Simon Says Stamp Diecember Picture Book Secret Penguin Card…

December 3, 2017December 4, 2017 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Good Morning! It’s hard to believe we’ve hit Diecember already! It’s here with all the glory of the season! I am delighted to share a card I made with Simon Says Stamp’s new Picture Book Secret Penguin. He’s giving Santa some competition with his cuteness!

I used SSS Stitched Slopes and Hills to give him some snow to stand in. The sentiments are from SSS Sending and Wishing stamp set.

I couldn’t resist using these cute Doodlebug Candy Cane Shape Sprinkles with him, Doodlebug Heart Assortment Sprinkles, oh and that Jolee’s Boutique Santa Hat sticker.

The background is Distress Oxide inks, Salty Ocean and a little bit of Faded Jeans around the perimeter. Spattered it with water…sprayed a puddle into my hand, rub my hands together and then clap them over the piece to get the different size splotches. I did it a few times on this one.

Then I spattered it with Distress Picket Fence Acrylic Paint, diluted with a little water and a small liner paint brush.

Click over to see all the new products from SSS for Diecember! Several things I love! eek! 😀

Happy creating, shopping, holiday prep to you! Thanks for stopping by! Links below to what I used!

Use code: MERRY573 for $5 off your purchase of $5 or more at SSS

Simon Says Stamp PICTURE BOOK SECRET… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp STITCHED SLOPES AND… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING AND… [ SSS ]
Doodlebug Heart Sprinkles – Ladybug… [ STR ]	Doodlebug Sprinkle Shapes – Candy Canes [ STR ]	Sizzix BIG SHOT WHITE TOOL CADDY 661081 [ SSS ]
Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And… [ SSS ]	Sizzix Big Shot Kick STANDARD CUTTING… [ SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100#… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Reinkers… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Reinkers… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Flip Top Distress Paint… [ SSS ]
Ranger Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES… [ SSS ]	Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE… [ SSS ]	Memento Luxe WEDDING DRESS Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun… [ SSS ]	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping… [ SSS ]	MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool… [ SSS ]
Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT… [ SSS ]	Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]
Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Taylored Expressions Little Bits… [ SSS ]

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Simon Says Stamp Joy To The World card…

November 29, 2017December 7, 2017 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hi everyone! So thrilled to show you this SUPER cute new exclusive stamp set for Simon Says Stamp Cyber Week!

I had so much fun coloring these up with my Copic Sketch Markers…
Joseph – E43, 44, teeny bit of 47, beard E35
Mary – R56, 59, hair and hay Y23 , YR31
Skin – E000, 00, 01, 02
Jesus – B91, E23
Sheep – W01, 02, 05

I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink in the MISTI. Cut the images out with my Scan and Cut 350. (I was hurrying and didn’t set it up to cut out the little triangles. I cut those with an xacto knife.

I love this card! Hope you do too!

Entering some Challenges…

SSS Flickr Challenge #85 – Christmas

Muse Christmas Visions – any Holiday card

SSS Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

The Merry Christmas Challenge – anything goes/Christmas

Here’s what I used if you want to click you’ll go to the store to shop! Thank you!

I appreciate you stopping by! I’m hurrying again. We just installed a hardwood floor in our 2nd floor hallway…27 ft long. eek! So excited(except for all the sanding dust!) but of course we have to drive an hour and 40 minutes to buy the finish because we want it NOW! lol ugh. 😀 Our house is over 100 yrs old so this was quite challenging. It was still the original flooring! Black linoleum with a cream color inlay frame and a beautiful wool rug inside the frame. I hate to see the old go…I loved that rug but it was so worn in all the doorways, etc… it was time to part with it. sigh. Have a good rest of the week!

Simon Says Clear Stamps JOY TO THE… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SOFT… [ SSS ]	Copic [ SSS ]
Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full… [ SSS ]	MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool… [ SSS ]	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping… [ SSS ]
Sizzix BIG SHOT WHITE TOOL CADDY 661081 [ SSS ]	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And… [ SSS ]	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM Big Shot… [ SSS ]
Sizzix Big Shot Kick STANDARD CUTTING… [ SSS ]	Mama Elephant FRAMED TAGS MADISON… [ SSS ]	Crafter’s Companion CLEAR OVERLAY… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS ]	Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two… [ SSS ]

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cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Poppystamps · Shopping · Simon Says Stamp · Winter

My cards for Simon Says Stamp ‘Making Spirits Bright’ Release!

October 11, 2017October 13, 2017 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hello! Did you hear the excitement in my hello?! lol ‘Making’ cards for Christmas gets me ALL excited and giddy with all the new product! How to make and shop at the same time! It is hard! lol

When this die arrived in the mail I was so happy this is what SSS sent me! I love it! In my first card, I combined it with the RyLynn Snowflake and a sentiment from Inside Holiday Greetings.

I got out some Distress Oxide ink pads and started smooshing. It’s one of those come back after a layer dries and add another layer. I just started another card while I was waiting!

I love these dies with the larger outline cut and the intricate word to layer in the outer cut. I think you know what I mean… whew. lol I’m not so great at describing things sometimes! The Distress Oxide layer has the large ‘hole’ cut in it. I die cut a piece of craft foam with the large die too and adhered it behind so the silver falala would be down in the hole.

I love how festive and non-traditional this turned out!

My next card…well, I love it too! CAS, white and so sparkly festive!

American Crafts glitter paper…I like it! It’s a really nice weight and die cuts perfectly! Here I didn’t use craft foam behind the top layer but you still get enough dimension to show the beauty of the die.

The sentiment is from the Holiday Message Strips stamp set and poppystamps Holly Leaves and Berries dies are all the embellishment this card needed to keep it CAS.

I’m so excited for this release! You can see all of it HERE at Simon Says Stamp. What do you think? I can’t wait to see it all myself! lol I see some snowmen that need to come to my house!!! and pine looking something back there! eek!

Thanks so much for stopping by and listening to me go crazy over Christmas creating! We are having so much fun, aren’t we stampers?! I hope you are. If you want to swap Christmas cards, drop me an email! I love getting cards from stampers!

p.s. can’t wait to hear what you love from this release!

Here’s what I used to make these cards… use the code HARVEST to get $5 off your order at SSS.

Simon Says Stamp FA LA LA Wafer Dies… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp RYLYNN SNOWFLAKE… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps INSIDE… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Clear Stamps HOLIDAY… [ SSS ]	Memory Box STITCHED HOLLY LEAVES… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT… [ SSS ]	Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink… [ SSS ]	Tsukineko VersaFine SMALL ONYX BLACK… [ SSS ]
Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK REFILL… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn – Stamp Shammy [ SBC ]	MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool… [ SSS ]
MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping… [ SSS ]	MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]
Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score… [ SSS ]	Martha Stewart Mini Score Board; Scoring [ STR ]	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE… [ SSS ]
Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two… [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS ]
Avery Elle LARGE Stamp & Die Storage… [ SSS ]	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And… [ SSS ]	Sizzix BIG SHOT WHITE TOOL CADDY 661081 [ SSS ]
Sizzix Big Shot Kick STANDARD CUTTING… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Sizzix ON THE EDGE CUTTING… [ SSS ]	Tonic CHROME SILVER Mirror Card… [ SSS ]
DoCrafts GOLD & SILVER A4 Mirror… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Tonic EASY CLEAN MAT 1514E [ SSS ]	Ranger Large 2 oz MISTER BOTTLE… [ SSS ]	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials… [ SSS ]
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]

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cards · Christmas · copics · Simon Says Stamp · Winter

SSS STAMPtember Carol Singers card…

September 5, 2017 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Rockin’ the carols this morning cardmakers! lol This cute trio is from the new set for STAMPtember from Simon Says Stamp. Oh what fun!

I stamped with the new Tim Holtz Stamp Platform and Memento Tuxedo Black ink, cut them out with the Scan and Cut 350 then colored them with Copic Sketch Markers. The kitty is the YR20 series… the bear is the E40 series and the bunny the T gray series. The bear’s jeans are the B90’s, his sweater is R46 and R89, the sweater trim is BG45 and 49 and the green in the sweater is YG03 and 17. The bunny’s scarf is the YG0 series and the coat is R46 and R89 again. The kitty’s dress is the YG0 series too. The birdie is BG45 and 49 again.

The sky is Distress Oxide Salty Ocean applied with the mini ink blending tool and spattered with some water drops that I heat set with the heat tool. I didn’t dab up the water.

The sentiment is from the same set. I stamped with the TH platform using Versafine Black Onyx ink.

The snowy background pieces are die cut with the SSS Stitched Slopes and Hills dies.

I trimmed the background and the snow borders to 4 in. x 5 ¼ in., adhered the sky and back border flat to the card base and mounted the front snow border with 3L mounting squares. The characters are mounted with foam squares also. The bunny with thin ones, the bear and kitty with regular ones.

Then I stamped on the music notes using an acrylic block. I still need to put a sentiment inside. I always procrastinate stamping the inside. ugh. I’m always sorry when I go to sending the cards out too! lol

I’m hoping to spend the day making cards! Lots of NEW from Memory Box/poppystamps and NEW from Printworks too!

Thank you for stopping by and oh, I didn’t use a wobble after-all. They looked funny stuck out too far. oh well, maybe if I’d just used the bear…

ttul!

Supplies I used to make this card…Click on SSS to go to Simon Says Stamp, STR takes you to Starlitstudio and SBC to Scrapbook.com THANK YOU so much for shopping through my links!

Simon Says Stamps And Dies CAROL… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps CAROL SINGERS… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp CAROL SINGERS Wafer… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp STITCHED SLOPES AND… [ SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Versafine – Onyx Black – full-sized… [ STR \| SSS ]
VersaFine – Onyx Black – mini ink pad [ STR \| SSS ]	Versafine Onyx Black – Reinker [ STR \| SSS ]	Memento – Tuxedo Black – full sized pad [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]
Memento Dew Drop Ink Pad – Tuxedo Black [ STR \| SSS ]	Memento Tuxedo Black – reinker [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	TH Stamp Platform [ STR \| SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC ]
Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Martha Stewart Mini Score Board; Scoring [ STR \| SBC ]	Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]	Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR ]
3L Scrapbook Adhesives – 3D Foam… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS ]	EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC ]
Fiskars – 9 inch Bypass Paper Trimmer [ SBC ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| STR ]
Mini Ink Blending Foam Refills – pkg… [ STR \| SSS ]	*Mini Ink Blending Tool new* – 2… [ STR \| SSS** ]