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  Hi Everybody!  I am here with my  Crackerbox Stamps  post.  Some of the products I have used have been provided to me from various companies I design for.  Affiliate links may be used in the links provided below.   Since Valentine's Day is coming up I figured a love themed card is in order! And that nutty squirrel just jumped on my card, LOL! I stamped the wood slice with Versamark and heat embossed them in white. Colored the little hearts and added Crystal Lacquer as resist. Brushed the background with the bottom being a bit darker. Colored in the spaces between the  wood slices . Added  brown marker for the bark. Added white splatters. Stamped the sentiment and squirrel. Colored the Squirrel with alcohol ink markers and cut it out. Added it with foam tape. The stamps I used:  Wood Slice You're Nuts but Squirrel silly small Crackerbox has a wonderful sale going on right now - and you get a free stamp along with your order, see below: I hope you liked this. Thanks for visitin

 Hi Everybody!  Perhaps you already have seen those wonderful snails on the Funky Fossil Facebook page. Well, they are finally in the store! I stamped the snail onto scrap paper and colored it with  alcohol ink markers. I used the new Happy Mail dies to cut it out.  I used the  Wonky Hearts stencil  to create the background. Used a left over paper strip at the bottom. Diecut the postage die in black and added a little snail from an old set to the center. Supplies I used: Shell-ebrate snail set Wonky Hearts stencil   Happy Mail die set Are you ready to play along with a birthday challenge in our FB group this month? The theme is   Celebration Simply add a picture of a card/project to the  Birthday Celebration Album   by the end of the month. You can enter as many times as you like. The only requirement is that your card includes at least one Funky Fossil product   At the end of the month there will be  3  entries picked at random to win  £50 credit  to spend in store! I hope you liked

  Hi Everyone, This week we are featuring Janes Doodles at the  Topflight blog . Since I frequently forget to send out birthday cards on time I needed to have this set....   I started with the cupcake on top and worked my way down, masking everything. Brushed the background and added a few water splatters. Colored the animals with alcohol ink markers. Stamped the sentiment and trimmed the card. Added a strip of wood paper on the side.  I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting.  And for another 3 days there is  a wonderful sale at Topflight Stamps - grab them while you can! See you next week with more  Topflight Stamps  inspiration. And here are the stamp supplies I used:    Belated Birthday ,  Blender Brushes , Wood Textures

     Hi Everyone, I am back with my weekly Katzelkraft post. This week it's going to be snarky! I am always up for some snark, LOL! I stamped the animal directly onto the card and masked it. I smooshed the background with distress oxide inks. I colored the animal with watercolors. Stamped and heat embossed the sentiment. Cut it out and added it. Trimmed the card and added a strip of patterned leftover paper that was lying around for more interest The stamps I used are from the following set: Happiness Mouse Pads  - KTZ297   ( FRANCE) Happy Mice  - KTZ297   (USA) Hope you liked this - I'll be back next Wednesday with more Katzelkraft inspiration.  Thanks for visiting! Happy Stamping! Linking up with: Simon Says Wednesday challenge - anything goes

  Hi Everybody!  It's   Funky Fossil Designs  4th birthday. Let me introduce you to the new set Hap-Pea Birthday by Elena Zinski. It's a free stamp this month as part of the Funky Fossil birthday celebration if you order in January. I stamped the pea onto scrap paper and colored it with  alcohol ink markers. I cut it out. Stamped it again on a page of the Watercolor Rainbow paper pad. Used the left over paper strip to die cut the banner square ( Bunting Trio dies ). Used the heart border die ( Edges die set ) and underlayed it with another strip of left over patterned paper. The sentiment comes with the pea stamp. Are you ready to play along with a birthday challenge in our FB group this month? The theme is   Celebration Simply add a picture of a card/project to the  Birthday Celebration Album   by the end of the month. You can enter as many times as you like. The only requirement is that your card includes at least one Funky Fossil product   At the end of the month there will

  Hi Everybody!    Sarah Gray   from  Funky Fossil Designs   is at the HTCN studio today morning at 9.30am (GMT- British Time) with a gorgeous new collection called  Bee Sweet . This includes stamps, papers, washi, enamel dots, stencil, a fabulous honeycomb heart die and so much more.  Here's the link to the website   https://www.howtocraftnetwork.co.uk/ I used a trip of paper from the new paper pad and added it in between strips of regular white card stock - to get an A2 card size. I used one of the bee stamps and stamped it onto my paper. Stamped the bees again and cut out their bodies and glued them onto the stamped bees on the card. I added some flower sprig from the set In the Meadow .   The sentiment is from the same set. The products I used: Queen Bee stamp set In The Meadow stamp set Bee Sweet paper pad Are you ready to play along with a birthday challenge in our FB group this month? The theme is   Celebration Simply add a picture of a card/project to the  Birthday Celebra

 Hi Everyone, This week it's anything goes at the  Topflight blog . I decided to ink up that cute penguin from the Craft Emotions set  Penguin 1 . I also used a strip of patterned paper as my background - I liked up a similar paper below, as the one I used is not in the store right now. I stamped the penguin on scrap paper and colored it with alcohol ink markers. Cut them out. I used a stencil for the rest of my background and brushed with distress oxide ink (speckled egg). Used a bit of black paper as frame for my patterned paper. Stamped the sentiment and assembled the card. I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting.  See you next week with more  Topflight Stamps  inspiration. And here are the stamp supplies I used:    Penguin 1 , Studio Light Art by Marlene stencil  (I used a slightly different stencil, which is not in the store right now) Blender Brushes ,  Similar paper pad to the one I used, which is not available anymore Linking up with: The Four Seasons challenge - winter

    Hi Everyone, I am back with my weekly Katzelkraft post. We are getting closer to Valentine's Day, so I made a card for this occasion. Thankfully you can use Katzelkraft stamps for just about any occasion! No special sets required! I used one of my left over backgrounds that had just a tiny bit of ink on it. I stamped the animal directly onto the card and masked it. Used the Wonky Hearts stencil from Funky Fossil Designs fo rmy background and shifted it. Brushed the hearts again with whatever color was left on the brush. Also brushed a bit more with blue in between the hearts. I colored the animal with water colors. Stamped the sentiment. Used a stitched die to cut the card to size and mounted it onto blue card stock. The stamps I used are from the following set: Chat pensive - SOLO178,  Dog Stamps  - KTZ296   ( FRANCE) Pensive Cat  - SOLO178,  You are Purrfect  - KTZ296   (USA) Hope you liked this - I'll be back next Wednesday with more Katzelkraft inspiration.  Thanks fo

Hi Everybody!  The new release from  Funky Fossil Designs  will soon be coming to the store. Let me introduce you to the new set Celebration by Elena Zinski. It's a free stamp this month as part of the Funky fossil birthday celebration if you I used one of the stamps and colored it with  alcohol ink markers.I die cut it and the frame with square dies and mounted it onto lilac card stock. The sentiment is from the set  Twin Blooms Are you ready to play along with a birthday challenge in our FB group this month? The theme is   Celebration Simply add a picture of a card/project to the  Birthday Celebration Album   by the end of the month. You can enter as many times as you like. The only requirement is that your card includes at least one Funky Fossil product   At the end of the month there will be  3  entries picked at random to win  £50 credit  to spend in store! I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting! Happy new release! Linking up with: Paper Dragonfly  - Party Time

  Hi Everybody!  I have to honor to guest design for the current  Dream Factory/Traumfabrik Challenge ! The inspiration is from the Movie Squared Love - see the inspiration poster below. But you can use anything with Love, Hearts or Valentine's Day  ( Liebe ,  Herzen ,  Valentinst ag) . I kept it simple with mycard. I used that cute Ellie from the set On Safari designed for Funky Fossil Designs by Donna Gray. I colored him with alcohol ink markers and added some white gel pen dots. I heat embossed the sentiment (same set) and added it with foam tape. Masked the Ellie and sponged a bit of a background. Trimmed the card. Put a strip of patterned paper on the side. I also added Crystal Lacquer to the hearts and an enamel dot at the bottom. This is the movie poster: I hope you'll get inspired and play along! I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting! Happy Stamping! Linking up with:

  Hi Everybody!  The new release from  Funky Fossil Designs  will soon be coming to the store. Let me introduce you to the new set Ink and Bones by Olga Heldwein. Very different from what I usually use, but bones just appeal to me (it's my job to look at them, actually). So this set is for me! It is also great fro mixed media projects I would think. But the stamps hold enough interest on their own regardless what you do with them. I used one of the stamps and colored it with  alcohol ink markers.I die cut it and the frame with square dies and mounted it onto lilac card stock. The sentiment is from the set Twin Blooms Are you ready to play along with a birthday challenge in our FB group this month? The theme is   Celebration Simply add a picture of a card/project to the  Birthday Celebration Album   by the end of the month. You can enter as many times as you like. The only requirement is that your card includes at least one Funky Fossil product   At the end of the month there will b

Hi Everybody!  I am here with my  Crackerbox Stamps  post.  Some of the products I have used have been provided to me from various companies I design for.  Affiliate links may be used in the links provided below.   I have not made a galaxy background in a while. It just felt right with those dark, long nights we are having in January...... I sponged green, yellow, blue and pink distress inks onto a white card base and then sponged over my background with black soot distress ink, sponging less over the colored areas. that way you get a nice galaxy background, although there a quite a few different techniques for that out there. I stamped the rocket and the moon onto scrap paper.  I colored them with alcohol ink markers and cut them out. Added water drops and white splatters to my background. Let it dry well. Stamped the sentiment and stars with Versamark ink and heat embossed them.  Mounted the back panel onto a slightly larger card base. The stamps I used:  Rocket Moon Full   Star Twin