Memory Box….Winter Wonder…

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Pam Sparks27 Comments

Happy card making Wednesday to you! Here’s 3 Memory Box cards that scream the wonders of Winter! haha I love the red hearts. : )

This die truly does live up to it’s name, Spectacular Snowflake. I die cut it in the pool color card-stock, layered it over a white piece of card-stock, die cut the love into the pool card front piece, die cut the little hearts in the snowflake die and the love die in red card-stock and pieced them in. A fast card to make and you could vary it/bling it up so many different ways! I love Christmas!

Then there’s the new Open Studio Dies Snowglobe Bases, I used the Stitched Circles but there’s new Pinpoint Circles too! oh duh, no I didn’t! lol I used the NEW Stitched Snowflake Circle Frame! I did use the circles layers dies behind the Snowflake circle. lol

I love the look of falling snow in the scene… the Beaded Background die is perfect for that look.

For the card front, I used the Snowy Scene Background die, it cuts and embosses.

The sweet tree border die is from the Open Studio Wide Open Spaces die set. The NEW Mama and Baby Deer dies, the holly leaves are from the NEW Newbury Ornament Vignette die set and the heart is from the Cross Stitched Heart die set.

The December month stamp is from the Open Studio Clear stamp set Well Planned

The 3rd card just came together too! Love it when that happens! There are things you could easy vary here too!

There’s that beaded background again, that’s perfect for snow… yes, I used it the wrong direction but I like it!

The pretty Mountain Evergreen… I left it plain but on one other card I made, after die cutting it, I put it on the beaded background and cut snow into it. : )

Then the Deer in the Trees … I hand cut the deer out, put the trees behind and the deer in front!

Down to the end…one last die! The Curved Merry Christmas the perfect foundation for this festive Winter scene.

Have you heard the NEWS?! There’s a NEW Memory Box/poppystamps release and Cindy at Starlitstudio just received her shipment today! So they’re in her store if you want to get your order FAST! LOVE her service! Top notch! I am one very happy customer of her’s! lol But you could tell that already, right?! lol ; )

Hope you’re inspired to get to creating those Christmas cards! If you want my address to send me one! oh, I’d love that!!! hohoho

Have a great rest of the week… I’ll be back tomorrow with some more Christmas goodness!

Take care and thanks so much for stopping by! oh, scroll down to comment for a chance to win the book giveaway! TTUL!

Dies and Supplies I used to make these cards…

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Published · rubber stamps · Taylored Expressions · Winter

Creative Cards book…

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 Pam Sparks35 Comments

Do you love having an idea book to look at while you’re having breakfast, coffee time or lunch? I do! *grin* Well, have you heard of Scrapbook and Cards Today’s NEW Creative Cards Volume One?

I have two cards in it! I’m so excited to share with you and I have one copy of the book to give away to a lucky winner in the USA that comments on this post! I’ll leave it open for a few days. The book is also available for purchase HERE. There are a few other TE designers in the book this time, including Taylor!

The two cards in the book are from a set of four Christmas cards I made with non-traditional colors.

Here’s a peek at the two in the book…

and…

I’m also sharing the two cards that didn’t get published and linking below to the supplies in the TE store. It was so fun to use extraordinary colors…although, I love red, green, kraft and white!!! : )

I LOVE the Distress ink color Shaded Lilacs…here I combined it with Tumbled Glass, both colors on the embossing folder before I ran it through the Big Shot.

Some of the Little Bits dies…so cute!

Stop by the TE Blog because it’s release week!

Thanks for stopping by again today! I’ll be back release day with three more cards from Taylored Expressions…

Supplies I used on the cards I’m sharing today…

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cards · Christmas · copics · Die Piecing · Taylored Expressions · Uncategorized · Winter

Taylored Expressions October Sneak Peeks…

September 28, 2015September 28, 2015 Pam Sparks19 Comments

The end of September and the rush/fun is on to make Christmas cards! with snow on them! hehe

Look at this cute little snowman! A new die in the Taylored Expressions Little Bits ‘line’. I love the Little Bits dies! So fun to create with!

Then I used two new for October ‘Build a Scene’ die sets… Winter Trees and Central Park. SNOW much fun!

I’m sure Anne with an ‘e’ would call it the ‘lake of shining waters’! lol I love Anne!

The sweet JOY frame is from the new TE Picture Perfect Horizontal die set and I can’t forget the new Little Bits Snowflake Confetti die set! This release is a card makers night before Christmas dream! All those visions of sugarplums are visions of new stamps and dies to come! YAY!

I die cut the pieces in white card-stock and colored them with Copic Sketch Markers.

Two new embossing folders also! The one I used today is called Holly. So pretty! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Here’s the scoop for the release…sneak peeks start today and go through Wednesday with the release on Thursday! Each day over on the Taylored Expressions Blog you will find Taylor’s card creations with the new release, links to the participating designers AND you will want to comment there each day for chances to win fabulous giveaways! Visit the TE blog for the details on how to enter to win! : )

Thanks so much for visiting today! ‘preciate it!

Links to the products I used, in the TE store… (release product links will work Thursday!)

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cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Winter

New Memory Box…

July 21, 2015July 31, 2015 Pam Sparks27 Comments

Hi card making friends! I promise something other than Christmas soon! Some family birthday cards coming. I wanted to play a long with the Muse: Christmas Visions Challenge. They provide an inspiration card for a jumping off point and yep, I jumped! lol I’ve got the circle thing going, the colors and a banner. I positioned my wreath too low though and you know how hard it is to pull up those mounting squares… so I added twine and the words at the bottom! Not exactly what I had in mind but I decided to post it anyway!

and it was a star! Thanks for the votes!

I had another card started, so I decided to go ahead and finish and post it too before I lost the parts. I love this poppy Seasons Greetings die…such a vintage feel to it. Another card that didn’t turn out exactly what I had in mind! I know.. two in a row! I’ll keep trying! lol

The Seasons Greetings fit on the card horizontal but the diagonal placement reminded me of the vintage Christmas cards so I went with it instead.

Maybe what it needs is some pattern paper! I’ve gotten to where I hardly want to get into the patterns because I have such a hard time making up my mind what to use. I guess I tend to cheat and use solids! I love to buy the stuff though!

It was fun playing with more of the NEW Memory Box dies anyway. It’s that time of year with lots of new product coming out to play with! Watching for CHA photos! I saw the darling Lawn Fawn scarecrow yesterday! So cute!

I’ll shut up and get some links made. Thanks for the visit and happy July day to you!

Dies and supplies I used…

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cards · CAS · Christmas · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Winter

NEW Memory Box Winter Scenes…

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Pam Sparks24 Comments

Brrrr…it’ll be a Winter Wonderland before we know it! haha! I love creating Winter scenes! I started this card with the NEW Stitched Snowflake Circle Frame die. I knew it would work with one of the NEW Open Studio Snowglobe Base dies that I die cut in kraft wood grain card-stock.

I used the NEW Open Studio Pinpoint Circle Layers die set for the blue card-stock circle background.

The poinsettia is from the NEW Poinsettia Border die cut in green and red card-stock. I trimmed off the smallest flower and a couple of the flourishes/holly leaf and colored the little flowers with a white gel pen.

Inside the snowglobe circle I die cut the NEW Deer in the Trees die in black card-stock, trimmed it to fit and added some Frosted Lace stickles to the branches.

After I made the snowglobe piece I started working on what to put it on. I just kept adding because these dies are so cool and build on each other so well! I ended up with a card under the snowglobe! An all white card, so I took pictures of it before I put the globe on it!

I die cut everything from white card-stock and then glued the layers down in this order, with Tombow Mono Multi glue.

NEW Simple Evergreen Frame die first, then the NEW Deer in the Trees die and on the top, the NEW Cascade Evergreen Frame die. They line up perfectly and Mono Multi glue gives you just a little bit of wiggle room to get things adjusted! I appreciate that! lol

That was my adventure in card making yesterday! : ) I hope it sets your mind to racing about all the things you can create with these new dies! LOVE.THEM.ALL!

After all this ‘snow’, I think I need to go for a bike ride! lol Thanks again for stopping by! ttul!

Dies and Supplies I used…