Memory Box Happy Dance Bird Merry Christmas Card…

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 Pam Sparks12 Comments

oh happy day, I mean bird! So cute and festive on the snowy log! I love making Christmas cards with foliage, greenery and brown elements.

The Happy Dance Bird and Merry Christmas Stylish Script dies are from the newest Memory Box release. I die cut the bird in white and inked in some blue oxides and then a little gathered twigs too.

The background panel I embossed with the Pinecone and Berries 3D embossing folder in white cardstock. The colors really pop against embossed white!

I used a bunch of other dies but you could easy use whatever you have. This birdie could stand on about anything! Maybe even be a tree topper! lol

Notice the little dots of white on the berries…it’s the new White Contour tube that Cindy from Starlitstudio sent me to try! WOW! It’s the best white of any so far and there’s sure been a lot. It makes the best dots down to this teeny tiny easy! I’m so impressed! I’m getting the gold next. hehe

I took a bunch of pictures, posting several because the lighting shows some things better.

The Snowy Log is one of my favorite accessory type dies and so easy to make up too! The wood grain happens when you die cut it! No extra step to achieve it! yay!

Pine Branches and Pinecone Duo dies for the pine elements.

Festive Holly for the greenery elements.

So cute! This bird has personality and sure to bring a smile to the receiver!

The white panel is A2 size but I wanted some of the card base to show so it’s going to need an A6 or A7 envelope to mail. It shouldn’t need any extra postage.

I’m going to link my card to some challenge blogs…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Get Ready For Christmas

52 Christmas Card Throwdown – October Color Challenge, Red, Green and Brown

The Christmas Kickstart #103 – Snow Alert

Allsorts Challenge #834 – Traditional Christmas Colors or anything goes

I hope you enjoyed this happy card and are inspired to make some Christmas cards. I inspired myself! lol

Take care and enjoy this beautiful Fall season!

Links to what I used if you want to shop….click on the abbreviations, SLS is Starlitstudio, SSS is Simon Says Stamp, SBC is Scrapbook .com Thank you so much for stopping by!

p.s. the last four dies in the grid are from the new release. I don’t have them to use but I think they would work with the bird too.

Memory Box – 94920 Happy Dance Bird… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94936 Merry Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94801 Festive Holly… [ STR ]
Memory Box – 94817 Pine Branches… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94802 Pinecone Duo craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94821 Snowy Log craft die [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – EF1043 Pinecones and… [ STR \| SSS ]	Stamperia Create Happiness Contour Liner [ STR ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – White,… [ BLIC ]
Nuvo Deluxe Clear Drying Adhesive;… [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94912 Forest Holly Sprig… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94913 Pine Needles and… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94914 Berry Splash craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94916 Pine Berry Branch… [ STR \| SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · copics · Die Piecing · Fall · Flowers · Memory Box

Memory Box Garden Pail Bouquet Card…

September 23, 2025 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hello everyone! Have you seen this new die set from Memory Box? Well, it’s not the latest release but it wasn’t that long ago!

Just something about pails with flowers…I’m kinda envious of gals with flower gardens that can go pick whenever they want too. I’m not envious of the work involved though! So it’s paper flowers for me!

Funny story for you…. I decided to die cut the flowers in white and Copic color them so I grabbed a scrap of white from my white scrap bag. Put it down on the dies and when I took the flowers out of the die, I saw the print on there! lol I almost threw the pieces away but then I thought, I should just use these for fun! I probably could never do this on purpose and like it! lol

It really wasn’t hard because the pieces are grouped well! Here’s a picture of what the dies look like and then three pictures of the cuts. I did cut the two floral dies twice but you don’t need to.

I went by the picture on the package on how to put the flowers together and how to arrange them on the card. Most are just two pieces!

I did some inking with brushes on the pail and then some black spattering. Inking on the leaves also.

I colored the flowers with Copics but you could use any medium.

I used a little of my favorite thin mounting tape on the main flowers for the arrangement.

Then I just cut a black cardstock panel 4 inches x 5 ¼ inches and using my score-pal, scored all fours sides in ¼ inch. I love how the pail and flowers stand out against black!

OH, I didn’t have room for a big sentiment even though I wanted to use one. I used one of the Happy Birthday Foil Greetings Black Tabs.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope this card makes you smile and inspires you to make something too!

Here’s the products I used to make this card…tap/click the abbreviations to see the product.

(I hope these links work. I just spent an hour trying to do this. They are changing affiliate websites and making us jump through all kinds of hoops and it feels like such a waste of time. Let me know if you appreciate having the links like this because it takes so much time and I always wonder if it’s worth it!)

Memory Box – 94889 Garden Pail… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – ST007 Happy Birthday… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Bazzill Card Shoppe – 8-1/2 x 11 by… [ STR \| SSS ]	copic sketch markers at Simon Says… [ SSS \| BLIC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS ]	Penny Black Black Liquid Watercolor… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Nuvo Deluxe Clear Drying Adhesive;… [ STR \| SBC ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Spellbinders Lisa Horton All About Christmas Release Card…

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 Pam Sparks3 Comments

‘Wishing You A’ on the outside and ‘Merry Christmas’ on the inside! I’m always happy when I can get the inside of a card finished too! I think I’ll go back and add holly leaves and berries on the inside though. I took a picture but it’s holly less! lol

Another Christmas card to add to the stash… yay!

I enjoyed working with the ‘parts’ from this new Christmas Foliage die set. Everything for the wreath is from this set! I die cut threes and fives of each piece. Then cut a circle frame to use to keep me in a circle shape while gluing the pieces on.

I’m not a floral arranger/designer at all so it’s funny I pick this kind of thing to do with paper! lol But I’m usually really happy with the result so that’s what counts, right?!

I used another new die set in the release for the panel… Bow & Bell Scallop Frame. The kraft cardbase is inked a little with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool.

The sentiment on the front and inside is from the NEW Merry Sentiments Clear Stamp and Die set. You stamp the whole thing and then die cut the whole thing! So yes, you’ll have extra for another card! And yes, it needs holly in there! lol

Here’s a few more pictures! It’s an A2 size card and won’t take extra postage!

Just enough depth… I only used super thin mounting tape under the left side of the wishing you banner. The rest is glued direct to the circle frame that you can’t see.

And that’s all folks! Yesterday was a good picture day! lol

Thank you so much for stopping by and check out my links below for this neat release… Lots of ways to use these sets!

Product list…click/tap the abbreviations to go to Spellbinders, Scrapbook. com or Simon Says Stamp. No extra cost to you… thank you!

Christmas Foliage Etched Dies from… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Merry Sentiments Clear Stamp & Die… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Bow & Bell Scallop Frame Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]
New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Zig 2-Way Glue Pen – Squeeze & Roll… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Cardstock – Spellbinders Paper Arts [ SPL ]

BetterPress · cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Spellbinders dies

Spellbinders Happiest Holidays Better Press Cards…

August 15, 2025 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everyone! I was slow getting on the Better Press bandwagon but I love it! I made three cards with the new Yana Happiest Holdays plate and registration guide! It works so slick!

I kept everything pretty clean and simple but I love the NEW bow from the Bow & Bell Scallop Frame set so I used it on all three!

I changed up the strips on the bottom…

One I did the Happiest Holidays in green too. Center card in the photo below.

I die cut the panel with the largest stitch die from the Nested Postage Labels & Tag die set.

I used the Better Press cardstock for one card and the other two are some card I just have on hand to experiment with. They all worked!

I used Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pads!

All three are A2 size and will be easy to mail! YAY!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Here’s the products I used to make these cards… tap/click on the abbreviations to shop the stores that carry them. Thank you so much! I appreciate you using my links! No extra cost! YAY!

Happiest Holidays Registration Press… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Bow & Bell Scallop Frame Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger – Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium… [ SPL ]
Ranger Ink – Wendy Vecchi – Make Art… [ SBC ]	Ranger Archival Ink Stamp Cleaner -… [ SPL ]	Spellbinders – New and Improved… [ SBC \| SPL \| SSS ]
BetterPress Letterpress System \|… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Nested Postage Labels & Tag Etched… [ SPL ]	Spellbinders Bayfair Nested Postage… [ SSS ]

cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Here Comes Christmas! Spellbinders The Three Magi Card…

August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 Pam Sparks5 Comments

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great joy! I’m rejoicing that I got a card made to blog! hoho

What a neat set from Spellbinders! I guess I didn’t stray from the CAS look that I like but there’s so much potential to do fun things with this set! Turn it vertical and add a city border behind and and and…

This is a 5 x 7 size card on purpose because I wanted to give them plenty of room!

I started out thinking royal colors but I found these that had tones that worked together so I went with scraps for the most part!

I love that the sentiments are small! A beautiful cursive font!

All the extra details too… a little piece to go behind the head…three different beards….I colored the flesh with a Copic marker.

Versafine ink in the MISTI for the sentiments.

They’re festive! I used the thin mounting tape I love to pop them up just a hair! The stars are glued directly to the card front.

Simple once you decide your colors and get your pieces die cut!

Hope all is well with you. This Summer has flown by or washed by for some… lots of rain…lots of green! Can’t complain about lack of rain!

It feels good to be using the stash…I have a birthday card to share soon. Hopefully my pictures are good because I already gifted it!

ttul!

Some links to shop for the products I used…no cost to you! Thank you!

The Three Magi Stamp & Die Set from… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Holiday DIY Color Deck Expansion Pack… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Versafine – Onyx Black – full-sized… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – shiny gold [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]
Nuvo Deluxe Clear Drying Adhesive;… [ STR ]	Precision Fine Tip Applicator – small… [ STR ]	New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]