Memory Box, poppystamps Festive, Fun and Flat Christmas Cards Class…

October 28, 2016 Pam Sparks19 Comments

Hi card makers! I wanted to share the pictures of the Festive, Fun and Flat Christmas Cards Class I taught at Scrapmania last Saturday afternoon. I tell ‘ya the gals are getting the hang of using my embedding technique with scor-tape! So fun and such a neat look! (pull down under the tab under the blog header for a video about it)

Three cards that you can embellish or leave flat for easy mailing but are still beautiful!

Merry Christmas To You Ring die embedded into an A2 size card base. On the back side it looks embossed.

Die cut layers…so pretty with Nuvo Crystal Drops Winter Blizzard to make the snowy scene look cold! brrrrr

Here I added some dots that I made with the same Nuvo drops. I made them on a piece of slick paper and then glued them on with Tombow Mono Multi glue. The top photo shows the card without any dots though.

This is a see through card…a 4.25 x 5.5 piece of acetate behind the front card base.

The Memory Box/poppystamps Holiday/Christmas release is exceptional again this year! More to come!

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy the weekend! We’re having beautiful weather here in Iowa! yay!

Shopping links for the products I used…

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cards · Christmas · Class · Die Piecing · Taylored Expressions

Taylored Expressions – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Class

October 25, 2016 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! Getting back in the blogging groove again. This class was Saturday morning the 22nd and we did have fun! yay! Scrapmania in Cedar Rapids, IA is a fabulous store! Classes all the time and new inventory all the time! I’m sure they do mail order too!

Here’s some pictures of the cards individually too.

Most of the dies I used are from the TE October Release…

I just love this sleigh and I thought using the sentiment for the chimney smoke was a brilliant idea! lol I know Scrapmania has several of the dies in stock!

I couldn’t love this die more… ‘so you wanna build a snowman’…so cute!

I made too many class kits so if you’re interested in one…I have 4. Shoot me an email and I’ll get you the particulars!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I wish there was a way for me to see what you’re all making these days! I love Christmas. Send me pictures or a link to where I can see them!

ttul!

Products I used to make these cards…

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Birthday · cards · Christmas · copics · Family · Lawn Fawn · Memory Box · MFT · Poppystamps

Memory Box Purrfect Holidays and MFT Jungle Friends Birthday…

October 14, 2016October 17, 2016 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hi card makers! I can’t believe a week has gone by without me posting again! Yikes! I have two cards today though.

Tonight and tomorrow I’ll be at Stamp Joy in Ankeny for Taylored Expressions. I’ll post the cards I’m teaching there next week or so.

Then the 22nd I’ll be teaching two classes in Cedar Rapids at Scrapmania! I’d love to see you either place! Be sure to introduce yourself to me if you are there!

Back to my festive kitties! This is a super cute set from poppystamps called Purrfect Holidays. Matching dies too! I love it! The mittens on the cat! and the hat! Purrfect is right. So many cute elements to make scenes with.

Just colored with Copics… the gray the both is the T series. The blue green is BG11, 70, 75, 78. The reds are R02, E07,08. Nuvo White Crystal Drops on the Santa hat fur. Nuvo Winter Blizzard Drops on the tree star, ornament and here and there.

The patterned paper is from an older Lawn Fawn 6×6 pad.

Linking to…

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge

Christmas Card Challenges – Decorations

Next is a birthday card for one of our 4 year old grandsons, Gilbert. I hope he loves it! I do! lol

The gator slides in the groove over to the giraffe and then….

chomp!

Guess he was hungry! yikes! Anyway, I had fun making this cute card! Elements are all from the MFT Jungle Friends kit except for the number 4. It’s from Taylored Expressions.

Linking to ….

Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes, Birthday

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Thanks for shopping through my links too! Happy stamping/creating weekend to you!

Shopping links…

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cards · Christmas · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Watercolor

Memory Box Christmas Botanicals card and Nuvo!!!

October 7, 2016October 9, 2016 Pam Sparks22 Comments

How are you? The sun is shining here and I was able to get a nice bright picture that even shows off the Nuvo sparkles here! YAY!

I used the Memory Box Christmas Botanicals stamp set and coordinating die set for my card. It was fun to stamp the backgrounds with a tone on tone look using just the stamps from the set! I love how complete the Memory Box and poppystamps sets are and that you get dies for everything in the set! yippee! You all know I love to die cut! hehe

I did snip some little branches off this new die…poppystamps Pine Twig. I don’t know about you but I always feel like I need to own every pine stamp and die that comes out! HELP!

I stamped on watercolor paper, die cut and colored with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers. Added Nuvo crystal drops, I used Winter Blizzard, Clear, Gloss White and eek! There are Nuvo Embossing powders now… HERE! Happy stamper! lol

A few Pretty Pink Posh 3 mm clear sparkle sequins here and there.

I LOVE Memory Box notecards…they are now available at Birch Press Designs. I used Cranberry and Meadow for my card today. The card base is Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster card-stock.

I cut the MB notecards in half and die cut them with the Rectangle Layers dies. I am getting so much mileage out of that set!

Linking up to…

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

Scrapyland Challenge – Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers – embossing (heat or dry) My sentiment is embossed

Sweet Stampin’ Christmas Challenge – Christmas die cuts

Virginia’s View Challenge – Focal Point

Thanks for looking at my ’tis the season’ card today! Thank you so much for all your comments! The encouragement this week has meant more than I know how to put into words! I appreciate your thoughtfulness and love it when you leave links to your cards when you comment so I can come visit you too!

Be back soon!

cards · Christmas · Taylored Expressions · Watercolor

Taylored Expressions October Release Day…

October 6, 2016October 9, 2016 Pam Sparks28 Comments

Hello everyone! Are you loving the release this month? Some beautiful designs for the holidays. Everything is now available in the Taylored Expressions Webstore.

Today I’m featuring the NEW Merry Christmas Cutting Plate die. I started my card by die cutting it twice from watercolor card-stock, carefully inking and embossing the words with gold embossing powder and then coloring the botanicals with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and a waterbrush.

I used ⅛th inch scor-tape around the frame, poured embossing powder on it and embossed it also.

I sandwiched/glued the card-base between the two Merry Christmas die cuts, so I would have a see through card strong enough to stand. One side of the card-base is only an ⅛th inch, just enough to glue to.