Memory Box A Frame House Christmas Scene Card…

November 15, 2024November 26, 2024 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hi everyone! A fun, snowy, scene card to share today. I love the cancellation stamp!

I used the NEW Memory Box A Frame House die. I love it with the festive wreath and die cut in woodgrain cardstock!

The NEW Memory Box Snowflake Hot Foil Plate shines foiled in white! I used TE Cookie Monster ink to ink blend a little and it did stain the white foil…I didn’t mind the look though! In fact I meant to go back and add a little black but I completely forgot! I will try Distress ink next time, maybe it would come off.

I used Memory Box NEW cardstocks… Deep Turquoise and Cherry Red I’ll link below. The green on the tree is old, old cardstock from Bazzill.

I used a scrap of Memory Box glitter cardstock from a 6×6 pad to sit the house and trees on. HERE.

I was totally inspired by the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week, so I’m linking to it!

Fairy Jewels from the Memory Box Christmas gem set.

I forgot to take a picture of the inside! waaaahhh. I actually completely finished this card! On the inside I used the wonderful ‘Wishing you a Merry Christmas’ stamp from the NEW ‘Be Merry’ stamp set.

The stamp on the front is from the NEW ‘Holiday Wishes’ stamp set.

I absolutely LOVE both of these sets!

oh my, I almost forgot to add the trees! NEW Memory Box Slender Pine Trees die!

This card ended up a unique size but will fit in an A7 envelope and mail for one forever stamp. yay!

Linking to some challenges…

Sparkles Christmas #166 – snowflakes!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope all your holiday preparations are coming along! I’m still working on my stamp room….cleaning and sorting. A 30 year collection is nothing to shake a stick at! eek! ok ttul!

Shopping links to the products I used on this card. Thank you so much for shopping through my blog and links! Some are affiliate links but won’t cost you more to shop. Your purchase helps me pay for this blog and linkdeli which means NO ADS on my blog! whoop! I get so tired of ads! So thank you and I appreciate it so much! STR = Starlitstudio.net, SSS = Simon Says Stamp, SBC = scrapbook .com

Memory Box – 94820 A Frame House… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94796 Slender Pine Trees… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – MBF015 Snowflake Hot… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – CL5287D Be Merry clear… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5286D Holiday Wishes… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box Fairy Drops • Jewels •… [ STR \| SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Memory Box – Cardstock Paper – 8/1/2… [ STR ]	Sizzix – White and Gray – Big Shot… [ SBC ]	Sizzix White Tool Caddy Big Shot… [ SBC ]
Sizzix Cutting Pads – set of 2 -… [ STR ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR ]
Craft Tweezers – EK Tools – 5 inch… [ STR ]	Woodware EasyPick Tool by Creative… [ STR ]	Woodware EasyPick Replacement Tips… [ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Memory Box · Watercolor · Winter

Memory Box Leaves and Berries Merry Christmas Swirl Card…

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Christmas cards always make me think of songs! You? So right now I’m singing in my head, have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

I just realized my gold spattering on my card looks white in this photo. Hopefully in the rest we can see gold!

oh tricky photography! There’s brown spattering with Walnut Ink too. No white, that’s gold ink! It’s really pretty.

I stamped the NEW Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp on Memory Box watercolor paper with Ranger Archival Black ink. Watercolored with Karin Brush Markers, red, lipstick red, olive green and olive black. I used a waterbrush to move the ink around.

I love going vintage-y. Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress ink blended on heavier on the edges and lighter in the center. I did some waterdrop bleaching too.

I used the New Merry Christmas Swirl die for the sentiment…painted the letters and swirl with the same markers.

Tied it up with string! Jute and thin gold cord.

Adhered the sentiment with my favorite thin mounting tape.

I stamped the inside and my name on the back even! One more ready to mail! YAHOO!

I used the NEW Memory Box Be Merry Stamp set.

I know I always say this but I wish you could see it in person…So much prettier!

Linking to card challenges!

Word Power #11 – Sentiment is the focus

Peace on Earth #75

Paper Funday #71 – anything goes with optional twist tags

NBUS #68 – Never Before Used Stuff!

Holler if you have any questions….thank you so much for stopping by! I’m thankful for you as we move into this Thanksgiving month I’m reminded everyday to be thankful!

Here’s the products I used to make this card…No extra charge to you if you shop through my links! Click the abbreviations below the image… STR = Starlitstudio.net, SSS = Simon Says Stamp, SBC = Scrapbook .com, SPL = Spellbinders

Memory Box – CS2084 Leaves and… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94803 Merry Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5287D Be Merry clear… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – WP101 Watercolor Paper -… [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Vintage… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Walnut… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Karin Brushmarkers Pro Marker -… [ BLIC ]	Karin Brushmarkers Pro Marker – Red [ BLIC ]
Karin Brushmarkers Pro Marker – Olive… [ BLIC ]	Karin Brushmarkers Pro Marker – Olive… [ BLIC ]	Karin BRUSHMARKER PRO MEGA BOX 60… [ SSS \| BLIC ]
Ranger Archival Ink Pad Jet Black… [ SSS \| SBC \| SPL \| BLIC ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – Gold,… [ BLIC ]	Walnut Ink Crystals – 2 oz [ STR ]
Spellbinders Water Brush Set 3 Pack… [ SSS \| SBC \| SPL ]

cards · Christmas · Die Embossing · Die Piecing · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Spellbinders dies · Watercolor · Winter

Yana’s Amaryllis Collection from Spellbinders, Two Cards…

November 1, 2024November 7, 2024 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! Two cards to share today! So very Christmas-y! Two of the flowers you think of when it’s Christmas….poinsettias and amaryllis.

My first card is the NEW Festive Poinsettias Better Press plate from Spellbinders.

I inked up the plate with black, impressed it and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Then I colored it with Tombow Brush Markers! I know! Not my normal but I’ve seen another fabulous cardmaker using her Tombows so I wanted to get mine back out and color. I’m surprised they’re still good…over 20 years old!

The green strip of cardstock is darker/richer than it’s showing in my pictures.

I spattered with white acrylic ink and I used a small paintbrush. All the little white specks are from the spattering. The plate did impress solid black. So we have teeny snowflakes today! lol

I feel like I went back in time…heat embossing and then coloring! Oh, I used watercolor paper because I put a little marker on, then pulled it out with a waterbrush.

I really like it. It’s festive for sure! It’s a more of an A6 size… 4 ½ inches x 6 inches. It’s flat though so USPS should be really happy about that! haha

Here’s my second card using Yana’s Christmas release…

I die cut Yana’s Amaryllis in gold foil cardstock… wow does it shine!

I die cut the solid background in red cardstock and then impressed the outline die in the solid red cut with the tan mat so the detail would show without having to puzzle piece all the petal pieces back in!

I went over the die cut lines with a red copic just to add a little more dimension.

The background on this card is a black glossy die cut using the Emerald Cut Labels and Tag die set.

Then the 3D embossing folder is NEW also. It’s called Amaryllis Garden. So pretty! I embossed it in white cardstock, trimmed it down to 5 x 7 size and used my gray inking brush to go around the edges of the panel.

The sentiments for both of these cards are from the Christmas Die and Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil and Die set. I die cut the words in black glossy cardstock and I used black foil for the sub sentiment.

Linking my cards to some challenges…

Color Hues #98 – Red and Black (2nd card)

Can You Handle The Pressure – anything goes using an embossing folder (2nd card)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes (1st card)

Die Cut Divas – Any Holiday in the year (2nd card)

Merry Little Christmas #59 – anything Christmas goes (1st card)

I feel like I should apologize for this being so long. I see other gals posting two cards at once but it seems like a longer post when I do it! lol I hope you made it through and got a little inspiration! I CANNOT believe it’s NOVEMBER 1st! EEK! Don’t panic, don’t panic!

It’s cooling off here…the sun was out for a minute. I need to decide if I can hang my plants back out. This time of year is so hard for me. I hate having to take all my ferns down. So sad!

Have a great weekend everyone! Happy cardmaking!

Here’s shopping links for the products I used to make these two cards…. thank you so much for tapping/clicking through…I appreciate it!

SPL = Spellbinders, SBC = Scrapbook .com, SSS = Simon Says Stamp, STR = Starlitstudio

Festive Poinsettias BetterPress and… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Festive Poinsettias Press Plate from… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments… [ SPL \| SSS ]
Yana’s Amaryllis Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Amaryllis Garden 3D Embossing Folder… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Emerald Cut Labels and Tag Etched… [ SPL \| SSS ]
BetterPress Letterpress System \|… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Basic BetterPress Gift Set -… [ SPL ]	Spellbinders – Black Platinum 6 Die… [ SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System Platinum \|… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Art Impressions Watercolor Bonnies… [ SBC \| BLIC ]	Water Brush Set – 3 Pack \|… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]
Sakura Koi Water Brush – Round, Size… [ BLIC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Black -… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil 2 Rolls – Opaque… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Mirror Gold Cardstock 8 1/2″ x 11 -… [ SPL ]	Memory Box BLACK GLOSSY 8.5×11 Paper… [ SSS \| STR ]	Ranger Embossing Powder Clear EPJ37330 [ SSS \| SBC ]
8.5″ x 11″ Watercolor Cardstock – 10… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]

cards · CAS · Christmas · Simon Says Stamp · Winter

Simon Says Stamp Sweet Wishes Release, Heartfelt Snowflakes Card…

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hello everyone! No flurries here yet! We did get some rain early this morning though. I’m sure they’ll come at some point! In the meantime, I’ll just take them on paper!

What a gorgeous stamp set this is! So many stamping possibilities! Back to the basics!

I’ve had this paper pad for a year or so, just finally using it! I’ll link it below if it’s still available.

I cut down the 6×6 piece to 4 ½ in. x 6 in. Stamped several stamps from the set in Versafine Onyx Black ink in the MISTI. Wow, they stamped nice! So fun to just stamp!

Tied on some gold cord, layered it on a glossy black cardstock and glued it to a white cardbase! It’s around an A6 size but I’ll probably mail it in an A7 envelope. It will post for one stamp though! YAY!

Black snowflakes….who knew! lol I think it’s a CAS card but the true CAS ppl will throw a fit because it’s not white. lol Oh well!

Linking to some challenges…

ABC Christmas – October challenge U for unusal Christmas Colors (black snowflakes) or V for Velvet

Peace on Earth #74 – inspiration board (lots of snow)

Love Those Pretty Papers – theme is Autumn but anything goes as long as it’s pretty paper!

Addicted To Stamps and More – #479 any occasion

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I’m still busy resetting my stamp rooms. The collection is 30 years strong. Rather overwhelming but fortunately I don’t have other collections! whew! lol

Enjoy this new release!

Here’s the products I used to make this card…

Simon Says Stamps and Dies Heartfelt… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps Heartfelt… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Heartfelt Snowflakes… [ SSS ]
Craft Consortium INK DROPS OCEAN 6 x… [ SSS ]	Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink… [ SSS ]	Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two… [ SSS ]
Memory Box BLACK GLOSSY 8.5×11 Paper… [ SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest Ultra Thick 110… [ SSS ]	MISTI TEAL PRECISION STAMPER Stamping… [ SSS \| SSS \| SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Snowy Birdhouse and Wistful Sparrow Card…

October 16, 2024 Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone! I LOVE these dies! So fun and easy to make a cute card with! Hope this finds you enjoying Fall before Winter hits! We’ve had a taste of cooler temps the last two days. We turned the heat on last night! eek!

I used the NEW Holiday Snowglobe to frame the NEW Snowy Birdhouse and NEW Wistful Sparrow. The greens come with the snowglobe set! I always love holly and the branches are awesome too! Anytime you get greens going both directions I’m happy! lol

The sentiments are from the NEW Be Merry Stamp set with coordinating dies for three sentiments. Perfect Christmas set… sentiments for the front and inside in one set! Check it out!

The Nordic pattern paper is from the Yuletide Cheer 6×6 paper pad. I love the name and the papers in the pad!

Oh, I colored the bird with Copic E07 and a chalk type white marker…I die cut it in Toffee cardstock. The beak is a couple Copic Y and YR until I got it kinda orange-ish.

An A 2 size card. It will mail super easy for one postage stamp. I only used a little bit of the thin mounting tape I love behind the back end of the bird!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Happy papercrafting!

Links to what I used to make this card… STR = Starlitstudio, SSS = Simon Says Stamp, SBC = Scrapbook .com, SPL = Spellbinders, TE = Taylored Expressions (some are affiliate links, no cost to you) Thank you so much for shopping through my links! I pay for my blog and LinkDeli so NO ADS! YAY!

Memory Box – 94810 Snowy Birdhouse… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94808 Holiday Snowglobe… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94798 Wistful Sparrow… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – CL5287D Be Merry clear… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1032 Yuletide Cheer… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad – full… [ STR \| SPL \| SSS ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Scor-Tape [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – Cardstock Paper – 8/1/2… [ STR ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Toffee -… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Peapod -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cilantro -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Salt Water… [ TE ]
Sizzix – White and Gray – Big Shot… [ SBC ]	Sizzix White Tool Caddy Big Shot… [ SBC ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – White,… [ BLIC \| SSS \| SPL \| SBC ]