In your Easter Bonnet…

March 23, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks24 Comments

I wanted to play in some challenges this week…

High Hopes Stamps challenge blog – Hoppy Easter (Sunday)
Stamp With Fun – Easter (Monday)
Everybody Art – Easter (Tuesday)
Stamp Something – distress something (I inked all the edges with distress inks) (Friday)
Crazy 4 Challenges – anything Spring (Saturday)
Stamptacular Sunday – scene it (Sunday)
Pile it on – Furry Friend (Sunday)
Our Creative Corner – Think Easter (Saturday)

Card details….

High Hopes bunny, basket and sentiment
Stampamajig (I always use this to stamp words)
Martha Stewart fence, tulip and grass border punches
Distress ink in peeled paint and dusty concord
Ink Blending tool
Lasting Impressions pattern paper
Bazzill card-stock
The bunny and basket were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Colored with Copic Sketch Markers
The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink
Cottonball white fun flock on the bunny’s tail and chest

Lots of new product and stamps added this week at 7kidscollegefund.com – new CC Designs, Whiff of Joy, Scor-it and Scor-it products, pre-order the next Magnolia magazine and pre-order the Magnolia Easter collection and Pirates, Fairies and Princess collections too!

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Honey Tilda birthday!

March 20, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks43 Comments

Another Easel card…this style really works well for the 6×6 papers and folds up so nice, but most of you already know that because you’ve been making them! lol
The challenge at Just Magnolia blog is an easel card this week…
The challenge at Friday Sketchers blog is the sketch I used….
The Challenge at Cute Card Thursday is anything you like to celebrate each year…birthdays, anniversaries, etc…
The challenge at Saturday Spotlight blog is birthdays and using your birthstone color (mine is aquamarine)….
The challenge at Copic Creations blog is to use your favorite coloring technique from their challenges the last year (mine is coloring black)

Here’s a close up of Honey Tilda sitting on the Honey Jar – so sweet!

Honey Tilda and jar are stamped on 100% cotton Bristol card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers, The warm grays… y11, 15, 17, 19…YR 21, 23, 24… E50, 000, 00, 11…R22, 24, 27, 59. The copics really blend easily on this stock but oooooh watch out, they bleed really quick! Reminds me of the Canson Manga card weight paper pad. I like it and look how it changes the flesh colors…the ink doesn’t soak in as much either IMO.

I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie 6×6 pattern paper (I don’t see this one in the store but there are two brand new collections!
Magnolia, Honey Tilda, Honey Jar and made with love rubber stamps
Printworks, C1615, sweet on you and Happy Birthday to you (I don’t see the exact same one I have, which is G2003. This one and this one are similar) rubber stamps
I used my Stamp a ma jig to make the “made w/love” and “birthday” sentiments fit on the labels
Stampington honey comb background rubber stamp
Spellbinders new large scallop rectangle die
Nellie Snellen punch flowers
Clear gemstones from Hero Arts for the flower centers
Martha Stewart frond punch
Wild Honey distress ink for stamping the background and for edging everything with the ink blending tool
Frosted Lace stickles on her wings

I think that’s it! Happy weekend and stamping! It’s all pretty here again…covered with snow! lol

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Oh Happy Day – ATS Weekly Wednesday…

March 17, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks31 Comments

Happy Easter! This year is flying by way too fast for me! And it isn’t because it’s my birthday month either…or is it?! ugh! Don’t want to think about it!
Welcome to another All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge! This week we’d love to see what you create for an Easel card! This is the first one I’ve completely finished… I have a bunch of card fronts that I want to make into easel cards though.
Here’s more of a side view for you…

Check out the other Design team’s awesome creations on the challenge blog…. here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…

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
only one entry per person please!

I am in love with Amy Young’s Sweet November Easter stamps…just adorable critters! I used April and Peter from All That Scraps for this easel card today.

April and Peter are stamped on Neenah Classic Crest Super-smooth 80# card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copic sketch markers.
Happy Easter is a rubber stamp from Printworks, inked with Versafine Onyx Black ink and stamped in place with the stamp a ma jig
Pattern paper is from Making Memories
Paper lace is from K & Company
the awesome butterfly is a new punch from Martha Stewart
I used the new nestabilities egg shape die behind April and Peter
clear rhinestones are from Hero Arts

I’m linking to these great challenge blogs…

The Pink Elephant – Spring
A Spoon Full of Sugar – Easter
The Creative Cottage – Flowers
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge – Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday – Celebrations

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Tilda with NEWS…

March 16, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks35 Comments

Just something about newsprint that I love…here’s Tilda, spreading the word…

Tilda is inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
stamped on Neenah Classic Crest Super-smooth 80# card-stock
colored with Copic sketch markers
Basic Grey, Sugar Rush 6×6 pattern paper pad (NEW 6×6 patterns in the store!)
Prima flower
birch leaf punch, Martha Stewart frond punch and an old fern type punch from Emaginations that I imagine is available from the Punch Bunch now.
everything is edged with the ink blending tool and different colors of distress inks
Martha Stewart grass punch
ribbon is from May Arts
I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers, so I’m linking them up! Sponsored by LaLa Land Crafts this week…I’d love to win! lol

Back to stamping…thanks for coming by and see you tomorrow for another All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge…you can still get in on the current one if you hurry! Great prize!!!

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Come Out and Play…

March 12, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks14 Comments

JoanElliotSnowfriends

Come Out and Play is the name of this cute stamp by Joan Elliott available at 7KidsCollegeFund.com. I saw this sketch on the Sketch Saturday challenge blog and just had to finish this card! I’ve had it colored for a month or more! ugh!

I stamped the bear and snowman on Neenah super-smooth Classic Crest 80# card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored with copic sketch markers and cut into a circle with nestabilites circle die….

“Snow time B3995 is a new stamp from Printworks Winter release, stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink…(if you don’t find it on the site, just include the item # in the comment box) I used my over-worked stamp a ma jig to get the placement just right! Love that thing!

The main background is embossed with a Sizzix Texture plate… the smaller rectangle piece is a cuttlebug embossing folder from Cropstop.com….

Martha Stewart snowflake punch for the corner…

1/8 in. ribbon from Creative Impressions.com…

black gemstones for the buttons (missing in photo, lol, added after photo session)…

snowball bling from Michael’s…

Here I am posting a snowman and it’s raining here this week! Just so you’re prepared…probably be another snowman coming soon! lol AND some Magnolia Tilda’s I hope!