Happy Birthday Henry…

July 20, 2010September 2, 2011 Pam Sparks33 Comments

Today is our grandson Henry’s 4th Birthday… so exciting! Henry has a stuffed puppy dog that he carries around that looks like this cute little Puppy from CC Designs. This Puppy with Kite is a new digi release from CC Designs HERE. The sentiment is HERE. I cut circles with Nestabilites circle dies HERE and on the inside is a Magnolia Summer background from the Fairytale release HERE. The pattern papers are from a K & Co. 12×12 pad. The stitching lines are from a clear set by Technique Tuesday called Borderline Notions.

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday challenge Blog.

Thanks for stopping by! You make me happy!

cards · CC Designs · copics · Digital images

Butterfly Birgitta…

July 18, 2010October 8, 2012 Pam Sparks31 Comments

I’m showing you Butterfly Birgitta in this post…Hoping to have another card to show you tomorrow. I used Bo Bunny pattern paper, EK Success medium and small retro flower punches, Hero Arts pearls, JoyCrafts greenery die, Marianne Designs swirl die, Nestabilities oval dies, Martha Stewart border punch and an Accucut shipping tag die for the “hidden” text! Birgitta is colored with Copic Sketch Markers and a white signo uniball pen on the flowers…hard to see in the photo. I can’t decide if I like leaving it lighter around her eyes or not! There is always something after I think I’m finished with a project! lol

I’m linking to the Sketchy Colors Challenge Blog… Love this sketch and the design team examples were inspiring…the colors to use were Turquoise, pink and lime green. FUN! At Anyone for Anya Challenge Blog they want to “be dazzled”! I used the Spica clear glitter pen and pearls for that. The challenge at Wild Orchid Craftsis to “say it with flowers” gotta love that and the challenge on Paper Sundaes right now is make your own flowers and I did that!

Thanks for stopping by! Stamping to “beat the heat” here! lol

ATS · cards · CC Designs · copics · rubber stamps · Summer

Honey August…

July 18, 2010September 2, 2011 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Just cleaning up my computer desktop and realized I hadn’t posted this Honey Autumn card yet! A frame card….means the scene is set back in an 1/8th inch and then the images are popped up on top of the cloud/grass background. The wheelbarrow is glued directly to the frame. I love these stamps from CC Designs… so adorable!

Here’s a close up….hope to be back tomorrow with more!

ATS · Card Sketch · cards · CC Designs · copics · rubber stamps

Lazy afternoon…

July 14, 2010April 1, 2014 Pam Sparks31 Comments

Cute Nora colored with all the Warm gray Copic Sketch Markers. I used Basic Grey’s Scarlet Letter 6×6 pattern paper pad, EK Success wide staples and small retro flower punch, Martha Stewart branch border punch, black pearls and the sentiment is from a CC Designs. Almost forgot the scenery again! It’s a CC Designs set.

I started out coloring pretty much everything, even the sky with W00, then added in each color up to W9 and then retraced my steps back down from W9 to W00! I have a couple other cards on my blog colored like this too… Here and Here. I love this “style” of coloring.

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday…

Color Me Copic blog is having their first challenge with black and white coloring. There is even a tutorial…(although she colors different than I do…I color light to dark and retrace my steps and don’t use the blender pen for coloring)…really cute cards…so fun to see what others are doing to get a similar look!

Thanks for stopping in! ttul!

ATS · cards · CC Designs · copics · Magnolia · rubber stamps

Look what I did today….

July 12, 2010July 14, 2010 Pam Sparks38 Comments

I ordered the Magnolia DooHickey dies and they came today!!! I LOVE them! I set out to use ALL FOUR of them on the same card, for the #100 Color Throwdown Challenge blog! All That Scraps is one of the sponsors for this challenge so I just had to play! lol I’m so tickled with myself that I actually used a purchase the same day as I received it! This is a very rare occurrence! lol I used the leaf and swirl, tag, border and flower dies, all from Magnolia HERE. The texture background is a cuttlebug embossing folder.

If you are having trouble deciding whether to order these dies my advice would be to go for it! It helped me to see a gal’s card using two of them, so here’s hoping seeing my card w/all four will help you decide! oh eek! hopefully I won’t scare you off! lol

The Thinking of You stamp is HERE. Can’t wait to hear what you think! I can’t decide if I have a favorite of the four….glad I just got them all! oh no…what will they come out with next! I’m sure it will be good! lol