Meet Cindy Stevens, our guest designer in November

Hi Everyone, I’m Cindy. I am a SAHM of a beautiful, crazy little boy and wife of 9 years to my amazing & equally crazy husband. We are proud to call Atlantic Canada our home. I have been scrapping for 4 years, starting shortly after my son was born. Not long after THAT, I discovered the LSS and was HOOKED – this hobby fuels my passion to create and shop alike!!

I have been fortunate enough to be published in Scrapbook Trends, ST Cards, Scrapbooks & Cards today & Canadian Scrapbooker.

I am a DIE HARD paper addict and love that I can make so many of my own embellies with a great stamp & ink. I can never have enough of either (although, I am sure my husband wouldn’t agree). I adore scrapping my Hubby & Little Man but once in awhile crave a pink LO and will do a page for my Book Of Me.

I mostly scrap at night when my Little Man goes to sleep, either on my bed or at my scrap table. I am a TOTAL night hawk with an addiction to Chocolate and Diet Coke.

I want to thank Bettina for this wonderful oppertunity to guest design for My Stamp Box!!

Lady Bug card
I used black stazon (I find this ink gives me a nice, crips image) and stamped 3 ladybugs. I used a red sharpie for coloring, matted them on card stock and pop dotted them for dimension. You’ll notice I left it without sentiment. This works great when you need a cute card in a pinch, you just hand write your sentiment with your note inside. I also repeated the ladybug image 3 times. I find 3 of one image really makes a great design detail without being to fussy.

Congrats Grad card
This is another clean & simple one. I again used black stazon and tied the ink in as a design element, deciding to use black ribbon & ink on the edges for a consistent look.

Celebrate Card (balloons)
This was a FUN card to do, I used several of the stamps for this versatile set. I again used the watermelon as a scallop border, colored using red sharpie and hand cut the border out and adhered on my card. I also stamped balloons on coordinating paper, again cut VERY close to the stamped image and used pop-dots on them. I finished by tying thread around the balloon base to make them appear to be floating. I finished again with these wonderful simple sentiments.

Celebrate Card

NEVER underestimate a basic sentiment in a classic, clean font. I can EASILY see that I will be turning to “Bits and Pieces” time & time again.

See you next Monday for scrapbook layouts with “Bits and Pieces”.

Cindy