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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cards · Classes · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Spring · Techniques

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.

I’ll be back with the four cards from the other class in a few days. I have a couple other cards to post that I colored!

Thanks to all the gals that took my classes at Scrapmania on Saturday…you have a wonderful store to shop at!

Links below if you don’t have a local store…

Thanks for stopping by today!

Shopping links for the products I used to make these cards…

cards · Classes · Distress Ink coloring · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Techniques · Video · Watercolor

Memory Box and poppystamps Spring card and a video…

March 16, 2016 Pam Sparks19 Comments

No stamping! oh my! I just realized this card is just simple ink smooshing and die cutting!

Here’s a video of what I did to make this card. Holler if you have any questions!

If you can shop locally… I just taught this card in one of the two classes at Scrapmania in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Otherwise…online @ starlitstudio.net

Thanks for stopping by today! Always so fun to share and to get your feedback via comments! ‘preciate it!

cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · rubber stamps · Taylored Expressions

More NEW from Taylored Expressions…

March 14, 2016 Pam Sparks22 Comments

Hi everyone! I’ve been missing you but here I am, back again! lol I’ll show you the Memory Box/poppystamps class cards in my next post.

I love this cute NEW Build a Scene Bistro die set! I die cut 4 of the new Build a Scene Window dies, set them together to make a larger window. Then a little watercolor to mimic the sky in the background.

The rug is from the NEW Build a Scene Nursery die set. I die cut it in watercolor paper and colored it with Distress Inks.