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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Ima Butterfly…

March 14, 2012March 14, 2012 Pam Sparks40 Comments

So…I tried the no outline coloring… I love it but… when I took the pictures this a.m. her face looked awful in the photos! ugh! boo! whine! So, I tried to blend it more…well, we all know what happens then… ugh! So the photo above is the second photo session because of that evil E11! lol It is not my friend in photos anyway. I thought the coloring was fine until I took the pictures! I used V20, 22, 25, 28 for her dress and boots. E30, 31, 34, 37 for her hair. YG0000, 00, 01, 03 for her wings and a clear Spica glitter pen.

The pattern paper is Basic Grey Sugar Rush 6×6 pad. Dies and punches and of course the Perfect Layers Rulers!

Here’s the first photo I took this a.m. before I tried blending and removing color on her face. I think in trying to get the shading I just used too much ink!

I’m not throwing the card away because IRL, it’s cute and I really like it! Figures I can’t get a photo that does it justice! Oh well, click over to the ATS Blog and see the fab cards by the some of the other ATS gals. Tons of new stuff in the store @ All That Scraps.com too… Scroll down to see my post about the coupon code for the NEW Magnolia Princes and Princesses collection and magazine!

Have a great day! Not sure I should try anything else new this week! hohoho I do need to do some more creating so who knows what will happen! lol

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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!

I was just at the store… HERE… tons of new product… If you need to shop…I know a good place! lol

Thanks for dropping in to find out about the new challenge blog on the “block”!!! Happy Stamping and talk to you soon!

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Spring Has Sprung…

March 7, 2012August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Spring Has Sprung is a NEW set for March from CC Designs. I combined it with the NEW Swiss Pixies Bunny Lucy and the ticket stamp from the NEW Spring Logos set.

I stamped these cuties with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Hammermill Color Copy Cover card-stock and colored with Copic Sketch Markers. All the grays are the T’s. I made an Easel card with one add on. I have a couple videos on making this type of card… HERE (2 min. long) and HERE is a video with two add-ons (3 min. long)…

March is blowing in like a lion in Iowa this week… Sunday started with snow all day and cold…yesterday the high was 74˚!!! Crazy! Is it only in Iowa you can experience all four seasons in one week?! lol Have a good one!

I used the Martha Stewart grass border punch but I couldn’t find it to link to, so I linked to the Magnolia Doohickey grass die and the My Favorite Things grass die.

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Butterfly Lucy…

March 6, 2012April 1, 2012 Pam Sparks27 Comments

Butterfly Lucy here to help us greet Spring this year! Oh, she is so sweet! I LOVE her! So pretty in pink and ready to play outside! New Butterfly Border die too! Three NEW Swiss Pixies…to die for cute!!!

Click over the the All That Scraps blog for all the wonderful creations from the ATS Design Team gals… just amazing stuff!!! While you’re there… link up for a chance to win these cute new stamps!!!