it’s a 3 card kind of day!

March 14, 2013March 15, 2013 Pam Sparks21 Comments

I was inspired to use some alphabet dies when I saw a card on Papertrey ink’s blog! I used some Crate paper from a 6×6 pad, a couple old Hero Arts sentiments, an EK Success border punch and an even older diamond punch to make the banner for a ‘scrappy looking kind of card’!

It’s a birthday card challenge for you! Use some ‘old and older’ stuff! lol Oh, and my tiny attacher was working that day, so I have a staple! yea! lol The background numbers stamp is one of those wheel stamps. I unmount them and use them as a flat stamp… multiple stamping to get the all over background, using the stamp a ma jig for placement.

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Pink is harder than red to capture in a photograph! eek! oh well, Here’s a cute card for the scooter rider of the family! Lots of fun stamps from Printworks Collection here… the fishtail banner pulls out and says….

Howie’s Ride J4300, Toy Racer C4295, Rough Rider B4290, Who Says? F4304, E4298 1..2..3.., Eat Cake A4299, On Your Mark D4123

Printworks has ‘thee’ best Birthday sentiments!!! This is a non-opening card, for lack of a better way to put it at the moment! : ) I didn’t tape the right side down so the fishtail banner could pull in and out. The stitching across the top is a Fiskars border punch. I used banner dies for the words and a circle punch.

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More fun stamps from Printworks Collection for Spring! I love this primitive wheelbarrow and it is fun to color and goes so well with all of Annette’s images and sentiments! I attempted watercoloring again on the scooter card and this one, with Caran d’Ache watercolor crayons on cold press watercolor paper. Perfect Layers Tools for matting the image… link in the sidebar.

the inside sentiments…

and a side view…

Bloomin’ D4244, Wheel Barrow F4246, Spring Flowers F4259, Your Love is…D4278, I’ll Never Be Too Old C4271, Happy Mother’s Day D4281

Thanks for stopping by and scrolling through! Happy stamping and creating to you!

P.S. Memory Box dies back in stock at BlueMoon Scrapbooking HERE! Awesome service and free shipping @ $50.

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Magnolia…Tilda’s Town Challenges…

March 8, 2013January 24, 2017 Pam Sparks39 Comments

How’d it get to be Friday already anyway?!!! Happens to me every week ! haha boo! Time for ‘Anything Seasonal’ @ Tilda’s Town Challenges and we’re thinking Spring! Welcome! Although, I do love snow!

I stamped Tilda as Shepherd on Papertrey Ink card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Copic Sketch Markers. I masked her with Eclipse tape/paper and then stamped the Butterfly Background stamp.

Some old My Minds Eye double sided paper, some Magnolia DooHickeys dies , Martha Stewart Spring border punch for the word Spring and some teeny brads in the flowers. Perfect Layers Tools to cut the mats (link in my sidebar) and stitching on the machine with heavy, Dual Duty thread.

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! 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.

Challenges I’m linking to….

Midweek Magnolias – Lots of Layers

Stamp and Create With Magnolia – Spring themed image with some pastel on your project

Simply Magnolia – Anything Goes

Inky Chicks – Use a Magnolia image

My Tilda card was in the favorites thread at SCS this week! Just makes me smile! Thank you Loll!

I think it’s supposed to be really nice here today…snow will be melting…Spring is on the way! Have a nice weekend everybody! It’s stamp club afternoon…we’re going to play with Twinkling H2O’s! Thanks for stopping by! ttul!

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Memory Box…Lovely Aster

March 7, 2013May 12, 2013 Pam Sparks23 Comments

Today is my first time to post on the Memory Box blog, HERE! Exciting and challenging! I wanted to use the new Lovely Aster die… it’s so cool, I ♥ that the flowers and the leaves are embossed and cut out with one pass through the die cut machine!

I started my card by cutting 3 of the medium size flower and 3 of the flower center from the Lovely Aster die set. I shaped them with an embossing stylus on a mouse pad and glued them together with Tombox Mono Multi glue. The leaves are cut with the leaf dies from the set.

This is an A2 size card… mats are cut with the Perfect Layers Tools, even around the Sideshow Tickets die cut (I used a corner rounder punch on the corners though)… link in the sidebar and below.

I used the Flower Mound die for the teeny white flowers. They are shaped with a stylus on a mouse pad then glued to die cut Chloe flowers. I cut two of the Isabella butterfly die and glued them together. The center piece is colored with an E47 Copic Sketch marker and glued on.

The label is one of the Pastry Label dies. ‘Wishing you’ is from the Wishing you a happy bee-day rubber stamp. I used the next to the largest Sideshow Tickets die, matted it and used a small corner rounder punch on the corners. Do you see the embossing on the ticket die… cool! I used Memory Box Distressed Violet, Moroccan violet, Moroccan squash and sweet corn 8.5 x 11 papers.

The bow is made with Lawn Fawn’s Trimmings. Stitched on the sewing machine with heavyweight thread. All the papers and pieces are edged with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress inks and the Ink Blending tool!

My card is in the favorites thread at SCS 3 times this week! Wow! So thrilled and honored! Thank you ladies!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I appreciate your support and friendship! I’ll be back tomorrow with a Tilda card for Spring!

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Birthday cards…

March 4, 2013March 4, 2013 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Love these fresh Summer-ish colors! Stamps and pattern paper from Printworks HERE! Kinda CAS but kinda not too!

love their double sided pattern paper! Colored with Caran D’ache Watercolor crayons. Mats cut, on both cards, with my Perfect Layers Tools… saves so much time!

Stamps I used…

F4285 California Poppies
F4270 You’re Simply Amazing
C4245 Just Because
F4302 Celebrate

Linking up to …
Simon Says Stamp Challenge… Anything Goes
Addicted To Stamping…must incorporate stamping

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This is one birthday sentiment that is encouraging! Printworks stamps and double sided pattern paper…an old button and hemp. Some May Arts black velvet ribbon.

Stamps I used…

K4288 Mannequin
E4303 Birthdays Duplex

I edged the image and papers with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress ink and the ink blending tool. Thanks for looking! If you’re anywhere near, this coming weekend is the Carson Stamp convention in California… Printworks will be there! Suzan says it’s an awesome show and I believe her! I love it that she goes and several of my cards can be there to greet her! hahahaha Have fun Suzan and everyone! TTUL!

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Paper Smooches Congrats…

March 3, 2013March 4, 2013 Pam Sparks16 Comments

I needed a baby shower card and the gal loves purple and monsters! Just so happened that the Paper Smooches Little Fella set showed up in my mailbox, just in time! I was inspired by this gal’s card HERE… so creative and fun!

I’m going to link up to the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge… this week, it’s the Picture Perfect challenge… well, I followed it ‘loosely’! When you see the picture, you’ll know why! This is what happens sometimes, you know! Consequences! gotta love ’em! lol

Then I’m linking to Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog too… Anything Goes!

I stamped several monsters, cut, layered and colored with Copic Sketch Markers. ‘Congratulations’ is from the PS Sentiment Sampler. I used the PS Alphadot set to stamp out the rest of the words on the front. The stamps on the envelope are from the PS Birthday Sampler and PS Pip Squeaks sets. On the inside I stamped a sentiment and bear from the PS Pip Squeaks set… it says, “to a super cute family”. I forgot to take a picture of the inside. Thought it was an adorable sentiment though! : )

I used my Perfect Layers Tools to cut the mats and a little bit of twine for the bow in her hair.

It was fun to do something unique…hope it was a hit! Thanks for stopping by! I’ll be back this week with some more cards for Printworks. See you then!

Stamps and Supplies I used to make this card…