Design Team Announcement

So exciting! We have found our new and talented Design Team for the new term starting October 1.
We had to choose from a huge amount of entries. Thank you so much everyone for sharing your designs and talents with us and your enthusiasm for our stamps! Unfortunately we could not take everyone, but we…  |  read more »

One layer cards

Hi everyone! welcome to another tutorial!
Today I wanted to show you how you can make beautiful one layer cards! It’s really simple and you can make them in less than 5 minutes.
This is one of the cards that I made:

I added a butterfly so they are not exactly one layer… but even without…  |  read more »

“slap-on-some-paint” challenge

Well……it’s only been just over a week since my last post — {guess I must be getting good at this}.
I thought I would challenge you today to get your paints out of the closet…….or out of your rubbermaids…….or borrow some…..or just plain buy some to “slap some on” the next layout you create. You’re not scared…  |  read more »

August Designer Showcase

Almost back to school here in Toronto. The Summer has been long and lovely. Although it’s been pretty hot here at times, there has been enough time to create. Time to reminisce about the Summer and check out these wonderful creations by our designers. I sure hope you get some ideas for your fall layouts…  |  read more »

It’s Back to School Time!

Our new design team has been selected and emails have gone out!  Yippee! Join us later this week as we announce our new design team.  Thanks again to everyone who applied.  It’s so hard to pick only a few people from so many wonderfully talented crafters!
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For most of you, there’s only a week left of…  |  read more »

myStamp BOX meets Kiki Art

We had the pleasure this month of designing with Kiki Art papers and Helmar adhesives.   I chose to make a card showcasing two stamp sets:  Itty Bittys and Wishing You Sunshine.

I used the Hot Air Balloon paper line and paired it with the stamped cloud you see here.  I fussy cut the hot air ballon…  |  read more »

Challenge: Bookmark

Hi everyone!
This week, i challenge you to create bookmarks. You are free to choose the size and form, but you have to use stamps of course!
I made 4 bookmarks, one for each season. This one is for summer:

I used the “Road Trip” stamp set. I stamped the luggage in black on a piece of paper…  |  read more »

mini “at the park”

hello everyone.  hope you are all having a wonderful summer and enjoying your days spent outside. 
recently our family spent a fantastic Sunday afternoon at my parents (about an hour away from our house).  They just put up an gigantic new play-structure at the park where I used to play when i was a kid (and…  |  read more »

Jewelry Box

April’s last project this month is this adorable jewelry box.
She used a small paper maché box as the base. She first painted the box in deep yellow, then with black over it, letting the yellow paint shine through. April stamped a flower from the Abundant Blossoms stamp set and cut it out carefully. A brad…  |  read more »

Snapshot! Snap Snap Snap…

As a scrapbooker who stamps, a set of camera related stams is a must-have.  Where there is a picture, there was a camera.  They are appropriate for any layout with photos!  Today, I’m showing you how I used the stamp set called Snapshot on a layout, and I will tell you the story behind these pictures. 
We were in the…  |  read more »