poppystamps and Memory Box Fall Forest Card…

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Happy Fall y’all! It’s right before Freezin’ Season!

I was flipping through the NEW Nutmeg Forest 6×6 paper pad and saw this piece! I hated to cover it up but I did put a solid oval under the die cuts. I could’ve made a bigger card so more would show!

I die cut everything and colored it with ink or copics. Little white dots with acrylic white paint and the small end of an embossing sytlus.

A lot of whimsy in the release this time. Birds, flowers, mushrooms and so much more! Lots of Christmas! I’ll link up what I used below if you want to check out the dies! No stamping on this A2 size card.

Linking to some card challenges…

Love Those Pretty Papers October Challenge – Halloween colors/papers

The Paper Funday October 2024 – anything goes with twist Autumn colors

Triple B October 2024 – Use one or all of the three B’s (bird for me)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Holler if you have any questions! I’m writing this the night before and I can hardly stay awake! ugh!

Shopping links….

Memory Box – PP1034 Nutmeg Forest 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94818 Mysterious… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2597 Happy Fall… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – 2657 Forest Stump craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2663 Simple Floral… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94811 Little Bird Bunch… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – 2359 Oval Fold Frame… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Spellbinders dies · Stencils · Winter

Spellbinders October Stencil of the Month Club Card…

October 12, 2024 Pam Sparks4 Comments

Hi everyone! The stencil of the month club is so fun this month! I used two of the stencils to make this background, the other stencils in the set make an ornament background. So fun. I could’ve use this design on the ornaments too. Ppl come up with the greatest ideas! I need to make another card! lol

Curious about the Spellbinders Monthly Clubs? I love how they are set up… join and cancel anytime but most of the time you’re gonna want them! lol Check them out HERE!

I just used ink pads and inked through the stencils in red and then in green on white cardstock. It was so white I had to age it with Vintage Photo Distress ink and a blending brush, than the very edge with Walnut Stain Distress ink. I love this look! Smiling… I know you’re remembering this about me. lol

I die cut the Holly branch twice and glued them together, then cut a bunch of berries from the Poinsettia Spray die set.

I didn’t like it directly on the stenciled panel so I cut a piece of vellum and aged it with Vintage Photo Distress ink also. I mounted the holly branch to the vellum with the thin mounting tape I love, linked below. Then I used glue on the back for the vellum on the areas the branch and leaves covered so you wouldn’t see the glue from the front.

The sentiment is from the Christmas Sentiments Betterpress Plate and Die set. I foiled it though with gold foil on red cardstock. So pretty!

I wish I could show you in person because it’s so much more vintage/antique looking IRL! In the photos it looks white but it’s not. It’s so nice to be able to take photographs of everything but they never do the real thing complete justice. lol I love it!

Have a great rest of the weekend friends and cardmakers! Thankful for every minute. A horrible car/tractor accident a couple miles from our small city last night. So awful. Just four years ago it was our youngest daughter that died this month. I’m probably more sensitive to it this month.

My wonderful husband just made me some more shelves so I’m rearranging and need to sort and re-bin this 30 year collection of stuff! I get to work and forget I need to be doing other things too!

I’m don’t like facing the fact that I’m a stamp/die/paper addict! lol Fortunately it’s the only thing I collect! whew! lol!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy every moment!

Products I used to make this card…

Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	Christmas Sentiments Press Plate &… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Poinsettia Spray Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip… [ STR \| SPL ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Vintage… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Walnut… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Vellum Sheets from the Card Shoppe… [ SPL ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System Platinum \|… [ SPL ]	Scor-Pal Eighths – Spellbinders Paper… [ SPL ]	Crystal Katana Black Edition \|… [ SPL ]

cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Fall · Oxide Inks · Spellbinders dies · Stencils

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 · Distress Ink coloring · Oxide Inks · Simon Says Stamp · Winter

SSS STAMPtember Christmas Block Art Tags and Cards…

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Pam Sparks6 Comments

Hello everyone! A bit of a blizzard happening here, hoho! Sharing a few things from this NEW STAMPtember release stamp set illustrated by Miriam Prantner called Christmas Block Art.

My projects are pretty straight forward. The snowflake tags and tree cards are stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then ink blended with Distress Inks. I linked the ones I used below.

For the trees I used an old primitive star Marvy paper punch and glitter cardstock.

I love this primitive looking tree… so cute! I added some Memory Box Fairy Gems from the Christmas pack. Mini slimline card size.

So fun….this last photo is the first things I made with the set. I stamped all three on one piece of 4.25 x 5.5 cardstock panel but ended up cutting them apart and making tags instead of a card.

I used Distress Oxide inks to ink up the stamps in the MISTI but I didn’t write down what colors I used. ugh. I stamped some snowflakes on the tree but they didn’t show up well enough after they dried so I added some using an old EK Success paper punch.

The sentiment over the star is from a SSS set that’s not available anymore. Sorry about that! It’s Holiday Greetings Mix 1.

Oh Christmas Tree is included in the stamp set with the block art images.

Walking is from a new set from Memory Box, Holiday Wishes.

Linking to some challenges…

Merry Little Christmas #58 – anything Christmas goes

NBUS #66 – never before used stuff!

Peace On Earth #71– anything Christmas goes

And my set of three tags to this challenge…

Word Power #9 – words/sentiment is the focus

I hope you’re enjoying this month at Simon Says Stamp! A long with the new STAMPtember release there is a collaboration set or something happening every day of this month! So fun! Go HERE to check it out everyday at noon ET. One more thing….free shipping with this code!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Products I used to make these tags and mini slimline cards…

Simon Says Stamps and Dies Christmas… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamps Dies and Stencils… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps Christmas… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Christmas Block Art… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Holiday Wishes Clear Stamp… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Holiday Wishes Clear… [ SSS ]
Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn WHITE Embossing Powder LF1537 [ SSS ]	Ranger Archival Ink Pad Jet Black… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Tumbled… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Broken… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Wilted… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Villainous… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Evergreen… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Pine… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Cracked… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Lucky… [ SSS ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS ]
Memory Box CHRISTMAS Fairy Jewels jwl005 [ SSS ]	MISTI Mini Black Precision Stamper… [ SSS \| SSS ]	Spellbinders Splatter White Opaque… [ SSS ]

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 ]