stamp and stamp it on the imaging sheet while holding the stamp a ma jig in place with your left hand. Making sure the imaging sheet stays tucked into the  corner.

Another “trust me”,  you get good at this the more you do it and will never stamp again without it! It is so nice to stamp things right where you want them in the first place!

Your imaging sheet will look like this…

4. Now you are ready to stamp your fence OVER the little girl image…gear up your courage…hehe…

Place your imaging sheet w/the fence stamped on it over the little girl and move it around until you find where you want to stamp it.

Hold the imaging sheet down with your right hand and with your left hand bring the Stamp a ma jig up to the bottom left corner and fit it to the imaging sheet,  making sure it fits perfectly, keeping the fence right where you want it.

5. Ink the fence stamp again….with your left hand hold that Stamp a ma jig right in place and “take away the imaging sheet”.

Bring the fence stamp up to the Stamp a ma jig (left hand still holding it in place),  making sure the block is fitting right into the corner straight on… I touch it to the stamp a ma jig and then take it down to stamp the card-stock… it will make sense as soon as you do it.

The finished stamped image…ready to color!

Can’t wait to hear how you get along with this… I hope you try it and love it as much as I do!!!  I have every stamp positioner that was ever created and I LOVE this stamp a ma jig… it is so easy and the non slip base is part of the reason it works so great.  I buy extra imaging sheets but for the most part I just clean them off after I finish…sometimes I even use it for stamping names with alphabets… a letter in each corner of the sheet…however many sheets it takes…it really is slick!!!  I LOVE it!   My stamp a ma jig is one of the original ones,  now they are a light tealish color…

Have a great rest of the week – stamping off!