Category: Watercolor

CC Designs · Distress Ink coloring · Hero Arts · Masculine · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spellbinders dies · Watercolor

On the Lake…

Pam Sparks31 Comments

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I told you I had more boats coming!  hehe   I’ve had this stamp for awhile, love the simplicity of it but then I wasn’t so sure about how to color it!  The water isn’t really this green IRL… figures… ugh! Here’s the stamp info… Memory Box F1770 On the Lake.

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As soon as I saw this last Memory Box die release I jumped right over to order!  I had to have this Honeyblossom Sprig!  I glued three cuts of green together then cut one in white and cut out the flowers and one in yellow and just used the centers.  I did shape the back side of the white flowers a little with my McGill Stylus set on a mouse pad.

The woodgrain background is an older stamp from Hero Arts (SS1000), stamped and edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink… it’s not big enough to cover the whole card so I stamp it four times… I’ve done this several times with cards that I’ve posted.  Love the random look of it.

The postal frame is a Spellbinders Nestabilities die.  The mat for the focal image is cut with the Perfect Layers 1/16th in. layer tool… the best investment I ever made for card making!

The postal cancellation and sentiment are from CC Designs and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink. It stamps the sharpest and cleanest image for sentiments of any ink out there… so worth the money!   Bummer I forgot to take a picture of the inside.  I layered white on green to the kraft card with the Perfect Layers tools.  Then stamped two more sentiments from the same CC Designs All About Dad sentiment set.  Yes,  I used my other tool I can’t stamp with out!  My Stamp a ma jig!

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I stamped “On the Lake” with Clearsnap Archival Wicked Black ink and  watercolored it with Ranger Distress markers… I really do love them!  They color and blend so nicely on the Canson Manga paper I’ve linked to below.    I appreciate it so much when you make your purchases through my links!!!  I’m encouraged to keep working and sharing for sure!  Thank YOU!

Amusing Challenges – Father’s Day/Masculine

Fashionable Stamping Challenges – Nature

Let’s Ink It Up – Your favorite embellishment… mine would be using dies

Stampin’ Sisters in Christ – Create something that reflects you. You are God’s masterpiece! (this relflects me because I love postal stuff, I love kraft,  I love woodgrain and I LOVE dies!

Card Caravan Challenge – CAS (clean and simple)

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Here it is Monday again!  They come faster and faster it seems! = )  Have a great week… I’ll be back tomorrow with a CC Designs June Release Review!  Take care!  Thanks again for stopping in!

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ATS · ATS Preview · Beatrice · cards · CC Cutters · CC Designs · Distress Ink coloring · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spellbinders dies · Step card · Watercolor

CC Designs June Preview Day One…

Pam Sparks36 Comments

So Beachy cute or what?!  Beachy Beatrice and a day at the beach.  NEW stamps,  NEW dies and NEW sentiments for you this week from CC Designs.  Do you love that Bubble Border die or what! The Starfish and Shell dies…so cool!  Then there is a NEW die called Bubbles… click over to the ATS blog to see more fabulous creations from the Design Team using the NEW stuff for June.

Here’s our Beachy girl up close…

I colored her with Distress Markers… Tattered Rose and Vintage Photo for skin… cheeks are Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick…hair is Antique Linen, Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo… suit and hat are Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick… bubbles are Broken China.. sand and shells are Pumice Stone and Vintage Photo.

The cancellation stamp is from the CC Designs Butterflies Postage stamp set.  The ticket stamp is from the NEW Beach Logos set and the Ticket die is from CC Designs too.  A day at the beach and just sittin’ here are both sentiments from the NEW Oh So Beachy Sentiment set.   Yep… lots to love this month from CC Designs!!!

oh,  I had fun with this card!  A front panel step card…one of my faves…Bazzill card-stock and a Spellbinders Postage stamp die ( on sale at link below!)

Challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room – Sweet Summertime

Paper Take Weekly Challenge – Anything Goes

Oldie but a Goodie Challenge – Anything Goes (Spellbinders postage die)

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge – Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge – Simply Summer

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Thanks for visiting today!  See you again this week with more new stuff!  I appreciate your encouraging comments and will be talkin’ to you soon!  Have a great week!

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Birthday · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Marianne Design · Marianne Design Creatables · Spellbinders dies · Spring · Watercolor

Tulip Time…

Pam Sparks21 Comments

A pretty little Dutch girl… perfect for Tulip Time in May!  Marianne Design EWS 2203 is the clear stamp I used.  She is inked and stamped with Colorbox Wicked Black ink on Canson Manga Drawing Heavyweight card and colored with Distress markers.  I used a sentiment from Marianne Design Stampfairy Cling Stamp Sentiment set. It’s really a clear stamp set but they call it cling.  They stamp up really well on Bazzill texture card-stock using Versafine Onyx Black ink… surprising!  It’s hard to stamp words on Bazzill usually!

Tulips, Anja’s Leaves (new this month), fence and grass dies from Marianne Design too.  Charming dies and so fun to create little vignettes with!

The oval is a Spellbinders Floral Ovals die and the corners, an old Cuttlebug corner die.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I love sharing with you all and appreciate your kind comments and sharing tips for all this creating we do!  Have a beautiful, thankful week!

I’ll be back tomorrow with the new Sugarplums kit from CC Designs!

cards · CAS · Masking · Printworks · rubber stamps · Spring · Watercolor

Bloomin’ … using a stamp-a-ma-jig

Pam Sparks11 Comments

Fabulous NEW stamps from Printworks Collection, HERE!  I stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Printworks stamp pads/ink.  Squeeze the lid to pool the ink on the lid making the lid the paint palette.  Pick up the ink with a wet paint brush and color away… the trick for me is… how much water to use! eek!  I need to practice more!

The inside… a wonderful New PW sentiment honoring Mother’s! (I added the flower, its from PW too)

Here’s a 3 min. video on how I masked and positioned the images together….

Bloomin’

Spring has Sprung and Printworks has risen to the occasion with this wonderful new collection of images!

Check them out HERE!  Thanks for stopping by!

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This email newsletter just came tonight from Printworks…

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Happy Stamping!
Don’t forget…New products being added daily…
We are still working on adding more and more of our products every day.  So if you don’t see what you’re looking for today, check back in the next few days and you may find it or something else you can’t live without!
If there is something in particular you can’t find, drop us an email atprintworkscollection@yahoo.com and we’ll move it to the top of the list.
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CAS · Marianne Design · Printworks · rubber stamps · Valentine · Watercolor

Clean and Simple and….then…bright!

Pam Sparks18 Comments

I love this couple from Printworks!  Yep… the fun sentiment is Printworks too. Perfect for Valentine’s Day! Scroll frame is from Marianne Design.  I die cut a black frame and a white frame…traced inside the white one with a pencil and cut it out by hand.

The inside… sentiment from Printworks B4227.

Liked this card from an angle too!  = )

then for the bright, FUN valentine…new images for Valentine’s Day…

A NEW candy heart and heart sentiments…the new big LOVE, embossed on vellum… My trusty stamp a ma jig made this a fun card to create!  I watercolored the hearts with Printworks stamp pads.

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