Magnolia, Tilda’s Town, Anything Goes…

February 22, 2014February 26, 2014 Pam Sparks20 Comments

Everybody’s talkin’ about it! hmmmm…. I look out the window and we’re covered with snow! hohoho Well, a couple days this past week felt like there would soon be a possibility of Spring coming to Iowa! Course we had rain too…pass on rain. ha Alice, quit laughing at me! I love umbrellas but I would just as soon use them for snow! haha

Oh, this is not a weather report, you say?! Oh, ok, well, here’s Tilda with Flowing Hair! She’s a doll and showing off for this week’s Anything Goes Challenge over @ Tilda’s Town Challenges!

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.

I used some of the new dies from Memory Box, very fun! I LOVE the new Kensington Border, Toulouse Background and Blooming Branch dies. I did cut the big flower off the Toulouse Background for this card though. I also used the Dancing Butterflies die and Memory Box Spring Greetings rubber stamp.

My Mind’s Eye Pattern Paper, pearls and Strathmore color card-stock for the frame and card base.

Challenges I’m linking my card to…
Time For Magnolia – Tilda only
Dutch Magnolia Lovers – Anything Goes
Challenge For Everybody – Anything Goes
A Creative Romance – Sentiment
Stampin for the Weekend – Flower Power
Stamp and Create with Magnolia – Spring
Crafty Hazelnuts Pattern Paper Challenge – Anything Goes
PaperTake Weekly – lovely layers
7Kids Challenge – Anything Goes
One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today! ‘preciate it!

Stamps, dies and supplies I used…

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cards · Memory Box · Spring

Memory Box… NEW, NEW, NEW!

January 2, 2014January 4, 2014 Pam Sparks32 Comments

Oh happy day! Time for the NEW Memory Box ‘Creative Elegance’ 2014 Papercrafters Collection release! So if we can’t do Christmas… let’s ‘think Spring’! lol Memory Box Blog Blitz starts next week!

Lots of flowers in this collection…you’re going to love it!

I used the Delightful Peony Outline die and Delightful Peony Background die. I need to make a video of what I did. I’m afraid my ‘word’ explanation would just be to confusing! It’s easy though and fun!

See the New MESH stencil behind the Peony?! Love it! I taped it down with Washi tape and used three Distress inks to color it in. First Wild Honey, then Worn Lipstick randomly and then Peeled Paint around the edges. Warning….too much Peeled Paint on the pink, well, it kinda makes khaki! We like khaki…ok! lol

Don’t you love the new Eva Stem though… so delicate and feminine!

And this Happy Birthday Extravaganza die is so cool! These dies cut like a dream! woohoo!

Thanks for stopping by today… so fun to share…can’t wait to see what you make with the new dies too! TFL!

Supplies I used…Blue Moon links below (Starlitstudio coming soon!)

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Birthday · cards · copics · Distress Ink coloring · Fall · LOVE · Magnolia · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spring · Step card · Valentine

Some of My Favorite Creations for 2013…

January 1, 2014January 7, 2014 Pam Sparks15 Comments

Debby has a linky party for your Favorite Five creations for 2013 going on HERE… I tried to keep it to five but it didn’t work. I stopped at 12! lol

Catered Crop has a remembering 2013 linky party HERE…

AND… I started a Facebook page for my blog… click over to like it if you have time!

Welcome Winter ATC’s

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Tilda with Mittens

Love Snowman

Tilda with Heart Arrows

Tilda Hiding Heart

Meadow Bird with a Spring Song

Jasper Leaves

Mannequin in the Rain

Tilda with Lace Flag

Marvelous Bridge Step card

Just a Note

Chess Tilda

Happy New Year to you friends, kindred stampers and papercrafters! TFL! Looking forward to more in 2014! Be watching…Memory Box new designs coming soon! Blog Blitz starts the 6th!

cards · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · Poppystamps · Spring

Memory Box Lamp post Frame card…

June 9, 2013June 10, 2013 Pam Sparks13 Comments

A happy Spring scene using all Memory Box and Poppystamps dies and card-stock. Makes a gal want to go live here! Imagine…gingham grass and polka dot butterflies!

I used parts of a couple dies… the leaves in the tree are from the Lavish Branch die and the grass is just the scallop part of the Spring Border die with the flowers cut off.

I die cut the Lamp post frame out of Vanilla Bean card-stock and the Debutante background is die cut out of Water card-stock.

The Lavish Branch is die cut from the Lime Green Gingham and the Cranberry Dots Card-stock. I cut the red flowers off and glued them on top of the Lime Green flowers with Tombow Mono Multi glue.

The little butterflies are from the new Dancing Butterflies die.

I used a woodgrain stamp to make the wood grain on the tree trunk…

Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate it! I’ll be back tomorrow with another Memory Box card.

Shopping Links…

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Memory Box…Mannequin in the rain?

May 9, 2013August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks24 Comments

Is this too silly to post? ok, Don’t answer that! lol I got this mannequin die without the dresses that go with it…so I’ve been puzzling over it. A couple days ago I got this idea to put it with the umbrella in the rain! So it just grew from there! lol (I know, the buttons are big but it just adds to the whimsy of it? a raincoat!)

I had fun making it into a front panel step card and bringing in the tree too! It screams Spring! I forgot to add dandelions though! hahaha

The rain die was really fun and easy to run through several times to make the raindrop background. Lots of Memory Box dies, stamp and card-stocks…Water, Key Lime Gingham, Licorice Gingham, Licorice Distressed Dots, Sage, Vanilla Bean and Cherry Blossom.

Hope this finds you laughing in the rain! (it’s raining here) Thanks for stopping by!

Oh Happy Day! Susie listed my card in the SCS Favorites thread this week! Thanks Susie!