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Happy Wednesday!!

If you were to walk into my house on any day of the week, there is one thing you would always find… music playing! In my vehicle?… Music playing! So it is no wonder that music is one of my greatest scrappy inspirations! So that is what I have decided to use for my Wednesday challenge to you!

My Challenge… Allow music to inspire a scrappy project for you this week! It can be your title, your journaling or anything else on your page!

Here are 3 layouts that i created, all inspired by music!

1. Hey, Did you Happen to see the Most Beautiful Girl in the World!!??

Stamps Used: I used the Seal it Stamp set here. I stamped it, cut them out and adhered them to my page using foam squares to give them some dimension. I then added a corduroy brad!

Seal It

2. Country Boy

Stamps Used: Seal It This time using the same set I stamped the image on chipboard and patterned paper, cut it out and mounted the Paper image onto the chipboard to make it sturdy. Then I made my own ribbon flower. I stuck a Brad into the center, through the ribbon flour and right down thru my page. These seals make GREAT flower centers!

Letterbox

Letterboxes: I stamped my title using this fun font! After cutting out each letter I layered them, some with foam tape, others without. I added stickles to the boxes and some pearls to the sides of the letters to glam them up a bit! Love the result!!

3. You Are My Sunshine!
Stamps Used: Wishing you Sunshine I stamped these fun clouds directly on the backround paper, and onto solid paper, cutting some out and layering them using Foam tape for added dimention! These cloud make for a great whimsical look!

Wishing You Sunshine

So this week, I challenge you to get with the music! Let it inspire you! And be sure to share a link with us! We would LOVE to see what you have created!!

Until Next time… Happy Scrapping!!

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Since we are celebrating giving thanks this time of year, I wanted to share a little puff box I made using the Funky Flowers stamp collection.  I filled it with dried seeds from my garden for a friend of mine.  We have become close lately and I really cherish that friendship and one of the things we have in common is our love for gardening. I thought…what better way to thank her than by giving her a homemade package of seeds.

First, I stuffed the box with my dried seeds.

then, I stamped the image of the flower on white cardstock with different colors and then cut each one out of the cardstock. Then, I layered each image and fanned them out so you could see each stamped image below the other one. I finished the box off with some ribbon and tag with the stamped “thanks friend” from the Funky Flowers collection.

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Before we show you the second part of stamping with Chrissy we would love to share with you the winners for the draw of the magazine of October 13. The two names are: Nikki C. and Amanda Profumo.

Ladies, please send your addresses to bettina@mystampbox.com and go brew a nice cuppa to wait the arrival of the mags. Have fun reading! Make sure to check out Jolene’s article on homemade gifts.

And now over to Chrissy, who is showing more cool projects with the Boo! set.

With the holiday season closing in on us, many of us are looking for quick and easy gifts to give to friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, etc. For this project, I have created a quick and easy 3″ gift card and an easy peasy treat sack – a perfect spooky surprise for your child’s lunch box or a coworker’s mail room box.

The card was created using a leftover strip of my patterned paper that I made for the “Boo” accordion tag. I added a strip of torn black card stock, a piece of cute gingham ribbon, and the “Happy Halloween” sentiment from the Boo! set. I cut out the sentiment and adhered it to a scrap of black card stock and cut it out again. Then I added it to the card with foam tape to add dimension.

For the treat sack, I just stamped a few of the Boo! stamps onto a glassine bag and let it dry. So quick and easy.  You could even have your kids help you out with this task! Once the ink was dry, I filled it with some candy, folded over the top and punched two hole to string the ribbon through. You could easily add a small tag too, if desired.

Don’t worry if Halloween is approaching too fast … both the treat sack and the little card could easily be reworked for the another holiday just by changing the stamp set and color scheme – the Christmas Minis set would be perfect for recreating these in a Christmas theme!

Stamps: Boo! from my Stamp BOX
Ink: PTI Orange Zest, Pallete Noir Black, Paper: PTI White, Orange Zest, True Black
Accessories: PTI balck & white gingham ribbon; orange ribbon from craft store; foam tape; glassine bag

Did you know you could use the Boo! Halloween set to make a winter-themed card?!

In this project, I am going to show you how to get more out of your Boo! set just by using the solid circle stamp and a punch.

First, you need a punch and scrap paper. For this project, I used a snowflake punch. Punch out a few snowflakes and layer your punched card stock over a scrap piece of paper.

Next, ink up your solid circle stamp and stamp over the hole you punched out. This will remove some of the ink, but leave the ink intact where the punched out shape was.

Then, stamp onto your card stock and repeat as desired. Once I finished stamping my circle snowflakes, I used the punched snowflake hole as a guide to add some snowflakes with a glitter pen.

Once you have your patterned paper complete, the assembly for this card is pretty simple. Cut your snowflake paper strip and a wider pink strip of card stock and distress the edges of both. Adhere them together and wrap a length of grosgrain around the top of the panel and tie a knot before adhering to your card base. Finally, stamp your sentiment on the bottom and add some stacked buttons to your knot with twine.

Thanks for inviting me over! I love how this card came out and I hope I’ve inspired you to experiment with creating your own patterned paper using your my Stamp BOX stamps.

Chrissy

Stamps: Boo! and Everyday Lines from my Stamp BOX
Ink: PTI Aqua Mist, Paper: PTI White, Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, Accessories: PTI Aqua Mist grosgrain, vintage buttons; twine; Sakura glitter pen, Tools: Heidi Swapp edge distresser tool

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And I don’t mean Halloween masks…. the holidays are here, but for me I am in full Christmas mode.

I’m down at the Creative Festival teaching this weekend… did a card class today, and have a Mini Album class tomorrow.. both classes feature some of the fantastic myStampBox stamps!

For class we used the HoHoHo set, and a mask.. so that the reindeer appears to be peeking out from behind Santa.

I of course coloured it in using my Copics.. the red #’s are R29, R 35, R 37 & R 39. To make the mask, stamp Santa on a spare piece of cardstock, cut him out and set aside.

Next stamp him where you would like on the card (in my case I used the top note die from Stampin’ Up! ). Once he is stamped, place the mask exactly over top of him. Get out the reindeer, ink him up and position him to the right of Santa where you want him and stamp. Part of him will be on the cardstock, and part will be on the mask. This gives the effect of layering… and I love it!

Now, colour in all your pieces, add stickles and stick everything down. I used my Copics to colour the small Prima flower the exact coordinating shade of red that I needed, since I only had pink around. This works exceptionally well for coordinating your embellishments with your coloured image.

That’s all for today, stop by the Canadian Scrapbooker Booth #224, we’re doing a cute make n’ take on Saturday with the HOHOHO set…..and some CHOCOLATE!

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Today I am going to show you some fun ideas of how to use your stamps to create some fun patterns.

I love the new stamp set just released this month called “Hive of Live“:

I couldn’t resist creating a fun honeycomb back ground using some orangey-yellow ink.

I stamped my hexagon shapes using my eye as a guide.  Having a straight pattern wasn’t my goal and it makes the stamping go a lot faster too!  I only used one ink; I stamped it once to get the darker orange and then stamped again to get the lighter orange colour.

Once I created my honeycomb patterned paper, I carefully cut out and around the hexagon shapes to get a random shaped piece of paper to create my layout.  Here’s my final creation:

Just Because

I also used my Rough Copy Alphabets to create my title and my Just Add Notes stamps to create my journaling block.

Another new stamp set released this month is the super cute Wishing You Sunshine stamp set:

I couldn’t wait to create a fun pattern with the fabulous sun image in this set.

So once again, I grabbed a yellow piece of cardstock and began stamping my sun image in offset rows using a orangey-yellow ink.  I eye-balled my positioning as a stamped.

I knew I wanted to create some depth to my sun images so I stamped a single sun image into the middle of a piece of computer paper and cut out the center of the sun.  Now I have a circle mask for inking only the centers of my suns!

I took my mask and positioned it over randomly chosen sun images throughout my stamped cardstock and using my Copic airbrush system, I air brushed one of 3 different shades of orange Copic marker inside my sun images.  I placed a few orange buttons randomly inside a few of the suns too.

Here’s my final creation using my stamped cardstock…

You Are My Sunshine

You too can have fun making your own patterns!  Simply grab a fun stamp and stamp away!

Thanks for stopping in!  Stay tuned to the mSB blog for lots of great inspiration from all of our designers!

Allison.