No Horsing Around ~

Being a card maker is totally enjoyable when you can bring a memory back to the present through your card design.  The card today that I'm sharing is just that ~ one of my all time favorites because it will remind my daughter of the special time in her childhood when she owned her horse, Sally.

Hard to believe my 'baby girl' turned 41 this past week, yet the things we have been through together are priceless.  Thanks to Angie Blom Designs, I was able to use her 'A Beautiful Ride' digital design to make this special birthday card. 

I sized the image to about 4" square, printed, and colored her with my Copic markers.  Then I carefully fussy cut around the image and set it aside.  I selected a background of variegated tree splattered paper from Stampin' Up  and added it to a coordinating burgundy mat and then a black mat.  The banner sentiment was computer generated and secured to the coordinating strip of lime green cardstock.  I secured it on the ends and bottom to the background, leaving the top edge 'open' to add the horse and rider.  Next I added a layer of foam to the back of the colored image, leaving the bottom 3/4" edge without foam to allow it to slide under the sentiment banner.  Once it was aligned properly, I was able to secure the horse and girl to the background with the bottom edge secured under the banner.  I added this completed sandwich of papers to the 6" square top fold card base, ensuring it was well secured.  For the final touch I added the coordinating lime 

green organza ribbon and bow at the top fold. 

Yep, she loved it! 

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I've been coloring. 

Pam's Pearls 

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges: 

Alphabet Challenge ~ J is for Jump  

I Love Promarkers ~ Challenge 589  

Promarkers ~ Challenge 803 ~ Special Occasions  

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Four Legged Friends  

Copics 

Hat: N2, N4, N5, Hair: E41, E43, E44, Shirt: YG23, YG25, Horse: W1, N0, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, Saddle: E23, R39, Y28, N5, gold gel pen, Nails & Bracelet: R39

Products  

Angie Blom Designs, A Beautiful Ride

Milestones

Today we are celebrating a friendship made over the last 4 years at our Physical Therapy office.  One of the Therapist is moving his family to a new location and today is his final day here.  Although it's sad to see this young man go, it's exciting to know that he is taking the next step in the path that God has planned for him and his family.  He's stepping out in faith and with courage. 

Not knowing his hobbies, I decided to make a mixed media type card of encouragement as we give him our best wishes.

I used two stamps for the background on this card:  the 'Clock' on the left is by Katzelkraft and the 'Rulers & Lights' on the right by Studio Lights. Next I embossed this with 'Many Clocks' embossing folder by Darice.   The rulers are highlighted with Phano markers and the clock edges with Ranger Foundry Wax.  I added washi tape down the left side from AALL and across the bottom from Tim Holtz.  The 'Young Man' silhouette was die cut out of black cardstock and heat embossed with black embossing powder.  The sentiment was taken from the Memories set by Club Scrap, 12/08 ~ heat embossed with black, matted and raised with a layer of foam prior to securing on the background.  The yellow mixed media stamp was gifted from a Stamp Camp friend and added for that little tie in of color.  Lastly, I added the brown twine at the fold with the coordinating key.

Inside held our special thoughts and well wishes for Lucas as he and his family move forward to new adventures.  

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been working on. 

Pam's Pearls

I will be adding this card to the following challenges: 

Krafty Chicks ~ Challenge 783 ~ Masculine  

Little Red Wagon ~ Challenge 822 ~ G=Gentlemen  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends ~ Challenge 260 ~ Polkadoodles

Products  

Katzelkraft , Clock

Studio Lights, Ruler & Lights

Club Scrap, Memories

His Covenant

Today is the opening of another Word Art Wednesday  Challenge.  With this challenge we are focusing on Psalm 105:8 as our featured scripture.   Remember that you can visit the Word Art Wednesday blog and obtain your free copy of that scripture by simply right clicking on the featured Bible verse and saving to your hard drive. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Pear Blossom Press. They will be giving a gift certificate to a lucky winner so be sure to enter your cards on the Word Art Wednesday blog spot for this week.

For my Design Team card today, I have used a Lili of the Valley image called  Grace /Faith  with the addition of the featured scripture from Psalm 105:8.

 

After printing the image I colored her with Copic markers and used a Decorative Lace Edge Rectangle die for the pretty edge.   I also printed the selected scripture and used the same die set, leaving extra room to the left.  

I selected the orange patterned paper which reminded me of tiny stars, then added the solid aqua across the top.  I used my

T-Square Ruler which is a product from Pear Blossom Press, to help ensure my matting was straight.   Next I secured the image and overlapped the scripture and secured the delicate cross to the left edge.  Once dried and secure then I added this stack to the card base to complete the card design.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been working on.  I hope you will check out the blog now and enter you cards in for a chance to win!  

Pam's Pearls

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Creative Fingers ~ August Challenge ~ Challenge 306  

  

Color My Heart ~ Color Dare Challenge 666  

  Daisy Chain ~ Challenge 99 ~ Girls

Copics

Hair: E21, E23, E25, Star: Y15, Y35, Dress: BG11, BG23, BG34, Ribbons: YR12, YR15, YR16, Shadow: W3

Products: 

Lili of the Valley, Grace Faith

Button & Bed, Decorative Lace Edge Rectangle 

Pear Blossom Press, T Square Ruler

I Miss Your Face!

 Guess what image is back today on my special card?  Probably my favorite flower for 2025 from Unity Stamps ~ this single partially opened large petal flower from Unity Stamps, 'Blow Your Mind' package.  While it doesn’t appear to be huge, believe me – you can’t stamp two of them on a 6” square! It's big, bold and beautiful! 

My close friend made the decision to move to assisted living last month and today's card is one I made for her.  You know if you’re a follower of my blog that she loved her flowers and loved to ‘try’ to teach me how to care for them.  Her flowers didn’t go with her to her new home so I guess I’ll have to fill her new shelves with Copic colored flowers and funny sentiments to brighten her day.  Although I’m happy to say she is having a blast, enjoying the food, games and of course a whole new world of friends... I do miss her.

For this card, I stamped the flower image with black Versa Fine Clair and heat embossed it.  I used Copic markers for coloring the flower in several shades of red.  I found a coordinating background paper that looks like paint brush strokes  with colors from yellows, oranges and reds and even a bit of aqua.  I also came across this mint green lacey cut oval doily in my stash and started building the card front by securing it in the center first.  Then I die cut on large leafy stem out of dark green and trimmed it into several pieced to fit around the bottom of the flower.  After adding a layer of foam to the embossed flower, I secured it to the card front, overlapping the doily, and secured the leaf stems around the bottom.   I also added a foam strip to the sentiment, then secured it across the image to complete the card front design.  Once I added it to the 6” card base it was ready to go to my friend's new home.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I’ve been coloring. Come back soon!

Pam’s Pearls

I will be entering this card in the following challenges: 

Allsorts ~ Challenge 830 ~ I Spy Something with B= Big Bloom  

Creative Inspiration ~ August ~ Challenge 29  

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ August ~ Card of Encouragement  

Beautiful Blossoms ~ Optional Board #32  

 

Copics

Flower: R35, R37, R46, R56

 

Products

Unity Stamps, Blow My Mind

 

Cool in the Pool

Today I'm posting with the All Dressed Up Digital Stamp Design Team as we revisit this month's new images.  Check out all the design team post on the ADU Blog Challenge. 

For my project card, I selected Flamingo Splash  and made this summer pool party card that could be used for any occasion. 

After printing the image on Neenah 110# cardstock, I used my Copic markers for coloring. The image of this flamingo was fun to color in the traditional bright fuchsia shades, followed by the tiny little girl floating away with her ice cream cone! 

Then I started adding my own personal touch to the image.  Once I started adding the water around the float, I decided to make the area a pool versus an ocean or lake outside area.  I drew in the horizontal pool wall line for the water's edge and then another line about 1/2" above for the sidewalk edge.  From there I continued the scene upward with the many shades of a sunrise or sunset and adding a few darker clouds also.  

When the coloring was complete, I tried out several of my fence dies to find one small enough to work for the pool background area.  I settled on the Spellbinder, Wrought Iron Fence die. I cut several and trimmed a couple of pieces to fit around the images, then secured to the background of the image.

I trimmed up the rough edges, then double matted with black then orange and put aside. For the card base, I added a black matting and then a pink patterned matting. Once secured I added the completed image with mats to the card base and secured.  I added the Happy Birthday sentiment on the right bottom and the 'cool in the pool' bottle cap sentiment on the left side  and the die cut beach ball near the flamingo to complete the card design. 

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been coloring.

Pam's Pearls

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:   

Four Season ~ Summer ~ August  

Creative Crafters  ~ Challenge 91  

Daisy Chain ~ Challenge 99 ~ Girls  

Unicorn Challenge ~ Challenge 112 ~ Girls

Copics

Flamingo Float: RV04. RV06, RV09, YR23, YR15, YR16, N4, N6, 

Girl ~ Hair: E41, E42, E43, Bows: YR04, Ice Cream Cone: E84, Y15, RV02, YG05, YR02, Bathing Suit: YR04, YG05, YG06

Water: B63, B34, B32, B37, BG11, BG49, C3, N3, Sky, YR65, E95, R11, Y11

Products

All Dressed Up Digital Stamps, Flamingo Splash

Spellbinder, Wrought Iron Fence

Birthday Sunshine

Today I'm giving a big shout out to my friend Lisa Jones on her special birthday and sharing the card that I made for her. 

Knowing that Lisa's favorite colors are yellow and orange really helped with my decisions throughout this card as I kept getting pulled more to the aquas and purples.  

I had decided I wanted to use the Floral Seahorse from Technique Junkies and to emboss with white, then Copic color the image.  Little did I realize how hard that was going to be to see the lines and tiny spaces on this very detailed image.

But here's the finished card and just a few details following ~  

This is a very unique image with flowers wrapped around a seahorse.  But it's one that I'm personally drawn to and adore.  I purchased it while at my first Stamp Camp in 2023 (where I met Lisa) and now it reminds me of the friendships that have crossed paths over the last two years.  How beautiful some of those have become!  

After embossing the image with white,  I colored her with Copic markers and carefully fussy cut as close to the image as I could.  For the under the water elements and the gold netting I used dies from several different sets and also used metallic papers.  I stamped the sentiment on a coordinating piece from my stash and added foam to the back of it along with foam to the back of the seahorse.             

The yellow background paper is from Crafter's Consortium and is mounted on a navy blue card base.  I secured each piece as shown in the photo and added the tiny bling dots as the final touch.  A little later I'll share the second one that I did at the same time ~ in shades of purples.  

Happy Birthday Lisa! 

I hope you have a Fabulous Day!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been coloring.  Come back soon! 

Pam's Pearls

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:  

Creative Fingers ~ Challenge 306   

Just Us Girls ~ Challenge 788 ~ Word Week ~ Birthday  

I Love Promarkers ~ Challenge 588  

Pearly Sparkles ~ Challenge 110 ~ Under the Sea  

Four Seasons ~ August Challenge ~ Summer

Copics:

Seahorse: Y11, Y15, Y12, Y18, Flowers: BG01, BG05, BG07, BG09, Leaves: G20, G24, G82

Products:  

Technique Junkies, Floral Seahorse (discontinued)

                                                                                                                                                                 

Hangin' at the Beach

I'm back this afternoon to share one adorable puppy basking in the sun under his umbrella.  It's the new challenge for All Dressed Up Digital Stamps and I've selected 'Beach Time' to use for my Design Team card for this posting. 

He's a pretty cute dude "hangin' at the beach" with his assortment of beach toys and colorful umbrella from Elizabeth Craft's, 'So Fruity Summer' Die set.  All of the coloring was done with Copic markers. I used Gina Marie Designs Labels Six for the scalloped border around both the image and the matting. Then I secured both to the background paper that varied from white to deep orange.  Lastly I added the bottle cap sentiment "Hangin' at the Beach" to complete the design. 

I hope you'll hop over to the All Dressed Up Challenge to see all of the Design Team cards and enter your card made with a ADU image for the challenge.   Thanks for stopping by here! 

Pam's Pearls

I'll be posting this card on the following challenges:  

Alphabet Challenge ~ August ~ Ink Blending  

Try it on Tuesday ~ Summer  

A Place to Start - August ~ Summer Things  

Four Seasons ~ Summer

Products

All Dressed Up, Beach Time  

Gina Marie Designs Labels Six

A Really BIG Birthday

Today I'm posting with the Design Team for the Classic Design Challenge as we open the August/September challenge.  Our challenge is always Anything goes and our Twist for this month will be 'Happy Birthday'. 

A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Mirtillamente Digital Designs.  For my project card, I've selected their Lisa LeGine Happy Birthday and made a 'wobbler' birthday card.   

I started by printing and coloring the image with Copics in bright neon colors to match the flowery glitter paper I'd selected. I colored about a 1/4" border on the outside of the image with the green neon and then cut out the birthday girl and set her aside.  Next I die cut the black background mat using Gina Marie Designs Pierced Nested Die.  I trimmed the flowered print to fit the 5 3/4" square card base and secured it.  Then I added the black mat on the left side, near the fold. 

For the sentiment I used the words that came with the digital package but I retyped the work BIG and enlarged it to fit the card theme.  After trimming each word, I doodled around and added the green neon to the edges then added to the card base on the right side.

To attach the birthday girl, I used a 'wobbler' spring, which is a purchased plastic spring with adhesive on both ends.  One attaches to the card base and one to the object you want to move or wobble.  Here's a short clip ~ 

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been coloring. I hope you'll hop over to the Classic Design Challenge and see the other cards made by the Design Team members. While there, enter your cards too! 

Pam's Pearls

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:  

Daisy Chain ~ Challenge 99 ~ Girls  

Girlz Creative Fun ~ Challenge 12  

Mirtillamente ~ Challenge 46 ~ August

Copics

Cake: V95, V93, R56, R46, R37, Dress: YG01, YG03, YR23, E01, Hair: N3, N5

Products

Mirtillemente, Lisa LeGine Happy Birthday

Gina Marie Pierced Nested Label Die

Art Impression Action Wobblers

He is the Rock

Today the Word Art Wednesday Challenge is opening for Weeks #712-713.  The new sponsor is  Stix2Anything and our featured scripture is from Deuteronomy 32:4.

For my Design Team card today I have used a generic mountain image and added the selected scripture.

After printing, I used Copic markers for coloring and the Pink & Main, Stitched Rounded Rectangle die for the decorative edges on the image and the brown patterned mat. I also printed the selected sentiment and used a stitched banner die to die cut it.   After securing the scripture to the completed image,  then I was able to secure both the image and matting to the hunter green card base to complete my card design for today. 

Thank you for stopping by to see what I've been working on. Please join us on the Word Art Wednesday Challenge with your cards and also get your free digital download of the featured scripture by right clicking and saving to your hard drive.

Pam's Pearls

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:  

Love to Craft ~ Challenge 87  

Crafts Galore Encore ~ August Challenge  

Morgan's ArtWorld ~ Challenge 91

Copcis: 

Sun: YR15, YR18, Y19, Y15, Y13, Sky: Y04, Water: B91, B21, B23, B34, B45, B37, Fields: YG61, YG91, G43, YG63, YG93, Left Mountain: W0, W3, W4, W5, Right Mountain: N1, N2, N3, N4, N5

Products:

Pink & Main, Stitched Rounded Rectangle 

H, I, J, K .....

I don't know about you but 'MY Momma' taught me to always say thank you and to do it promptly.  When I came home from Stamp Camp 2025, my husband was having hip replacement surgery two days later and thank you notes for the girls and gifts were the last thing on my priority list.  

The longer time past the worse I felt about not getting my little notes in the mail until finally I just had to stop everything and get them done!  I honestly was so tired from taking care of my patient that making a choice of what image to use for 10 different ladies was mind boggling....especially when I wanted each card to have uniqueness specific to the receiver.

After a good bit of searching I finally ran across the Cherry Blossom Monogram Alphabet and knew I'd found exactly what I wanted to make to send to each of the Stamp Camp 2025 ladies.   Here's a peak of the starting day..

  

This beautiful floral alphabet would be perfect, especially since we all have a list of each other's favorite colors.  I colored each one with my Copic markers, die cut with Penny Black's Elegant Stitching Rectangle Die and mounted on coordinating card bases.  The butterflies additions are from various manufacturers. 

It was wonderful to be a part of Stamp Camp 2025, to see old friends and to meet a few new ones.  Our hostess is always the best and finds the most unique locations.  We each showered our crafty friends with so many cute gifts and amazing crafty projects.  Thankfully, I finally got all my thank you notes in the mail! 

The finished products ~ 

Thank you for stopping by to see what I've been coloring.  Hope you'll come back soon! 

Pam's Pearls

Products:

Penny Black, Elegant Stitching Rectangle

Be Your Beautiful Self

When I attended Stamp Camp back in June, Ginger taught two different types of Eco prints techniques.  The 'Leaf Spraying' technique was a lot shorter method to get to the beautiful results than the method of using rusty nails and boiling a wrapped bundle of several prints.  Both methods however produced beautiful Eco prints for backgrounds.

Today I'm sharing the first card I've made using the sprayed Eco print I made at camp. I am grateful for the gals that gathered the assortment of leaves for all of us to have an amazing assortment to work with.

 We used two sheets of Canson Water Color paper for each set of designs.  One sheet is placed on plastic and the leaves placed fairly close without overlapping them.  Then we sprayed three random colors of Distress Oxide or Oxide Stain sprays over the leaves.  Quickly the second sheet was placed on top and using our hands we basically rubbed over the entire sheet to allow the ink to absorb around the leaves on both the top and bottom of our set of sheets.

After drying, a script stamp is used to carefully hand stamp in the open leaf blank spots. Then a Phano pencil (China Marker) is used to draw around the leaves.    A few ink spatters in black or white and the paper is complete.

Mine randomly cut into 5" x 6" pieces for backgrounds....

 I selected today's piece, trimmed to fit the yellow card base and added the sentiment along with a die cut fern piece.

Delivered this one to my friend Martha for her birthday TODAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTHA!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been working on. 

Pam's Pearls

 I'll be posting this card in the following challenges. 

Mix it Up Challenge ~ Challenge 78 ~ Optional Mixed Media

Simon Says  ~ Monday Challenge ~ Happy Birthday  

Krafty Chicks ~ Challenge 780 ~ Birthday Cards  

Creative Inspiration ~ Challenge 29