Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Guest…

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 Pam Sparks12 Comments

I’m so excited to be posting with the gals at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for the month of March! Each week a different company is featured and a theme to challenge us! I hope you will join us!

Here’s my card for this first week…featuring Polkadoodles and the theme, Something Feminine!

I fell in love with the images from this company and had to buy three. ❤ (the snowmen are adorable!) Links below…

This one is soooo cute! Winnie – A Pile of Gifts.

I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Copic friendly coloring paper, colored with Copic Sketch Markers and cut it out.

Skin – I started with a layer of YR000, then E000, 00, 01, 02 and 11.

Cheeks – R20, then R30 and 32 and back around the edges lightly with R20.

Hair – E31, 34, 35, 39.

Pink Dress – R00, R81, 83.

Party Hat and Bow – B60’s.

Puppy – E42, 43, 44, 47.

The background is on Mixed Media card, die cut with Memory Box Wrapped Stitch Rectangles and ink blended Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide ink and Tim Holtz water bottle water drops.

A little scrap of MFT’s Black and White Stripes 6×6 paper pack. An A2 size card! ❤

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 week’s 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 clicking to my blog today! I hope she made you smile and inspired you to color and get some cards made!

Products I used on my card from Simon Says Stamp…

Polkadoodles A PILE OF GIFTS Winnie… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Clear Stamps BEST LIFE… [ SSS ]	My Favorite Things BLACK AND WHITE… [ SSS ]
Strathmore MIXED MEDIA VELLUM SURFACE… [ SSS ]	Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS ]	Copic Marker [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger 4… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS ]

Birthday · cards · Impression Obsession · Snowman · Winter · Zigs

Impression Obsession Snowman With Fence Birthday Card…

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Pam Sparks8 Comments

January is a big birthday month for our family… I’m behind posting my cards! This one was for our youngest grandson Charles… he picked out the stamp. I made him another interactive card that I was experimenting with that he loved. I need to improve on it though to make that one post worthy! lol

I stamped this on Canson Smooth Bristol and watercolored it with Zig Clean Color Brush markers.

Definitely a jolly, happy soul! I used some Nuvo Crystal Drops gloss white on the snow.

I stamped the number 5 on one of the new poppystamps Heart Tag Trio. The snow is from a new poppystamps Whittle Cloud Border die set. Both die cut in white cardstock. I love how fluffy it looks as snow!

The sentiment Birthday Boy is from poppystamps Sentiments of Hello stamp set, inked up with Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster Ink. Taylored Expressions cardstock, Confetti Cake for the card base also.

Thanks for stopping by today! I have a couple CAS Valentines to post soon, so I’ll be back! ❤

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Impression Obsession Rubber Stamps:… [ IST ]	Poppystamps – 2318 Whittle Cloud… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – 2302 Heart Tag Trio… [ STR ]
Poppystamps – CL451 Sentiments of… [ STR ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	TE Premium Ink – Full Ink Pads [ TE ]
Nuvo Crystal Drops – Gloss Simply White [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers [ BLIC \| SBC \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz – Idea-ology – Tiny… [ SBC \| SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · copics · Die Piecing · Masculine · Memory Box · Quickutz · Taylored Expressions

3 Letterboard Cards…

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! Did you see the Splitcoast Stampers recent email talking about Letterboard cards? oh, I keep calling them this but I think the email called them Marque cards. Here’s the tutorial!

My first one is a birthday card for our oldest grandson. I used an old alphabet die set from Quickutz called Diesel. The birthday wishes postal circle is from Inkadinkado.

I will link up a bunch of alternative, similar alphabet die sets in my linkdeli collection at the end of the post. They would all make awesome cards like this too!

This one is ¼ of an inch taller than a regular A2 card. I mailed it in an A7 envelope.

The little bit of coloring is with Copics.

The next one is the card I made for Tim/husband. Four family birthdays in January! Two more to go! hehe

This one I used a different alphabet. It’s Parker from Memory Box. (my link below is to Parker lower case, upper isn’t available anymore) The little candle is from a Quickutz die set and the heart was on my desk.

I scored lines this time with my scor-pal instead of making ¼ inch strips and foam mounting tape like I did for the others.

Harder to see the scored lines in that picture…

There you can see them again. This card is A2 size and the cardbase is Cookie Monster cardstock from Taylored Expressions.

Glossy Accents on the candle and heart.

My third cards are thank yous! I need several right now! ❤

I really had fun with this card style… but I quit for now because I need to do other stuff! lol

This is Quickutz Diesel alphabet again. The heart is from Honeybee Stamps.

The red and black cardstocks are from Taylored Expressions also. The envelopes I made for these is a digital cut from Kerri Bradford.com. I cut them on the Scan and Cut cm350. I’ve been experimenting to use it more! yay! It’s like a coin envelope style… I should’ve taken a better picture of just the envelopes. You can find it HERE.

A2 size and I used two Pool notecards from Memory Box for the card bases.

Thank you for stopping by today! I’ll be back real soon with another Reverse Confetti card, then more Memory Box and poppystamps coming your way! Hope the new year is finding you with time to make. I can’t believe this month is almost history! :O

$5 off code for SSS right now is LVEYU842 (good ’til 3/1)

Then there’s a grrreat sale at Taylored Expressions! You know I love their cardstock and I received the blending brushes for Christmas!!! Link below and get the brushes, caddy and cleaning tool now while they are 30% off!!! (hmmm, do I need another set?!) lol Sale today, 9 a.m. CST the 23rd through tomorrow 9 a.m. CST the 24th! HURRY! 😀

TE Blender Brushes [ TE ]	TE Blender Brushes Storage Caddy [ TE ]	Blender Brush Cleaning Tool [ TE ]
Memory Box – 94341 Vintage Varsity… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn COLE’S ABCs Lawn Cuts Dies… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Lawn Fawn FINLEY’S ABC’s Lawn Cuts… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn QUINN’S CAPITAL ABC’s Lawn… [ SSS ]	Pinkfresh Studio ADORE ALPHA Die Set… [ SSS ]	CZ Design Wafer Dies ALL CAPS NO 01… [ SSS ]
Mama Elephant INLINE LETTERS Creative… [ SSS ]	Journey Serifs Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]	SR-011 Contour Type-Oh! Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]
Memory Box dies – Parker Lower… [ STR ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe – Marshmallow [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Darice Double-Sided White Foam Sticky… [ STR \| SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	A2 Envelopes [ TE ]	Honey Bee Stamps – Honey Cuts – Steel… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design > 25 Notecard… [ BRC ]	Birch Press Design > Patterned Paper… [ BRC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]

Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Masculine · Poppystamps

poppystamps Happy Birthday Card…

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! Every once in awhile I’m inspired to use something from my stash….so don’t shoot me because today I’m using a die that is no more! poppystamps Happy Birthday Melody.

I stapled it on with the tiny attacher stapler.

The word belated is from a Lawn Fawn stamp set that I stamped… I love how it turned out.

Some washi tape on the background piece and an old canvas looking background stamped in black.

This is not your normal cardstock! A gal from stamp club brought this and gave it to us… It’s chipboard like. So fun and it just adds more to the masculine feel of the card.

An A2 size, clean and simple card that just came together with stuff from my stash! yay!

Thanks for stopping by! I’ll be back with more birthday cards… I can’t show yet because I don’t want the peeps to see them before they receive them! hehe

We’re celebrating Winter here in Iowa with a snowstorm that’s living up to the forecast! Sorry to the ppl that need to go places! Take care! ❤

Birthday · cards · Christmas · copics · Cottage Cutz · Die Piecing · Winter

Cottage Cutz Peeker Snowmen Birthday Card…

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Cute card warning….and these snowmen fit the part! It’s a dreary windy, rainy day here. A little blog cheer is called for!

My white pen was acting up…grrr. The cardinals have a dot of black enamel accents on their eyes.

I die cut the snowmen in white and colored all the parts with Copic Sketch Markers.

I die cut the music in black and left it complete…die cut it again in white and cut out the snowflakes and glued them over the black ones.

The background is Distress Oxide inks and the mini ink blending tools…Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot.

This is for our oldest daughter that was born on Christmas Day!

I was inspired by Leslie Miller’s 2nd card HERE. It’s funny the twists and turns a card takes as it comes to life! Kinda like Frosty! lol

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a fun shopping weekend! Here’s the stores I link to as an affiliate. Thank you so much for clicking through my blog when you can!

Taylored Expressions Craft Store -… [ TE ]	Simon Says Stamp World’s Largest… [ SSS ]	Impression Obsession Rubber Stamps [ IST ]
Scrapbook.com – Ideas, Supplies,… [ SBC ]	Art Supplies, Crafts & Framing \|… [ BLIC ]	Home \| Sizzix.com [ SZZ ]
Spellbinders Paper Arts – Die Cut,… [ SPL ]	My Favorite Things \| Clear Stamps &… [ MFT ]

Shopping links for what I used…

CottageCutz Peeker Snowmen [ SCR ]	CottageCutz Icicle Border (7″ Long) [ SCR ]	Simon Says Stamp JINGLE SNOWFLAKES… [ SSS ]
Carta Bella 12×12 Double-Sided… [ STR \| SBC ]	Copic Sketch Markers [ BLIC \| SBC \| TE \| SSS ]	Sizzix Big Shot Machine Only (White &… [ SZZ \| SBC \| SBC \| SSS ]