poppystamps Snowflake Loop, Proper Merry Christmas Card…

November 10, 2022 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hello! I’m still working my way through this beautiful Memory Box 6×6 plaid paper pad! I love it!

The contrast with white! The touch of gold… so festive!

All die cutting today…shoot me now! I forgot to stamp the inside of my card! I was sailing along so well there for a couple weeks! lol

I glued two white cuts together for the Snowflake Loop piece. The snowflake from the set, I die cut two but just used them single.

I used Memory Box Black Glossy cardstock for the panel and the Proper Merry Christmas sentiment.

So simple once I finally decided what colors to use for the sentiment!

It’s a 5 ½ inch square card. White cardbase.

Gold pearls in three sizes glued on to finish it up!

What are you making these days? I see gals posting they’re starting to decorate their houses. We’ve been working in our basement …imagine over 100 year old basement that has plastered ceilings and walls cut into to run air conditioning ducts and wiring and plumbing etc! Tim is taking down the plaster on the ceilings, scraping the walls and painting the ceiling, walls AND floor! It’s a lot…big old house. So I’ve been moving stuff to keep ahead of him. Oh he’s building new shelves too! I’m so excited! Maybe I can store some of my excess stamp stuff down there! How long should we keep boxes?! lol You know, the ones die cut machines come in, the MISTI boxes, etc! Yikes!

Thanks for stopping by! Talk to you again soon!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Poppystamps – 2538 Snowflake Loop… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2543 Proper Merry… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1019 Christmas Jolly… [ STR \| SSS ]
Pearl Embellishments – 2mm, 3mm and… [ STR ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12 [ STR ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]

Birthday · cards · Cottage Cutz · Die Piecing · Interactive · Masculine · Summer

Pop Up Step Birthday Cottage Cutz Camping Card…

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! Do you have memories of camping? Our grandsons keep very busy outdoors! They love sleeping out and all the things that go along with it! I have fun making them cards like this.

This is a step card of sorts, not sure what it’s called. It fits in an envelope though! lol

Here’s the back side…

Here’s the inside…

Have you heard of the show Adventure Agents? Very fun for kids!

Here it is from the side…

Close up of the critters…

All the dies are from Cottage Cutz.

And here’s a video that maybe shows how it works better… be sure to click on one of the frame options to see it large.

Holler if you have any questions! Confession…I made this in January so I can’t remember everything! ❤

birch press design · cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Inlaid Diecutting · Masculine · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

poppystamps Whittle Forest Reindeer Kit Card and Leaf and Tentril Hot Foil Card…

November 1, 2022November 10, 2022 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hello! How is your Holiday creating going? I cannot believe it’s November can you! Keep scrolling for card #2.

Now this cutie reindeer is going to make you smile! Isn’t he adorable in his plaid hat!

I love this new die kit and NEW Wintertime Snowflake Frame from poppystamps!

I used the NEW Memory Box Jolly Christmas Plaid 6×6 paper pad…Memory Box Lush Green and Earth Neutral 6×6 cardstock pads.

such a cutie!

The sentiment is part of the stamp set included in the kit. I heat embossed in white and die cut with one of the rectangle dies from the Birch Press Design Contempo Christmas Greetings die.

I love how it turned out! I hope you love it too! hehe

On the inside I stamped a greeting from the NEW poppystamps Christmas Sparkle stamp set, ‘You make every day seem like Christmas’. I love this set! I used Wendy Vecchi English Ivy Archival ink pad to stamp it. I just bought her English Ivy and Red Geranium Archival ink pads. I love them too! lol

TIP: I tell you a lot I love this thin big roll of mounting tape that I link to at the bottom of my posts…I always forget to tell you about cutting it though! I use the non stick scissors that I finally remembered to link to today! I’m really glad I went ahead and purchased the scissors from Cindy because it makes a difference with sticky tape. I love that it’s sticky because I’m assured that my card won’t fall apart after the receiver gets it! I love that it’s easier to mail too! Win! Win!

Next Card…

NEW poppystamps Leaf and Tendril Hot Foil Plate! Sooo pretty! This green cardstock is from my stash but now I’m thinking there’s probably a similar green in the Memory Box Cardstock pad.

I die cut the NEW Memory Box Keep Christmas Curled Script die in gold foil/mirror cardstock.

Then I die cut it in a piece of white cardstock and inlaid the gold into the white so I didn’t have to glue all the lines! Scor-tape on the back, flip it over and put in the insides of the letters… that’s easier imo. I also love how it looks! So professional!

I’m not a big bow person but I love it on this card! The NEW Memory Box Dreamy Bow die in TE Cherry Pop cardstock.

A mess of sparkly trim behind it. Gold pearls added to dot the ‘i’s and in the corners. I love these gold pearls from starlitstudio.net. The perfect sizes!

Both of my cards in this post are A2 size.

I’m linking my Whittle Deer Card to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge – Holiday Cards

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Christmas

Christmas With the Cuties – Anything Goes

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes Christmas

I love sharing with you! I hope you enjoyed it! I so appreciate you stopping by and interacting with me! It makes my day! ❤

Here’s what I used to make these cards…

Poppystamps – KT003 Whittle Forest… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2534 Wintertime… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 8162 Contempo… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – CL511 Christmas Sparkle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1019 Christmas Jolly… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1009 Earth Neutral 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Wendy Vecchi – Make Art… [ SBC ]	Poppystamps – PSF809 Leaf and Tendril… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94700 Keep Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94633 Dreamy Bow craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Pearl Embellishments – 4mm gold,… [ STR ]	Pearl Embellishments – 2mm, 3mm and… [ STR ]
Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12 [ STR ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Tim Holtz – Big Shot Switch… [ SBC \| SBC ]

birch press design · cards · Christmas · copics · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

Birch Press Design Snowy Circle Layer Set – Two Cards

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everyone! I had a little fun with ink blending Distress Oxides and Dies for this A2 size card!

Kitsch Flamingo stamping for the snow and edging with a bit of Picked Raspberry added on the perimeters.

The snow scatter is from an older BPD Celestial Waves stamp set.

I used all three layers of the NEW Birch Press Designs Snowy Circle Layer set. I inked Layer B with a little bit of the pinks.

Skates are super easy to put together! They’re a NEW Memory Box die that I used already a couple weeks ago with a sled and a few other new dies. I loved using them as an embellishment on this card. A little knit cro-sheen for lacing them up.

I forgot to take a picture of the inside but I did finish it! I stamped it with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink in the MISTI with the ‘May the JOY you find this Christmas follow you throughout the year’ sentiment stamp from the NEW poppystamps Christmas Sparkle set.

I got up early this morning to make this pink card! I’d already thought it through and it worked! yay!

Linking to some Christmas Challenges…

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenges – Anything Christmas Goes

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes Christmas

Winter Wonderland Challenge – Let It Snow

I made the next card the other day using the same Snowy Circle set but adding the New Memory Box Nested Globe Bases die to turn it into a snowy snowglobe!

Here I used the NEW Birch Press Design Felicity Snowflakes dies and some Fairy Drops for the background.

I used some Lindy’s Magicals powders to ‘paint’ the snowy circles. I die cut from Smooth Bristol cardstock, spritzed with water and tapped on the powders. The top layer I just painted with the white and water.

I love the sparkle/shimmer it gives the die cuts!

The JOY on both of my cards is trimmed from the NEW BPD Find Joy and Outline die. I just used the JOY part.

The foil cardstock I used is from the Memory Box 6×6 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad. This pad has metallic and pearl cardstocks.

On the inside of this second card, I used the same sentiment set but different stamps. This one says ‘May your Christmas truly Sparkle’ and ‘With much Love’. I stamped with Peacock Feather Distress Oxide ink in the Misti and it turned out beautiful. To bad I didn’t take a picture of it!

I didn’t try this for a shaker card but I’m thinking it’d be really pretty made up as one!

Thank you for sticking with me for this long post! I appreciate you stopping by!

Click on the letters below the item to see what I used to make these two cards. Have fun!

Birch Press Design – 57467 Snowy… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94674 Classic Pair of… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 57452 Find Joy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Birch Press – Clear Stamp – Celestial… [ FRN ]	Birch Press Design – 57453 Felicity… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – FP1003 Rainbow… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – CL511 Christmas Sparkle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30087 Circle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94675 Nested Globe Bases… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – Fairy Drops – clear… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magicals… [ STR ]
Lindy’s Stamp Gang DROP DEAD DIVA… [ SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]

birch press design · cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Inlaid Diecutting · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

Birch Press Design Crochet Snowflake Card…

October 26, 2022 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! Some snow in our future I’m sure but paper snow you don’t have to scoop or blow! Depending on how many bits fall on the floor I guess! haha

I love the plaids in Memory Box 6×6 pads! This is one from the new Jolly Christmas PP1019 pad. I wish I could show it to you in real life. I love these colors together but once again I struggled for hours to get pictures to show the right colors and I didn’t succeed! So buy the pad! You won’t be sorry!

It’s a tealish, more grayish, greenish blueish color IRL. More like the first picture, but darker.

I used the NEW Birch Press Design Crochet Snowflake Layering Die set… so pretty! I love it!

I die cut layer C in the plaid paper, then in gold and inlaid the gold into the plaid.

Glued Layer B die cut in black on top of the gold.

Glued Layer A die cut in this teal/gray/bluegreen cardstock I have in my stash on top.

I used the NEW poppystamps Joy Freestyle Script die for the sentiment!

Not a hard card at all but I did cut the layers in all the colors before I decided which ones to use. lol

I added some gold pearls and I almost added more but I wanted that color to show through, so I stopped.

And here’s the inside! I stamped it with a sentiment from the Memory Box NEW Sweet Christmas set that I love! It stamps up great and lots of good words!

It’s a square card 5 ½ x 5 ½ inches.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Talk to you again soon!

Here’s what I used to make this flakey card! 🙂

Birch Press Design – 57474 Crochet… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2540 Joy Freestyle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5283 Sweet Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1019 Christmas Jolly… [ STR \| SSS ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12 [ STR ]
Pearl Embellishments – 4mm gold,… [ STR ]	Pearl Embellishments – 2mm, 3mm and… [ STR ]	Scor-Tape; Scor Tape [ STR \| SSS ]