We will have a few changes in our blogging routine, with 3 posts every week, but you will be seeing our same great features and quality and we will be keeping up challenges, tutorials and blog hops!

Instructor and designer Christy Riopel is fun, energetic, and wildly creative. As a mother of two daughters, she still finds time to be a Contributing Writer for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine and a paper crafting instructor, between the carpooling and mountains of laundry. Her background in Interior Design comes through in her well designed and creative layouts and projects.

Christy has taught with her own entertaining style of creative escapism internationally at many industry leading events like Camp Croppin’, CHA, Crop and Cruise, The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival, ScrapFest, and has worked for some of the leading companies in the industry like, Westcott and BasicGrey.

You can read more about Christy at www.christyriopel.blogspot.com

My name is Carolyn Lontin. I have been married to Rick since January 1997; we have one son, Seth and two crazy dogs! We live in gorgeous Colorado, in a suburb just south of Denver. We are less than 20 minute drive to the mountains and love to go there often! I began scrapping in October 2001 to preserve my son’s childhood memories and it quickly became an obsession! I love capturing my family’s “real” moments both in my photos and in my journaling on my layouts and projects. I have found the creative outlet of scrapping to be incredibly relaxing and quite addictive, which is shocking to the previously dominate non-artistic side of me! Over the past few years, I have had the honor of having my work published in major publications!  Since April 1994, I have been a Human Resource Director for a manufacturing company. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends, photography, cheering on my son’s many sports teams, mini-adventures exploring in the mountains, playing with our dogs, and reading. I am super excited to be a part of the My Stamp Box Design Team!

You can read more about Carolyn on her blog: http://carolynlontin.blogspot.com/

Hello… My name is Gladys Chia and I am from Sunny Singapore. I have been introduced to the scrapbooking world in 2008 by my elder sister. Loving all the beautiful things – papers, ribbons, stickers, flowers. I used to hoard them because they are toooo pretty to use them! I love to create my own handmade stuff whenever I am having time on my hands. Its has been a very fun and interesting journey so far. I am loving each and every part of the process in creating my own art. I love traveling, shopping, reading, watching movies and having fun!! I can’t wait to start this wonderful journey to show you what I can create.

Here is my blog: http://gladyschia2010.wordpress.com/

Again welcome to our team team and we can’t wait to get started!

Happy Stamping!

We have 3 lucky ladies, who are winning a myStamp BOX stamp set and a Faber-Castell set:

Dorina Denton (Abundant Blossoms)

Maureen Bosch (Funky Flowers)

Bethany Becker (Colourful Companions)

Please send us your address and we will put the prizes in the mail for you!

Congratulations!

Don’t forget to share your creations with us!

Welcome to Spring! Welcome to our joint blog hop!

Today is the day to see our fabulous products merge and see ways on how to use Faber-Castells beautiful lines with our clear stamps. Our wonderful designers are inviting you to get inspired by their imaginative creativity.

The Blog Hop starts at the Faber-Castell blog, please begin your journey here: (http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/design-memory-craft/).

If you have missed blogs, you can visit any one from here by clicking on the link. If you have seen all of our blogs, just leave a comment below and check on Monday, if you are one of the lucky winners!

START AT: Faber-Castell (http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/design-memory-craft/)
Marsha Valk (http://marshavalk.wordpress.com/)
Linda Abadie (http://lindaabadie.com/)
Jaine Drake (http://www.craftydrake.blogspot.com/)
Janet Zeppa (http://janetsjoy.blogspot.com/)
Els Brigé (http://bestamped.wordpress.com/)
Jolene Johnston (http://jolenejohnston.blogspot.com/)
Rita Barakat http://letsembellish.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Mattot http://arttalk-sigmagirl.blogspot.com/
Mou Saha http://collagecollagecollage.blogspot.com/
Isolde Pyncket (http://sollie79.blogspot.com)
Agata Pfister (http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com/)
Jill Hildebrand  http://www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com/
END HERE: myStamp BOX Blog

Tell us in your comment: which projects you will be using for inspiration for your next creative moment in stamping!

We are giving away some amazing product from both participating companies. All you have to do is COMMENT on all designers blogs along your journey to WIN. Our three blog hop winners will be drawn from all participants, so be sure to leave comments by Sunday March 25th at 6pm EST. We will announce the winners on the myStamp BOX blog and Faber-Castell blog on Monday, March 26th.

And here is a glimpse at the stamp sets we will be giving away to three lucky winners! Spring inspired they will each be matched by a Faber-Castell package.

We hope you enjoyed our Blog Hop! Don’t forget to leave your comments!

Good Luck!

We have finally decided on our new Design Team for the coming term. Again, we have many of our amazing designers return.

Welcome old and new designers! We are excited and proud to have you on our team!

Thanks to all who applied for a DT position. It is always so hard to have to choose so few from all these wonderful applications!

Here is the long-anticipated list:

Jolene Johnston (USA) – design team coordinator

Carolyn Lontin (USA)

Christy Riopel (Canada)

Els Brigé (Belgium)

Gladys Chia (Singapore)

Isolde Pyncket (Belgium)

Jaine Drake (Luxembourg)

Janet Zeppa (Canada)

Again welcome everyone! We will have a more detailed introduction of our new Design Team Members once the term has started – early April.

On Thursday we are blog hopping with our Partner Company Faber-Castell. You will see how wonderful stamps and Faber-Castell products are working together. Mark your calendars and get ready to hop along with us. There will be inspiration! There will be prizes!

Until then,

happy stamping!

This week we have some beautiful posts and inspiration waiting for you and on Friday we will show our projects inspired by St. Patrick’s Day – all in green!

Make sure to pop by tomorrow!

ATTENTION all stampers and myStamp BOX fans!

We are looking for new Designers to join our team. If you are enthusiastic about our stamps, love to stamp, are a good team player, and know a thing or two about blogging, you are the right match for us! We are interested in designers with a variety of styles who can creatively showcase myStamp BOX designs in their layouts, cards, altered art, and other projects. No previous design team experience is necessary. International applicants are welcome to apply.

Our Term is 6 months from April 1st, 2012 to September 30th, 2012.

Team requirements:
* 4 projects per month
* 1 blog entry per month including good quality photos of a project and instructions/tutorial
* Upload all projects to the myStamp BOX website gallery and other online galleries
* Submit at least 2 projects per term for submission to print magazines of your choice
* Occasionally help with additional design opportunities – new stamp sets, classes, etc.
* make myStamp BOX the only stamping company you design for during this term!

Team benefits:

*bio and picture on the website, with links to your blog
*a starter kit of stamp sets and myStamp BOX products and additional stamp sets throughout your term
*other free scrapbooking supplies from product partners as they become available
*30% discount on purchased myStamp BOX items during your term

Please include in your application:
*personal information (your name, address)
*a short paragraph about yourself and why you think you’d be a good fit for myStamp BOX.
*link to your blog and gallery
*3-5 examples of your work showcasing your stamping ability and style

Applications are due by Leap Day – February 29th, 2012.
Send your application to bettina@mystampbox.com
myStamp BOX website: www.mystampbox.com

So go ahead, take the leap and apply for the team. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Until then – happy stamping!

We had great fun creating projects that were packed with sequins, glitter, crystals, and even feathers! Hope that you will get inspired to “pack it on” this February!

glitter card by Jolene Johnston

pink mask by Jaine Drake

party card and detail by Linda Abadie

Party layout by Isolde Pyncket

glitter card by Els Brigé

embossed mask and detail by Marsha Valk

Colourful birthday mini album by Agata Pfister

big rides layout by Jill Hildebrand

Jill used a very cool technique to create the flower and is sharing it here for everyone to try out!:

The BIG, glitter flower is created using an enlarged, scanned image of one of the flowers in the latest Striped Stems stamp set.  I, first, stamped the flower image on plain white paper. I then scanned the image and enlarged it to the desired size and traced the image onto two-sided Sookwang Paper and cut the flower image out. I peeled off one side of the sticky Sookwang paper and adhered the flower image to my layout. With a craft-knife, I carefully cut away the remaining paper on the flower (petal by petal) and added the coloured glitter to each seperate piece of the flower until the entire flower was covered with glitter. This is a great technique to incorporate stamps onto a layout in a unique and creative way. You don’t have to stamp directly onto your projects — you can think outside the box and use the images of the stamp sets on your project without actually stamping.

Repeat After me:
I also combined the “zig-zag” stamp from the Repeat After Me stamp set with an actual machine-stitched (black) straight stitch. I stamped in red ink to give the two stitches contrast. A great way to incorporate stamping and stitching together!

Great Ideas, Jill! This will be a fun technique to try out!

Share your colourful Winter-Blahs layouts or projects with us!

Until then, happy stamping,

But first things first, here is a little bit about Jona:

Hi myStamp BOX fans!, I am a working mom  with a 6yr old preschooler and married for 7 years to my adorable husband.  He is the photographer and I am the record keeper in the family.  He lovingly supports my scrapbooking addiction and criticize them and help me improve my craft. I am first a baker and cake artist who loves to create beautiful wedding cakes before scrapbooking took over my life. I am also a certified open water diver and it is through this hobby I met my handsome.

Where you grew up? – I grew up in Antipolo City, Philippines.

How long have you been scrapbooking?  I have been scrapbooking for 5 yrs now  although,  I started old school scrapbooking since I was in college. Cutting newspapers and magazines to add in my albums.

What got you started? I started before my son turns 1 yr old. there’s a group of Filipina Scrapbookers who invited me to join their crop and from then on, there’s no looking back.

What are you favorite subject? My favorite subject of course is my son and my three nephews.
What materials / projects do you go back again and again? buttons,  ribbons and flowers. yes,  I do add  flowers in my boy pages!

Describe your style -  Well, describing my style would really be difficult for me. There are times I tend to be clean and simple and sometimes shabby chic with lots of layers and texture.

Have you been published? I have been published in online magazines like Scrap n Art,  Scrapbytes  and Scrapbook news and review.

What is your crafting routine?  I usually scrap at night  after work. Scrapbooking is my stress buster  and it makes me more creative when I am stressed at work. My craft space is a corner of our room with a tiny table and 6 layer shelves. I always purge my stuff and try to buy things I know  I can consume in a year.

Tag Tutorial:
1.  Mist your tag using foam dots negative.
2. Stamp the postage and you are here stamps.
3. Stamp the image in a scrap paper and cut out to be used as an embellishment.
4. Adhere the postage stamp,  border made from scraps  and the stamped image using foam dots.
5. Add a brad and the tag is ready as embellishment in a lay-out  or gift packaging tag.

Hope you enjoyed this tag tutorial, I will be back on February 29 with more projects made with the “Road Trip” stamp set. Jona

Thanks for sharing this cool tag, Jona!

Looking forward to your other projects on the 29th!

Until then, happy stamping!

ATTENTION all stampers and myStamp BOX fans!

We are looking for new Designers to join our team. If you are enthusiastic about our stamps, love to stamp, are a good team player, and know a thing or two about blogging, you are the right match for us! We are interested in designers with a variety of styles who can creatively showcase myStamp BOX designs in their layouts, cards, altered art, and other projects. No previous design team experience is necessary. International applicants are welcome to apply.

Our Term is 6 months from April 1st, 2012 to September 30th, 2012.

Team requirements:
* 4 projects per month
* 1 blog entry per month including good quality photos of a project and instructions/tutorial
* Upload all projects to the myStamp BOX website gallery and other online galleries
* Submit at least 2 projects per term for submission to print magazines of your choice
* Occasionally help with additional design opportunities – new stamp sets, classes, etc.
* make myStamp BOX the only stamping company you design for during this term!

Team benefits:

*bio and picture on the website, with links to your blog
*a starter kit of stamp sets and myStamp BOX products and additional stamp sets throughout your term
*other free scrapbooking supplies from product partners as they become available
*30% discount on purchased myStamp BOX items during your term

Please include in your application:
*personal information (your name, address)
*a short paragraph about yourself and why you think you’d be a good fit for myStamp BOX.
*link to your blog and gallery
*3-5 examples of your work showcasing your stamping ability and style

Applications are due on Leap Day – February 29th, 2012.
Send your application to bettina@mystampbox.com
myStamp BOX website: www.mystampbox.com

So go ahead, take the leap and apply for the team. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Until then – happy stamping!

Here is what everyone made of it:

by Isolde Pyncket

by Agata Pfister, a simple and elegant card

by Janet Zeppa paired with green

by Els Brigé, just in blue

by Jill Hildebrand

purple exploration by Jaine Drake

by Linda Abadie using the new Warm Tweet set and Back to the basics

by Jolene Johnston, beautiful pairing of the colours

layout and detail by Jill Hildebrand

this beautiful little chest is by Marsha Valk, the colours just pop!

… and inside! The Itty Bittys fit perfectly on the cubes.

We hope you liked our challenge!

Stay tuned for our design team call coming up later this week!

Until then, happy stamping!

During the show we had many demonstrations of our new sets in our booth. Christy Riopel and Karen Ellis showed new stamping techniques and mixed media ideas, which is a great crafting discipline for many of our sets. Here you can see us “in action”:

Karen Ellis getting ready for her demo…

Christy Riopel showing off one stamping sample…

meet our new releases, mixed media sample by Karen Ellis

picture by Bettina, featuring the “lovely houses” stamp set

Karen Ellis and Bettina

Did you know that later this week there will be a new Design Team Call? myStamp BOX is going to look for a few new designers soon, the term will start April 1st! Make sure to check in and see, if this would be for you!

And now we are getting to announce the winners of our 8 new picture stamp sets! Thanks for your enthusiastic comments, everyone! All sets can be found in many of the stores near you

And the winners are:

Holiday Monkey: Anneke

Warm Tweets: Andrea A., myclevercreations.blogspot.com/

Lovely Houses: Lena

Pixel Perfect: KellyG

Special Teas: marie o hanlon

Enjoy your Latte!: Trish Holyome

Cherry Blossoms: Lisa N

Striped Stems:  Rachel M

Congratulations, ladies! Please send your addresses to bettina@mystampbox.com and we will put these in the mail for you! Enjoy your stamps and please share your beautiful and inspiring projects with us. We will be happy to show your pictures on our blog or face book page!

Happy Stamping and Thanks for playing with us!

Here are two more projects for you to enjoy from our Design Team:

bye bye 2011 by Isolde Pyncket

New Year’s Card by Jaine Drake

We hope you will have a wonderfully creative 2012!

Happy Stamping!

Love,

by Jolene Johnston

by Els Brigé

by Wendy Morris

by Marsha Valk

Have a wonderful, happy and healthy 2012! We are looking forward to an inspired and creative year.

Happy Stamping,

Love,

We have been busy stamping and scrapping all year and before we take a week off, we are going to show you what we have been creating for our friends and families.

Hoping you will find a last minute inspiration for a card.

by Jolene Johnston

by Jaine Drake

by Els Brigé

by Agata Pfister

gift card holder by Sue Sykes

card and details by Wendy Morris

cards by Linda Abadie

by Marsha Valk

by Janet Zeppa

by Isolde Pyncket

We wish you and your families a peaceful and very merry Christmas and a happy and crafty 2012. Keep stamping!

Best wishes from the myStamp BOX team,

One of the best times of the year is the time leading up to Christmas, when we get to light candles, bake cookies and keep many secrets. As a kid I always have had an advent calendar, made by my grandmother. It was mostly filled with sweets.

Our boys still enjoy their calendars and don’t seem to outgrow them. For this advent I made a family calendar which will be hanging in the kitchen. For every day between today and December 24th, we will be adding one mini ornament to the Christmas tree, until it is fully decorated.

For the tree I chose different colour card stock, cut it into organic shapes and assembled the tree. I stamped it with zipper and zigzag stamps from “Repeat after Me” in brown, then smeared brown and green inks and white acrylic paint all over the tree. I punched 24 holes and added 24 gold brads which will be holding the ornaments.

The background was cut from a piece of gardening burlap and stamped with white snowflakes (“Let it Snow”) and acrylic paint. I added green and white acrylic paints and the word “advent” at the bottom.

For the ornaments I chose a selection of our Christmas stamps from several stamp sets and used brown ink on shrink plastic. The images were cut out, hole punched and shrunk. A small wire was added and they were ready to be hung!

The whole project took about 3 hours from start to finish.

Come and see the fully decorated tree on December 24th on our blog!

Until then enjoy our 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS projects coming up in the next days! We will have some very decorative and festive ideas in stock for you!

Happy Stamping,

Love,

She cut out the paper to the right size to cover up the cup (with a light curve) then stamped the grass on the paper by slightly “curving” the grass stamp. She stamped the grass twice with Memento Inks, each time using a different shade of green. Weiwei added the stalks, flowers, and dragonflies. To add interest, she used stickles to create bling. The paper was glued onto the cup and the cup was ready to hold office supplies!

I challenge you to make your own cover to re-use an old packaging!

Thanks for having me over to play at myStamp BOX! I had a great time working with the “Funky Flowers” set! Weiwei

Happy Stamping!

Now we have two winners for the prize packages:

Emily Trekkie (package I)

and Lisa Rowen Spiegel (package II)!

Congratulations! Please e-mail us your contact information to bettina@mystampbox.com and we will send out your goodies right away.

Have fun with our products and don’t forget to share what you create!

Have a great and productive week, everyone!

Happy Stamping,

Love,

If you have just happened upon our event now, please begin your journey on the Canvas Corp Blog blog here (http://canvascorp.com and click on the BLOG tab). You can then follow along and visit all participating designers blogs until you end your journey here at the myStamp BOX blog. IF you encounter any problems on the way, just refer to the participants’ list below and click the links there.

Many of our wonderful designers are joining us today to proudly show off some inspirational creativity. See how well Canvas Corp and myStamp BOX products are working together!

START AT: Canvas Corp (http://canvascorp.com)
Marsha Valk (http://marshavalk.wordpress.com/)
Linda Abadie (http://lindaabadie.com/)
Sue Sykes (http://www.kewl-beans.blogspot.com/)
Jeannie DeGruccio (www.polkacabana.wordpress.com) Go to the SECOND POST for today!
Jaine Drake (http://www.craftydrake.blogspot.com/)
Janet Zeppa (http://janetsjoy.blogspot.com/)
Els Brigé (http://bestamped.wordpress.com/)
Jolene Johnston (http://jolenejohnston.blogspot.com/)
Cassie Box (www.somethingfromcassie.com)
Isolde Pyncket (http://sollie79.blogspot.com)
Agata Pfister (http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com/)
END HERE: myStamp BOX Blog

We are giving away some amazing product from both participating companies. All you have to do is COMMENT on all designers blogs along your journey to WIN. For another chance to win “Like” myStamp BOX and Canvas Corp on Facebook and leave a comment to say you stopped by from the Blog Hop. Our two Hop winners will be drawn from all participants and will be announced on the myStamp BOX blog and Canvas Corp blog on Monday, November 28th, so all comments are due by Sunday November 27th at 6pm EST. Good Luck!

You can win one of two fun prize packages each containing popular products from both companies!

I love tags! And here is what I created with Canvas Corp and myStamp BOX’s products: I try out several different styles that I will recreate for all the gifts that I am going to wrap. For the hop I want to show you two different types.

The first one is done with the round chalkstock tags from Canvas Corp. I stamped snowflakes from the “Let it Snow…” stamp set with a Tsukineko glue pad and then used white embossing powder, heat embossed and added a small white clothes pin from Canvas Corp. The white and black look so fresh together!

The wrapping for this present was made by stamping repeatedly on a white sheet with black Adirondack ink, using the same stamps as for the tags. I wrapped a box of home made cards and added the tag. Just glue the clothespin on the top and attach the tag.

The second set of tags was made with heat embossing as well! I wanted to try out, if embossing works on canvas – and it does! I love the subtle effect on the canvas. The details are not the same as on the tags above, but the snowflake is still very visible.

Both tags were made the same way: firstly stamping the snowflake from “Let it Snow…” with a glue pad onto the canvas tags by Canvas Corp. and heat embossing with white embossing powder. Then I coloured the canvas tag with red and green inks from the distressing ink line by Ranger. The Christmas sentiment was from the “Dotty Christmas” stamp set and stamped repeatedly to make it darker and more visible. Lastly I stamped a sewing pattern from the “Repeat after me” stamp set, cut a coordinating paper for the back and added a small clothes pin from Canvas Corp.

I love wrapping my presents in reusable materials. Here is an example how I would use the tag on a present. The cord is by Canvas Corp. The tag is simply tucked under.

Now, don’t forget to leave a comment below for a chance to WIN one of our TWO product giveaways! Check in on our blog on Monday to see, if you are one of the lucky winners!

Thank you so much for stopping by and enjoying our different projects and styles. We hope you found great ideas on how to use Canvas Corp’s and myStamp BOX’s products together!

Happy Thanksgiving and

Happy Stamping,

Love,

I am Weiwei, married with two young children. I grew up in Singapore and am still living here. I started scrapbooking when I gave birth to my older boy and wanted to make monthly scrapbook pages documenting his growing process. Looking back at those pages now still brings back fond memories. I would love to scrap more if I had time.

I am addicted to clear stamps. I have many clear stamp sets and a lot of them are still brand new. As time is a constraint now, my paper projects are usually simple and fast to complete.

When I have more time, I enjoy heat embossing and inking. I love to create at night at the dining table when the kids are asleep. It is quiet and I have the time and space to enjoy the process of creating something. Usually, I will be snacking during that time, cup noodles and nuts with a glass of nice cool bitter lemon.

Weiwei loves to reuse and re-purpose. She creates many projects with everyday packaging. The the tea light holder was made from a package of mixed nuts, Weiwei stamped the images using Staz On inks. Then added details and bling with stickles.

These pretty embellishments were made by stamping onto felt using Versa Craft ink. Weiwei added another layer of felt and used a brad to hold both of them together.

They can be used to personalise an ordinary bag or to brighten a dull pair of shoe (see below).

Simply use a glue gun to adhere the embellishments.

These are some great simple projects that don’t take a long time from start to finish!

We love the ideas for our “Funky Flowers” set, Weiwei!

Weiwei has created more projects and we will be showing them on this blog next week.

Until then!

Happy Stamping!

Please join us for our Blog Hop on Thursday, November 24th, 10am EST!

We are partnering with Canvas Corp! Check out how well Canvas Corp’s beautiful products work with our stamps.

Get inspired to create similar projects.

You can even win one of the cool product prizes!

See you on Thursday!

Happy Stamping,

love,