cards · Chameleon Markers · LOVE · Perfect Layers Tools · Printworks · rubber stamps · Snowman · Valentine · Washi Tape · Winter

Super cute Suzie Q from Printworks…

Pam Sparks23 Comments

 

PamSparksSuzieQPW700

 

Hi everyone!  It seems like it’s been some time since I blogged a card!  eek!  It has been!  I’ve been making cards though and will have a Memory Box surprise to share with you soon!

This SUPER cute Suzie Q snow gal from Printworks has just been on the desk staring at me, waiting for me to ink and color her up since before Christmas!  She’s just in time for Valentines Day!

Have you heard about the NEW Chameleon Markers?  That’s what I colored with!  Very cool and my favorite thing today was how easy it was to color her cheeks!  I used the RED marker!  I know…crazy cool!

AND of course I used my Perfect Layers mini Rulers and cutting mat for layering up the papers!  Thee best things ever!  Truly are time saving in lining up and getting everything ‘perfect’!  Shop through my links and use my code to save 10%

Super cute new sentiments too… on the outside and on the inside!  One of the new snowflakes… AND Printworks is having a sale JUST TODAY!  I’ll add the details at the end of my post.  If you don’t make the sale today, shop anytime and use the code in my sidebar to save!

 

This is the inside of the card…

PamSparksSuzieQInside

 

lovin’ this MME Crush 6×6 paper pad too!  I haven’t purchased pattern paper since….fortunately my memory is bad! lol   and the snowflake paper clips?!  oh my, had to have them! 5 in a pack, so two packs please! lol

oops! Beware taking pictures of the inside with vellum sticking off the top of your card front. When you fold it back and crease it…well, you get a nice line that wasn’t there before!  Like I always say, “all of life is education”.  Applies to card making too! grrrr

Then I had to have something to hold the card up to photograph the inside cuz of course it STILL wouldn’t stand up even after creasing!  I’m proud of me.  I didn’t tear it apart and do it over! @@

Linking up to some challenges…

Curtain Call – Kissing Booth  kissing booth

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – All Things Bright and Beautiful

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – H is for… heart balloon in my case

Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Add a heart

Our Creative Corner – Tic Tac Toe ( twine, stamps, embossing powder)

Paper Sweeties – Inspiration photo

{PIN}spiration Challenge – Inspiration photo

Cute Card Thursday – Crazy in Love

Loves Rubberstamps Challenge – Anything Goes

Have a wonderful weekend and hope you have sunshine today too!  If you get a chance to shop, here’s the Printworks info…

 

This Saturday we will be offering 10% off your entire order plus a free grab bag of some Vintage Printworks Product only found at our warehouse sale.
(Minimum Order of $25)
 
The Free Grab Bag will include: 
1 Large Stamp, 2 Medium Stamps, 3 Small Stamps, and Diecuts.
 
Use code WAREHOUSE2015 in the COMMENT section of our website to receive the special. The 10% discount will be deducted from your total when we ship the order.
Offer Valid Saturday, February 7th only. Minimum $25 Purchase Required.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  TTUL!

Stamps and Supplies I used…

cards · CAS · Memory Box · Valentine

Memory Box Open Studio dies…

Pam Sparks22 Comments

 

PamSparksBannerILoveYou630

 

Hi everyone! Sharing another LOVE card with you on this pleasant Sunday in January!

I started out by cutting three of the NEW Open Studio Shaker Rectangle Frame dies and gluing them together with a narrow line of Tombow Mono Multi glue for the white frame.

Using the NEW Open Studio dies, A Lovely Smile, All About the Love and Amazing You dies I created the sentiment.

A heart from the NEW Open Studio set Cherub Hearts was trimmed a bit and glued to the frame.

Then I made the banner from the NEW Open Studio Banner Parade die set.  I love this set!  So many ways to be creative with it! Cut three times, layered together with mono multi glue and stuck on to the card with Scrapbook Adhesives mounting squares.

The hearts were all cut in red from the Banner Parade set also.

I edged the top folding A2 size kraft cardbase with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

That’s it!  A CAS valentine to get you in the mood for ‘love’! haha

 

Linking up to the NBUS Challenges @ CASology and Darnell’s

Week 129 - NBUS

 

button aqua use this the

 

Thanks for stopping by!

cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Valentine · Video

Memory Box Blog Blitz starts TODAY! and a video….

Pam Sparks26 Comments

 

Are you wondering about the NEW Detail Plates from Memory Box?  I showed a Christmas card last year with the Elliana set… so pretty but this January 2015 release has several more!  More toys!  YAY!

I made a video over the weekend because so many have questions about how to use them.  I hope this helps… it’s basically just embossing.

Here’s the video… be sure to click the gear after you hit play and switch to HD… the picture  is so much sharper and click the frame to watch it big… easier to see the action and results!

 

 

Let me know if you have any questions…

 I have a card for the Memory Box Blog Blitz that started today.  Click over to the Memory Box blog HERE and while you’re at it, check out the poppystamps blog HERE too!  They both have a blitz going on with a chance to win a die in each post… so comment on all the posts through Sunday!

 

I LOVE all the heart dies in this release!  I used the Loving Hearts Arch and the Heart Waterfall for the heart between the two Love words. The LOVE words are from the NEW Open Studio Line, the die set called All About Love.

 

PamSparksLoveLove3:630

 

I kept the leftover stenciled piece from die cutting the rectange on the card in this post, HERE, and trimmed off a sliver to glue on to the left side of my top fold A2 card base.

 

PamSparksLOVELOVEClose

 

I die cut the Loving Hearts Arch twice, once in white and once in red.  I glued the white arch to the kraft card base and then glued in the red hearts with Tombow Mono Multi glue.

A sliver of red cardstock over where the arch and dot strip meet.  Easy to trim a strip on your paper trimmer and glue it on with a thin line of the same glue.

Then some red/white twine tied in a knot across the top fold! All my favorite colors and things!

 

Linking up to Darnell’s NBUS Challenge – Anything Goes (all the dies I used on my card are new and the dies in the video are new)

button aqua use this the

 

and CASology – NBUS

Week 129 - NBUS

 

 

Have a great week and enjoy all the inspiration with the New Memory Box release!  Thanks for stopping by!  and Good Luck!

cards · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Valentine · Video

New Memory Box dies and New Open Studio line…

Pam Sparks29 Comments

 

Here’s the NEW release!

 

 

Be sure to click the gear and go up to HD – really makes the video sharper…or click the frame to see it big and the gear to watch in HD.

 

Lots to love!  See anything you need? haha

 

A couple cards with some of the new 2015 Memory Box release!

 

PamSparksLoveYou640

 

Fabulous new designs and I especially enjoyed creating some ‘love’ themed cards.

 

On this first one, I used…

Cross Stitch My Heart

All About Love

Heart Waterfall

 

PamSparksLoveYouClose

 

My second card is a shaker card.

 

PamSparksLoveShaker640

 

I used…

Tag You’re It Rectangles

Studio Rectangle Layers

Stitched Rectangle Layers

All About Love

Amazing You

Cross Stitch My Heart

Library Alphabet Tags

Mini Dots Stencil (on white card-stock I inked up the dots through the stencil with Versamark ink and embossed with Imagine Crafts Black Embossing Powder)

 

PamSparksLoveShakerClose-001

 

All 3 cards are A2 size.

 

Here’s a CAS Happy New Year card that I didn’t get posted yet…I love the Word Pop dies and wanted to share this quick idea!  Happy Cloud die and Classic Upper Alphabet die set

 

PamSparksHappyNewYear640

 

Linking to some challenges…

DiesRUs – Anything Goes with a twist/NEW

Cute Card Thursday – What’s New

ABC Challenge – Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations – Dies

Scrapyland Challenges – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Make New Friends but keep the Old

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Something New

Word Art Wednesday – Anything Goes

Color Throwdown Challenge #324 – Red, White and Black

Can you believe it’s the 9th already! eek! Thanks for stopping by today!   Holler if you have any questions! Shopping links below…thanks for clicking through my links!

Dies and Supplies I used on these cards…

Starlitstudio.net had them HERE

BlueMoon Scrapbooking has them HERE and HERE

Simon Says Stamp has them HERE

 

Year in Review

2014 in Review…

Pam Sparks20 Comments


Happy New Year’s Eve Day!
The sun is shining and warming me up! Take off the gloves and type! haha

So…what did I do in 2014?  Good thing I blog and have something to jog my memory! eek!

January is a busy month with a new release from Memory Box…

I had fun working with stencils and an embossing technique on this card…

PamSparksHappyBirthdayPeonyFront

Delightful Peony card and the video

Love the crisp white and how the colors pop on this card…

PamSparksYorkshireLoveFront

Yorkshire Tree

and this happy Twinkle Toes card with Distress Marker watercoloring…

PamSparksTwinkleToesFront

Turn on the Twinkle

February ended up being a birthday card kind of month…

Distress Marker watercoloring

PamSparksPWHappyBirthdayBalloons

Happy Birthday (check out the stamp I used on the inside)

I did have one Valentine card though!

Copic Marker coloring

PamSparksTildaCozyHeart700

Tilda with Cozy Heart

Oh, I have too many I like in March! : )

Distress Marker watercoloring

PamSparksPWTulipUmbrella

Spring Blessings (check out the tip I share for lining up layers)

Piecing and inlaying die cuts, this card and a couple others during March
using these techniques…

PamSparksBeautifulBalloonHello2

Happy Hello

Something CAS too…

PamSparksCalmCountrysideCAS

Calm Countryside

April was a big class preparation month…

May brought more flowers and butterflies on the scene…

PamSparksYellowKensingtonHalfCircle

Delicate Butterfly Arch

June  – a lot of Memory Box and poppystamps cards!

PamSparksFabulousPhloxTremaine

Massa Leaf Frame

Summer in July?  Well, how about a little Fall and a lot of Christmas!  Ok then, I’ll start with a baby card! lol

I love how these sweet pea dies worked up!

PamSparksSweetPeaRogan

Rogan

So many Christmas cards!  I fell in love with the simplicity of this card though…

PamSparksCandleLight-001

Tall Taper Candle

and the gorgeous new MB snowflake dies…

PamSparksLimogesSnowflake700

Limoges Snowflake

August – tons more Christmas cards! I can’t post them all here! : )

I love the graphic look of this one though, the unusual colors and just the right touch of glitz…

PamsparksFFblackKraftWhiteTree700

Merry Christmas

another one with text…love how this worked out…

PamSparksJoyeuxNoelPoinsettiaCorner675

Joyeux Noel 

and

Embedded Die cuts video

PamSparksAELaurels700

Winter Wreath

and then I did color a card!  Such cute critters!

PamSparksTEWoodlandWinterSide700

Woodland Winter

I’ll narrow down September to one Fall and one Christmas!

PamSparksCasertaBloomFall700

Give Thanks

This card brings so many freezin’ memories of picking out Christmas trees with the girls…I love this card!  At the moment it is my favorite for the year! : )

PamSparksLFTreeLotScene700

Trees for Sale

October – new dies from poppystamps!

PamSparksBirthdayStackRed:kraft700

Birthday Stack

Check out the NEW Horse Country die cards in November…

I had to make one Mixed Media tag, it’s on my fireplace mantle in some greens. : )

PamSparksPBHollyTagLoll600

Seasons Greetings

and a cute guy…Copic coloring

PamSparksPWElfJingle700

Be an Elf

December has a vapor feel to it!  Is it that way for you too?  Blink and it’s gone! I did get a lot of cards mailed though!  yay!

PamSparksMerryChalkOrnament2.700

A Very Merry Christmas

and the reason for the season…

PamSparksIONativity700

Jesus

It’s been a great year!  Sharing with friends old and new! Our family is looking forward to more blessings in 2015!  Grandchild #17 is due mid March! So much to be thankful for but at the same time I can’t help but be touched by the agony of loss in Asia right now. My heart goes out to the families that have lost loved ones.  It has touched our design team for Tilda’s Town. Joe Shien Shien’s brother and family from Indonesia were on that plane.  It’s been so neat to see the stamping community from all over the world reaching out to her and surrounding her with love and prayers. Thank you all for your friendship and support.  Even though we are miles apart, we span the distance with our caring, supportive community.  God bless you all!  Thank you for being there!