Valentine's Day Book

I know Valentine's Day is almost here but I had to share these great ideas from Currie.

This is what it looks like all put together.  She used a lot of embellishments to make it very interesting to look at.

This is the front cover. The arrow is cut out of the middle of 2 pieces of chipboard, acetate and ribbon were put between the chipboard and Be My Valentine stamped on the acetate.  She punched holes around the arrow and threaded beads on a thread to put through the holes front and back.

The second page has Crackerbox Palace flowers stamped right on the printed paper and colored. Liquid pearls were also used on the flowers.

The words from Crackerbox Palace were stamped on Tim Holtz Fragments (which Currie likes to use alot!) and put on the page.

The next page the 2 hearts and Cherib were stamped.

The last page she punched holes on the top and bottom and added beads as she thread the twine through the holes.  She also stamped to background stamps above and below the script paper.  Currie stamped I Love You on the script paper and again used the Fragments with the heart stamps.

Here is a close up on the beads, background stamp, and fragments

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Roses for Someone Special

This card was stamped with Crackerbox Palace stamps and colored with Copic markers.

The area around the flowers were dusted with Distress Ink.

The rim of the image was embossed with gold embossing powder.

The frame is cut with a Spellbinder, and the corners of the layers behind the image were trimmed with a corner punch.

The saying and mounting card stock behind the saying were cut with Spellbinders

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Valentine's Wild Lion

A Valentine for a guy

This lion is from Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

All of the mounting paper and the Shrink Plastic is cut from Spellbinders.

The lion is colored with Copic markers.

The Shrink Plastic is stamped with StazOn.

The picture on the left is the Shrink Plastic before it is shrunk.

I punched the hole in the Shrink Plastic BEFORE I shrunk it.

Of course the picture on the right is the 'after' the shrink. 

I just love the Shrink Plastic!



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Valentine Heart Candy

I thought I would share with you some of the candy we are handing out at work that Lois made for us. This might be an idea that you could use for co-workers, friends. You could just hand out at random if a sales clerk has been helpful just to brighten up their day.

All of the hearts are hand punched. The bottom and larger top is punched with a scalloped punch and the smaller heart that is stamped with the saying is a straight edge heart punch.

All of the sayings are from Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

This is the heart candy that is sandwiched between the bottom and top punched heart.

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Jar of Hearts

Valentine's Day if coming up fast!

Here is an idea of a quick card that you can make for a friend.

The background is cut from Spellbinder dies.

The jar is stamped on white card stock and cut out. I stamped the hearts on colored paper and cut them out. 

Then I stamped it on acetate and cut out the top and bottom. When I got to cutting the sides, I made wings or flaps to fold around the jar so it is rounded out.

The jar and hearts are Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

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Happiness through your door

In the background Chick used Stampscapes stamps for the clouds, mountain and path.  The saying is from Crackerbox Palace stamps.

The green and gold board used is a piece of cardboard with wallpaper over top.  The opening is a Tim Holtz die cut with gold marker around the inner and outer edges.  The trees and the houses are also from Tim Holtz die cut collection.  She put some scrapes she had from left overs from clear with glitter stickers.   Then she added snow to the trees and houses. 

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Let It Snow Shaker

I don't know about you, but here in Wisconsin we have a dusting of snow. 

The background was embossed with Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and white ink was used over the embossed area then added some Stickles.

Currie made this shaker card using fake snow and a square Shake It window.

She used Copic markers for the shovel and stamped the sayings with blue ink with glitter.

She put Ice Stickles around the window.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

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Coffee Calendar Book

Now that the new year started we need new calendar books.

Here is an idea from Currie.  She used a old photo album.

If you are not a coffee drinker, it is still a good idea if you like to up-cycle. Use your old calendar book, put a new face on it and get the calendar pages and you have a very personal book.

Starting with an old photo album, she cut the shapes with Cricut Storybook cartridge.

Stamped it with Distress Inks and colored with Copic markers.

This could also be a address book. Good idea for next years Christmas gift for someone!

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Flakey Friends

Currie used Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder for the background paper with ink over the embossed area to make the snowflakes stand out.

The white Cryogen card stock was torn for the hills. The front hill has a pop dot behind it to make it stand out and add dimension.  She used Distress ink on the edges of the hills.

She stamped, colored (using Copic markers) and cut out the snowmen.

Currie used an eraser sponge over the fragment to get rid of the shinny look and then stamped it with StazOn ink. Doesn't it look like a chunk of ice?

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Card or Photo album

Hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday!

I just didn't get time to post this yesterday-sorry.  But now that

Christmas is over and the pictures have been taken, this is an idea on how to show them off.

All of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

The die cut used for the album is Tim Holtz / Sizzix.  The rings and the Distress inks are also Tim Holtz products. The other shapes cut out within the album are Spellbinders, Cuttlebug and Sizzix.

All the coloring is done with Copic markers.



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Santa's Check List

We are getting down to crunch time on Christmas. I hope all of you have everything done and sitting in a comfortable chair sipping on your favorite beverage.

The snowflakes were embossed on light blue card stock and Saliva blue and blue were sponged over top. The opening was cut out with the Spellbinder. 

The frame was cut out and embossed with the Spellbinder.

Santa was stamped on white card stock colored with Copic and put behind the opening.

The check list was stamped on light tan card stock and edges sponged with Sepia.

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In the Pink

Pink is not my color but, I was challenged to do a Christmas card that was that was pink and easy to copy , so here it is. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The dark pink scalloped square was cut with a Spellbinder.  The white card stock for the image was cut in a square and punched with a Martha Stewart border punch and then the corners were rounded.  The blue snowflakes were just garbage from the Martha Stewart punch from another project and little pearls were put in the middle.  Our snowman was colored with Copic Markers.  Happy Holidays is a sticker.

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Happy Birthday Maddie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE !!

This card was made for Maddie who is having a birthday today.

I sent out the birthday gift but forgot the card.  Since we live in Wisconsin and they live in Michigan, this is the only way she would get her birthday card on her birth-day. I wanted to make something that was bright and happy.

Hope you have a great day Maddie.

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Season Greetings with Branch

Chick made this card with the branch from Crackerbox Palace as well as the words. She embossed the words. The branch stamp has leaves on it but she cut them off to make a winter branch.  She embossed it and colored it with Copic markers.  The snow is Dimentional paste that she sprinkled glitter over it.  She also dotted the paste all over to look like snowflakes and sprinkled glitter over the dots.  The bird is a Martha Stewart punch.  She covered the bird with Crystal Lacquer.  Chick also edged the card with the white ink.

Here is a close up of the branch.

A link to the branch.

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Card Holder from Tim Holtz packages

This is a package from Tim Holtz embossing folders.  I cut out the frame with Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut.  The background blue card stock was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and the white embellishment is a Spellbinder.  I used Copic to color the image.  Crackerbox Palace stamps were used.



This is the top view of the package.

Hope everyone has a happy, healthy and peaceful holiday.



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Christmas Ornaments from Chick

Is your Christmas tree up yet?  Here are some ideas for some more ornaments that Chick made.

Chick used Spellbinder Ornament die as well as the Scalloped circle die.

She cut out 2 of the ornaments and stamped Nativity in the middle.  Below the Nativity she used the Joy to the world stamp, but only inked the "joy".

She stamped the rest of the saying on the front of the ornament.

With using a embossing pen, she went around the opening and the edge and used gold embossing powder.  She used pop dots to add dimension.  She then added the embellishment to the bottom and the dove.

Chick made this ornament with the Spellbinder Ornament also.

She used Tim Holtz ruler to draw the lines with Stickles.

She cut the leaves out and added the berries.

She used metallic paper behind the large ornament and the smaller ornaments.

She made 2 ornaments of both sizes to put the gold thread between them.

I hope you enjoyed the ideas.



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Christmas Wreath with Ornaments

Are you decorating for the holidays yet?  Currie has made some ornaments that can be hung on the tree, wreath or on the windows since she also stamped the backs.

On all of the ornaments, Currie used the Sizzix ornament ball die.

The top of the ornaments were made from Grungeboard and then used Distress Embossing powder.

Stamped both the front and the back of each ornament with Crackerbox Palace stamps.

Glossy Accents, string and Stickles were used to embellish.



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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

This card was a challage from one of my customers at the store.  We were talking about sitting in your craft room and do some 'playing', just being with your craft things and try different things not really with a project in mind.  I had a bunch of stuff on the counter and she asked if I could make a card with the stuff I had laying there and this is what I came up with.

This card is light blue.  Metallic paper of Champaign and Copper is used in mounting the image.

Martha Stewart punch is used behind the image.  Tim Holtz Sizzix was the cutout background that the image is on.  Smooch spritz was put on the cutout, I like this spritz because it does not ripple the card stock.  I used Crackerbox Palace stamps to stamps the image and saying and then added the pearls.

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Christmas Greetings with bottle caps

Nothing like snow to get us into the holiday spirit here in Wisconsin.  The snow started late last night and is still snowing, we are up to about 6". I am wondering if I should put Christmas songs on at the store when I get there.

Currie has done another great card.

Currie used Distress inks for the background as well as the distress tool for the edges.

The small snowflake stamp were used in the background.

She colored the bottle caps with StazOn, stamped the image and punched it out then put clear lacquer in them.  If you put a magnet behind them and a magnet in the card to hold them there, the person you give it to will be able to take them off and decorate their refrigerator.  To finish off the card, Currie added some of her favorite silver stars.

All of the stamps used are from Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

She used My Mind's Eye patterened paper

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Christmas Tree distress

I can't believe we are in the last month of the year, but here we are!

Wisconsin is getting very cold and it snowed yesterday so I guess I am getting use to the idea Christmas is coming soon.  Currie is ahead of me in the season spirit because she already got some Christmas cards done-thank you Currie.  I hope you will enjoy the cards she made as much as I do.

Currie glued My Minds Eye patterned paper to the green card.

She tore the right side of the card stock and then crumbled up the piece of paper before she put Distress ink over it.

She used a corner punch on the brown card stock and glued it to the distress paper.

The Christmas tree was colored with Marvy Brush markers to multi color the image.

Gelly roll pen with glitter was used on the star. The edge distress was used around the image.

Merry Christmas was stamped with Distress ink, cut around it and used a corner punch and then add brads.

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Pup in Sock

The Christmas tree is a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

It was embossed on shimmer gree paper.

Brillance ink was rubber over the embossed area and gem stickers were put on.

The green shimmer paper is mounted on red card stock.

The saying and puppy in sock are Crackerbox Palace stamps.

The puppy was stamped on white card stock and cut out.

The puppy was colored but the sock has white and red flock on it to make it fuzzy soft.

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Stampscapes Christmas Ornament

The base of the card is a metallic paper.

The border on top is a Cuttlebug border embossing folder.

The snowflake background is also a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  I used light tan card stock and sponged brown ink from the outer edge inward.

The background color around the ornament is the same color card stock as the base card.

The church from Stampscapes is stamped on a lighter color than the snowflakes.

The back ground paper behind the saying is the same as the church and edged with brown ink.

The saying is the same color card stock as the snowflakes and cut out with Spellbinder and edged with brown ink.  The saying is stamped with the same brown ink and embossed.

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Blessing Tag

Chick cut card stock to a tag shape. 

She embossed the cattails with Tim Holtz embossing folder.

Distress ink was sponged from the outer edges in and even over the cattails.

Using liquid glue she covered the cattails.

She stamped the saying and put the fibers on.

She covered the cattails with Flock, 2 different browns and white.

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