Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy Birthday Card with SinCity Stamps

I know you thought I left the team but as a designer of stamps, chipboard, stencils, and mask for SinCity Stamps I have been asked to do some guest spots....so today I would like to share with you my Happy Birthday Card....
Do you ever wish you had the perfect background for your card ... well today I am gong to share with you how to make one....I started with the Natural Beauty Stamp Set, stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then stamped it on a scrap piece of paper prior to stamping on my white card base....this will give a muted look to the image. 
Re-stamp on the white card stock with the Natural Beauty flower...this time don't stamp on the scrap paper but right on to the white card stock so the images will be darker.
 I colored the background and flowers in using my Copic Markers.....
Make sure to stamp one extra Natural Beauty Flower on scrap paper, color it in with markers and fussy cut out....
 Place the fussy cut flower on to the top of you finished card base that has been stamped with the Happy Birthday image from my Fall Collection 2 Stamp Set. 
I hope you will try making your own backgrounds...remember you can use any markers or watercoloring pencils to color SinCity Stamp images in. Make sure to check out the SinCity Stamps Store and check out the stamps, stencils, chipboard, etc. Don't forget the SinCity Stamps Blog for fabulous inspiration from the new Design Team Hugs Pammejjo
Supplies:
Sin City Stamps - Natural Beauty Stamp Set
Sin City Stamps - Pam Bray's Fall Collection 2 Stamp Set
Copic Markers
My Minds Eye Find Your Winds and Fly Paper Pad
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Clear Stickles

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Thank You Cards with CSW Distributors

I am sharing with you a fun Thank You Card, super easy and sweet...Started with embossing grey paper with Cheerful Embossing Folder from the Elegance Collection and placing it on the card front. Add a pink square that is embossed using Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder from the Fine Designs Collection....love the look of using two different folders together...don't you?
Add a pattern doily from the Fantasia Collection and a small rectangle from the Scallop Nesting Rectangles Die Set to the front of the card, love how it gives that pop of color....Fussy cut a few flags from pattern paper using the Precision Scissors....add to the front of the card with some fun embellishments.
So while you are making one...you mine as well make several, right....lol, you never have to many Thank You Cards.....Hugs Pammejo
Supplies:
Couture Creations Supplies:
CO723222 Doily Dies
CO723255 Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder
CO723282 Cheerful Embossing Folder
CO723047 Scallop Rectangle Nesting Dies
Pink Gemstones

CO721985 Double Sided Tape

CO721955 Sharp Point Scissor

CO721957 Self Healing Mat
CO723039 Precision Trimmer
CO721986 Handheld Essentials

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Cards with Punched Shapes Create Challenge

I am sharing my Thinking of You Card that I made using McGill Small Flower Punch to make a bouquet of flowers for the CARDS WITH PUNCHED SHAPES, I hope you enjoy...there are so many things you can do with punches....so I hope you have some time to play do the challenge with Create and make sure to email your project and Instagram name to paiget@northridgepublishing.com by Saturday February 8th 2014 ...have fun....Hugs Pammejo!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Friends - Lucy and Ethel Layout with Couture Creations

Hi it is Pam today sharing with you a fun stitching technique using your Handheld Essential Tool Kit and some embroidery thread (I used two strands of thread)....using the paper piercer from the tool kit, pierce through the paper and flags that were cut from pattern paper using Couture Creations Precision Scissors and using a straight stitch sew through the pierced holes.
 Here is a closer look....remember to keep your thread straighten as you stitch....
I made a strip of green Core'dianations using the Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder, sanded it with Couture Creations Sanding Block and added it to my layout with Two Sided Tape. I ran the pink Core'dinations paper through my die cutting machine using the Scallop Nesting Circles and then embossing with the Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder and sanding them also with the Couture Creations Sanding Block and adding some clear gemstones when the layout is complete but then decided I needed a title and maybe some extra embellishments, wasn't sure if I liked the gemstones so I removed them and ended up with my Lucy and Ethel Layout as a finished project
....I hope you try stitiching on paper and my new finished Lucy and Ethel Layout.  Hugs Pammejo

Couture Creations Products:
CO723041 Scallop Circle Nesting Dies
CO723255 Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder
CO721985 Double Sided Tape


Sunday, January 19, 2014

Angelic Hearts Gift Card Holder with SinCity Stamps and Altered Pages

It is so hard for me to think that today is the last post I will be making as part of the SinCity Stamps Design Team but am SUPER EXCITED to share that I will be a regular Guest Designer on the blog.  I will be sharing not only my chipboard, stamps, die cuts, stencils, etc that I design for the SinCity Stamps but also will continue to support Donna and the team anyway I can.... Today I am sharing with you a sweet Angelic Heart Gift Card Holder that I made using the Angelic Heart Collage Sheet from Altered Pages and SinCity Stamps Natural Beauty Stamp Set.
I started by stamping multiple flower images on to a piece of white card stock using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.....
Spraying with Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Spray....allow it to dry completely....
Once dry fussy cut the flowers out, making sure to save two of the stamped and sprayed images....
Fussy cut out one of the heart images from the Altered Pages Angelic Hearts Collage Sheets....trace around it on to a piece of white card stock and fussy cut it out also, (make a small hole at the bottom of the white heart so you will be able to hang your baubles from)....it will become the back of your project....
Taking your Natural Beauty flowers that you have fussy cut out....adhere them to the back of the Angelic Heart Collage piece....once that is done...adhere the white piece you have fussy cut out and adhere over the back to cover up all the flower but making sure not to adhere the top because you want to form a pocket for your gift card and ribbon to go into.  Add the ribbon to the inside of the top part of heart.
Fussy cut out the last two flower images from the previously stamped and sprayed paper, layer with a pop dot and add to the top of a scallop circle....Place on top of the Heart Angelic Gift Card Holder and add a bit of Gold Stickles to the center, some gemstones to the front of the Angelic Heart and a few baubles to the bottom of the Angelic Heart. I hope you have enjoyed my gift idea and try making some for yourself....Please check out the SinCity Stamps and Alterered Pages, along with the blogs...you will excited to see what the designers have been making. Hugs Pammejo
Supplies:
SinCity Stamps Natural Beauty Stamp Set
Altered Pages Angelic Hearts Collage Sheet
Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Spray
Tuxedo Memento Black Ink
Gold Stickles
White Card Stock
Clear Gemstones

Saturday, January 18, 2014

EXCITING NEW!!!!! Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog

I am SO EXCITED TO SHARE....I am part of the new challenge blog...Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog.....how cool is that.....and to top it off I will be working with Gloria Stengel  who in her own right is an extremely talented designer (best known for her works with Graphic 45, Couture Creations, Hampton Arts, World Win Papers, to mentions a few) she has put together an amazing team. Make sure to check out Craft Hoarders Annoymous Challenge Blog to see the rest of the talented designer as each day until the challenges start we are each being featured. Of course make sure to click HERE to check out the Challenge Rules.....

The first and third Monday of each month we will post a challenge for you. It could be a sketch challenge, a color challenge, a mood-board challenge, a theme challenge, a manufacturer challenge, you name it. We want you to USE YOUR HOARDED paper, tools,adhesives, and do-dads.

LOL... not that any of us have products we have been hoarding for that one special project. I am so excited to have everyone participate in the challenges, it will be so much fun...so stop by the Craft Hoarders Challenge Blog and make sure to follow us. Hugs Pammejo

Design Team


Thursday, January 16, 2014

SinCity Stamps Chipboard Books by Pam Bray

Do you love Chipboard Books....well today I am sharing some of the books I have designed for SinCity Stamps....I love my  Fleur De Lis Book and all the fun embellishments that come with it.  Sin City Stamps Laser Cut Chipboard kits are cut from premium chipboard that is 0.057 in. thick. Chipboard can be inked, stamped, painted, stained, sanded to give it the distressed vintage look, embossed on with powders and heat gun and much much more.  Chipboard has endless craftabilities.
 Don't you love the Gone Fishing Chipboard Book...my sweet husband helped me design it for the outdoors person to be able to create with. Don't you love the rain boots, fish, bobber and other embellishments.
Who doesn't love daisies...I know I do, so I had to design a Daisies Chipboard Book with all the fun accessories.....
Here is a fun Christmas Chipboard Book, fabulous for making a small gift for some one, maybe even a recipe book for you favorite holiday recipes...has endless seasonal inspirations for you to create with.
With spring just around the corner I had to do an album with butterflies and chicken wire....don't you love the ChickenWire Chipboard Book....I know I do, it is one of my favorites.
 I love my Tab Chipboard Book because it is so versatile....
 
I designed a 2014 Chipboard Book to begin the year with but remember if you can cover up the 2014 with paper or other embellishment if you like the shape of the book and embellishments to use it for another theme.....
How fun is it to look out the window....so I had to design a Window Chipboard Book...oh the things one could created with it.....

My Circle Chipboard Album is just a fun little album I created....it is also available as a stencil....so these are a few of my 2013 Chipbook Album designs with many more to come in 2014....I hope you stop by SinCity Stamps Store....check out not only my Chipboard Albums, Chipboard Pieces, DieCuts and Stencils but also my Stamps along with the other fabulous products from SinCtiy Stamps, other Chipboard Albums and Pieces, Stencils and Masks. Hugs Pammejo

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

EXCITING NEWS!!!! Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog Announced!!!!!


Gloria Stengel - Blog Owner
I am so excited to be selected as part of the 2014 Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog Design Team!!!! I know if most of you are like me I hoard paper, flowers, chipboard, pretty embellishments, well you get the idea....for that "special" project....LOL my problem  is I hoard so much for "special" projects that it all gets lost in the rest of my stuff....WELL this is where we will be able to use our stash that we "hoard" on challenges....
There will be two challenges a month and you can see the details HERE
It could be a sketch challenge, a color challenge, a mood-board challenge, a theme challenge, a manufacturer challenge, a tool challenge, you name it. Sounds like fun right....So make sure to check out the rest of the details and join us on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

CHA 2014 - Couture Creations Paper and Die Reveal


Couture Creations will be releasing some fabulous dies and embossing folders as well as beautiful papers and wonderful tools. I am so honored to be apart of the Couture Creation Design Team and be able to create with so many of the upcoming releases. I hope you enjoy the projects that I made for CHA 2014 using the some of the new papers and dies.





Please stop by Couture Creations Blog, check out their website to see all of their products and if you aren't friends with them on Facebook or follow their blog I am sure they would love to have you follow them. Hugs Pammejo

Saturday, January 11, 2014

WeR Memory Keepers Reveal - Indian Summer Collections

I am so excited.... Being a part of the WeR Memory Design Team I am able to introduce you to Indian Summer Collection that will be shipping in June 2014....My projects will be on display at CHA 2014...
Indian Summer Collection has wonder Easy Page Project/Journaling pieces to use with your project life, layouts, cards or altered pieces.....
 Gorgeous papers to use in card making or scrapbooking
and if you are like me it is breathtaking to use in all of your altered projects. I hope you have enjoyed my projects sharing the wonderful Indian Summer Collection and hope you stop by WeR Memory Keepers to check out other fabulous paper collections, albums, tools and other wonderful products. Hugs Pammejo

Friday, January 10, 2014

Sunshine Card with CSW Distributor

It is my first post for the New Year with CSW Distributors....and what better way but to share a card using the All Occasion Super Plush Embossing Folder and a die cut to say that "You Sparkle, You Shine". I used the a piece of light blue Core'dination kraft distress paper with the embossing folder and then lightly distressed it with my Couture Creations sanding block, place it on the front of a kraft card base added some pretty pattern paper and border. I die cut a scallop circle and a circle from the Couture Creation Nesting Sets to place behind my premade die cut sentiment.
Here is a closer look at the beautiful Sparkle Plush Embossing Folder, don't you love it. I hope you have a wonderful, sparkly and sunshine New Year. Hugs Pammejo
Couture Creations Products:
CO723454 723454 Super Plush All Occasion Collection
CO 723041 Nesting Scallop Circles
CO723040 Nesting Circles
CO721985 Double Sided Tape

CO721984 Double-Sided Tape

CO721989 Self-Adhesive Gemstones

CO721955 Sharp Point Scissor

CO721957 Self Healing Mat
CO723039 Precision Trimmer
CO723060 Sanding Block
CO721986 Handheld Essentials

CHA - Simplify Mini Album with Sizzix and Graphic 45

Today CHA begins and I want to share with you a mini album I made for Eileen Hull using her XL Mini Album Scoreboard Die and Graphic 45 Typography Collection. I love this die, it is so easy to use ant the best part is you can add as many pages as you would like.
Here are the inside pages...
 I love fussy cutting.....
Flags....
Of course tags and embellishments.....
 Love metals and inks....
and of course the new wooden chippies and buttons.
You tie the pages in with your favorite items...whether it be with ribbon as I did, rubber bands, twine, etc. I hope you enjoy my Simplify Album because it goes with another piece I made for Eileen using her new Artist Blocks.
To find out more about the Artist Blocks check them out HEREor stop by the Artists on the Block Blog.  Have a great weekend checking on all the CHA releases. Hugs Pammejo