Tuesday already!

April 6, 2010April 6, 2010 Pam Sparks31 Comments

How’d it get to be Tuesday already! ugh! well, I wanted to catch you and tell you that it’s week #2 of the Royal Battle over at the Greeting Farm. Kristine has created an AWESOME and creative, Spring Easel card for the Card Sprouts…take a look here and vote for the Card Sprouts by leaving a comment on her card!!! You get three votes and the competition is great! The voting for this week ends tonight! Thanks!

New Magnolia stamps on the block!!! I just had to color up this new Tilda with 3 Flowers from the Hoppy Easter Collection. She’s just the sweetest!

Tilda with 3 Flowers or here
Whiff of Joy Stump
stamped with Staz-on black ink
stamped on Strathmore 300 series cold press watercolor paper (heavy)
colored with distress ink refills *I followed this tutorial HERE*
K & Co. pattern paper
Bazzill card=stock
waterbrush
Broken China Distress ink for the background
Ink Blending tool

Have a great stamping week! I’ll be back tomorrow for All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

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Happy Easter…

April 4, 2010 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Our middle daughter and husband have adopted two children from Ukraine and plan to adopt again this year from Bulgaria. Amanda sent this yesterday, a blog post from another family that has adopted from Ukraine. ♥ Redemption ♥ a beautiful post…hope you can make time to read it. The true meaning of Easter.

Spring and Tulips…a big deal in Iowa because of the Dutch influence…I created this for the Impressions Obsession challenge blog.

Impression Obsession stamps by Alesa Baker
Tulip image stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Colored with Copic Sketch Markers – R 0000, 30, 32, 35, E40, 44, Y28, YG91, 93, 95, 99
Sentiment stamped with Versafine Onyz Black
Nestabilities Labels Ten
EK Success corner punch
Bazzill card-stock

Have a lovely day!

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Tilda Birthday Card…

April 3, 2010April 3, 2010 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Happy Weekend and finally getting Amanda’s birthday card made! Only a month late! I’m the mom, so I can be late…yikes! lol This one took a few days…struggled trying to figure out what to do with that present punch. Tried coloring on a new card-stock that a friend sent… fun! I like it a lot…Papertrey Ink! Trickier to cut out the heavier weight stock but otherwise I love how it colors up!

Tilda with Gifts
Stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Colored with Copic Sketch Markers
Basic Grey Kioshi 6×6 paper pad
Martha Stewart present punch – I punched in white card-stock and colored all the presents, then gave it the scratchy look with Stampin Up’s Sanded background stamp
EK Success small scallop border punch
Happy Birthday circle that I’ve had forever but it’s so fun pulling out the stamps I haven’t used in some time! From Cat’s Life Press
ribbon is from May Arts

I actually finished the inside of this card! Then I had to go and forget to take a picture of it! I used some of the coordinating pattern paper from the pad and a cool stamp from Printworks (sale going on right now, email me for the newsletter).

Catch you later!

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All That Scraps Weekly Wed. Challenge…

March 31, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Spring Bling is the challenge to us today at All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog!

I used C.C. Designs Sweet November Baby Bunnies Butterfly and a fence from the new Spring kit rubber stamps. Inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers.

Bunny & flowers Y32, 35, 38
Flowers R 21, 22, 24
Butterfly and flowers BV01, 11, 31
Fence E41, 43, 44
Grass G82, 85, 99
Hair E50, 53, 55, 57

My bits of bling are in the form of gemstones from Hero Arts for the flower centers and Stickles Frosted Lace glitter glue on the butterfly perched on Baby Bunny’s nose! I think the flowers scattered all over the background paper count for bling too! New Basic Grey 6×6 pattern paper and the bird border punch by Martha Stewart. Have Faith sentiment stamp is from a set by The Greeting Farm. I inked the edges with Bundled Sage and milled lavendar distress inks and the ink blending tool.

Check out the other Design team’s awesome creations on the challenge blog…. here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…

every week there is a new and exciting prize being offered
in order to be eligible to win, your card must include a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store. Whether it is any of our wonderful in house designs or from the various other stamp companies that ATS carries (Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, etc) the choice is yours.
be sure to link up your creation with Mr Linky by next Tuesday at 10pm est
Use the theme, “spring bling”
only one entry per person please!

Join the challenge and celebrate by creating Spring Bling on paper! So many awesome stamps to choose from!

I love linking to other challenges…get to be inspired by so many wonderful stampers. Here’s my list for this card…

Papertake Weekly – open (Tuesday)
Pile it on – Animal-Riffic (Saturday)
Sew Many Challenges – punch it (Thursday)
Stamp Simply – Easter (Thursday)
Flutter By Wednesday – (Wednesday)

Have fun and ‘preciate you coming by to visit!

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Thank YOU Very Much…

March 30, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Have you heard that there’s a Royal Battle going on over at The Greeting Farm? The Royal Battle is a battle of teams, and depends entirely on VOTING. It goes like this: there are teams of three to five players. Each Wednesday a new Battle challenge is issued. One of the team members has to make a card to meet the Battle challenge. Folks have a chance to vote for three cards each week. The top half with the most votes moves to the next Battle. Each team member has to take one turn. Hopefully, we make it to the final round and a chance to win a big prize.

The first week is to make a retro card – team member Lisa made the card this time for our group, the Card Sprouts! She did a great job, we would love your vote! You can cast your votes here (b/4 midnight tonight) by leaving a comment! So, I made this card to “thank you very much” for voting!