Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Guest…

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 Pam Sparks12 Comments

I’m so excited to be posting with the gals at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for the month of March! Each week a different company is featured and a theme to challenge us! I hope you will join us!

Here’s my card for this first week…featuring Polkadoodles and the theme, Something Feminine!

I fell in love with the images from this company and had to buy three. ❤ (the snowmen are adorable!) Links below…

This one is soooo cute! Winnie – A Pile of Gifts.

I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Copic friendly coloring paper, colored with Copic Sketch Markers and cut it out.

Skin – I started with a layer of YR000, then E000, 00, 01, 02 and 11.

Cheeks – R20, then R30 and 32 and back around the edges lightly with R20.

Hair – E31, 34, 35, 39.

Pink Dress – R00, R81, 83.

Party Hat and Bow – B60’s.

Puppy – E42, 43, 44, 47.

The background is on Mixed Media card, die cut with Memory Box Wrapped Stitch Rectangles and ink blended Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide ink and Tim Holtz water bottle water drops.

A little scrap of MFT’s Black and White Stripes 6×6 paper pack. An A2 size card! ❤

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of the challenge blog post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone!

Thank you for clicking to my blog today! I hope she made you smile and inspired you to color and get some cards made!

Products I used on my card from Simon Says Stamp…

Polkadoodles A PILE OF GIFTS Winnie… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Clear Stamps BEST LIFE… [ SSS ]	My Favorite Things BLACK AND WHITE… [ SSS ]
Strathmore MIXED MEDIA VELLUM SURFACE… [ SSS ]	Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS ]	Copic Marker [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger 4… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · CAS · copics · Die Piecing · Reverse Confetti · Thinking of You · Wreath Building

Wreath Building, You’ve Been On My Mind Card…

February 25, 2020 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! Today is my last post as a ‘fetti friend for Reverse Confetti. It’s been fun creating with their January release for two months! I hope you’ve enjoyed it. ❤

I decided to use the new Butterfly Wreath stamp and dies set but just the three smaller images to make a wreath using the wreath builder technique and the MISTI.

I love the simplicity of it and that the message is what you see first. It’s not always possible to be with people in person but if you’re like me, we are thinking of them!

I stamped in green ink but just die cut the three little floral images and butterfly. I colored in the flowers and butterfly with Copic Sketch Markers.

For the card base, I ran the new Stitched Scallops cover plate die through the Big Shot with the embossing set up instead of die cutting it. I really like the soft feel of this look for this card and message.

My other cards I made with these sets and dies are HERE and HERE.

So glad to have you visit today! Thank you so much for stopping by! ❤

Reverse Confetti BUTTERFLY WREATH… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti Cuts BUTTERFLY… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti Cuts STITCHED… [ SSS ]
MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers [ BLIC \| SSS ]	W-023 Spellbinders WIZARD TAN… [ SSS ]

All Occasion · ATC's · copics · LOVE · Reverse Confetti · Thinking of You

Reverse Confetti Challenge, ‘fetti friend post…

February 16, 2020February 15, 2020 Pam Sparks10 Comments

A fun challenge opportunity to share with you today! Another post from me as a ‘fetti friend for Reverse Confetti stamps this month.

The challenge this month is Encouragement or Congratulations… I went with encouragement and made 6 ATC’s for our 6 granddaughters.

I paired up this adorable whimsical lion from Flower For a Friend stamp and confetti cuts sets with the new pattern paper pad Sweet As Sugar and All The Love stamp and confetti cuts sets.

Take up the challenge and play along with us this month! Thank you for stopping by!

Reverse Confetti FLOWERS FOR A FRIEND… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti Cuts FLOWERS FOR A… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti ALL THE LOVE Clear… [ SSS ]
Reverse Confetti Cuts ALL THE LOVE Dies [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti 6×6 Paper Pad SWEET… [ SSS ]	Copic Marker [ SSS \| BLIC ]

All Occasion · cards · CAS · copics · LOVE · Reverse Confetti · Valentine

Reverse Confetti…a cute handcrafted hello card!

January 24, 2020 Pam Sparks11 Comments

A handcrafted hello to you today! I’m back with a ‘fetti friend post using this cute crafty zebra from the January Release Crafty Critters stamp set. I love it! He makes me smile!

I used the new Oh My Hearts cover panel and embossed it in my big shot instead of cutting it out. An older frame die set and then this cute new pattern paper!

Here’s a close up of this sure to make you smile critter! Super quick coloring with copics for a clean and simple looking A2 size card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! It’s a pretty snowy day here in Iowa. All the kids are out building snowmen! Another thing that makes me smile.

Take care and talk to you later!

Reverse Confetti Cuts OH MY HEART… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti CRAFTY CRITTERS… [ SSS ]	Reverse Confetti Cuts CRAFTY CRITTERS… [ SSS ]
Love Note Confetti Cuts –… [ RVR ]	Reverse Confetti 6×6 Paper Pad SWEET… [ SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers [ BLIC \| SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · copics · Die Piecing · Masculine · Memory Box · Quickutz · Taylored Expressions

3 Letterboard Cards…

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! Did you see the Splitcoast Stampers recent email talking about Letterboard cards? oh, I keep calling them this but I think the email called them Marque cards. Here’s the tutorial!

My first one is a birthday card for our oldest grandson. I used an old alphabet die set from Quickutz called Diesel. The birthday wishes postal circle is from Inkadinkado.

I will link up a bunch of alternative, similar alphabet die sets in my linkdeli collection at the end of the post. They would all make awesome cards like this too!

This one is ¼ of an inch taller than a regular A2 card. I mailed it in an A7 envelope.

The little bit of coloring is with Copics.

The next one is the card I made for Tim/husband. Four family birthdays in January! Two more to go! hehe

This one I used a different alphabet. It’s Parker from Memory Box. (my link below is to Parker lower case, upper isn’t available anymore) The little candle is from a Quickutz die set and the heart was on my desk.

I scored lines this time with my scor-pal instead of making ¼ inch strips and foam mounting tape like I did for the others.

Harder to see the scored lines in that picture…

There you can see them again. This card is A2 size and the cardbase is Cookie Monster cardstock from Taylored Expressions.

Glossy Accents on the candle and heart.

My third cards are thank yous! I need several right now! ❤

I really had fun with this card style… but I quit for now because I need to do other stuff! lol

This is Quickutz Diesel alphabet again. The heart is from Honeybee Stamps.

The red and black cardstocks are from Taylored Expressions also. The envelopes I made for these is a digital cut from Kerri Bradford.com. I cut them on the Scan and Cut cm350. I’ve been experimenting to use it more! yay! It’s like a coin envelope style… I should’ve taken a better picture of just the envelopes. You can find it HERE.

A2 size and I used two Pool notecards from Memory Box for the card bases.

Thank you for stopping by today! I’ll be back real soon with another Reverse Confetti card, then more Memory Box and poppystamps coming your way! Hope the new year is finding you with time to make. I can’t believe this month is almost history! :O

$5 off code for SSS right now is LVEYU842 (good ’til 3/1)

Then there’s a grrreat sale at Taylored Expressions! You know I love their cardstock and I received the blending brushes for Christmas!!! Link below and get the brushes, caddy and cleaning tool now while they are 30% off!!! (hmmm, do I need another set?!) lol Sale today, 9 a.m. CST the 23rd through tomorrow 9 a.m. CST the 24th! HURRY! 😀

TE Blender Brushes [ TE ]	TE Blender Brushes Storage Caddy [ TE ]	Blender Brush Cleaning Tool [ TE ]
Memory Box – 94341 Vintage Varsity… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn COLE’S ABCs Lawn Cuts Dies… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Lawn Fawn FINLEY’S ABC’s Lawn Cuts… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn QUINN’S CAPITAL ABC’s Lawn… [ SSS ]	Pinkfresh Studio ADORE ALPHA Die Set… [ SSS ]	CZ Design Wafer Dies ALL CAPS NO 01… [ SSS ]
Mama Elephant INLINE LETTERS Creative… [ SSS ]	Journey Serifs Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]	SR-011 Contour Type-Oh! Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]
Memory Box dies – Parker Lower… [ STR ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe – Marshmallow [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Darice Double-Sided White Foam Sticky… [ STR \| SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	A2 Envelopes [ TE ]	Honey Bee Stamps – Honey Cuts – Steel… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design > 25 Notecard… [ BRC ]	Birch Press Design > Patterned Paper… [ BRC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]