Hello Triple Fold

Buttons, Brads and Bows- there is a lot on this card to look at!

Currie made this card to say Hello.  I found it very interesting to look at.  I like cards that I really have to look at to see everything, and this is one of them.

Currie used Copic markers and ink pad for distressing.  She kept matting the stamped images until she was happy.  She used Tim Holtz edge scrapper on the dark gray mat and on the Hello sign. Punched holes on top to sew the jute.

This is the back, she even made this side interesting! This card you can look at for a while and find new things.  All stamps are from Crackerbox Palace stamps.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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Birthday Acetate

Thisis a card that Claudia Schroedl made from acetate. The card is laying on a sheet of red card stock.  She masked the bottom part of the stamp, (which she stamped on the inside).  She stamped the saying on the purple card stock and then on black card stock and cut out the words 'bad & good' and used pop dots to put them on the card.

This is the inside of the card.  'Happy Belated Birthday' is glued on the inside in the same place the as the saying on the front of the card.  The 'I forgot your age' which is on the same stamp as the saying on the front is glued in the same spot as the front saying also.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/index.php?categoryID=20&category_slug=birthday-rubber-only-cling-foam

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Happy Mother's Day

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Home Sweet Home

Currie made this cute wall hanging by cutting a square from printed paper and a triangle for the roof and stamped the decoration.  She cut the door and added a brad for the door knob and cut the windows and added square brads.  Stamp and color the background scene before you glue the house to the board.  All the stamps she used was Crackerbox Palace stamps and she used Copic markers to color in the image.

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Birthday Cup Cake

Since Currie made this, and her daughter Allie had a birthday this weekend I thought I would post this.

Isn't this a great idea if you want to give someone just a little more than a card?

The card is made out of Coredinations, colored with Copic markers and the stamps are

Crackerbox Palace.

Happy 5th Birthday Allie!

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Cafe Mocha Morning

Happy Friday! This has been one long busy week.  I sure am in need of my coffee this morning as this week ends and as I listen to the birds waking up and the streets are getting busy with traffic. So I thought I would put up the great card that Currie made. She did a little masking which made such a big impact. Grap a cup of coffee and sit down, relax and take a look at Currie's card.

This is the card opened up. She used the Crop-a-dile for holes and eyelets for the twill.

Currie used Copic markers and Large Helen (J04001) from Crackerbox Palace stamps.

The background stamp from Crackerbox Palace stamps is coffee stain D03808 and Valium Latte F03813

Did you notice the smile after her coffee? It gives Helen a whole new look. This is the one where she used the mask over her frown and drew in a smile on Helen as well as the smile on the coffee cup. 

The coffee stain was used again and After coffee C03825 from Crackerbox Palace stamps.

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Currie's Cookie Sheet "Just A Note" Magnet Board

This makes such a cute magnet for anyones kitchen.  You could custom this into any theme that you have in your kitchen.  This is a smaller cookie sheet but has a lot of room for many notes. Wouldn't this by a cute idea for each child in the family to decorate their own for their work?

Currie spray painted the cookie sheet. Cover with paper, stamp right on to the patterned paper and color with markers.  She also stamped on the note paper on the top to look like notebook spiral and the word 'hello'.  Drill holes on the top to hang it. She used: K&Company patterned paper and brads, Copic markers, Papertrey Ink and note pad paper.

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You Are My Sunshine by Currie

Currie's Wall Hanging

I used a tree template.  Get ready to spend some time on the tree.  It's not hard, just a time eater.  First cut out the tree trunk from the template, then tape it to the cardstock you wish to use for the tree.  Cut it out of the cardstock.  Do the same thing with the leaves.l  I put a shadow on the tree trunk by glueing it to a darker cardstock and cutting it out again.  Texture the leaves, these are done with Cuttlebug.  Stamp birds, bird houses, color and cut out.  Arrange as you like.  I used a piece of cardboard on the back to make it stronger.  Finally, use a Crop-a-dile for holes to hang. 

I used: Copic markers, K&Company patterned paper, Cuttlebug, Cordinations paper, Gelly Roll Pens.

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Directions for Currie's Pocket Card

Directions to fold the pocket card:

Cut a sheet of double sided card stock to 11 X 11

Step 1:
Fold in half-5 1/2 and crease.

Step 2:

Open and fold in hald the other way. Now you will have the cs folded in quarters.

Step 3:

Cut on one of the creases. To cut a straight line, I put my paper in the corner of my Scor-Pal and used my Tim Holtz ruler because the ruler fits in the Scor-Pal. I cut the line up to 5 1/2.

Step 4:

Fold the upper left corner (the corner above the cut). I folded it at 3 1/2 on the Scor-Pal using (what I call my corner tool) to get the fold straight. You can make this fold as big or small as you wish. This is the plain color tab on the card.

Step 5:

Flip the cs over and fold the bottom right corner to the center where the two creases meet.

Step 6:

Turn the cs back over so the smaller fold is in the upper left corner.

Fold the left side over to the right.

Step 7:

Fold the bottom of the card over the top of the card.

Step 8:

Fold the left flap under the card.

Step 9:

You can either glue the back flap to the card and only use the front for tags and/or cards or you can also use the inside of the card for more messages.

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Currie's Happy Anniversary Folded card

Currie made a beautiful Happy Anniversary Card. She added flower seeds, the packet was made from "Wild Card" Cricut cartridge then stamped with Crackerbox Palace stamps. The flower image is also a Crackerbox Palace stamp and Currie colored it with Copic markers and Prism colored pencils then used a edge distressor around the image. I like the flower seed idea...love, planted, growing, blooming!

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Spring is Popping

Chick Alizadeh used the the word Spring from Crackebox Palace rubbe stamps. The large egg is a Spellbinder as well as the what the saying is on.  The small chicks and egg are from the new borders from Spellbinder. She drew the eyes on the egg and put white applique on the egg but did not heat it. She then drew around the eyes and add the cracks with the Copic .05 pen. She also added eyes on the chicks and colored them with Copic markers.  The grass is a Martha Stewart punch as well as the white bunnies. To add texture, she put both of the grass green paper through the Cuttlebug. 

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Easter Napkin

Chick made this card from a napkin that a friend gave to her.  She seperated the two layers of the napkin.  Layed the printed napkin on a sheet of meat wrappping and ironed it. She cut out the image and paper shaped the flowers (which is hard to see in this flat photo). Colored over the flowers with Smooch so they are shimmery. She also ironed the white piece of napkin to meat wrap and ran it through the Cuttlebug and inked the embossed image. The saying was stamped and cut out with Spellbinders. She took a Copic glitter marker and outlined around the saying before she took the Spellbinder die off.

I just wish this picture looked at good as the card!

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Currie's Bunny Basket

Happy Easter to all!

Currie made this basket that you can use for Easter or any other occasion.  It will cost less than a bag you buy at the store and you can coordinate it with the card and occasion.

She used Memories ink. This is a nice and quick way to give any kind of gift. I just used the template for a shower gift.

H02509-R     http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com

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3 Bunnies

Sorry it's been a while since I have put something up, we had computer problems-all better now!

Currie made this cute card with one stamp. She used Bunny in hat F02503.  Each bunny is colored a little different, she used Copic markers and Copic clear pen.  She did stamp the nose with pink ink and cut them out so they popped up a little.  She put little gems in the flower centers.

She used a Crop-a-dile and put in eyelets on the side and tied ribbon through them.  Eyelets were also put between the bunnies and red thread was used as a great embellishment.  The card looks very bright and can be used for Easter or for a Spring card-
Great job Currie!

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Anything is Possible

Currie has been doing some more stamping.  She has done a great job on this card.  Doesn't this look like it would make a cute fairy tale card or a card for some inspiration for a little or even a big girl?  She took the castle from the web site and enlarged it, stamped the unicorn and daisies.  She used Copic markers, Copic glitter pen and a Gelly roll pen to color the card.

This is the inside of the card. I like how she followed the theme to the inside of the card also. It just makes the card complete.  At the end of her instructions, she added "I love your stamps", and we are happy she does!

Stamps Used:

Bunches of Daisies  H04217

Unicorn  F00205

Anything is Possible  C03007

Small Believe  AA01845

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I stamped the clouds and dusted Brillance Sky Blue for the background. I stamped the rocks and colored them with Copic markers and filled the bottom of the card with Martha Stewart grass punch and inked the tips of the grass with ink.  The leprechaun was colored with Copic also. The jar was stamped on white cs and the coin pile was stamped on the bottom of the jar and colored with glitter markers. I cut out the jar and put clear lacquer over it. The three coins were stamped on the card, also stamped on a seperate piece, colored cut out and poped up to give them dimention.  I stamped Happy St. Patrick's Day and cut the top off with Spellbinder Circle and then cut the bottom off with Spellbinder Long Rectangle Lg.

Stamps Used:

Leprechaun  F04019

Jar  D04213

Rocks  E00202

Clouds  F00204

Coins  A02414

Happy St. Pat's Day  D02401

Small Shamrock  A02418

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Vicki Is Irish

Vicki Hill made this card and sent it to me.  Thanks Vicki.  She used Crackerbox Palace stamp, Petal on the Shamrock E02404.  She also used the Cuttlebug Embossing Folder of swirls. The glitter embellishments are buttons, great idea~!  Here is Vicki's blog site, stop by her blog and get some great ideas.  She has more St. Patrick's Day cards and others that I am sure you will like to see!

http://hillhavencreations.blogspot.com/

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A Jar of Shamrocks

This is the regular size A-2 card.  I cut the yellow cs to 5 1/4 x 4, ran it through the Cuttlebug with one of their folders and rounded the corners. The dark green cs is cut to 5 1/8 x 3 7/8, rounded the corners and cut out the middle with Spellbinder Label 8.  I used Label 11 for the saying and the dark green mounting cs.  I stamped out Stipple Shamrock and cut it out. The jar was stamped and the solid shamrocks were stamped with Brillance ink and cut out, and poped up.  Green Faux Pearls are in the corner.

Stamps used: Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps

Petals on Shamrock E02404

Large Shamrock  C02417

Jar D04213

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Heart of a Shamrock

I used the Classic Scalloped Circle Small in green cs.

I stamped Happy St. Patrick's Day and used the Standard Circle Large.

The dark green cs was cut out with the Label 9.

3 Heart Shapes were cut out and inked with Brillance Thyme ink

I stamped the saying and cut it out with Deckle Rectangle large and mounted it on green paper that I cut out with Deckle Rectangle Small.

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Full of Luck

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner. So I made a quick and easy St. Patrick's Day card. 

I can't believe how fast this year is going.

I used a Cuttlebug folder on the white background piece of cs. I didn't put the cs all the way into the folder, about 1" was hanging out the end so the top wouldn't be embossed. I cut a piece of printed paper for the band across the top.  I stamped and embossed the saying and stamped the shamrocks in the corners.  I cut out the saying with Spellbinder Mega Curved Rectangle.  I stamped and embossed the horse shoe on silver mirrored cs and cut it out.  I layed it on the white cs and penciled the inside of the horse shoe, I stamped the shamrocks with Brillance Thyme ink and erased the pencil line. I cut out the shape of the white cs with Spellbinder Label 11 and glued the horse shoe on. I then cut out a gree mat.

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Sorry about Accident

This is a card that Claudia Schroedl made. She stamped the feet and cut them out so she could add gauze around the leg. She also has gauze on the inside of the card.

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Blooms

Chick Alizadeh made this card a while back but I thought it would brighten up the day.  In Wisconsin, it is foggy, drizzly but warm for WI in Feb. it is already 34 degrees WooHoo. Being warm out, the snow is melting and looks dirty all over that is why I thought something bright, pretty, and cheery would be good for today.

She used a Spellbinder Pierceabilities and embossed our Blooms word.

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A couple cups of coffee

How would you like to get together for a cup of coffee?

Lois Larson made this quick card to invite a friend for a cup of coffee.  The background is done with the Swiss Dot from Cuttlebug.  The red trim is colored with marker and clear lacquer is put over top.

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I Sea Another Birthday

This card was done by Lois Larson.  She used our fish named Smiley and added wiggle eyes.  She colored Smiley with watercolored pencils.  The splash was added and glitter was added.  The background that works so well with this card is wallpaper. Great idea Lois.

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Currie's Just Because Journal

Currie made this fabulous journal with our bush stamp.  I sometimes use this stamp as background, but she did a great job making this one stamp extend itself to fill the entire front.  She put eyelets in the book board and punched holes in the blank pages to thread the string through and attach it together.  I think the string makes a great embellishment as well as a fastner.  She also distressed the edges of the paper in one of the layers and used Copic markers and Bic Mark-it Ultra Fine Line to color in the bush.  She sponged the background for more of the distressed look and stamped the Just Because in each of the corners.

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