Color Your Life

Hello Stampers,

I am using Catherine Pooler inks, and I love the colors' brightness. I decided to do (probably the last) summer card of the year.

The inks are so juicy it only takes a light love tap to cover your stamp.

I didn't use my MISTI, just my acrylic blocks, because the ink has such good coverage.

I did let the stamp sit on the paper for just a couple of seconds so the card stock could absorb the ink.

I am excited to find out how the ink works with each other.

It has great coverage but also stamps over a color, so it looks almost transparent but not muddy!

The flower is Tiara, and then Tutti Frutti was tapped on the edges.

I love how this looks.

 I do this a lot, 

1...I am too lazy to find a color in my stash to match, 

2...I want it to match exactly,

3...when we are on the road, I don't have to take a lot of colored card stock!

 This is just a scrap piece of card stock that I inked with the brush.

 I cut around the saying.

So now the color around the saying matches the flower.

 I also inked around the edges of another white piece of card stock for my base card so it matched the one around the saying. 

Saying: Thought About You Today

Inks: You can find them here!

Butterfly

Flowers- Petal Flower 3

Petal Flower 2

Petal Flower 1

Leaves-Leaf 5

Leaf 4

Thank you for taking the time to look,

Vicky

 

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Crackerbox & Suzy's New Release

We are pretty excited about our NEW RELEASE! 

A couple of our design team members designed some of the stamps!

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Warm Winter Wishes Cocoa Card

Hello, I hope you are staying warm! Here in Wisconsin, it's a bit chilly.

Having the theme of winter using coffee or cocoa, I decided to use cocoa. I am an avid coffee drinker but love the saying and the image.

Happiness Is... and hot cocoa and you by my side has been stamped with VersaFine Sepia and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I like the Happiness Is stamp because there are 18 stamps in this series, and many others you could add.

I added glitter glue to the snowflakes to add some sparkle.

I stamped the Snowman Cup with Memento ink and colored it with Copic markers.

Stay warm and have some cocoa!

Vicky

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Joy Tag

Christmas is coming fast!

Do you use a tag as a tag/card when giving a gift?

When time is short, like it is when Christmas comes screaming in, I do.

Here is an idea for you for a tag or a card.

The 3 dots in the upper right corner are Nuvo covered in glitter, a little like tiny snowballs.

Not sure if this shows that the ornament has lacquer over it to make it shinny.

Here is the link to find the stamps.

So Suzy Stamps.com

http://www.sosuzystamps.com/

Hope you enjoyed the idea.

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Quirky Gone Fishing

Vicky here today to tell you about the challenge over at Quirky Crafts.

I think the design team did a GREAT job with all of their cards!!!

We are sponsoring the challenge and have prizes for 3 winners.

Their challenge is Quirky's Gone Fishing. Doesn't that sound fun!

 I hope you hop over and take a look and share your ideas of fishing.

If you want to check out the designer's blog, the links are there.

Here is what Cazzy says:

Hi it's Cazzy here and I am challenging you to Go Fishing with us at Quirky Crafts.
  I would like to see anything with fish, swimming fish or cooked, or someone fishing. You may also use pet fish, in ponds or bowls or anything that swims in the sea or ponds, or boats. I think that is a lot of creative possibilities.

Crackerbox Palace is so pleased with our examples she has put all of the fishing stamps used by the team on sale at 20% off - so go grab a bargain now!

Prizes:

1st place:  3 digital images of choice

2nd place:  2 digital images of choice

3rd place:  1 digital images of choice

Emma 

Gabriela

Kemly

Lorriane

Monica

Myriam

Cazzy

Doris

 

 

 

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Happy Anniversary to the King and Queen

Hi Stampers, Vicky here today. I have another new(ish) stamp in our collection today. We had a few female stamps that we made bigger. We wanted our women to stand out and they do. Here is the Queen Of Everything and her King Louie.

I stamped the purple card stock and then embossed it.

When we made this stamp, we separated the words~ Happy Anniversary and the words~ To a Wonderful Couple so you could easily ink them separately to stamp them where you want them.

Hope you enjoyed the card.
Friendly hugs, Vicky

 

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It's Good To Be The King

Hi Friends, Vicky here today. With Father's Day coming up I did a CAS card.

We have some 40+ new stamps. John just pressed one of the plates and I had to share 2 of the stamps with you today.

King Louie talked (demanded, as kings do) to me and said he wanted to be the first to be stamped. Do you hear your stamps talking to you too? LOL. Well, he was inked and so was his saying. I made him into a Father's Day card here. He was so happy to be inked, I made 2 others that I will share later. Oh, our new Queen Of Everything is on one of the cards (she also was demanding  that she wanted to be inked too).

He is not on the web site, he is that new. You will need to email me.

 

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Christine's Easter Bunny Card

Vicky here today. Christine made this card over at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for their Easter challenge. I think this is a great card. It is bright and cheerful with one of our funny bunny stamps.

Here is her blog, hope you hop on over and check it out. http://www.chrispyscreations.blogspot.com/

This is what Christine writes:

Love this bunny stamp! It just speaks to my snarky heart! LOL! I hope that you get a chance to play along with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for the Easter challenge.

Hope this gives you an idea for Easter.

Crackerbox hugs, Vicky

 

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St. Pat's Beer

Hi, Vicky here today. Well on to St. Pat's Day.

Valentine's Day is over so on to another fun occasion. Do you wear one of those buttons: Kiss Me I'm Irish? Or pinch someone who is wearing orange? OH I remember green beer many, many years ago.

Well, to the card. I sponged the background with brown ink on tan card stock. The saying is on our Poster. I did stamp it on darker tan c/s and then again on light c/s. I cut out the light and put it on the darker c/s so it looks like paper on the board. And sponged a little brown around the edges.

Colored the happy leprechaun with Copic markers, (but I didn't make the beer green).  

 

Friendly Crackerbox Hugs, Vicky

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Rubber Stamp Convention in Mesa, AZ

Are you ready to get out and go see some stamps?

John and I are so excited to get out of the snow and cold weather and see some stampers in AZ. and NM.

We are pressing rubber like crazy to get ready to go to the Rubber Stamp Events convention in Mesa, AZ. We will bringing new stamps with us so I hope you can stop by and take a look.

The next week we will be in Albuquerque, NM.

Hope to see you there!

If you want to see if you can win 2 free tickets, stop by Rubber Stamp Events blog and answer Barb's question. Here is the site to hop on over. Rubber Stamp Events fb.

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