Happy Father's Day

I am so sorry this is a little late, I thought I scheduled it to post.

Well, if this gives you any ideas, just change the Happy Father's Day to Happy Birthday or Thinking of You.

These are some of our new stamps from Crackerbox Palace. I made something quick and a little on the plain side since that's what my dad said he prefers so I thought someone might also like a quick card.  The watch and knife were stamped, colored with Copic and cut out. I tried a punch at the bottom in hopes it wouldn't make it look to 'girly' and then used the silver dots.

I hope everyone had a great Father's Day!!!

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Lady in the Red Coat

I stamped our lady on Crygon card stock and colored her with Copic markers and then cut her out (only because I planned to put her on a different colored card stock, but then decided not to).

The background is cut out using Spellbinders. The black background is black glossy paper.

The pink is embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder and then mounted on black glossy too.

I stamped the Happy Birthday on metallic card stock and cut around it. I added the rain drops as embellishments.

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Lunch Box for a Teacher

Currie Churchill made this really cute teacher's lunch box. It can be given as a teacher's gift before school begins and maybe fill it with extra pencils, crayons etc. Or a gift for the teacher after the year is over and maybe fill it with chocolate.  Or the stamps themselves would be a great teacher's gift that she could use.

She cut her paper that looks like lined school paper to cover the front and the back of the lunch box.  She then cut out a design to mount the stamped images on.  All of the Teacher's stamps are new to Crackerbox Palace stamps.

She added a bottle cap for an embellishment as well as a To: tag.

She stamped the solid Crackerbox hearts on the bottle cap also.

The back of the lunch box is just as cute as the front.

She added twine to hang a tag from the handle.

Currie stamped the 'please check' on a printed piece of paper then glued it to a Tim Holtz Tags and when it is dry cut around it.

She made cards that a teacher might hand out to the kids as a gift for inside of the lunch box-great idea!?

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Memory Book

Sorry it has taken so long for a posting.  Living with parents to take care of them does take a lot of time.

Currie Churchill made this Memories book from some of our new stamps that we have added to the Crackerbox Palace stamps.

She used a Sizzix die that is from Tim Holtz and layered it on script printed paper.

The book itself is cut from another Sizzix die. She covered card board with kraft paper and then cut it out.  She stamped our new watch stamp as well as one of Crackerbox's background stamp.

Currie added her own lines with a light brown marker.

The airplane is a Crackerbox Palace rubber stamp she stamped and cut out.  She then added the cute pictures of the kids.

Again, she drew her own lines to write on.  The 'Woo Hoo'  is one of Crackerbox's stamps and the 'thumbs up' is one of the new ones. She then cut out some more great family pictures.

The girls were so happy to see Stitch.

This smaller memory book is so much fun for the girls to have, just their size.  'You Rock' is one of Crackerbox's stamps and the new one is the coffee stamp.

I hope you enjoyed the idea of the memory book that Currie did.

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Coffee Snapdragon

This is a quick and easy card.

Only 4 stamps were used from Crackerbox Palace rubber stamps:

Snapdragon, design element, rectangle frame and saying.

The Snapdragon was stamped, colored with Copic markers, added eyes and cut out.

The frame was stamped and the outer edge was colored and then the saying was stamped in the center.

I added a brad at the top of the stripe and stamped the decorative design and done!

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Risky Bunny

Have you ever felt daring?

A little humor this morning.

Currie made this card 8X11 and the fold is at the top of the card.

The image is stamped on light green card stock 63/4 x 41/2. She stamped the grass in the background.

The truck and bunny was stamped and colored with Copic then cut out.

Currie also cut a strip of card stock for the road, inked it and distressed the edges with Tim Holtz tool.
Stamp the saying on the upper right hand corner.

Men especially find this card humorous, it would make a great birthday card for a guy.

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Picnic of Jelly Beans

Currie made this card that can be used for anyone you know.

She stamped, colored and cut out the picnic table.

The jar is stamped on light blue card stock and then the solid jelly bean was stamped in different colored ink and cut out. Currie stamped some more jelly beans and cut them out and glued them on in the jar to add dimention.

Stamp the ant on the card, glue on eyes. Then add one of the cut out jelly beans for the ant to carry.

Stamp the saying.

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Tri-fold Nature Card

I know this says Happy Easter, but it could say anything or you could just have the image on the front without any words.

I know I am a little behind in posting the Easter cards, I am sorry but I have been staying with my folks and taking care of them so I am not at home with my software and things. It took me days to figure out what I can use on their computer to get my images to post.

I like the job that Currie did on this card, I think you will too.

The stamps she used are Crackerbox Palace stamps also Stampscapes stamps. On all of the panels, she used Stampscape stamps for the background, and the other images are Crackerbox Palace stamps.

Currie stamped the trees and grasses with green ink and the rest of  Stampscapes with brown ink.

The front of the card on the right side with brown ink is one of Crackerbox's stamps, and the water area is chalked. The bunny was stamped and cut out. The image is mounted on printed paper and the edges were distressed.

The whole card is 11 x 5 1/4.

Scored at 3 3/4 and 7 1/2.

The panel that is 3 3/4, is the front of the card. The last panel will be 3 1/4 to be able to fold into the card.

The inside panels are stamped on a light card stock that is 4 1/2 x 10 1/4.  After the image is stamped, cut the inside panels at 3 1/2 and 7 inches. the 1st and 2nd panel will be 3 1/2 but the last panel will be 3 1/4. When you see the card open you can not tell that each panel is not the same.

Use a corner rounder punch on each corner and mount the panels.

The frame on the middle panel is our barbwire frame stamp used with orange ink.

The 4th panel (the one with the chicks) is on the back of the 3rd panel, that is also 4 1/4 x 3 1/4. The chicks are stamped and cut out.

Maybe change the images a little and you would have a great guy card for birthday or Father's day.

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