“stepping” outside

Good Morning crafty gardeners,
When the July weather starts behaving itself here in Manitoba, I love to bring my projects outside and enjoy the day.  What better inspiration is there than our own backyards and gardens?  So….in celebration of summer, I decided to create a garden stepping stone to add to the numerous pathways in the gardens around…  |  read more »

Inspiration sometimes starts with a sketch

There are often times when I am stuck with an idea for a card and a sketch is just what I need to jumpstart my creativity.  So this month I am bringing you this sketch that I have made to help to jumpstart your creativity…

and here is my take on the sketch:

For my card I used…  |  read more »

Stamping on my “Cute” layout

Stamping is all the rage in the scrapbooking world right now.  I really enjoy adding the stamped touches as embellishments to my layout.  Best of all, the stamps can be used over and over again
I created this layout using a palette from “the Color Room”.  Sometimes I take pictures of my kids because…  |  read more »

Jaine Drake – July Guest Designer

I hope everyone had a great long weekend with Canada Day on Thursday and July 4th yesterday. What a great time of year! School is out and already a reason to get together with family and friends to celebrate.
The guest designer we are celebrating this month is not from North America, but from England and…  |  read more »

Christmas in July!

Hi everyone! Yeah, it’s Friday and I bet everyone is ready for a fabulous weekend.
Are you enjoying your summer?  Well, I am and I was organizing my stamps the other day and came across my Ho Ho Ho stamps and I got all sentimental when I realized how much I used these over and over…  |  read more »

Something new

I love learning new things! And I was very excited when I first heard about the emboss resist technique. It was almost like falling in love! I could think only about that!!! Lately, I could see the same effect in a friend of mine whom I introduced to stamping and this technique…  |  read more »

Tone on tone…

Hi everyone!
Today i want to show you a layout with tone on tone satmped embellishments. It gives something different, very subtle i think.
I like to mix genres! This layout is a kind of girly layout with the flowers but it’s about renovating our house so the subject is masculine…

I have used the “Abundant blossoms” set…  |  read more »

Butterfly Box

I found blank folding kraft boxes a while ago and have been waiting for an opportunity to use them. Yesterday after baking cookies for a friend, I needed a little storage box to present the sweets in and came across these boxes.
I did not have a lot of time so I decided to limit the…  |  read more »

Let’s hop on the BANNER BANDWAGON!

Hello Everyone!! Tina here!
I know you’ve seen them!!! Banners here, banners there, lots of banners everywhere!!! So why not on the My Stamp Box Blog!!?? Today we will see how much fun it can be to use stamps to create your banners!!
For this layout, I chose to use the MSB LETTERBOXES set.

It was so simple!…  |  read more »

Faux Marble Clipboard

It seems that every once in a while a new person spies one of the altered clipboards that I have made over the years and asks how to do it. The fun thing is that no two of them have ever been alike! Today’s project uses a kraft-colored masonite clipboard, alcohol inks and of course…  |  read more »