My Favorite Things All Star High Top Birthday Card…

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Hi everyone! Still catching up with birthday cards! This one was for our granddaughter Lilli! I couldn’t make it exactly like her shoes but I caught one of the patterns anyway! So cute!

Then the sweet daisies from Memory Box. Die cut in white and colored with Copics.

The paper I used for the shoes is an old pattern… really dates me… I think it was the first pattern paper company, Paper Patch…1995 ish! lol

Happy Birthday is from a Taylored Expressions Bold Brushstrokes stamp set that I use a lot for the teen ages. On the inside it says ‘you are totally awesome’ from the same set.

The detail in the High Top die is wonderful! The eyelets look real! So glad they brought this die back. I was able to snag an old set but now everyone can get it!

Thanks for clicking over today! Hope you enjoyed this cute card!

Here’s what I used for this card…

Memory Box – 94249 Daisy Silhouette…

[ STR | SSS ]

Bold Brushstrokes

[ TE ]

LLD All Star High Top Die-namics

[ MFT ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · Congratulations · copics · Die Piecing · Family · Interactive · Waffleflower Crafts

Waffleflower Tumble On Spinner Card…

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Today I’m sharing one of the birthday cards I made for our oldest granddaughter Atalyssa, aka Attie. She is an amazing gymnast so I had to use this new at the time Tumble on set from Waffleflower. Sooo fun!

This party was for five of our grandkids and Lizzie, who’s birthday is the day before Attie’s planned a Masquerade party. It was so much crazy fun! 😀

Here’s Attie making her card spin…

Fortunately she was able to get a few competitions in this year and we’re so proud of her! All around 2nd place at this one. YAY Attie! (she’s the girl that looks like she’s behind the number one block)

Here’s the card sliding by itself. There was a gal on Instagram that shared her card for Waffleflower and I basically copied her.

I stamped, die cut, colored and paper pieced her leo with black glitter cardstock.

I gave her a wood floor and brick wall because of the gym she goes to.

Thanks for stopping by to see this cutie in action!

Here’s a few of the things I used to make this card…

Waffle Flower Crafts – Craft Die and… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Waffle Flower Crafts – Matching Die -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Waffle Flower Crafts – Clear… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94015 Awesome Jotted… [ STR ]	Memory Box STRAIGHT SLIDER GROOVES… [ SSS ]	My Favorite Things ENGLISH BRICK WALL… [ SSS \| MFT ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Flowers · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Spring · Wreath Building

Memory Box Small Cosmos and Jovial Wreath CAS Card…

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hi everyone! A clean and simple card to share with you today with a wish for you to enjoy your day!

I almost got away with a completely die cut card. There is something about stamping a sentiment simply in black though! ❤

I die cut three of the Jovial Wreath in TE Granny Smith cardstock and glued them together with Tombow Mono Multi glue. I die cut two of the Small Cosmos, popped the pieces out of the top one but left them in the bottom one and added just a touch of coloring! I only glued them together around the very center and then glued the flower to the wreath and the wreath to the die cut in TE Confetti Cake and sentiment stamped panel using one of the sentiments from the Birthday Blowout stamp set.

I used mounting tape to adhere the panel to the A2 TE Toffee cardbase. I make my cardbases top folding because it’s easier to take pictures of them. Book fold cards are so nice and traditional though. I miss that sometimes! 😀

I imagine a lot of you already have flowers in your yards. Our temps are still too low in Iowa but it won’t be long! In the meantime, I’ll enjoy my day and my paper flowers!

I don’t have any of the new Memory Box/poppystamps release but Cindy @starlitstudio.net has all the NEW stuff and is shipping like normal! YAY! Simon Says Stamp has the new also but shipping is slower right now. Links below…

Linking to some challenges…

The Paper Players – tic tac toe/die cut, Spring, Birthday

Thank you for clicking over! ttul!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Memory Box – 94305 Jovial Wreath… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94265 Small Cosmos craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box / Open Studio – 30094… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppy Stamps Clear Stamps BIRTHDAY… [ SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	Copic Marker [ SSS \| BLIC \| TE ]
TE Foam Tape, 1/16″ [ TE ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| BLIC ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS \| SZZ \| BLIC ]

Birthday · cards · Interactive · Lawn Fawn · Simon Says Stamp · Spring · Video

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Whatever the Weather…

March 18, 2020March 17, 2020 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! It’s time for a new Challenge at SSS Wednesday today! The company we’re featuring on our blogs is Lawn Fawn and the theme is ‘whatever the weather’! So fun! It’s a pretty, sunny day on my card today!

I made a short video so you can see the action…

I used the new Magic Iris dies, Dandy Day stamp set, Reveal Wheel Circle Sentiments, Simple Grassy Hillsides dies and Stitched Rectangles dies.

Here it is closed…

Here it is open…

Aren’t they cute?! ❤

Distress Oxides for the background. Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn and ink blending brushes. I did some water drop spattering on the yellow and green spatters on the grass pieces.

Closed again…

Open again…

These dies are an investment but I can see myself using them over and over again. Two of our grandsons have made cards with them so far. They really enjoyed it too! 😀

I hope you’ll be able to join us and link up your creation for this week’s challenge!

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this weeks prompt and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of the challenge blog post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone!

Thank you for visiting my blog today! Hope I made you smile!

Products I used from the SSS store – coupon code for $5 off is HP2T9, good until May 30th…

Lawn Fawn SET DANDY DAY Clear Stamps… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn DANDY DAY Clear Stamps lf2217 [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn DANDY DAY Die Cuts lf2218 [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn SET REVEAL WHEEL CIRCLE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn REVEAL WHEEL CIRCLE… [ SSS ]	Copic Marker [ SSS ]
RESERVE Lawn Fawn SET MAGIC IRIS Die… [ SSS ]	RESERVE Lawn Fawn MAGIC IRIS Die Cuts… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn MAGIC IRIS ADD-ON Die Cuts… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn SIMPLE GRASSY HILLSIDES… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]	Set of 2 BLENDER BRUSHES sss2pk [ SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Flowers · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Spring

Memory Box Single Daisy Stem Card…

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Happy Friday everyone! A CAS die cut card to share today. Our area stamp club meets this afternoon and I have the program. This is one of the two cards I’ll have them make.

The Single Stem Daisy comes with a backer die for the flower. I die cut it in TE Lollipop cardstock, put the cut into the full flower die and embossed it with a stylus.

Then I inked the flower head with TE Strawberry Milkshake ink and a little make up brush.

I die cut the complete flower in TE Granny Smith cardstock and inked it with TE Granny Smith ink and a little make up brush.

I glued the layers together. You might want to clip off some of the green flower bottom layer if it shows.

I popped up the flower head with mounting foam tape just in the center.

I stamped the panel with a sentiment from a poppystamps sentiment set, links below.

A little Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink on the background panel. Some jute and it’s done…A2 size!

I changed the wrap up this time and wrapped an A2 size stitched panel die cut in TE Toffee cardstock. Then I just made the bow separate and glued it on the stem. I used mounting tape to adhere the white panel to the Toffee panel because of the jute. I didn’t want a hump! 😀

Thanks for stopping by today! I love the message on this card…a good thing to remember everyday! ❤

A FUN SALE going on at SSS!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Poppystamps – CL482 Blooming… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94398 Single Daisy Stem… [ STR ]	Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies – Large… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies – Large… [ SBC ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	TE Premium Ink – Full Ink Pads [ TE ]
Burlap Twine [ TE ]	Steel-ball stylus – MultiCraft double… [ STR ]	X-Press It Foam Mounting Tape – 1/4… [ STR ]