Echo Park Mister Fox Snow-globe Birthday card…

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m back with another birthday card…this snowglobe card is for one of our granddaughters that just turned 12! Lilli loves to stamp and die cut. She will sit and do tedious die creating even! A gal after her Grandma’s heart for sure! lol

When I saw this Fox die I just had to have it. I don’t know why, if you know me, you know I’m not an animal lover! A lot of my friends are, so I keep good company! lol I love cute stamp and die critters though!

To come up with this snow-globe shape, I used the Memory Box Circle Basics die and the Memory Box Snow-globe Open Studio Bases die set. It was easy to make the front but I took the challenge and did partial die cutting to make the card base because I wanted it to be the snow-globe shape too. It worked great!

With a pencil I outlined the card front onto the card base. I cut the circle part of the base by keeping the fold below the cutting line on the circle so it wouldn’t be cut when I ran it through the machine. I stopped cutting the circle when it got to where the base started by lining the cutting plate up at the stopping point before I ran it through the machine.

Then I lined up the base to the pencil line and used a little piece of broken cutting plate at an angle on both sides (one side at a time) so the top of the base wouldn’t cut when I ran it through the machine! I was tickled with how it came out and even more tickled that it worked the first time! hehe

So don’t throw broken cutting plates away…that’s my tip for the day!

You’ll find the Circle basics die set HERE, the Parker Alphabet dies HERE, the Snow-globe Base HERE (wouldn’t you know, the snow-globe bases are discontinued, I found them at this site though when I googled), the Pattern Paper I used HERE, the flower sticker HERE and the Fox HERE.

Linking to some challenges…

Seize the Birthday – Anything Goes

The Paper Players – Cut it Out

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – For a special lady/girl

Thanks for stopping by! Thank you for the wonderful comments and emails! I love hearing from you!

Birthday · cards · copics · Memory Box · Penny Black

Penny Black Flower Cascade and Memory Box Happy Birthday Friendship Script…

March 6, 2017March 7, 2017 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Hello!!! It’s about time I got a blog post written! Our middle daughter’s birthday was Friday and this was her birthday card… I sat down and colored for a change!

This beautiful image is from Penny Black, Flower Cascade. I purchased it from Starlitstudio.net. It’s out of stock now but Cindy has a ton of other gorgeous Penny Black stamps to stamp and color! An amazing and I mean AMAZING Penny Black sale HERE and FABULOUS new releases HERE and HERE with great prices! It’s out of stock at Simon Says Stamp too. ugh. Hopefully you can find it at your local stamp store if you’re fortunate to have one!

HERE’s another store with Penny Black and a sale going on right now too!

Scrapbook.com is celebrating National Craft Month with a store-wide sale! For 3 days only, take an EXTRA 10% OFF EVERYTHING in the store. Many items are already on sale, so your final prices in the shopping cart will be 10% to 80% OFF. Use coupon CRAFTYDEAL at checkout. Coupon expires on March 8th, 2017 at midnight MST. *Only one coupon code per order. Offer excludes gift certificates. (they have the best price on the big shot HERE – my favorite die cutting machine!)

Back to the card…hehe

I colored with Copic Sketch Markers…the pinks are RV00 and the R80s.

The Happy Birthday die is NEW from Memory Box…I love it! So pretty. You can find it HERE at Starlitstudio.net. Cindy has the newest release in stock too! yay! I don’t have any of them yet but they’re neat.

Linking my birthday card to some challenges…

Penny Black and More – Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday – Birthday theme

Addicted to Stamps and More – Anything Goes

Scrapyland Challenge – Anything Goes with dies they sell (I used Memory Box)

Stamping Sensations – Close to Nature

Cards and More Challenge #9 – Anything Goes with Flowers

I’ve been making Easter cards for Memory Box and poppystamps and hopefully they’ll show up soon on those sites or on the QR code pkg thing. Have you noticed that? Download a QR reader app on your phone and when you scan the code on the envelope a sample card will come up. The Valentine ones do now anyway. Just keep checking back.

Camera update…I’m loving it! whew! Such a big investment and you just have to bite the bullet and do it. I took pictures at our family birthday party with it Saturday night and was pleased with people pictures too! Double whew! lol

It’s good to be back here sharing with you! I truly can’t believe it’s already March, can you?! Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday · cards · PTI · Taylored Expressions · Winter

A snow-globe kind of birthday card…

February 5, 2017February 10, 2017 Pam Sparks31 Comments

I had fun using some Papertrey Ink dies and Taylored Expressions stamps to make this card. A Distress ink background with ink spatters…some copic coloring and fussy cutting and it was ready to put together.

A very fun shape card and the first time for me to use this stamp set! So I’m linking up to Darnell’s NBUS challenge #10! yay!

The challenge at Stamping Sensations Challenge blog is Animal Magic so I’m linking up there too.

The challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges blog is a card with an animal too…count me in!

Over at Jingle Belles Challenge the theme is ‘let the flakes fall where they may’ So cute!

Here’s a close up…

It could’ve easy been a shaker but I like it a lot this way too! Just making paper snow this year! I think the snow is all going north of us. hehe Sorry northerners!

Thanks for stopping by! ‘preciate it and no I won’t ask you to go count how many snow-globe stamps and dies you own already. #chuckle

Birthday · cards · Color Pencil · Neat and Tangled · Snowman · Taylored Expressions

Neat and Tangled Merry Bear Birthday Card…

January 22, 2017 Pam Sparks25 Comments

Look at this adorable little snowman! It’s family birthday time again and our youngest grandson is turning two tomorrow! Where does the time go?!

I wanted to play in the NBUS challenge with the option of color pencil on kraft. I love how this almost looks like wood!

I stamped with the MISTI, colored with pencil, then went back and using the MISTI again, I left the stamps where they were, inked with black pigment embossing ink, stamped them and heat embossed them with black powder.

So many times when you color with pencils you lose the strong black line. We used to do this years ago when Stampa Rosa had the House Mouse stamps. We would stamp them their stamp positioner, color them with Tombow markers and then come back and emboss them over the top of the marker coloring. Amazing the difference.

Next time I am going to color the image right in the MISTI without moving the card-stock. There was enough ‘user error’ this time that I had to stamp the bear a few times and ended up with a thicker black line then the stamp really has. grrr Still cute though!

Hopefully we’ll get some snow for his birthday! haha It’s been a weird, rainy Winter for Iowa. Not used to dark and dreary. It’s usually bright with snow! I’m sure we’ll get those Winters again.

Linking up to Darnell’s NBUS Challenge #8 – optional theme ‘use color pencils on kraft’

Thanks for stopping by! See you again soon and I’ll have a special announcement soon too!

Products I used…

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Avery Elle · Birthday · cards · Christmas · Distress Ink coloring · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

Avery Elle Kitsch Christmas birthday card…

December 19, 2016December 19, 2016 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Hi everyone! Just stopping in to share a birthday card for our grandson Bryant. I just had to use this adorable Avery Elle Christmas Kitsch stamp and die set! Soooooo CUTE! So fun to color.

I made an ink blended sky with Distress inks and stamped the three snowflakes from the set with Delicata Silver ink. I added a few Pretty Pink Posh 3mm Sparkling Clear sequins. I love these tiny ones!

The Memory Box Fresh Pine Landscape die is the background piece die cut in white card-stock.

I used the poppystamps Delicate Holly Frame die adhered to the scene with mounting squares under the solid holly leaves.

The deer are colored with Copic Sketch Markers, the E30 series. Copic Opaque White painted on the eyes and the spots.

I hope you’re having a nice relaxed Christmas prep week! Tim went to turn on the oven Saturday and the element in the oven went bad. ugh. So all of a sudden we were stove shopping…or he was! lol Poor guy. He even went and picked one up by himself! It’s really nice! I will enjoy heating up my cocoa with it! lol

I was busy making gift tags! hoho I have a picture over on instagram but haven’t taken a picture with the camera yet. They’re cute if you want to see… ugh…more deer! WHAT?! They are fun though…the Printworks antlers and googly eyes and a big red nose ‘Cool Yule’ kind of tag on kraft! yes! Link to my IG page is over in the sidebar.

ok – I’ll shut up and get back to work! Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy some cocoa with me next! (I wish)