poppystamps Whittle Dies Series Day Two…

August 29, 2021 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Welcome back to the 2nd day of Whittle cuteness! My first card today I decided to make a slimline card and use the NEW Memory Box Twiggy Alphabet too!

I used one of the pattern papers from the pretty Memory Box Spring Plaid Slim pad and two Memory Box 6×6 cardstock pads, Ocean Blue and Fresh Aqua for the die cut letters.

Then I proceeded to create a little scene below with Whittle Dies…

So cute! I die cut Memory Box cardstock 6×6 paper pads again using Sunny Orange, Berry Red, Earth Neutral and Lush Green. The background/sky/water is from Fresh Aqua.

Nothing hard, I didn’t even do any inking on these die cut pieces! Stayed with the clean look. A little white gel pen at the end.

Next up…moo…bleat! Look at these fun sentiments! poppystamps Whittle Wild Animal Sentiments.

I hope you laughed outloud! hahahahahaha I made one barn… cut it in half and made two mini slim cards!

Look at this cutie goat! It’s so encouraging! lol

I die cut the Whittle Goat in white Neenah Classic Crest and using my TE gray blending brush for oxides, I just went around it with the brush, no added ink. Then I colored the nose and ears with a pink Copic. This was my third try at coloring the goat. I liked it the best.

I did some cloud inking… die cut and colored a fence…die cut some grass and the sun.

Next card….maybe I should stamp, “You’re Kind Of A Big Deal” on the inside! Actually it would work for both cards! lol Same sentiment stamp set.

Here I colored the cow the same way as I did the goat, with the TE blending brush I have reserved for Oxide inks in brown. I just used the dirty brush, no added ink.

I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder on TE Oreo cardstock.

I think she’s barn with it…don’t you?! ❤

Well happy barn day and week to you!

Thank you for stopping by my blog and I hope you enjoyed my cards!

Here’s what I used to make these cards…

Poppystamps – 2216 Whittle Palm Tree… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – 2372 Whittle Flamingo… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2219 Whittle Mounds… [ STR \| STR ]
Poppy Stamps WHITTLE CLOUDS Craft Die… [ SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2418 Whittle Sunshine… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94581 Twiggy Alphabet… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94556 Slim Basic… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1015S Spring Plaid Slim [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2342 Little Bit of Turf… [ STR ]
Poppystamps – 2441 Whittle Goat craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2449 Whittle Cow craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2443 Country Barn Pop… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – 2380 Word Balloons… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94580 Banner Sentiment… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2351 Cottage Picket… [ STR ]
Poppystamps – CL500 Whittle Wild… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1004 Fresh Aqua 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1005 Ocean Blue 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
TE Blender Brushes [ TE \| SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Interactive · Memory Box · Mini Slim Card · Oxide Inks · Poppystamps · Summer

Memory Box Ocean Collage Interactive Mini Slimline Shadowbox Card…

May 22, 2021May 25, 2021 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Hi everyone! “water you up to?” A very wet week and now for some sunshine and a water card! YAY!

I had to show you the inside first… I love how it turned out! lol

The front…

It’s like a book style, shadow box, interactive, slim line size, dimensional card! 3 ½ x 6 inches but it’s really a box that you’ll see in my little short video below. I wish I knew how to keep the resolution so the quality was still here when I upload. There must be some trick! I’m not ambitious enough to take the time to learn. I’d rather make cards! You can smash it to mail it… It’ll probably need the 2 oz postage stamp.

I used a bunch of the new dies from Memory Box, Distress Oxide Ink pads for all the coloring and Taylored Expressions ink blender brushes. So fun… I like coloring dies this way. I hope you can see that I added some white pigment ink/Sugar Cube from Taylored Expressions, down the centers of the front background piece and the inside background piece… like there’s some light glowing in.

I spattered with water. After it dried I spattered with some white watercolor paint.

I forgot to add some of the new Memory Box Fairy Drop Clear Domed adhesive embellishments! They would’ve been a really cool! Check them out HERE!

I got carried away with pictures… I cut out two though! lol

To make this, I added 1 ½ inch to my card base measurement, then scored so I would have ½ inch for the spine and the ½ inch piece to glue my top panel to and a ½ inch for the side. You can kinda see the white in the picture above…bottom right corner. I did have to trim out some of it so the white didn’t show behind the bubbles and curves. If you made this A2 size, you probably wouldn’t need to do that.

The two inside pieces I made/cut a scant 3 ½ in plus an ⅛ in for both sides so be sure to add a ¼ in to whatever size you make your card.

The top panel is only scored on the left side to glue to the spine. The right side glues to the top ½ inch of the cardbase.

Sorry, I’m one of those wing it card makers that can figure out stuff as I go. Hope you can figure it out too!

Linking my card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge… Use Dies and/or Punches

Thanks for stopping by today! ❤

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Memory Box – 94546 End of My Rope Set… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94570 School of Fish… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94561 Kelp Collage craft… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94562 Bubble Coral… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94563 Deepwater Collage… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – CL501 Whittle Sealife… [ STR \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS ]	TE Blender Brushes [ TE ]
TE Pastel Blender Brushes [ TE ]	TE Black & White Blender Brushes [ TE ]	TE Bitty Blender Brushes [ TE ]
TE Premium Ink – Mini Ink Pads [ TE ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Slimline · Spring · Thank You

Memory Box Dies, Flower, Stems and More on Three Cards…

March 23, 2021April 12, 2021 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hello! I have three cards to share today…starting with the tallest and ending with the shortest! lol For this card I was inspired by a challenge and a way to use the extra flower I had ready. Here’s a link to the challenge…(click on the logo). I managed to keep it very CAS and complete the optional twist also with only die cuts! yay! lol

#thank you so much to the AAA Cards blog for choosing my card as a winner! HERE

I went with the Slimline card size so I could use the NEW Memory Box Slim Diagonal Collage die, the NEW Wildflower Stems die and the NEW Thank You Posh Script.

The flower is cut from watercolor paper and colored with Distress ink refills. Definitely Clean and Simple!

Next card….

I absolutely love this mini slim line size card… 3 ½ inches by 6 inches. I don’t know why but I find it charming! lol

I used the Memory Box NEW Lavender Stems, the greenery from the NEW Daisy Stems and the greenery from the NEW Wildflower Stems.

I die cut from watercolor cardstock and painted with Distress Ink refills again. I don’t know why I reach for these so much. I have lots of other watercolor mediums. hehe

I used one of the NEW Memory Box cardstock pads… I love already coordinated paper! The plaid is from the NEW Memory Box Madras Plaid Blue and Violet 6×6 paper pad. This pad is so beautiful! One side has gold foil accents and the back side is plain. I used the plain this time but wow, the gold sides are so gorgeous!

Sentiments from poppystamps Springtime Fun and Memory Box Big and Little Spring stamp sets.

Next card…

This was my first card with the flowers I cut and painted. From here they got simpler and taller! lol This is a regular A2 size card.

Wildflower Stems, Seed Stems, Daisy Stems on top of the Stylish Rectangle Trio die.

Pattern papers from the Memory Box Garden Folly, Christmas Plaid and Garland Stripes and Dots 6×6 paper pads.

The sentiment is from poppystamps Greeting Basics.

Give me a holler if you have any questions! Thank you for stopping by!

Products I used to make these cards…

Memory Box – 94555 Slim Diagonal… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94529 Thank You Posh… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94537 Wildflower Stems… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94535 Lavender Stems… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94538 Daisy Stems craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – CL491 Springtime Fun… [ STR ]
Memory Box – CL5254 Big and Little… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1005 Ocean Blue 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1014 Madras Plaid Blue… [ STR \| SSS ]
May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS \| TE ]	Linen Thread – 40 yds – by the spool [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94534 Seed Stems craft die [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94416 Stylish Rectangle… [ STR \| SSS ]	PoppyStamps – Greeting Basics clear… [ FRN ]	Memory Box – PP1005 Garden Folly 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – PP1009 Christmas Plaid… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1011 Garland Stripes… [ STR \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK REFILLS LOT OF… [ SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Pinkfresh Studio · Simon Says Stamp · Spring · Watercolor

Simon Says Stamp Botanical Split Background Slimline Card…

March 16, 2021 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everyone! Today’s card I’m using the center section of this new stamp from Simon Says Stamp’s latest NEW release ‘Hello Beautiful’. It’s a cool 6×6 background stamp but it splits into three pieces and you can use it all or just parts!

I started with Strathmore Best Watercolor paper pad, the brown one, taped it down, spritzed with water good and dropped in distress ink pad refill inks. Then I used that camera lens cleaner puffer tool. I think that’s what it is anyway. To move the inky water around.

Then I dried it with the heat tool.

After it was good and dry, I used the powder tool on it before I heat embossed the stamp in white on the watercolor background.

Then the question was, what to do with it! lol

I wanted to bring in some color, so I picked a light yellow from my stash.

Heat embossed a couple sentiments on vellum from SSS Sending and Wishing stamp set. Trimmed it down, folded it around the watercolor panel, taped it on the back, die cut the label and glued it on. Nothing complicated at all!

I’ll link up what I used below…hopefully they’re all still available! Have you tried making slimline cards yet? What do you think?

Thank you for stopping by!

Here’s what I used…

hello beautiful [ SSS ]	Simon Says Cling Stamp BOTANICAL… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING AND… [ SSS ]
PinkFresh Studio SLIM DIAGONAL… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK REFILLS LOT OF… [ SSS ]	Strathmore WATERCOLOR PAPER PAD… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz ALCOHOL INK AIR BLOWER… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]	Ranger Embossing Powder BLACK EPJ37347 [ SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · Color Pencil · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Memory Box · Spring

Memory Box NEW ‘All the Happiness’ Stamp Set…

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hi everyone! It’s time for a NEW release from Memory Box! So fun for all that love to color and love beautiful lettering!

Today’s card is using the NEW All the Happiness stamp set with two coordinating dies for the florals in the set.

AND there’s *NINE* NEW Memory Box cardstock paper pads!!! 48 6×6 inch sheets. 4 each of 12 shades. Printed on 110lb. cardstock. 6 x 6 inches. So awesome!

I stamped with Ranger Archival Black ink, watercolored with regular Distress Ink, Victorian Velvet and Rustic Wilderness and shaded with Caran ‘dAche dark Carmine and black colored pencils.

Heat embossed the sentiment with black pigment ink and black embossing powder.

For the frame I die cut the Memory Box Wrapped Scalloped Rectangles largest die, then to make it a frame I used one of the dies from the Memory Box Rectangle Basics Set to cut the center out.

Thanks for stopping by! I’ve been helping grands with Valentines… so fun. I need to make some for them! I drank tea too late yesterday so I’m propping my eyelids open today. haha Not responsible for spelling and sentence structure today!

Great sale and products list below…

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Great SALE on COPICS at Simon Says Stamp!

Products I used to make this card…

Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5265-D All the… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box Clear Stamps ALL THE… [ SSS ]
Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – Open Studio Die Set -… [ FRN ]	Tim Holtz Distress Reinker VICTORIAN… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Reinker November… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Reinker PEACOCK… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Nuvo Deluxe Clear Drying Adhesive;… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Caran d’Ache Pablo Colored Pencils… [ BLIC ]	Lawn Fawn YETI Pigment Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Ranger Embossing Powder BLACK EPJ37347 [ SSS \| SBC ]