Memory Box Eucalyptus Collage and Thanks Cursive Script Circle Cards…

September 12, 2021 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everyone! I have two Clean and Simple (CAS) cards to share with you today! When I saw this new MB Eucalyptus die I immediately thought it’d be good for sympathy/thinking of you cards, which I never have enough of.

I die cut Eucalyptus Collage in one of the greens from the MB Lush Green 6×6 Cardstock Collection pad. The background paper is from the MB Garden Folly 6×6 pattern paper pad. I love the little flower with the pink centers behind the collage! The green panel is cut with one of the MB Rectangle Basics die set.

Now that I’m posting this, other ideas come to mind. lol Remember MB Dave’s napkin watercoloring technique and how you add gold to it?! Yes! I think touches of gold on simple watercoloring would be so pretty!

I used 3m foam mounting tape to lift the collage panel. It’s the big roll and not very thick…

I heat embossed the sentiment in white powder with a sentiment from the poppystamps Diamond Sentiments stamp set. A ton of great sentiments in this set.

A2 size card…

My second card is a mini slim size… 3 ½ in. x 6 in.

I was struggling with what to do with this circle die… the first card I made was UGLY! lol Now I wish I’d taken these pictures with a black background! ugh

Very simple composition. I die cut MB Thanks Cursive Script Circle and Stained Glass Floral in white, then trimmed out the floral part from the square.

I’m giving the MB new Banner Sentiment Trio die set a work out this release! I die cut the middle size, folded it in half and stapled it onto the circle.

Then I stapled on the floral die cut. The Tim Holtz mini stapler at work again!

It’s a sweet, cute card IRL! I suppose I should’ve tried a third time to get better pictures! ha. It’s been one of those picture weeks… I can always tell when the season is changing! I’ll quit whining and finish up! lol

Thank you for stopping by today! ‘preciate it!

Products I used to make these cards…

Memory Box – 94524 Eucalyptus Collage… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – SP1003 Lush Green 6×6 pack [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppy Stamps DIAMOND SENTIMENTS Clear… [ SSS ]	Poppy Stamps Clear Stamps DIAMOND… [ SSS ]	Memory Box – PP1005 Garden Folly 6×6… [ STR \| SSS ]
Memory Box – 94516 Thanks Cursive… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94478 Stained Glass… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94580 Banner Sentiment… [ STR \| SSS ]
My Favorite Things BLACK AND WHITE… [ SSS ]	Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER… [ SSS ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS \| STR ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · copics · Die Piecing · Get Well · Masculine · Memory Box · Mini Slim Card · Oxide Inks · Summer · Thinking of You

Memory Box Deep Blue Ocean and Bubble Border…

August 23, 2021 Pam Sparks8 Comments

Hi everybody! Working through the Memory Box release…. thinking of you and I had to use this Vitamin Sea sentiment again! Many of you know me and I’m a vitamin C user! hehe

I started by inking a mini slim line panel with Tumbled Glass oxide ink, lightly marked where the circles were with a pencil, then stamped the school of fish stamp from the Deep Blue Ocean stamp set randomly over the larger circles. Then I stamped the ocean greenery images from the same set in dark greens.

Then I covered the panel with a piece of vellum…like you’re looking through glass…

I inked the top panel with Oxide inks, Salty Ocean and my Peacock Feathers brush without adding more ink. Spattered it with water.

Let it dry, then stamp the sentiments from the set using the MISTI and Ranger Archival Black ink.

I colored and die cut the cute little fishy with Copic markers but then I decided I didn’t like the white around it so I fussy cut it and mounted it on the panel with mounting tape.

On the inside I stamped the Feel Better Soon stamp from the set.

This is a great set… it can go for any occasion with the variety of sentiments! Birthday, Just Because, Sympathy and get well!

Thanks for stopping by on this beautiful how can it be the end of August day!!!

ttul,

Links to what I used to make this card…

Memory Box – CL5268D Deep Blue Ocean… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box Clear Stamps DEEP BLUE… [ SSS ]	Memory Box – 94518 Bubble Border… [ STR \| SSS ]
Tsukineko – Memento – Fade Resistant… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers and Sets [ BLIC ]	Ranger Ink – Archival Ink Pad – Jet… [ SBC \| SSS \| BLIC \| TE \| SSS ]
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp Envelopes MINI… [ SSS ]	Mini Slim Envelopes [ TE ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Inlaid Diecutting · Interactive · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Poppystamps · Thank You · Thinking of You

NEW Memory Box Dies…Sweet Bay Collage and Verdant Leaf Collage…

January 19, 2021 Pam Sparks9 Comments

Hi everyone! Two clean and simple cards to share today and I like them! YAY! I made a regular A2 size card with the NEW Sweet Bay Collage die, using it on a fold on the inside, as a pop up!

So pretty with this popular pattern paper from Hobby Lobby! For the two bluegreen cuts, I die cut, then trimmed at the top and the bottom of the stem, then added/adhered the two leaves that completely cut out. So pretty with the white contrast!

But then you have to decorate the front! haha I just used the Rectangle Basics die set and die cut rectangles to fit the sentiment from poppystamps Friendship and Kindness clear stamp set. I heat embossed in black detail powder on the bluegreen cardstock from TE.

I should’ve turned it toward the light better to catch the shine of the embossing powder!

My second card, I was inspired by a friend who sent me a card in the new mini slim card size 3 ½ x 6! The new Verdant Leaf Collage is the perfect size for it! I have another idea to try with this die but I wanted to go ahead and post because otherwise I just get too many pictures and the post gets too long!

The green turned out kind of blah. ugh. eek! It’s Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness Oxides, then water and gold spatters.

Sentiments from the Wild Rose Stem stamp set and Friendship Floral Heart stamp set. I black heat embossed the Thank You on vellum.

Before I go, I want to tell you the measurements for the pop up inside piece on the first card.

For the first card cut your 8 ½ x 11 piece of white cardstock in half, exactly 5 ½ inches. Leave one but cut the other one down to 8 inches, so it’s 5 ½ x 8.
Die cut the Sweet Bay Collage die centered in the 5 ½ x 8 piece, then score that piece at 4 inches… that will be your mountain fold.
Then I scored 1 ⅜ inches from both sides of that center score line and those will be your valley folds.
Then all that’s left is to finish everything and glue the longer sides to the inside of your regular A2 size card base with a side fold.

Holler if you have any questions!

Thank you for stopping by! Make something today! Copy or try something new! hehe I have a collection of ideas I want to copy…we need a national copy day so I get some made! lol ttul!

Products I used for these cards…

Memory Box – 94526 Sweet Bay Collage… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – 94525 Verdant Leaf… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]
Poppystamps – CL492 Friendship and… [ STR ]	Memory Box – CL5250 Friendship Floral… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – CL5258-D Wild Rose Stem… [ STR ]
Memory Box – CL5258 Wild Rose Stem… [ STR \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC ]
Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp Envelopes MINI… [ SSS ]	Mini Slim Envelopes [ TE ]	Scor-Pal 12×12 INCH MEASURING AND… [ SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress… [ SBC \| SSS \| STR ]	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad… [ SSS \| SBC ]	Eucalyptus Scrapbook Paper – 12″ x… [ HBL ]

All Occasion · cards · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Inlaid Diecutting · Memory Box · Simon Says Stamp · sympathy · Techniques · Thank You · Thinking of You · Watercolor

Simon Says Stamp Release….Send Happiness…3 Cards!

June 29, 2020 Pam Sparks12 Comments

Happy Monday to you! Simon Says Stamp has a new release and they sent me this flower die to play with…I was already doing napkin die cutting so I went ahead and did this new Etched Flower die the same way! Scroll down to THIS post for a link to the technique/how to video.

I stamped the background for the flower die with the tone on tone look and the SSS Damask Background cling stamp. I die cut three panels, a white one, the stamped one and a dark pink one with the SSS Frames die, then inlaid pieces from each and taped them together on the back side. I mounted this panel with Mounting tape.

The sentiment is a stamp from the SSS Sending Sympathy clear stamp set and die cut with the SSS Stitched Rectangles die set. I had to recut it to get it the right size.

The NEW Etched flower die cuts two connected flowers…so I had this single flower left over and parts from the Frames die cuts so I made another card!

The sentiment is also from the Sending Sympathy stamp set. I taped the pieces together on the back side of the panel and used foam mounting tape to mount it to the cardbase.

My third card…I had an idea but this isn’t anywhere near what I was trying to do! lol I like it though! lol

I debated whether to stick with a thank you or make it a sympathy card… it could easy go for any occasion!

There’s the NEW Speckled Egg Distress ink is what I used on the white Etched Flower die cuts this time… peeled paint for the stems.

Memory Box 6×6 pattern paper pad for the three papers.

A thank you stamp and some cotton cord and I stuck it all to a white cardbase.

All three cards are A2 size.

Have fun checking out this new release and thank you for shopping through my links! I appreciate your support so much!

Here’s the products I used and links for shopping…

Send Happiness [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp ETCHED FLOWER BUDS… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp DAMASK… [ SSS ]
Simon Says Stamp FRAMES Wafer Dies… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamps SENDING… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp STITCHED RECTANGLES… [ SSS ]
Memory Box SCRIBBLE FROND BACKGROUND… [ SSS ]	Memory Box GARDEN FOLLY 6×6 pack Pack… [ SSS ]	Memory Box Clear Stamps WILD ROSE… [ SSS ]

All Occasion · Birthday · cards · CAS · copics · Die Piecing · Flowers · Inlaid Diecutting · Masculine · Memory Box · Oxide Inks · Poppystamps · Summer · sympathy · Thinking of You

5 Memory Box Die Cards….

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Pam Sparks8 Comments

I’ve been working on cards! This is a long post so keep scrolling!

I wanted to make something cool with this NEW Leafy Tree die… it looks Summery anyway! I also used the NEW Double Stitch Rectangle Cut Out die set… I like it a lot! I die cut the Leafty Tree Frame in TE Peapod cardstock and colored the tree trunk with a dark brown Copic Sketch Marker! It covers the green really well!

The sentiment is from the NEW poppystamps Greeting Basics clear stamp set. So many good sentiments in this set. I’m going to get a lot of use out of it.

I love how the leaves can be embossed with this Leafy Tree Frame die and then inked with a little stamp pad ink. I used TE Peapod ink to match the cardstock. The background is Tumbled Glass Oxide ink brushed on to a Toffee/kraft piece of cardstock…same as the card front. I like the look it gave as compared to using it on white.

The next card…same dies… but I cut the Leafy Tree Frame in Brown, then in a scrap of green and trimmed off the frame and trunk parts..

Sentiment from the same poppystamps set…

Next I played with the NEW Birthday Cursive Script Circle…

This card is greener IRL… the pictures turned out more blue… it looks ‘beachy’ here! lol I think I might have to switch back to east windows for Summer pictures.

I used the NEW Stylish Rectangle Trio die and the NEW Birthday Cursive Script Circle for this card and inlaid them both in the card panel that I pieced together with three Bazzill Card Shoppe cardstocks, HERE.

The happy die was new last year… then some enamel dots and why did this card take me hours! lol I guess that’s pretty normal around here. lol

Next two cards I used the same Birthday circle die, just cut it out from the frame but one is the NEW pattern paper pad Garden Folly, HERE and the other TE cardstocks. I used the NEW Scribble Rose Trio and Background die also.

I’m not sure about these colors at all! I debated even showing the card! lol But here it goes.

I used TE Dijon and Peapod cardstocks and ink pads I know…interesting! lol Taylored Expressions has been so good to tell us what Copic markers match their ink pads and cardstock too! So I colored the die cut with matching Copics!

Oh, I used the NEW Gracious Leaves 3D Embossing folder too! It’s really pretty made up and inked for accent.

This card I cut a circle from the embossed panel and mounted it to the card base with foam mounting tape. The Rose Trio die is recessed a little then… I really like how it looks. The word ‘wishes’ is from the Big and Little Words clear stamp set

I’m gonna stop now before your eyes cross from this crazy variety of cards! lol

Thank you so much for stopping by and scrolling forever! I appreciate it and hope I made you smile!

Now for the products I used to make these cards…some of them anyway!

Memory Box – 94420 Leafy Tree Frame… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94360 Double Stitch… [ STR ]	Poppystamps – CL490 Greeting Basics… [ STR ]
Memory Box – 94416 Stylish Rectangle… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94107 Happy Jotted… [ STR ]	Memory Box – 94396 Birthday Cursive… [ STR ]
Memory Box – 94436 Scribble Rose Trio… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30087 Circle… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box – EF1002 Gracious Leaves… [ STR ]
Memory Box – CL5242 Big and Little… [ STR \| SSS ]	Memory Box/Open Studio – 30086… [ STR \| SSS ]	TE Premium Cardstock [ TE ]
TE Premium Ink – Full Ink Pads [ TE ]	Memory Box Die – Puffy Clouds [ STR \| SSS ]	Doodlebug Sprinkles – Swimming Pool [ STR ]