SSS Big Picture Book Puppy Birthday Card and 30% off SSS Brand Dies!!!

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018 Pam Sparks7 Comments

What a fun thing to wake up to this a.m.! Made me blog! lol Fortunately I still have some pictures of our grandson Leo’s birthday card that I haven’t posted yet and I used Simon Says Stamp Brand dies for it! YAY! Click on the ad to shop, it’s an affiliate link. Thank you for clicking from here! ❤

Ranger products are also 25% off and there’s even more crazy, amazing sales HERE! A lot of stuff 99 cents! HURRY!

This pup is so cute! 2018 was the year of dogs for our family! 3 Standard Poodles and 1 Doodle added to the 3 daughter’s families! Ambitious girls! lol

So this card for Leo, the pup had to be black. 😀

I used two of the new Big Picture dies… I’ll link them below and an old Quickutz number die for the 5. The sentiment is from a MFT stamp set. I’ll try to find it to link to also. Oh, I cut an extra body and used the legs for paws too! 😀

Two close ups and I gotta run shop too! lol

I layered up the eyes and nose 5 or so times to get them to stand out against the black. I punched the white part of the eye.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Here’s to a wonderful week after Christmas of relaxing and papercrafting! I finally started something yesterday. lol

Some shopping links for the products I used on my card today…

Simon Says Stamp BIG PICTURE BOOK… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp BIG PICTURE BOOK… [ SSS ]	My Favorite Things LITTLE BUDDIES… [ SSS ]
My Favorite Things LITTLE BUDDIES… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS \| SBC \| HLM ]	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD… [ SSS \| STR \| SBC ]
Embossing Powder Prep Bag… [ STR ]	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun… [ SSS \| SBC \| HLM ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS \| HLM ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]
Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Cheery Lynn Designs METAL SNIPPERS s140* [ SSS \| STR ]
Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS ]	Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hallmark Scrapbook – TEFLON BONE FOLDER [ HLM \| SSS ]
EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic Studios Tim Holtz 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 12.25… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy [ STR \| SBC \| HLM ]	Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]	MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]
Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC ]	Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring… [ SSS \| JGG ]	Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]
Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]	Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR \| SSS ]
Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS \| JGG ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D FOAM SQUARES… [ SSS \| SBC \| JGG ]
Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]
Tonic 14×14 inch Easy Clean Craft… [ STR \| SSS ]

cards · CAS · Christmas · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Poinsettia Circle Frame and Nativity Circle…

December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 Pam Sparks14 Comments

It was a Holy Night…this card…was a challenge but nothing compared to what Mary and Joseph faced! A beautiful reminder of what Christmas is all about!

I painted the die cuts with Gansai Tambi watercolors and metallics. Layered them together and placed them on a red glitter die cut circle. A little gold stickles for the centers.

The sentiment is from the Bold Holiday Greetings stamp set, stamped in Ranger Archival Black ink with the MISTI.

I hope you’ve had a beautiful season of creating Christmas cards…hard to believe we’re closing in on the month of December already! I could make Christmas cards all year!

Thank you for supporting me and my blog and God bless you all! P.S. Shopping links in my right sidebar…

cards · CAS · Christmas · Digital images · Poppystamps · Winter

poppystamps Seed Snowflake Joy Card…

December 6, 2018December 17, 2018 Pam Sparks27 Comments

It’s a candy cane JOY today! Using poppystamps Seed Snowflake Joy die, Tidings of Joy stamp set, twine and white and red cardstock!

I placed a strip of red on the white card base, then mounted the die cut white panel with foam tape to the red strip.

For the candy cane stripe, I cut strips of red and white cardstock with my paper trimmer, covered a piece of copy paper with tape and placed the strips alternating colors over the tape diagonally. Then I die cut the J and Y from that piece. I used glue and stuck them down flat inside the negative cut in the Seed Snowflake Joy panel.

I stamped the sentiment with the MISTI….oh, I did that before I mounted up the panel though…

I really like how this turned out…another CAS card and so Christmasy looking!

Linking to some challenges…

Inkspirational Challenges – Anything Christmas Goes

Muse Christmas Visions – anything holiday

CAS(E) this Sketch #300

thank you ladies for picking my card to win!

Time Out Challenges – Joyful

Scrapyland – anything goes with dies sold in their store

Thanks for stopping by today! Wishing you JOY!

cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

poppystamps Pinpoint Heart Mittens and Merry Outline Card…

December 3, 2018December 4, 2018 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! I had some fun making this card….I cut everything in multiple colors because I couldn’t decide what colors to use for what layers etc. Good grief! I should’ve done eeny meeny miny mo!!!

I landed here with more tone on tone or in this case, same on same! lol I almost didn’t add the word mittens but then I did. Now I can chuckle about it!

I love this big merry outline die though and these sweet mittens. I used the new background stamp from the Typewriter Holiday Elements set too.

Really simple card that shouldn’t take long if you can make decisions! lol Some days are worse than others. hehe

The mittens would be a super sweet embellishment to an ice skating or sledding card too!

I wanted to tell you about a great price on the Teflon Bonefolder too. Click HERE and get it for $12.99! Lots of other great products and prices too (Winter Sale)! I love my Teflon bonefolders…you can’t believe what a difference they make in creasing your card-stock. You have to trust me on this one! hehe (testimonials in comments)

Visit the 12 days of Christmas at Scrapbook.com, HERE! Sizzix, Lawn Fawn, Ranger and more! 20 to 50% off!

and today is the last day for this… UP to 50% off Tim Holtz products, HERE!

Thanks for stopping by! I won’t keep you cuz more cards coming from me this week!

Links to products I used…

Poppystamps – 2105 Pinpoint Heart…

[ STR ]

Poppystamps – 2111 Merry Outline…

[ STR | SSS ]

Memory Box – CL5234 Typewriter…

[ STR | SSS ]

cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Poppystamps · Winter

poppystamps Nativity Scene Sidekick Frame/Stencil and Simple Bethlehem Stitched Frame Card…

November 18, 2018November 19, 2018 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Hi cardmakers and friends! I made this card last week and am so excited to show it to you today. I wanted to make a short video of the process first!

I hope the video is self explanatory but if you have any questions, just email me at the contact tab under the blog title.

or you can watch it on You Tube HERE

A snowy day in Iowa yesterday and today it’s sunny and whoa it’s bright for taking pictures! lol

I love how this card turned out… it’s A6 size and the products I used are linked below!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy creating!

Poppystamps – 2135 Nativity Scene… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2134 Simple Bethlehem… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – CL473 Christmas Time… [ STR \| SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad -… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM \| JGG ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM \| JGG ]	*Mini Ink Blending Tool new* – 2… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| JGG \| HLM** ]
Mini Ink Blending Foam Refills – pkg… [ STR \| SBC \| JGG \| HLM ]	Scor-Tape; Scor Tape [ STR \| SSS \| JGG ]	Scor-Tape 1 Inch Crafting Tape [ SSS \| JGG ]
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tool Basics Flush Cutters – 5 inch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS ]	Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]
Hallmark Scrapbook – TEFLON BONE FOLDER [ HLM \| SSS ]	Embossing Heat Gun; Precision Heat… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tonic Studios Tim Holtz 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 12.25… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy [ STR \| SBC \| HLM ]	Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]	MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]	We R Memory Keepers – Basic Tools -… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC ]	Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring… [ SSS \| JGG ]	Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]
Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]
Tonic 14×14 inch Easy Clean Craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Super Fine Detail Silver Embossing… [ STR ]	Embossing Powder Prep Bag… [ STR ]
VersaMark Watermark Ink Refill .5oz [ STR ]	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad – full… [ STR \| SBC \| HLM \| SSS ]	VersaMark Watermark Mini Stamp Pad 1×1 [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]