NEW dies! Memory Box Clara Blooms, Sitting Sparrow and Happy Easter Dover Script…

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hello! Welcome to a blog post with Spring vibes again! How in the world did it get to be March already! I feel like I’ll be forever trying to catch up this year. It’s ‘after wedding’ time for our family and adjusting to the anti climatic period! lol So here’s a card for Easter!

I fell in love with this new Clara Blooms die…I used two pinks and mint green to die cut. So sweet! I also used the darker pink to die cut the top layer of the new Happy Easter Dover Script and a dark teal to cut the underneath layer…both the same size, I just offset them a little for a shadow effect.

I die cut the new Sitting Sparrow in some old Bazzill brown cardstocks and the Woodgrain Bird House in one of the reds from the new Blush 6×6 cardstock pad. Gorgeous colors!

Can you guess where I got the inspiration for the background on this card? Let me know in the comments! hehe

I die cut the oval with the Studio Oval Layers and inked the edges a bit with Distress Evergreen Bough and the mini ink blending tool.

No stamping on this card!

I hope you love this as much as I do… the bird is so neat and easy to put together too! As well as the birdhouse and the flowers!

Change the sentiment for any occasion! yay! This is an A2 size card…

Linking to some challenges…

NBUS #60 – Never before used stuff!

Triple B March – Birds, Blooms and Butterflies

Four Seasons – Spring!

Double D – First Signs of Spring!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Add a Sentiment

Thank you so much for stopping by and if you want to know where to purchase these products at no extra cost to you, links are below!

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Links to the products I used on this card… Clicking/tapping STR takes you to starlitstudio.net, SSS takes you to Simon Says Stamp, SBC takes you to Scrapbook.com and TE takes you to Taylored Expressions.

Memory Box – 94688 Clara Blooms craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94724 Sitting Sparrow… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94742 Woodgrain Bird… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94729 Happy Easter Dover… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box / Open Studio – 30075… [ STR ]	Memory Box – SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Cupcake -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Pink Champagne… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Spearmint -… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Poblano Pepper… [ TE ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe [ STR ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Evergreen… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Mini Ink Blending Foam 1″ 20/Pkg -… [ STR ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Mini Ink… [ SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Craft Tweezers – EK Tools – 5 inch… [ STR ]	Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine… [ SBC ]

All Occasion · birch press design · Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Memory Box · Wedding

Memory Box NEW Cheerful Floral Collection Card…

February 23, 2024February 29, 2024 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hello Friday! Here lately you don’t have to worry about me filling up your email inbox! I do have NEW to show you though!

A beautiful collection that I really enjoyed working with…NEW from Memory Box. You knew already, right?! lol

You can stamp your image and then die cut or die cut then stamp on the die cut.

I cut the shape first then stamped on it in the MISTI.

Then the fun begins! There is a stencil set to use for coloring!!!!! For the pinks I used Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry Oxide Inks, then an old Versacolor pigment cube for the darkest… Rose Red #23.

Greens were a trio of Bazzill Dye inks but I had a new set of Altenew I could’ve used laying right there on my desk! ugh. I will link to them.

The light blue was Speckled Egg, Savage Patina and the brush for Peacock Feathers without inking it. All oxides.

For the yellow flower I used Antique Linen, Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber oxide and the brown oxide brush for the center without reinking it.

I am really happy with how it turned out…you know how it is…at several points during the process I was thinking this is not going to work! lol

So after I finished stenciling it I put it in the NEW 3D Cheerful Floral 3D embossing folder! oh wow! That just added so much! I taped it in place in the folder. It shifted a little so next time I’m thinking maybe just go half way, stop and run it through from the opposite end half way.

I used the Memory Box Rectangle Double Border Hot Foil Plate for the base panel…started with 4 ½ in x 6 ¼ in panel but ended up trimming the top and bottom. It will still fit in an A6 envelope.

I think it’s nice to have a bigger than A2 size for super special cards sometimes! Let’s go Hallmark! lol

I used some ribbon from Stampin Up from who knows how many years ago and the sentiment from Birch Press Design Celebrate Today Noted Script hot foil plate and die set in gold foil.

I mounted the floral piece with some of the thin mounting tape I love! then the ribbon, then the sentiment mounted with the same thin mounting tape. It should still travel for one stamp!

Holler if you have any questions! I’m going to link up what I used below. If you’re tempted to get this collection, I say go for it! You’ll have fun and end up with beautiful cards without all the time coloring! Win! Win!

Linking to some card challenges…

Stencil Fun – anything goes

Triple B – Three B’s

NBUS – never before used stuff

Thank you so much for stopping by! Oh happy day…we’re so excited here…a week from Saturday one of our grandsons is getting married! So we’re in the midst of all kinds of prep! I found a dress and am now working on shoes! lol

Yesterday we found out the Chamber of Commerce here used a picture of them on the cover of their new Face of Mahaska County magazine! How fun is that! We’re so happy for them! ❤

Ok – I’ll stop talking and get that list made below.

Links to what I used to make this card… be sure to check out all the NEW release from Memory Box, poppystamps and Birch Press Design!

THIS is the ribbon in my photos… love this stuff!

Memory Box – CL5278D Cheerful Floral… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 88619 Cheerful Floral… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – EF1025 Cheerful Floral… [ STR \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design – BPF506 Celebrate… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – MBF006 Rectangle Double… [ STR \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Scor-Tape [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL ]	Altenew – Fresh Dye Ink Pad – Mini… [ SBC \| SSS \| ALTN ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Memory Box · Mini Slim Card · Poppystamps · Thank You

NEW Memory Box Cards…

January 17, 2024January 22, 2024 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hello! I’m enjoying the sunshine today! It really warms up the house…thankful for that in this below zero weather we’ve been having!

Meanwhile flowers are growing in my stamp room!

Two cards to share with you today…NEW dies and NEW papers!

I inked up the NEW Blooming Anemone and NEW Elegant Anemone dies with Distress Ink and the mini blending tools. I die cut the florals from Bristol cardstock and used Peacock Feathers and Pine Needles Distress Inks.

Two NEW 6×6 paper pads from Memory Box, Anemone Plaid and Anemone Grove.

I made this card base a mini slimline size. I do love this size…just something charming about it with the florals, inking and plaid. Wish I could show it to you in person!

The florals are so easy to put together. I love that. I just follow the pattern on the envelope by laying the pieces on top of the picture!

Oh, the greens I used for the stems and leaves…Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss Distress Ink.

I used a poppystamps sentiment from the Modest Greetings 1 hot foil and cut die set. Spellbinders gold hot foil.

Taylored Expressions Cardstock… I’ll link below.

The ribbon rolls in my photos are HERE…

Linking this card to some challenges…

Triple B January 2024 Challenge – Blooms

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Let’s Have Some Fun!

NBUS Challenge #58 – Never Before Used Stuff!

Next card…

A NEW hot foild plate, Rectangle Dot Border. I love how it looks like a faux spotlight!

I used the NEW Happy Birthday Debut Script die cut from the NEW Anemone Grove 6×6 paper pad, tone on tone piece that I used for the background panel. For the Happy Birthday Debut Script backer, I used plaid from the NEW Anemone Plaid 6×6 paper pad.

I die cut a rectangle of vellum to fit inside the hot foil frame using the Rectangle Basics die set.

Everything is layered on an A2 White cardbase.

Three Doodlebug Design enamel dots for a little something!

I mounted the sentiment with the thin mounting tape I love, to the vellum panel first so I’d know where I could put glue on the back of the vellum to adhere it to the purple pattern paper.

Linking my Happy Birthday card to a new challenge! Check it out!

Word Power #1 – a challenge using sentiments as the focus

That’s pretty much it! Holler if you have any questions! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Links to what I used to make these two cards… I added some sentiment stamp sets to the end because I’m always looking for sentiments for the inside so I figure you might be too!

Memory Box – 94770 Blooming Anemone… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94769 Elegant Anemone… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1026 Anemone Grove 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – PP1025 Anemone Plaid 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – PSF802 Modest Greetings… [ STR \| SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Blue Raspberry… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Poblano Pepper… [ TE ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]
Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94773 Happy Birthday… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – MBF010 Rectangle Dot… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Doodlebug Design – Stickers -… [ SBC \| STR ]
Memory Box – CL5266 Joyful Moments… [ STR ]	Memory Box – CL5276 Friends and… [ STR ]	Memory Box – CL5265-D All the… [ STR ]
Poppystamps – CB498 Diamond… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – CL499 Art Deco Birthday… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – CL505 Art Deco… [ STR ]
Poppystamps – CL509 Colorful Life… [ STR ]	Birch Press Design – CL8163 Kind… [ STR ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Spellbinders dies · Stencils

Spellbinders January Stencil of the Month Card…

January 11, 2024January 12, 2024 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hello everyone! I’m starting 2024 with the NEW Spellbinders Stencil of the Month club. Most of the gals have already posted bright floral, pretty cards so I was trying to think of something different and thought ‘go brown’! I’m sure that doesn’t surprise you too much! lol

Want to know how the Spellbinders Clubs work? Click HERE!

So here’s my take on it… I did the stenciling first in Distress inks…Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain. Fun! Something therapeutic about inking up layers!

I wanted some words to stamp around it randomly so I went digging through my Spellbinders stash. I found the Kindly Deliver to my and the little envelope in the Parcel & Post Sentiments stamp set. I just used the top part of the stamp.

I found the cancellation lines in the Holiday Hugs Sentiments stamp set.

Then I needed a main sentiment to complete my card! There are sentiments on the stencils but I wanted something raised up. I found this Warm Wishes in the Christmas Die and Glimmer Sentiments set. Wishes is hot foiled and Warm is die cut out of gold mirror cardstock.

I spattered the card with walnut stain distress ink and gold calligraphy ink.

I edged with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and then I went around it with Walnut Stain Distress ink to give it a deeper brown on the very edge.

Layered onto an A2 size dark brown panel and then on to a kraft top fold cardbase.

I have another card to share soon and LOTS of NEW new new from Memory Box! woohoo!

Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy New Year to you!

Links to what I used to make this card…

Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	Spellbinders – Parcel and Post… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Holiday Hugs Sentiments Clear Stamp… [ SPL \| SSS ]
Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – Gold,… [ BLIC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – matte and shiny [ STR ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Spellbinders dies · Stencils · Valentine

Spellbinders NEW Stencil Club!

December 29, 2023December 31, 2023 Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone! Here we are after Christmas and moving right on to the New Year faster that the speed of light!

Have you heard about the NEW Spellbinder stencil of the month club? I’m sure you have cuz I’m late getting my card posted for December and it’s already closed! Usually you can order them a month later though.

This set has four stencils. I used Distress inks and the mini circle Tim Holtz blending tools.

I used Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover and Pine Needles for the greenery. For the heart flowers I put down Kitsch Flamingo first, then some Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral! lol You sure wouldn’t need to use all the pinks/reds! lol

I hated to cover up all the stenciling so I went with a fun hot foiled sentiment from the Spellbinder All Occasion Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil set.

I really like how clean and simple it turned out plus it was fast to make!

It’s an A2 size card and completely mailable! I noticed the post office was running cards through the machines even if they had ‘hand cancel’ and extra postage on them. That is really frustrating. I even received cards that were completely rigid that had been machined. So cardmakers just put a stamp on it and call it good! I even received a pkg that was a stamp set and a die, weighed 1.8 ounces and only had one forever stamp on it and it still came intact and no extra postage envelope wanting me to pay extra! All this technology isn’t speeding things up or accurate! HOHOHO!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I went MIA because I needed to get some house stuff done and be ready with gifts and 27 ppl on Christmas Eve day! WOW! Did we have fun! Still smiling about it. I thank God for our family every day! I hope you had a blessed Christmas too. Talk to you again soon!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	All-Occasion Mailbox Greetings… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Pine… [ SSS ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Spearmint -… [ TE ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| BLIC \| SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]