Simon Says Stamp Pine Frame From The DieCember Release…

December 18, 2023December 19, 2023 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hi everyone! All the joys of the season to you! Have you seen a cardinal lately? I don’t see them around here. Maybe once or twice in 30 years!

I wanted to use the Memory Box Layered Cardinal die again and it worked perfect with this NEW Simon Says Stamp Corner Pine Frame designed by Memory Box in partnership with SSS.

So beautiful and so easy to put together too.

I did shim this pine frame with two pieces of copy paper when I die cut it.

I added the three branches from the New Memory Box Layered Greenery Stems. A little filler.

The background panel is one of the watercolor panels I made following Jill Foster’s tutorial on You Tube. It’s on the Penny Black You Tube page.

I used the NEW Memory Box Aurora Snowflake Frame between the watercolor panel and the Corner Pine Frame.

The NEW poppystamps Lavish Merry Christmas die cut in white and silver for the sentiment!

Linking to some challenges…

Peace on Earth #54 – anything goes Christmas (totally inspired by the bottom right corner photo in the inspiration photo!)

Triple B Challenge – Birds for me this time

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Christmas

I really love this nature take on a Christmas card. Hope it makes you smile too.

All the best to you and yours for a beautiful celebration of Christ’s birth! God bless you all!

❤

Shopping links to what I used for this Merry Christmas card…

Simon Says Stamp Corner Pine Frame… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Layered Cardinal Dies 94754 [ SSS ]	Memory Box Layered Greenery Stems… [ SSS ]
Memory Box Aurora Snowflake Frame Die… [ SSS ]	Poppy Stamps Lavish Merry Christmas… [ SSS ]	Strathmore WATERCOLOR PAPER PAD… [ SSS ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Tonic CHROME SILVER Mirror Card Gloss… [ SSS ]	Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two… [ SSS ]

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

Spellbinders Dancin’ Gingerbread Card and Two Layered Joy Tree Stencil & Die Cards…

December 11, 2023 Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone! Getting festive with the gingerbread and trees today! I love these characters from Spellbinders every year! So so cute!

I also love these stencil and die sets! I have this one and the Merry Christmas one. I didn’t get the Merry Christmas one made into a card yet! eek! If only we didn’t need to do laundry, eat and sleep, oh and shop! hoho!

ok – Back to the gingers…

The green is bright! But tealish and red would be so cute too! I was going traditional but boom! It’s bright for me! lol

So for all you green lovers, this one’s for you!

Now I wish I’d tied on a little jingle bell! I even have some! I will have to do that and just pay extra postage! It’s only money, right?! ha!

I used regular Distress inks on my JOY cards. Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral. We were making these Thanksgiving day afternoon. I copied Anya, one of my granddaughter’s colors!

I think we used Altenew colors for the Joy. I can’t remember the names now.

One more picture of one stenciled on Hobby Lobby extra heavyweight kraft cardstock. Pretty sure I used Distress Oxides on this one but more the Lucky Clover ones for the greens.

I hope your cardmaking is coming a long. I have plenty to do still!

We started out this week hearing one of our granddaughter’s playing with one of our grandson’s fiance (wedding in March) yesterday morning…a string duet… it was so, so beautiful!

Tuesday night is a choir concert for a bunch of the grands…makes me so happy!

You all take care and all the joys and blessings of the season to you and yours!

Codes for Simon Says Stamp right now…use one… Wrap23 ($7 off)….Merry ($5 off) Random sales at Scrapbook.com and Starlitstudio.net is always a discount!

Here’s the products I used for these three cards…

Spellbinders – Dancin’ Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Layered Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Make It Merry… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Layered Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cherry Pop -… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Peapod -… [ TE ]	miniature jingle bells – 5mm – pkg of 20 [ STR ]

cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Masculine · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Layered Cardinal CAS card…

November 8, 2023November 15, 2023 Pam Sparks17 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m in love with this CAS (clean and simple) card using the gorgeous NEW Memory Box Layered Cardinal die!

It’s a beauty…do you agree?! There’s a 46 second video HERE (click where it says ‘play video’) to show you how easy it is to layer up! You can make 25 in no time! hoho

Pretty bird! I have it sitting on the Memory Box Forest Pine Branch. I die cut it in kraft cardstock, inked it with some Vintage Photo and Rustic Wilderness regular Distress ink pad and blending brushes.

I stamped the sentiment on the front and the one on the inside from the Birch Press Design Glad Tidings New clear stamp set. It’s a gorgeous set of sentiments. I’ll link it below. They stamp beautifully in the MISTI type positioners.

The thought crossed my mind to find something to stamp with the sentiment but I didn’t follow through. It’s so gorgeous just black on white!

I used Ranger Archival Black ink to stamp it. I did multiple inking because I wanted it dark… TIP for you though, make sure you put a protective sheet of copy paper in because it takes longer to dry no matter what ink with mutliple inking times! It really annoys me when the ink transfers to the top of the card from the sentiment.

This picture and the next two, it’s hard to see the pearls but I edited them so I’m gonna post them! lol

I did blend some Aged Mahogany Distress ink/regular onto the edges of the cardinal after I put it together but I wished I’d done it before I glued it up.

This is an A2 size card. I used white pearls in 3 sizes from Starlitstudio.net. I’ll link below.

I mounted the bird with the super thin mounting tape that I love that Starlitstudio also carries. Check below.

I’m linking to some card challenges…

Simply Clean & Simple November Challenge

Scrapping 4 Fun – Christmas Traditional Colors

HLS November Christmas – anything goes Christmas

Triple B November – Birds, Blooms or Butterflies

Peace on Earth #51 – anything goes Christmas

Die Cut Divas November – It’s all about the holidays

Moving Along With the Times – November Christmas Animals

The Holly and The Ivy #151 – anything goes Christmas

Thank you all so much for stopping by and all your encouraging comments! I haven’t gotten replies sent out as much because so many are anonymous and I’ve been outside some getting the garage and plants ready for Winter. The porches look so bare! I do have some Winter baskets to hang out…that helps.

Have a good rest of the week! I’m working on stuff for our area stamp club annual Christmas party. It’s this Friday! Can’t believe it! We changed to November several years ago because December was just too hectic!

Catch you again soon!

Shopping Links to the products I used for this card…

Memory Box – 94754 Layered Cardinal… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – CL8164 Glad… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94481 Forest Pine Branch… [ STR \| SSS ]
Tiny Pearl Embellishments – flat… [ STR ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Vintage… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Rustic… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Aged… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Blending Brushes – 3 Pack \|… [ SPL ]	Gina K Designs – Mini Blending… [ SBC \| SSS \| SBC ]	Simon Says Stamp DETAIL FLAT BLENDING… [ SSS ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]

cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Embossing Folders · Fall · Memory Box · Oxide Inks

Memory Box Happy Fall Gypsy Oak Leaves Card…

September 21, 2023September 22, 2023 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Happy Fall y’all! I’m back today with some more NEW Memory Box products! Look at this neat embossing folder! It’s called Vintage Tray and comes with a cutting die that cuts a frame.

I die cut the embossing folder in white cardstock and swiped the Gathered Twigs Distress ink pad over the top of it a bunch of times until I liked the coverage.

I die cut the NEW Gypsy Oak Leaves dies and NEW Happy Fall Posh Script dies in white Neenah also and inked them with Distress Oxide inks and ink blending brushes. Fossilized Amber, Carved Pumpkin, Peeled Paint and Seedless Preserves are the colors I used. On the outline die cuts I inked with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink.

I die cut a couple extra of the leaves and sentiments to layer them up for height on the card.

I stamped the words from the Harvest Love and Kindness Stamp set on a TE Candy Corn cardstock strip in the MISTI. I hope this set is still available. I’ll link below if it is.

I mounted the A2 size panel to an A2 size Seedless Preserves color cardbase.

I wasn’t sure I liked it while I was making it but when I finally landed on a design with my pieces I really like it! It seems like I’m like that a lot in my cardmaking! ugh! I just keep going and hope for the best! hohohaha Wish I could show it to you IRL!

Linking to some challenges…

Inspired By Challenge – Inspired by Acorns

Addicted To Stamps and More – Any Occasion

Sisterhood of Crafters – die cuts/anything goes

Three birthdays this week! These grandkids keep getting older! Three in a row this week! Today, Friday and Saturday! What to make, what to make!

Thanks again for visiting my blog! You know I appreciate it so much! Thank you thank you!

Links below to what I used to make this card…click/tap on the abbreviations in brackets to go to Starlitstudio.net, Simon Says Stamp, Scrapbook.com or Taylored Expressions.

Memory Box – 94747 Happy Fall Posh… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94744 Gypsy Oak Leaves… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – CL5262-D Harvest Love… [ STR ]	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival POTTING… [ SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Candy Corn -… [ TE ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GATHERED… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Simon Says Stamp Blending Brush SET… [ SSS ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS \| TE ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Winter

Memory Box Christmas 2023 Release – Glorious Poinsettia Card

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m getting a poinsettia card posted before you can buy them in the stores! I always look forward to them showing up for sale! The seas of poinsettias when you walk in the door!

I went with pink for this BRAND NEW Glorious Poinsettia! I used Distress Oxide Inks, Worn Lipstick, Lumberjack Plaid, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss. I absolutely love coloring white cardstock with inks and blending tools or brushes. I die cut and used Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock this time.

I used Worn Lipstick on the tips of the leaves and Lumberjack Plaid from the centers out.

Oh, I used Fossilized Amber for the centers. I got a little green on the center that’s connected to the stem but I liked it that way!

I used the New Merry Christmas Charmed Script Sentiment die. I used it this way but you’ll notice on Dave’s card HERE page 43 in the Memory Box idea book that you can use it another way also! I love having more than one option!

I used the Rectangle Double Border Hot Foil Plate and A2 Rectangle Frames Die set to make the panel the poinsettia is mounted on.

I used my fave thin mounting tape, linked below to stick the panel to the cardbase.

Linking to some challenges…

The Flower Challenge #84 – Use a Die and flower/s

Triple B Challenge – Birds, Butterflies and Blooms

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Die Cuts

Addicted To Stamps and More #454 – Any Occasion

And so the festive cards begin! I’m excited and I hope you are too!

Talk to you again soon!

Check out the NEW Memory Box Christmas Idea Book here and I want to know what’s your favorite!

Here’s links to what I used to make this Glorious Poinsettia card…

Memory Box – 94734 Glorious… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94749 Merry Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – MBF006 Rectangle Double… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94672 A2 Rectangle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil System Platinum \|… [ SPL ]
New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine… [ SPL ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]	Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – matte and shiny [ STR ]
Simon Says Stamp Blending Brush SET… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad WORN… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]