Spellbinders June Die of the Month Set – interactive card…

June 22, 2023 Pam Sparks6 Comments

Hi everyone! I have three Ocean/Near the Sea cards to share with you today! So THREE posts! I know! Annoying to get three emails but I promise that I have never done this before and probably will never do it again!

Here’s a short video of the tricks this octopus and squid can do! It can go faster motion but the video going fast did not look good!

This is a mini slimline size. I’m so tickled with how it turned out!

The background is just my Distress Oxide ink blending brushes on a piece of Hammermill color copy cover cardstock 100#. I used my peacock feathers brush and my brush for greens. I think it looks real watery! lol My brown brush on the bottom. No added ink for any of it, just the ink left in the brushes.

I colored the squid, starfish and seaweeds with Copic Markers.

Water you up to sentiment is from the Spellbinders Clear Stamp and Die Set of the Month for June! A super cute set!

So the details for obtaining the Spellbinders Club offers each month is HERE. So fun! Huge sets and fun creating!

Thank you so much for stopping by and I’d love it if you checked out my other two posts for today too! THANK YOU!

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · Congratulations · Die Piecing · Easel · Flowers · Interactive · Memory Box · Pop up card · Poppystamps · Summer · Wedding

poppystamps Floral Cake Pop Up Easel Set Best Wishes Card….

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 Pam Sparks13 Comments

Hi everyone! ALL die cutting for this card! We’ve come a long way from punches, haven’t we?! lol So fun and beautiful too!

Floral Cake Pop Up Easel Set from poppystamps for this card and all the pieces are from this one set! More that I didn’t use too!

Presentation is everything and this card can be birthday, wedding or any celebratory occasion! I love how it turned out!

I used the NEW Memory Box Best Wishes Tender Script die for the sentiment. So pretty!

I added Memory Box Fairy Jewels to the flower centers…

The easel when folded fits into an A2 size envelope!

poppystamps has eleven easel card sets now and everyone is awesome! Check out my Easel card category in the sidebar to see them all made up.

Linking to some challenges for fun!

The Sisterhood of Crafters – weddings

The Flower Challenge #81 – Use your favorite flower

Triple B – blooms for me

Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday – anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Lots of Layers

Creative Creases – anything goes with a fun fold

That’s it for today! Thank you so much for stopping by! The humidity has ramped up here oh boy, proclaiming it’s Summer!

Here’s a closer look at what I used to make this card… the abbreviations below the product will take you to shopping links…

(STR = starlitstudio . net) (SBC = scrapbook . com) (SSS = simon says stamp . com)

Poppystamps – 2469 Floral Cake Pop Up…

[ STR | SSS ]

Memory Box – 94670 Best Wishes Tender…

[ STR | SSS ]

Memory Box/Open Studio – Fairy Jewels…

[ STR | SSS ]

All Occasion · cards · Die Piecing · Easel · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Interactive · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Shape Cards · Spring · Thinking of You

poppystamps Floral Vase Pop Up Easel Set Card…

May 16, 2023May 27, 2023 Pam Sparks17 Comments

Hello everyone! It’s Geranium season for hanging baskets around here! Ferns on the front porch and Geraniums on the back porch.

They always inspire me to make a Geranium card!

This poppystamps Floral Vase Pop Up Easel is so cute! It’s not huge, fits in an A2 size envelope but it’s slim and so dainty size wise. I love it!

There’s not much to tell about it! You just die cut the pieces, glue them together and onto the card! I did use my favorite thin mounting tape for the vase and the sentiments.

I wrapped a little twine on it… can I make a card without twine?! lol

So sweet and cute with so many different flower dies in the set you can make any flower you want!

I used poppystamps Modest Greetings 2 Hot Foil and Cut die set and Memory Box Cardstock paper pads.

poppystamps easel cards are all so fun and easy and I love that they are easy to display too! HERE‘s the Geranium I made last year with the basket easel card die set.

Linking to some challenges…

Cards 4 Galz – #198 Mother’s Day or Flowers For a Friend

Allsorts Challenge – anything goes

The Corrosive Challenge #5 – anything goes

Creative Knockouts #494 – anything goes

Creative Creases #57 – fun fold anything goes

my card is a winner! YAY! Thank you Creative Creases!

Beautiful Blossoms – anything flowers goes

Thank you for stopping by! Spring weather here…a little cooler but never fear the heat and humidity will be upon us before we know it! haha

ttul,

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Poppy Stamps FLORAL VASE POP UP EASEL… [ SSS \| STR ]	Poppy Stamps MODEST GREETINGS 2 Hot… [ SSS \| STR ]	Memory Box – SP1001 Berry Red 6×6 pack [ STR ]
Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack [ STR ]	Memory Box EARTH NEUTRAL 6×6 Paper… [ SSS \| STR ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]
Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap… [ SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · copics · Die Piecing · Interactive · Lawn Fawn · Pop up card · Snowman · Winter

Lawn Fawn Snowball Fight Platform Pop-Up Interactive Card…

March 11, 2023March 13, 2023 Pam Sparks11 Comments

Hi everyone! I have an end of Winter card to share today! Maybe an end to Winter… haha!

I made this for our youngest grandson’s 8th birthday…he loves the outdoors!

Linking to Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 144 – All Things Birthday

I started by making the platform pop-up. I LOVE Lawn Fawn’s interactive die sets! They are so meticulously made AND made in the USA! I have used this set so many times since I purchased it…best purchase ever! It’s even easy to walk the kids through making it!

It always takes me a little time deciding what to use. I made a set using Doodlebug Design stickers after seeing one of their design team members cards… So so cute!

Kelly from Lawn Fawn always makes excellent videos for walking you through construction too! I was totally inspired by the LF team in creating this card. The how to put the Platform Pop-up together video is HERE.

I stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with sketch copic markers. White gel pen for accenting here and there.

For the snow hills I used the curved borders from the LF Shadow Box Card and Shadow Box Card Theather Add-on. Trimming them to fit the front and inside.

The sign on the front is from the Berry Special stamp set and die set.

The pattern paper I used is from LF also… I don’t see it in the store anymore though.

I know I’ve shown this before in my other posts but I love how easy it collapses and fits in an A6 or A7 envelope!

You can collapse it either up or down!

The kids love it! I love it! ❤

I hope you’re inspired to try it! Thank you so much for stopping by twice this week! I appreciate it!

Shopping links to the products I used to make this card… click on the abbreviations below the item to take you to a store! Thank you! No extra cost to you! (I see some are out of stock but I left them in for when they come back in stock)

Platform Pop-Up Lawn Cut – Lawn Fawn [ ACH \| SBC \| SSS ]	Platform Pop-Up Add-On Lawn Cuts -… [ ACH \| SBC \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn – Clear Photopolymer Stamps… [ SBC \| SSS \| ACH ]
Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies -… [ SBC \| SSS \| ACH ]	Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers and Sets [ BLIC \| SSS \| TE ]
Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS \| ACH \| STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	double-sided tape holder – holds… [ STR ]
Scor-Tape; Scor Tape [ STR \| SSS \| ACH ]	Honey Bee Stamps – Birthday Bliss… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

birch press design · cards · Christmas · Die Embossing · Die Piecing · Easel · Foiling · Interactive · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

Birch Press Design Meridian Ornament Easel Cards…

November 30, 2022 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! I have four easel cards to share with you today. As I was making these, thinking about how fun and easy, it hit me how cute they would be for table place cards! They would be beautiful just using the ornament part and hanging on a tree or used for a gift tag with a beautiful bow!

They’re so easy to make…I started with the black one and just kept going trying to use up the pieces!

The NEW Birch Press Design Meridian Ornament is a Layering Set. I used all three layers for all but one.

The easel part is the Birch Press Design Christmas Ornament Pop Up Easel die set. I didn’t use the ornament that comes with the set this time but I did HERE in this post. I’ll link everything below.

Here’s what I did inside this black glossy one.

I used Memory Box Black Glossy Cardstock and the NEW Memory Box 6×6 Vintage Pastel Mirror cardstock pad.

The happy Christmas sentiment is from BPD Contempo Christmas Greetings clear stamp set and die set. I love this set!

So from the black one I carried on to three other variations!

I just got to playing using the same dies and stamp set. I know…I brought in pink! A contrasting color! Out of the box for me! hehe

I spent the afternoon yesterday trying to take pictures and get them light enough. It just kept getting darker and darker outside as the temperature kept dropping! So there’s only one picture of the card with pink pastel metallic that was useable.

Here’s the gold with teal…

and they fit easily into an A2 size envelope

I love this teal one that I used the pieces from the waste of cutting layers A and B from the teal cuts.

for this one I used the poppystamps Modest Greetings 2 Hot Foil and cut die set for the Just For You and With Love sentiments.

Do you have a favorite? I think I do but then I change my mind! lol

Thank you for visiting today and hope there’s some inspiration here! I have so much I still want to make but I must start shopping and decorating too! eek!

ttul!

Here’s what I used to make these fun pop up cards!

Birch Press Design – 57470 Meridian… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 57455 Christmas… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birch Press Design – 8162 Contempo… [ STR \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design CONTEMPO CHRISTMAS… [ SSS ]	Poppystamps – PSF808 Modest Greetings… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – FP1002 Vintage Pastel… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]	Pearl Embellishments – 4mm gold,… [ STR ]	Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil -… [ SBC ]