Even MORE Graduation Cards for 2026!

May 15, 2026May 15, 2026 Pam Sparks14 Comments

It was so fun to personalize some cards for my daughters to use! You can guess this one was for a drummer!

Linking to the Crafty Catz Challenge – anything goes!

and linking to DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge – anything goes/optional graduation

and linking to Time Out Challenges – playing music!

I’ll link up what I used below. The drum set is from My Favorite Things. No longer open but maybe it can be found searching. I don’t see the congratulations anymore either so I’ll link up a different one, it’s not as long though.

This one was for a vocalist and pianist! So fun!

Linking my piano keyboard card to the Simply Clean & Simple May Challenge – Clean and Simple.

and linking to Cards 4 Guyz – Clean and Simple.

and linking to Try it Tuesday – Keep it simple!

congradulations is another stamp from My Favorite Things…

Keyboard and Microphone are from Spellbinders, linked below.

This one was for a cello player that plays basketball and volleyball too!

The filmstrip is a really old Sizzix or Accucut die!

Linking my old filmstrip die card to the Neglected Stuff Challenge – use at least one old neglected product.

and linking to the Alphabet Challenge – B is for ball

Cap, basketball, words and numbers from Spellbinders. (it looks like the sports set is discontinued)

Stars from Memory Box.

Below, more cards that would work for anyone….

I like the cap on numbers and letters! lol This is the TE Little Bits cap, Quickutz extra Large Blossom numbers, TE layered Star stencil and TE congrats grad sentiment.

Linking my congrats grad card to the Stencil Fun Challenge – stencils are the game!

and linking to the Just Add Ink Challenge – add stencils or dies or both!

and this one…

TE star background stamp and cap die. Quickutz Diesel Numbers. Sub sentiments are from My Favorite Things. I found some other small sentiments and linked them up below…

Last but not least…although it looks like the words didn’t all take the foiling, they did! No idea why it looks black. I made two of these.

TE foiling cards and TE graduation cap.

Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies.

That’s all I think! eek! I had fun making…I hope you’ve been having fun too!

Now back to the regularly scheduled program! haha I have a sympathy card, some birthday cards and baby cards to share!

ttul!

Some shopping links for products that are still current…

Simon Says Stamp CONGRATULATIONS… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamp EZ Strips… [ SSS ]	Hero Arts Everyday Sentiment Strips 2… [ SSS ]
Classic Mouse Graduation Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Mini Musical Instruments Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Classic Mouse Graduation Sentiments… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]

cards · Congratulations · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Graduation · Memory Box · Penny Black · Poppystamps · Quickutz · Spellbinders dies · Spring · Taylored Expressions

Graduation Cards Galore!

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Linking my Globe Card to the Word Art Wednesday Challenge – anything goes!

I finally got the TE Little Bits Grad Cap to make this card. I copied it from their website (edited to add the card designer is Kavya). One difference is I used the Penny Black wood floor. (linked below)

Linking my congradulations card to the Paper Funday May Challenge – anything goes!

This card I used Spellbinders Bold numbers sets, TE grad cap and MFT sentiment.

Linking this colorful card to the A Cut Above May Challenge – anything goes with a die cut.

This one is a TE die and the mini sentiments are from MFT. Oh, the star stamp is from TE also.

I used Black Glossy cardstock to die cut it. Linked below.

I had fun with this! I used the NEW poppystamps Joyride Car, an old Quickutz die for the grad caps, Memory Box Puffy Clouds and the FLY HIGH sentiment is a dollar stamp, probably over 20 years old from JoAnns! I’d never used it before!

I’m linking my FLY High card to the NBUS challenge #86 – never before used stuff!

and to the Four Seasons Spring Challenge – because Spring is graduations!

and to the Neglected Stuff Challenge – because this Fly High sentiment has to be over 20 years old!

I just inked the background with Distress inks.

This one it’s hard to see but the black behind the cut out letters is embossed with Spellbinders Music folder, I’ll link it below and you can definitely see it better in the last photo.

The grad cap and scroll I used here are from the Classic Mouse Graduation die set…linked below.

I used Altenew’s Bold alphabet to die cut the word GRAD, I’ll link it below.

I did different color hats…

I’m linking my GRAD card to the Can You Handle the Pressure? Challenge – anything goes with an embossing folder.

and to the Die Cut Divas Challenge blog – all about celebrations!

and to the Word POWER Challenge – focus on the sentiment!

So fun! I have one more post coming with grad cards…hopefully you’ll be inspired like I was by all the cards out in the interwebs!

I got out all my graduation supplies and now I have a real mess. haha It’s kind of tempting to keep them all together instead of putting them back away by company.

Thank you so much for stopping by and scrolling through! Holler if you have any questions!

Here’s shopping links to what’s available that I used…

Penny Black – Creative Dies – Wood… [ SBC ]	Poppystamps – 2697 Joyride Car craft die [ STR ]	Favorite Song 3D Embossing Folder -… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]
Altenew – Dies – Caps Bold Alphabet [ SBC \| SSS \| ALTN ]	Bold Numbers Etched Dies from the… [ SPL \| SBC \| SBC \| SPL ]	Spellbinders Bold Color Mix Numbers… [ SSS ]
Sweeping Celebration Sentiments Press… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Classic Mouse Graduation Etched Dies… [ SPL ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Spellbinders – Card Shoppe Essentials… [ SBC ]
Spellbinders Splatter White Opaque… [ SSS ]	Splatter White Opaque Watercolor \|… [ SPL ]	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect… [ SSS ]
Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – matte and shiny [ STR ]	Nuvo Deluxe Clear Drying Adhesive;… [ STR \| SSS ]	Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Precision… [ STR \| SSS ]
Craft Tweezers – EK Tools – 5 inch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn – Lawn Cuts – Dies – Simple… [ SBC ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · copics · Die Piecing · Masculine · Memory Box · Quickutz · Taylored Expressions

3 Letterboard Cards…

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! Did you see the Splitcoast Stampers recent email talking about Letterboard cards? oh, I keep calling them this but I think the email called them Marque cards. Here’s the tutorial!

My first one is a birthday card for our oldest grandson. I used an old alphabet die set from Quickutz called Diesel. The birthday wishes postal circle is from Inkadinkado.

I will link up a bunch of alternative, similar alphabet die sets in my linkdeli collection at the end of the post. They would all make awesome cards like this too!

This one is ¼ of an inch taller than a regular A2 card. I mailed it in an A7 envelope.

The little bit of coloring is with Copics.

The next one is the card I made for Tim/husband. Four family birthdays in January! Two more to go! hehe

This one I used a different alphabet. It’s Parker from Memory Box. (my link below is to Parker lower case, upper isn’t available anymore) The little candle is from a Quickutz die set and the heart was on my desk.

I scored lines this time with my scor-pal instead of making ¼ inch strips and foam mounting tape like I did for the others.

Harder to see the scored lines in that picture…

There you can see them again. This card is A2 size and the cardbase is Cookie Monster cardstock from Taylored Expressions.

Glossy Accents on the candle and heart.

My third cards are thank yous! I need several right now! ❤

I really had fun with this card style… but I quit for now because I need to do other stuff! lol

This is Quickutz Diesel alphabet again. The heart is from Honeybee Stamps.

The red and black cardstocks are from Taylored Expressions also. The envelopes I made for these is a digital cut from Kerri Bradford.com. I cut them on the Scan and Cut cm350. I’ve been experimenting to use it more! yay! It’s like a coin envelope style… I should’ve taken a better picture of just the envelopes. You can find it HERE.

A2 size and I used two Pool notecards from Memory Box for the card bases.

Thank you for stopping by today! I’ll be back real soon with another Reverse Confetti card, then more Memory Box and poppystamps coming your way! Hope the new year is finding you with time to make. I can’t believe this month is almost history! :O

$5 off code for SSS right now is LVEYU842 (good ’til 3/1)

Then there’s a grrreat sale at Taylored Expressions! You know I love their cardstock and I received the blending brushes for Christmas!!! Link below and get the brushes, caddy and cleaning tool now while they are 30% off!!! (hmmm, do I need another set?!) lol Sale today, 9 a.m. CST the 23rd through tomorrow 9 a.m. CST the 24th! HURRY! 😀

TE Blender Brushes [ TE ]	TE Blender Brushes Storage Caddy [ TE ]	Blender Brush Cleaning Tool [ TE ]
Memory Box – 94341 Vintage Varsity… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn COLE’S ABCs Lawn Cuts Dies… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Lawn Fawn FINLEY’S ABC’s Lawn Cuts… [ SSS ]
Lawn Fawn QUINN’S CAPITAL ABC’s Lawn… [ SSS ]	Pinkfresh Studio ADORE ALPHA Die Set… [ SSS ]	CZ Design Wafer Dies ALL CAPS NO 01… [ SSS ]
Mama Elephant INLINE LETTERS Creative… [ SSS ]	Journey Serifs Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]	SR-011 Contour Type-Oh! Steel Rule Die [ SPL ]
Memory Box dies – Parker Lower… [ STR ]	Bazzill Card Shoppe – Marshmallow [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Darice Double-Sided White Foam Sticky… [ STR \| SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	A2 Envelopes [ TE ]	Honey Bee Stamps – Honey Cuts – Steel… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Birch Press Design > 25 Notecard… [ BRC ]	Birch Press Design > Patterned Paper… [ BRC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]

Blog Hop · cards · Distress Ink coloring · MFT · Perfect Layers Tools · Quickutz · rubber stamps · Sylvia Zet

MarkerPOP! and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop…

May 21, 2013May 21, 2013 Pam Sparks47 Comments

Hello everyone and welcome to the MarkerPOP! and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop!

MarkerPOP! is the home of premium markers plus lots more!

Perfect Paper Crafting provides innovative tools, like the “Perfect Layers ™” border making tools/rulers, for all types of paper crafting.

Today we are teaming up to share some amazing projects using some of the awesome Perfect Paper Crafting Tools along with some of our favorite coloring tools from MarkerPOP.com.

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I used an image from MarkerPOP! by Sylvia Zet called Peggy and I watercolored her with Distress Ink Markers.

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I used the Perfect Layers Tools to mat Peggy, the fishtail banners and around the perimeter of the card. For the fishtail banners, I cut both sides with the 1/16th in. ruler then cut up the center of the tail area with a scissors, then I was able to use the 1/16th ruler on each side of the tail.

The pattern paper is from Simple Stories. Flower and alphabet dies are from Quickutz.

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If you are just joining us on the hop, you are going to want to start back at the beginning of the hop list which can be found at the end of this post!

PRIZES:
We have TWO fun Perfect Paper Crafting prizes up for grabs. One sponsored by MarkerPOP! and one from Perfect Paper Crafting!

Prize #1 – Sponsored by Perfect Paper Crafting: $50 Gift Certificate to the PerfectPaperCrafting.com store!

Prize #2 – Sponsored by MarkerPOP!: Set of Perfect Tears Tools

HOW TO WIN:
Visit the blogs on the hop list below and leave a comment on their Blog Hop post. TWO winners will be randomly selected from all comments left. The more blogs you comment on, the better your chances of winning! TFL!

MarkerPOP! Blog
Perfect Paper Crafting

Eva
Jenny
Kelli
Marie
Marlena
Michelle
Pam (you are here)
Roxie
Tina
Tracy
Wendy

Hop will run through Saturday, May 25th at 11:59pm EST. Blog Hop winners will be announced Sunday, May 26th! Happy Hopping!

Birthday · Card Sketch · cards · Distress Ink coloring · Lawn Fawn · Magnolia · Quickutz · rubber stamps · Tilda's Town · Watercolor

Magnolia, Tilda’s Town Challenge…

May 17, 2013May 23, 2013 Pam Sparks28 Comments

Time for Tilda’s Town’s weekly challenge…this week…’use a Magnolia background stamp’. I used Tilda’s Summer Car with Cool Edwin from the Sweet Rainbow Collection and colored with Distress Ink Marker watercoloring. The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the You Are Special collection.

I used the Deconstructed Sketch #101 and will link to it, but my image was too big to cut into a circle. I love fishtails but I didn’t have enough room, so I used an old Quickutz arrow die to mimic them and thought that went with the car. It was definitely my inspiration but I did have to change it up to work for my image!

I’m linking to Midweek Magnolias Challenge … Birthday is the theme.

Simply Create Too …Anything Goes

and Dutch Magnolia Lovers …Make a card inspired by a song… “let’s go fly a kite”

The cloud background is inked with Rosies Roadshow cloud stencil and Ranger Adirondack light blue ink.

The main image is matted using the Perfect Layers Tools… link on the right…

Click over to Tilda’s Town Challenges, HERE and enjoy the inspiration from the Design Team and enter the weekly challenge! We’d love to have you! Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

Thanks for stopping by! I love hearing from you and appreciate your friendship and comments! I’ll be back Tuesday.

Links to the stamps and supplies I used…