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Guest for Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge…

Pam Sparks32 Comments

It’s sooooo fun to play in challenges here and there… awhile back I won a guest designer position on the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenges blog with my Hay Rides Kiddos card!!!  YEA!  You can see it HERE.   Love Karen’s sketches!

Thanks Karen for the sweet sketches and the invitation to join the challenge this time!

Here’s the sketch I used today…

Here’s a list of the Sweet Sunday Sketch designers… click to see their fabulous takes on the sketch!

 

I had to mirror image the sketch so the Penny Black Mimi image would fit between the houses in the October Afternoon pattern paper from a few years ago.   I will always love this house paper!   I’ll be so sad when the last piece is used up… it’s timeless!  The dot and the poinsettia are from the same collection.

The sentiment stamp I used is from a clear set by PaperTrey Ink, called Stylish Sentiments: Holiday.  It was new last year I think.  I stamped it with Colorbox Dark Brown Chalk ink.

Mimi is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers. I used W3 under the reds, R24, E07 and R59.  Her coat started out with BG10…had to add other BG colors and then use some W1 gray to get it to match the paper.  I edged the papers with Antique Linen Distress ink and the Ink Blending tool.  I used my Perfect Layers Tools for Perfect mats… love, love the 1/16th inch ruler!  For this card I used 1/16th and 3/16ths.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Click over to the Sweet Sketches Challenge and play along!  ttul!

Stamps and supplies I used to make this card… (I couldn’t find the same flower punch I used to link up to, so I linked to another that I also thought about using)

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Magnolia…Tilda’s Town Challenges…Winter Weather!

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful… not really…hehe!  At some point it will snow though!  This is such a sweet Tilda… Snowy Tilda is her name… part of the new A Christmas Story Collection from Magnolia.  You can see the collection and the new Nativity Collection @ Tilda’s Town .com HERE.  Always free shipping and be sure to check out the discounts available!

This is my card for Tilda’s Town challenges this week.  Winter Weather… hope you can play along! Click over and see what the other Design Team gals created… always fabulous creating going on @ Tilda’s Town HERE.

I used a new Fiskars border punch,  colored with Distress Ink refills and matted with my Perfect Layers Tools!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

 

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Printworks… CAS-ual Fridays…kraft on…

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add some jingle!  I love to sing and I’ve always loved the ‘Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly’ song!  What a cute silhouette elf… All the stamps are from Printworks Collection.  This is one of the cards I designed for them and will be showing up on a sample board in retail stores around the country! I can’t wait to hear from you, if you’ve seen it in person!

The challenge over on the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog is Kraft On… so I’m entering my card there!

Here’s the inside…

I used my Perfect Layers tools for matting…Printworks Oak Brown ink and the Ink Blending Tool to edge the papers. Holly painted with Printworks stamp pad ink and reinkers. I use the Omnigrid ruler to line up the fishtail banner straight.  The Die-namics Fishtail banner that I’m linking to, would’ve worked, I didn’t have it at the time… have it now! hehe  May Arts ribbon… I think you can get this from Printworks too,  just email Nicole & Chelsea at the store site.

Stamps and Supplies I used…

Printworks stamps… Add some Jingle A3985 HERE and C3982 Santa’s Elf  stamp HERE

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Printworks Collection Angel…

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So sweet!  I LOVE this angel called Sweet Music from Printworks Collection… she’s in the store HERE as a cling stamp and HERE as a wood mounted stamp.  The Rejoice stamp is HERE as a cling stamp and HERE as a wood mounted stamp.

The background stamp I used is Printworks JB3979 Old English Scripture…the Christmas story from the book of Luke.  The speckles on the kraft tag are from the stamp Paint Spatters  HERE.

I did her up another way and she’s on a sample board that is going out to retail stores… I’ll show you as soon as I can!

I’m linking to the I Spy Sketches Challenge blog…

thanks for looking!  ttul!

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October 2012 Papertrey Blog Hop…

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This is my first time to participate in one of the Papertrey Ink blog hops!  I LOVE the color combos they challenged everyone with.. I hope to use some of the other combos too!

I used this one… I found the colors in card-stock and then it hit me… these are the colors of one of the Basic Grey Christmas collections from a few years ago!  I knew I had some pieces and scraps, so I dug them out and started working.   The colors matched perfectly! yea!

I used PTI Sweet Blush and Dark Chocolate card-stocks.  The Ripe Olive was a little dark, so I used a tad bit lighter green card-stock for the leaves.

The poinsettia is the PTI Year of the Flower Poinsettia set and die set.
The sentiment is from the Think Big Favorites #20 Mini Stamp Set .
I used the Tag Sale #5 Die for the ‘tails’ under the poinsettia.
I colored a bit on the poinsettias… I used RV21… I know… sounds too pink but it was better than the R11, 20 or 21..they made it too peach.

I don’t own any PTI stamp inks but the Colorbox Rose Coral and Olive Pastel Chalk inks matched great, so that’s what I stamped the poinsettias with.  The sentiment is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Thanks for stopping by… click on the PTI links above to go the inlinkz list of other blog hop participants!

I know…two poinsettia cards this week! hehe  and I used this one week before last I think and colored it… so pretty… love poinsettias!  So I’ll cool it on poinsettias for awhile! lol

Stamps and Supplies I used…