Red, White and Blue…

July 4, 2010July 20, 2010 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…

July 3, 2010September 2, 2011 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!

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Penelope and Shelly…

June 30, 2010July 1, 2010 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Penelope and Shelly make me grin and almost giggle! Such an adorable expression and love her hair! Amy Young is the artist for CC Designs. I made this “Box in a Bag” project for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog. I used CC Designs Amy R Beach Sentiments for the words on the handle and the words on the tag. Penelope and Shelly are stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers (her hair is E50 – 57, her eyes are B21 & 23). My bag and tag are both Accucut dies. The wild grass and mini sun are punches from the Punch Bunch. The white flower is from a Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch. Yellow and Blue Prism card-stock… McGill 1/16th and 1/8th in. hole punches.

Talk about fun to color! I think I’ll fill this bag with water balloons! My grandkids love them!

Hope you can play along with us in the challenge this week…always a great prize! All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog is HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

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God’s tiny miracle…

June 27, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks22 Comments

New Grandson born on Thursday so I had to get this new hÄnglar stamp “inky”! Stamped with Memento Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers. I made an easel card with a couple different Nestabilities dies for shapes… oh he is so sweet! Going to see him today!

hÄnglar Baby set purchased on UK ebay
Sentiment stamp by All Night Media
alphabet background by Stampin Up
Bundle of Love ribbon by SEI
Clothesline stamp by Inkadinkado, a baby boy clear set (stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink)
Cloud punch – unknown…I’ve had it a long, long time! lol

The challenge at Our Creative Corner is Blues and Greens…

So fun! Thanks for stopping by!

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Color Challenge….

June 23, 2010June 23, 2010 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Carribean, Pink and Celery…
Good morning…my post today for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog is colorful, in a pastel sort of way! I used three images from the Swiss Pixies Spring kit… Bumblebee Hansel, Ladybug Nora and the wheelbarrow (on SALE through June 24!!!). I love these images and how interactive they are together. Christine, the artist thinks of everything!

Stamped the images HERE in Memento Tuxedo Black ink HERE
Colored them with Copic Sketch Markers (blonde hair E50, YR31, 21, 23, brown hair E50-57 pink R81-85, green YG21-25, blue BG0000-05, grays N1-7) HERE
Special Delivery sentiment is from Inkadinkado and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink HERE
Woodgrain stamp is by All Night Media, stamped in Pink Pirouette ink by Stampin Up
Carribean Blue and Pink Pirouette Card-stock by Stampin Up, Celery by Prism
Bird branch corner is a Martha Stewart corner punch
Flowers are EK Success retro small and medium flower punches
Itty Bitty brads in the flower centers are by Bazzill HERE
Branch punch is from the Punch Bunch
Flourishes are from the Netherlands, a die by Marianne Designs HERE
Stuck everything together with my ATG Gun HERE, LOVE that thing! I use Tombow Mono Multi for the flowers and flourishes HERE My glue FAVE!