Printworks…New stamps…New coupon code!

February 11, 2014February 18, 2014 Pam Sparks18 Comments

I LOVE the NEW Birthday stamps from Printworks! SO FUN to watercolor the Happy Birthday stamp with Printworks stamp pad ink! Click HERE to shop the collection in CLING stamps… Click HERE to shop the collection in WOOD mount stamps. Be sure to click on the other Birthday categories too… so many stamps that coordinate! On the inside I used this stamp… in the store HERE

Isn’t that an awesome sentiment! Love it! Sweet! Balloons are a Marvy punch and the balloon strings are white Button thread.

Linking up to some challenges…
Feeling Crafty – dies or punches
Fairytale – More than two colors
Case This Sketch
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – We love stamps
Die Cut Divas – use pink

Here’s the deal…

Printworks has a free shipping Valentine’s special this week for orders over $20, code: VDAY2014

THEN for the frosting on that cake…

ADD this code in the comment section of your order PAM2014 for 5% off and Printworks will get back to you with an updated total!

Now that’s a Happy Birthday! lol

Another charming snowman named Snowballs from Printworks! I love the wire heart on the bucket handle and the sweet bird! hahaha… a bucket/pail for the hat… so cute! I watercolored this guy with Distress Ink markers on Canson watercolor paper. I used Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Marker for the snow in the pail and the snowball.

On the inside…

The other stamps I used are…

Happy Winter
Let the Good Times Roll
Diamond Dust
Ribbon Border
Snowballs

Here’s a link to Printworks Collection’s Facebook page… click over to like and keep up with all the latest news!

Linking up to some challenges…
Sketch Saturday
Papertake Weekly – with a heart

Happy Everything to you! Thanks for stopping by! Love having you and LOVE and appreciate your encouraging words! Thank you so much! You’re the BEST!

cards · Distress Ink coloring · Doohickey's Dies · Magnolia · Paper Smooches · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Tilda's Town · Watercolor

Magnolia, Tilda’s Town, Tilda!

June 14, 2013June 17, 2013 Pam Sparks17 Comments

Use Your Stash! is the challenge this week at Tilda’s Town Challenges. So out came a Tilda I haven’t used yet, colored with Distress Ink Markers with water on Langton Prestige Hot Press Watercolor paper and the only paper anywhere near the Milled Lavender color is this old Wild Asparagus pattern paper from My Minds Eye. I know… in the photos the paper doesn’t looked lavender at all but IRL, it is a pretty soft lavender!!! Imagine…. hehe

Tilda has a little garden happenin’ here… love this sentiment from Paper Smooches! Dies are all Magnolia Doohickeys… check ’em out @ Tilda’s Town.com!

Perfect Layers rulers 1/4 in. and 1/16 in. to frame and mat Tilda…Link and shopping discount code in my sidebar. Videos on using them…pull down the tutorial tab under the header.

Click over to Tilda’s Town Challenges, HERE and enjoy the inspiration from the Design Team and enter the weekly challenge! We’d love to have you! Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

Linking up to Oozak Challenge – Anything Goes/sentiment

Thanks for stopping by today! Great to have you! Time for a weather report…it looks like rain so Tilda’s little garden is going to keep growing!

Birthday · Card Sketch · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Lawn Fawn · Magnolia · Quickutz · rubber stamps · Tilda's Town · Watercolor

Magnolia, Tilda’s Town Challenge…

May 17, 2013May 23, 2013 Pam Sparks28 Comments

Time for Tilda’s Town’s weekly challenge…this week…’use a Magnolia background stamp’. I used Tilda’s Summer Car with Cool Edwin from the Sweet Rainbow Collection and colored with Distress Ink Marker watercoloring. The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the You Are Special collection.

I used the Deconstructed Sketch #101 and will link to it, but my image was too big to cut into a circle. I love fishtails but I didn’t have enough room, so I used an old Quickutz arrow die to mimic them and thought that went with the car. It was definitely my inspiration but I did have to change it up to work for my image!

I’m linking to Midweek Magnolias Challenge … Birthday is the theme.

Simply Create Too …Anything Goes

and Dutch Magnolia Lovers …Make a card inspired by a song… “let’s go fly a kite”

The cloud background is inked with Rosies Roadshow cloud stencil and Ranger Adirondack light blue ink.

The main image is matted using the Perfect Layers Tools… link on the right…

Thanks for stopping by! I love hearing from you and appreciate your friendship and comments! I’ll be back Tuesday.

Links to the stamps and supplies I used…

InLinkz.com

Blog Hop · cards · Faber Castell · Magnolia · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spring · Watercolor

Perfect Layers and Faber Castell Design Teams Blog Hop…

April 1, 2013April 2, 2013 Pam Sparks114 Comments

Welcome to the Hop!

Well, Tilda insisted on it being a ‘jump’! hahaha

You’re going to be inspired by the Perfect Layers and Faber Castell Design Teams! Hop through the list of designers and comment on their posts for a chance at the prizes offered… $50 in product from Faber-Castell and the set of three Perfect Layers rulers and the perfect Square, value $45!!! The more blogs you comment on, the more chances to win! You have until midnight EST, on April 5^th to complete the hop.

I used the Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens and the Stampers Big White Pitt Artist pen.

I stamped Tilda on hot press watercolor paper with Ranger Archival Black ink, watercolored her by coloring the pens on my stamp a ma jig imaging sheet and picking up the color with a waterbrush. I’m delighted with how easy it was and the look I achieved!

Skin – Light Flesh 132
Cheeks – added water to Pale Geranium Lake 121
Hair – Raw Umber 180
Clothes – added water to Magenta 133
I did go in and shade the skin and hair with the markers direct to the paper. The brush tip is really thin and lends itself to details easily!

After I cut Tilda out, I went around the cut edge with the black marker. I LOVE it! Good coverage and No bleeding!

For the grass… this was fun! I started with Light Green 171, making strokes for the blades of grass with the marker tip and then watercoloring a little under them with the scribbled ink and waterbrush. Next I added Leaf Green 112 blades of grass and then Permanent Green Olive 167. Awesome markers for blades of grass!

I do have a ‘thing’ for little white flowers! : ) The Stampers Big White pen came in quite handy to add little dots to the patch of grass for flowers! What a great pen!

I also made my own polka dot paper! See the blue strip on the front… cute! Depending on how hard you push down, is what size of dot you get! The flower dots are teeny and the dots on the strip are big! Love it!

The Clouds are the Puffy Clouds die from Memory Box, edged with Tumbled Glass Distress ink and the ink blending tool. Two EK Success Nesting punches for the sentiment… 1 3/8th in and 1 1/2 in.

You all know I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Perfect Layers Tools! (enter code, ‘Sparks5%’ at checkout)
What a time saver! Mat your creations in a fraction of the time it takes to get them even with a trimmer! YEA! I have the set of three… yes… it’s great to have them all! You just never know when you’ll need them! On my card today I have the 1/16th inch mat and 1/8 th inch mat.

HERE is a video tutorial I made using Perfect Layers Tools! A few tips on it… I cut standing up…works the best for me with the full size x-acto knife blade, #11 size. I love the Fiskars fingertip knife… link below.

Here’s the inside of my card…I wanted to show you that the Perfect Layers Tools work for a random look too! I had the piece of blue left but not the right size… oh well… use it, I told myself! so I did! lol Worked great to use the larger measurements on the rulers. This is a 5 1/2 inch square card.

So glad you stopped by! I love sharing the coloring mediums and tools I love to work with! I hope you’ll try these tools too! You won’t be disappointed!

Here’s a list of the other blogs with posts for the HOP! Enjoy! Comment and good luck!
(winners posted on the two store blogs on April 6th)

Perfect Paper Crafting

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft

Tiffany Johnson

Roxie Glaza

Rita Barakat

Wendy Ramlakhan

Jennifer Matott

Eva Uyeunten

Colleen McGinty

Jenny Gropp

Mou Saha

Laura Lynn

Jill Foster

Pam Sparks (me)

Supplies I used on my card…

B3548 Joy, F4302 Celebrate and C2874 Hope your wishes stamps are from Printworks Collection, HERE.

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Birthday · cards · Mother's Day · Perfect Layers Tools · Printworks · rubber stamps · Spring · Watercolor

it’s a 3 card kind of day!

March 14, 2013March 15, 2013 Pam Sparks21 Comments

I was inspired to use some alphabet dies when I saw a card on Papertrey ink’s blog! I used some Crate paper from a 6×6 pad, a couple old Hero Arts sentiments, an EK Success border punch and an even older diamond punch to make the banner for a ‘scrappy looking kind of card’!

It’s a birthday card challenge for you! Use some ‘old and older’ stuff! lol Oh, and my tiny attacher was working that day, so I have a staple! yea! lol The background numbers stamp is one of those wheel stamps. I unmount them and use them as a flat stamp… multiple stamping to get the all over background, using the stamp a ma jig for placement.

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Pink is harder than red to capture in a photograph! eek! oh well, Here’s a cute card for the scooter rider of the family! Lots of fun stamps from Printworks Collection here… the fishtail banner pulls out and says….

Howie’s Ride J4300, Toy Racer C4295, Rough Rider B4290, Who Says? F4304, E4298 1..2..3.., Eat Cake A4299, On Your Mark D4123

Printworks has ‘thee’ best Birthday sentiments!!! This is a non-opening card, for lack of a better way to put it at the moment! : ) I didn’t tape the right side down so the fishtail banner could pull in and out. The stitching across the top is a Fiskars border punch. I used banner dies for the words and a circle punch.

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More fun stamps from Printworks Collection for Spring! I love this primitive wheelbarrow and it is fun to color and goes so well with all of Annette’s images and sentiments! I attempted watercoloring again on the scooter card and this one, with Caran d’Ache watercolor crayons on cold press watercolor paper. Perfect Layers Tools for matting the image… link in the sidebar.

the inside sentiments…