Lawn Fawn Snowball Fight Platform Pop-Up Interactive Card…

March 11, 2023March 13, 2023 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! I have an end of Winter card to share today! Maybe an end to Winter… haha!

I made this for our youngest grandson’s 8th birthday…he loves the outdoors!

Linking to Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 144 – All Things Birthday

I started by making the platform pop-up. I LOVE Lawn Fawn’s interactive die sets! They are so meticulously made AND made in the USA! I have used this set so many times since I purchased it…best purchase ever! It’s even easy to walk the kids through making it!

It always takes me a little time deciding what to use. I made a set using Doodlebug Design stickers after seeing one of their design team members cards… So so cute!

Kelly from Lawn Fawn always makes excellent videos for walking you through construction too! I was totally inspired by the LF team in creating this card. The how to put the Platform Pop-up together video is HERE.

I stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with sketch copic markers. White gel pen for accenting here and there.

For the snow hills I used the curved borders from the LF Shadow Box Card and Shadow Box Card Theather Add-on. Trimming them to fit the front and inside.

The sign on the front is from the Berry Special stamp set and die set.

The pattern paper I used is from LF also… I don’t see it in the store anymore though.

I know I’ve shown this before in my other posts but I love how easy it collapses and fits in an A6 or A7 envelope!

You can collapse it either up or down!

The kids love it! I love it! ❤

I hope you’re inspired to try it! Thank you so much for stopping by twice this week! I appreciate it!

Shopping links to the products I used to make this card… click on the abbreviations below the item to take you to a store! Thank you! No extra cost to you! (I see some are out of stock but I left them in for when they come back in stock)

Platform Pop-Up Lawn Cut – Lawn Fawn [ ACH \| SBC \| SSS ]	Platform Pop-Up Add-On Lawn Cuts -… [ ACH \| SBC \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn – Clear Photopolymer Stamps… [ SBC \| SSS \| ACH ]
Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies -… [ SBC \| SSS \| ACH ]	Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers and Sets [ BLIC \| SSS \| TE ]
Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS \| ACH \| STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	double-sided tape holder – holds… [ STR ]
Scor-Tape; Scor Tape [ STR \| SSS \| ACH ]	Honey Bee Stamps – Birthday Bliss… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

All Occasion · Altenew · birch press design · Birthday · cards · Die Embossing · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Memory Box · Spring · Thinking of You · Video

Birch Press Design Jovial Blooms and Leaves Hello Card…

March 9, 2023March 18, 2023 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hello! Some fun blooms to show you today! I’ll jump right in with a short coloring video.

I used three pinks and three greens from Altenew. I’ll link the colors at the end of my post. Really pretty colors in real life.

I dry embossed the BPD hello Sugar Script hot foil plate and die from the Spring of ’22 release with my big shot (in the video you’ll see I did it in gold but didn’t end up using it) and inked it with the Altenew pink set of inks also.

I used the leaves from the NEW Birch Press Design Phlox Blooms and Leaves Contour Layers die set and inked them the same as I did the others in the video.

The background die is BPD Pinpoint Contour Plate die from this year’s Valentine release cut in white cardstock and cut down with the NEW Memory Box A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set.

I love these cute whimsical flowers!

This is an A2 size card.

Linking to some Challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Emboss it

The Flower Challenge – Die Cuts or Stencils

Tic Tac Toe – challenge board I did the Die Cut, Green and Layers row

We’re back to Winter here in Iowa! A beautiful snow globe kind of day! Snowing and I love it too! hehe

Holler if you have any questions…have a good rest of the week wherever you are!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

57502 Jovial Blooms and Leaves… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 57507 Phlox… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 57511 Pinpoint… [ STR \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design – BPF501 Hello… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94672 A2 Rectangle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Green Fields Crisp Dye Ink Mini Cube Set [ ALTN ]
Red Cosmos Crisp Dye Ink Mini Cube Set [ ALTN ]	*Mini Ink Blending Tool new* – 2… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS** ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Memory Box – Fairy Drops – clear… [ STR \| SSS ]	Zig 2-Way Glue Pen – Squeeze & Roll… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – Media… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – White and Gray – Big Shot… [ SBC ]	Couture Creations UNIVERSAL 5 x 7… [ SSS \| SPL ]
Gelly Roll Black Glaze Pens [ STR \| SSS ]

All Occasion · birch press design · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Flowers · Memory Box · Mother's Day · Spring · Thinking of You

NEW Memory Box Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral, Plumed Gypsy Butterfly and Curlicue Plate Cards…

February 22, 2023February 23, 2023 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Hi everyone! It’s time for a new release from the Memory Box companies! The usual beautiful products to work with!

I have two cards to share with you using the NEW Curlicue Plate! I love it! So whimsical and fun! Keep going for my second card using it.

I wanted to use some other NEW dies too… so I made up the New Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral in a couple colors but went with pink from the Memory Box Berry Red 6×6 cardstock pad… it’s February, all things Red!

The NEW Wayfarer Leaves die cut in three colors of green from the Memory Box Lush Green cardstock 6×6 pad.

The NEW Hugs Tender Script die cut in white and then in Memory Box Glossy Black cardstock. I love this glossy black. I’ve about used up my pack! Not quite an emergency yet. lol What a pretty font though! Isn’t it gorgeous?!

I should’ve told my camera to focus on the hugs instead of the flower here. I am an amateur… worse than an amateur! lol

I die cut the Curlicue Plate in white cardstock, the green panel underneath with the NEW A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set (same Lush Green cardstock pad) and the oval from vellum using the Memory Box Studio Oval Layers die set.

The pretty rosebuds are from the Birch Press Design Morning Rose and Triple Buds Contour Layers dies released earlier this year.

My next card came about because I had an almost perfect Curlicue Plate die cut! It’s so hard to throw those away! So I thought about it and decided to try cutting away the parts that didn’t cut completely the first time. This plate needs a shim… so I use a piece of copy paper folded in half on top of my cutting plate to run it through… blades up as I always say! (I never use that metal shim)

I thought this turned out fun! You know me and kraft! White, pool and whimsy! Oh and staples!

A beautiful NEW butterfly for all the butterfly lovers out there! Plumed Gypsy Butterfly!

***notice how I used the curlicue from the part I cut off behind the butterfly! clever… hehe

Hello Rush Script is a NEW sentiment die… love it in that glossy black again…

A new set of nesting dies! Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers. I can see this one working for banners too!

I think I remembered everything! Send me an email or comment if you have any questions! I don’t mind at all!

I used the Tim Holtz mini stapler to hold the Curlicue cut down but glued in the few pieces of pool color.

Linking to…

Just Us Girls Challenge – moodboard

CAS Colors and Sketches Challenge #505 Sketch

The Flower Challenge #77 Use your latest stamps or dies, must be floral

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you’re getting some creating time in. Won’t be long til hearts turn to real flowers and grass grows!

Have a good rest of the week!

Here’s the products I used to make these cards…

94698 Curlicue Plate craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94713 Gentle Rose… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94712 Wayfarer Leaves… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94669 Hugs Tender Script… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94672 A2 Rectangle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 57493 Morning… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94708 Plumed Gypsy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94468 Hello Rush Script… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94646 Curved Cap… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]	SCS-151 Spellbinders VELLUM SHEETS… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

All Occasion · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Foiling · Hot Foiling · Oxide Inks · Spellbinders dies · Techniques

Spellbinders February Release Four Petal Floral 3D Embossing Folder Card…

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! Do you remember the poinsettia embossing folder card I made HERE? I tried it again with the NEW Spellbinders Four Petal Floral 3D Embossing Folder.

I did this one a little different. I ran it through the Big Shot with the embossing folder setup after I inked it up with Antique Linen Distress Ink pad. (regular dye ink) You ink it on the wrong side, the side that debosses, the design is recessed into the cardstock but you don’t want to go deep this time. Use a thinner sandwich. I inked it up so it’d be easier to see where to brush on the ink. The first time I did it I got too much green on the pink.

I found that I could kinda ‘wash’ the ink off with a damp stiff-ish paint brush, after I deep embossed it and brushed back in the right color. I missed a few spots though! hehe

Scroll down (last picture) and you’ll see how it looks after ink blending and before the last embossing like the folder is meant to be embossed.

After inking with yellow, pink, green oxide inks and deep embossing, you ink blend again over the top of all of it with Vintage photo distress oxide ink.

It’s a super fun, vintage-y, distressed look that the camera makes brighter and deeper color than it really is IRL.

I hot foiled the sentiment on a die cut panel using the Spellbinders Something Special Glimmer Hot Foil Plate and gold hot foil.

I spattered on some gold ink for sparkle and glued on some gold pearls to glam it up… oh and some thin gold cord before I glued it to an A7 size cardbase.

Here’s the not so pretty ink blended panel! :O I know… at this point you think, I should quit! This is NOT working! lol

Never fear….keep going! lol

As to my Hallmark commentary last time… this one is Hallmark size anyway! lol

Linking to some challenges…

The Flower Challenge – Use your latest stamps and dies

Just Us Girls Challenge – Sparkle (I have gold sparkly spatters)

Can You Handle the Pressure – anything goes with an embossing folder

Sunshiny day here today, probably won’t be tomorrow when this posts and I haven’t even made it out! I can’t believe it’s already Feb, 14th! Weather and time seem to be my go to conversation! ugh. Sorry!

Hope this finds you creating valentines or something! I’ll talk to you again soon!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Shopping links to the products I used… thank you so much for clicking through from here! I appreciate it and no cost to you! Valentines SALE! Go HERE! Feb. 14 – 20

Spellbinders – Four Petal Collection… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Inspired Basics… [ SBC \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil… [ SBC \| SBC \| SSS ]

All Occasion · birch press design · cards · Die Piecing · LOVE · Memory Box · Valentine

Birch Press Design Banner Heart Layer Die Set Card…

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 Pam Sparks6 Comments

Hi again! Hearts a plenty! Next it’ll be bunches of flowers! lol

Once you start cutting these layers, you wonder what it’d look like this way or that and end up with slimline cards! Birch Press Design NEW Banner Heart Layer set….3 dies in the set. I didn’t even try just using one or by twos! How about little stars up in the right hump! Patriotic is good too! Hearts for all occasions really!

I like the pink and more card but you know…I’m partial to red! ❤

Nothing out of the ordinary here…die cut and glue together.

I did get some stamping on this one though. Using the Memory Box Big and Little Valentines stamp set… I curved the stamps on a block… they stamped great! I stuck the cutouts that I threw away in the spot to test though. I’m a tester stamper! lol I suppose every once in a while I gamble but for the most part I’ve learned my lessons well! lol

one of the red close up…

For the this one, I used the Memory Box Slim Confetti Plate for the front panel/background… I thought it was playful and fun with the banner look. Reminds me of that candy that came in dots on paper and you picked it off to eat it. gag. Can’t believe the stuff I ate as a kid! Much better on a card!

The sentiment here is from the NEW Birch Press Design Sugar Script Sentiments 1 Hot Foil Plate and die set. I foiled it in silver on Memory Box Black Glossy cardstock.

I placed the hearts on wonky and straight. I think they’ll mail fine. I can’t believe postage is going up again. ugh

Happy Thursday to you and I’m on to the next birthday card. Our youngest grandson turns 8 tomorrow! Doesn’t seem possible! We are blessed!

ttul!

Here’s links to what I used for these two cards…

Birch Press Design – 57510 Banner… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – BPF503 Sugar… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94551 Slim Confetti… [ STR ]
Memory Box – CL5252 Big and Little… [ STR ]	Altenew RED SUNSET Crisp Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad [ SBC \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC ]	Neenah Classic Crest Ultra Thick 110… [ SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe [ STR ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter · Your Next Stamp

Memory Box Plaid Winter Scene Birthday Card…

January 20, 2023January 31, 2023 Pam Sparks20 Comments

Hello to all, snow or no snow! The birthdays keep coming!

I started with Memory Box Circle dies, cutting a smaller circle in black cardstock and using the panel, not the cut out circle. Then I cut out a larger circle in a kraft A2 size panel with an eighth inch larger Memory Box die. I’ll link the ones I used below.

I die cut the snow puffs with poppystamps Whittle Cloud Border die and white cardstock.

I used a square of Memory Box Woodsy Plaid paper to fit behind the circle panels. I adhered everything together flat for mailing, except the sled.

Memory Box Little Trees dies cut from black cardstock and glued on flat.

Memory Box Feathery Snowflake Discs from white cardstock and glued on just in the centers. (I just used the flakes)

For the sled I used Memory Box Vintage Sled #94495 from 2020. Die cut in kraft and black cardstocks, then glued together and mounted to the card with the very thin mounting tape I’m always raving that I love!

The sentiment on the front is from Your Next Stamp set called Silly Monsters Chill Out. At first I was going to use the images from the set and color but then I changed my mind and went with the sled.

On the inside is a happy birthday sentiment.

It turned out CAS but I was happy with it! I hope it inspires you to create something Winter-ish!

Linking to the The CARD CONCEPT Challenge – Winter Snow

Cut it Up Challenge – anything goes with a die cut

Once Upon A Time Challenge – The Snowy Day

Shopping Our Stash – Winter Fun

Thank you for stopping by!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Memory Box – 94677 Little Trees craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94495 Vintage Sled craft… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94681 Feathery Snowflake… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – 2318 Whittle Cloud… [ STR ]	Memory Box – PP1018 Woodsy Plaid 6×6… [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30087 Circle… [ STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Bazzill Card Shoppe – Licorice Twist [ STR \| SSS ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]	Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad [ SBC \| SSS ]