Spellbinders BIRTHDAY Special Offer for June 2026…

June 3, 2026June 16, 2026 Pam Sparks11 Comments

My first card I made with this cute free die set! Have you heard? Spend $150 and you get this adorable Dragon! I made it up three ways. I think he would’ve been super cute with a grad cap!

This is my second take! I got it finished and looked on the SB website only to find the Sports dies and stamps no longer available! So…. Here are the names of the sets in case you want to try to find them somewhere! All – Star Sentiments STP-209 and Sporting Goods Die set S6-217.

Linking my Birthday Party Time Dragon to some challenges…

Seize the Birthday – anything goes

Critter Crazy – anything goes

Stencil Fun – anything goes using stencils (background layering stencil set)

Die Cut Divas – anything goes

The Male Room #211 – the outdoors

The Pick 3 for May/June – I pick sports, birthday and blue

on to #3! Which can only be a sneak peek! But worth the trip to the Spellbinders Blog to see the whole card and several others from gals that work with SB products! Click, Tap, HERE!

Here’s the close up pictures I took of the first two cards…

so cute!

The sports one is my favorite! lol

Thank you so much for stopping my blog today….I hope I made you smile!

Now for some shopping links so you can play too!

Deals – Spellbinders Paper Arts [ SPL ]	Scallop and Stitched Edge Ovals… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Little Smiles Sentiments BetterPress… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
Cruisin’ By Sentiments Clear Stamp &… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Lakeside Memories Layered Stencil by… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Nested Postage Labels & Tag Etched… [ SPL \| SSS ]
Spellbinders – Shiny New Day… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Mini Blending Brush Set from the Card… [ SPL ]	Altenew Mini Blending Brush Set… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Classic White ColorWheel Cardstock… [ SPL ]	Blush ColorWheel Cardstock 12″ x 12″… [ SPL ]	Waterfall ColorWheel Cardstock 12″ x… [ SPL ]
Seaside ColorWheel Cardstock 12″ x… [ SPL ]	Lilac ColorWheel Cardstock 12″ x 12″… [ SPL ]	Lavender ColorWheel Cardstock 12″ x… [ SPL ]
Beeswax ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x… [ SPL ]	Terra Cotta ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″… [ SPL ]	Carrot ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x… [ SPL ]
Rainforest ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″… [ SPL ]	Raven ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x 11″… [ SPL ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

Baby · cards · CAS · Congratulations · Lawn Fawn

Clean and Simple Baby Cards…

May 18, 2026May 18, 2026 Pam Sparks3 Comments

Two fun clean and simple cards to share with you! I was inspired by a card I’d saved some time ago but no markings on the photo so I’m not sure where I found it! Some place that had a stitched plaid cloud anyway!

I recreated the plaid cloud with an old Hero Arts graph type wood mounted stamp and a cloud die.

I cut the BABY out of a clear stamp set. lol The large Baby is from another clear set and the word shower is from a Lawn Fawn set!

The stitched rectangle dies are from Lawn Fawn.

My daughters needed baby cards so I set to work! It took me longer looking for stamps that would work than it did to make the two cards! lol

I love how they turned out!

All the baby stuff I’ve ever purchased is now out in a pile on the floor ready for what they need next! Whispering this but believe it or not, I’d had the excuse to shop even though I don’t need a thing!

Super fun news though! Our family is GROWING again! So excited! Babies are so SO wonderful!

Linking to some Card Challenges…

Simply Clean & Simple May 2026 – clean and simple

Word Power May 2026 – focus on sentiments

Try it on Tuesday – Keep it simple

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing the joy of creating with me!

ttul!

Baby · BetterPress · Die Piecing · Spellbinders dies

Spellbinders Bundle of Joy Card…

March 17, 2025 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Welcome Baby! Such a super cute set from Spellbinders Little Smiles Collection for March. I don’t need baby cards very often but this set will be perfect when I do. So adorable!

I finally caved and bought a Betterpress set! I’ve been faking it with the how to’s from you tube but I have to say this is SO MUCH EASIER! lol I’m glad I bought it!

I used the new Little Sentiments Betterpress set. It’s great… you do a bunch of sentiments at once, die cut them all at once too! Not my normal way of doing things because I’m not one to have the bowl of unused stuff on my table to work from. I like all these though! lol

The purple of my card is brighter than it’s showing up in my photos. I don’t know how to fix that. I used my camera instead of my phone this time.

So basic die cutting here, easy compared to taking and editing pictures! hohoho I love the stork’s usps old fashioned hat! I don’t know if they wear these anymore. Last week I saw the carrier and he had green hair soooo I guess they’re leprechauns now! haha

It’s an A2 size card. I used the Essential Arches Die set for the panel. The cloud border and stars are in the Bundle of Joy set. Super fun! There’s another cute set from this Little Smiles collection I’ll be showing you soon. There’s an embossing folder and Betterpress plate also! I’ll link the whole collection below.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Happy cardmaking week to you!

Here’s what I used to make this cute baby card…

Little Smiles Collection -… [ SPL ]	Bundle of Joy Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Little Smiles Sentiments BetterPress… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
Essential Arches Etched Dies \|… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	BetterPress Letterpress System \|… [ SPL ]	New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL ]
Bellini ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Lilac ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x 11″… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Lavender ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Cosmic Sky ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Beeswax ColorWheel Cardstock 8.5″ x… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Zig 2-Way Glue Pen – Squeeze & Roll… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| BLIC ]
adhesive pick-up square [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Fiskars Softgrip Titanium Non-Stick… [ STR ]
Craft Tweezers – EK Tools – 5 inch… [ STR ]	Uchida Double Ended Jewel Picker -… [ SPL ]

Baby · Card Sketch · cards · CAS · copics · Woodblock Stamp

CAS Baby Card for Freshly Made Sketches and Woodblock Wednesday Challenges…

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I made a baby card! When I saw the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches I immediately thought of baby clothes on a line. Then I saw the Woodblock Wednesday Challenge and thought of my drawers of woodblock baby stamps!

I stamped the woodblock onesie in Memento Black ink using my old stampamajig to space the onesies on a 3 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. card panel. I hand drew the line with a black micron pen. Colored with Copic Sketch Markers. I made a mask, using the negative and stamped some wood peg stamps on the onesies.

I die cut the largest Memory Box Wrapped Scalloped Rectangles die in black cardstock to mount the panel to.

The onesie is from Savvy Stamps, 1026C Hanging Onesie.

The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn Little Bundle clear stamp set. On the inside I heat embossed in white powder on black, Lots of Love (and more laundry). I stamped them in the MISTI with black ink, can’t remember which one! oops!

A2 size…clean, simple and CUTE!

Linking to some challenges…

Freshly Made Sketches #672

Woodblock Wednesday Challenge – oops…there’s no challenge there right now but still giving it a shout out because it triggered me to use a wood mount stamp!

NBUS #71 – Never Before Used Stff!

Simply Clean and Simple February – anything goes CAS, love and /or hearts

The Neglected Stuff Challenge – Kick-Off (new challenge) everything on my card has been neglected sad to say!

Thank you for stopping by!

Baby · Die Piecing · Memory Box

Baby Boy Card…

April 12, 2022 Pam Sparks10 Comments

It’s been a long time since I made a baby card! Years ago I saw a card made up with this turtle die and I kept it for inspiration!

The turtle is an old Provo Craft die set… the snips and snails and 100% boy is from an older Close To My Heart clear stamp set.

The pattern paper is old Memory Box 6×6 pattern paper! Somewhere in the 2003 ish time! eek!

It makes me smile! So it was use NEW/OLD stuff last week finally!

One of our granddaughter’s has a Beeswax Candle making business… so I die cut a take out box and added this cute little duckie in with the check/gift.