Pure Innocence Spring Friends and Rubiks cube birthday cards…

May 8, 2017May 8, 2017 Pam Sparks25 Comments

Family birthday time again…we had our party at the area lake yesterday afternoon for 4 family members. Two of the cards I’ve already posted so here’s the other two!

I love this sweet Pure Innocence Spring Friend stamp set and die set from MFT stamps. It was perfect for our granddaughter Anya’s 12th birthday!

I used sentiments from Taylored Expressions Free Spirit stamp set, inked with TE Oreo ink pad and the MISTI stamping tool.

She’s colored with Copic Sketch markers and die cut with the coordinating die set also from MFT stamps. I stamped her with the MISTI and Oreo ink too.

I mounted the images on an A2 Top fold card base.

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – A Hint of Pink

Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes

Next up is the card I made for our grandson Lane’s 15th birthday. A handsome guy that loves to do Rubiks cube and is very fast at it. His fastest time is 20 seconds! Amazing!

I used the Memory Box Modern Tile die to get my cubes, die cutting from black and trimming out the 9 squares to make the cubes. Then I die cut it 5 times with multiple colors. I just cut squares of card-stock so I only cut the required number of squares.

The sentiment on the front and message (you’re awesome) on the inside are from the Taylored Expressions Bold Brushstrokes stamp set. A perfect set for teens! Stamped with the MISTI and TE Oreo stamp pad again…love the bold black image you can get with multiple inking and stamping. YAY MISTI!

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – It’s a Frame Up

Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes

It was a beautiful day for a picnic and fishing. We had a wonderful time making memories!

Thanks for stopping by today! Happy card-making to you!

cards · Color Pencil · Fall · MFT

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge…

November 19, 2016November 19, 2016 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! What a week! Beautiful days until Friday. Then BAM blustery Friday arrived! lol I have a few Fall cards to post so I better get to it! and plenty more Christmas coming too!

I’ve been tempted for some time to get the color pencils out again, so with the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge I finally did! So fun…coloring is always time consuming but I need to do this more so I get the ‘feel’ for it. This was kinda an experiment! lol

I got a new pencil sharpener…wow…what a difference it makes for coloring! It’s a Dahle 133…you can google and find it.

I use Bruynzeel Fullcolor Pencils made in Holland but you can’t get them anymore. Sakura bought out Bruyzeel and changed them I’m sure…one thing I know, my set of 120 is no more. They are wonderful pencils to color with though and maybe they’d show up on ebay! I didn’t check. Here’s what mine look like…and look at the lead on the yellow pencil… yes, that sharpener!!!

The pencils they have now are called Bruynzeel Design. I’ll link up to them below just in case you want to order a couple to try. I love doing that. I have tried several brands and consequently I want ALL the pencils. HELP! lol

I love this cutie stamp and die set from MFT stamps…I hope he made you smile on this blustery weekend!

Linking up to MFT Sketch Card Challenge

I’m going to write another blog post so I’ll have one tomorrow and Monday too…for sure!

Thanks for stopping by! I’m behind replying to comments because we had our area stamp club Christmas party yesterday! Whew, I went crazy getting ready for it. lol Cards and soup! A fun time for sure and guess what?! We drew names for gift exchange and the gal that got my name knew I loved this stamp that she got last year and she gave it to me this year! It’s an older Memory Box Santa stamp! I’m so delighted to have it! Our middle daughter has a collection of older cute Memory Box stamps. I need to take a picture of them and share it here. Then you can be jealous of her collection with me! lol

Thanks again – you are the best! I am so thankful for all my friends that live in my computer and out! You’re the best! ( ) ( ) ( ) (those are hugs)

Here’s some links…

InLinkz.com

Birthday · cards · Christmas · copics · Family · Lawn Fawn · Memory Box · MFT · Poppystamps

Memory Box Purrfect Holidays and MFT Jungle Friends Birthday…

October 14, 2016October 17, 2016 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hi card makers! I can’t believe a week has gone by without me posting again! Yikes! I have two cards today though.

Tonight and tomorrow I’ll be at Stamp Joy in Ankeny for Taylored Expressions. I’ll post the cards I’m teaching there next week or so.

Then the 22nd I’ll be teaching two classes in Cedar Rapids at Scrapmania! I’d love to see you either place! Be sure to introduce yourself to me if you are there!

Back to my festive kitties! This is a super cute set from poppystamps called Purrfect Holidays. Matching dies too! I love it! The mittens on the cat! and the hat! Purrfect is right. So many cute elements to make scenes with.

Just colored with Copics… the gray the both is the T series. The blue green is BG11, 70, 75, 78. The reds are R02, E07,08. Nuvo White Crystal Drops on the Santa hat fur. Nuvo Winter Blizzard Drops on the tree star, ornament and here and there.

The patterned paper is from an older Lawn Fawn 6×6 pad.

Linking to…

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge

Christmas Card Challenges – Decorations

Next is a birthday card for one of our 4 year old grandsons, Gilbert. I hope he loves it! I do! lol

The gator slides in the groove over to the giraffe and then….

chomp!

Guess he was hungry! yikes! Anyway, I had fun making this cute card! Elements are all from the MFT Jungle Friends kit except for the number 4. It’s from Taylored Expressions.

Linking to ….

Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes, Birthday

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Thanks for shopping through my links too! Happy stamping/creating weekend to you!

Shopping links…

InLinkz.com

Birthday · cards · copics · Die Piecing · Family · MFT · Poppystamps

MFT BB Cool Cat Purr-thday card and sale…

May 30, 2016May 31, 2016 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m sharing a birthday card I made with MFT stamps BB Cool Cat stamp and die sets today.

One of our granddaughter’s, Anya, turned 11 the beginning of May! Wow, time flies. She loves to stamp and color with Copics and was so delighted to get her birthday present this year…a Mini MISTI! I think this picture of her says it all! lol

I used the old Swiss Dots embossing folder for the background…remember when we all went ga-ga for this folder?! lol It’s a timeless one!

poppystamps window and end table dies (inked with Gathered Twigs Distress ink) and MFT Blueprint set #27 for the banner. (the end table is discontinued, grrr)

I colored this ‘princess’ kitty, her ‘throne’ and the bouquet with Copics. hehe

I embossed the window curtain die cut by leaving the cut in the die and running a stylus over the parts that emboss on the die cut/card-stock side. HERE’s a video about it. Then using the ink blending took, I inked the raised edges with Distress ink Spun Sugar. (the curtain is discontinued, I’ll link to MFT’s window set)

I’m still LOVING this white pen from Starlitstudio.net that Cindy sent me. It makes the best little white dots! and white lines too! YAY!

Linking to…

Seize the Birthday Challenge – topping option/dimension

Happy Memories to you and yours today! Thanks for stopping by!

SALE at scrapbook.com today! All Sizzix on sale already, so save more!

Shopping links for products I used for this card…

Card Sketch · cards · copics · MFT · Spring

MFT Build-able Bouquet card…

May 16, 2016May 17, 2016 Pam Sparks39 Comments

Hello Monday everyone! I started this card early last week but just didn’t get back to it until this morning. I had to finish it before I could start anything else and be sure to be on time for the Time Out Challenges – CASE With Your Own Twist challenge! I made it! whew!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Flowers

Happy Little Stampers Challenge – Anything Goes with Dies

CAS-usal Fridays Challenge – Birthday Girl

Time Out Challenges – CAS with the optional twist of purple

Seize the Birthday Challenge – birthday with the topping option, coloring

Dies R Us Challenge – Birthday

I used My Favorite Things Build-able Bouquet stamp set/die set, Inside and Out Stitch Rounded Rectangles, Distressed Patterns stamp set and sentiment from So Much Love stamp set.

I stamped with the MISTI, die cut, colored with Copic Sketch markers. I die cut the banner and then stuck it back in the die and cut again to make it shorter.

Stamped the splatters in Picked Raspberry…inked the frame with Spun Sugar but there was Picked Raspberry already in the blending tool sponge. Background is Salty Ocean.

Very fun! Thanks gals for the fun challenge! So fun to CASE Kay! Thanks for stopping by stamping friends! TTUL!

Linking to the products I used for this card… (in case you want to know) lol