Trick or Treat Angel

I love Halloween, I think it is my favorite Holiday. Dress up and eat candy, how could it get any better. The spider web in the upper left corner, and the rest of the stamps are from Crackerbox Palace stamps. I colored the angel with Copic markers and also used them to line the saying.

The bag is a small brown bag I bought and just sponged black ink around the edges. In a pack of paper, I found some candy punch outs that I used to keep the card flat. I would of liked to have had real candy!  The bottle top is one that came in a package I punched out with my 1" punch and put a clear dot over top.

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Black Hat Society

With this heat I am ready for some cool weather, so I pulled out my Halloween stamps.

The background paper is the scraps I found and thought I should use them.

I cut out the orange mat and white paper for the image with Spellbinders. Before I took apart the image off of the die cut, I outlined it with Spica Marker.

I used a bottle cap for one of my embellishements. I add a clear bubble over the image in the bottle cap,

 

The spider here and the white skull in the lower right corner are buttons.

I put a gem on her hat and black Spica Marker for her hair. Stickles was added on her dress.

 

 

Here is the card again, the spider is in the corner.

 

 

 

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Thank You With Rose

Hello, here is a Thank You card with a beautiful flower!

On this card, Rose Lg. Open was stamped on X-Press card stock and colored with Copic markers, and then red Stickles were added. I cut out the image with Spellbinders, and while the die was still on the card stock, I outlined the die cut with the Black Glitter pen from Copic. I cut out a blue card stock and rounded the corners with a Martha Stewart large corner punch.

The Thank You Swirl was stamped with VersaFine Claire and cut with Spellbinder. 

I also cut out the green background with Spellbinder, put the red die cut on it, and added pearls.

I added a bow.

Thanks for stopping by Vicky

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Sweet Card For A Friend

Hello Stamper, here is a sweet card that is full of color.

The saying Friends Like Flowers was stamped and cut with a die. Blue was sponged around the edges while the die was still on, and pearls were added.

Blue Bell Flower was stamped 3 times, colored, and cut.

Hugs, Vicky

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Blog Candy Thank You 7-26-12

Congrats Joyce!

Your card and stamps are in the mail.

On this card, I used Spellbinders for the frames around the saying and the bowl of popcorn.

I stamped the bowl of popcorn on printed paper and cut it out. I used Liquid Applique on the single popcorn and the bowl of popcorn.

The salt shaker just has glitter for the salt.

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Happy Birthday Lady

Thanks for stopping by.  The girls got together to celebrate a birthday for a friend of ours. So I had to hurry up and make a card before I left. Why make anything a head of time, always working at the last minute. 

The stamps are Crackerbox Palace (the lady and the small happy birthday in the corner) and the frames are cut from Spellbinders.  I colored her in Copic markers as well as the pink flower that is under the white one. The printed paper is mounted on the same green as the frame and then on a dark blue card.

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Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July !

You may have seen the card above but I still wanted to share it today again.

The top card has 3 stamps. The center image is one stamp and then the flag and the saying.

The card below is our 4th of July kids. The flags in the corner was a pin and I just cut the back off.

Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday.

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Blog Candy Thank You Card Sea Breeze

Congrats Donna!

Your card and stamps are on their way.

In your card, you will have the coupon code for 20% off of your next purchase at Crackerbox Palace.

If you use your Sea Breeze stamp and post the card on your blog, or send us a picture, you get to choose another stamp for free.

Thanks for visiting our blogs.

I stamped the card, lightly colored it with Copic markers and put vellum over the image to give it a soft look.

Spellbinders  is the frame.

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Happy Fairy Dust Card

Hello, I have a fun fairy card today.

The saying, Happy Dust, was stamped and cut out with a die. The bluish marks around the saying are glitter glue.

I stamped Fairy Godmother and Fairy Bag, colored, and cut them out.

Happiness to you!

Vicky

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Mermaid Card

Hello, I had fun making this card.

Here are the stamps I used:

How The Shell With 2 Shells 

**I stamped all 3 of these and cut them out. I made the saying wavy like it might if it was underwater.

Topez The Mermaid

Pearl Oyster Small

Sea Coral Plant

Seaweed Tall

 I hope you enjoyed her,

Vicky

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On The Way Train

This card I made for my husband for Father's Day.

I used  Crackerbox Palace stamps, I stamped it with VersaFine black ink. 

The train and background card stock is cut out from Spellbinder.

  I used Duster Brushes and Memento

brown ink to dust around the train. 

 I took the black Copic marker and colored around the

edge of the background card stock.

There are silver stickers on the edges but they are kind of hard to see.

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Happy Father's Day Ride

Here is a idea for a Father's Day card. I just can't believe we are half way throught the year!

I made this card for my Father-In -Law who likes the older cars.

I stamped it on Ex-Press paper and colored it with Copic markers.

Hope the Father's in your life have a great Father's Day.

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Dad's Sail Boat

Currie Churchill made this card. It could be used for a birthday card or a Father's Day card.

It is a card that I think any guy would like to get.

The stamps she used were Crackerbox Palace stamps, Distress Inks and Tim Holtz paper scraper around the edges to rough them up. She also used brads for the top of the sails.

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Hope You're on Your small Feet

Another one with the feet...just loved these!

I had to do a quick card because I was going with a friend to see another friend that had ankle surgery.

I just used the paper that was already sitting on my craft table and used Spellbinders to cut out a couple of frames. The feet were colored with Copic markers.

I did stamp and cut out the flower, curled the peddles over and popped it up.

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Happy Graduation

Here is another Graduation card. The last graduation card I did for a girl, this one is more for a guy.

You can easily change the background color of paper to match the school colors that you need.

Again, I used Spellbinders for cutting out the blue and the saying. I sponged the Sepia colored ink around the saying and also the blue.

I stamped the hat on the blue card to get the tassel, then I stamped the hat on white card stock, and shaded it with Copic markers. I cut out only the hat because I had the tassel already stamped on the card.

The diploma was stamped on light tan paper then colored and cut out.

I added the nail heads on the points of the blue card stock.

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Friendly Feet

These feet just make me smile.

I have the printed paper mounted on a couple of solid colores that match the print.

I stamped the saying and cut it out with Spellbinder Labels on the green and then the blue.

I looped the ribbon on each side of the saying and added the pearls.

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Happy Graduation Friend

I have already gotten graduation invitations. It seems hard to believe it will be time for graduation and the year half over.

I started with mounting the printed card stock on brown.

Cut a strip of another printed paper that matched the background paper and put it on the right side then put a ribbon on it.

Stamped the saying with VersaFine and embossed it, cut it out with Spellbinder. I lightly sponged the edges of the cut out with Sepia colored ink.

I stamped, colored with Copic markers, and cut out the rose and scroll.

I stamped the word Friend, and used a 1" punch and cut it out

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Roses on a Memory

I needed a real quick sympathy card and I thought I would share this one with you.

The card stock that the saying is on has been cut with Spellbinders.

The roses and saying are from our stamps. I colored the roses with Copic markers.

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Dancing Feet

I thought this might be a good one for today since it is raining here in Janesville, WI.

I cut the dark red card stock and rounded the corners with a larger corner rounder.

I cut the blue card stock and punched the corner punch and then used a smaller corner rounder for these corners.

I stamped the feet on Ex-Press paper and used Copic markers then cut them out.

The feet are put on light blue paper that has spots of white in it and cut it small enough so it didn't go into the corners so the red card stock color came through..

The saying is stamped and embossed (that is why it's shinny and doesn't look the best). I cut it out with Spellbingder.

I glued the rain drops last.

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Sharing Popcorn

This is our popcorn bowl from Crackerbox Palace. I can eat popcorn any time of the year, but mostly it seems to be in the winter. Our weather this April is cooler than it was in March, so I am still thinking of popcorn.

The saying has been stamped and I used Spellbinder for cutting out the frame with the gray and blue card stock. The burnt orange I just cut a square and rounded the corners. You really can't see it in the picture, but I tacked down the bottom of the saying and used popdots on the upper part of the saying so it has a slight slant to it just to make it more interesting.

The bowl has been paper shaped and glued just around the outer edge. I scribbled a yellow marker on the image to add some butter to the popcorn-who doesn't like buttered popcorn? Then I dotted and swirled (very lightly) liquid applique around the popcorn and heated it up to get the puff for the popcorn.

The salt shaker, I first put some clear glitter glue (Stickles) for the salt, then added liquid lacquer over the entire glass area.

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Happy Birthday corner flowers

Happy Birthday was stamped with Crackerbox Palace stamps.

I cut out the design with Spellbinder in 2 shades of blue and put them together.

I added the pink flowers in the corners and the small pearls on the top, bottom and sides.

The ribbon was glued on the side.

I used a corner rounder punch around the image and the card.

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Butterfly Thank You

The envelope also has the saying stamped on it with dusted pink ink on the corner and the punched butterflies are also glued on the envelope.

The printed paper is only half the size of the card.

Punch the printed paper at the size you want the top part of the card.

Using the same punch, punch one edge of the colored card stock.

When you glue the printed paper on the card, only glue the top part of the printed paper to the top of the card. Slip the pink card stock under the punched edge of the printed paper.

The bottom of the printed paper, turn the printed paper around so the punched edge is hid under the pink.

The Thank You is stamped with Crackerbox stamp.

The buterflies are punched out of scrap from the printed paper.

There are large pearls next to the saying and smaller pearls on the pink card stock on the punched area.

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Thinking of You Sweetly

This is a quick card without many frills (easy to mail)

Thinking of You was stamped and embossed and cut apart.

The edges around the words are inked in black.

The bowl, pie and plant were stamped, colored with

Copic markers and cut out.

The cabinet was also stamped, colored and cut.

I cut the top of the cabinet off.

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This is the cabinet I stamped and cut the top off.



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Easter Basket

Currie Churchill made this Easter basket that is just the right size.

It will hold a lot without breaking your pocket book.

This is the front of the basket.

This is the side of the basket. She glued the sides and used a brad to hold the handle on.

Happy Easter!

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Happy Easter Basket

This is the last of 4 cards I made at dad's before he passed away, so again I did not have many supplies with me.

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

I had a stack of cut pieces I brought with me. The dotted background is one of them that I cut out with Spellbinders. It is layered on blue and then the card is a dark green that is the same color that is behind the pink card stock that has the image on it.

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Easter Cross

This is another card I made at my dad's where I had very little stamping 'stuff'.  So this would be one of my quick cards.

I used Copic markers to color the cross and flowers.

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St. Pat's Slainte

I used Crackebox Palace stamps.

I stamped the outline shamrock with Brilliance ink for the background on light tan textured card stock.

I layered it on textured dark green card stock. I used the same color of dark green for the biggest frame.

I cut all the frames with Spellbinder and stamped our saying on the same card stock I used for the card.

I stamped the image on white card stock and colored it with Copic markers. I used the Copic glitter markers for the beer, I almost made the beer green.

I made this at my dad's but if I would of made this at home, I would of used liquid applique for the beer foam.

Hope you enjoyed the card, and hope you enjoy St. Pat's Day!

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St. Patrick's Day Wish

I am sorry it has taken so long to get back to my postings.

I know I have told you before, that I was living with my parents to take care of them until they left this life to journey on to the next one. My father just passed a couple of weeks ago and it has been a little hard for me. I will try to keep up with new ideas in between finishing up their affairs and getting my house in order since my husband was left to fend for himself the last 14 months.

I was able to make a few cards before dad passed away and this is one of them. I didn't have a lot of my 'stuff' at his house so the next few cards will be considered quick and easy.

I stamped the saying on light tan card stock and cut it out with Spellbinder. I left the die on and brushed light brown in around it.

I stamped the saying and shamrocks in green Brilliance ink. I also used the same ink to brush around the edges. I used Copic markers for coloring. Mounted the card on brown and then black card stock.

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Chill of Winter

This is a pretty quick card to make if you are short on time.

I stamped the snowman and trees, then added the snowflakes in the background.

The candy cane was stamped on a seperate piece of card stock and cut out. I glued it to his hand but not to the card so it is lifted away from the card.

The image and snow was colored with Copic markers.

The saying was cut with Spellbinders.

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Santa is Coming To Town

I used our new Winter/Christma stamps.

I colored the image with Copic markers.

To get the halo effect around the outer edge of the card, I used a Colorbox Stylus with the white sponge attachment.  Put the tip of the stylus off of the card and bring it over the edge and lift up in a sweeping motion. You can do as little or as much as you like.

I added gliter on the snow on the ground and as also the roof.

Hope all of you are staying warm.

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Peace Candle

This is a card that Currie made from our new Christmas stamps.

She stamped the candle on light tan card stock and spritzed around the image with Smooch Spritz. She colored the candle with Copic markers.

She then stamped the words

The word Love that she added is one of our small words.

To add an embellishment but not to distract from the candle, she put one of Tim Holtz Fragments over the word to make it stand out a bit without over taking the image.

It makes just enought interest.



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Snowing Season Greeting

Currie made this great idea for a non-traditional color and classy Christmas card.

Currie sponged Distress Inks on a light brown card stock.

She stamped 2 different snowflakes in blue.

The same color brown was stamped Season Greetings and the Tree Scene.

Currie tied twine through 3 brown buttons and used them as embellishments.

All of the stamps are Crackerbox Palace.

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Cozy Snowmen

Currie stamped the cozy snowmen on light brown card stock and that shows off the white snowmen.

She used Copic markers. She used a very light gray right under the hats for a shadow.

The buttons she added are a great embellishment.

(add close up picture)

Doesn't this saying go real good with the snowmen?

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Plentiful Heart

Sorry it has taken so long to get back and put something on the blog.

John and I have been working on getting the new Christmas stamps ready to be put on the web site. With me still taking care of my dad it has taken longer than usual. But we have the wood and cling mount all loaded and on the web site now, so stop on over to take a look.

http://www.crackerboxrubberstamps.com/

Chick made this card for Thanksgiving. The heart of plenty.

She stamped the image and colored it. Chick used Distress Ink and lightly sponged ink around the edge. She put clear Crystal Glaze over the top of the fruit.

She stamped Thanks in the center and added the pearls.

She used Spellbinder and cut out the center piece and the frame.

The card is folded into a gate fold.

One the left side she glued the frame and the right side she glued the center piece.

A tip is: to lay the two pieces on the table and use removable tape on the front of the image, and tape the two pieces together.

Flip them over and put glue on only half of each of them.

Remember when you flip them over, so on the back... the frame is glued on the right side and center is glued on the left side.

This is what she has on the inside

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