Spellbinders January Stencil of the Month Card…

January 11, 2024January 12, 2024 Pam Sparks7 Comments

Hello everyone! I’m starting 2024 with the NEW Spellbinders Stencil of the Month club. Most of the gals have already posted bright floral, pretty cards so I was trying to think of something different and thought ‘go brown’! I’m sure that doesn’t surprise you too much! lol

Want to know how the Spellbinders Clubs work? Click HERE!

So here’s my take on it… I did the stenciling first in Distress inks…Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain. Fun! Something therapeutic about inking up layers!

I wanted some words to stamp around it randomly so I went digging through my Spellbinders stash. I found the Kindly Deliver to my and the little envelope in the Parcel & Post Sentiments stamp set. I just used the top part of the stamp.

I found the cancellation lines in the Holiday Hugs Sentiments stamp set.

Then I needed a main sentiment to complete my card! There are sentiments on the stencils but I wanted something raised up. I found this Warm Wishes in the Christmas Die and Glimmer Sentiments set. Wishes is hot foiled and Warm is die cut out of gold mirror cardstock.

I spattered the card with walnut stain distress ink and gold calligraphy ink.

I edged with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and then I went around it with Walnut Stain Distress ink to give it a deeper brown on the very edge.

Layered onto an A2 size dark brown panel and then on to a kraft top fold cardbase.

I have another card to share soon and LOTS of NEW new new from Memory Box! woohoo!

Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy New Year to you!

Links to what I used to make this card…

Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	Spellbinders – Parcel and Post… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Holiday Hugs Sentiments Clear Stamp… [ SPL \| SSS ]
Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – Gold,… [ BLIC ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Bazzill FOIL Cardstock – matte and shiny [ STR ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]	Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Hot Foiling · Spellbinders dies · Stencils · Valentine

Spellbinders NEW Stencil Club!

December 29, 2023December 31, 2023 Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone! Here we are after Christmas and moving right on to the New Year faster that the speed of light!

Have you heard about the NEW Spellbinder stencil of the month club? I’m sure you have cuz I’m late getting my card posted for December and it’s already closed! Usually you can order them a month later though.

This set has four stencils. I used Distress inks and the mini circle Tim Holtz blending tools.

I used Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover and Pine Needles for the greenery. For the heart flowers I put down Kitsch Flamingo first, then some Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral! lol You sure wouldn’t need to use all the pinks/reds! lol

I hated to cover up all the stenciling so I went with a fun hot foiled sentiment from the Spellbinder All Occasion Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil set.

I really like how clean and simple it turned out plus it was fast to make!

It’s an A2 size card and completely mailable! I noticed the post office was running cards through the machines even if they had ‘hand cancel’ and extra postage on them. That is really frustrating. I even received cards that were completely rigid that had been machined. So cardmakers just put a stamp on it and call it good! I even received a pkg that was a stamp set and a die, weighed 1.8 ounces and only had one forever stamp on it and it still came intact and no extra postage envelope wanting me to pay extra! All this technology isn’t speeding things up or accurate! HOHOHO!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I went MIA because I needed to get some house stuff done and be ready with gifts and 27 ppl on Christmas Eve day! WOW! Did we have fun! Still smiling about it. I thank God for our family every day! I hope you had a blessed Christmas too. Talk to you again soon!

Here’s what I used to make this card…

Stencil of the Month Membership -… [ SPL ]	All-Occasion Mailbox Greetings… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Pine… [ SSS ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System \| Spell… [ SPL \| SSS ]	Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -… [ SPL \| SBC ]	Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Spearmint -… [ TE ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| BLIC \| SBC ]	Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Spellbinders dies · Stencils

Spellbinders Dancin’ Gingerbread Card and Two Layered Joy Tree Stencil & Die Cards…

December 11, 2023 Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone! Getting festive with the gingerbread and trees today! I love these characters from Spellbinders every year! So so cute!

I also love these stencil and die sets! I have this one and the Merry Christmas one. I didn’t get the Merry Christmas one made into a card yet! eek! If only we didn’t need to do laundry, eat and sleep, oh and shop! hoho!

ok – Back to the gingers…

The green is bright! But tealish and red would be so cute too! I was going traditional but boom! It’s bright for me! lol

So for all you green lovers, this one’s for you!

Now I wish I’d tied on a little jingle bell! I even have some! I will have to do that and just pay extra postage! It’s only money, right?! ha!

I used regular Distress inks on my JOY cards. Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral. We were making these Thanksgiving day afternoon. I copied Anya, one of my granddaughter’s colors!

I think we used Altenew colors for the Joy. I can’t remember the names now.

One more picture of one stenciled on Hobby Lobby extra heavyweight kraft cardstock. Pretty sure I used Distress Oxides on this one but more the Lucky Clover ones for the greens.

I hope your cardmaking is coming a long. I have plenty to do still!

We started out this week hearing one of our granddaughter’s playing with one of our grandson’s fiance (wedding in March) yesterday morning…a string duet… it was so, so beautiful!

Tuesday night is a choir concert for a bunch of the grands…makes me so happy!

You all take care and all the joys and blessings of the season to you and yours!

Codes for Simon Says Stamp right now…use one… Wrap23 ($7 off)….Merry ($5 off) Random sales at Scrapbook.com and Starlitstudio.net is always a discount!

Here’s the products I used for these three cards…

Spellbinders – Dancin’ Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Layered Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	Spellbinders – Make It Merry… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]
Spellbinders – Layered Christmas… [ SBC \| SSS \| SPL ]	May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap [ SSS ]	Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy… [ STR \| SSS ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock… [ HBL ]	Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra… [ SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cherry Pop -… [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Peapod -… [ TE ]	miniature jingle bells – 5mm – pkg of 20 [ STR ]

cards · CAS · Distress Ink coloring · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Simon Says Stamp · Stencils · Winter

Simon Says Stamp Mini Slimline Snowflake Window Stencil Card…

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 Pam Sparks10 Comments

NEW Release from Simon Says Stamp! I received the NEW Snowflake Stencil and made a clean and simple mini slimline card. This one turned out to be 3 ¼ in x 6 ⅜ in.

I sprayed the stencil with Pixie Spray glue, adhered it to Canson Smooth Bristol cardstock and inked with Distress Oxide stamp pads and blending brushes. Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers and Mermaid lagoon.

Let it Snow is a newer die from Memory Box, Let it Snow Posh Script, both layers cut from heavy white cardstock. I mounted it to the panel with pieces of mounting tape.

I embellished the snowflakes with Memory Box Clear, self adhesive Fairy Drops.

I love these pretty, sparkly, Winter colors!

I stamped the inside with a newer sentiment clear stamp set from poppystamps, Wintertime Sentiments with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink. Some really fun sentiments in this set. “Thanks for Snow much fun”, “Happy Winter Wishes to you”, Warm and cozy Winter greetings”, “You are One of a kind”, “Tis the Season to be freezin'”, “The world changes when it Snows”, and more!

I’ll leave you with one more sentiment from this wonderful stamp set… “Friends warm even the coldest of days”. I agree! Thank you for stopping by!

Here’s what I used to make this card…(SSS code for $5 off – LVEYU842 – ends 3/1)

Simon Says Stamp Stencil MINI… [ SSS ]	Therm O Web PIXIE SPRAY Removable for… [ SSS ]	Canson XL BRISTOL SMOOTH 9 x 12 Paper… [ SSS ]
Memory Box LET IT SNOW POSH SCRIPT… [ SSS ]	Poppy Stamps Clear Stamps WINTERTIME… [ SSS ]	Poppy Stamps WINTERTIME SENTIMENTS… [ SSS ]
Waffle Flower BLENDING BRUSHES WFT021 [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	Memory Box CLEAR Fairy Drops cld101 [ SSS ]	Scrapbook Adhesives MICRO WHITE 3D… [ SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Masculine · Memory Box · Simon Says Stamp · Stencils · Summer · Taylored Expressions

Simon Says Stamp Believe In You Release Cards…

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hello! I have two cards to share with you using a new die, Today Will Be Awesome, from Simon Says Stamp’s new release, Believe In You. Check out the release! It’s huge and lots of beautiful stamps and dies!

I’m also using their Nautical Stripe Stencil that was new with their last release. Here I used it straight up and down on Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster cardstock, inkblending on Cookie Monster ink with a mini ink blending tool. I love the tone on tone look!

I die cut the stenciled panel with a Memory Box Wrapped Stitch Rectangle die.

I die cut the new die in TE’s Toffee cardstock and since it’s thicker the letters stayed in the cut. Then I die cut it in Cookie Monster and glued the letters over the Toffee die cut. Easy placement that way..

The die comes with a rectangle die to back it too… that’s handy. I cut it from TE’s Confetti Cake cardstock.

I embellished with the Memory Box Scribble Leafy Branch Background die cut from TE’s Granny Smith cardstock and a few Doodlebug Matte Sprinkles.

For some reason I really like how this turned out! lol It’s not like me to have such a contrast of colors!

My next card…

Same die and stencil, I just did the stencil diagonal both directions, with Lawn Fawn Merman and Cilantro inks and Confetti Cake and Granny Smith cardstocks.

I used the next size down of the Wrapped Stitch Rectangles dies and added the Scribble Leafy Branch Outline die to the leaves this time.

I like this one too. I should mail them! Imagine that! lol

oh and here’s a picture of a couple backgrounds I made last month with this stencil but didn’t get anything made up. Too bad, they would’ve been great patriotic cards! So the stencil, 3 different ways!

Thank you so much for stopping by! I appreciate it and always hope you enjoy and are inspired by my cards!

Here’s the products I used to make these cards…

Simon Says Stamp TODAY WILL BE… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Stencil NAUTICAL… [ SSS ]	Memory Box SCRIBBLE LEAFY BRANCH… [ SSS \| STR ]
Memory Box SCRIBBLE LEAFY BRANCH… [ SSS \| STR ]	Memory Box WRAPPED STITCH RECTANGLES… [ SSS \| STR ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Granny Smith [ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Toffee [ TE ]	Taylored Expressions Confetti Cake… [ TE ]	TE Premium Cardstock – Cookie Monster [ TE ]
TE Premium Ink – Cookie Monster -… [ TE ]	TE Premium Ink – Cookie Monster -… [ TE ]	Lawn Fawn CILANTRO Premium Dye Ink… [ SSS \| SBC ]
Lawn Fawn MERMAN Premium Dye Ink Pad… [ SSS ]	*Mini Ink Blending Tool new* – 2… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| JGG** ]	Mini Ink Blending Foam Refills – pkg… [ STR \| SBC \| JGG ]
Ranger 4oz Distress Sprayer by Tim Holtz [ STR ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SZZ \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC ]	Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SZZ \| SSS ]	Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]
We R Memory Keepers QUICKSTIK… [ SSS \| SSS ]	Tool Basics Flush Cutters – 5 inch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic Studios Tim Holtz 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 12.25… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]	Lawn Fawn – Stamp Shammy [ SBC \| SSS ]
We R Memory Keepers – Basic Tools -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC ]	Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring… [ SSS \| JGG ]
Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| BLIC ]
adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE… [ SSS ]	Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR ]
Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS \| JGG ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D FOAM SQUARES… [ SSS \| SBC \| JGG ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS ]
Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS ]	Tonic 14×14 inch Easy Clean Craft… [ STR \| SSS ]