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!

Before I get into the BLOG HOP, let me mention we are having a 25% SALE: COFFEE, TEA & COCOA SALE!

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

#fallwinter2025clh

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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Mixed Media Neon Snarky Comic Card

 Hello, crafty friends! Toni here today with a really bright and fun--and, of course, snarky--card!

I created the card front using my Gelli plate and Art by Marlene neon paints. I used a stencil and archival ink to add the dotty pattern.

Next, I stamped Comic Women using Memento Tuxedo Black, leaving it in my MISTI, so that once I was done coloring the image with Copics, I could accurately restamp with Versafine Clair Nocturne (which smears with alcohol ink).  That worked a treat to create a really bold look.

I trimmed that down, added some stenciled dots, and mounted it on black.  To finish up the card, I stamped and embossed Miserable without You.

For a full list of products used and to see my other projects, you can visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft.  Have a great rest of your day!

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Love Is All You Need Card

 Hello Stampers. Vicky here today with a spreading love card.

I used a border die-cut and placed it on yellow cardstock.

On a piece of white cardstock, I stamped the images and colored them.

The Flower Flourish Heart is a larger image from the Flower Flourish. And there are other images taken from the large Flower Flourish.

It is a nice addition to use with the larger flower.

Stamps Used:

Love Is All You Need

Small Feet

Flower Flourish Heart

Flower Flourish~a large flower that can be used with the Heart flower.

Thanks for checking out my card!

Vicky

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Ever Have One Of Those Days?

 Hello Stampers. Toni made this card to share with you.

Have you ever felt like this?

The Comic Man is the perfect stamp image for this saying.

The thought bubble is blank, and Toni added the WTF.

Dear Life was stamped on the lower left corner.

Toni masked the image and used 2 stencils for the background.

The swirls are perfect for this card.

Stamps Used:

Comic Man

WTF

Dear Life

Hope you enjoyed Toni's card!

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Snarky Retro 60s Style New Year Card

 Hello, friends!  Toni here sharing a humorous card for the New Year or any time.

Talk about simple and quick to make with this one. I stamped the Drinking Couple with Versafine Clair Nocturne and mounted it on black to match the embossed Falling Ice sentiment panel. I mounted these on a hot-foiled card front but you could easily use a piece of patterned paper instead.

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

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We Still Rock Birthday Card

 Hello! Nadine here today with a birthday card using some stamps from the Remember the 60s category in the store.

Using a piece of 80lb. White Cardstock, I stamped the We Still Rock sentiment with VersaFine Clair in Nocturne and added some pink embossing powder just to the "We still rock!" part of the stamp and heat set it with a heat tool. Then just below the sentiment, I stamped the Girls Boombox and colored it with a pink and grey Copic Marker. On my card front, I used some patterned papers I had in my stash.

CRACKERBOX STAMPS PRODUCTS USED:
80lb. White Cardstock
We Still Rock
Girls Boombox

For a full list of supplies used, click HERE
See you next time! Until then, happy crafting!

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Fun 60s Cards

Hello, Stampers! Today I am sharing some cards that I made using stamps from our Remember The 60s category. My card was fun to make and color. The '60s were full of colors.

The Feeling Groovy saying is fun to color and can be colored in so many different ways. The Pot Leaf comes in 2 sizes. I love the Feet Stamp.  The feet also come in 2 sizes. I have used the feet on so many occasions. 

Here is another card!

This is the card stock I cut the piece out for the saying. I stenciled it and used it on my card. I just covered the cutout area with the orange cardstock. 

The saying, All You Need was stamped on the cutout from the white cardstock. I stamped the 5 Petal Flowers and cut them out. I also stamped the Glasses Round Lg. I cut them out and stamped them on the background of some sticker paper to get the iridescent look.

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Let There Be Peace Card

Hi Friends! Vicky here today. What can I say that hasn't been said already. Peace. We wish peace for Ukraine.
We have our Sunflowers and the word Peace on SALE if you want to pick one up. If you would like one, here is the link for the one I used, Sunflower Lg. and here is the link for the word Peace. We do have other Sunflowers and Peace words and symbols.

Thanks for stopping by!

Peace to all.

Vicky

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Peace Card

 Hello, Nadine here today with a Peace card that I made. Not much more needs to be said, other than let there be peace.

This was a simple card to make and gets the point across perfectly. For the background, I used some TCW Colorsparx in a yellow and blue color on watercolor paper and spritzed them with water to get the color explosion.

Stamps Used:
Outline Peace
6 Petal Flowers Set of 3

I stamped the Peace with VersaMark Ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder and then placed a piece of blue transfer foil over it and ran it through a laminating machine. Then using the same two Colorsparx colors, I painted the colors to color in the sentiment letting the colors bleed outside the lines.
On the background, I stamped the 6 Petal Flowers with VersaMark Ink and heat embossed them with a sparkle embossing powder. You can see them much better in person than you can in the photos.

For the complete list of supplies used click HERE

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Feeling Groovy Card

Hello, Stampers! Vicky here today with a Feeling Groovy card. Here is WI. we will be 9 degrees and I thought I would do a card with some bright color and uplifting feeling. And don't these feet make you smile?

One nice thing about this card is that you could use it for just about any occasion. 

I have a friend with a birthday in about 10 days and she will be feeling groovy!

I also have used these feet for a get-well card with Hope Your Back On Your Feet Soon.

Stamps used:

Feeling Groovy

Feet

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Enjoy The High Life with Rafferty The Giraffe Card

Hello crafty friends! Vicky here today. Here is a humorous card for a friend. I think Rafferty the Giraffe is going to be a fun stamp to use with any of the funny or snarky sayings. He just makes you smile!

I used the Pot Leaf Sm. and Pot Leaf Lg.

You can get both of them as a set of 2.

I only stamped around the edges and colored them with Copic markers.

Girrafe and High Life Sentiment

Have a great day and thanks for looking!!

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Hippie Flip Pop Card

Hello everyone! Maria Pilar here sharing another card with the Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps Card Kits. The cards are from The Paper Cut.

For my card, I have created a background using gelatos with a washcloth. My idea was to use the Remember the 60's stamps and that's why I chose very cheerful colors appropriate to the theme.

I stamped on White Smooth Card Stock all the stamps I had chosen: 5 Petal Flowers, 6 Petal Flowers, the small flower heart of Daisy Heart Set of 3, Girl Front and Back, Girls Guitar, Girls Kite and the sentiment Love, Peace, Harmony And after coloring them with alcohol markers, I began to distribute them over the surface of the card.

As you can see, in the center I stamped the girl on one side, completing the decoration with a yellow chevron washi tape and the message stamped on a separate card, surrounded by small flowers, on the other pasting all the elements using E-Z Runner Permanent Strips.

Check out the Card Kits we have for March and stay tuned for upcoming news.

Thanks for stopping by and happy weekend!

Maria Pilar

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Hippie Birthday Flip Card

 Hi Everybody,

Cornelia here today. Some of the products I have used have been provided to me by various companies I design for. Affiliate links may be used in the links provided below.

You may have seen, that Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps now offers a card of the month kits. The kits will NOT be a monthly subscription, you will need to go to the store and purchase them each month. There will be two kits released on the 1st of each month starting in March. One will be a sweet kit and the other one will be a snarky kit.

The kits come with precut cardstock, so you don't have to fiddle around with cutting and scoring your card bases. The cardstock is from The Paper Cut. they have a large range of papers and precut card bases. You may want to check them out......

I wanted to show you that you can use those pre-cut cards with whatever stamps you have in your stash. 

I first created the rainbow frame with distress inks. I added the flowers from the Flower set.  

I then stamped the cute little girl and colored it with water brush pens and Inktense pencils.

Stamped the inside. I also stamped the kite on a piece of scrap paper and cut it out, so I could have it "fly off" the white inside page.

My stamp supplies:

Flower set

Girl With Curls

Chill Out

Hippie Birthday

Boom box

Kite

Card Kit 2

I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting!

Happy Stamping!

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A Pretty Birthday CAS Card

 Hello everyone! Maria Pilar here with you on this first Friday of Fall! It's time for a birthday CAS card. 

I have made this card using some flowers from the Remember the 60s: 6 Petal Flowers and Doodle Flower, the first ones colored and glued on top of the others.

I made a splash with Stampería's MixMedia AquaColor spray ink in pink on white cardstock before gluing the flowers.

The birthday sentiment Everything Heart Desires is colored with pink Faber Castell gelatos and then I glued it with Crafty Foam Tape after rounding its corners.

To finish, I added a few drops of Liquid Pearls on the surface.

You will be well received on my blog for more details.

In September you can get a 20% discount in the marked categories from Crackerbox&SuzyStamps as well as free shipping on orders over $45 for the USA and $65 for international.

Thank you very much for stopping by and see you soon. Have a happy weekend!

Maria Pilar

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Gotta have Peace, Love, and Harmony

 Hello and Happy September!!!  This is Shanna from Caffeinated Craftiness, and I can't believe it is already close to Fall....my favorite season!!  I am so very ready for sweatshirts and pumpkin spice, how about you?  Today I am sharing another card featuring some adorable stamps from the most recent release from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Remember the 60's!  I created a double Z-fold slimline card, which I am totally loving the design of!  I will hopefully have a video up soon on how to make this fun fold card over on my YouTube channel.....it just wasn't ready yet at the time of publishing this post.  

I pulled my color inspiration from some fun patterned paper I had in my stash that felt retro to me and went well with my 60's theme.  My focal stamp, Girl with Purse, was colored with Copics and then popped up with foam tape to the from panel of my card.  

I heat embossed the Outline Love and Peace stamps, along with the Harmony sentiment in white embossing powder onto black cardstock and adhered them with liquid glue to the card.  I love how this fun fold "hides" different panels until you open the card....it makes for a fun pop-up surprise! Here is the card completely opened flat, when it is all folded it fits inside a #10 envelope.

 I felt I needed a little more added, so I grabbed the smaller flower stamps from the Daisy heart set of 3 and stamped and colored, then fussy cut them out to add some fun accent areas.  

Final touches included some fun Rainbow Daisy clay flowers, and some rainbow colored rhinestones!  I love me some sparkle!!!  

Over in the Crackerbox and Suzy Flaunt it if You Made it Facebook group there is a monthly cardmaking "theme"  and September's technique of the month is to create a POP UP card! 

 **BONUS** If you combine the technique of the month with a stamp from one of the sale categories, you get a 5.00 store credit towards you next purchase of amazing red rubber goodness!

 

That wraps up my post for today, I will be back here soon with another dose of red rubber inspiration!  Be sure to follow along with me over on Instagram and Facebook to keep up with all my caffeinated adventures!  Till next time, bye!

~Shanna

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2 Days left for the sale! Cards Using the 60's New Release Stamps to Spread Love!

  Hello there!

I have a couple more cards using the new release. You can still get 25% OFF  today and tomorrow (30th & 31st) with using the coupon code...NewRelease10.

Check out the all of the stamps in the category! You might be surprised all that is in there!

Here are the stamps I used on this card:
All You Need
Girl Sitting With Pigtails
Girls Boombox
5 Petal Flower set of 3

I couldn't find the right color of yellow for the background card, so I took the chisel side of the Copic and pressed the tip harder so it made the line thicker. I used this on both cards. 

Stamps I used:

Every Little Thing

Daisy Heart set of 3

The sale is 15% off but...with a coupon code, NewRelease10 you will get a TOTAL of 15% OFF!

There are a lot of stamps I put in that category, check it out here!

We ALSO have more sales in these 3 categories!

Thanks for stopping by,

Stay safe and happy!

Hugs, Vicky

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Chill Out

Hi Everybody,

Cornelia here today.
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 had some fun with my Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps.

Summer is coming to an end, although I won't miss the relentless heat and humidity, I must admit.....Anyhow, if you still need some cooling off I have the right card for you. I used the surfboard, boombox, and kite. Paired up with the kite and a matching sentiment. The water is an ancient paper I had in my stash. 

I sponged the surfboard and fuzzy cut it. The rest I colored with markers and water brush pens.

All those wonderful stamps you can find in a section called Remember The 60's. go and check it out - there is some cool stuff in there!

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How to Create a Rainbow Background

Happy Monday! Ericka here and I can't believe August is almost over. Today I have a fun rainbow alcohol ink background which goes prefectly with the new 60's release.

I started with Yupo paper and a alcohol blending tool and added stripes of pink, blue and yellow alcohol ink to my felt pad. I swiped the blending tool across my paper to get the fun colorful lines.

 

I stamped the Daisy Heart in Versafine ink and clear heat embossed it. I also stamped the fun Your Kind of Crazy sentiment in the same ink.

 

 I love the bright look of the alcohol ink with these fun stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and see below for two great sales going on this month!

SALES

1) The new release from the Remember The 60's Collection is 25% off when you use the code:  Release10.

2) August Promotion:  Receive 20%OFF on Babies, Dinosaurs and Fish categories. 

You don't need code for this promotion and the discount as it will be reflected in the cart.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope the rest of your week is wonderful!

 

 

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