Stempel Spass

Hi Everybody, 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. Unfortunately COVID 19 struck New Jersey hard and I needed  several sympathy cards. Such  disturbing times...... Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps has a nice selection of them, you can see them all  HERE . I made a background with alcohol inks. always amazing what you can create with them. The sentiment you can find  HERE . I stamped it on vellum. I also used a larger sentiment inside, but I forgot to photograph it. You can see it   HERE .  This is the second card I made. Same stamps, just different background. Here are the 20% off stamp sale categories and card techniques. We also have a big sale on  nurse, doctor and medical-stamps . You can get $5.00 store credit  once a week . Each month we will have several categories on sale for 2...

Hi Everybody, 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. Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps is having a huge birthday celebration this month in conjunction with a huge new stamp release! Two reasons to celebrate!!!! You may have arrived from the talented   Tracy McLennon or you may have just come to my blog on your own. There are a lot of new sentiment stamps in this release and one is prettier than the other. I just love  the one I used for this card .  I also got the gorgeous butterfly stamp new life, you can find it HERE . I heat embossed it on heat resistant acetate and colored the back with alcohol inks. The rest I heat embossed in gold. Added some sparkly gems. Your next stop on the hop is Donna Idlet  Here is the full line-up:   Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps Vicky Briggs Martha Lucia Gomez Nadine Carl...

Hi Everybody, Crackerbox & So Suzy Stamps has some wonderful sympathy sentiments . Unfortunately I needed to make a sympathy card, which I always find hard to do. Thankfully a good sentiment helps My stamp supplies: Those We Love I made an alcohol ink background. Stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it. Added the die cuts (Alexandra Renke) I love playing with alcohol inks - always looks amazing! Happy Stamping! Our current promotion: Linking up with: Inspire.Create  - with sympathy Little Red Wagon - in memoriam Paper Minutes - bluming/flowery Daring Cardmakers - Special Thoughts

Hi Everyone, Did you know there is a Rubber Dance challenge?  It runs all month long over in the  Facebook Rubber Dance Stamping Lounge  and its  those three colors you see below or anything goes with Rubber Dance stamps. And here is my take on it: My stamp supplies: Fish Swim Love I made an alcohol ink background on Yupo paper. Took an old unused background I had and stamped the fish on it. Cut them out and added them to the card. I hope you'll have time to play along! The winner gets a grab bag full of RubberDance stamps if we have enough entries. So go and ink up your stamps! See you in the FB Lounge! Happy Rubber Dancing!

Hi Everybody, a few of my card friends have shown some alcohol ink cards and this inspired me to get mine out again and play. My stamp supplies:  Olesya Side Bloom ,  Olesya Bloom , Love and happiness Forgive me for not having pictures of the process, but it is impossible to make an alcohol ink background and take pictures while you doing it. I like to wet my paper with blending solution - or even better 99% isopropyl alcohol, which only costs a fraction of the blending solution. I drip alcohol ink on it and use my heat tool to move the ink around and dry it. I took a regular brush and flicked clear alcohol onto the card, which gives you those little light colored bubbles. I took the bloom stamps and heat embossed them. If you use Yupo paper you have to be real careful, because it warps easily. The "paper" I used is Grafix opaque white craft plastic  - a present from my blogging friend Aileen Ryan from Colour and Sparkle . THANK YOU Aileen - that st...

Hi Everyone, its inspiration time at  STAMPlorations ! My stamp supplies: Happy Flowers stencil , Birthday die I made an alcohol ink background on Kraft Plastic - similar to Yupo paper. I took some foil and pressed it onto the little sticky areas. The foil sticks to this. You will see this better in the obliqued image. Took the stencil and laid it on the background. Took clear alcohol to dab off the open areas of the stencil - it removes the ink and leaves you with the negative picture. I took a thin Sharpie and outlined the stencil. Added the birthday die and the heat embossed wishes. Use  code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA to get 20% off on all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced items in the store. All our   Inspiration Project posts have a monthly random drawing - 1 commenter wins a $10 gift certificate. So look at all those  fabulous cards the Inspiration Girls  made and leave them some love! It may pay off ...

Hi Everybody, time to showcase a few of the older Crackerbox & So Suzy Stamps. Those flowers were created by Olesya from the DT and they are just gorgeous. My stamp supplies: Simple Birthday   Olesya Bloom , Olesya Side Bloom Curious how I made this card? I made it with alcohol inks on Yupo paper I started out with some clear alcohol - you can also use blending solution, but its a lot more expensive. I use 99% alcohol, you can get that much cheaper on the internet. Used my heat gun to blow out the ink (butterscotch) Added 3 drops of yellow. Waited until it was almost dry Sprayed it lightly with alcohol Stamped with Catherine Pooler ink . It looked a little feeble, so I heat embossed it in black. You have to be careful with the heat embossing, as the Yupo paper warps easily. Added little accents with blue ink and then added splatters. I heat embossed the sentiment using paint chips and mounted it with foam tape. ...

Hi Everyone, perhaps you arrived from  Donna Idlet  on this hop. The new So Suzy and Crackerbox Stamps release is out and you will be happy to hear, that we now have a lot of wonderful sympathy card sentiments in our collection. The sentiment I used you can find HERE I masked the first line of the sentiment and stamped it with Versamark onto dark green card stock. heat embossed it in gold. The reminder of the sentiment I stamped on the inside of my card. The background I made with alcohol ink on Yupo paper. There is a fabulous YouTube Video out there - if you are interested how I made this background. I did it pretty much the same way as that guy in the video.Where there is a lot of ink, it stays sticky and I used that to add little bits of gold foil to it. Came out quite well.  You now can also buy Catherine Pooler inks on the So Suzy and Crackerbox Stamps website - they are fantastic! I am a big fan! The next stop on the...