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Memory Box and poppystamp Cards…

Happy Spring to you today! I’m not sure who all has tulips yet but when you do, you know it’s Spring!

I started out with the NEW poppystamps Layered Tulips die set.  I cut the petal piece in three pinks and instead of using all three colors on one flower, I went with three different color tulips.  I’m glad I did this time!

I went over my options of what to do with them after I made them and thought…they’d be great in a basket!

I love this basket from the poppystamps Woven Basket Pop Up Easel Set.  I die cut it in kraft cardstock, then ran it back through with the embossing stack for the big shot.  I shim it quite a bit to get the embossing deep.

Then using the mini ink blending tool and Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad I browned it up!

I used the grass and the bow from the basket set also.

It’s an A2 size card!

My next two cards are using the NEW Memory Box Floral Stems die.

I die cut the floral stems from Memory Box watercolor cardstock and colored it with Zig Clean Color Brush markers and water.

I die cut an A2 panel of kraft cardstock with the NEW Memory Box Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die set, then die cut the NEW poppystamps Pointy Lattice Plate in white cardstock and layered it over the top.  Trimmed off the excess.

I made an A2 size white cardbase and adhered the lattice panel direct to the cardfront.  The outside part of the panel is adhered with the thin mounting tape that I love so much.

I wrapped some twine and then the NEW Memory Box Posh Birthday Wishes Hot Foil Plate and Cutting die set for the sentiment.

As soon as I finished this, I thought, this could be a great Easter card!  I didn’t get any Easter cards made.  Maybe I’ll have time to make something for the grands tomorrow.

I added some gold fairy gems in a few places on the lattice.

I always love the ‘window’ look on a card!  I always notice windows on houses too! lol  Right now mine are dirty!  We had one storm that blew snow so bad and it was dirty!  I was sad because it’d only been a month since I’d washed windows! Figures!

My last card…clean and simple.  I wasn’t sure I should even post it but it is nice IRL.

This looks champagne color but it’s really silver.  My last picture will show it silver but it’s not the best photo!

The NEW Memory Box Confetti Dot Hot Foil Plate turned out really neat!  I was pleased.  Finally getting better at doing the large foil plates.  I was afraid to shim it but that’s what it needs for the machine I have.

I die cut the foiled panel with the NEW Memory Box A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set and layered that with the thin mounting tape on my A2 size white cardbase.

I die cut the NEW Memory Box Happy Birthday Tender Script die in white and silver foil cardstocks…so fun!

ok this last picture shows it silver….get your sunglasses!

It doesn’t do it justice but at least you can see it’s silver!  The struggle is real taking photos!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog!  I appreciate it and thank you so much for your kind comments!

Have a blessed Easter weekend and talk to you again soon!

Here’s a shopping list to the products I used to make these cards…

Poppystamps – 2557 Layered Tulips…
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Poppystamps – 2463 Woven Basket Pop…
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Memory Box – 94638 Backyard Floral…
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Mini Ink Blending Tool *new* – 2…
[ STR | SBC | SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink…
[ SBC | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94646 Curved Cap…
[ STR | SSS ]
Poppystamps – 2558 Pointy Lattice…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – MBF004 Posh Birthday…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – MBF001 Confetti Dot Hot…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94672 A2 Rectangle…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94671 Happy Birthday…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – WP101 Watercolor Paper
[ STR ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH…
[ SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
[ STR ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -…
[ SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold –…
[ SPL | SBC ]
Memory Box/Open Studio – Fairy Jewels…
[ STR | SSS ]
Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Silver 12×12
[ STR ]

 

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Flowers · Poppystamps · Spellbinders dies

Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms Birthday Card…

Hi friends and cardmakers!  Hope you’re having a beautiful week! I needed some birthday cards this month so I finally put to use these florals that I’d put together last year!  I die cut a bunch of Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms from different Bazzill Card Shopped cardstocks, glued them up and there they sat in an envelope box lid! So many gals have used these dies… I’d guess they were the most popular floral set of 2022!

I used a poppystamps Double Stitch Rectangle Frames die to showcase the bouquet.

A Taylored Expressions Sentiment Strip.

Some Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam Micro Squares to mount the flowers.  These worked out really nice because I needed to stick stems under!

 

 

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

Word Art Wednesday – anything goes

Cardz 4 Galz – Spring Flowers

I’ll link up below what I used.  It’s super simple!  I didn’t even add any inking to the flowers!

Thank you for stopping by!  Happy Spring flower creating to you!  ttul!

Here’s what I used for this card… (I left in the Scrapbook.com and Simon Says Stamp links but they are both out of stock) (bummer, the Double Stitch Rectangle Frames dies are no longer available) I’ll link up another that’s similar but not the same size.

Be Bold Blooms Etched Dies from the…
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Simple Strips Background
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Simple Strips Die
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Bazzill Card Shoppe
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Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Self-Adhesive…
[ STR ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock…
[ HBL ]
Poppystamps – 2478 Scalloped Stitch…
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Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH…
[ SSS ]
Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad
[ SBC | SSS ]

All Occasion · birch press design · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Flowers · Memory Box · Mother's Day · Spring · Thinking of You

NEW Memory Box Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral, Plumed Gypsy Butterfly and Curlicue Plate Cards…

Hi everyone! It’s time for a new release from the Memory Box companies!  The usual beautiful products to work with!

I have two cards to share with you using the NEW Curlicue Plate!  I love it!  So whimsical and fun!  Keep going for my second card using it.


I wanted to use some other NEW dies too… so I made up the New Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral in a couple colors but went with pink from the Memory Box Berry Red 6×6 cardstock pad… it’s February, all things Red!

The NEW Wayfarer Leaves die cut in three colors of green from the Memory Box  Lush Green cardstock 6×6 pad.

The NEW Hugs Tender Script die cut in white and then in Memory Box Glossy Black cardstock.  I love this glossy black.  I’ve about used up my pack!  Not quite an emergency yet. lol  What a pretty font though!  Isn’t it gorgeous?!

I should’ve told my camera to focus on the hugs instead of the flower here.  I am an amateur… worse than an amateur! lol

I die cut the Curlicue Plate in white cardstock, the green panel underneath with the NEW A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set (same Lush Green cardstock pad)  and the oval from vellum using the Memory Box Studio Oval Layers die set.

The pretty rosebuds are from the Birch Press Design Morning Rose and Triple Buds Contour Layers dies released earlier this year.

My next card came about because I had an almost perfect Curlicue Plate die cut!  It’s so hard to throw those away!  So I thought about it and decided to try cutting away the parts that didn’t cut completely the first time.  This plate needs a shim… so I use a piece of copy paper folded in half on top of my cutting plate to run it through… blades up as I always say! (I never use that metal shim)

I thought this turned out fun!  You know me and kraft!  White, pool and whimsy! Oh and staples!

A beautiful NEW butterfly for all the butterfly lovers out there!  Plumed Gypsy Butterfly!

***notice how I used the curlicue from the part I cut off behind the butterfly!  clever… hehe

Hello Rush Script is a NEW sentiment die… love it in that glossy black again…

A new set of nesting dies!  Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers.  I can see this one working for banners too!

I think I remembered everything!  Send me an email or comment if you have any questions!  I don’t mind at all!

I used the Tim Holtz mini stapler to hold the Curlicue cut down but glued in the few pieces of pool color.

Linking to…

Just Us Girls Challenge – moodboard

CAS Colors and Sketches Challenge #505 Sketch

The Flower Challenge #77 Use your latest  stamps or dies, must be floral

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you’re getting some creating time in.  Won’t be long til hearts turn to real flowers and grass grows!

Have a good rest of the week!

Here’s the products I used to make these cards…

94698 Curlicue Plate craft die
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Memory Box – 94713 Gentle Rose…
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Memory Box – 94712 Wayfarer Leaves…
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Memory Box – 94669 Hugs Tender Script…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94672 A2 Rectangle…
[ STR | SSS ]
Birch Press Design – 57493 Morning…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack
[ STR ]
Memory Box – 94708 Plumed Gypsy…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94468 Hello Rush Script…
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Memory Box – 94646 Curved Cap…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy…
[ STR | SSS ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH…
[ SSS ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock…
[ HBL ]
SCS-151 Spellbinders VELLUM SHEETS…
[ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER…
[ SSS | SBC ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
[ STR | SBC | SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
[ STR ]

 

cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Foiling · Hot Foiling · LOVE · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Valentine

poppystamps Sending Love Poe Script and Criss Cross Heart Foil Plate and Stencil…

Hi everyone!  Still in Valentine mode here…when I finished this card I thought, ‘watch out Hallmark’! lol  Because irl, it looks like a Hallmark card!  I’ve arrived!  hahahahahahahahaha

I really tried hard not to have reflections in the gorgeous gold mirror/foil cardstock.  Almost imporssible!

So this is why all the pictures in weird positions! lol

tada!  99.9% on this last one! lol

Very basic card…. clean and simple even!  I foiled a piece of A2 cardstock with the new poppystamps beautiful Criss Cross Heart Foil Plate…

It’s hard to see in my photos but I used the new poppystamps Criss Cross Heart Stencil to up the red on the hearts but it’s really hard to see in my pictures.  It’s very subtle, but I love it!

I die cut the next largest Memory Box Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out die in gold mirror/foil cardstock.  I love this stuff from Starlitstudio.

For the sentiment I die cut the new poppystamps Sending Love Poe Script die in Memory Box Black Glossy cardstock!  I know, I keep saying it but it’s awesome stuff too!

I layered the foiled heart panel on black gloggy too… so narrow but so classy!   I wish you could see this in real life! hehe

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp – Love is in the air

Papercraft Challenges – anything goes

TicTacToe Challenges – top row across dies, gold, stencil

I think that’s it for this card… holler if you have any questions.  I’m going to go make bread and then die cut some poppystamps floral dies for cards!  Have a creative cardmaking weekend if you can!  ❤

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Poppystamps – PSF801 Criss Cross…
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Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -…
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Poppystamps – T103 Criss Cross Heart…
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Poppystamps – 2555 Sending Love Poe…
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Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – 94359 Double Stitch…
[ STR ]
Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12
[ STR ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
[ STR | SBC | SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
[ STR ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil System
[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]
Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die…
[ SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil 4 Rolls – Satin…
[ SPL ]

cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Inlaid Diecutting · LOVE · Memory Box · Valentine

Memory Box Heart Ring Stack Card…

Hi everyone!  I always have to make some CAS (clean and simple) Valentine cards.  All my favorite things in an easy card!

I love traditional stamping and paper bits!  Using up some scraps…and the white border almost like white embossing on kraft!

I had good luck with photos today!  Another dreary day.  My Nikon likes dreary I guess…more than I do for sure! ugh

I always love adding this lightweight MayArts jute too…

The cardstock I’m using is from Hobby Lobby…their extra heavyweight kraft.  I love it but this ream must be cut wrong because it curves.  I need to put it under a stack of books!  I still love it though! ❤

What are your favorite colors for Valentines?  It’s kinda fun to mix it up a little but it seems I don’t stray far from kraft, white, black and of course RED!

That’s it for my pictures! lol  Holler if you have any questions.  oh, I did mount it with my favorite thin mounting tape.  I use scor-tape on the back to hold the pieces in place first.

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

The Card Concept – Winter Cocoa

The Paper Funday Challenge – anything goes

Word Art Wednesday – anything goes

Yay!  I have two more Valentine cards to post this week.  I’ll get ’em up tomorrow!

Thank you so much for stopping by and hope this sweet, simple card makes you smile!  oh, It’s A2 size!

Dies and Supplies I used to make this card…

Memory Box – 94662 Heart Ring Stack…
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Memory Box – CL5252 Big and Little…
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May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap…
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Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad
[ SBC | SSS ]
MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most…
[ SBC | SSS ]
Bazzill Card Shoppe
[ STR ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock…
[ HBL ]
Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring…
[ SBC | SSS ]
Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring…
[ SSS ]
Honey Bee Stamps – Birthday Bliss…
[ SBC | SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
[ STR ]
Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip…
[ STR ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
[ STR | SBC | SSS ]
Scor-Tape; Scor Tape
[ STR | SSS ]
Sizzix – White and Gray – Big Shot…
[ SBC ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool…
[ SBC ]
Sizzix – Cutting Pad – Standard – 1…
[ SBC ]
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 8.5 Inch…
[ SBC | SSS ]