Paper Piecing Tutorial

Hi Everyone!  It is tutorial day and I thought I would show you how to do some simple paper piecing.
PAPER PIECING
The use of cut out shapes to produce a picture. Similar to applique, pieced paper pictures can range from very simple to complex, and can be a page decoration or constitute an entire layout.
I really…  |  read more »

Perfect Pockets!

Happy Wednesday!
This week’s challenge is all about pretty pockets!  Yup… I want to see some use of a pocket on your creation.
To get you started, I thought I would show you a few ways to use or create a pocket on your layouts or cards.
Sweet Treat

Stamps sets used: Let It Snow, Mention It!, Symbols.
First off,…  |  read more »

Picture This

I love coordinating myStampBOX stamps with other products that match, and here’s the perfect example. I recently got some filmstrip ribbon by Tim Holtz and matched it up with my Snapshot set of stamps. I created my own large filmstrip by heat embossing onto part of the clear packaging from the stamps. (Yay for recycling!) I carefully…  |  read more »

Little Monster?

Just because your alpha set doesn’t have punctuation doesn’t mean you can’t use it. My favourite alpha set from myStampBOX is the Tall Outlines Alpha. I knew I wanted my title to be “Little Monster?” (because how fast my little guy mastered the art of the pout), however the Tall Outlines set doesn’t have any…  |  read more »

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 »