Taylored Expressions Peek-a-Boo Pumpkins and Summer Fun!

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Hi everyone! Summer is in full swing and keeping everyone busy I’m sure!

My first card today is using a new for August Peek-a-Boo stamp set and Peek-a-Boo die set. Swoon…do you ever think back to the days before matching stamps and dies?! Oh, we are so fortunate to have such fun ‘things’ to create with!

I stamped the pumpkins with Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink using the MISTI and then die cut with the coordinating dies.

The sign post is a new Little Bits die, I swiped it a couple times with the Gathered Twigs Distress Ink pad…the dirt is a new embossing folder called ‘Weathered’.

I had to throw in some other TE dies to finish off the scene. I love the word ‘fall’, standing in as a cloud! *grin*

I know…goofy, goofy angle, now why didn’t I notice that before I finished the photos! It happens! lol

I’ll never get enough of the TE Shaded Thanks Tree die…love it. Cut in Toffee/kraft cardstock and colored. Wispy grass and the fence from the Garden Arbor and Gate die set.

Next up…a Summer fun birthday card…

It’s an overcast rainy day here…so I’ll bring on the sun with this card! I love this basket die from TE and when you emboss it with the new We R Memory Keepers Woven embossing folder…well… it really looks like a basket! So cool!

There’s that fence again and this time I used the tree from the On The Line die and the word dies from the June Script set.

Stamps, dies and cardstocks I used are from Taylored Expressions HERE.

Thanks so much for clicking over to my blog today! Now what to make next! : )

Birthday · cards · CAS · Lawn Fawn · Memory Box · Paper Smooches · Penny Black · Perfect Layers Tools · Poppystamps · Printworks · rubber stamps · Watercolor

Birthday Cards…

August 3, 2015August 8, 2015 Pam Sparks18 Comments

How’d it get to be August already?! Here’s some of the birthday cards I made in July…

An older Penny Black stamp, watercolored with the Zig Clean Color Brush Pens HERE… love them! (Free shipping coupon code for August w/$80 order – AUG888)

Linking my kitty card to the Seize the Birthday Challenge – topping option embossing.

So much personality in these images! Next up an older Penny Black Frog stamp…done up the same way.

Just makes you smile! I matted all the cards with the Perfect Layers Tools… link over in the sidebar.

On the inside of both of these cards with balloons, I stamped the Printworks sentiment E2628 E.E. Cummings – it says “and up with joy and up with laughing”.

So cute! I would never touch one in real life! lol

A Flower card with Paper Smooches Flower stamp, vase die HERE and Printworks sentiments on the front and inside…

You can find this woodgrain cardstock at CutCardstock.com HERE. They have it in three colors, this dark brown, kraft and white. Their shipping is FAST! I just ordered metallic gold and silver on Friday and there is a box on my front porch and I think it’s from them! YAY!

Stitched Rectangles are cut with the Lawn Fawn sets HERE and HERE.

Happy Birthday stamp HERE…

and the inside the stamp, Though Everyone HERE.

The next card is the Memory Box happy die from the Open Studio set HERE on a watercolor background I painted with Peerless Watercolors HERE. The little birthday sentiment is from a poppystamps clear stamp set HERE. I put water on the watercolor paper first, then painted in the colors. The panel is cut with the Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame die set HERE.

Coming this Thursday is the Taylored Expressions August Release Day. I’ll be back with some cards then! Sneak Peeks from the TE Bakers Dozen are up on the blog starting today.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy birthday celebrating…don’t we celebrate our birthdays all year…every time we buy new stamps and dies?! haha We try to be good! lol Take care and ttul!

Birthday · Card Sketch · cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · Poppystamps · Washi Tape · WPlus9

Memory Box and WPlus9…

July 24, 2015August 8, 2015 Pam Sparks41 Comments

Christmas in July is always so fun! I have two more cards with the Memory Box Chatfords Wreath to share today. I love how these turned out! I threw in some teal card-stock to throw me off the traditional Christmas colors path! But wait…keep scrolling…I hopped back on with the second card! Another card with this wreath HERE.

I die cut the wreath two times from two different green card-stocks, kept all the pieces and just interchanged them between the two cards.

I die cut the alphabets with score tape on the wrong side of the card-stock so they’d be stickers. It works so slick! Easy to line up when you use the smallest size banner too! JOY is cut from metallic gold card-stock.

The white just makes it pop! Some pearls and Liquid pearls and it’s time to celebrate! or bust out singing a carol or two! : )

I’ll link up the dies and everything I used in inlinkz below.

I’m also linking to some challenges…
Merry Monday Christmas Challenges – Christmas card with a heart on it

ABC Christmas Challenge – O is for Off the Edge

Dies R Us Challenge – Christmas in July
Live and Love Crafts – Christmas in July
Pile it On – Christmas in July
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – ‘i scream for’ DIES!
Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday – Die cuts
Jingle Belles Challenge – Old Fashioned Christmas (my card has a retro feel/colors)

Next I have a birthday card I made for the WPlus9 Challenge and the CAS-ology Challenge…

I used the sketch from the Get Sketchy Challenge at WPlus9 – HERE

and

the challenge over at CAS-ology is Line – HERE

and

the challenge at Addicted To Stamps is CAS – HERE

I cut a quarter panel with the WPlus9 banner long die… it was the perfect amount of space I wanted for the ‘gap’ and an easy way to get a perfect gap! I lined each side with Washi Tape. Stamped the Blanket Stitch flowers with chalk inks, the sentiments with Versafine black and all with the MISTI.

Thanks for visiting today! Happy, creative weekend to you!

Supplies I used on my cards…

Birthday · cards · Masculine · Memory Box · Watercolor

Memory Box Circle Forest Scene BBQ…

June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 Pam Sparks20 Comments

You can plan a BBQ even if it’s not your birthday though! Celebrate Summer with a fun scene card!

I cut a white piece of card-stock 4.25 in. x 11 in., scored and folded it for a top fold card base. Top fold cards are the easiest to photograph and another photo tip, if you’re using natural light, be sure to pull up the blinds! Open blinds let in light but you’ll be amazed how much better it is when you pull them all the way up and out of the way! Your camera will thank you! lol

oops! Got off track there for a minute, back to the card!

I die cut the Circle Forest Scene parts from cold press watercolor paper. Then I watercolored them, the grass/trees with Peerless and the grill, houses and clouds with Zig Clean Color Brush Pens.

The little curvy fence is from the Wide Open Spaces Open Studio die set. I just trimmed off the bottom…perfect fit!

I wish I’d used the Celebrate from this set because it’s just enough larger. I didn’t see it until I’d already stamped this one from poppystamps Into the Words set. ‘It’s your birthday’ is from the same set.

I die cut a circle frame to place over the top from the Shaker Circle Frames die set.

Well, I see I goofed. The Grill has been discontinued!!! I wouldn’t have thought… so think bicycle or golf cart or even the new tractor die! Sorry about that!

All that’s left to do is layer everything up! I use ATG, Tombow mono multi glue, thin and regular 3L/Scrapbook Adhesives mounting squares.

Happy Summer day to you! Hope the weather is treating you right! haha Thanks for stopping by! TTUL!

Birthday · cards · copics · rubber stamps · Summer · Taylored Expressions · Watercolor

Taylored Expressions June Release DAY!

June 4, 2015June 6, 2015 Pam Sparks20 Comments

Release DAY @ Taylored Expressions!!!

It’s ALL about Summer! Relax, walk on the beach, ride a bike and maybe visit the zoo?! Maybe you don’t have to go very far to feel like you’re at the zoo! lol Personally, I prefer my own little zoo inside my air conditioned house! lol

My husband would love this… goin’ fishin’!

Here I used the NEW Build a Scene – Rolling Waves dies …three stitched dies, each with a different wave pattern.

Here’s what I did – I cut a piece of watercolor paper…dropped water on to it with a dropper bottle…then drops of Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink reinker straight from the bottle onto the water drops…let it spread…then removed the excess with a paper towel. Let it dry, then cut the waves from that piece. Cool! See those white caps?! I love how it turned out! YAY!

I also used the new Build a Scene – Underwater dies in the scene foreground.

Don’t you love the new Little Bits Fishing Boat and Lighthouse! So cute!

Meet this cute little crab!

The new Build a Scene – Underwater dies make the scene again here. Super cute plant life dies to perfectly complement the Under the Sea stamp set and new Under the Sea dies!

Well, he/she doesn’t look very crabby with that cute smile and googly eyes! lol Quick recovery! lol I colored the crab with Copic Sketch Markers and die cut it with the new Under the Sea dies.

I used the new stitched Peek a Boo Circles die at the top of the card and the new Beadboard Embossing Folder for the lower part of the card front.

So glad you stopped by today! If you’d like to see more projects and new product information, please head over to the TE Blog for a complete blog roll of the participating designers!

Hope you’re inspired to create some cards with TE stamps and dies! I have two more cards…I’ll post them soon!

See ‘ya!

All of the new products are available for purchase at the TE web store today!