Freshly Made Sketches #200 – A Celebration…

August 22, 2015August 22, 2015 Pam Sparks38 Comments

I made two cards for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #200 yesterday… here’s the sketch, I turned it horizontal on both of my cards and the twist is to keep your project clean-lined and fresh!

Here’s hoping I succeeded! : ) Lots of great prizes from great sponsors for the celebration!

A close up photo of the poinsettia…

My 2nd card for the challenge…using Peerless Watercolors for the presents.

The Border die is from Taylored Expressions and the sentiment is from Winnie and Walter. At first I just thought of this border die for birthdays but I really like it for Christmas too!

and a close up photo…I did use the MISTI to stamp the merry Christmas.

Thanks for the fun challenge ladies…tons of ppl linking up, so if you have some time, check out all the inspiration over there!

Thanks again stamping friends for coming over to see what I’ve been up to! ‘preciate it! TTUL!

Supplies I used for the cards…

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Birthday · cards · Fall · rubber stamps · Taylored Expressions

Taylored Expressions Peek-a-Boo Pumpkins and Summer Fun!

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Hi everyone! Summer is in full swing and keeping everyone busy I’m sure!

My first card today is using a new for August Peek-a-Boo stamp set and Peek-a-Boo die set. Swoon…do you ever think back to the days before matching stamps and dies?! Oh, we are so fortunate to have such fun ‘things’ to create with!

I stamped the pumpkins with Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink using the MISTI and then die cut with the coordinating dies.

The sign post is a new Little Bits die, I swiped it a couple times with the Gathered Twigs Distress Ink pad…the dirt is a new embossing folder called ‘Weathered’.

I had to throw in some other TE dies to finish off the scene. I love the word ‘fall’, standing in as a cloud! *grin*

I know…goofy, goofy angle, now why didn’t I notice that before I finished the photos! It happens! lol

I’ll never get enough of the TE Shaded Thanks Tree die…love it. Cut in Toffee/kraft cardstock and colored. Wispy grass and the fence from the Garden Arbor and Gate die set.

Next up…a Summer fun birthday card…

It’s an overcast rainy day here…so I’ll bring on the sun with this card! I love this basket die from TE and when you emboss it with the new We R Memory Keepers Woven embossing folder…well… it really looks like a basket! So cool!

There’s that fence again and this time I used the tree from the On The Line die and the word dies from the June Script set.

Stamps, dies and cardstocks I used are from Taylored Expressions HERE.

Thanks so much for clicking over to my blog today! Now what to make next! : )

cards · CAS · rubber stamps · Taylored Expressions · Watercolor

Taylored Expressions Southwest Cutting Plate card…

August 9, 2015August 12, 2015 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Another FAB Cutting Plate from Taylored Expressions! I made it up three times… third time was the winner in my mind! Taylor liked it too and used it in her post on Friday! I just now saw it! Now that puts a smile on a gal’s face!

I cut a piece of watercolor paper…painted water on it and dropped two drops Distress reinkers one color at a time…tipped the paper a bit so they’d move some, then moved on to the next color. What colors you say? oh eek… thinking…. I just have to start writing this stuff down! I think they are all new colors because I hadn’t put them away yet. The ‘story’ of my life! lol

White embossing on the black die cut banner… sentiment from the new TE stamp set Free Spirit. Doodlebug enamel dots.

Linking to…

Scrapyland Challenges – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today for a quick post! If you must see the other two cards that aren’t my favorites, they are in the TE gallery HERE. : )

Supplies I used…

InLinkz.com

cards · rubber stamps · Taylored Expressions · Watercolor

Taylored Expressions August Release Day…

August 6, 2015August 8, 2015 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hello! A bouquet of daisies for you today. This is a new set from Taylored Expressions called Simply Daisies. It’s a big stamp set, large and small flowers and sentiments and a set of matching dies.

I stamped the daisies and leaves with the MISTI. I used multiple colors of chalk ink from the Colorbox Queue pads. I love how fall-ish the colors turned out and how crisp the white looks with them.

A new embossing folder called Weathered. I have to try sanding it and inking it next!

The daisies set has three small flowers in the set too…here I just used one of the small stamps and stamped in Ranger Archival black ink on watercolor paper and painted with Peerless watercolors. Then die cut the flowers.

I was going for a gerber daisy look. I love the font Taylor used for the sentiments too.

I couldn’t decide what photo to use… here’s a white background too. : )

Thanks for stopping by today! Click over to the TE Blog for the links of the gals posting today…hop around and enjoy all the inspiration with this month’s release! It’s awesome!

Challenges I’m linking to…

Addicted to Stamps – Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday – Anything Goes and optional topping embossing

Muse Challenge – inspiration card (inspired by the bow, the hearts/enamel dots and the sentiment taking front stage)

Here’s the dies and supplies I used for my cards…Click a link to see the August release in the TE store!

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cards · copics · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Summer · Taylored Expressions

Taylored Expressions Wild About You and On The Line…

June 11, 2015 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Wow! We survived 91˚ weather to watch our 5 yr. old grandson’s baseball game last night! These Summer temps always bring to mind my growing up days and going to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha every Summer. Seems like the family always picked the hottest day of the year to go! lol

This card brings up all those Zoo days. Nowadays I prefer the Des Moines zoo. You can get through it in an hour or so!

This cute little swinger is in the new TE Wild About You stamp set. Color with Copics and stamp a sentiment and you’ve got a quick card. There is a coordinating die set for it also.

The other thing I did growing up in Council Bluffs/Omaha with lots of sidewalks is bike riding! Sometimes I wonder when we stopped playing and ate lunch and supper! lol

I cut the bike in silver paper, colored it with a permanent black pen and layered it on a couple other cuts before I glued it to the scene.

I love the new On The Line die set… the squirrel is from the new On The Line Accessories set. So cute! The leaves on the tree are supposed to cut when you run it through but instead of cutting them for this card, I embossed them with the die. 😀 I inked the die with Peeled Paint Distress ink, placed the tree top cut back in the die and ran it through with a tan mat.

To get the hill… I used the clothesline part of the tie. I die cut the line in dark brown and in green. I used the waste from the green cut and placed the brown line on top of it. I thought it made an awesome sidewalk!

The ‘thanks’ die cut is one that you get when you order from Taylored Expressions. Every time you order you receive a complementary die, thanking you for ordering! Isn’t that awesome?! I think so! I love getting something that I love free! : ) The free die varies every time, you don’t know what you’ll get.

Thanks for stopping by today! Holler if you have any questions. Links to the products I used from the TE store below…