CC Designs June Preview Day One…

June 5, 2012August 6, 2013 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

My card was featured!

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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Hello Little Butterfly Tilda for Tilda’s Town Challenges…

June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 Pam Sparks46 Comments

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Time for a new Tilda’s Town Challenge! This week we want to see you use an accessory stamp with Tilda and or Edwin. What to use? What to use first?!!! It’ll be fun to see the combos that everyone comes up with! I had a hard time deciding… I finally had to settle on what time would allow! You know me… down to the wire! = )

Here’s my sweet, sweet Tilda for today… Hello Butterfly Tilda and Tulip Walkway from the Butterfly Wishes Collection, in the store HERE. I stamped her on Hammermill Color Copy 80# Cover paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Copics. I really like the hair combo I used this time, E50 all over, YR31, Y21, E35 and E37. The pinks I used on her dress are RV0000, RV11 and RV32.

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Basic Grey pattern paper… the logo stamp is from CC Designs Butterfly Logos set and don’t cha love this new Floral Swirl Corner die from Magnolia too! Sweeeet! It’s in the store at Tilda’s Town HERE. I cut it in green and pinks… clipped out the flowers and glued them on top of the green. Added pearls… Used the Perfect Layers tools of course! A Wilton doily and a Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

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So fun to be using my Magnolia stamps again! Enjoy looking at all the team’s creations at Tilda’s Town Challenges, HERE. We’d LOVE to have you join us and play with the new theme! Awesome prize for a random winner chosen by Inlinkz and then the TT DT picks the top five! It’s the talk of the town! Tilda’s Town!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy weekend to you! I’ll be back next week with CC Designs June release! Ready or not… it’s June already!!!!

ttul…

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Cherry – O…

May 31, 2012May 31, 2012 Pam Sparks24 Comments

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Swiss Pixies Cherry Lucy here to wish you a cupcake kind of day! She’s so cherry-licious! yum… we had a cherry tree in our backyard when I was growing up and my mom made the best cherry pies… those were the days! Now I just make paper cherries! lol Love this cherry die from CC Designs Cutters… so fun! I love the dainty stem! The days of chunky die cuts are over! yea! hip, hip, hurray!

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Lucy is stamped on Letraset Cartridge A4 card (All That Scraps ordered it for me, email Christine if you want to try it) with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. For her skin I used, Ivory, Vanilla, Oatmeal and Apricot. Soft Peach for her cheeks. Her hair… oh, it’s crazy! waaaaah… I haven’t gotten the brown combos down yet… but I’ll tell you whats under here… Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna, Auburn and Burnt Umber. It was blah, until I added the last two colors. I used the chisel tip to get the hair strands… that works slick. The reds are Poppy, Crimson and Burgundy. The pinks… again crazy… trying to match the paper. I started with Sunkissed Pink and Dusty Pink…. then added Blush and I can’t even remember! The awesome thing about alcohol markers is you can just keep coloring over stuff. (well except skin, it goes really wonky IMO)

If you like coloring and like markers you’ll have fun with these… they are different than Copics. I would hate to give up my Copics but…these are fun. I will say I’m glad I have them and it’s just fun to change it up! Here’s a tutorial I made on coloring with PM and FM HERE.

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The paper is October Afternoon Modern Homemaker, Wilton Doily, sentiment is from the new CC Designs Berry Logos set, cupcake die is from CC Designs Cutters and sewing machine stitching. I use Heavy duty thread from Joanns in my machine for paper stitching.

Linking to the Passion for Promarkers challenge blog… inspiration photo

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More cards from the ATS DT on the blog today…fabulous inspiration again! yea! HERE!

Cherry-O! See you back here tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by! Oh and today is the last day to purchase the Sugarplums Beach Kit at 20% off! Don’t miss it!

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just “beachy”…

May 29, 2012November 5, 2013 Pam Sparks37 Comments

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Emma says “Seas the day!” Reality is… yikes where did the morning go! I got up at 5:45 a.m.! I didn’t realize my E000 and E00 needed refilled, so that equals ruined skin and not from the sun either! lol Do over… ugh! At least I used a piece of ribbon! Why do I have all this ribbon anyway! lol Oh and I used a deep edger EK Success punch I don’t know if I’ve used before! Good for me!!! hip hip hurray! I even used the stamps I was supposed too! lol

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I drew the two lines in the background with a copic multi liner pen… then colored the water and the sand with Copics. Everything is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Hammermill Color Copy 80# Cover and colored with Copic Sketch markers. Rosies Roadshow cloud template and Memento Summer Sky ink to ink up the clouds. I used the stamp a ma jig to stamp “Seas the day!” along the bottom of the card. A sweet Summer card… Did you have a nice weekend? I shopped to much… didn’t even leave home! lol Read a couple books… ttul!

Challenges…

Stretch Your Stamps Challenge by Virginia – I used a sentiment stamp over and over to create a border!

Cute Pie Challenge Blog… Die cuts and punch creations (I used two punch border punches)

Paper Play Challenges… Summer lovin’

Celebrate the Occasion… Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge… Swirls (border punch)

Die Cuttin’ Divas… Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge Blog… Simply Summer

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Marianne Design Basket Birthday Wishes…

May 27, 2012June 7, 2013 Pam Sparks34 Comments

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If the woodgrain stamp is on my desk…I have to stamp it! hahaha… some stamps are just like that! I really like the white basket on it though… I made the roses with the smallest flower from the CC Designs Phlox die and followed the tutorial on McGill’s website for mini roses HERE. The basket is Marianne Design, the big leaf is a new die from her and so are the two new greenery dies I used with the roses in the basket. The little white flowers are punched out of white card-stock and it’s hard to see them but there are three Martha Stewart pine branches punched out of brown card-stock in with the roses and greenery too.

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The sentiment on the outside and on the inside are from CC Designs AmyR Stamps sentiment sets… Birthday Wishes is from the Great Greetings Set and Thinking of you today is from the Best Birthday Wishes Sentiment set. I used my Perfect Layers tools to mat … love them!

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Our local -ish stamp store is now carrying Marianne Design dies! If you are anywhere in the area… check out Craft and Hobby Connection in Ottumwa, Iowa! It’s an awesome stamp store and tons of CC Designs stamps and other stamp lines too! Holler if you want more info…