CC Designs Spring Kiki LaRue w/Doohickey’s Dies…

February 22, 2011August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks40 Comments

A simple, sweet Spring Kiki LaRue Easel card.

I used Spring Kiki LaRue, Amy R’s Get Well sentiments, CC Designs Tags it stamps and dies set and Magnolia Doohickey’s dies. I love the doily, the berry lace and the mistletoe dies, but do you see what I added to the mistletoe? Posies!!! I made the posies with the tag reinforcement circles from the new Tags It stamps and dies set from CC Designs this month! It just tickled my fancy! lol

The pattern paper is from a DCWV 4.5 x 6.5 paper stack I picked up at JoAnn’s. An odd size to work with but I finally made myself do it! lol Then it was hard to cover up the pattern! ugh! Lots of sparkle….

Kiki is stamped on Beckett Expression Candlelight Super smooth 80# cover card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

hair – E40’s
dress – G40, 82, 85 and then W0, 1, 3 over the top to try to match the green in the paper
shoes – warm grays
pinks are R000, 00, 01, 02, 05, 08
skin – E0000, 000, 00 and diluted R20, 21, 22 on her cheeks

Thanks for visiting my blog and chatting with me again! I appreciate your friendship!

ATS

Oh Happy Day!!! Save 10%

February 21, 2011February 21, 2011 Pam Sparks3 Comments

I love to spread the news of a new SALE! lol All That Scraps.com – 10% off the whole site with the coupon code “sunshine“! Sale through Monday, Feb. 21st, 11:59 p.m.!

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Sugar ‘n Spice Marci…

February 20, 2011February 20, 2011 Pam Sparks29 Comments

Another cupcake kind of day! Marci’s been in the kitchen! This is Sugar ‘n Spice Marci from La-la Land Crafts, in the store at All That Scraps.com, HERE. So cute and fun to color!

I colored Marci with the E50’s series of copic sketch markers… skin E50, 51, 53… dress, hair, shoes, cupcake E53, 55, 57, 59. No other colors or pencils or anything. I used a piece of some old 9×9 Tim Holtz pattern paper… I have a bunch of all the patterns if anyone wants to buy some… I’ll make you a good deal! lol The sentiment is a Penny Black stamp. I distressed the edges with the Tim Holtz distressing tool and then edged with Vintage Photo Distress ink (Antique Linen on the words first and then VP) HERE and the Ink Blending tool HERE. Stapled around with Tim’s tiny attacher. Some EK Success punches, the flower and border…the leaves are the SU bird/branch punch and the cord through the flower is that paper cord from JoAnn’s. Hope I didn’t forget anything.

I’m linking up to two challenge blogs…

Stampin’ For the Weekend – Monochrome
Challenge Up Your Live – Monochrome

What’s NEW at the store??? Christine has added Penny Black, HERE! And the new Bildmalarna’s are so cute, HERE… I have three to color up… I need to quit reading and sleeping! : )

Have a wonderful Sunday! Thanks for stopping by! ttul

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Magnolia, Tilda with Heart Lace and Twisted Easel tutorial…

February 16, 2011August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks55 Comments

I had to try my hand at another twisted easel card.

Here’s a close up of this cutie Tilda… she makes me smile!

Tilda with Heart Lace is from the NEW, You Are So Special Collection. I also used the Happy Birthday stamp, the Mini Zig Zag and Scalloped Lace die, the Romantic Lace die and the Romantic Lace Tag all from that same NEW collection. I also used the Doohickey’s Swirl die.

How I made this Twisted Easel Card…

first I made the 6×6 card front, colored the image, layered it up, etc

then the card base as follows in the photos below…

now you will score your “in half” fold and your diagonal with your bone folder so you have nice, sharp folds and it will look like the next photo
decorate the base so it holds your easel in place when it’s open. Oh and I should say the card folds flat for mailing! cool!

The Martha Stewart Score board is awesome! I love the 1/8 in. marks all the way across and I love making my own 6×6 envelopes. The pattern paper is from a Basic Grey 6×6 paper pad… the orange card-stock is from Stampin Up… it really is orange/pumpkin, not red. I used Copic Sketch Markers to color Tilda… skin is E000, 00, 01, 21, hair is E50, 51, 53, 55, 57, dress is BV0000, 000, 00, 01, 02, 04, shadowed a little with C00 and C1. oh her shoes are E43, 44, 47 and the grass is a crazy mess of greens!!! lol

Have FUN with this “twist” on the Easel card!!! ttul!

Stamps and Such…

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FYI – Sizes of new Doohickey’s Dies

February 13, 2011 Pam Sparks23 Comments

My order came in the mail yesterday! YEA! I had to cut them right away and thought maybe you’d like to see what the dies look like “real” life size! So click on the borders to get the full size…they are SEVEN inches long!!! love that extra for “adusting”!

Rose Leaf Doohickey’s Die…. this is so pretty IRL and the veins are so subtle but life-like… it will match up perfectly with the doily flowers and other flower dies… love it!

Romantic Tag…love the wonky hearts and the hole reinforcement… just charming!

Romantic Lace border… be sure to click on the photo to see it “real” live size… love it!

The scallop border is from the zig zag and scallop border set…the wonky hearts are the waste from cutting the Romantic Lace border and tag… aren’t they adorable!!! I ❤ wonky hearts!!! lol Click to see full size.