The Give a way Winner and more cards…

June 14, 2014June 23, 2014 Pam Sparks15 Comments

AND… the winner is….

Lynn Gauthier!!!!

CLAP! CLAP! Congrats Lynn!!! YAY for you!

I had Breanna pick a number between 1 and 63 and she picked 42! Congrats Lynn! Send me an email with your mailing information!

I tried to add names… for some reason you all didn’t put your names in for each thing, so I had to add a bunch. Lesson learned…links must be too big a pain…stick with comments I guess!

THANK YOU Cindy from Starlitstudio!

I started posting the cards I designed and taught at the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape a week ago… eek… time gets away so fast! HERE’S the post with the Sunflower cards and HERE’S the post from a couple weeks ago telling about the weekend and about the process of getting ready for the classes.

Today I’m posting the other three cards…

‘fore you’ – layering up dies to create a scene. Love making scenes! Memory Box dies and stamps and poppystamps dies.

I had the ladies cut out the golf cart in white cardstock and color the pieces with markers. Easy and so cute!

more Memory Box and poppystamps dies…the Memory Box Chic Chevron makes an appearance on the panel. Inked with Mowed Lawn Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool. Some spatters and sequins add to the fun of the design!

Linking up this card to the Keep it Simple Challenge – Splatters

YAY! My Pavilia Bloom card was in the favorites at SCS on Sunday! Thank you ladies!

I had the ladies emboss the flower just like I did in this video HERE. Then it was inked with Dusty Concord Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool.

Another sweet Summer scene with Memory Box and poppystamps dies. So fun to make! I love step cards!

Linking my card to the Seize your Birthday Challenge – Summer Time

My card was a winner there too! Thank you ladies!

Enjoy the Summer days! We’re sure having some beautiful ones here in Iowa. Love it when it’s not so hot and humid! I hope to hop on my bike for a bit today! : )

Thanks for visiting! Love hearing from you and hope you enjoyed my cards today!

Dies, stamps and supplies I used to create these cards…

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Memory Box and poppystamps Sunflower Card…

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 Pam Sparks14 Comments

I really had a lot of fun creating this card! I LOVE the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower die! I used it here with the Memory Box Toulouse Background die (trimmed off the flower head), the Memory Box Honey Comb Stencil, the Memory Box Happy Birthday Combo stamp and the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower Background die.

I inked the front of a Memory Box Jack o Lantern A2 Notecard with the Honey Comb stencil, Wild Honey Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending tool.

Remember this card and video?

I took the background piece and put it in the outline die, ran it through the Big Shot to emboss the detail into the background piece, that’s what I did here too… LOVE this look!

Then I inked the edges a little with Wild Honey Distress ink and the new mini Round Ink Blending Tool.

There is ONE big difference though… see it?

Instead of putting the background behind… I put it on top!

When I die cut the Bountiful Sunflower outline die in dark brown, I made sure to keep the seeds in the die and inked them with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending Tool. TIP – to make sure the seeds stay in after you remove it from the die…tape them on the back side with scotch tape.

Then here is a card I made to show how you would normally think to cut this die and use it…

Only instead of lining up the background piece exactly, I decided to place it ‘off’! I like it a lot this way! YAY!

I inked the edges of the Memory Box Kraft A2 Notecard with Walnut Stain Distress ink, stamped the Journey Collage stamp in black and ended up with a CAS card I’m really happy with too!

New Grandson and Mama are doing great! Thanks for stopping by!

Still time to link up to the give a way… scroll down…

Supplies I used for these cards…

Class · Classes · Memory Box · Poppystamps

The GREAT Yosemite Stamp Escape…

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 Pam Sparks19 Comments

***click the photos to see full size – they are larger than the column this time***

AND it WAS great! I posted on the Memory Box Blog today… more pictures there. I spent the month of April preparing card kits for 93 women. A BIG undertaking… do you want to see some behind the scene pictures? I hope so! Since you can’t reply… lol

It’s a BIG deal cutting and cutting and cutting. Pieces EVERYWHERE but it’s so nice when the piles start adding up! At times you NEVER think you will get to the 100 mark! By the way, I do have 7 kits left if anyone is interested! : )

3 ½ trash cans of paper pieces!

200 Vercelli Outline trees and 200 Vercelli Background trees for the step card…

oh man, I cut 300 of this Beach Sprig die!

I cut and scored 100 Center Panel Step cards by hand…

The parts for the step card…

Step card packaged up and ready to go into the kit…

Parts ready for the Golf, Fore You card…

All four cards packaged and ready to go into the kit envelope… sweet! I wish I’d taken a picture of the huge suitcase it took to get them to California! lol

How to keep your sanity while cutting your brains out? Audio books. yep… I found that I love listening to them. Good deal!

So now you know where I’ve been! : )

It was an honor to represent Memory Box and work with 93 creative and talented stampers. They stuck with me, pun intended, hahaha, gluing, cutting, stenciling, embossing and assembling their cards like the true stampers they are!

If you ever get near Oakhurst California, be sure to stop at the wonderful stamp store owned by Sharon Fitzgerald, The Cat’s Meow. This was Sharon’s 14th year for the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape. If it would ever work out that you could attend… DON’T miss it!

*Next week I will post the four cards I designed for them to make, the supplies and links. Just to much to put all in one post!

Tomorrow I will be back with more cards I’ve made with the Summer 2014 release! YAY!

Thanks for stopping by! I love hearing from you and reading your comments! I wish I could stamp and create with all of you too!!!

Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Summer

Memory Box… NEW! NEW! NEW!

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014 Pam Sparks21 Comments

MORE of what we love! Memory Box dies! YAY! The 2014 Summer Release! I’m whispering here… but you know…the Holiday release will follow soon after! YAY! I love Christmas!

For this ‘yellow’ card I used the NEW Thank You Garland, Delicate Butterfly Arch, Solid Arch Background, Kensington Branch (I trimmed out two of the butterflies, cut them in white and yellow) from the NEW release and the Peaceful Butterfly Wings from the Spring release.

Add some baby white pearls and I was done. Oh, I did cut the Butterfly Wings twice so I could trim out a few butterflies and layer them over the ones close to the border of the Arch cuts.

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The next card was really fun too! I used the NEW Fancy Potted Flower and Happy Birthday Garland.

It just makes me happy! It almost makes me think I could be a flower gardener! NOT. Bummer though. I do have one hanging flower this year and it’s still alive! woohoo! lol

Look at the potential with this die! Use it as it cuts… the flowers in the pot… or trim the flowers out and use them as a row of flowers in the grass, I love this! Or trim off the flower heads for ground cover! Sweet! Of course I had to do all three!

TIP! Leave the petal pieces in the die and use the Pick up tool (linked below) to place them directly from the die…then you know right where they go! Great time saver!

Love these garland sentiments! I did cut them three times and glued them up with Tombow Mono Multi.

See that sprig of green in there? That’s from the Fabulous Phlox die… love it! Fresh Cut Grass die from poppystamps!

Memory Box Signature Pattern paper, Notecards and Card-stocks. Both cards are A2 size.

I’m so excited…can’t wait to show you some more cards! I’ll be back tomorrow! Thanks for looking!

Supplies I used to make these cards…

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Memory Box Glorious Gerber Daisies and Kensington Border cards…

May 22, 2014May 22, 2014 Pam Sparks15 Comments

Glorious Gerbers indeed! I love these flower dies from Memory Box! I will be posting later next week about the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape but in the meantime, here’s a couple cards I made up while working out what cards to teach.

I pieced in the Distress Dots Memory Box Signature pattern papers for the flower petals. I like to leave the pieces in the die and use the Quikstik to place them them in the holes, easier to keep track of the pieces and faster too!

Memory Box Kraft A-2 notecard for the base, edged with Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

Just can’t get enough of the Kensington Border die! Love it!

I inked up just the ‘happy birthday’ words from the Happy Birthday Special Combo stamp and stamped them on the poppystamps classic ribbon border die and layered it up.
Here’s a little bit different version…

and since I couldn’t decide if I liked one photo better than the other…

Some little purple baby pearls on the border die cut, wish I’d remembered to do that on the first card before photos! lol If you don’t have purple, you can always color white ones with your Copic markers!

Hemp on the first card and Lawn Fawn trimmings on the second.

THANKS for visiting today!

Supplies I used on these cards…