Tilda’s Town Magnolia card and some tags…

November 19, 2014 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Sweet Christmas childhood memories… I’m sure we all had a rocking horse of some kind or other! This cutie is one of the dies from the Magnolia DooHickeys Club Kit #2, All I Want For Christmas. It is chock full of cuteness! Here’s the tag I made with the Santa and border that are also part of the kit. Lots of dies for a great price and a little magazine full of ideas too! OH, almost forgot! The little lace piece is another die in the kit… see… tons more too!

I die cut the Rocking Horse die from white card-stock and colored it with Copics. The words happy and christmas are from Paper Smooches.

I made this card for Tilda’s Town Challenges this week. We’d love to have you link up if you’re a Magnolia fan!

Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

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Last Friday at our area stamp club meeting we swapped Christmas tags. I made two and let the gal that got my name choose which one she wanted.

I made a bookmark style tag with Paper Smooches dies and the PTI Tinsel and Tags set and then a Snowglobe style tag with PTI Tinsel and Tags set, the Winter die and snowglobe die.

I could make tags all day! lol So much fun with all the new stamps and dies out there! Hope you are having a good time using your stash too or shopping to increase your stash … oh my… so much! I’m addicted! lol

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, stamps and dies I used…

InLinkz.com

cards · Christmas · Fall · Memory Box · Poppystamps · rubber stamps · Winter

Memory Box for Starlitstudio… Horse Country

November 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Pam Sparks19 Comments

Hello and welcome to my blog today! I’m sharing two cards I created with Starlitstudio’s exclusive new die from Memory Box, called Horse Country.

A Fall card…

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and a Winter card…

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I used the Memory Box Golf Club Landscape border die in the background on both cards. (I cut off the flag)

On the Fall card I added the small leaf from the Memory Box Marvelous Maple die, poppystamps new Fancy hello die, Trotting Pony die and Country Fence die. On the inside I used the Memory Box Give Thanks Combo stamp (leaves and sentiment) and Memory Box A-2 Notecards in Sky and Kraft.

On the Winter card I used Memory Box A-2 Notecards in Sapphire and White, Ho Ho Holly Leaves die and poppystamps new Vintage Seasons die. I just used the Greetings part on the front and on the inside, I cut the ‘s’ from the end of Season’s and stamped the words ‘of the’ from the Memory Box Wonderful Time Combo stamp.

The Christmas, Winter Horse Country scene card is spattered with white spray ink and then sprayed with Imagine Crafts Sparkle Spray.

All of these dies and stamps are available for purchase @ starlitstudio.net

I will be making Horse Country up in Spring and Summer versions too! Thanks for visiting today and Season’s Greetings to you! THANK YOU for your encouraging comments too! I appreciate it so much!

Christmas · copics · Penny Black · Stencils · Tags

Mixed Media Tag…

November 16, 2014November 16, 2014 Pam Sparks45 Comments

Festive and lots of techniques! I just had to play in Loll’s Twelve Tags of Christmas! I LOVE tags!

Getting a good photo of all these techniques was almost too much for a very amateur photographer like me! I have a terrible time giving up though! lol So, the top two close ups are to show the gold embossing powder on the embossing paste.

Here’s what I did…

I cut a tag with the largest MFT pierced tag die in white 110# cover card-stock

I did Loll’s pearl background technique on it next…the only thing I changed from what she does is instead of using plastic wrap, I used a plastic bag and put my hand inside it, scrunched it up a little, picked up the pearl mixative and pounced, keeping my hand clean! haha The right one anyway! lol

Next, using the ink blending tool and Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad, I inked the whole tag.

Over the top of that I placed the Tim Holtz stencil and applied white embossing paste. Cleaned it up then…

I dumped Ranger Queens Gold embossing powder over the whole tag, removed the excess and heated it with a heat tool.

I LOVE the look of the powder on the paste!

I die cut the Seasons Greetings Avery Elle die from gold metallic card-stock

I did cut the Penny Black holly die from Copic coloring card-stock.

Color the holly cut with Copic markers

Then with the matching Penny Black holly stamp, I stamped the colored die cut, after stamping off on scrap paper, with Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad. This stamp is from several years ago and they don’t advertise that it matches but it does and looks so awesome! Another, exclamation when finished!!! LOVE it!

I adhered everything to the tag with mounting squares cut to fit.

I think I will hang this on my Christmas tree, that’s how happy I am with it! : )

Linking to some challenges…

Stamping with Loll – 12 tags of Christmas

Virginia’s View Challenge – all things metallic

CASology Challenge – festive

Winter Wonderland Challenge – Christmas Decorations

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Ornaments

Cute Card Thursday Challenge – Red and Green

Sweet Stampin Challenge – To Die For

Stamping Sensations – Christmas

Thanks for clicking over to my blog today! I love to share what I’ve been up to with you. Leave your blog link when you comment so I can come visit you too!

p.s. I still have some card kits for sale too…thank you!

Supplies I used for this tag…

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cards · Christmas · Class · Classes · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Limoges Snowflake…

November 14, 2014November 14, 2014 Pam Sparks17 Comments

Here’s a frosty, freezin’ season card for you! This is one of three cards I taught at the Scrapbooking Studio last Saturday morning. A lot of steps to it but fun results!

I have a video HERE, that shows the embossing technique for how to do the Snowflake center.

I used…

Tiny Snowflakes Stencil

Limoges Snowflake die

Lindeman Snowflake die

Classic Lower Alphabet die set

Memory Box Lagoon and White A2 notecards

Imagine Crafts irResistable Wedding Dress spray

Imagine Crafts Silver Delicata ink pad

Imagine Crafts large dauber

The snowflake pieces are die cut from Coreindations Opulent Glitter card-stock.

Another Limoges Snowflake card HERE.

The snow is blowing here… wow… how can it be 64˚on Monday and in the 20’s a few days later! brrrrr Makes a gal thankful for heat!

Stay warm and keep creating!

P.S. I do have some class kits available… if you’re interested, send me an email! THX!

Links to products I used…

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cards · Christmas · Class · Classes · Die Piecing · Memory Box · rubber stamps · Winter

Memory Box Christmas cards…

November 12, 2014November 30, 2014 Pam Sparks35 Comments

More Christmas cards… it is the most wonderful time of the year after-all! The cards in this post were what the gals made in the afternoon class at the Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL. We had a great time! (at least I hope they did) lol

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Winter is coming… it feels like it today in Iowa anyway… haha.. nothing like stating the obvious! I love creating scene cards though and Winter is a favorite for sure!