Kevin Nakagawa Haunted House

This is a card that I got to watch Kevin (owner of Stampscapes) make.

Some stampers of one of his groups got together in Chicago to stamp together in August this year and he made this card.

Kevin used Stampscapes and Crackerbox Palace stamps.

He used Marvy inks and Colorbox Stylus.  White ink was added over the windows and as haze.  A white pen was used for the dots. 

Here is the stamping group.

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Happy Halloween Witch

Currie stamped the witch on white card stock, colored and cut her out. 

Then stamped the little trick or treaters on the bottom and the bats on top on yellowish/orangeish card stock.

She matted the image on corrugated cardboard and then on green and black.

The stars she glued on are just flat silver stars.

Used Vintage Photo ink, glitter in the hair and Glossy Accents for her eyes.

Hope all of you have a happy and safe weekend.

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Trick or Treat

Here is a real quick card to make. Just stamp the staying, cut it out and use a corner rounder on the corners.  Stamp the candy corn and cut those pieces out.  Currie used Copic markers to color and used Gelly Roll pens for the sparkle.  Vintage Photo Distress ink is used for the distress look.

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Boogie Nights book

Currie wanted this card to look like a book with ghosts in it.

It would be real easy to add a couple of pages if you would wish.

The hinges she found at Big Lots and used Smooch gold to color the book plate.

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Halloween Book

I got this from Currie a while back but I held it back so it was closer to Halloween to show you in hopes you will use the ideas for your own pictures-I just love this book she made !!

Currie cut the chipboard book out using the Sizzix die "Album cover and page".

Then she covered each page in Halloween colors of card stocks.

She found pictures of her girls - Maddy and Allie - and the dogs wearing costumes and cut them out.

Distress inks were used to distress the pictures.

For the front cover she used the 3 ghost stamp and used Shrink Plastic to make it smaller and turn it into a thicker piece of plastic.

All of the stamps used were Crackerbox Palace stamps

Maddie                                          Allie

Kyra                                       Izzy



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Trick or Treat Devil

I think I have already mentioned that Halloween is my favorite holiday.

Rena Askey is the artist that drew the devil and did the saying.  We have other Halloween kids that she drew that we made stamps from.  Her drawings have a little twist.

The cutout behind the image is from Spellbinders.

I colored the image and candy with Copic markers.

The devil is colored with more red as you expect for a devil.

The jar is stamped and cut out.  I used B000 & Boo Copic on the edges.

I stamped the candy corn and colored and cut them out.  When ever I cut anything out, I always go around the edge with a black marker to cover up the white paper on the edge.  I used Marvy black marker on most of them and I think I grabbed the Tombow marker on the one that has the edge that bled into the lacquer.

The words on the bottom is from card stock I had.

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Happy Haunting House

Currie stamped the house in black on dark gray card stock.

Embossed was used on extra flying bats.

She cut out a bat using the Cricut cartridge Paper Dolls.

Covered the big bat in Flower Soft to add dimension.

There are ghosts in the window that she added with a white pen.

Stamped Happy Haunting, distress the edges and added it to the layers.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps.

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Wicked Fun Angel

All of the stamps come from Crackebox Palace.

The orange card stock was embossed with Tim Holtz embossing folder and attached to the purple card.

The 2 right side corners were punched with Martha Stewart punch.

I embossed the spider webs on the left side with a Sizzix embossing folder.

The oval cutout, words and image is cut from Spellbinders.

There are pop dots behind the black card stock to bring it off of the back ground orange.

The glow in the dark spider, is just an embellishment I had. 

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Bats in the belfry

It's getting closer to Halloween so I will be sharing some ideas for my favorite holiday of the year.

Currie has made some great cards so I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Currie stamped Frankenstein on white card stock, colored him with Copic markers and cut him out.

Next she stamped the spider web and bats on dark blue card stock. 

She glued Frank on the blue card stock.

To mount it, she first sat the blue card stock on the lime green and then stamped the saying, just in case a mistake happened, but it didn't so she then glued down the blue cs.

She put wiggle eyes on the bats.  Won't any male like this card??

This is the inside of the card.

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'Just a Note' book

Currie made this beautiful note book or journal or even a photo album.

The front, back and side is made out of chipboard.  She punched holes for the eyelets and used string to put it together.

Currie stamped the images and colored them with the Copic markers.

One surprise is the blue chip that the bird is stamped on is a counter top chip that they give away at the hardward stores.  It works really well with the knob because it already has a hole in it.

The knob on the book is from an old dresser that she stamped on.

Isn't this a great idea?? I love it !!

This is the whole side where she also punched holes for the eyelets to attach the edge to the front and back.  She also added embellishments on both ends to finish the side.

The pages are attached with paper brads.  They blend in on the edge of the book, but if you look you can see the brads.  This has been a real hit in the store.

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Circle Flowers in a frame

Well, Currie did it again!   Made art work for the wall.

She took it all apart and junked the glass. Then painted the frame cream (same paint as she painted her porch). She used small chipboard pieces and painted them with Shimmers.  Next cut small cardstock pieces to fit over the chipboard circles.  She stamped the flower images on the circles and then colored them with Copic markers and distressed the edges and WOW what a great piece of art for the wall!

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Gossiping Ladies

Remember the ladies bridge clubs? That was quite a network.

Currie stamped the image with VersaMark and used embossing powder.

She colored it with Copic Markers, distressed the edges around the saying.

The embossed dots were done with the Cuttlebug.

Doesn't this make a great friend card?

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Surfin' Madison

I know you have seen a lot of cards made from Currie Churchill, this card was given to me by her daughter, Madison who is 9 years old.  I think she did a great job on this card.

She stamped the image on the card stock and cut out the bottom of the girl.

She wrinkled up white card stock and wiped an ink pad over the creases for the water.

The sand is colored with an ink pad and cut out and put behind her girl.

The surf board is stamped, colored and cut out with Crystal Effects put on the red.

Thank you Madison for the great card.

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Accident Tag

Currie made this card for her sister Dana when she decided to catch a falling bulletin board with her face at her own son's gymnastics class.

She used the Cricut cartridge "Just Because" cards to cut out the shape of the tag.

She punched holes around the card and sewed together with twine.

She put an eyelet on the tag and put a red ribbon through it and stapled it with the Tim Holtz stapler, love those little staples!

She stamped the images, and colored them.

She stamped the saying and cut it apart.  The first part of the saying she put on the front of the tag and used Tim Holtz Fragments over the words.  The second part she stamped for the inside of the tag.

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Holy Cow Birthday cow

First I want to say that I am sorry for the delay on posting.

I have had problems with an upgrade, computers just don't listen very well.

But Currie has come up with a great birthday card for you.

The brown background card is embossed with the Cuttlebug and with a Cuttlebug folder.

She cut out the white card stock for the image and used Tim Holtz distress tool on the edges.

She stamped and embossed the cow stamp then colored it.

The Holy Cow birthday stamp is one stamp. She masked it and stamped the 'HOLY COW' in black and then she stamped 'another birthday' in red.

She stippled distress ink around the edges and punched the holes for the play on words.

She added a Tim Holtz acrylic piece over the words that make them stand out.

The last thing was to punch a hole in the corner and add an square eyelet and put the ribbon through.

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Happy Halloween Kids

It has been cool her in WI and starting to feel like fall, so I thought we might get ready for Halloween.

I used the layout template that I found in one of the magazines.

All of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace. The oval is cut from Spellbinders.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Halloween tag card

Wendy Buttke made this tag card with Crackerbox Palace stamps.

The black card stock is cut 4 1/4 X 11.  It is folded at 5 1/2. 

Make the tag and lay it beside the black card stock and mark where you would like to cut it so the saying is above the cut line.

A strip of purple card stock is used behind the ribbon on the front.

Thanks for stopping in and looking.

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Sweet Lady in Red

Lois Larson made this card. She used Crackebox Palace stamps.

On the chocolates she used brown applique.  All she did was apply the applique to the the candy and let it dry.  Usually you heat the applique to make it puff up, we found when you just let it dry, it dries very shinny.

Thanks for looking and have a sweet day.

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Thinking of you with quilling flowers

This is one of our sayings I used. 

The flowers are the new quilling flowers from Cuttlebug.  I liked the looks of quilling, but was never interested in doing it until now.  It is so easy and I like the 3D flowers.  With having all 3 flowers I am able to mix and match what the flower looks like.  I like using it with printed paper and some of my scraps that I have stamped on and cut out.

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Ghostly

This is another card I did in Chicago when I went stamping with the Stampscapes group.

The stamps I used are Crackerbox Palace stamps and also Stampscapes rubber stamps.

The ghost and Vamp are paper shaped.

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Happy Halloween from Ann Taft

Looks spooky!

Ann Taft made this last weekend in Chicago.  She was one of the stampers from the Stampscape weekend that went to stamp with Kevin. The stamps she used were Crackerbox Palace stamps and Stampscapes stamps.

Ann is the second one on the left.

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Necklace from Currie

Isn't this a nice necklace that Currie made? She used the frames from Memory Makers.

She added colores with the beads that attach the piece to the chain.

Don't worry if it does turn around when you are wearing it, she has a pretty butterfly on the other side.

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Ever Need a Hand

The background paper has been put through the Cuttlebug with one of the Fades from Tim Holtz folders. I sanded the embossed area.  I stamped the hand on the card and then cut out an opening by the wrist to curl the paper back.  I then stamped the hand on a light tan card stock,(so I didn't have to color to much) and cut it out.  When I cut it out, I left some extra card stock at the end of his wrist to lay under the card.

The square behind the saying and the inverted frame are Spellbinders.  All of the stamps are Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps.

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Best of the West

John and I just love this card.

Currie cut out the matting for the image with Cricut.  All of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace and colored with Copic.  If you look close, the horse is like the kid's 'giddy up' wood horse.  This is just a great card for any guy(s) in your life, I think they would laugh.

This is the inside of the card.

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Thank You with Quilling

This card is stamped with Crackerbox Palace stamp.  The background matting is from Spellbinder die cuts.  I got in the Cuttlebug Quilling flowers for the store and did not think I would open any for myself. I always liked looking at quilling but it was to flat for me to want to do it.   For a while I have been wanting to get more dimension in the flowers I make.  I kept walking by those quilling flowers by Cuttlebug and finally broke down and opened one.  As you can see, I ended up opening all 3.  I cut the card stock and cut the single strip, 2 flowers and leaves all at the same time.  The flower by the saying is just half a strip to make the flower smaller.  By doing this card and one other, I have about a dozen ideas on what to do with these, can't wait to try them!

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Anniversary Monkey

Currie used Basic Gray paper and Copic markers and the embellishments are brads.

This is for the couple that has a sense of humor.  Acutally John found this saying and wanted to make it into a stamp.

If you would want to use the Happy Anniversary stamp for your spouse, you can just cut off the bottom part of the saying, we left enough room.

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Picnic circles

This is the last one for this month's theme.

July is our 1st anniversary month for the website for Crackebox Palace Stamps. We are offering a free stamp of your choice that is on the home page of Crackerbox Palace if your order is 30.00, plus we are offering free shipping with that order. All you have to do is tell us in the comment box at check out which of the stamps you want, hamburger, watermellon, ant or saying. All other orders are $2.00 shipping.

The circles were cut out with Spellbinder and colored with copic.  All the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace Stamps.

Thanks for looking and hope you check out what Currie has done for next month.

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Picnic Basket in the spotlight

I wanted to make a card that had our theme for this month but you could use it more than just for a picnic.  I thought of Life is a Picnic as a 'just because' card.

All of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace.  I cut out the circle with Spellbinder and the white and red card stock were punched.

July is our 1st anniversary month for the website for Crackebox Palace Stamps. We are offering a free stamp of your choice that is on the home page of Crackerbox Palace if your order is 30.00, plus we are offering free shipping with that order. All you have to do is tell us in the comment box at check out which of the stamps you want, hamburger, watermellon, ant or saying. All other orders are $2.00 shipping.

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King of the Grill Pig

This was done with Crackerbox Palace stamps and we only have a couple of days left with this theme.  I can't wait to show you what we have for next week.

The hotdog in the bun that is in the corner and the 3 hotdogs on the grill are cut from the 2 hotdogs that are on the stick.  This one is pretty staright forward, stamp, color, cut and glue.  The scalloped square is Spellbinders and the coloring was done with Copic Markers.

July is our 1st anniversary month for the website for Crackebox Palace Stamps.  We are offering a free stamp of your choice that is on the home page of Crackerbox Palace if your order is 30.00, plus we are offering free shipping with that order.  All you have to do is tell us in the comment box at check out which of the stamps you want, hamburger, watermellon, ant or saying.  All other orders are $2.00 shipping.  Thank you for looking and happy stamping.  Vicky

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Do you like pickles with your hamburger?

I used Crackerbox Palace stamps and Copic markers to color.  The hamburger is cut out and I used a pop dot behind it.  The jar was stamped and cut out of white cs and also acetate.  When I cut the acetate out, I cut out tabs or wings on the straight sides of the jar so I could wrap the acetate around the jar cut out of card stock. 

The tag and matting behind the hamburger is from Spellbinders, the green card stock is punched from Martha Stewart and the embossed background is from Tim Holtz Fades with a little brown ink rubbed over top of it.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace Stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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BBQ Fun with Bull

Sorry for not getting a card up yesterday, the clock worked faster than I did. 

But here is one for today, only 4 more days left for this theme and then I will have some other super great cards that Currie came up with that I can't wait to share with you.

One of the things John likes most on the grill is a steak, so we had our artist draw us one.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it. It took me a few weeks to figure out how to use it, but then I found the bull.  We have sweet looking cows that I might use with it later.  I guess this is just my slightly twisted humor, I hope it will give a few chuckles.

What can I say about this other than it is pretty straight forward, stamps color with Copic markers and mounted.  I did put clear Gloss on the bulls feet and whites of his eyes. I used a deckle scissors for the edge on the tan cs and Spellbinder for the steak plate.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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Great Food Great Friends

Well we have one more week of our picnic theme.

The tag is cut out from a Spellbinder.  The edge is punched from EK Success chain punch and ribbon is threaded through it.  The blue fence like punch is a Martha Stewart punch. I was showing a stamper the new Cuttlebug Quilling flowers at the store and cut off a piece so it wasn't so long and put it aside.  After the stamper left, I still had the cut off piece and curled it up and used it on this card as the white flower. 

 The stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and colored with Copic markers.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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Dog-gone Special Hotdogs

Currie made another great card for anyone, but it does look like any guy would like it.  Guy cards are sometimes a challange but this one is a good one.

She stamped the images and colored them.  She added Glossy Accents used on the bun seeds.  Vintage Photo Distress ink for the aged look.  Ranger blue embossing powder for the saying. 

Mustard seed colored eyelets for the eyelets and jute string really adds interest.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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Woo Hoo Steak

I think the card Currie made makes a great guy card, what guy doesn't like a good steak?

She stamped the dog's head and steak on white card stock and cut it out and then glued to card.  She colored with Copic markers and used Glossy Accent on the ant to make him show up better.  On the card the ant is not this dark, I am not sure why he turned out so dark here.  She used Tim Holtz Fragments to put over the words and the edge scrapper.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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Brave Thing Picnic

When I opened this one up from Currie, I had to laugh.  What a great card for a guy too!

She stamped the bear, blanket, basket, cola and saying on white cardstock, colored it and cut them out.  The chain on the edge is a EK Success punch.  Currie punched it almost to the edge and colored it with silver Smooch.  She put Glossy Accents on the ants eyes and used Tim Holtz scrapper for the edges.

All stamps are Crackerbox Palace stamps and we are celebrating our anniversary this month and giving away free stamps. On the web site on the upper right corner of the site under 'Blog/News' find out how to free stamps plus free shipping.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

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