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Simon Says Stamp Pine Frame From The DieCember Release…

Pam Sparks10 Comments

Hi everyone!  All the joys of the season to you! Have you seen a cardinal lately?  I don’t see them around here.  Maybe once or twice in 30 years!

I wanted to use the Memory Box Layered Cardinal die again and it worked perfect with this NEW Simon Says Stamp Corner Pine Frame designed by Memory Box in partnership with SSS.

So beautiful and so easy to put together too.

I did shim this pine frame with two pieces of copy paper when I die cut it.

I added the three branches from the New Memory Box Layered Greenery Stems.  A little filler.

The background panel is one of the watercolor panels I made following Jill Foster’s tutorial on You Tube.  It’s on the Penny Black You Tube page.

I used the NEW Memory Box Aurora Snowflake Frame between the watercolor panel and the Corner Pine Frame.

The NEW poppystamps Lavish Merry Christmas die cut in white and silver for the sentiment!

Linking to some challenges…

Peace on Earth #54 – anything goes Christmas (totally inspired by the bottom right corner photo in the inspiration photo!)

Triple B Challenge – Birds for me this time

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Christmas

I really love this nature take on a Christmas card.  Hope it makes you smile too.

All the best to you and yours for a beautiful celebration of Christ’s birth!  God bless you all!

❤

Shopping links to what I used for this Merry Christmas card…

Simon Says Stamp Corner Pine Frame…
[ SSS ]
Memory Box Layered Cardinal Dies 94754
[ SSS ]
Memory Box Layered Greenery Stems…
[ SSS ]
Memory Box Aurora Snowflake Frame Die…
[ SSS ]
Poppy Stamps Lavish Merry Christmas…
[ SSS ]
Strathmore WATERCOLOR PAPER PAD…
[ SSS ]
Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH…
[ SSS ]
Tonic CHROME SILVER Mirror Card Gloss…
[ SSS ]
Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two…
[ SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Distress Ink coloring · Flowers · Spellbinders dies · Stencils

Spellbinders Dancin’ Gingerbread Card and Two Layered Joy Tree Stencil & Die Cards…

Pam Sparks5 Comments

Hi everyone!  Getting festive with the gingerbread and trees today!  I love these characters from Spellbinders every year!  So so cute!

I also love these stencil and die sets!  I have this one and the Merry Christmas one.  I didn’t get the Merry Christmas one made into a card yet!  eek!  If only we didn’t need to do laundry, eat and sleep, oh and shop! hoho!

ok – Back to the gingers…

The green is bright!  But tealish and red would be so cute too!  I was going traditional but boom!  It’s bright for me! lol

So for all you green lovers, this one’s for you!

Now I wish I’d tied on a little jingle bell!  I even have some!  I will have to do that and just pay extra postage!  It’s only money, right?!  ha!

I used regular Distress inks on my JOY cards.  Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral. We were making these Thanksgiving day afternoon.  I copied Anya, one of my granddaughter’s colors!

I think we used Altenew colors for the Joy.  I can’t remember the names now.

One more picture of one stenciled on Hobby Lobby extra heavyweight kraft cardstock.  Pretty sure I used Distress Oxides on this one but more the Lucky Clover ones for the greens.

I hope your cardmaking is coming a long.  I have plenty to do still!

We started out this week hearing one of our granddaughter’s playing with one of our grandson’s fiance (wedding in March) yesterday morning…a string duet… it was so, so beautiful!

Tuesday night is a choir concert for a bunch of the grands…makes me so happy!

You all take care and all the joys and blessings of the season to you and yours!

Codes for Simon Says Stamp right now…use one… Wrap23 ($7 off)….Merry ($5 off)  Random sales at Scrapbook.com and Starlitstudio.net is always a discount!

Here’s the products I used for these three cards…

Spellbinders – Dancin’ Christmas…
[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]
Spellbinders – Layered Christmas…
[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]
Spellbinders – Make It Merry…
[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]
Spellbinders – Layered Christmas…
[ SBC | SSS | SPL ]
May Arts NATURAL Twine String Burlap
[ SSS ]
Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy…
[ STR | SSS ]
Kraft Extra Heavy Weight Cardstock…
[ HBL ]
Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra…
[ SSS ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Cherry Pop -…
[ TE ]
TE Premium Cardstock – Peapod -…
[ TE ]
miniature jingle bells – 5mm – pkg of 20
[ STR ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Spellbinders dies · Winter

Spellbinders….Our Fave 2023 Club Products Blog Hop

Pam Sparks19 Comments

Hi everyone and welcome! Today I’m participating in the Fave 2023 Club Product Blog Hop! We are  featuring projects using any of our 2023 Club products. All past Club products still in stock can be found HERE.

Scrolling through my blog I landed in July and my favorites!  It was Christmas in July!  I know, I know, you’re not surprised! lol

I’m going to start with the card I made for July Small Die of the Month club. My post about it is HERE.

I love the somewhat traditional colors and classic look of this card!

A completely different look with the July 3D Embossing Folder of the Month Club. My post about it is HERE.

From traditional colors to totally not traditional colors!  So many things you can do with embossing folders!

From glamorous to vintage for this next card!  Using the July Clear Stamp and Die Club of the Month I made this botanical card.  You can find my post about it HERE.

Now for the GRAND FINALE of my club faves of 2023……..the July Large Die of the Month Club! Can you say CUTE!  My post about my card is HERE.

I hope you enjoyed this rewind post…it was fun for me to go back and see what I’ve made.

You can’t have a blog hop without a giveaway so here’s the details…

Giveaway:
To celebrate this release, we are giving away a $25 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – selected from the comments on the SB blog. Giveaway closes on Sunday, December 10th, 11:59 pm MST. The winner will be announced in this blog hop post the following Wednesday. The winner is responsible for shipping costs, duties, and taxes.

Prepare to be inspired!!!  Here’s the blog hop list!

 Spellbinders Blog
Jackie Pasko
Michelle Woerner
Lin Brandyberry
Alanna Moses
Rebecca Keppel
Teri Duncan
Carrie Rhoades
Jill Hilliard
Pam Sparks–You are here…
Rachel Alvarado
Erin Thompson
Cassie Trask
Deborah Jenkins
Melody Rupple
Lauren Taylor
Ilina Crouse
Vera Yates

Thank you so much for hopping to my blog.  ❤  I appreciate it and your comments!  I’ll link below to the clubs I shared in this post.

ttul!

Layered Poinsettia Tree – Small Die…
[ SPL ]
Adorning the Tree – 3D Embossing…
[ SPL ]
Pine Cones & Holly – Clear Stamp of…
[ SPL ]
Pine Cones & Holly Die Set – (Dies…
[ SPL ]
Stocking Full of Joy – Large Die of…
[ SPL ]
Mix & Match Holiday Greetings |…
[ SPL ]
In the Pines Embossing Folder from…
[ SPL ]
Christmas Magic Glimmer Hot Foil…
[ SPL ]
New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine…
[ SPL ]
Glimmer Hot Foil System Platinum |…
[ SPL ]
Fashion Gold Embellishments -…
[ SPL ]
Glimmer Hot Foil 4 Rolls – Essential…
[ SPL ]

 

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Doodlebug Designs · Winter

Doodlebug Christmas Cocoa Card…

Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hi everyone!  I had so much fun making this last week!  I couldn’t decide at first what to do with it but I decided to make it a card cuz that’s what I do the most! lol

I’m so happy with how it turned out.  Die Cutting and gluing…using up some scraps!

I bought my set from Starlitstudio.net .

There’s some other super cute Doodlebug Doodle Cuts sets too! I used the Dog set a few months ago but I don’t think I ever got it posted here.  I want the Gingerbread house and the Snowman now! lol

I took quite a few pictures but it’s been dreary so they’re not the greatest.  I guess I should’ve tried using lights.

So fun!  Holler if you have any questions!

Linking to some challenges…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Use Craft Dies

Peace on Earth #53 – anything goes Christmas themed

The Paper Players – Theme Challenge PP669

Hope it made you smile!  Today’s our anniversary…just dawned on me I should be making an anniversary card!  oops! lol

Birthday cards in process for grandkids though besides Christmas and come back in a couple days for a Spellbinders blog hop!

Happy cardmaking to you and talk to you later!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Memory Box – Simon Says Stamp
[ SSS ]

cards · Christmas · Die Piecing · Embossing Folders · Flowers · Memory Box · Winter

Memory Box Poinsettia Corner 3D and Vintage Lantern Card…

Pam Sparks12 Comments

Hi everyone!  Hopping back on the blogging train after some time with family and attempting to get started on Christmas decor around the house!

I had this NEW Memory Box 3D folder laying out to do next and thought maybe the lantern would be fun in the empty space.

I die cut the NEW Memory Box Vintage Lantern in MB glossy black cardstock, dabbed on a little gold acrylic paint to the black and a piece of vellum.  I hand cut the vellum to go behind the lantern.  When I turned the vellum over to blend on some gathered twigs distress ink on the back of the vellum, it made the acrylic ink go kinda mottled.  I was like, I’m ok with that but how will I describe it! lol

I die cut the two dies twice, that come with the 3D folder and embossed them in the folder but I only used three of them on the finished card.

After I embossed the panel, I went over it with Fired Brick Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool.

Then I got out the Delicata gold ink pad and ink blended a little around the edges, then decided to add gold embossing powder to the edges and heat embossed it!

I used one of the NEW Memory Box Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Black Tab Strips.

I painted Gold Calligraphy ink on the poinsettia centers.

I colored the candle with distress inks too.

I’m linking my card to some challenges…

Can You Handle The Pressure – anything goes with Christmas twist

Die Cut Divas – flowers

Peace on Earth #53 – anything goes Christmas

Merry Little Christmas #53 – always anything goes Christmas

NBUS #57 – never before used stuff

Fun…I love making Christmas cards and tags.  Back to the crafting board!  Lots to do!

Here’s the products I used if you want to shop…no extra cost to you to click through my links!  Thank you so much!

Memory Box – 94743 Vintage Lantern…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – EF1038 Poinsettia Corner…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – ST003 Merry Christmas…
[ STR | SSS ]
Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy…
[ STR | SSS ]
Tsukineko GOLDEN GLITZ Delicata Ink…
[ SSS ]
Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Mini Ink…
[ SBC ]
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Fired…
[ SSS | SBC ]
Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE…
[ SSS | SBC ]
Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – Gold,…
[ BLIC ]