A Sip of Retro Charm

  Hi Everyone, Dalis here.

There’s something about that 50’s carved look on stamps that always makes me stop scrolling. It’s nostalgic and bold at the same time — like finding a piece of vintage charm that still feels modern. When I saw this coffee stamp at Crackerbox Stamps, it went straight into my cart. I knew it would be one of those stamps I could use again and again — for anyone, any occasion. I paired it with a retro color palette that just felt right, and honestly, the sentiment tied it all together. The pièce de résistance, as they say!

Crackerbox Stamp is Sponsoring Coffee Lovers, for more information, make sure you check out our Blop Hop Post HERE 

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The hop is:

2025 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Friday, November 7 - Friday, November 14

How to Recreate This Card:

1. Lightly draw diagonal pencil lines across your card panel — these will help you center your image and evenly alternate your three chosen colors.

2. Blend or ink each section, alternating the colors as you go. Let the ink dry completely, then gently erase the pencil lines.

3. To create a perfectly matched sentiment strip, drag one of your ink pads directly onto a piece of cardstock.

4. Stamp your sentiment with embossing ink and heat emboss it using white embossing powder.

5. Cut the ends of the strip into a fishtail shape and adhere it to the card front.

Supply List:

Coffee Cup 50s

Coffee Blood 

Versamark Ink 

Additional Supplies: White embossing powder

Until next time— Stay colorful, stay crafty! -- Dalis

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Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2025 November

 Welcome Stampers! We have joined the fun and hop with Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop!

Be sure to stop by the hop, they have prizes!!!

Are you ready to sit down, relax with a cup of coffee, and enjoy all the cards?

I am sure the hop will be fun, and you will get a lot of inspiration with all of the cards.

Coffee Lovers has many Super Sponsors, and we are one of them. 

We are also offering 25% off all of our Coffee, Tea, and Hot Chocolate stamps from the 7th through midnight on the 15th!

Designer: Monica

Stamps Used:

Saying

Lady

Designer: Toni

Stamps Used:

Cup & Saying

Lady

Designer: Janet

Stamps Used:

Cup & Beans

Saying

Designer: Dalis

Stamps Used:

Cup

Saying

Designer: Timothy

Stamps Used:

Cup & Saying

Minion

Designer: Vicky

Stamps Used:

Grinch Hand

Coffee Cup

Drip ~or draw your own

Saying

Thank you from the Crackerbox Team for taking the time to look at all of our cards 💗

We hope you enjoyed the Coffee Lovers Hop; we enjoyed being part of it.

Don't forget about our 25% OFF our Coffee, Hot Chocolate, and Tea stamps!

Stay creative!

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Snowlady Neiva

 Hello, look out for Snowlady Neiva sliding down the hill! She a fast and flashy snowlady!

I stamp the Snowlady on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored her with colored pencils. Snowman X-ing is stamped on woodgrain paper with VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink, then torn into a rectangle to look like an old, weathered sign. The signpost is out of the same paper. I added the sign to the bottom corner of the cardstock. The white cardstock is layered with dark blue paper, and then with blue snowflake paper. I added some silver glitter to the snowflakes to make her sparkle more.

Stamps Used:

Snowlady Neiva

Snowman x-crossing

Products Used:

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink

Thanks for looking! It's time to get the winter stamps out and make some cards!

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Cindy Lou Who?

Toni here with you today, sharing a cheerful holiday card featuring my favorite holiday cartoon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

I first cut out the frame using a candy-striped paper. Next, I stamped Grinch & Max as well as Cindy Lou, then colored them up with Zig Real Brush Markers. They're all so cute!  

I embossed the Cindy Lou Saying sentiment in a bright red to coordinate with the frame. I had originally planned to leave the background white, but that seemed so plain vanilla, so I did a quick sponging with blue and a bit of spattering to mimic snow.

For a full list of products used and to see my other projects, feel free to visit my blog, FrankieHelpsCraft.  Have a great rest of your week!

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Happy Birthday Pirate

 Arrr Matey. I have a pirate card for any pirate-loving birthday guy.

I stamped the Sailing Ship, and colored it.

Jack Sparrow was stamped next and colored.

I trimmed the cardstock down to a square.

I colored in the water.

I stamped and embossed the words, Arrr Matey, and Happy Birthday .

A set of Pirate sayings.

Stamps Used:

Sailing Ship

Jack Sparrow

Arrr Matey

Happy Birthday

Pirate sayings Set of 4 & money savings

Stay creative! Vicky

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Happy Minion-Ween

 Hi everyone, and Happy Trick or Treat 🙂
Today I am sharing a fun box card using these super cute minions from the Crackerbox Stamps store…

 
I used some patterned paper from Mintay and colored my images using Copic markers on XPressIT paper.

Stamps Used:
Mummy Stuart
Frankin Bob

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Wishing You A Haunting Night

 Vicky here today. I am a little sad that October is almost gone.

The cool weather, beautiful colors on the trees, and the fun decorations in yards.

The fun holiday, Halloween, is here tomorrow. Halloween is the best holiday; you can dress up, have fun, and eat candy in the spirit of Halloween

Here is my last Halloween card for this year! It's a simple and quick Halloween card with a frightfully cute pumpkin.

I stamped the saying, Ghost Goblins Galore, " on the left.

The Pumpkin was stamped in the center of the saying and colored.

Sequences were added in the corner and mounted, and...done!

Stamps Used:

Ghost Goblins Galore

Pumpkin

I hope you enjoyed the month of October!

Vicky

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We Still Rock

Age is just a number, we are only as old as we act.

 I started with a maroon card base.

I layered an embossed pink cardstock on top. I stamped the Inner You

and We Still Rock stamps on light pink paper and used stitched square dies to cut them out.

To finish the card, I added three decorative brads. Thanks for stopping by.

Timothy

Stamps Used

Inner You

We Still Rock

 

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Our Silly Witch Glinda

 Hello Stamper.

I haven't had our silly Glinda witch out for a while, so I thought I would do a quick card with her.

I stamped Glinda and colored her. Then I stamped the Bats Flying By and the saying, If You Can't Fly. 

I sponged black, purple, yellow, and orange around the edge of the card.

I used the Texture Brush for the black dots.

Stamps Used:

Glinda

 Bats Flying By

If You Can't Fly

Products Used:

Texture Brush

Memento Black Ink ~image

VersaFine Clair Black ~bats & words

Have a fabulous day!

Vicky

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Autumn Blessing

 Hello Stampers. Vicky is here today. I made a quick fall card. The leaves in the background match the leaves in the saying. There is also a leaf border that matches these leaves. I will list all of them below.

I started with the saying Autumn Blessing and embossed and trimmed it. I cut gold cardstock and rounded the edges. This would make a great Thanksgiving stamp.

I also rounded the edges of the black cardstock behind the gold cardstock. I cut a square vanilla piece of cardstock and sponged Acure color ink around the edges. I stamped the Set Of Leaves and colored them. I placed the square on black card stock and put it on the left side. I added the leaves on the right.

Stamps Used:

Autumn Blessing

Autumn Blessing Set Of Leaves

Autumn Blessing And Leaves Set of 3 ~cost savings

Autumn Blessing Leaf Border 

I hope you are enjoying the fall and staying crafty!

Vicky -check out my IG

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Fall Thank You Card

Hi, Janet here with a simple thank you card. Nothing says fall like a nice round pumpkin.

On a rectangular piece of white cardstock, I stamped the pumpkin with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored it with copic markers. Next, I stamped Thank You with Clair VersaFine Nocturne Ink in the upper right corner. I layered it on soft orange printed paper. For the bottom layer, I used the same soft orange printed paper. I cut a slightly smaller piece of bold orange patterned paper, wrapped a wide piece of twine around it, and then layered it on the base paper. Next, I centered the white stamped cardstock on the base.

Stamps Used:

Pumpkins and Leaves

Thank You Simple

Products Used:

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Clair VersaFine Nocturne Ink

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed the card.

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Boo-tiful Chaos: A Spooky Mixed Media Card Adventure

 Hi Everyone, Dalis here.

Halloween is my magical time of year—the season when I can make the weirdest cards imaginable, and no one says a thing about it! I love everything about creating during this time. Creepy cards? Yes, please. Funny cards? Absolutely. But my favorite of all are the Mixed Media FUN cards that let me throw everything onto the table (sometimes literally) and just play.

For this project, I used three fabulous Crackerbox Stamps: Ghost Sketched, Spider Spooky, and Wicked Fun. The ghost helped me complete the cutest little “BOO” sentiment, and honestly, he might be one of my favorites to work with. He’s so easy to color—and even easier to spookify!

To give him a little ghostly glam, I added two-way glue to his eyes and mouth and then pressed on some toner foil. Voila! The coolest foiled-eyed ghost you’ve ever seen was born. The spiders didn’t escape my creative mischief either—they each got a pair of 3mm micro googly eyes, and they couldn’t be more perfectly sized.

As for the background, I went full mixed media mode. I distressed edges, stitched on paper, blended colors, added paste and embossing powder, and, of course, brought in more foil. This card truly has a little bit of everything—and I couldn’t be happier with the spooky, shiny mess that came out of it.

That’s the best part of Halloween crafting—there are no rules. Just weird, wonderful, wicked fun.

What would you have done differently?

Supply List:

Wicked Fun

Spider Spooky 

Ghost Sketched 

Additional Supplies: Memento Tuxedo Black, Alcohol Markers, white gel pen, pattern paper, wall repair tape, stickers and ephemera, foil, googley eyes, silver thread, and black bling.

Until next time— Stay colorful, stay crafty! -- Dalis

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Spooky Candles

There is something so beautiful about burning candles.

I started with a vanilla card base. I added some Halloween pattern paper

and used alphabet dies to create my sentiment. I stamped the Candles Lit 3 stamps and cut it out with a stitched circle die. I colored them with alcohol markers and used a white gel pen to add highlights. I used distress ink on all the vanilla cardstock to give the card a more vintage look. Depending on how you color these candles, you can use them for different holidays.

Thanks for stopping by!

Timothy

Stamps Used

Candles Lit 3

 

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Funny Caterpillar Butterfly Card

Toni here with you today from under my cozy blankets. All this cool weather has got me wanting to hibernate.  You too? 

I had gotten the Caterpillars and Saying stamps with the intention of creating a summer card, but that slipped by way too fast. A bit of mental gymnastics, and I turned it into an autumnal card instead.

To begin, I stamped the Fancy Butterfly with a melange of Catherine Pooler inks. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne.  I then die-cut some circles from the panel and popped them up to create the look of thought bubbles.

Next, I stamped the caterpillar and colored him up with Copics, adding a die-cut hill cut from scraps.

For a full list of products used and to see my other projects, feel free to visit my blog, FrankieHelpsCraft.  Have a great rest of your week!

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Lucy's Halloween Humor

 Lucy is having some fun with a little Halloween humor. Vicky here today.

My card has a black base with an orange card. I cut a smaller yellow card and angled it on the orange.

I stamped the saying Do I Fly and made a yellow border with a marker.

The Witch's Broom was stamped at the bottom of the card.

Lucy was placed just above the broom.

Stamps Used:

Do I Fly

Witch's Broom

Lucy

Hope you have a great day of crafting!

Vicky

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