Mimi and Friend for Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge…

July 9, 2012August 5, 2012 Pam Sparks23 Comments

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It’s YOUR Day! A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which spreads it’s brightness all around.

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SSPC #5 – Color challenge… use blue, tan and yellow with your pixie/sprite/fairy stamp! I used Mimi and Friend from Penny Black, colored with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. Memory Box Honeyblossom die and AmyR Stamps Oh So Beachy Sentiment set. October Afternoon pattern paper and a SU stamp to go around the edge of the image. I think the name of the set is Tiny tags. I went with kraft for the “tan” in the color scheme. Layers are all cut with the Perfect Layers Tools… even the card base. I scored and folded an 8.5 x 11 piece of kraft card-stock in half…then I held my ruler on the fold at 1/4 in. and placed the image rectangle right up to it, stuck it down… then used the 1/4 in. Perfect Layers Tool to cut the sides and bottom at 1/4 in. for perfect spacing! love these tools!

Click over to see the fabulous creations by the SSPC team, HERE! Check out the totally charming prize too! We’d love to have you play a long! All the details are on the SSPC blog.

The marker colors I used…

Mimi
hair – FM buttercup, PM burnt orange and FM Firebrick
skin – FM blush, PM oatmeal, PM apricot and PM soft peach for cheeks
dress – PM Pastel Blue, PM Denim Blue, PM Midnight Blue
wings – FM buttercup, PM tulip yellow

Friend
hair – PM ivory, FM buttercup, PM Tulip yellow
skin – PM ivory, PM vanilla, PM oatmeal, PM apricot and PM soft peach for cheeks
wings – PM pastel blue
dress – FM buttercup, PM Tulip yellow and FM Sunflower

Challenges I’m linking to….

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog – Summertime
Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog – Card for something special
Let’s Ink It UP Challenge Blog – All Girl
Penny Black Allsorts Challenge Blog – Summer Blooms

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Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge… Summer… Magical Mimi!

June 11, 2012June 12, 2012 Pam Sparks31 Comments

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Cute little magical Mimi… colored with Copic Sketch markers and paired up with Cosmo Cricket 6×6 pattern paper. She’s ready for June’s Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge! The theme this month is Summer. Mimi wants you to come play with us! A prize to be won … all the info is HERE!

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Add some Twine, a button, a sentiment, die cut the image and cut the layers with the Perfect Layers Tools and called it charming! It’s so nice when something comes together and you’re happy in the end!

Challenges…

Retro Sketches Challenge #15 – Sketch

Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge – Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge – Fairy Fever

Southern Girls Challenge – Things With Wings

Fashionable Stamping Challenge – Very Magical

Penny Black and more @ Allsorts Challenge – My Favorite Things

Pile it On Challenge – Let’s Get Outdoors

Totally Gorjuss Challenge – Sunshine (Summer)

Stampin For the Weekend Challenge – Bugs and Butterflies

Papertake Weekly Challenge – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! I love it that you visit and it’s so fun to read your comments. Have a magical week and link up with a fairy, pixie or sprite to the SSPC blog! We’ll love having you!

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Swiss Pixies Butterfly Lucy for Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge #3…

May 14, 2012September 9, 2012 Pam Sparks28 Comments

It’s the second Monday of the month and that means it’s Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge time! The challenge starting today is… your favorite fairy, pixie or sprite!

Here’s Butterfly Lucy from CC Designs to charm you with a little scene I created. I woke up at 4:19 Saturday a.m. with the idea to make the new fence die a heart fence… well…then I had to figure out how to do it because most punches punch from the bottom and would be upside down if you tried to punch from the top! Here’s a video to show you how I did it! I love it! Hope you’re inspired to try it too!

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You can click over to YOU Tube if you want to watch the video in High Definition. Click on the gear looking thing next to the red talkie box and it’ll let you choose HD.

My first Fence video is HERE.

A close up photo of the fence…

Butterfly Lucy is stamped with Colorbox Archival Wicked Black ink on Canson Manga Drawing heavyweight paper and colored with Distress Markers. I stamped the Butterfly Logo with Versafine Onyx Black ink on Bazzill Dawn card-stock and cut it out with a Fiskars mini pinking scissors.

The Flower Border die is cut out of three colors of card-stock. I leave the green together and glue the pink and yellow on top of the green. The Grass Border die is die cut and then crimped with Quilling Creations crimper! LOVE this fun tool! Links below…

The three yellow butterflies flitting around the scene are an EK Success paper shapers punch… the tree limb is my favorite Leafy Branch die from CC Designs Cutters… links below. I used the Rosie’s Roadshow cloud template, Tumbled Glass Distress ink pad and ink blending tool to make my cloud background. I edged the papers and fence with Distress inks and the blending tool.

Thanks so much for stopping by! oh, this was long but I hope you had a good time! I had fun creating this to share with you! Hope you can click over to check out the SSPC blog too!

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Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge #2 – Kraft…

April 9, 2012May 13, 2012 Pam Sparks29 Comments

Second Monday of the month makes it time for Sweet Stamping Pixies Challenge time!

Along with using your pixie/fairy/sprite stamps this month, the challenge is to use kraft on your creation too!

I used this sweet Magnolia Fairy Tale Tilda stamp and finally some of the Magnolia Doohickey Dies that I’ve been collecting! I do love these thinner dies and what a variety we have to choose from anymore! Wonderful!

The stitching lines stamp I used is from a clear stamp set by Sandylion and the sentiment is from Savvy stamps. I used Broken China and the ink blending tool around the circle. Diamond stickles on her wings.

I stamped Tilda on Papertrey Ink select white card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Copic Sketch markers.

We had family birthdays yesterday so I’ll have another birthday card to share tomorrow…

Hope you get a chance to click over to the Sweet Stamping Pixies challenge and play along! A great Magnolia stamp will go to the winner, sponsored by Magnolia-licious!

I’m entering my card in the following challenges…

Just Magnolia – Anything Goes

By the Cute and Girly – Once Upon a time

Simon Says Stamp – Use your favorite tool (mine would be dies)

Flutterby Wednesday – Open

Crafting When We Can – Things With Wings

Thanks for stopping by!

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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!