Sales and Cards…

November 28, 2014November 29, 2014 Pam Sparks7 Comments

YAY! So fun to take it easy this a.m., today marks the beginning of the hustle and bustle! Tim is out checking out the Christmas tree place. If you don’t get there right when they open, the tall ones are gone! I’m watching for stamp sales online…I wanted to share this one right away!

and this one for Blick Art Materials… love their Copic prices and great place for watercolor paper, color pencils etc.

Then I wanted to share that Printworks has a Limited Edition Snowman again this year and NEW STAMPS!

Shop the Release in Wood

Shop the Release in Cling – Snow Time

Shop the Release in Cling – Christmas

Visit our sample gallery for additional samples from this brand new release!

Printworks Collection.com

TODAY (11/28/14) ONLY use code BLACKFRIDAY2014

Insert the code BLACKFRIDAY2014 into the coupon code section on our website and receive the following:

10% off your entire order
FREE shipping
The gift picture above (5 chunky tags, E3123, and A3124)

Nicole says,

“Also, be sure to like us on Facebook. Starting Thanksgiving and running through the weekend we will be offering a special gift exclusively to our Facebook followers. The only way to get the gift is to look for the code on our page!

Everyone here at Printworks is very excited for our biggest specials of the year…we hope you are, too!”

Here’s a few cards using Printworks stamps!

and on the inside…

and some good advice…

For the times you need a birthday card at Christmas…Printworks has awesome images and sentiments just right for the occasion!

and even a California Christmas of sorts! hehe

Perfect Layers Rulers and Mat to layer the scene to the white card. Enter code Psparks for 10% off your entire order! You’ll love them!!! Free cutting mat through the end of November!

Stamps and supplies I used…

G4400 Happy Santa

D3994 A Very Merry

C4383 Your Gift Is In The Bag

red twine

washi tape (K & co. smash book)

Pierced Tag die from My Favorite Things

D4380 Keep Calm

G4363 Frame Curls

C4060 We Are Always

C4421 Celebrate Today

poppystamps Garden Sprig die

Memory Box Ho Ho Holly Leaves

red twine

3mm red glitter domes (Mark Richards)

K4494 Offroad Jeep

JB4493 California Beaches

C4022 Surfboard

E4050 Discover Your Place

E4362 Chalk Arrows

G4499 Live In The Sunshine

Memory Box Small Circle Burst die

Memory Box Marshmallow clouds die

Memory Box Puffy Clouds die

Linking up the Santa and Beach card to…

Simon Says Stamp – Work it Wednesday

Thanks for checking in today! Happy weekend to you!

Birthday · cards · Christmas · copics · Masculine · One Layer Card · Perfect Layers Tools · Printworks · rubber stamps · Winter

Printworks Collection Birthday and Christmas…

November 22, 2014November 24, 2014 Pam Sparks26 Comments

HI Everyone! Three A2 size cards to show you today…I really have six but I’ll hold off on the other three for another post!

Do you have any Christmas birthdays coming up? I’ve had these santa hat brads and I just had to use one!

I matted the main panel with black card-stock cut with the Perfect Layers Rulers. Can hardly make a layered card without them!

If you’re shopping, be sure to use my coupon codes over in the sidebar for Printworks and for Perfect Paper Crafting!

and on the inside…

A masculine card with a nature twist…I used a gold Krylon pen for the gold dots… dispensed some out on the craft sheet and dotted the ink onto the card with the end of a paintbrush. Edged the sentiment with Distress ink and then the Krylon pen. Stamped with Printworks Ivy and Oak Brown ink pads. I did shadow the stag with a little copic coloring.

on the inside…Printworks has the best scripture sentiments…stamped with Printworks Ivy Ink pad.

I love this one… the gold embossing and pretty Christmasy colors. I stamped and embossed several stamps and then colored with watercolor markers – Tombow and Memento. Tied on some twine.

then on the inside…stamped in black versafine ink.

Entering my Dear Friend card into the following challenges…

Addicted to Stamps – Make your mark

Catered Crop – Anything Goes

Penny Black and More – Anything Goes

Here’s the stamps I used on these cards…available @ Printworks Collection.com – links to cling stamps but wood available also. If the stamp isn’t on the website, add it to your order in the comments section.

E4303 Birthdays Duplex

D4452 Little Black Dress

E4476 Be Happy

C4498 Nature

G4148 Ornate Style Wreath

C4353 Stag

B2285 Pine Cone and Sprig
F4492 Draw Near To God

D4470 Dear Friend

D4117-R Beautiful Day CLING

F4347 Tea Party

So glad to have you stop by! Can you believe this??? I didn’t use any dies!!! Whoa! haha! Happy stamping weekend to you!

Stamps and supplies I used on these cards…

InLinkz.com

cards · CAS · Christmas · copics · Magnolia · Paper Smooches · PTI · Tags · Tilda's Town · Winter

Tilda’s Town Magnolia card and some tags…

November 19, 2014 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Sweet Christmas childhood memories… I’m sure we all had a rocking horse of some kind or other! This cutie is one of the dies from the Magnolia DooHickeys Club Kit #2, All I Want For Christmas. It is chock full of cuteness! Here’s the tag I made with the Santa and border that are also part of the kit. Lots of dies for a great price and a little magazine full of ideas too! OH, almost forgot! The little lace piece is another die in the kit… see… tons more too!

I die cut the Rocking Horse die from white card-stock and colored it with Copics. The words happy and christmas are from Paper Smooches.

I made this card for Tilda’s Town Challenges this week. We’d love to have you link up if you’re a Magnolia fan!

Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

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Last Friday at our area stamp club meeting we swapped Christmas tags. I made two and let the gal that got my name choose which one she wanted.

I made a bookmark style tag with Paper Smooches dies and the PTI Tinsel and Tags set and then a Snowglobe style tag with PTI Tinsel and Tags set, the Winter die and snowglobe die.

I could make tags all day! lol So much fun with all the new stamps and dies out there! Hope you are having a good time using your stash too or shopping to increase your stash … oh my… so much! I’m addicted! lol

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, stamps and dies I used…

InLinkz.com

Christmas · copics · Penny Black · Stencils · Tags

Mixed Media Tag…

November 16, 2014November 16, 2014 Pam Sparks45 Comments

Festive and lots of techniques! I just had to play in Loll’s Twelve Tags of Christmas! I LOVE tags!

Getting a good photo of all these techniques was almost too much for a very amateur photographer like me! I have a terrible time giving up though! lol So, the top two close ups are to show the gold embossing powder on the embossing paste.

Here’s what I did…

I cut a tag with the largest MFT pierced tag die in white 110# cover card-stock

I did Loll’s pearl background technique on it next…the only thing I changed from what she does is instead of using plastic wrap, I used a plastic bag and put my hand inside it, scrunched it up a little, picked up the pearl mixative and pounced, keeping my hand clean! haha The right one anyway! lol

Next, using the ink blending tool and Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad, I inked the whole tag.

Over the top of that I placed the Tim Holtz stencil and applied white embossing paste. Cleaned it up then…

I dumped Ranger Queens Gold embossing powder over the whole tag, removed the excess and heated it with a heat tool.

I LOVE the look of the powder on the paste!

I die cut the Seasons Greetings Avery Elle die from gold metallic card-stock

I did cut the Penny Black holly die from Copic coloring card-stock.

Color the holly cut with Copic markers

Then with the matching Penny Black holly stamp, I stamped the colored die cut, after stamping off on scrap paper, with Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad. This stamp is from several years ago and they don’t advertise that it matches but it does and looks so awesome! Another, exclamation when finished!!! LOVE it!

I adhered everything to the tag with mounting squares cut to fit.

I think I will hang this on my Christmas tree, that’s how happy I am with it! : )

Linking to some challenges…

Stamping with Loll – 12 tags of Christmas

Virginia’s View Challenge – all things metallic

CASology Challenge – festive

Winter Wonderland Challenge – Christmas Decorations

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Ornaments

Cute Card Thursday Challenge – Red and Green

Sweet Stampin Challenge – To Die For

Stamping Sensations – Christmas

Thanks for clicking over to my blog today! I love to share what I’ve been up to with you. Leave your blog link when you comment so I can come visit you too!

p.s. I still have some card kits for sale too…thank you!

Supplies I used for this tag…

InLinkz.com

cards · Christmas · copics · Perfect Layers Tools · Printworks · rubber stamps · Winter

Printworks Christmas creating…

November 11, 2014November 13, 2014 Pam Sparks26 Comments

I have a bunch of Christmas cards to post with Printworks stamps but I think I will spread them out over a few days. Here’s some festive stamping for you!