Spellbinders September Stencil of the Month Card…Colorful Pumpkins

September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Happy Fall y’all! I think I say that every year! I should do some subtracting as to how long I’ve been blogging! A long time! lol

Super, super fun stencil set! So easy too! I used Distress Oxide inks… so many colors would work! I used Carved Pumpkin, Antique Linen, Wilted Violent, Peacock Feathers and Peeled Paint. I used an old splatter stamp in dark brown ink.

I cut a ticket tag from the Nested Postage Labels and Tag die set, inked it with Distress Gathered Twigs and stamped Happy Fall from last years stamp and die of the month set for September. I’ll link below if it’s still on the site. It is! $5 for the stamp set and $3 for the die set! WOW! Links below!

Tie on with some twine.

Die cut a pumpkin, gourd and some dies from last years die sets and it was done! They’re amazing sale prices too!

An A2 size card.

Linking to some Card Challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Make your own background

Stencil Fun – stencils with optional Fall Frenzy!

Four Seasons – Fall Season September

Double D – Fall Leaves (I have three on my card)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy the season and happy cardmaking!

Products I used to make this card… but first… Spellbinders Fall Warehouse Sale!

Fall Warehouse Sale – Spellbinders… [ SPL ]	Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	Nested Postage Labels & Tag Etched… [ SPL ]
Fall Thoughtfulness – Clear Stamp of… [ SPL ]	Fall Thoughtfulness Die Set- (Dies… [ SPL ]	Hiking Through the Meadows – Small… [ SPL ]
Boo-licious Fall Cupcake – Large Die… [ SPL ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Poppystamps

poppystamps Nordic Wintertide Stockings Merry Christmas Card…

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! Have you counted your Christmas card stash yet? I haven’t! I haven’t kept up very well with my policy of finishing the insides either! I will be sorry yet again this year! lol

A very easy die cut card A2 size today. I cut this NEW poppy Nordic Wintertide Border Set three times for the wider border and three times for the narrow border. Next time I will just space them better so I don’t have the piece I had to trim at the top.

Believe it or not these dies cut very well! I die cut with the blades up, and angle the die into the machine. Try it! It works!

I pieced together the NEW poppy Nordic Stockings and Merry Christmas Moonlight Script dies…very straight forward/easy!

I used the NEW Memory Box red cardstock!!! OH wow! This cardstock is beautiful! Dave sent several colors and I can’t wait to use them! 8.5 x 11 size!!! yahoo!

Here’s a video showing the colors!

I die cut a vellum circle to put behind the sentiment and stockings, it just needed it!

Linking to some card challenges…

A Cut Above – anything goes with a die cut

The Paper Shelter #609 – punches and/or dies

ABC Christmas – S and T, T for traditional colors

Sparkles Christmas – sentiment as the focus

There you have it! A festive, easy card and I didn’t even have to fill the stockings! Although I think they’d be super cute with stuff in them, I just couldn’t land on anything. I tried adding poinsettias but nope, didn’t suit my eye!

Off to work on some more Christmas cheer! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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

Poppystamps – 2633 Nordic Wintertide… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2636 Nordic Stockings… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2596 Merry Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – Cardstock Paper – 8/1/2… [ STR \| SSS ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe – 8-1/2 x 11 by… [ STR ]	Bazzill 29lb weight vellum – sold by… [ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Embossing Folders · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Winter

Memory Box Pinecone and Berries 3D Embossing Folder Merry Christmas Wave Card…

September 6, 2024September 10, 2024 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everyone! Time to get really serious about getting Christmas cards made and ready to mail! Preaching to myself for sure! lol

I was excited to use one of the NEW Memory Box 3D Embossing Folders for my card today.

I started out by inking the side, flat area up, with Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink and then running it through the die cutting machine.

I used Canson Montval cold press watercolor paper. I buy the BIG sheet from Hobby Lobby and then just cut a piece off of it when I need it. I leave it out, in the way, so I remember to use it. It’s my favorite watercolor paper. The price is right too! $3.29 for the piece… if I cut it up into 9×12, if I’m remembering right, you get 8 pieces!

I spritz one side of the paper very lightly before I put it in the inked up folder.

Then using regular distress ink and the mini ink blending tool, I went over the raised areas with Pine Needles on the pine, Peeled Paint on the leafy branches and Gathered Twigs on the pinecones.

I really like the look of this but it’s so much better in real life than a photo!

I die cut the NEW Drifting Snowflakes die and just used the flakes on my card. I used the 3 sizes of dots it cuts out too. I spattered with white ink but it didn’t show up very well.

I die cut the NEW Merry Christmas Wave in kraft and red cardstocks. Another easy one to put together! I used scor-tape on the back so I could just lay the letters back in and they fit perfectly…EASY! Love it!

A little bit of twine wrapped around the panel. This ended up A6 size….a little extra! lol

I layered on red cardstock and then to a white cardbase.

For the inside I used a sentiment from the NEW Holiday Wishes stamp set. If you only wanted one set with sentiments for the outside and the inside… here it is!

Linking to some challenges…

Can You Handle the Pressure? – anything goes with an embossing folder

Peace On Earth Christmas – anything goes Christmas

Word Power #9 – Sentiment/words as the focus

Merry Little Christmas #58 – anything Christmas goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – anything goes

Now back to thinking….what’s next! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! Holler if you have any questions. I know I forget stuff!

Check out STAMPtember at Simon Says Stamp! Today is a super cute set from Pink and Main! The collaboration sets started Tuesday and there’s still some left of most.

and here’s a free shipping code!

Here’s the products I used to make this card… SLS is starlitstudio .net, SSS is Simon Says Stamp, SBC is Scrapbook .com Thank you so much for shopping through my links! I appreciate it!

Memory Box – EF1043 Pinecones and… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94799 Merry Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94816 Drifting… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – CL5286D Holiday Wishes… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box Holiday Wishes Clear… [ SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest Ultra Thick 110… [ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Toffee -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cherry Pop -… [ TE ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS ]
Linen Thread – 40 yds – by the spool [ STR ]	Scor-Tape [ STR \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Pine… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Peeled… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Gathered… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – White,… [ BLIC ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Spellbinders Dancin’ Christmas Cards…

August 30, 2024 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Here to make you smile! Dancin’ Douglas is the tree card…I love the name! Dancin’ Moose Klondike…sooooo CUTE!

Very basic, die cut, glue and take pictures! lol An A-6 size card but I’ll use an A-7 size envelope because his antlers are a bit taller than the card.

Pine branch is from the Delivering Joy Sleigh die set, Santa hat from the Dancin’ Snowman die set and the sentiment is from the Clear Stamp and die set from October of 2023.

Here’s a short video showing how his legs ‘dance’!

There are several die sets in this collection… I’ll link to everything at the end of my post.

There’s No One Elf Like You! That’s the truth! lol Sentiment from Santa’s Sippin’ Sayings clear stamp set.

Snowflake die cut in the background is from the St. Nick die set.

I used Navy Blue cardstock but I know, it looks black but it’s not! ugh. Sometimes picture taking is so hard! You can see it’s navy in the video below!

The present is from the Dancin’ Snowman set.

Such happy cards! A-6 size again…

Here’s a video of Dancin’ Douglas swinging his legs.

I wish I’d thought to take a picture of how I do the swing. I’ll try to explain.

I use three washers and red tape them together and red tape them to the back of the tree. (I need to try just using two washers so it’s a little thinner.)

I put mounting tape on the back of the tree, making sure I don’t block the swing with it.

I add more red tape to the washers, remove all the protective paper from the mounting tape and red tape and adhere to the card panel.

It’s very simple. I don’t know what everyone else does but that’s what I do.

I used the smallest rectangle die from the Mini Slimline A set to die cut the sentiment.

The green cardstocks are from the Memory Box Greenery 6×6 cardstock pad.

Browns are old Bazzill cardstock and the Moose background cardstock is Cookie Monster from Taylored Expressions.

Thank you so much for stopping by and making it clear to the end of this post! whew! lol!

Here’s the list of what I used to stores that have these products… Click the abbreviations to see… THANK YOU!

Dancin’ Christmas Friends -… [ SPL ]	Dancin’ Moose Klondike Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Dancin’ Douglas Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
St. Nick Etched Dies from the Home… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Santa’s Sippin’ Sayings Clear Stamp… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Delivering Joy Sleigh Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1011 Greenery 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip… [ STR ]
Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cookie Monster… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Fruit Punch -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Toffee -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Lemon Meringue… [ TE ]
Ranger Archival Jet Black Archival… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Ranger Ink Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs… [ SBC \| SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Watchful Bird and More Card….

August 23, 2024 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! Another joy topped Christmas card to share today! I LOVE this NEW Watchful Bird! He fit right down in with some NEW Pine Branches and New Festive Holly dies!

Layered on top of the NEW Pinecone and Berries 3D Embossing Folder with natural linen cardstock, then the NEW Wavy Sheet Music die cut in black glossy cardstock.

Bello Joy is a NEW die also….die cut in two colors and with scor-tape on the back, layer in the letters…so much easier than gluing! For the color here, I inked a piece of natural linen the same way I colored the bird’s back and die cut it.

A little bit of Gathered Twigs Distress Ink blended on with the mini blending tool. It’s always out on my desk! hehe

I die cut the bird all in natural linen cardstock, then ink blended on color using my brushes that already had ink in them. My regular distress red brush, then my oxide distress red brush, then a light brushing with my brown oxide brush. No rhyme nor reason except for not wanting dark. The head is solid Gathered Twigs regular distress with the mini ink blending tool. The body lightly inked with the same.

Greenery die cut with the back two greens in the Memory Box Greenery Cardstock 6×6 pack and Earth Neutral 6×6 pack. I inked the edges with Rustic Wilderness distress and a mini ink blending tool. Red for berries was a scrap.

I enjoyed creating this card! Music is such a big part of the Christmas season for me. I always love greenery!

This is an A2 size card. I didn’t trim off the holly this time. I normally mail in an A6 size envelope so it will fit ok like this. You could easy trim it off though!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! Links below if I’ve inspired you to get busy on Christmas cards. hoho I’m trying to keep mine pretty flat-ish. Sad the PO isn’t as card friendly as it used to be.

ok – ttul!

Shop til you drop!

STR – starlitstudio.net, SSS – Simon Says Stamp, SBC – Scrapbook .com

Memory Box – 94804 Watchful Bird… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94809 Wavy Sheet Music… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94817 Pine Branches… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94801 Festive Holly… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94763 Bello Joy craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – EF1043 Pinecones and… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1011 Greenery 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1009 Earth Neutral 6×6… [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Scor-Tape [ STR \| SSS ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]