How does your Garden Grow…

April 4, 2012September 10, 2012 Pam Sparks22 Comments

ok – it is a laugh when I talk about gardening… ugh… I don’t know how to grow a thing! So, does all this stamping stuff count for “stuff” growing?! Cuz it grows every day! lol I’m good at growing that stuff! hahaha

Getting back on track…. this is cutie, sweet, Laugh Lines Garden and her coordinating Watering Can Logos. She knows what she’s doing! She even has the right footwear!!! Adorable!

Laugh is stamped on Hamermill Color Copy Cover paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers.

I did! I used the Fence from yesterday’s video tutorial… scroll down if you’d like to watch how I embellished the CC Designs Cutters Fence die!

I changed up the Flower border a tad… it grew some new flowers! ha! sorta it did! I used the smallest flower from the Five Point Flowers die and glued them on top of the flowers that are on the border cut… it had to be something different from yesterdays make!

The Grass Border… what can I say… it’s the best ever! I am biased of course but I truly do love it! It’s the perfect size and easy to add little blades with copic marker or two.

Thanks for making me smile and visiting my stamping blog… I love being on the receiving end of your generous comments and friendship! Take care and see ‘ya back here tomorrow!

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Let a leaf be your umbrella on a rainy day…

April 3, 2012September 10, 2012 Pam Sparks31 Comments

Another month of Swiss Pixie adorable-ness! This is beautiful Rainy Day Birgitta… sweet, sweet, sweet… keeping dry under her leaf umbrella! Birgitta is illustrated by Christine Wooden for her stamp line CC Designs. I stamped Birgitta with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Promarkers.

I’m sure you’re dying to know about the new dies I’m showing today!!! Well… I’m dying to tell YOU! Aren’t they awesome?!!! Awhile back Christine asked the Design Team gals on our forum what ideas we had for dies! Guess what I asked for… hehe.. yep… a flower border! I couldn’t be happier! It’s totally charming!

The Grass border is separate from the Flower border and then there is the Fence… purely fun! I will make a video on how I shaped it for dimension. Easy, I promise and the video will be short! I stamped the fence with a woodgrain stamp… so cool and then inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink and the ink blending tool. I added some copic colored grass to the grass border die cut and some copic pink to the flowers in the flower border… I did do some paper piecing to the dies also… yep… true love… I ❤ these dies!

The Happy Spring Words and Hello sentiments are from a new for this month AmyR Stamps sentiment set called So Wordy…. cool name even and fun fonts too! The flowers I used in the word border are from the NEW Watering Can Logos set we’ll be showing tomorrow… I know… I got a head… just a bit! hehe I used my trusty ‘ole stamp a ma jig to do the word/flower border… no pattern paper was harmed in making of this card! Oh, there are two flower stamps…one solid and one outline… cool… more stamping!

The die cut clouds are CC Designs Cutters cloud dies. I also cut one of the top one to use as a mask to make a cloud background. Following Tracy’s tutorial on the ATS blog, HERE… only I reversed it… used blue paper and white distress stain! I really liked it when I was done too… there is always that chance, it’ll be a bomb ‘ya know… so happy when it isn’t! hehe Always fun to try something different anyway!

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Beautiful Butterfly…

March 27, 2012March 29, 2012 Pam Sparks23 Comments

Had some fun creating with Marianne Designs Butterfly… I love the swirly, dots and overall style of this one!

A Crate Paper 6×6 pad, hand stitching, rhinestones flourish, flowers, dies, punching and it’s a card! Oh, I punched the holes in the wings with my Japanese screw punch…

Happy Tuesday!

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I couldn’t find the Crate Paper pad I used so I linked to a new one that looks wonderful too!

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Happy Easter…

March 25, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks13 Comments

I don’t have a new card to share today but I pulled this Happy Easter card out of the “archives”… So cute!

We’re enjoying the weather in IA… 6 of the grands here to play yesterday afternoon… so fun! A couple of the girls and I cut scrap paper into useable sizes part of the time… fun to see that paper stack up. Now if I could just get that card finished that I started last week! ugh! I keep moving it out of the way to do something else! lol

Take care and ttul!

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NEW Wings stamp set and die…

March 23, 2012March 17, 2013 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Isn’t it so much fun to have dies to match stamps?!!! I’m lovin’ the fun things to create with dies and stamps! Today I used one of the butterflies from CC Designs new Wings Stamp set and the CC Designs Cutter Wings die. I stamped the butterfly, used my clear die cut template I cut with the guide holes for marking where to place the die on the stamped butterfly before you cut, then cut! I love this butterfly with the dots… I used my Japanese screw punch to punch the holes and wrapped the center with wax linen.

So fun to get out some other stamp sets with a butterfly theme to use too… this is the Butterfly Postage Rubber Stamp set. The dotted line on the postcard is from a Marianne Design border clear stamp set called Don and Daisy Decorations.