Last week, I made the mistake of making my kids a few cute lunchbox notes. They loved them. I say mistake because now they want me to make them for every lunch! And I am not permitted to reuse them lol! So I need to make stacks at a time. I pulled together some basic… | read more »
Card Box Tutorial
| Filed under Cards, Step by Step - tutorial, boxes | Tagged with Border Lines, Colorful Companions, Itty Bitty's, Step by Step - tutorial, Symbols
Hello everyone!
It’s Sue and I’m going to share a fun tutorial to make this quick and easy hostess gift.
To start, you’ll need patterned paper scraps; a sheet of coordinating cardstock (8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12); a scoring board or blade trimmer and stylus; scissors, your favourite myStamp BOX stamps; coordinating inks; punches; a… | read more »
Challenge Day: Krafty Kicks
| Filed under Backgrounds, Cards, Challenge | Tagged with Backgrounds, Sigh Gush Gasp
Back in the day, kraft was simply the color of unloved grocery sacks. Now it’s the hottest neutral in the scrap world! Today my card features the color “kraft” in all its glory.
I started with a piece of paper from Tim Holtz’s Resist Kraft Stash notepad and clear-embossed the dots using the myStampBOX Backgrounds set… | read more »
Sweets for my Sweet
| Filed under Inspiration, Layouts | Tagged with Colour Me, Funky Flowers, Repeat after me
Today’s layout is brought to you by… cupcakes. Decorated cupcakes and cakes are all the rage in the Netherlands and of course I had to try to make some myself. This layout features my first attempt at butter cream and although it looks OK on the photos, I can tell you that it was not… | read more »
Meet our new Design Team!
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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 to choose… | read more »
How small can you go?
| Filed under Helmar Adhesives, mini album | Tagged with Colorful Companions, Itty Bitty's, oversized, Pennants, seal it, Snapshot, Tree for all Seasons
I love to make mini albums, they’re so cute and decorative and great conversation books. Occasionally though it can be a challenge to find ways to incorporate stamping on some of the pages when they’re so small.
This mini proved to be just that so I had to find cunning ways to use my favourite stamps… | read more »
Thursday Tutorial // You Make My Heart Go Beep
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Hello Hello!!
Wendy here & I’m excited to share with you a quick & sweet card for this “Thursday Tutorial” . This card literally took me less than 30 minutes!
Actually, this card came about because I was putting together a care package to mail off this week to my boyfriend, Gianluca, in Italy and he loves… | read more »
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
| Filed under Challenge, Everything else, Inspiration, Kids, Projects | Tagged with Deck the Halls, graphic borders, Mini Pennants, Wishing you Sunshine
Howdy all! Ally here! As crafters we all collect crafting supplies that contain some kind of packaging. Some packaging remains with the product we buy until it’s all used up and then others can be re-purposed and used again right away upon opening it.
Today I’m going to show you a quick way to reuse a… | read more »
what’s for lunch?
| Filed under Projects | Tagged with Bits and Pieces, Border Lines, Colourful Companions, Whatever
My youngest is entering Grade 2 tomorrow……yes, it’s true. So I’ve put together a little “Back to School Lunch Kit” for her, all decorated & stamped with some fabulous myStampBOX stamp sets.
I used a combination of orange and watermelon ink to stamp flowers from the Bits and Pieces stamp set around my daughter’s soup thermos.
Next… | read more »
Design Team Call now closed!
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