More New Memory Box and SALES!!!

June 7, 2014June 27, 2014 Pam Sparks10 Comments

First up…the SALES!!!

I use my Perfect Layers tools all the time! Perfect Paper Crafting is offering an awesome deal! If you haven’t gotten yours yet…don’t miss this opportunity to get a deal on the new set of Mini Rulers and the mat! You will not be sorry! LOVE them! If you already have them, maybe you want another set or what an awesome gift for a stamper friend!
Click the box below to check it out!

I have admired and been tempted to buy for some time the New stamp and die sets from Simon Says Stamp. I still don’t have any but if I have time to shop tomorrow, I want to but where to start! In case you didn’t know and want to shop too… here’s the deal and a link to the sale.

thanks for shopping through my links!

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Cards! Here’s another card using the NEW Summer 2014 Memory Box release. I started with the Floating Butterflies die cut out of a Memory Box white notecard. Next I cut out two of the inner lines with a scissors so I would have one complete butterfly. Here’s a picture of the die so you can see the lines I cut off.

I cut the Floating Butterflies Background die from a Memory Box Sweetcorn notecard. Using the Butterfly Vine stencil, I inked up the complete butterfly first, with Wild Honey Distress ink and the mini round ink blending tool. Then moved the stencil to fit over the other two butterflies, making sure not to ink into the complete butterfly I stenciled first.

I die cut the Bursting Berry Vine and Blushing Flower Branch from a Memory Box Kraft notecard. I inked them with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool and then colored the leaves with YG Copics.

Cut the Blushing Flower Branch again with little pieces of Memory Box Lavender notecard placed over the flowers, emboss them with a stylus or run it back through the Big Shot with a tan mat and shims. Leaving the flowers in the die, flip it over and ink through the die with Dusty Concord Distress ink and an ink blending tool.

Using a variety of Memory Box butterfly dies… cut some butterfly bodies in lavender card…ink them a little with Dusty Concord Distress ink too.

The word ‘fly’ is cut from the Library Alphabet Tags set.

I glued with Tombow Mono Multi, Scrapbook Adhesives mounting squares and the ATG gun.

A2 size card…

Linking up to the NBUS Challenge HERE… all of the dies have never been used!

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Over on the Memory Box facebook page this a.m., I posted the Floating Butterflies card and a gal said she wanted to see something with the Curling Cloud die. So I took the challenge for this afternoon!

I inlaid the Mini Hot Air Balloon and Beautiful Balloon dies with the Curling Cloud, cut the Memory Box initials with the Classic Uppercase Alphabet dies, cut summer with the Alphabet Soup die and fun with Parker Lowercase Alphabet dies.

Another Curling Cloud glued on top of the card to finish it off.

It’s an A2 size card – Memory Box Lagoon notecard for the card base, white, cranberry and meadow for the cuts.

So when it’s hot and humid… I stay in the house and keep cool! How about you? So my Summer fun is not in the air but on the ground, in the house playing with Memory dies, stencils and stamps!

I still have 3 class cards to post next week, some new Printworks stamps to play with and it’s time to color again!

TFL! and happy weekend…hope you get to make something too!

Here’s what I used to make these cards…

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Memory Box and poppystamps Sunflower Card…

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 Pam Sparks14 Comments

I really had a lot of fun creating this card! I LOVE the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower die! I used it here with the Memory Box Toulouse Background die (trimmed off the flower head), the Memory Box Honey Comb Stencil, the Memory Box Happy Birthday Combo stamp and the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower Background die.

I inked the front of a Memory Box Jack o Lantern A2 Notecard with the Honey Comb stencil, Wild Honey Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending tool.

Remember this card and video?

I took the background piece and put it in the outline die, ran it through the Big Shot to emboss the detail into the background piece, that’s what I did here too… LOVE this look!

Then I inked the edges a little with Wild Honey Distress ink and the new mini Round Ink Blending Tool.

There is ONE big difference though… see it?

Instead of putting the background behind… I put it on top!

When I die cut the Bountiful Sunflower outline die in dark brown, I made sure to keep the seeds in the die and inked them with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending Tool. TIP – to make sure the seeds stay in after you remove it from the die…tape them on the back side with scotch tape.

Then here is a card I made to show how you would normally think to cut this die and use it…

Only instead of lining up the background piece exactly, I decided to place it ‘off’! I like it a lot this way! YAY!

I inked the edges of the Memory Box Kraft A2 Notecard with Walnut Stain Distress ink, stamped the Journey Collage stamp in black and ended up with a CAS card I’m really happy with too!

New Grandson and Mama are doing great! Thanks for stopping by!

Still time to link up to the give a way… scroll down…

Supplies I used for these cards…

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Memory Box Vignette Floral Branch and Wicker Panel…

June 3, 2014 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s been an exciting week for Tim and I so far! We have another new grandson, born early evening Sunday. We are feeling very blessed… this is our 10th grandson and we have six granddaughters!

I wanted to share a card I started Saturday afternoon and just finished up today. Another FABULOUS Flower die and the Wicker Panel die in white that I cut in half the long way and used on each side of the gingham panel.

I die cut the Vignette Floral Branch die out of three colors, white, Meadow and Blueberry so I could ‘color’ the flowers. Very easy to piece together.

*Trim the Blueberry flowers off the Blueberry cut and glue to the Meadow cut.

*Trim the little white flowers from the white cut and glue to the Meadow cut.

*Cut one more time out of the Blueberry Distress Dots Signature Pattern Paper for the flower petals…leave them in the die if you can until you are ready to place them.

Here’s a trick…on your green cut that you’ve added the blueberry and white flowers to already, turn it over and put a little piece of scotch tape on the wrong side of the big flowers…that will give you some adhesive area, so when you turn it back over, right side up, you can stick the flower petals in the right spot on the Blueberry flowers and the scotch tape will hold them in place! YAY! (you can use double sided tape instead of scotch tape if it has a release paper, so it doesn’t stick to whatever you are working on too)

A close up…

I mounted the finished Vignette Floral Branch to the card with mounting squares.

I cut the A Little Thanks die from white card-stock twice and glued them together.

I use Tombow Mono Multi glue. Keep the tip clean and keep it laying down all the time and it’ll be your ‘new best friend’! ; )

Enjoy the NEW dies! I love the Vignette Floral Branch…I think it will play nicely with the Wildflower Corner die too! oh, and wouldn’t a butterfly be nice on here! lol

Thanks for stopping by today! I’ll be heading back to Breanna’s tomorrow to help and play with the other kids.

oh, and so sorry for the link up confusion with the giveaway in my previous post… it’s still open until Saturday… so link up! Thank you Cindy/Starlitstudio for your generosity!

Starlitstudio.net has the new release in stock, click HERE to shop!

Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Summer

Memory Box… NEW! NEW! NEW!

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014 Pam Sparks21 Comments

MORE of what we love! Memory Box dies! YAY! The 2014 Summer Release! I’m whispering here… but you know…the Holiday release will follow soon after! YAY! I love Christmas!

For this ‘yellow’ card I used the NEW Thank You Garland, Delicate Butterfly Arch, Solid Arch Background, Kensington Branch (I trimmed out two of the butterflies, cut them in white and yellow) from the NEW release and the Peaceful Butterfly Wings from the Spring release.

Add some baby white pearls and I was done. Oh, I did cut the Butterfly Wings twice so I could trim out a few butterflies and layer them over the ones close to the border of the Arch cuts.

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The next card was really fun too! I used the NEW Fancy Potted Flower and Happy Birthday Garland.

It just makes me happy! It almost makes me think I could be a flower gardener! NOT. Bummer though. I do have one hanging flower this year and it’s still alive! woohoo! lol

Look at the potential with this die! Use it as it cuts… the flowers in the pot… or trim the flowers out and use them as a row of flowers in the grass, I love this! Or trim off the flower heads for ground cover! Sweet! Of course I had to do all three!

TIP! Leave the petal pieces in the die and use the Pick up tool (linked below) to place them directly from the die…then you know right where they go! Great time saver!

Love these garland sentiments! I did cut them three times and glued them up with Tombow Mono Multi.

See that sprig of green in there? That’s from the Fabulous Phlox die… love it! Fresh Cut Grass die from poppystamps!

Memory Box Signature Pattern paper, Notecards and Card-stocks. Both cards are A2 size.

I’m so excited…can’t wait to show you some more cards! I’ll be back tomorrow! Thanks for looking!

Supplies I used to make these cards…

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Memory Box Glorious Gerber Daisies and Kensington Border cards…

May 22, 2014May 22, 2014 Pam Sparks15 Comments

Glorious Gerbers indeed! I love these flower dies from Memory Box! I will be posting later next week about the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape but in the meantime, here’s a couple cards I made up while working out what cards to teach.

I pieced in the Distress Dots Memory Box Signature pattern papers for the flower petals. I like to leave the pieces in the die and use the Quikstik to place them them in the holes, easier to keep track of the pieces and faster too!

Memory Box Kraft A-2 notecard for the base, edged with Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

Just can’t get enough of the Kensington Border die! Love it!

I inked up just the ‘happy birthday’ words from the Happy Birthday Special Combo stamp and stamped them on the poppystamps classic ribbon border die and layered it up.
Here’s a little bit different version…

and since I couldn’t decide if I liked one photo better than the other…

Some little purple baby pearls on the border die cut, wish I’d remembered to do that on the first card before photos! lol If you don’t have purple, you can always color white ones with your Copic markers!

Hemp on the first card and Lawn Fawn trimmings on the second.

THANKS for visiting today!

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