Gorgeous Baby Boy Card from Crackerbox Palace

It's Crackerbox Friday here today and I am sharing a baby boy card I made recently with some gorgeous stamps from Crackerbox Palace. I love this mother and baby boy stamp from CBP.  I decided he was gorgeous so I used the Hello Gorgeous sentiment with them. I simply stamped and cut them out with a circle Nestabilities die. The card front was made with another Spellbinders die and I wove some ribbon and baker’s twine through the holes to complete this CAS card.

I like how it turned out and hope you do too. Please visit the website to see these and many other awesome Crackerbox Palace stamps.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Through the Craftroom Door and Paper Take Weekly.

Crackerbox Palace smiles, Karen

Sweet Stamps, Simon Says Stamp and Try It on Tuesday Challenges

"For Dad" is the theme at Sweet Stamps Challenge this week and at Try It on Tuesday, they want to see "One for the Men." Father's Day is also the theme at Simon Says Stamp.  I had fun making this Father's Day card with some products I recently purchased from Stampin' Up. Years ago I had a ton of pop tops that I never used and got rid of in one of my purging moods, then regretted that when they made a resurgence this year. I can flatten them so easily with my "No More Shims" thick embossing pad. Then I punched a circle and added some stickers to say "Pop". The circle around it is a neat new stamp I had to get from Hero Arts. The shoe was stamped, colored with Copics and cut out. The bottom part was embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and sponged with dark brown ink.

Stamping smiles, Karen

It's My Turn for the Designer Choice Challenge!

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It’s my turn and I have chosen “Fun Fold Cards” as the challenge theme. Make a card with a different fold from the traditional cards we make all the time. If you need some inspiration, visit this page at the Repeat Impressions store. RI sells packets of fun fold cards already cut for you! Or check out Pinterest or Splitcoast. After you make your card, you can enter it for a chance to win some awesome Repeat Impressions rubber! Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's cards for this DCC challenge. 

I have chosen to make a joy fold card showing off the new Pairings set of stamps from Repeat Impressions which has several images and sentiments that pair together to make fun cards. I paper pieced the dress mannequin and gave her a gem necklace and belt. I stamped the thread and sentiment and cut it out with a Spellbinders die.

When you open the joy fold card, you see another dress I paper pieced and another sentiment piece with thread and a thank you sentiment. If you are not sure how to make a joy fold card, here is a tutorial you can refer to. Repeat Impression’s kits show you how to make a gift card holder with your joy fold card by turning it around and leaving the side piece open to slide one in. Brilliant!

I am entering this card in the paper piecing challenge at Creative Creations and the challenge at The Crazy Challenge to use sentiments.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Addicted to CAS and Crafting When We Can Challenges

Circles is the theme this week at Addicted to CAS and at Crafting When We Can, they want to see our punches and/or die cuts. This is a baby Thank You card I made for a family member who had a little girl. I created the card with my largest scalloped Nestabilities die and added a white embossed circular frame cut out with some more nesties. The little girl silhouette stamp is from CTMH and I simply stamped it in pink ink and added the sentiment to complete the CAS card.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Cards For Maddy

I am sharing another opportunity to help someone with our cards. I read about Maddy here at the Simon Says Stamp Blog. I remember sending a card to Maddy earlier in her fight with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Sadly she is fighting again with the disease and could use some cards in the mail to cheer her up. This is the card I sent to her yesterday. I thought it was bright and cheerful and fun and the message was a good one. I cased a card from Pinterest for the idea of the larger pinwheel background. To make it, you simply cut squares of patterned paper, cut in half and round the corner. Attach each piece opposite of it's matching one. I cut a small two sided pinwheel for the middle with a die from Stampin' Up and added a sentiment (Repeat Impressions) to complete the card.

Please click on the link or the picture on the side of my blog to read about Maddy and get the address where you can send your handmade card to her at St. Jude's Research Hospital.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Totally Papercrafts and Catch the Bug.

Stamping smiles for Maddy, Karen

Graduation Time at Silhouette Sunday

It is the time of year for graduations and I have both a niece and nephew graduating this year. I am participating in the Weekly Shape Challenge at the Silhouette Blog with this card. The sentiment above is the Weekly Shape and is sold as a vinyl quote. The blog showed several other ways you could use it, but my question- as a rookie- was could you use it with paper and on a card? The answer is YES! I wanted to purchase some of the other vinyl quotes but don't have any vinyl or plans to get any soon. So I tried this one and it works beautifully on a card too. I simply cut out the expression and a graduation hat in white and attached to the card front. Simple but awesome:)

I am fascinated with the positives and negatives of the Silhouette cut files. There are so many possibilities for design using both of them. Here is the inside of this card where I sponged the shape using the paper I had cut out the graduation cap from:

My second card is one I made for my niece's graduation card. Her school colors are purple and gold. I used several Silhouette cutting files and added a diploma made of money rolled up tight and tied with matching baker's twine.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Sister Act Card Challenge.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Anything Goes at Send a Smile 4 Kids!

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is everybody’s favorite- Anything Goes 4 Kids. Create and link any card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have four very generous sponsors this week: LOTV is giving their winner a 10 pound gift certificate! And Fred She Said is giving their randomly picked winner a $10 gift certificate! Crackerbox Palace’s winner will receive a $15 gift certificate!  We have a fourth sponsor this time and so their lucky winner will win 2 digital paper packs from Tabitha’s Shop! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

My first card above features some fun stamps from Crackerbox Palace. I thought the bunny was so cute with her hat and flower so I continued that theme throughout the card. I paper pieced the bunny and her hat and flower. I embossed the background pieces with a flowery embossing folder from Sizzix. The sentiment (also from Crackerbox Palace) was designed for a graduation card, but I thought it would be perfect with this sweet bunny hat instead.

Fred She Said gave each of the dt members some digital images to use on our cards and I chose Nolan with his sign and some sweet bluebirds to make this card. The images are colored so all I needed to do was decide on a sketch to use, cut them out and attach. There are several signs to choose from and I attached the one I choose with pop dots to raise.

I am entering these cards in the Lots of Flowers challenge at Milk Coffee Challenge and the Masculine Card challenge at Paper Crafting Journey.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen