Altered cotton reel

A very very long time ago I visited a craft fair in Wiesbaden Germany and on a ribbon stall they were selling giant wooden cotton reels.  My friend and I just looked at each other and said simultaniously, “we have to get one of those”.  I had absolutely no idea what I would do with…  |  read more »

OUR NEW DESIGN TEAM! Upcoming Blog Hop with Faber-Castell.

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…  |  read more »

Inky Pot of Gold!

Have you been following the crafty rainbow in search of inspiration gold? You’re in luck! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, our myStamp BOX designers are sharing projects featuring gold & green or the theme of luck. Check out all the ways we used our amazing stamps and ink on calendar pages, cards, layouts, and…  |  read more »

Spring Altered Notebook

Hi all!
Linda here with Wednesday Challenge blog post! Today, I am sharing an altered notebook with kraft cardstock cover. This is originally a moleskin book and thought it would be more fun for me to redesign it before I use it for my Spring 2012 journal.
I used Cherry Blossoms stamp set to create the background…  |  read more »

From shame to pride

Hello lovely people! Did it ever happen to you to buy something and never use it? Well, it happened to me, I’ve bought a “decorate it yourself” calendar for 2011 and never did anything with it! What I felt about it was shame… Till I saw that my lovely co-DT member, Els, shared…  |  read more »

Design Team will be announced next Monday

We have our new design team lined up for the next term. We will announce all names next Monday, March 19!
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!

Tape Challenge

Here’s something I learned a couple of weeks ago, while working on an article about old(er) stash: Don’t save your precious stash for that ’special project’. Because you know what? You will put it in a safe place, pet it every now and then and eventually… forget all about it. Or, even worse: it will…  |  read more »

Project day

Hi everyone,
I hope the weather at your place is much better than the weather here in Belgium. It has been raining cats and dogs the whole day. I don’t mind if it rains when I’m at home to create but I had to work, grrr. Oh well, now I’m at home…  |  read more »

Birthday Show & Tell

Today I’m sharing a birthday card that I made for my crafty pal, Cheryl. She loves all things purple, so it was an easy choice when pulling ink colors together with myStampBOX stamps.

I started by stamping many images from Funky Circles using three colors of Tim Holtz Distress Inks on plain white cardstock. It was…  |  read more »

off the wall // recycled artwork

How do you get from this……………

to this…….?

You use some fabulous myStampBOX stamp sets, that’s how!!!!!!
Here’s a list of favourites that I used for this project:
Lovely Houses, Enjoy your latte!, Repeat After Me, Striped Stems, symbols, Sigh Gush Gasp, Snapshot, What’s your number?,  Border Lines, Itty Bittys, Neighborhoods, Floating Leaves & Colorful Companions.

Now I just have…  |  read more »