Five Cute A2 Just a Note cards…

May 7, 2016May 7, 2016 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi stamping, coloring, die cutting, creative friends! Pictures are ready, page open to start blogging and it dawns on me, I should be posting something for Mother’s Day! lol Hmmmm…maybe tomorrow! hehe

Today I have 5 cards I made using two poppystamps sets, Mail Delivery stamps and dies and Easter Excitement stamps and dies. I could’ve easy made 5 more! How fun is that and what a variety of cuteness!

I stamp, die cut and then color. The backgrounds are Distress inks applied with the mini ink blending tool.

White pen accents added with a white pen that SLS just started carrying, thanks to the heads up from Linda! Thank you Linda!

I used the MISTI to stamp the sentiments. Distress ins on this one are Hickory Smoke for the sidewalk and Salty Ocean for the sky.

Since it’s time to plant…what a perfect card for that gardening friend!

Here I used the Memory Box Shaker Square Frames die set and for the background layer a square from the Memory Box Stitched Square Layers die set. Salty Ocean and Gathered Twigs are the Distress Ink blended background colors.

I cut a slit in the bottom to fit the carrot into the ‘dirt’. The butterfly antennae is drawn on with a black pen.

oh yes! I love this one…it’s all about the mail! lol A couple washi tapes a long the bottom. The airmail is from Little B and the special delivery is from October Afternoon.

I added a few embossed lines with the Scor-buddy to simulate house siding. fun!

Always fun to find a tree in a set to color! The same frame and stitched dies that I used above, just a larger stitched square for the background. I used Salty Ocean (pounced it off on scrap paper more) and Mowed Lawn for the ink blending on this one.

and last a little more Washi tape to embellish this cute CAS card… Doodlebug cloud Washi and Little B Green Herringbone Washi… I just love it for grass.

Whew – long post! Happy cards and I hope they inspired you to make a card!

Thanks so much for clicking over and happy weekend to you!

Shopping Links for the products I used on these cards…

Card Sketch · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Doohickey's Dies · Magnolia · Memory Box · Paper Smooches · Spring

Muse Challenge, Memory Box and Paper Smooches…

April 10, 2016April 20, 2016 Pam Sparks34 Comments

Hi everybody! yep, it’s raining here and it’s our youngest daughter’s birthday which got me to thinking about cards and the Muse Challenge that I’ve been wanting to jump in on this week!

I love Michele’s card and was inspired by her element popped up in the corner of the rectangle. I left my rectangle kinda big cuz I didn’t want to cut off that much of the die but I kinda wish I would’ve now. Oops, I added a layer and forgot the sentiment was on a banner. I should’ve sent myself the picture and had it up on my phone I guess. Can’t trust my brain! lol

I used some dies I haven’t used very much so that was fun.

The Umbrella is from Magnolia Sweden (I don’t see it in stock in any of the US online stores, you can probably order it directly from Magnolia Sweden though)… the scallop stitched rectangle is from My Favorite Things… the rain background and stitched rectangle are Memory Box and the boots are from Paper Smooches. I stamped the boots with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink on the mini MISTI. I stamped and cut out a mask and inked the inside of the boots with Evergreen Bough and Hickory Smoke Distress Inks.

The next card I made for stamp club here. The theme was April Showers Bring May Flowers, so puddles with splashes just seemed like fun! All the stamps and the die are from Paper Smooches. The stitched rectangle die is Memory Box. The polka dot paper is My Favorite Things, the Lollipop and Cookie Monster layer and card-base are Taylored Expressions.

and a close up … splish splash…

It’s interesting to see the difference in the background colors of the photos. The welcome Spring card pictures were from Friday a.m. when the sun was shining… the umbrella card was late afternoon today with no sun but plenty of light.

Both cards are A-2 size.

Thanks for looking at my Spring cards! I appreciate it! Have a good week!

Here’s shopping links to what I used…

cards · CAS · Distress Ink coloring · MFT · Printworks · rubber stamps · Simon Says Stamp · Spring

Printworks Collection, Here Kitty Kitty…

April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Isn’t this an adorable kitty image? Annette from Printworks has drawn the cutest animals! This one is Here Kitty Kitty. I stamped on watercolor card-stock and colored with Distress Ink Markers.

So cute! and I’m not an animal lover at all!

A couple dies and sentiment stamp also from Printworks and it was done. Never mind that this was the second attempt. lol It’s an A2 size card.

Oh, see the white dots on the butterfly? Well, Linda told me about this Sharpie White Pen so Cindy got them in… so far… I LOVE it! Thank you Linda and Cindy!!!

I’ll link up what I used below… thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies I used to make this card…

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Memory Box and poppystamps cards…

March 18, 2016 Pam Sparks19 Comments

Hi and are you feeling like I am? This week went by in a blur! I’m blaming it on the time change this week! haha

My first card today is all die cuts except for that little birthday stamp from the “in the words” stamp set.

The poppystamps Stitched Swirl die is die cut into the light green Open Studio Stitched Rectangle Layer, then die cut in a piece of green and pieced into the light green rectangle.

The poppystamps Susanna Bloom is die cut in white, leave it in the die, turn it over and emboss it with a stylus, turn it back over and sponge on the color. In this case, I used Distress Inks Squeezed Lemonade and Peeled Paint.

The word ‘happy’ is from the poppystamps Happy Spring die set. I like to put Scor-tape on the back of the card-stock before I run it through the Big Shot for words. Then you have a sticker. TIP: Pick out the parts you don’t want to use before you remove the word. Take out the waste from the top of the ‘h’, the bottom of the two p’s and the bottom of the ‘y’, then peel off the sticker. It shouldn’t cut through the release paper of the Scor-tape. It’s a lot easier to remove them first then after you have the word off. It’s so sticky to try to remove those inner parts then.

Here is the poppystamps Side Lattice die cut into the card front, backed with Memory Box Sweetcorn card-stock. The poppystamps Sylvan die cut and flowers from the Memory Box Seraphine Laurel die. Thinking of you is from the Memory Box Springtime Bunnies clear set.

For this card, I embossed both of these dies, poppystamps Peony Delight and Peony Bud into the card-stock white panel, then it was real easy to see where to adhere the green die cuts. Happy Spring is from the Springtime Bunnies clear stamp set.

A few sequins, stamp a sentiment and all the cards are A2 size cards.