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Cherish this day…

Pam Sparks18 Comments

Mornin’ – Saturday already!  Sweet Stop Sketch time!  Don’t fall off your “chair”! lol  Hardly any coloring here…subtle copic coloring for sure! lol   The comfy chair is part of Printworks latest release, go HERE and click on “new releases”.    I liked using the word “cherish” with the chair, not sure if this one is still available but I really liked the new one “cherish Life’s Moments” but I don’t have it.  It’s on the same page as the chair at the above link.   Stella Ruby Basic Grey 6×6 pad pattern paper….EK Success border punch…Memento Tuxedo Black ink and Versafine Onyx Black for the flower flourishes HERE by the sentiment.  Bazzill and Prism card-stock for the rest…the final size is 6×6 inches.

Hope you can play a long with us in the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge this week…I loved this one!  Korin is a great sketch creator!  Here’s the sketch…take the challenge!!!  Hope to see you there!


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Totally Tilda…

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I love the name of this new challenge blog… Totally Tilda!  I just had to make time to play along this first week and I hope to keep up with all their challenges… that’s a bit lofty for me but I’ll try!  The first theme is “Chocolate”, rich browns and creams with a dash of color.  I started out with this older Basic Grey paper and the paper ribbon doilies HERE from Basic Grey Capella release.  Tilda and the Garden Gate are both in stock HERE.  I did cut everything out… oh my what was I thinking but I really enjoy cutting! So no biggie!  Some older Prima flowers and the punch center from the Punch Bunch,  Martha Stewart butterflies, “thinking of you” stamps is from Penny Black  and Stampin Up Melon Mambo card-stock.  OH,  don’t forget the nestabilities dies… HERE.  Tilda and the Garden Gate are stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  I used the E50’s and that is all.  That one cheek got a little “bit” too much color IMO…oh bummer…some colors just don’t come off either!!! lol  Oh well,  it was fun,  I’ve been wanting to try the sepia look!   I’m also linking to the Cards Blog for their Monochromatic coloring challenge!  oh happy stamping, cutting and coloring! Isn’t it amazing how the stamping world has grown!

see ‘ya later!

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You’re a SUN-sational Friend…

Pam Sparks30 Comments

Sketch Challenge for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge Blog this week.  I like creating sand and water scenes,  do you suppose it has something to do with all the fun stamps and punches to buy these days???!!!  I see you all shaking your heads,  “YES”! lol  Honey Summer is an adorable CC Designs stamp HERE.  I used Susie’s Copic PINK combo,  RV0000, 000, 00 and R81…well,  I tacked on R85 too!  The sentiment I used is from Amy R’s Beach words set HERE… love these sets… You get so many for such a great price…they stamp wonderfully too as do all the CC Design stamps!   The sand castle border and the little hole/wavy border are both EK Success border punches.   I used cotton cord to tie a square knot.  A Uniball white pen for the white dots on her cap and the clouds…aren’t they cool?!  I stamped them and cut them out.  CC Designs has a scenery set HERE that I’m going to get a lot of use out of!

We’d love to have you join the challenge this week…I’m getting the hang of using sketches…creating from the base up is working the best for me the last few weeks! Be sure to click over to see this one…I really did use it!!!  I really did!  I turned it!  I’m linking to some other challenges today also…

Can you tell there is a “skip in my step”?  I’m getting a promotion of sorts…feels like a promotion to me!  I’m on All That Scraps Design Team now, moving from the Challenge Blog team.  *grin*   I’ll still be playing in the challenges each week though. I LOVE CC Design stamps….so much fun!  I call them interactive stamps (cause I love to combine) …challenging I guess… lol!  Thanks for putting up with me!  I love coming here to share and getting to know you all!

♥ See ‘ya later! ♥

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Red, White and Blue…

Pam Sparks33 Comments

and Happy First Birthday Corrin!!!

Finally using one of my new Penny Black stamps!  YEA!  I bought it HERE…it’s one of the new slapstick/cling stamps…slap it on an acrylic block! lol  We have a grandson that was just a week old Thursday and then this card is for a grandson that will be one year old Wednesday.  They grow up so fast!

I’m linking to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog…so excited to play in their challenge at last!  I’m going to try to keep up better and use more of my Penny Black stamps.  It’s so easy to just collect them! lol  I know I’m not the only one with this problem!!!  I see you smiling out there! lol  I’m full of good intentions! ha! The challenge from Penny Black @ Allsorts Blog is ” A Burst of Summer Color”. I’m using the sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge Blog, at Stamp Something Blog the challenge is to use the colors of your country’s flag,  the challenge at No Time to Stamp is to use stars and Stamp With Fun Challenge Blog theme is Birthday!  Thanks for the great challenges gals!

Stamped Fly Away with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic Sketch markers. R05, 08, 59 (colored over w/W1, 3, 5), B91 – 99 (colored over w/W1, 3, 5), E43, 44, 47 and B99 for his slacks, E53, 55, 57, 59 for his shoes, N1 – 7 for the airplane, E33 – 37 for the dog. Skin E000, 00, 11, R30.   The pattern papers are Doodlebug (ancient stuff, probably six years old – hey,  I’m testing them to see if they are really archival!  hahahahaha).  Marvy Uchida primitive star punches,  the number “1” is an EK Success papershaper punch,  “Birthday” A2657, is a Printworks stamp that you can purchase HERE, the Checker border is a Martha Stewart border punch HERE and the card-stocks are, white Papertrey Ink, red is Bazzill and the navy is Stampin Up.

Just looking at this again…I’m in a rut…I reach for the B90’s w/out thinking… I should have used other blues to match this pattern paper better….maybe next time! lol  I do have other blues after-all!

Hope he makes you smile!

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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!