Magnolia, Tilda’s Town Challenges, Anything Goes…

July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 Pam Sparks17 Comments

For this week’s Tilda’s Town Challenge I just had to color one of the new Tilda’s from the Special Moment Collection. So sweet and so fun to color! I stamped her on Copic X-press it card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers…

Hair – E50, YR31, YR21, YR23
Skin – YR0000, E000, E00, E21, E11, E13
Dress and Flowers – B91, B93
Ribbon – B95, B97
Shoes and white lace – gray N’s
Leaves and Flower centers – YG21, YG23, YG25

My card today was inspired by my friend Jan. Well, the card base is what she had us make at stamp club in April. It was laying on my desk, still not put together! I saw it, laid Tilda on it and loved her there! yea! Thanks Jan!

Click over to Tilda’s Town Challenges, HERE and enjoy the inspiration from the Design Team and enter the weekly challenge! We’d love to have you!

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Thanks for stopping by today! It’s been a posting week for sure! Thanks for all the wonderful, encouraging comments!

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CAS, Memory Box Wreath card and Printworks SALE…

November 27, 2012November 11, 2014 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Oh my! I’ve about forgotten how to blog! Yikes! That means I’ve been gone toooo long! I’m hoping to do more stamping this week… I have to! : )

I made this with two Memory Box dies, a Magnolia Doohickey die (that I altered), an older Hero Arts sentiment and probably even older pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket! I’m linking to another Memory Box die that I think would work for the bow too…

I used two of the grapevine wreaths layered on top of each other but turned, so they didn’t match up. Then I die cut four of the holly vine and used the top halves of each, to stick into the wreath rather random like. Joy and Peace is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink, my favorite for stamping sentiments. (don’t try to color with copics with it though..it’ll mess up your nibs!) Papers edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

Kraft card base… love kraft! : ) Love my perfect paper layering tools too… used the 1/16th inch one here.

It’s a 5 in. x 7 in. card… A-7 size envelope!

Stamps and Supplies links under this Printworks info…

What have you all been up to? I’ve spent more time with family the last couple weeks and started Christmas shopping. Course the online sales were rather time consuming weren’t they?! There is still one more!!!

Here’s Printworks email newsletter…can you guess why the limited edition snowman is a chef this year???? well… can you??? Be sure to ask Nicole and Chelsea what they’ve been up to!

PrintWorks Collection Newsletter, November 2012 #11

2012 CYBER MONDAY SPECIAL!!

We have extended our FREE shipping offer through Tuesday, 11/27/12! Here’s the link to our 2012 Limited Edition Snowman,

Chef Snow Flay

PrintWorks would like to offer FREE shipping on ALL orders!!

Thank you for all your support over the years and through our transition to our new website. We would like to extend this CYBER MONDAY special to YOU!!

Shop online for holiday gifts or a gift for yourself! FREE shipping on ALL orders, plus a FREE gift with orders $15 or more.

Happy Holidays!

www.printworkscollection.com

Don’t forget…New products being added daily…

We are still working on adding more and more of our products every day. So if you don’t see what you’re looking for today, check back in the next few days and you may find it or something else you can’t live without!

If there is something in particular you can’t find, drop us an email at printworkscollection@yahoo.com and we’ll move it to the top of the list.

We hope you like our new designs and website, we’re so excited to bring them to you!

Thanks for reading,

Nicole and Chelsea

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Stamps and Supply links… Thanks for stopping by! talk to you again soon!

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CC Designs · Distress Ink coloring · Hero Arts · Masculine · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spellbinders dies · Watercolor

On the Lake…

June 18, 2012March 18, 2014 Pam Sparks31 Comments

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I told you I had more boats coming! hehe I’ve had this stamp for awhile, love the simplicity of it but then I wasn’t so sure about how to color it! The water isn’t really this green IRL… figures… ugh! Here’s the stamp info… Memory Box F1770 On the Lake.

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As soon as I saw this last Memory Box die release I jumped right over to order! I had to have this Honeyblossom Sprig! I glued three cuts of green together then cut one in white and cut out the flowers and one in yellow and just used the centers. I did shape the back side of the white flowers a little with my McGill Stylus set on a mouse pad.

The woodgrain background is an older stamp from Hero Arts (SS1000), stamped and edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink… it’s not big enough to cover the whole card so I stamp it four times… I’ve done this several times with cards that I’ve posted. Love the random look of it.

The postal frame is a Spellbinders Nestabilities die. The mat for the focal image is cut with the Perfect Layers 1/16th in. layer tool… the best investment I ever made for card making!

The postal cancellation and sentiment are from CC Designs and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink. It stamps the sharpest and cleanest image for sentiments of any ink out there… so worth the money! Bummer I forgot to take a picture of the inside. I layered white on green to the kraft card with the Perfect Layers tools. Then stamped two more sentiments from the same CC Designs All About Dad sentiment set. Yes, I used my other tool I can’t stamp with out! My Stamp a ma jig!

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I stamped “On the Lake” with Clearsnap Archival Wicked Black ink and watercolored it with Ranger Distress markers… I really do love them! They color and blend so nicely on the Canson Manga paper I’ve linked to below. I appreciate it so much when you make your purchases through my links!!! I’m encouraged to keep working and sharing for sure! Thank YOU!

Amusing Challenges – Father’s Day/Masculine

Fashionable Stamping Challenges – Nature

Let’s Ink It Up – Your favorite embellishment… mine would be using dies

Stampin’ Sisters in Christ – Create something that reflects you. You are God’s masterpiece! (this relflects me because I love postal stuff, I love kraft, I love woodgrain and I LOVE dies!

Card Caravan Challenge – CAS (clean and simple)

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Here it is Monday again! They come faster and faster it seems! = ) Have a great week… I’ll be back tomorrow with a CC Designs June Release Review! Take care! Thanks again for stopping in!

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Silhouette Ladies…

March 17, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks15 Comments

Yesterday I had some creating fun with the new Marianne Designs Creatables dies for March…Anja’s Rose small corner and Baby Cameo. I knew what stamp I wanted to use… a Hero Arts wood mounted image I just picked up last weekend at Michaels (I can’t find the exact one to link to, so linking to a similar one), so I stamped it on the Basic Grey paper added an old Hero Arts sentiment, Style is eternal and the little stamp image on the edges is from a Tattered Angels Traveler clear stamp set. The perfume bottle one of four stamps on a B Line Designs stamp cube.

The rose corner is so pretty… there are a few more Anja’s Roses dies in this release…a border, a centerpiece and a large corner… very pretty…

A close up of the corner…

This is the Basic Grey Granola 6×6 paper pad. The fancy black rose is from Marianne Designs also… comes as a strip of roses and I just cut one off… love the netting that it comes on! I couldn’t make out the detail of it in my card photos so I took an up close photo and really lightened it. Might have to move your screen to see it… they’re pretty.

Yes, I used the Perfect Layers Rulers! I thought about distressing the edges but I do love the straight mat look and I think it lends itself to the look of the classic silhouette ladies too. HERE is my video about them and there’s another video at the Perfect Layers link in my right sidebar. I used the 1/8th and 1/16th in. on this card.

A fanciful card for a beautiful early Spring day in Iowa! My DH should be out fishing but instead he’s dealing with a flat tire on his truck and working. I noticed this a.m. while out picking him up that the weeds are already growing!!! UGH! Silly ground ivy… we’ve tried a few things to get rid of it but haven’t been successful. I hate the idea of chemicals in the yard. We play out there so much with the grandkids. So many people walk their dogs by here too… they’re supposed to pick up their poo but they don’t always… ugh, I hate stepping in it! Isn’t there something you can put on your grass to keep the dogs from doing it? Guess I’ll be googling away soon! chuckle! Oh the joys of living in town on a corner! I’d rather think about the next card!

ok – I’ll catch ‘ya later!

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I don’t want to think about snow!

November 12, 2011November 13, 2011 Pam Sparks16 Comments

It’s inevitable where I live though! We had a few flakes earlier in the week! I’ll just stay in and stamp! haha! The challenge for our stamp club swap was to create a Christmas card with non-traditional colors. I made a flakey Christmas card! I love the new Mittens dies from CC Designs Cutters! They are so cute and love the embossing on them too! I used a Hero Arts Holiday Background stamp, My Minds Eye Stella Rose clear stamp set and a Martha Stewart Snowflake punch, Embroidered Floral Edge punch and Embroidered Floral Corner punch. The gems are from Hero Arts and the Vintage glass shard glitter is from the Art Glittering system. I used the discontinued pink card-stock from Stampin Up and it really is a fun pink…not sure why it looks so bright here… oh the joys of photography!