Memory Box and poppystamps Sunflower Card…

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 Pam Sparks14 Comments

I really had a lot of fun creating this card! I LOVE the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower die! I used it here with the Memory Box Toulouse Background die (trimmed off the flower head), the Memory Box Honey Comb Stencil, the Memory Box Happy Birthday Combo stamp and the poppystamps Bountiful Sunflower Background die.

I inked the front of a Memory Box Jack o Lantern A2 Notecard with the Honey Comb stencil, Wild Honey Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending tool.

Remember this card and video?

I took the background piece and put it in the outline die, ran it through the Big Shot to emboss the detail into the background piece, that’s what I did here too… LOVE this look!

Then I inked the edges a little with Wild Honey Distress ink and the new mini Round Ink Blending Tool.

There is ONE big difference though… see it?

Instead of putting the background behind… I put it on top!

When I die cut the Bountiful Sunflower outline die in dark brown, I made sure to keep the seeds in the die and inked them with Walnut Stain Distress ink and the mini Round Ink Blending Tool. TIP – to make sure the seeds stay in after you remove it from the die…tape them on the back side with scotch tape.

Then here is a card I made to show how you would normally think to cut this die and use it…

Only instead of lining up the background piece exactly, I decided to place it ‘off’! I like it a lot this way! YAY!

I inked the edges of the Memory Box Kraft A2 Notecard with Walnut Stain Distress ink, stamped the Journey Collage stamp in black and ended up with a CAS card I’m really happy with too!

New Grandson and Mama are doing great! Thanks for stopping by!

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Supplies I used for these cards…

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Memory Box Vignette Floral Branch and Wicker Panel…

June 3, 2014 Pam Sparks21 Comments

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s been an exciting week for Tim and I so far! We have another new grandson, born early evening Sunday. We are feeling very blessed… this is our 10th grandson and we have six granddaughters!

I wanted to share a card I started Saturday afternoon and just finished up today. Another FABULOUS Flower die and the Wicker Panel die in white that I cut in half the long way and used on each side of the gingham panel.

I die cut the Vignette Floral Branch die out of three colors, white, Meadow and Blueberry so I could ‘color’ the flowers. Very easy to piece together.

*Trim the Blueberry flowers off the Blueberry cut and glue to the Meadow cut.

*Trim the little white flowers from the white cut and glue to the Meadow cut.

*Cut one more time out of the Blueberry Distress Dots Signature Pattern Paper for the flower petals…leave them in the die if you can until you are ready to place them.

Here’s a trick…on your green cut that you’ve added the blueberry and white flowers to already, turn it over and put a little piece of scotch tape on the wrong side of the big flowers…that will give you some adhesive area, so when you turn it back over, right side up, you can stick the flower petals in the right spot on the Blueberry flowers and the scotch tape will hold them in place! YAY! (you can use double sided tape instead of scotch tape if it has a release paper, so it doesn’t stick to whatever you are working on too)

A close up…

I mounted the finished Vignette Floral Branch to the card with mounting squares.

I cut the A Little Thanks die from white card-stock twice and glued them together.

I use Tombow Mono Multi glue. Keep the tip clean and keep it laying down all the time and it’ll be your ‘new best friend’! ; )

Enjoy the NEW dies! I love the Vignette Floral Branch…I think it will play nicely with the Wildflower Corner die too! oh, and wouldn’t a butterfly be nice on here! lol

Thanks for stopping by today! I’ll be heading back to Breanna’s tomorrow to help and play with the other kids.

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Memory Box Star Garlands and a Giveaway…

May 31, 2014June 30, 2014 Pam Sparks24 Comments

I LOVE this NEW Star Garland die! So wonderful, die cut from Silver Glitter card-stock! I love the ‘broad stripes and bright stars’ here… I know…now the song is stuck in your head for hours! lol It’s a good song!

A close up… I used the happy and birthday cloud dies cut from Memory Box Sapphire card-stock and the Classic Uppercase Alphabet set for USA, cut from Memory Box Cranberry card-stock.

The stripes are ¾ inch strips, 4 ¼ inches long, glued on about a ½ inch apart on a Memory Box White A2 Notecard.

It’s ok, go ahead and bust out singing! ; ) Oh say can you see…by the dawn’s early light…

The next card…well… it’s kinda birthday in a ‘birth’ day kind of way! Welcome Baby!

Here’s the Star Garland die again but I only used half of it. I ‘hung’ the words in space using the Parker Lowercase Alphabet set and the Alphabet Soup set. So cute!

Memory Box Baby Carriage die, Baby Stuff and the rug is from the Palace Oval Frame Set.

I used a little RV21 Copic marker on the rattle and the center of the carriage wheels.

Dies glued and mounted to a Memory Box Cherry Blossom A2 Notecard.

Won’t this die be awesome for Christmas?!!! YAY!

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The GREAT Yosemite Stamp Escape…

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 Pam Sparks19 Comments

***click the photos to see full size – they are larger than the column this time***

AND it WAS great! I posted on the Memory Box Blog today… more pictures there. I spent the month of April preparing card kits for 93 women. A BIG undertaking… do you want to see some behind the scene pictures? I hope so! Since you can’t reply… lol

It’s a BIG deal cutting and cutting and cutting. Pieces EVERYWHERE but it’s so nice when the piles start adding up! At times you NEVER think you will get to the 100 mark! By the way, I do have 7 kits left if anyone is interested! : )

3 ½ trash cans of paper pieces!

200 Vercelli Outline trees and 200 Vercelli Background trees for the step card…

oh man, I cut 300 of this Beach Sprig die!

I cut and scored 100 Center Panel Step cards by hand…

The parts for the step card…

Step card packaged up and ready to go into the kit…

Parts ready for the Golf, Fore You card…

All four cards packaged and ready to go into the kit envelope… sweet! I wish I’d taken a picture of the huge suitcase it took to get them to California! lol

How to keep your sanity while cutting your brains out? Audio books. yep… I found that I love listening to them. Good deal!

So now you know where I’ve been! : )

It was an honor to represent Memory Box and work with 93 creative and talented stampers. They stuck with me, pun intended, hahaha, gluing, cutting, stenciling, embossing and assembling their cards like the true stampers they are!

If you ever get near Oakhurst California, be sure to stop at the wonderful stamp store owned by Sharon Fitzgerald, The Cat’s Meow. This was Sharon’s 14th year for the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape. If it would ever work out that you could attend… DON’T miss it!

*Next week I will post the four cards I designed for them to make, the supplies and links. Just to much to put all in one post!

Tomorrow I will be back with more cards I’ve made with the Summer 2014 release! YAY!

Thanks for stopping by! I love hearing from you and reading your comments! I wish I could stamp and create with all of you too!!!

Birthday · cards · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Poppystamps · Summer

Memory Box… NEW! NEW! NEW!

May 29, 2014May 29, 2014 Pam Sparks21 Comments

MORE of what we love! Memory Box dies! YAY! The 2014 Summer Release! I’m whispering here… but you know…the Holiday release will follow soon after! YAY! I love Christmas!

For this ‘yellow’ card I used the NEW Thank You Garland, Delicate Butterfly Arch, Solid Arch Background, Kensington Branch (I trimmed out two of the butterflies, cut them in white and yellow) from the NEW release and the Peaceful Butterfly Wings from the Spring release.

Add some baby white pearls and I was done. Oh, I did cut the Butterfly Wings twice so I could trim out a few butterflies and layer them over the ones close to the border of the Arch cuts.

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The next card was really fun too! I used the NEW Fancy Potted Flower and Happy Birthday Garland.

It just makes me happy! It almost makes me think I could be a flower gardener! NOT. Bummer though. I do have one hanging flower this year and it’s still alive! woohoo! lol

Look at the potential with this die! Use it as it cuts… the flowers in the pot… or trim the flowers out and use them as a row of flowers in the grass, I love this! Or trim off the flower heads for ground cover! Sweet! Of course I had to do all three!

TIP! Leave the petal pieces in the die and use the Pick up tool (linked below) to place them directly from the die…then you know right where they go! Great time saver!