Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge #1 – Spring…

March 12, 2012March 12, 2012 Pam Sparks21 Comments

So excited to tell you about a brand NEW Challenge blog created by Jay Jay from Germany for Pixie and Fairy images! Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge blog is HERE and we’d love to have you link up with your Pixie and Fairy images. It’s once a month… the second Monday with THREE awesome stores sponsoring the challenges! You’ll want to play along each month for a chance to win! This month’s theme is Spring!

I decided to use this Swiss Pixies Butterfly Nora and the Swiss Pixies Wheelbarrow for our first post. I LOVE her! I was looking back through my blog and saw this one that I’d made in April of 2010 and I just wanted to post it again! lol I stamped Butterfly Nora first, masked her and then stamped the wheelbarrow… just like my tutorial in the April 2010 post.

I used the Five Point Flower, die cut one layer and for the centers I did a swirl thing with some lightweight paper cord stuff I picked up at JoAnns last year and glued it on … I’m pretty tickled with how it turned out… just clever I thought! Don’t you love it when you amaze yourself! I know, quit laughing… I can be pretty cheesy! Gotta admit… it’s fun for a change! = )

Then there is a brand NEW Butterfly die this month called Wings from CC Designs… and a cool Wings stamp set to match it! I just used the die for this card but the stamp set has mega potential for fun creating! They’re in the store HERE.

oooh… long post today…one more picture and I’m off to make a card for tomorrow’s Tuesday Review… OH, I should tell you to make time to go to All That Scraps blog too!!! Lesa has a tutorial for us today and you’ll want to bookmark it because it’s on die-cutting your stamped images… pretty cool! AND easy too! You’ll need it for your Wings stamp set and die! Check it out!

I was just at the store… HERE… tons of new product… If you need to shop…I know a good place! lol

Thanks for dropping in to find out about the new challenge blog on the “block”!!! Happy Stamping and talk to you soon!

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Penelope and Zip…

March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Penelope and Zip definitely brighten the day! Super cute! I stamped them both with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Hammermil Color Copy Cover, cut them out and colored them with Copic Sketch markers. Penelope’s dress colors are BG11, 53, 75. Hair colors are E50, 51, 31, 34. Shoes are E40’s. Zip is colored with YG00,01,02,03.

I used my favorite die ever to look like tree branches up in the left corner and sprigs down with the sentiment. The little flowers I used today are from a Martha Stewart border punch… teeny four leaf sweeties. I lay them on a mouse pad and push down in the center with the smallest tip embossing stylus. I did put a black mark in the center and a teeny bit of R81 too.

Amazing again how easy it is to layer with the Perfect Layers Tools/Rulers… I used my Omnigrid 1 in x 6 in. ruler and mini rotary cutter to cut around the sentiment… then cut the layers with the Perfect Layers Tools 1/16th in. Sweet! love them! (link on the right in my sidebar) Yes, I am an enabler… but I will never tell you about something that I’m not completely sold on too!

What a happy dragonfly! I sparkled up his wings with Distress stickles.. the clear one… Man that stuff comes out in a blob! I had to spread it around with my paper piercer… the hole is too big in the bottle or I just don’t know how to do it! I do like how it looks though… whew… he’s so cute all cut out!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing the CC Designs March Release Previews with me! Click over to the All That Scraps blog, HERE, for more inspiration from the team and a chance to win the NEW Sweet November release!

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Butterfly Lucy…

March 6, 2012April 1, 2012 Pam Sparks27 Comments

Butterfly Lucy here to help us greet Spring this year! Oh, she is so sweet! I LOVE her! So pretty in pink and ready to play outside! New Butterfly Border die too! Three NEW Swiss Pixies…to die for cute!!!

Click over the the All That Scraps blog for all the wonderful creations from the ATS Design Team gals… just amazing stuff!!! While you’re there… link up for a chance to win these cute new stamps!!!

Thanks for stopping by! So fun to hear from you and I’ll be back tomorrow with more cute-ness!

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Woodland Wreath…

February 2, 2012February 2, 2012 Pam Sparks20 Comments

Oh, I had fun getting gluey with this new die set from CC Designs for February! It’s called Acorns and Leaves. I used several CC Designs dies and Ranger black enamel in the flower centers. The flowers are the smallest flowers from the Phlox Flower die and the Five Point Flower die. I doubled the kraft paper cord and tied a bow, so I’d have double loops on both sides of the knot.

The sentiment is from the NEW AmyR Stamps sentiment set called Be Happy. On the inside I made another little bouquet with an acorn and leaves and stamped the sentiment from this set that says, best birthday wishes.

Click over to the ATS blog to see what the other ATS designers created for today using these new dies! Totally inspiring! I love this Woodland theme that Christine came up with! AND… be sure to link up for a chance to win… on all three posts! woohoo! Who swallowed a happy pill? me? nah… just happy to be here!

Several months ago I finally took the plunge and ordered the Perfect Layers rulers! I was so tired of cutting card mats and re-cutting card mats and trying to achieve the perfect margin on all four sides!!! WELL… I can tell you the answer to the problem!!! THESE TOOLS are awesome!!! Time saving!!! Keep you from pulling your hair out wonderful!!!!! Hallelujah! My sanity is still in tact! Quit laughing! hehe

I will make a video showing how I use them but in the meantime… check out the video in the store. If you order through my link you’ll save 5%! If you love having perfect layers like I do, you will LOVE these tools!

You can scroll through the cards on my blog and you’ll see I’m rather biased to the 1/16 th in. mat… oh, it makes me HAPPY! so very happy…just the time it saves alone! I’m gonna ask Julie if they’d consider making a ruler for 3/32 nds… now that would be divine! Now you know… I’m crazy! lol Well, come on… don’t you think we need something between 1/16 th and 1/8 th inch too???!!!

ok – I’ll shut up about it…

Thanks for the visit! ttul!

here’s what I used today to create this humdinger of a card! hohoho – now where did that come from?!

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Smile!

January 31, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks29 Comments

You can’t help yourself! So go ahead and smile, laugh out loud… giggle even! lol This rosy cheeked Mushroom Girl is a new Swiss Pixie Lucy from CC Designs February stamp release. Melt you heart sweet! I paper pieced her, shaded with Copics and colored her hair and skin with Copics too. Check out the super cute in the forest circle logo stamp from the new Woodland Logos set and a new Leaves and Acorns die set… two different acorns and two different leaves… I just used one of each here… awesome!

I’m linking my Mushroom Girl card to the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 151 – I used their sketch for my card. At Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog – it’s Anything Goes!

And here’s a front panel step card with new Swiss Pixie Woodland Lucy, Woodland Daisy and Woodland Logos…

Here I used both acorns and both leaves from the new Leaves and Acorns die set. Notice the Daisies seed packet…the oval says Wooden…that’s Christine’s last name! So fun! I had to cut all those pieces out and pop them up! I just love this card! So earthy in colors and cute! I made this a couple weeks ago and of course can’t remember the copics I used… oh why do I think I’ll remember… I know myself better than that!

The smile sentiment in the first card and the I’m here for you sentiment are from a new AmyR Stamps sentiment set called Be Happy.

Here’s the inside…more from the sentiment set, another acorn AND a fabulous new border die called , Mushroom border! (I just used a couple pieces of it)