A Birthday Boat!

June 7, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks18 Comments

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Marianne Design has come out with these fun word dies… I love cutting them and layering them up to look like chipboard. I did ink the edges with Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

Here’s a link to them and if you go to the next page, you’ll see the new dies for June! I don’t have them yet but I’m looking forward to having some in my possession soon!

The background Lure stamp is from Judikins… the main boat and dock image is an old PSX stamp. DAD is an alphabet set that I picked up years ago at Hobby Lobby. I have a thing about alphabet stamp sets… some people collect figurines… I collect stamps, dies, paper, you name it… lol! I have a feeling you’re in the same “boat”! Pun intended!

On the inside I used a belated birthday greeting from a CC Designs AmyR Stamp sentiment set. Perfect Layers Tools to mat the image… link in the right sidebar.

Linking to the CCEE Stampers Challenge – Create a card with a Vintage feel…

THANKS for looking! ttul!

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Marianne Design Basket Birthday Wishes…

May 27, 2012June 7, 2013 Pam Sparks34 Comments

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If the woodgrain stamp is on my desk…I have to stamp it! hahaha… some stamps are just like that! I really like the white basket on it though… I made the roses with the smallest flower from the CC Designs Phlox die and followed the tutorial on McGill’s website for mini roses HERE. The basket is Marianne Design, the big leaf is a new die from her and so are the two new greenery dies I used with the roses in the basket. The little white flowers are punched out of white card-stock and it’s hard to see them but there are three Martha Stewart pine branches punched out of brown card-stock in with the roses and greenery too.

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The sentiment on the outside and on the inside are from CC Designs AmyR Stamps sentiment sets… Birthday Wishes is from the Great Greetings Set and Thinking of you today is from the Best Birthday Wishes Sentiment set. I used my Perfect Layers tools to mat … love them!

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Our local -ish stamp store is now carrying Marianne Design dies! If you are anywhere in the area… check out Craft and Hobby Connection in Ottumwa, Iowa! It’s an awesome stamp store and tons of CC Designs stamps and other stamp lines too! Holler if you want more info…

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THANKS for stopping by! I appreciate it! I’ll be back again soon… Summer is kicking in here…. hot! A.C. running good! = )

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Tulip Time…

May 15, 2012May 15, 2012 Pam Sparks21 Comments

A pretty little Dutch girl… perfect for Tulip Time in May! Marianne Design EWS 2203 is the clear stamp I used. She is inked and stamped with Colorbox Wicked Black ink on Canson Manga Drawing Heavyweight card and colored with Distress markers. I used a sentiment from Marianne Design Stampfairy Cling Stamp Sentiment set. It’s really a clear stamp set but they call it cling. They stamp up really well on Bazzill texture card-stock using Versafine Onyx Black ink… surprising! It’s hard to stamp words on Bazzill usually!

Tulips, Anja’s Leaves (new this month), fence and grass dies from Marianne Design too. Charming dies and so fun to create little vignettes with!

The oval is a Spellbinders Floral Ovals die and the corners, an old Cuttlebug corner die.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I love sharing with you all and appreciate your kind comments and sharing tips for all this creating we do! Have a beautiful, thankful week!

I’ll be back tomorrow with the new Sugarplums kit from CC Designs!

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May Day’s around the corner…

April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 Pam Sparks12 Comments

How about a Marianne Design May basket and some sweet little flowers just for you! The teeny little leaves come with the basket die.. a little rose too but I didn’t use it this time. The “just for you” are new word dies… cool! Several words to mix and match!

One of my favorite things to do with die cuts is to cut 3 or 4 and layer them together…started it years ago and still love the look… hope you can see how it enhanced the words and the basket… yes, I did get a little gluey! hehe

I love the MME paper pad… and especially this floral piece… course you know that.. I used it last week too! lol

A Martha Stewart border, a Marianne Design stitching stamp and it’s good to go… oh, don’t forget the Spellbinders Nestabilities!

Kinda charming! Hope you have a fun weekend planned with some stamping and flowers involved! AND some shopping!

I checked All That Scraps for the latest and see the Magnolia stamps, dies and even the new magazine are all 50% off HERE!!!! Whoa Nellie! NEW Bo Bunny paper pads, TGF, KK, Crate Paper, MFT, HERE is where you’ll find what’s NEW. Well, have fun! snicker…*cough*… see ya’!

Thanks for stopping by! I love hearing from you! Take care!

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A Fishing kind of Birthday!

April 10, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks26 Comments

Relax, it’s cool! How to celebrate a 10th birthday… fishing… Grandson Lane loved his new tackle box and lures from Grandpa!

New Stampfairy stamps from Marianne Design… Stampfairy Bear Fishing and Stampfairy Sentiments. I also used Marianne Design’s tree, fence, grass and bird dies for this step card… it just makes me happy! So cute! The three little trees in the background are a dollar stamp from M’s… I stamped and masked the bear first… just cut out half the mask… = )

I love how the dies emboss… I used the embossing with the stylus technique that I show in this video HERE and the tree is pieced like I show in this video HERE.

All the pieces are edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink, the green is edged with Peeled Paint Distress ink… and the ink blending tool! MME Lime Twist Cloud paper again… I bought the last three sheets of it at the stamp store in Des Moines… love it! I’ll link to the 6×6 pad that has it in it though.