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Violets for you…

Pam Sparks23 Comments

Welcome to Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge 65 – this week, a sketch with a spin…Korin says to use a tag!

I used my new Magnolia Doohickey tag and border Dies HERE, Basic Grey Kioshi 6×6 pad HERE, Doodlebug flowers, Violet Plant F1770 and sentiment stamps from Printworks HERE.  I can’t find the violets on the site, so just write that in when you order in the comments and Nicole will add it to your order and send you a paypal invoice.  This is an “odd” size card…I’ve been making my own envelopes with 12×12 card-stock and I love it!  The Martha Stewart scoring board HERE has an envelope making guide and it is awesome!  I just “wing” it,   you know,  kinda like making soup! lol   Really though,  there are great directions and measurements right on the tool!  I did use the Ink Blending tool and Distress ink HERE on the edges of the tag and some of the papers. An awesome sketch and I love the violets on the tag!  I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink HERE and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  (G20’s and BV0’s).

We’d love to have you join us this week for a sketch with a spin! Happy Weekend!

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Cherish this day…

Pam Sparks18 Comments

Mornin’ – Saturday already!  Sweet Stop Sketch time!  Don’t fall off your “chair”! lol  Hardly any coloring here…subtle copic coloring for sure! lol   The comfy chair is part of Printworks latest release, go HERE and click on “new releases”.    I liked using the word “cherish” with the chair, not sure if this one is still available but I really liked the new one “cherish Life’s Moments” but I don’t have it.  It’s on the same page as the chair at the above link.   Stella Ruby Basic Grey 6×6 pad pattern paper….EK Success border punch…Memento Tuxedo Black ink and Versafine Onyx Black for the flower flourishes HERE by the sentiment.  Bazzill and Prism card-stock for the rest…the final size is 6×6 inches.

Hope you can play a long with us in the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge this week…I loved this one!  Korin is a great sketch creator!  Here’s the sketch…take the challenge!!!  Hope to see you there!


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Sunflower Rosie…

Pam Sparks16 Comments

It’s a beautiful morning!!!  The sun has been shining this week in Iowa and we’ve had some lower temps (still in the 80’s) but how’d it get to be July already!  EEK! lol

This is my first post for the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog.  I found this blog through a friend’s blog awhile back and tried one of Korin’s sketches.  I’m looking forward to the next three months creating with her sketches and posting on Saturdays!  Here’s Korin’s sketch we used today. We’d love to have you play along! Details on the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog HERE.  Join us!

I used Sunflower Rosie (check her out, she comes w/sentiments!) from LaLa Land Crafts…so very fun to color and add details to!  She is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  All the E50’s for her hair,  starting with the lightest to color all the hair and then bringing in the other colors and then retracing back with the colors a time or two…I kinda lose track…until I like how it looks.  Rosie’s dress is the B90’s and Wgrays.  I used several yellows,  the green is YG00 and YG95,  the fence is the E40’s.  The background fence is from Magnolia of Sweden.

Enlarged photo…Rosie isn’t this big IRL…she is the size in the first photo…do you like enlarged photos?

I’m linking to LaLa Land Crafts Challenge blog…the challenge this week is to use “something new”. Easy to play along with this one! lol   Rosie is new and this McGill sunflower punch I’ve had a long time but  never used…so I’m saying a new technique??? lol  The punch works differently from most punches.  Normally you would punch a positive piece and use that but this punch gives you a stencil “look”.   I punched it randomly over the 5.25 in. piece of kraft card-stock.  Then punched 5/8 in. circles with an EK Success nesting circle punch from dark brown card-stock and glued them to the back side of each sunflower so the centers would be completely brown.  Mounted this kraft, punched piece on yellow Bazzill card-stock so the sunflower petals would be yellow.  I edged all the card-stock pieces with Van Dyke Brown ink (Nick Bantock from Ranger) and my ink blending tool.  Paper cord from JoAnn’s,  Scallop border piece is an EK Success border punch.  Buttons are from Lasting Impressions and I used the staples from the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher stapler for the centers. (some hand manipulation required) It’s a pain but I like the “look”! lol

Happy Independence Day! I always enjoy fireworks and am so thankful for freedom!