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

Believe in Yourself

Today I'm sharing a 'flower' that my friend from California gave me.  Just an extra stamped and embossed flower ...  then I watched in amazement as she painted hers.  I've always wanted to be able to paint but I think I need to stay with coloring.  

Joyce used aqua green shades for her flower from the Unity Stamp set, Blow Your Mind.  I decided to use the same shades with my Copic markers to color my flower.

Here's my completed card and a few of the details on how I made it. 

 

After coloring, I hand cut the flower out and added foam near the center.   I started by adding the mint gauze to the mat paper, attaching it at the top and knotting the other end.   Then I layered several die cut dark green fern pieces and then added the black loopy thread.  I secured the colored flower on top and then randomly added the black enamel dots.  Lastly I added the embossed sentiment at the bottom right corner.

I'd like to share the beautiful card that Joyce's created and invite you to visit her blog also.

Joyce's Creations

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been coloring. And a special thanks to Joyce for her inspiration and beautiful posting for the Friends of Unity Blog Hop. I hope you enjoyed today's card and will be back soon.  

Pam's Pearls

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

I Love Promarkers  ~ Challenge 587 

Card Concept ~ Challenge 218 ~ Summer Days

(Inspired by their color challenge)

Allsorts ~ Challenge 828 ~ Pretty Flowers

Copics  

BG70, BG72, BG75

Products

Unity Stamps, Blow Your Mind

I Hope in Him

Here we are at the end of July and boy has it been a hot one in South Carolina!  Maybe today's card will help you think about a good memory of a cooler day at your favorite beach! 

I am posting with the Design Team for Word Art Wednesday as we open Challenge Week 710-711. Our wonderful sponsor for the challenge is Stamp Simply who is also offering a $25 Gift Certificate to the winner.

Our featured scripture is Lamentations 3:24 and for my Design Team card I selected the stamp set 'He Stilled the Storm' by our sponsor. 

 

I stamped the Ship wheel on a separate paper and stamped the lighthouse and birds on Neenah 110# card stock. I also sized the scripture from Lamentations and an aqua green mat to fit the card design die cut using My Favorite Things, Elegant Rectangle Stax Die set. 

I colored the image and the ship wheel with my Copic markers.  I fussy cut the wheel and trimmed close to the completed scene.  Then I secured the aqua green background mat to the A2 size card base.  After adding a yellow liner mat to the image, I secured it to the top of the card base, leaving about 3/4" space at the bottom.  In this space I added the Ship wheel image.  Lastly I added the scripture sentiment at the top right to complete the card design.  

Thanks for stopping in today to see what I've been coloring.  Be sure to visit the Word Art Wednesday blog to get your free file of the featured scripture.  Simply right click on the scripture and save to your folder on your computer. 

Pam's Pearls

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:  

Make Mine Masculine ~ Challenge 257 ~ Masculine  

Sweet Stampin' ~ July Challenge ~ Anything But a Square  

Krafty Chicks ~ Challenge 778 ~ For the Boys  

Moving Along with the Times ~ Challenge 180 ~ Masculine

Copics

Sky:  RV000, B0000, Y11, BV000, B60, Brick: E07, E08, E09, Water: BG23, B24, B28, B63, Lighthouse, BV20, Y13, Wheel, E07, E08, E09

Products

Stamp Simply, He Calmed the Storm 

My Favorite Things, Elegant Rectangle Stax

She Will Not Fail

A couple of days ago I started another Masterboard, this time for a girl theme.  I had been tossing the pink summery colors into a separate little box, which made it super easy to sort and see what I had available. 

For the base I used a piece of Canson Watercolor paper which is 140#.  This is a good weight as it holds the weight of the additional pieces and yet it isn't too think when it's time to cut the board.  I also tend to keep most of my shapes around 3" square or smaller unless it's a special print or embellishment.

Here's the first step of the masterboard with the the colors applied.

Each color coordinating piece is cut and randomly secured, some overlapping and some glued to the edge of the next paper.  Next I took a simple 'doodle stamp set ' and randomly stamped flowers and leaves over the page. I added three different styles of washi tape across the paper seams until I had everything covered that I wanted.

Normally at this point I would stop and not cut the board apart until I had images ready to apply.  However, today I had an image waiting for a piece of this background.

At Stamp Camp 2025, I had borrowed Ccolorado Crafts STAMPtember Collaboration / Simon Says Stamps~ Lovely Legs.  I  stamped the image then used my Copic markers for coloring.  To me the hardest part is deciding where to cut the masterboard for the card.  This image required a large portion and you hate to cover it up!  

But I ended up going vertical using the area just above the red polka dotted border.  Again, normally I would have left a lot more of the background showing, but that's just not possible on all card designs.

 The card ended up being a 4" by 8" slimline design.  I added the star strips to the top and bottom, the shine embellishment and then the black liner mat before attaching to the card base.  I really like how it turned out and appreciate you coming by to see what I've been coloring.

Pam's Pearls

I will be entering this card in the flowing challenges:  

Crafts Galore Encore ~ July Challenge  

Creations in Pink ~ Challenge 83  

Creative Crafters ~ Challenge 90  

Simon Says Stamps ~ Monday Challenge ~ Make Your Own Background

Products:

Ccolorado Crafts STAMPtember Collaboration / Simon Says Stamps~ Lovely Legs

Good Friends

Today I'm sharing my latest Design Team card for All Dressed Up Design Team using one of the new images for July.  I've selected 'Wings of a Butterfly' to make this friendship card. 

I love this little image and the possibilities with using her.  After printing her, I colored her with Copic markers and then fussy cut her out.  

Using coordinating papers, I  folded the patterned paper back and secured with a few pieces of foam.   The leaf was die cut using the Pink & Main Leafy 1 Die and added the doodling with a Posco (China) pencil.  After adding the leaf to the base, I added the loopy gold thread, and then the butterfly fairy.  Lastly I added the woven sentiment to the right of the image to complete the design. 

Thank you for stopping by to see what I've been coloring today.  I hope you will visit the All Dressed Up Digital Challenge Blog to see all the Design Team cards and to enter your ADU cards in the challenge. 

Pam's Pearls

I will be entering this card in the following challenge:

Cards Galore Encore ~ July Challenge  

Creative Crafters ~ Challenge 90  

Dream Valley ~ Challenge 340  

CD Sunday Plus ~ Challenge 163

    

Copics:  

Hair: E21, E23, E25, Butterflies: Y15, R35, BG49, Wings: BG49, BG45, Y15, Y13, R35, R22, Top: R22, R35, Pants: BG45

Products:

All Dressed Up Digital Stamps, Wings of a Butterfly

Pink & Main, Leafy 1 Dies