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Sunflower Rosie…

Pam Sparks16 Comments

It’s a beautiful morning!!!  The sun has been shining this week in Iowa and we’ve had some lower temps (still in the 80’s) but how’d it get to be July already!  EEK! lol

This is my first post for the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog.  I found this blog through a friend’s blog awhile back and tried one of Korin’s sketches.  I’m looking forward to the next three months creating with her sketches and posting on Saturdays!  Here’s Korin’s sketch we used today. We’d love to have you play along! Details on the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog HERE.  Join us!

I used Sunflower Rosie (check her out, she comes w/sentiments!) from LaLa Land Crafts…so very fun to color and add details to!  She is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  All the E50’s for her hair,  starting with the lightest to color all the hair and then bringing in the other colors and then retracing back with the colors a time or two…I kinda lose track…until I like how it looks.  Rosie’s dress is the B90’s and Wgrays.  I used several yellows,  the green is YG00 and YG95,  the fence is the E40’s.  The background fence is from Magnolia of Sweden.

Enlarged photo…Rosie isn’t this big IRL…she is the size in the first photo…do you like enlarged photos?

I’m linking to LaLa Land Crafts Challenge blog…the challenge this week is to use “something new”. Easy to play along with this one! lol   Rosie is new and this McGill sunflower punch I’ve had a long time but  never used…so I’m saying a new technique??? lol  The punch works differently from most punches.  Normally you would punch a positive piece and use that but this punch gives you a stencil “look”.   I punched it randomly over the 5.25 in. piece of kraft card-stock.  Then punched 5/8 in. circles with an EK Success nesting circle punch from dark brown card-stock and glued them to the back side of each sunflower so the centers would be completely brown.  Mounted this kraft, punched piece on yellow Bazzill card-stock so the sunflower petals would be yellow.  I edged all the card-stock pieces with Van Dyke Brown ink (Nick Bantock from Ranger) and my ink blending tool.  Paper cord from JoAnn’s,  Scallop border piece is an EK Success border punch.  Buttons are from Lasting Impressions and I used the staples from the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher stapler for the centers. (some hand manipulation required) It’s a pain but I like the “look”! lol

Happy Independence Day! I always enjoy fireworks and am so thankful for freedom!

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Penelope and Shelly…

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Penelope and Shelly make me grin and almost giggle!  Such an adorable expression and love her hair! Amy Young is the artist for CC Designs.  I made this “Box in a Bag” project for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog. I used CC Designs Amy R Beach Sentiments for the words on the handle and the words on the tag. Penelope and Shelly are stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers (her hair is E50 – 57, her eyes are B21 & 23).  My bag and tag are both Accucut dies.  The wild grass and mini sun are punches from the Punch Bunch.  The white flower is from a Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch.  Yellow and Blue Prism card-stock… McGill 1/16th and 1/8th in. hole punches.

Talk about fun to color!  I think I’ll fill this bag with water balloons!  My grandkids love them!

Hope you can play along with us in the challenge this week…always a great prize!  All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog is HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

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God’s tiny miracle…

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New Grandson born on Thursday so  I had to get this new hÄnglar stamp “inky”!  Stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  I made an easel card with a couple different Nestabilities dies for shapes… oh he is so sweet!  Going to see him today!

  • hÄnglar Baby set purchased on UK ebay
  • Sentiment stamp by All Night Media
  • alphabet background by Stampin Up
  • Bundle of Love ribbon by SEI
  • Clothesline stamp by Inkadinkado, a baby boy clear set (stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink)
  • Cloud punch – unknown…I’ve had it a long, long time! lol

The challenge at Our Creative Corner is Blues and Greens…

So fun!  Thanks for stopping by!

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Color Challenge….

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Carribean, Pink and Celery…
Good morning…my post today for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog is colorful, in a pastel sort of way!  I used three images from the Swiss Pixies Spring kit… Bumblebee Hansel, Ladybug Nora and the wheelbarrow (on SALE through June 24!!!).  I love these images and how interactive they are together.  Christine, the artist thinks of everything!
  • Stamped the images HERE in Memento Tuxedo Black ink HERE
  • Colored them with Copic Sketch Markers (blonde hair E50, YR31, 21, 23, brown hair E50-57 pink R81-85, green YG21-25, blue BG0000-05, grays N1-7) HERE
  • Special Delivery sentiment is from Inkadinkado and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink HERE
  • Woodgrain stamp is by All Night Media, stamped in Pink Pirouette ink by Stampin Up
  • Carribean Blue and Pink Pirouette Card-stock by Stampin Up,  Celery by Prism
  • Bird branch corner is a Martha Stewart corner punch
  • Flowers are EK Success retro small and medium flower punches
  • Itty Bitty brads in the flower centers are by Bazzill HERE
  • Branch punch is from the Punch Bunch
  • Flourishes are from the Netherlands, a die by Marianne Designs HERE
  • Stuck everything together with my ATG Gun HERE,  LOVE that thing! I use Tombow Mono Multi for the flowers and flourishes HERE My glue FAVE!

Hope you can join us for the challenge…all the info is on the ATS Weekly Wed. Challenge blog…check it out!

Hope they make you smile!  Stamping off!

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Happy Father’s Day…

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I just got this truck stamp from Printworks…it made up great for Father’s Day but I think it’ll be fun for many other occasions for men too…especially birthdays.  Can you see it at Christmas with a tree out the back?!!!  I have to work on that idea!!!  I love Christmas!

The inside…

The stamps I used for this scene are all from Printworks Collection. The first three are new and you can see the pdf files of the new stamps  HERE. The truck is JB4020 Country Pickup,  Happy Father’s Day is C4031, My Dad is E4032 (on the inside), Daisy Sprig is C2012, Leaf Pattern is G2475 and my dots for the sand stamp (found it) is so old it was before they used the item code on the wood!  I will try to find it on the online store.  Click HERE to shop for the stamps. Some you will need to type into the comment section when you order and then Nicole will email you the $$ total.  I believe the Leaf Pattern stamp is also in a clear set (found it).  I love how interactive Printworks stamps are and of course Annette’s signature look and hearts!  Look at these fun stamps while you’re at it!  HERE,  HERE and HERE… Aren’t they great?!!!

A close-up…

I stamped the truck first with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then masked and stamped, with the stampamajig, the fishing poles in the back.  The leaf pattern stamp is stamped multiple times with Printworks Citrus, Ivy and Oak Brown stamp pads.   Everything is colored in with Copic Sketch Markers. I used Strathmore Smooth Bristol to stamp this scene on,  matted with Prism dark brown card-stock and the pattern paper is by Basic Grey. I cut all my papers with the Tonic Guillotine trimmer…my fave cutter ever!!!  On the inside I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink on Basic Grey paper and cut it out  and embossed  with a rectangle nestabilities die.

♥ So thankful for Father’s!  Celebrate making memories and remembering good times. ♥  Thanks for stopping by!