HI there! I just pop up to share with you the easy faux shimmer coloring with shimmer paper and illustrator markers from Spectrum Noir. I am fascinated with this faux technique and a lot of you have been asking how to make it. It is real simple and the trick is use shimmer paper to stamp your images. In my sample I stamped the new Blooming Texture stamp from RG Avenue into White Shimmer using Finesse Alcohol Proof Dye Ink Noir Black from...

Hello crafty friends, today I have a faux shimmer technique to share with you. I am featuring Martha’s Flowers from Joy Clair Designs and Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir. Take a look of my first card: I stamped the large image of Martha’s Flowers over White Shimmer card stock using VersaFine Onix. This card stock is perfect to create a special shimmer over the images after colored them. To color the image, I used Illustrator...

Welcome to Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps New Release Week 2. If you are arriving from Vicky’s Blog you are in the right place to stop, enjoy and continue with the hop. I will have at the end of this post the line up list to you have all the hops! To make my card I used one single stamp the Thinking of You Vertical stamped with six different colors of ink. After stamp the layer, I resized it with the large Embossed Edge Rectangle Die. I used some...

Happy Monday! It’s a day to share Even More Sentiments Etched Dies from Spellbinders. These new dies are Add On to the April Small Die Club. You know that I am a fan of Spellbiender Clubs and now with Add on or Extras they are better! I decided to create a card using 4 of the sentiments and combining them. These sentiments can be die cut with a frame or can be used alone to create the message. I combined two colors of blue to create the...

Hello crafty friends, today I have a special rainbow card with Rinea Foiled Paper. It is special because it is not a traditional rainbow! This month we have a cross promotion with Poppystamps and they have amazing dies! My rainbow is not traditional rainbow because I used the scraps of a collection of cards that I made recently. I embossed the Rinea Foiled Paper with a metallic stencil and covered the free areas of it with StazOn Pigment Ink on...

Hello crafty friends, I have a He is risen card to share. I am featuring the He is Risen dies from Kat Scrappiness, the He is Risen and the He is Risen with shadow die. To create the background of the card, I inked a white piece of card stock with two different colors of Harmony Ink from Spectrum Noir. Then, I placed the the Fade Away Stencil over the inked piece and covered the free areas of the stencil with the darker color that I used. I...

Hello crafty friends, the celebration is here! This is a fabulous month to Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps and I am so honored to stay here because I have been designer for this brand during last 5 years!!! My project is a celebration card. I decided to use the Beautiful Amazing Friend stamp. I created the background using a Balloon stencil with two different colors of ink. I applied Party Dress, Catherine Pooler Ink for the balloons and London...

Hello I have a Patched Heart card that I made using My Heart, the new stamp from Joy Clair Designs. To make this card I used the digital version of My Heart stamp. I just printed and colored the images with Tri-Blends from Spectrum Noir. Fussy cut with scissors and colored the borders with a black marker. This is a square card of 4-1/4″x 4-1/4″. I decorated the top layer with a zig zag stitched square die. Over this piece I stamped...

Hello crafty friends, I have a Go There Card to share with you. To make the base of the card, I used real red card stock. Then, I stenciled a layer of white card stock with Hickory Smoke distress ink and pasted the layer over the red base. In a separate piece of white card stock, I stamped the cow from the Go There stamp. I colored some parts of the image with Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir and fussy cut it with scissors. I framed the...

Welcome to Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps New Release Week 1. April is the anniversary month and the design team will show you the most complete inspiration with the new stamps. If you are arriving from Vicky’s Blog you are in the right place. If you I will have at the end of this post the line up list to you have all the hops! To make my card I used the Buffalo Background with three different colors of ink. I just applied the colors of ink...