Partner Project #2: Art Inspiration

Welcome to Day #2 of our partner projects at myStampBOX. Today we teamed up to create projects using the Pennants set of stamps and this photo as inspiration:

Stephanie’s take: Using the photo as inspiration, I pulled out some very busy vibrant papers.  My original plan was to use the orange cardstock as my card base, but…  |  read more »

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
For the remainder of March, all of our Design Team members have been paired up to create inspirational projects to share with you!  Stay tuned to the blog for LOTS of great inspiration.
Since today is St. Patty’s Day, we thought we would bring you some Irish inspiration.
Melissa has created this fun…  |  read more »

Sketch Challenge: Layout or Card

So, here is a fun challenge for you!  You can either make a card or layout…I made one of each to give you some inspiration.  I love Page Maps Sketches so I thought it would be fun to choose one for todays challenge.
Take a look at my sketch…

I used some of my favorite stamps from…  |  read more »

Candy fun!

Hi everyone!  I hope you are having a great week!
Today I want to show you a gift I made for a friend. It’s a little box filled with sugar candies.

It was so much fun to use my myStampBOX stamps to embellish it!
I added some ribbon to close the box and for my tag I used…  |  read more »

Wearable art.

I’m a huge fan of art journaling and I somehow wanted to try incorporating it into a piece of wearable art.

I adore the Border Lines stamps for their quirky look and I usually use this type of border in my art journal pages.

I came across a piece of canvas recently which was crying out for…  |  read more »

Masking 101

Hello fellow stamp lovers!  Ally here! Today I’d like to teach you a few fun ways to MASK.
What’s masking you ask? Well in art, masking is using materials to protect areas from change.  In other words you cover one area to avoid changing it by applying something over top of it.
Today I’m going to show…  |  read more »

Challenge Day: Ad Inspiration

Hello! Today’s challenge comes from an ad in Cooking Light magazine:

I loved the soft pattern and halo effect around the upper portion of the ad, the green band across the bottom and the diagonal focal point of the fork. Those were the elements I tried to recreate on my card.

I used the Abundant Blossoms set to…  |  read more »

Lip-smackin’ good

Hey Stampers!!
Jill, here, with some fabulous inspiration coming from…….what else……..FOOD!!!!
I know…..we all love it…..we crave it…….we consume it; we buy it; we even hide it on occassion – not me though.   
So what better inspiration to use?!?
The first layout I created this month was inspired by a “food” photo.  It’s a photo taken in Disney…  |  read more »

Design Team Call now closed

Our Design Team Call has again brought us many wonderful applications and beautiful projects to admire. Thank you so much for your interest in being part of our team! We are very honoured to attract so many talented crafters!
Please do not send us any questions or requests, if you will be part of our team….  |  read more »

Mention It Stamps

One of the first things that I love to do when I receive a new stamp set is to create a number of different cards using the same papers.  This way the focus will be on the stamps.   I chose to work with the Mention It stamp set as it is a perfect sentiment stamp set, combining a selection…  |  read more »