Thank YOU Very Much…

March 30, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Have you heard that there’s a Royal Battle going on over at The Greeting Farm? The Royal Battle is a battle of teams, and depends entirely on VOTING. It goes like this: there are teams of three to five players. Each Wednesday a new Battle challenge is issued. One of the team members has to make a card to meet the Battle challenge. Folks have a chance to vote for three cards each week. The top half with the most votes moves to the next Battle. Each team member has to take one turn. Hopefully, we make it to the final round and a chance to win a big prize.

The first week is to make a retro card – team member Lisa made the card this time for our group, the Card Sprouts! She did a great job, we would love your vote! You can cast your votes here (b/4 midnight tonight) by leaving a comment! So, I made this card to “thank you very much” for voting!

Anya from the Rain, Shine, Snow set by the Greeting Farm….colored with copic markers

Basic Grey Phoebe pattern paper…Martha Stewart border punch….button border from K&Co

Poodle is an All Night Media punch…Hero Arts gemstone …Hero Arts sentiment stamp

Some fun challenges I’m linking up to…

Secret Crafter Saturday challenge – Pink, Green and Flowers
Totally Papercrafts – Pink and Green (Friday)
Colour Create – Pastels (Thursday)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you can get out and VOTE!

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All That Scraps Weekly Wed. Challenge…

March 24, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks30 Comments

A Challenging sketch from Janneke this week!

Check out the other Design team’s awesome creations on the challenge blog…. here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…

every week there is a new and exciting prize being offered
in order to be eligible to win, your card must include a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store. Whether it is any of our wonderful in house designs or from the various other stamp companies that ATS carries (Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, etc) the choice is yours.
be sure to link up your creation with Mr Linky by next Tuesday at 10pm est
Use the sketch below by Janneke
only one entry per person please!

Here’s a close up of two new cuties from CC Designs Spring Swiss Pixie kit…The kit is 50% off right now!

Linking to…

Flutter By Wednesday – open but must have a butterfly, fairy or angel
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge – Spring

Card details…

images (boy, girl and sentiment) from CC designs Spring Swiss Pixies kit – so glad I bought it!
stamping done in Memento Tuxedo Black ink
coloring with Copic Sketch Markers
Butterflies and grass are Martha Stewart punches – to make the butterfly antennae, I cut a very narrow strip of dark brown card-stock and then wrapped it around the middle of each butterfly and twisted them at the very top and put a teeny dab of glue on the back side
pattern paper from October Afternoon – LOVE their paper lines…
tonic trimmer, with this many layers in a sketch I NEED the best for cutting!
Stamp a ma jig for perfect placement of the “Happy Spring” sentiment
Ink blending tool and Distress inks for all the edges of the paper and around the window frame
the window frame is cut with an Accucut die for the A7 convert a die set
woodgrain stamp is from All Night Media (purchased at Michael’s)

Thanks Janneke for a fun and challenging sketch! Hope you can play a long with us this week and thanks for stopping by and making my day with your comments!!!

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In your Easter Bonnet…

March 23, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks24 Comments

I wanted to play in some challenges this week…

High Hopes Stamps challenge blog – Hoppy Easter (Sunday)
Stamp With Fun – Easter (Monday)
Everybody Art – Easter (Tuesday)
Stamp Something – distress something (I inked all the edges with distress inks) (Friday)
Crazy 4 Challenges – anything Spring (Saturday)
Stamptacular Sunday – scene it (Sunday)
Pile it on – Furry Friend (Sunday)
Our Creative Corner – Think Easter (Saturday)

Card details….

High Hopes bunny, basket and sentiment
Stampamajig (I always use this to stamp words)
Martha Stewart fence, tulip and grass border punches
Distress ink in peeled paint and dusty concord
Ink Blending tool
Lasting Impressions pattern paper
Bazzill card-stock
The bunny and basket were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Colored with Copic Sketch Markers
The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink
Cottonball white fun flock on the bunny’s tail and chest

Lots of new product and stamps added this week at 7kidscollegefund.com – new CC Designs, Whiff of Joy, Scor-it and Scor-it products, pre-order the next Magnolia magazine and pre-order the Magnolia Easter collection and Pirates, Fairies and Princess collections too!

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Honey Tilda birthday!

March 20, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks43 Comments

Another Easel card…this style really works well for the 6×6 papers and folds up so nice, but most of you already know that because you’ve been making them! lol
The challenge at Just Magnolia blog is an easel card this week…
The challenge at Friday Sketchers blog is the sketch I used….
The Challenge at Cute Card Thursday is anything you like to celebrate each year…birthdays, anniversaries, etc…
The challenge at Saturday Spotlight blog is birthdays and using your birthstone color (mine is aquamarine)….
The challenge at Copic Creations blog is to use your favorite coloring technique from their challenges the last year (mine is coloring black)

Here’s a close up of Honey Tilda sitting on the Honey Jar – so sweet!

Honey Tilda and jar are stamped on 100% cotton Bristol card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers, The warm grays… y11, 15, 17, 19…YR 21, 23, 24… E50, 000, 00, 11…R22, 24, 27, 59. The copics really blend easily on this stock but oooooh watch out, they bleed really quick! Reminds me of the Canson Manga card weight paper pad. I like it and look how it changes the flesh colors…the ink doesn’t soak in as much either IMO.

I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie 6×6 pattern paper (I don’t see this one in the store but there are two brand new collections!
Magnolia, Honey Tilda, Honey Jar and made with love rubber stamps
Printworks, C1615, sweet on you and Happy Birthday to you (I don’t see the exact same one I have, which is G2003. This one and this one are similar) rubber stamps
I used my Stamp a ma jig to make the “made w/love” and “birthday” sentiments fit on the labels
Stampington honey comb background rubber stamp
Spellbinders new large scallop rectangle die
Nellie Snellen punch flowers
Clear gemstones from Hero Arts for the flower centers
Martha Stewart frond punch
Wild Honey distress ink for stamping the background and for edging everything with the ink blending tool
Frosted Lace stickles on her wings

I think that’s it! Happy weekend and stamping! It’s all pretty here again…covered with snow! lol

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Oh Happy Day – ATS Weekly Wednesday…

March 17, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks31 Comments

Happy Easter! This year is flying by way too fast for me! And it isn’t because it’s my birthday month either…or is it?! ugh! Don’t want to think about it!
Welcome to another All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge! This week we’d love to see what you create for an Easel card! This is the first one I’ve completely finished… I have a bunch of card fronts that I want to make into easel cards though.
Here’s more of a side view for you…

Check out the other Design team’s awesome creations on the challenge blog…. here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…

every week there is a new and exciting prize being offered
in order to be eligible to win, your card must include a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store. Whether it is any of our wonderful in house designs or from the various other stamp companies that ATS carries (Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, etc) the choice is yours.
be sure to link up your creation with Mr Linky by next Tuesday at 10pm est
only one entry per person please!

I am in love with Amy Young’s Sweet November Easter stamps…just adorable critters! I used April and Peter from All That Scraps for this easel card today.