Bloomin’ … using a stamp-a-ma-jig

April 12, 2012September 16, 2012 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Fabulous NEW stamps from Printworks Collection, HERE! I stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Printworks stamp pads/ink. Squeeze the lid to pool the ink on the lid making the lid the paint palette. Pick up the ink with a wet paint brush and color away… the trick for me is… how much water to use! eek! I need to practice more!

The inside… a wonderful New PW sentiment honoring Mother’s! (I added the flower, its from PW too)

Here’s a 3 min. video on how I masked and positioned the images together….

Bloomin’

Spring has Sprung and Printworks has risen to the occasion with this wonderful new collection of images!

Check them out HERE! Thanks for stopping by!

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Curly Q Flower Bouquet…

April 6, 2012September 26, 2013 Pam Sparks23 Comments

Did you guess right? oh? I didn’t tell you to? oh… well…this flower idea is what set me off on the Curly Q crazees! Scroll down to see the other three cards that I posted yesterday… I’ve had some serious creating this week!

The super creative Mary J on the ATS Design Team set me to thinking when she used the waste from the Curly Q die for raindrops on her card Tuesday!!! I was challenged! Thanks Mary J! So fun to work with you!

If you guessed Rolled Flowers out of the Curly Q die you guessed right!!! VERY FUN! I wrote out a short tutorial for creating these flowers.

* cut the Curly Q die out in a few flowery Spring colors

* roll it up just like you would a rolled rose or other rolled flower!

* fiddle with it for five minutes to get the loops evened out a bit (if you are faster than that, I want to know your trick! lol)

* glue it together with Tombow Mono Multi glue (I love this glue… I’ve been using it for over ten years!)

* I punched 3/4 inch circles and glued the flower in the center

* die cut two of the large Phlox Flower die to make the leaves under the flower

* cut the Phlox Flower into pieces, I used one piece with three leaves and two pieces with two leaves for each flower

* edge the leaves with Peeled Paint Distress ink and the ink blending tool

* glue those pieces under the flower… to the circle

* the flower centers are the smallest Phlox Flower from the Phlox Flower die

* filler greenery is from the Leafy Branch and Mistletoe dies

* the flower pot is a folded piece of card-stock and I just chopped off the slant!

* the Happy Mother’s Day sentiment is from the All About Mom sentiment set and I stamped it on the banner from the Banners Tags die (this die comes in so handy) with my stamp a ma jig

Here’s the card laying down… I cut a strip of card-stock…trimmed it at the top like a shipping tag. Adhered the flowers to the top of the strip/long tag… then it slides down between the fold of the flower pot!

The flower pot is just a piece of card-stock, you determine the size… folded in half, trimmed and a little border glued on the top for the ridge of the flower pot. You want the fold to be at the bottom. I used ATG on the sizes to hold it together, being sure to leave room for the strip/tag to move in and out freely.

Stamp a sentiment and layer it up on the strip/tag.

It just squeals, SPRING!

Thanks for visiting my blog this week… I think this is a record for me, posting four times in one week! WOW! Course I haven’t had time for anything else! Pans piled in the sink… laundry…an inbox full of email…eek! hehe So I’ll be catching up next! lol I’m sure you all identify! It’s been fun though and I love hearing what you think! It spurs me on! Have a blessed Easter… God bless you!

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How does your Garden Grow…

April 4, 2012September 10, 2012 Pam Sparks22 Comments

ok – it is a laugh when I talk about gardening… ugh… I don’t know how to grow a thing! So, does all this stamping stuff count for “stuff” growing?! Cuz it grows every day! lol I’m good at growing that stuff! hahaha

Getting back on track…. this is cutie, sweet, Laugh Lines Garden and her coordinating Watering Can Logos. She knows what she’s doing! She even has the right footwear!!! Adorable!

Laugh is stamped on Hamermill Color Copy Cover paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers.

I did! I used the Fence from yesterday’s video tutorial… scroll down if you’d like to watch how I embellished the CC Designs Cutters Fence die!

I changed up the Flower border a tad… it grew some new flowers! ha! sorta it did! I used the smallest flower from the Five Point Flowers die and glued them on top of the flowers that are on the border cut… it had to be something different from yesterdays make!

The Grass Border… what can I say… it’s the best ever! I am biased of course but I truly do love it! It’s the perfect size and easy to add little blades with copic marker or two.

Thanks for making me smile and visiting my stamping blog… I love being on the receiving end of your generous comments and friendship! Take care and see ‘ya back here tomorrow!

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Let a leaf be your umbrella on a rainy day…

April 3, 2012September 10, 2012 Pam Sparks31 Comments

Another month of Swiss Pixie adorable-ness! This is beautiful Rainy Day Birgitta… sweet, sweet, sweet… keeping dry under her leaf umbrella! Birgitta is illustrated by Christine Wooden for her stamp line CC Designs. I stamped Birgitta with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Promarkers.

I’m sure you’re dying to know about the new dies I’m showing today!!! Well… I’m dying to tell YOU! Aren’t they awesome?!!! Awhile back Christine asked the Design Team gals on our forum what ideas we had for dies! Guess what I asked for… hehe.. yep… a flower border! I couldn’t be happier! It’s totally charming!

The Grass border is separate from the Flower border and then there is the Fence… purely fun! I will make a video on how I shaped it for dimension. Easy, I promise and the video will be short! I stamped the fence with a woodgrain stamp… so cool and then inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink and the ink blending tool. I added some copic colored grass to the grass border die cut and some copic pink to the flowers in the flower border… I did do some paper piecing to the dies also… yep… true love… I ❤ these dies!

The Happy Spring Words and Hello sentiments are from a new for this month AmyR Stamps sentiment set called So Wordy…. cool name even and fun fonts too! The flowers I used in the word border are from the NEW Watering Can Logos set we’ll be showing tomorrow… I know… I got a head… just a bit! hehe I used my trusty ‘ole stamp a ma jig to do the word/flower border… no pattern paper was harmed in making of this card! Oh, there are two flower stamps…one solid and one outline… cool… more stamping!

The die cut clouds are CC Designs Cutters cloud dies. I also cut one of the top one to use as a mask to make a cloud background. Following Tracy’s tutorial on the ATS blog, HERE… only I reversed it… used blue paper and white distress stain! I really liked it when I was done too… there is always that chance, it’ll be a bomb ‘ya know… so happy when it isn’t! hehe Always fun to try something different anyway!

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Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge #1 – Spring…

March 12, 2012March 12, 2012 Pam Sparks21 Comments

So excited to tell you about a brand NEW Challenge blog created by Jay Jay from Germany for Pixie and Fairy images! Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge blog is HERE and we’d love to have you link up with your Pixie and Fairy images. It’s once a month… the second Monday with THREE awesome stores sponsoring the challenges! You’ll want to play along each month for a chance to win! This month’s theme is Spring!

I decided to use this Swiss Pixies Butterfly Nora and the Swiss Pixies Wheelbarrow for our first post. I LOVE her! I was looking back through my blog and saw this one that I’d made in April of 2010 and I just wanted to post it again! lol I stamped Butterfly Nora first, masked her and then stamped the wheelbarrow… just like my tutorial in the April 2010 post.

I used the Five Point Flower, die cut one layer and for the centers I did a swirl thing with some lightweight paper cord stuff I picked up at JoAnns last year and glued it on … I’m pretty tickled with how it turned out… just clever I thought! Don’t you love it when you amaze yourself! I know, quit laughing… I can be pretty cheesy! Gotta admit… it’s fun for a change! = )

Then there is a brand NEW Butterfly die this month called Wings from CC Designs… and a cool Wings stamp set to match it! I just used the die for this card but the stamp set has mega potential for fun creating! They’re in the store HERE.

oooh… long post today…one more picture and I’m off to make a card for tomorrow’s Tuesday Review… OH, I should tell you to make time to go to All That Scraps blog too!!! Lesa has a tutorial for us today and you’ll want to bookmark it because it’s on die-cutting your stamped images… pretty cool! AND easy too! You’ll need it for your Wings stamp set and die! Check it out!