Memory Box Astro Suit and Starry Sky Border Dies Card…

July 17, 2018 Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hi everyone! I’m kinda late getting in on the galaxy background trend! One of our granddaughters made this one for me one day when she was over playing with Color Burst Powders! So fun she made me one to use! You know how it is parting with stuff you make sometimes! 😀

This little Astro Suit die makes up so cute. I kinda got carried away with silver embossing powder… I really like the card though. A lot of silver but it gets the message across! You are a star, in case you didn’t know that! haha

I did add some of the clear Goosebumps Spray, I’ll link it up below if I can find it somewhere. Mirror card for the die cut Deep Space Planets that he’s standing on and the Starry Sky Border die cut into the Galaxy Background watercolor piece.

The Border die is the Double Stitch Rectangle Frames die from poppystamps.

I die cut the flesh in card-stock and a piece of acetate. Adhered them together with a squish of Ranger Glossy Accents.

Some spatters of Heidi Swapp Gold Spray and I finally quit! hehe

Not my usual card making style but fun and I’m sure I’ll use it at some point…everyone needs to know they are a star!

Thanks for stopping by! and thanks Lilli for the background! Happy soaking up the sun to you!

Here’s what I use to make cards and the dies and stamps I used to make this one…

Poppystamps – 1996 Double Stitch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 99973 Astro Suit craft die [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 99971 Starry Sky Border… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 99974 Deep Space Planets… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5221 Outta This World… [ STR \| SSS ]
Archival Ink Pad – Jet Black; Ranger [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| JGG ]	Archival Re-inker – Jet Black from… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| JGG ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]
Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tool Basics Flush Cutters – 5 inch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS ]
Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hallmark Scrapbook – TEFLON BONE FOLDER [ HLM \| SSS ]	Embossing Heat Gun; Precision Heat… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
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 [ STR \| SBC \| HLM ]	Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]	MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]
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 ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]
Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]	Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR \| 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 \| HLM ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]
Tonic 14×14 inch Easy Clean Craft… [ STR \| SSS ]	Goosebumps Dauber Top Bottle [ STR ]	Imagine Crafts Goosebumps Texture… [ BLT ]
Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Silver 12×12 [ STR ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Watercolor Paper by Ranger – 10… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]

All Occasion · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Masculine · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Summer · sympathy · Techniques

Memory Box Summer Meadow Collage and poppystamps Plumed Peacock cards…

June 22, 2018June 27, 2018 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone! I’ve only made two cards this week and I’m gonna put them both in this post! lol I’ve had this background piece laying on my desk for over a month, finally using it! Always fun to use an unusual color combo…it’s a Distress Oxide background with Channin’s Shammy technique. Ink blend on the ink and then hit it with your bunched up stamp cleaner shammy. Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers are the ink colors I think I used here.

I die cut a piece of black cardstock with the Memory Box Wrapped Stitch Rectangles die, then die cut the New Memory Box Summer Meadow Collage in it.

I die cut the New Memory Box Floating Swan in the inked panel and in a piece of black cardstock. I wanted the water movement in the inked panel. Very cool die!

The sentiment is from poppystamps Peony Stems and Blossoms stamp set. I added an extra black butterfly die cut with the Memory Box Pippi Butterfly die.

Then some Doodlebug and Echo Park Enamel Dots placed randomly. I did use mounting tape to adhere the Summer Meadow Collage to the inked background, then glued that directly on an A2 white cardbase.

Linking my Summer Meadow Collage card to the Crop Stop Anything Goes link party…

Next up… the New poppystamps Plumed Peacock and Delicate Branch Collage….

This is when you need a professional photographer…when you use mirror cardstock! lol My pictures don’t do the card justice. It’s quite striking IRL.

I die cut the Delicate Branch Collage die in a piece of gold mirror cardstock, then trimmed the panel down to fit on an A2 size panel of black cardstock.

I die cut the Plumed Peacock in glitter cardstock and pieced them in. I just put scotch tape on the back, then flip it over and put the pieces in.

I used mounting tape to adhere the gold panel to the black panel, then a little mounting tape strategically placed on the peacock so none of it would hit the branch collage die cut panel but still be popped up the same height as the panel.

I didn’t add a sentiment or anything to this card…I’m kind of a CAS girl but usually I at least have to have a sentiment! I was ok with this though. It’s very classy and elegant.

Thanks for stopping by today! I love hearing from you too! Links below if you want to see what products I used. See ‘ya later!

Memory Box – 94013 Summer Meadow… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94012 Floating Swan… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box PIPPI BUTTERFLY Craft DIE… [ SSS \| STR ]
Memory Box / Open Studio – 30094… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – CL447 Peony Stems and… [ STR \| SSS ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad -… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad -… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Canson XL Bristol Pads [ BLIC \| SSS ]
Strathmore Bristol smooth surface -… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – 2063 Delicate Branch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2059 Plumed Peacock… [ STR \| SSS ]
American Crafts Glitter Cardstock -… [ STR ]	American Crafts Glitter Cardstock – Gold [ STR ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12 [ STR ]
Bazzill Card Shoppe – Licorice Twist [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Archival Ink Pad – Jet Black; Ranger [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| JGG ]	Archival Re-inker – Jet Black from… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| JGG ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]
Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tool Basics Flush Cutters – 5 inch… [ STR \| SSS ]
Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS ]	Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]	Hallmark Scrapbook – TEFLON BONE FOLDER [ HLM \| SSS ]
Embossing Heat Gun; Precision Heat… [ STR \| SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	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 [ STR \| SBC \| HLM ]
Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]
MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]	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 ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]
Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]	Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC ]
Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR \| 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 \| HLM ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS \| HLM ]
Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]	Tonic 14×14 inch Easy Clean Craft… [ STR \| SSS ]

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Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Spring · Techniques

Memory Box Cherry Flower Stems on a Brayered Background…

March 15, 2018 Pam Sparks14 Comments

Hi friends and cardmakers! What I want to know is…how’d it get to be Thursday already! haha Last Friday at stamp club we made these brayered backgrounds. I made some into cards already but along the way it hit me, why not put a black floral image on one! So…here it is and I love it!

Just brayer ink on a piece of white…kinda looks like fabric salvages on the edges…well…anyway mine did! lol

This is the Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea pad and I used a Ranger brayer. I’ll link to everything below. Very fun!

A Memory Box A2 notecard for the base…a white panel die cut with a Stitched Rectangle die and mounted to the base with thin mounting tape and the Memory Box Cheery Flower Stems die cut in black cardstock.

I did mount the flower heads with pieces of thin mounting tape but glued the bottom of the stems flat.

The sentiment is from the poppystamps Valentine Fairies stamp set.

Holler if you have any questions! Thanks for stopping by on this beautiful almost Spring day!

Memory Box – 99947 Cheery Flower… [ STR ]	Lawn Fawn SMALL STITCHED RECTANGLE… [ SSS \| SBC \| HLM ]	NC-WHITE – White notecards [ BRC ]
Ranger Inkssentials INKY ROLLER… [ SSS \| JGG ]	Speedball Art Products – Pop-In Foam… [ SBC \| SSS \| JGG ]	Tsukineko Kaleidacolor CARIBBEAN SEA… [ SSS \| BLT ]
DB Sprinkles Swimming Pool [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Doodlebug Sprinkles – Matte Tropical… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Key Lime Memory Box Notecards – 25/pack [ STR ]
Poppystamps – CL462 Valentine Fairies… [ STR \| SSS ]	Archival Ink Pad – Jet Black; Ranger [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| JGG \| HLM ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]	Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]
Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS \| BLT ]	Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 12.25… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]	EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy [ STR \| SBC \| HLM \| BLT ]
Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]
MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]	Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC \| BLT ]	Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring… [ SSS \| JGG \| BLT ]
Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]
Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]	Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC \| BLT ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC \| BLT ]
Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR \| SSS ]	Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR \| BLT ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS \| JGG \| BLT ]
Scrapbook Adhesives 3D FOAM SQUARES… [ SSS \| SBC \| JGG ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]
Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]

C & 9 · cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Stamplorations · Techniques

Concord & 9th Ornamental Card and Stamplorations A Child is Born Card…

December 8, 2017December 10, 2017 Pam Sparks23 Comments

Hi cardmakers! I’m making more cards then I’m getting blogged so I need to step up my act!

This card is using Concord & 9th’s Ornamental die set… I love the detail in the cuts and that the pieces can be used individually! First I had to use it all in one! lol (Pattern paper is My Minds Eye, Comfort and Joy, Evergreen and Holly, from last yer)

Very straight forward card and flat for mailing. If you don’t want to mail for square card postage (2 oz. stamp) use one of those gold 6×9 envelopes for one forever postage stamp!

For a few years when I colored all the time, all my cards were square… I got creative with mailing. hehe

Linking up my ornament card to some challenges…

Happy Little Stampers December Anything Goes with dies challenge

Addicted To Stamps and More – Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash – move it

Next up…

Another, yes I can mail this CAS card. Stamping and die cutting all in one card! lol

I stamped with a Hero Arts Ombre stamp pad in the MISTI so I could ink it a couple times.

Then I die cut the stamped panel with a nativity die and used thin ¾ in. mounting tape that I cut pieces to fit behind the die cut.

I love this look…hoping to find some more stamps and dies to try it with.

Linking up my ‘A Child is Born’ card to some challenges…

Muse Christmas Visions – Holiday card

Word Art Wednesday – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today! Click over to Instagram if you want to see one of our new trains! hehe Link over in the sidebar too. Grandson Henry emailed me last night and said, make a video and send it to my mom so she can see how fast it goes! So shared it on IG too. We’ve had trains before but they wear out! Two out of three worn out so we replaced two this year. Kind of memory trains…my Dad worked for the Chicago Northwestern RR, so both of these new ones are CNW trains. I was so excited to find them and share a little about my Dad with our grands. 😀

Links to what I used to make these two cards!

Concord and 9th – Christmas – Dies -… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Pretty Pink Posh MERRY CHRISTMAS… [ SSS ]	American Crafts Glitter Cardstock – Gold [ STR ]
American Crafts POW! Glitter Paper… [ HLM ]	Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Gold 12×12 [ STR ]	Bazzill GOLD Foil Heavy Weight 8.5 x… [ SSS ]
card-stock [ STR ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SBC ]	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| BLIC ]
Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Tonic 12 INCH WIDE BASE GUILLOTINE… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC ]
Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR ]	Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR ]	A Child Is Born – Typografia… [ ACT ]
Christmas Icons – Nativity -… [ ACT ]	Hero Arts – Ombre Ink Pad – Pool to Navy [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM \| BMS ]

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cards · CAS · Christmas · Hero Arts · Memory Box · Techniques

Ombre Hero Arts Scene for Addicted to CAS challenge…

November 25, 2016 Pam Sparks17 Comments

Hi everyone! When I saw the challenge at Addicted to CAS…I just knew I needed to use some of my Hero Arts stamps with the Hero Arts Ombre stamp pad! I had to hurry though cuz we’re down to the last few hours! eek! Life on the edge when you have too many things going! lol

I tried a few different backgrounds but ended up just going around the perimeter of the image with a gold paint pen after I inked and put 4 inch wide double stick tape over the top and covered it with Judikins Micro Clear Beads… I have to use them at least once a year! hehe

I die cut a Memory Box Postage square die, Holly die and the sentiment from Cottage Cutz in white glitter card-stock, holly in green. So festive but with a vintage appeal too.

I’m happy so it’s back to work on the house. The living/dining room is painted and we’re working on moving things back in. Tim washed some windows and I’ve been cleaning blinds! oh yuk is right! Double yuk! That’s why I had to stop and make something! haha

ok – ttul!