Grill Baby Grill Summer Food Card

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and I am sharing a summer grilling card made with fun stamps from Crackerbox Palace. I started with a yellow card base with a square frame cut out with a Nestabilities die. Then I cut a smaller square frame of blue and backed it with a green piece. I stamped, cut out and colored the bacon cheeseburger, hot dog and steak and attached them on different layers of the frames. I love the CBP grill sentiment- they make me smile. This card could be used for an invite to a BBQ or a fun summer hello to a grill master.

Don’t forget you can save 15% off your order at Crackerbox Rubberstamps.com with my name (Karen) in the coupon code box. All I ask is that you sign up as a follower here and then go shop for all these great stamps and more. You know you want toJ

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Penny’s Paper Crafty and the Summer Food challenge at Open-Minded Crafting. 

Cover of the August Issue of Die Cut Crazy!

I have had hundreds of cards published and many full length articles too, but I never made the cover until this  newest issue of Die Cut Crazy, so I am very excited! I am doing a monthly column called Never Too Early to Make our Christmas Cards and this is the card I shared along with a review of the Spellbinders Tool in One. Have you tried that yet? I love the Zig Zag die from Memory Box, but I used to have to poke out all the holes by hand in the paper and clean the ones out of the die too. With the Spellbinders Tool in One, you can simply roll the bristles over the paper or the die on a mat and they fall right out! I die cut kraft paper twice with the Zig Zag die and stamped the sentiment from Paper Trey Ink in the center. The poinsettia was cut with a Marianne Creatables die and colored with 3D Stamp Paint from Viva to make it sparkly. I added some greens punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

Check out the new issue of Die Cut Crazy if you have an iPhone or iPad. We are having a birthday blog hop next Friday (the 15th) and I am told the PDF version should be ready by then for those of us without an iPad or iPhone. And there will be prizes and lots of great birthday card inspiration!

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

What If? Wed. Sketch Challenge at Repeat Impressions

Happy Wednesday everyone! It's time for another fun sketch challenge at The House that Stamps Built and we are challenging you to make a card using the sketch below and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards using this sketch, please visit our blog.

I created my sketch card using a mason jar, flowers and a sentiment from the new “Contain Yourself” set of stamps from Repeat Impressions. I embossed the mason jar and flowers on vellum with white embossing powder, then colored the water and flowers from the back of the vellum. I added a tag with the perfect sentiment and a butterfly and gems to complete the sketch card.

Here is the sketch for you to follow when you create a card for our challenge. You do not need to use Repeat Impressions stamps to enter our challenges, but you get an extra chance to win if you do!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at 613 Avenue Create and Suzy Bee’s Bloomin’ Challenge.

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Chocolate and Sharing Ideas-These are a few of my favorite things!

I love chocolate- who doesn't? And I love sharing ideas here on my blog and in the classes in my home. I had made a teacup with Hershey's kisses that I learned how to make here on this wonderful blog. My class saw it and asked me to teach it in the next monthly class in my home. I found some more free tutorials on the same blog for butterflies, cars and Christmas trees, and asked the designer if it would OK to share her ideas with my classes. Brenda sent a lovely email back with her permission to do so. Here are the pictures of the teacup, car and Christmas trees I made and am going to share with classes in my home:

What fun to make these cute party favors or little gifts for kids or friends! I am scheduling a class teaching all of these in my home October 2nd at 12:30, but could do it another time if that date does not work out for you. Email or call for details.

I am entering these projects in the Anything Goes challenge at Scribble and Scrap and the "Favorite Things" challenge at Allsorts.

Shaped Mrs. Santa Card

I love making shaped cards and that is the challenge this time at Virginia's View Challenge. I used my Grand Calibur and the largest grands Labels 2 to create the card base for this card. Then I die cut the green layer with a smaller Labels 2 Nestabilities die. The dress die is from Stampin' Up and I cut it in sparkly red and white. I added a black belt and a snowflake for the belt buckle. The "joy" die (from W Plus 9) was cut twice in red dp and green and layered together, and I added a snowflake and red gem to complete the holiday card. This card is part of my "Dresses to Die For" class that I am teaching in my home.

I am also entering this card in the Anything Goes (for Christmas) at Winter Wonderland.

CAS (Clean and Simple) 4 Kids 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 CAS (Clean and Simple) 4 Kids! Create and link any CAS card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: DRS Designs is giving their winner a $10 gift certificate! A Day for Daisies is giving their randomly picked winner a $12 gift certificate! And Kitchen Sink Stamp’s winner gets a $25 gift certificate! 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 just makes me smile, and I hope it will have the same result when one of our kids gets it:) The glow worm and lol sentiment are from DRS Designs. I stamped and paper pieced the glow worm on a white piece that shows through the frame cut with two Nestabilities square dies. I  colored his wings and bum with a sparkly gel pen and IRL they really shine. Then I stamped the sentiment, cut out with deckle scissors and attached to the front of this CAS card. 

"I Love my Swing" is the name of this cute digital stamp from A Day for Daisies. Isn't she sweet? I printed her on blue paper, paper pieced, did a little coloring and cut out the "hi" (die from Paper Smooches.) So easy, but so cute. 

I am entering the first card in the challenge at MilkCoffee to use two or more diecuts (which I did on the frame), and the Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Girls.

Masculine Card on Crackerbox Palace Friday

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and I am sharing a masculine card I made with Crackerbox Palace’s stamps and a background technique I learned from Lisa Eisner in the latest issue of Die Cut Crazy. I started with a top folding brown card and a light yellow front piece. I scored the yellow piece every half inch with my Scor-Buddy. Then I dragged a series of inks over the piece (yellow, medium brown and darker brown) to achieve this worn wood look. I cut a hole in the front with a Spellbinders circle die and stamped the ship circle in the inside of the card. I cut the brown circle frame and added some yellow candy dots to the window frame. I stamped the “Just Because”, cut out with a Spellbinders label die and sponged with Scattered Straw Distress Ink while still in the label die. I attached that with pop dots. I had some extra of the front wood piece, so I attached one on the inside too. Here is a look the inside: 

Don’t forget you can save 15% off your order at Crackerbox Palace.com with my name (Karen) in the coupon code box. All I ask is that you sign up as a follower here and then go shop for all these great stamps and more at 15% off!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at  Simon Says Stamp and Addicted to Stamps.