Magnolia… Tilda’s Town Challenges…Freezin’ Season…

December 14, 2012December 19, 2012 Pam Sparks26 Comments

I’m back with a Magnolia Tilda with Rudolph card! I had to try the chalkboard ‘look’! FUN! It’s time for a new challenge today @ Tilda’s Town Challenges… Hope you can play along!

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I’ll be back tonight to add links… today is our stamp club’s yearly Christmas party and I’ve been a busy elf preparing for the fun day! Wish you were going to be there too! : ) Have a great day and weekend … I’m sure you’re a busy little elf yourself! Take care and ttul!

Thank you Sherri for putting my card in the SCS Weekly Favorites!

Challenges…

Lovely hÄnglar and Sweet Magnolia – Christmas
Sweet Stampin’ Christmas – Anything Goes
Cutie Pie Challenge – Cute Christmas
Little Miss Muffet Challenges – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

cards · Christmas · Penny Black · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Sizzix · Tim Holtz dies

Leaping Reindeer…

December 5, 2012December 6, 2012 Pam Sparks20 Comments

The front…

the inside…

I saw Shelly’s pop up leaping reindeer card HERE and wanted to try… I didn’t succeed with the swivel yet but went ahead and finished the card just as a pop up inside. I like it anyway…funny thing is…when I started it Monday, I thought I would make six! hahahahaha, joke was on me… just because my prototype worked! lol

It was fun to try and check out her post for today… so cool!

I used some older Basic Grey paper and Tim Holtz dies HERE. I used a Sizzix tree die but after, I thought the Tim Holtz tree sure would’ve been cool! The pine branch on the front is from Impression Obsession. I swiped some Delicata gold ink on the branches… oh, the scene has Gingerbread Glimmer mist on it also…hard to see. Perfect Paper Layers tools to mat the front…link in the sidebar…

The gold berries on the front are from Marianne Design. The stamp I used for the winter scene on the front is from Penny Black, it’s called Heaven and Earth and you’ll find it HERE and 20% off too!

I’m linking to some challenges…

Everybody Art Challenge – Christmas
Papertake Weekly Challenge – Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash – Winter Holiday

New arrivals at the Scrapping Center and 20% off a lot of items too! Always love that!

AND… just noticed that Scrapbook.com has some deals too… stamps on sale and a great shipping offer!

Thanks for looking at my post today! I know, it’s crazy busy, isn’t it! Look what was at my house today! My DH and his crew for a few hours making sheetrock dust! So I’m off to vacuum to clear the air! eek! lol So exciting to make progress on the house though! yea!

ttul!

cards · Christmas · copics · Magnolia · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Sizzix · Tilda's Town · Tim Holtz dies

Magnolia…Tilda’s Town…Celebrate Christmas!

November 30, 2012December 1, 2012 Pam Sparks37 Comments

Oh how I LOVE this new Nativity Collection from Magnolia! It’s what Christmas is all about! Jesus is the reason…so much rockin’ around the Christmas tree…it’s easy to get sidetracked!

It was good to color again for this week’s Tilda’s Town Challenges theme… Celebrate Christmas! Hope you can join us! We’d love to have you!

You can find these new stamps at Tilda’s Town.com

I used a new Sizzlet die, designed by Tim Holtz for the Joy To The World sentiment
The wood grain embossing is a plate by Papertrey Ink
the cord is from Lawn Fawn, strategically placed because the embossing folder had to be run through the machine twice…
I cut the mats with my Perfect Paper Layers Tools
background is Distress ink Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord and the ink blending tool

Holy Tilda with Lamb, Nativity Fence, Holy Lamb and Nativity Star are stamped on Hammermill 80# color copy cover card-stock with Memento Espresso Truffle ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

skin – YR0000, E0000, E000, E00, E01, E21 (pretty much like my video in the tutorials tab under the blog header) diluted R20 for her cheeks
hair – E50, Y21, YR31, E37
fence – E40’s and R30 for cheeks
Lambs – W’s
dress – V90’s

Linking to Simon Says Challenge blog – Anything Goes! Jingle Bells Rock – Anything Goes! Crimbo Crackers – Anything Goes! Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge – Kraft plus one…

It’s crazy here right now… we’ve been working on our house… decisions and decisions…ugh…taking away from my creativity! Want to see a scary photo?! haha Now remember, we live in a big old house… 3 stories…4 if you count the basement! Well, we hadn’t restored the back stairway yet, so, guess what…it shares a wall with the kitchen, the wall the stove is on, so we were able to install a range hood and vent it to the outdoors…love it but most of all, Tim was able to install a Central Vacuum system!!! OH, how I LOVE it! Something every woman should have! hehe No, I’m not linking up to anything! lol It was a very big deal figuring out what to order that would work in our house but it turned out fabulous! yea! Early Merry Christmas to me!

So now, it’s getting the stairway built back in…right now the cavity is 27 feet plus tall!!! Crazy…amazing how they built old houses! It’s really hard to show in pictures but I wish I could…if you open the door on the 2nd floor… don’t take a step…you’d drop all the way to the basement! eek! So much for the excitement here…more to do because of course, one thing leads to another! lol

Thanks for stopping by! Fun to post today and thank you for your kind comments and visits!

Stamps and Supplies I used…

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cards · copics · Magnolia · Masking · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Techniques · Tilda's Town · Tim Holtz dies

Tilda’s Town Challenge… Name Your Technique!

July 27, 2012October 5, 2012 Pam Sparks37 Comments

Time for Tilda! Tailor Tilda that is! I love this image… sewing has always been near and dear to my heart and our 3 daughters like to sew and even a couple of the granddaughters are sewing already! So FUN! I’m sure if I hadn’t found stamping in 1994, I’d still be sewing my heart out!

I stamped her with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, masked her with eclipse tape and used my stamp a ma jig to position the school desk. Colored with Copic Sketch Markers. The Magnolia Kurbitz corner is stamped with Broken China ink… 2nd generation stamping. October Afternoon pattern paper… think it’s the Thrift Shop pad.

My techniques for today’s card are masking, distressing with the Tim Holtz paper distresser and distress ink and ink blending tool, stitching with the sewing machine and embellishing die cuts. I used the Tim Holtz sewing border die. I cut it out of mirror card-stock and kraft card-stock… trimmed off the different pieces and layered them up. Wound buttonhole thread around the spool a couple times. The sentiment is an old Hero arts stamp… love it!

Enjoy the inspiration and challenge over on the Tilda’s Town Challenges blog, HERE. The TT Design Team gals do an awesome job creating fabulous cards for you to enjoy… drop in and we’d love to hear from you too! Hope you can play in the Name Your Technique Challege!

Happy stamping and stitching! See you again soon!

Challenge list…

Midweek Magnolias – photo inspiration
Simon Says Stamp – anything goes
Cute Card Thursday – Distressing
Do You Stack Up – For a Friend
Inky Impressions – use dies or punches

Stamps and such…

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ATS · ATS Review · cards · CC Designs · Christmas · copics · Masking · Memory Box · punches · rubber stamps · Step card · Swiss Pixies · Tim Holtz dies · Winter

Through the Night…

November 22, 2011August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks31 Comments

One of the new CC Designs Swiss Pixies… All Through the Night… I love her… so pretty…makes me want to go Christmas Caroling! I love Christmas Carols! Glad Tidings we bring, to you and your kin…good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year! So Fa la la la la! All Through the Night!

And one of the sentiments from the new Amy R Stamps Snowman Sayings set on the inside….

Linking up to the Everybody Art Challenge blog – Christmas Card is the theme… Shopping Our Stash Challenge blog wants to see Christmas or Winter related….Top Tip Tuesday Challenge blog they want to see more than one fold!

A couple side shots of the Front Panel Stair-step design – more on this style card on these posts, HERE and HERE.

I inked up the Stone Wall stamp and wiped away the butterflies, flower and grass, stamped it, inked it up again and wiped away then stamped with the stamp a ma jig to position them right the two images tight up against each other. All I had to do was draw in a few lines then…I stamped a light dot pattern from Printworks with Pumice Stone Distress ink after I colored the wall with warm gray copics. The background sky is Chipped Sapphire Distress ink applied with the Tim Holtz ink blending tool on a craft sheet. A few light spritzes with H2O and some teeny snowflakes and fine glass glitter from the Art Glittering System. The snow on the trees is a Snow Marker from Marvy and a little fine glass glitter again. The chipboard Christmas pieces are from K & Co. Brenda Walton Evergreen Icons. The border piece inside is from K & Co. Elizabeth Brownd Visions of Christmas border pack.

Today is November Release Review day on the All That Scraps blog… click over to see all twelve cards and projects by the ATS DT gals… you won’t be disappointed!

Stamps and Supplies I used on this card…