The Ghost are Getting Out

Currie made this Halloween card with Crackerbox Palace stamps.

She stamped the branch on light gold card stock and colored it in with Copic markers. She sponged the back ground with Distress inks and stamped the bats and the saying.

She used Tim Holtz bird cage to hang from the tree and added brads to the bottom of the cage.

She stamped the ghosts on white card stock and cut them out then added them coming out of the cage.

This is the inside of the card.

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Haunted House on Cloth

Currie made another great Halloween card.

Well lets start with the skull embellishment.  Currie stamped the skull with StazOn on top of Tim Holtz's Fragments.

The paper behind the Fragment looks like she scanned the fabric she stamped the haunted house on and printed it on white paper.

Currie stamped the haunted house and boo on the fabric with StazOn. She pulled some threads out to put a fring on the edges. Brads are used to attach the fabric to the card.  The bat is a button that we sell in our physical store.

She mounted the card in a number of layers. When she got to the last layer, she punched holes in the corners and used orange thread to tie the knots and embellish the corners.

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3 Ghost with a Hat

Currie made this Halloween card.
All of these stamps are from Crackerbox Palace Stamps.

Currie stamped the 3 ghost with black ink. She outlined the eyes and the border with a light gray Copic Marker.

She stamped the witches hat on dark purple card stock and cut it out and attached it to the ghost.

The other images were stamped on the same white card stock as the ghost.

Happy Halloween was stamped on acetate and attached on the left with a cooper brad so it kind of hovers over the card.

She punched holes on the right side of the card and used black string to sew the zigzag design that leads down to the spider.

On the outer edge of the card she used Tim Holtz's distress edger. It makes a great edge for this card.

The inside of the card is even fun.

After she stamped BOO, she punched holes in the OO. She put green card stock behind it and made dots in the center of the holes to look like eyes.

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Hold Each Person Close

I stamped the saying and then cut it out with Spellbinder. I also cut out the piece behind the saying with a Spellbinder also.

 I stamped the diamond with embossing ink on the light blue card stock and embossed it in silver. I stamped and embossed a diamond on white card stock and cut it out to glue it over one on the strip.

The darker blue behind the diamonds was punched.

This is just a 'fill-in' card.  

Would you like to see some different ideas for your Halloween cards? 

Currie has made some GREAT Halloween cards that I will be posting as soon as I get home to my own pc.-hopefully tomorrow.  (I am still living with my folks and taking care of them in a different town than the one my house is.)

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Dance In The Rain

This stamp is from Crackerbox Palace.  It was cut from Spellbinder as well as the blue cardstock I mounted it on. The background paper is from a 12x12 sheet that had a design printed in the corner.

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Friendship Day card with flower

A friend of mine (Betty Henthorn) gave me this card on Friendship Day.

The background is embossed from Swiss Dots from Cuttlebug.

Betty used a punchon the ivory card stock.

The 'Friendship' stamp is one of ours.

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Remember 9/11

I am sorry this is a day late for the 10 year anniversary, but still we must remember.

Laurie Tolmasoff is from Beaverton OR. and she remembers every year.  She makes ATC cards every year.  This is the one she sent to me. It did arrive on Saturday, but I didn't come to the store until today-sory Laurie. 

The ATC card is layered on a gold mirrored card stock.

The images are stamped on a natural colored card stock. The city scape is from VivaLasVegaStamps, the stamp with the totals she had custom made and the 'Remember' is one of ours.

Great ATC Laurie and thanks for remembering.

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Good Friends like Angels

I started out with a photograph. One of my favorite kind of pictures are trees, so I picked this one.  I cut out the opening for the saying with Spellbinders.

I stamped and embossed the saying.

I layered it on the same card stock I stamped the saying and then on glossy black to match the embossed words.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

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Straight From the Heart Cookbook

Currie made this really cute cookbook. This could be given as a very nice gift to friends or family.

She has used some of our new stamps.

She colored the images with Copic markers.

The book is made out of chipboard.  On the cover she glued on the card stock on the chipboard. Currie used a corner punch to round the corners.

Currie stamped the 'Straight from the heart' stamp on white paper then glued it to one of Tim Holtz's Fragments.  Once it is dry cut around the plastic fragment. It adds a nice touch for an embellishment.

This is the inside cover.

On all of the pages she used the blank recipe stamp.

She added the stamp in the lower right corner that is blank on the stamp so you can add different images.

Currie added the bowl stamp.

This one she used the carrots.

The cupcake was used on this page and she added dots so it looks like candy dots.

A strawberry was stamped in the corner.

Currie stamped the jar and added the word 'sauce'.

The jar is blank so you can put any word on it you would like, such as: jam, jelly, or anything you like. 

This is a great stamp for a meat recipe.

 Currie made a lime out our 'doily' stamp.

I love the idea and it really works for a lime.

And this is the back cover.

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A Cup of Coffee

All of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace stamps.

The coffee cup is embossed.

The frames are cut with Spellbinder dies.

I inked around the saying lightly with brown ink.

The coffee beans are the embellishment.

And a cup of coffee sounds good right now.

Have a great day!

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Freedom & Peace

I wanted to make sure I got this out in time for the 4th of July since June is flying by.  I think this is a card that could be used any other time not just for the 4th.

The stamps are new from Crackerbox Palace.

The center image is a single image and colored with Copic markers.

The flag and saying are also new and colored with Copic markers. and cut out. I put them on cream colored card stock.

The stripes on the bottom of the card as well as the stars and stripe on the top are cut from the border of a 12x12 piece of paper.

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Happy Father's Day in water

Here is the other one I forgot to post so it is also late, sorry.

The blue background card stock was embossed with the Cuttlebug embossing folder that is suppose to be branches.  I put VersaMark over the embossed areas and then clear embossing powder.

The image and saying are some of the new stamps from Crackerbox. I colored the image with Copic markers and cut it out.

The saying is cut out with Spellbinders and inked around the edges.

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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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Sew a Tree

Currie made this card, and I know this says Easter, but you could use this idea at any time this spring and summer.

You can draw a tree or use a stencil. Poke holes on the outline.

Currie used variegated embroidery thread for the green leaves and brown for the trunk of the tree.

She stamped and colored the chick, bunny and grass around the tree.

Mount on brown card stock and then mounted on lighter brown and stamp a saying at the bottom. Finally mount on a card made with kraft card stock.

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Eggstra Special Day

I know it is after Easter, but Currie made

this card and I just had to share it.

She stamped the Easter egg with legs and colored it with Copic markers.  She added Smooch on the dotsw and yellow/gold areas.

Stamp the saying int he upper right corner.  She covered the 'Eggs' the Tim Holtz Fragments.

Ink the background stamps then touch the edges of the stamps with marker.

Mount on colored card stock, then on printed paper and add the brads in each corner.

Mount to kraft colored card stock.

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