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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