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…

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NEW poppystamps dies, Video and Horse Country exclusive die…

October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hi everyone! Isn’t this a neat die? love it and the fancy thanks too! I have several things to share with you today. I don’t mean to have long posts but it seems like it always turns out that way!

Here’s a video of the NEW poppystamps ‘poppy’ dies and Starlitstudio’s exclusive die!

Click on the gear to see in high definition… or the frame to see larger. Sorry about the blurry ‘fancy Merry Christmas’ die. I have not idea why! ugh.

I used the Perfect Layers Tools to cut the ⅛ inch border on each side of the main panel.

Linking my first card to the Festive Friday Challenge – inspiration photo

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Here’s the Birthday Stack die again…

I used the Embedded Die Cut technique I show in a video… pull down the video tab under the blog header.

Here’s the tags I show in the video…

and the NEW Vintage Merry Christmas and Celestial Star Border.

Lots of NEW to play with!

The NEW exclusive die for Starlitstudio.net is gorgeous! Horse Country and you can make it up for all four seasons!

Holler if you have any questions… ‘preciate you stopping by. Have a creative weekend!

Supplies I used to make these cards and tags…

cards · CAS · Christmas · copics · Lawn Fawn · One Layer Card · Simon Says Stamp · Winter

Simon Says Stamp Cold Hands Warm Hearts release…

October 7, 2014April 20, 2015 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! Are you enjoying the beautiful days we’ve been having? love it! Soon enough we’ll be thinking about staying warm, here in Iowa anyway!

I made a few cards using some of the new Simon Says Stamps October Release Cold Hands Warm Heart.

Oh what fun! Awesome stamp sets, die sets, stencils and supplies! The mug, heart and sentiment are from the Winter Warmth stamp set. The oval the mug is sitting on is from the Dash Line Shapes stamp set.

I took a CAS approach for my three cards today and some color book therapy! Oh, the little holly and berries with the mug is from Lawn Fawn though.

On this Brrr card… I used one of the dies from the Stitched Slopes and Hills die set to make the clothes line. I stamped the images from the Winter Warmth stamp set to appear like they are hanging. What an awesome die set! Can’t wait to use it for landscape type scenes!

This card was ‘spotted’ on the SSS Flickr page! yay! Thank you SSS!

Images stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Copics I used…
green – (brr card) YG41, 45 (mug YG61,63, 67)
red – R27, 59
teal – (brr card) BG45, 49 (mug) B00, BG53, 57

Snowflakes stamped with Memento Teal ink pad

Sentiment stamped with Versafine Black

I’m linking up to some challenges…

Virginia’s View Challenges – CAS First card is in the wrap up, HERE. YAY! THX Virginia! AND in the Honorable Mentions! woohoo! Thank you so much Virginia and family!

Addicted to Stamps Challenge – Anything Goes First card is an honorable addict! YAY! THX ladies!

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes

Here’s another new die I got to play with…it’s called the Triangle Pattern Wafer die.

I die cut it twice, in white and green, then filled in the white with green to give it a tree like look. A neat die and it cut beautifully!

The Merry Christmas sentiment is from a poppystamps Merry Christmas background die. I cut it but left the letters in the cut.

Click over to Simon Says Stamp.com to see the rest of this awesome release! Copics, stamp pads and supplies, everything you need to stamp out cold hands and warm hearts… : )

Thank you for stopping by! I’ll be teaching Memory Box/poppystamps classes soon… two on Oct. 19th at Scrapmania in Cedar Rapids and two on Nov. 8th in Moline, IL at The Scrapbooking Studio. If you’re anywhere close… come! I’d love to meet you! : )

cards · Christmas · copics · Lawn Fawn · One Layer Card · rubber stamps · Techniques · Winter

Lawn Fawn One Layer Card Challenge…

September 9, 2014September 29, 2014 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Sometimes I feel like a kid at Christmas… giddy with excitement! I can hardly wait to share what I make! lol

If you lived across the street from me… I’d be over showing you… asking your opinion on this or that until I was done! Well, then I’d probably be asking you if I should change this or that after the fact! ugh. lol

I had so much fun making this scene! When I saw the Lawn Fawn Challenge was create a one layer card… I had a good idea what I wanted to do! Here it is down to the wire but I’m getting it in before the deadline!

When our daughters were growing up we always went to a tree farm, picked out the tree and had it cut down. Well, we didn’t keep doing that after they left home… haha. We started going to Des Moines to a wonderful tree lot and sure enough…there is an Airstream camper there for you to go settle up and pay in. So I had to put one in my scene! Cute!

So here it is… the lighted Christmas tree lot! I love it! Silly me!

I will put links to all the sets I used below… I used Distress inks…peeled paint, tumbled glass, broken china, chipped sapphire. I colored the camper and bunny with copics. The silver on the camper is a metallic silver gel pen. White embossing powder for the snowflakes and lights. Frosted Lace stickles for the bit of sparkle.

It’s ALL one layer! : )

Linking to…

Lawnscaping Challenge – one layer card