Today I’d like to share a fun sketch with you. I designed a frame like page effect for you to use:

For my sketch today I decided not to include any photos and just have fun with paper and ink instead.

7 Places

Included in my design I used “Letterboxes” and “Funky Alphabet” to create my jumbled title. I used the tag and postage canceling images from the “Road Trip” stamp set. The “traveling by” checklist is from the “Passport to Adventure” stamp set. I used the “Neighborhoods” landscape at the top for my city scape image. I used the number stamp from the “Review Time” set to create my list. And finally I used the camera, photo corners and film strip images from the “Snapshot” stamp set.

I hope my sketch inspires you today! Feel free to link up your layout creation using my sketch.

This first card I made for a boy’s first communion. I stamped the monkey onto some patterned papers, then trimmed and paper pieced him together. The frame he’s standing in is the polaroid frame from the Pixel Perfect set, which is clear embossed onto white cardstock.

The gift is also from the Holiday Monkeys set. Here it is stamped with black StazOn, and then colored with Faber-Castell Big Brush Pens. The sentiment reads ‘Hooray’.

I used that same gift with the same coloring  for this second card. A very clean and simple card, which can be used for various occasions. The sentiment is  from the Programmed Robots set. I didn’t ink the word ‘programmed’ and the underscore at the end of the sentiment, and ended up with a perfect versatile sentiment.

Hope you got a bit inspired today to get more use out of your stamp sets.

I started by putting Gesso on the Chipboard album in such a way as not to cover the edges too perfectly.

Then I got to work layering ink and stamped images… Using several of the stamp sets with each other. I was also heat setting in between layers!

To make the background in this page I simply used my Clearsnap ink pad and twisted it right on the page.

Well I hope you enjoyed my first post and it has inspired you to play and mix up your stamp sets.

See you soon!
Christy

I love the classy look of black and white photos but I also wanted a touch of fun so I created a card using black, white and one color – love how the bright blue from Tim Holtz’s Broken China Distress Ink pops against the black and white card stock!  Since I was only using black and white card stock I layered the card stock several times.  I used the circle stamp from myStamp Box’s Funky Flowers set and ‘it’s your b-day’ sentiment from myStamp Box’s Mention It set.  I hope this inspirers you to create a project using black, white & one color.

Thanks for stoppin’ by!

~Carolyn

I stamped the tiny beverage glass from Symbols in black and used my iRock tool to add tiny bling to outline the design. (Talk about patience!) Stamped starbursts from the Pennants set added an extra pop of pattern on the subtle honeycomb paper. The sentiment is from my favorite words set called Whatever! This fun card is ready to jot down some details for my pal so we can schedule our next pool date.

Pajama shirt design (above), Stamped design (below)

Inspiration is everywhere! Keep your eyes open for great color combinations in jewelry, funky patterns in handbags, or fabulous textures in clothing. You’ll certainly find a way to translate great fashion design into papercrafting.

Supplies: My Mind’s Eye papers, Die Cuts With a View scalloped card panel, Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink, Ranger Archival Ink, Ranger Stickles, Imaginisce iRock and bling, American Crafts Foam Adhesive, Recollections rhinestone.

Hope you are enjoying wonderful spring weather! We finally have nice weather in Belgium. It’s so welcome as it has been raining or grey sky during the past 3 weeks, yikes! Oh well, it was perfect weather to scrap.

I made a layout about a buggy tour we did on vacation in the Dominican Republic. We had an amazing time and were covered with mud when arrived back at the hotel. We saw amazing nature, beautiful beaches, drank coconut milk, …

The stamp set Road Trip was perfect for this layout!

Have a wonderful day,

So here it is, my one sheet mini or is it a rather over sized card?!!

The first thing I did was use a sheet of bright green scrapbook paper and painted turquise, yellow and white acrylic paint onto it with a brayer.  When that was dry I stamped randomly with stamps from the Graphic Borders and Repeat After Me sets.

I folded my paper in half, turned it 90° and folded in half and in half again so I ended up with 8 rectangle shaped pages.

Cut the centre 2 folds where the 4 middle pages meet.

Fold the paper back in half as shown.  As you press down the creases you’ll end up with a star shape.  Simply fold these up into book pages.

I stitched a very simple 3 hole binding and decorated it with stamps.

I added a little bit of machine stitching and some washi tape.

The image stamps I used are Garden Sketches, Striped Stems, Funky Flowers, Lovely Houses, Rustic Outlines and Border Lines.

I hope it inspired you to make one of your own.

Sometimes it seems like we are scrambling for a quick birthday or thank you card so I decided to make a set of note cards for my son to have quick access to, though he liked them so much he said he was going to keep them – how cute!

The images are colored with Prisma color pencils and gamsol with accents of Smooch and Smooch Glitz!

These cards were created using myStamp Box – Warm Tweets, Mention it and funky flowers.

Thanks for stoppin’ by!

~ Carolyn

It’s me again, Isolde! I’m here with a new challenge for you. I love things clean & simple so here is my challenge: KEEP IT SIMPLE! Just use cardstock + 1 picture + title. That’s all.

This is what I came up with. I used the first picture I took on New Years Day @ 4 am.

For the title I used Friday Night Stencil. I’m addicted to that alphabet . For the dots on top of the page, I used Itty Bittys.

I hope to see some of your ‘clean & simple’ projects!

Thank You card by Carolyn Lontin

Thanks Friend card by Els Brigé
Click HERE for more photos and details on her blog!

Love Forever card by Gladys Chia

Happy Earth Day card by Isolde Pyncket

Nature ATC set by Jaine Drake
Click HERE for more details on her blog. Exactly where did she use plastic  bags?

Birds card by Janet Zeppa
Click HERE for more details on her blog!

I {Heart} You, Earth card by Jolene Johnston
Click HERE for more details on her blog!

Thanks for joining us today. Plant a flower, hug a tree, or celebrate something wonderful in your corner of the world this weekend. Be inspired by all that nature has to offer!

]]> http://mystampbox.com/2012/04/celebrate-earth-day/feed/ 12 http://mystampbox.com/2012/04/going-vintage/ http://mystampbox.com/2012/04/going-vintage/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:02:24 +0000 Jaine http://mystampbox.com/?p=11232 read more »]]> One of the things I like to do when I get the chance is to participate in swaps.  I organized a swap recently for a group I belong to which was journal pages (or Tip In’s as they’re called when you swap them).  The person who I was sending to had specified “Vintage, or shabby chic” as her theme.  I’m not a vintage person and find it very difficult to go vintage.  I admire it totally but It just doesn’t sit well with me when I do it but there we are, that was the theme and that’s what I was required to do.

Life should be about challenging yourself and stepping out of your comfort zone to coin a phrase, so I gave it a go.

For the background, I glued on some old book pages then with my brayer I added gesso, pink acrylic paint and some more gesso.  I stamped the butterflies from the Colorful Companions set in sepia Versafine ink then brayered some more gesso over to dull them a bit.  I stamped flowers from The Garden Sketches set and embossed them in white.  I didnt like the shiny embossing so I sanded it down a bit for more distressing.  (If I’d had a good white ink pad I may have simply used that and not embossed at all).

I added the collage bits and some lace and wanted a large embellishment on the front. After much playing about I hit upon the old stamping on UTEE.  It’s been ages since I saw my UTEE and to be honest I’d forgotton I’d even got a black one.  After 2 layers of black UTEE on a chipboard heart I added a third layer and stamped the butterfly into it.  It was beautiful but too shiny so I wiped over with some gesso and a baby wipe and hey presto I  now had an embellishment which looked  like black stone or slate.

I’m pretty glad I was challenged to do something different. Why not challenge yourself to try something you’ve avoided before, you may surprise yourself.

It’s my grandnephew Evan’s birthday soon and even though I haven’t bought him a gift yet I knew that I would probably need a gift bag. I had some plain white gift bags in my stash so I grabbed my stamps and some paper and started creating.

Here is the finished bag.

I used the Mini Pennants collection to make the cute banner at the top. I just stamped right onto patterned paper. I also used the Royal Flush alpha set to personalize the bag with Evans name.

I also used the Small Greetings collection to give the bag that added special touch! This set can be used for so many things!

I love that I didn’t run out and buy a gift bag. This one is definitely so much more special!

To get a sentiment like this centered onto the card, I usually trace two pencil lines were the letters will sit on and then mark the center of those lines. Start your stamping in the middle of the word and work your way out to the left and the right. Give everything some time to dry and the erase your pencil lines.

For this particular card, I also made a pink version. They make a fun set together.

I hope you give this a try and build your own sentiments to a card some time.

We will have a few changes in our blogging routine, with 3 posts every week, but you will be seeing our same great features and quality and we will be keeping up challenges, tutorials and blog hops!

Instructor and designer Christy Riopel is fun, energetic, and wildly creative. As a mother of two daughters, she still finds time to be a Contributing Writer for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine and a paper crafting instructor, between the carpooling and mountains of laundry. Her background in Interior Design comes through in her well designed and creative layouts and projects.

Christy has taught with her own entertaining style of creative escapism internationally at many industry leading events like Camp Croppin’, CHA, Crop and Cruise, The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival, ScrapFest, and has worked for some of the leading companies in the industry like, Westcott and BasicGrey.

You can read more about Christy at www.christyriopel.blogspot.com

My name is Carolyn Lontin. I have been married to Rick since January 1997; we have one son, Seth and two crazy dogs! We live in gorgeous Colorado, in a suburb just south of Denver. We are less than 20 minute drive to the mountains and love to go there often! I began scrapping in October 2001 to preserve my son’s childhood memories and it quickly became an obsession! I love capturing my family’s “real” moments both in my photos and in my journaling on my layouts and projects. I have found the creative outlet of scrapping to be incredibly relaxing and quite addictive, which is shocking to the previously dominate non-artistic side of me! Over the past few years, I have had the honor of having my work published in major publications!  Since April 1994, I have been a Human Resource Director for a manufacturing company. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends, photography, cheering on my son’s many sports teams, mini-adventures exploring in the mountains, playing with our dogs, and reading. I am super excited to be a part of the My Stamp Box Design Team!

You can read more about Carolyn on her blog: http://carolynlontin.blogspot.com/

Hello… My name is Gladys Chia and I am from Sunny Singapore. I have been introduced to the scrapbooking world in 2008 by my elder sister. Loving all the beautiful things – papers, ribbons, stickers, flowers. I used to hoard them because they are toooo pretty to use them! I love to create my own handmade stuff whenever I am having time on my hands. Its has been a very fun and interesting journey so far. I am loving each and every part of the process in creating my own art. I love traveling, shopping, reading, watching movies and having fun!! I can’t wait to start this wonderful journey to show you what I can create.

Here is my blog: http://gladyschia2010.wordpress.com/

Again welcome to our team team and we can’t wait to get started!

Happy Stamping!

I started by stamping the bubble wrap image from Backgrounds in shades of pink, purple, and green Distress Inks. I allowed the image to stamp off the left, top, and bottom edges. Next I stamped butterflies from Colorful Companions using the same inks, fluttering randomly over the bubble wrap pattern. I stamped the main butterfly two times in black Archival ink on a scrap of white cardstock and colored them using Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol for blending. After cutting both images out, I glued one flat to the card and the other with the wings lifted. I completed the card with a birthday sentiment from Straighforward stamped next to the focal point butterfly.

I added a few touches of shimmer to butterfly wings using a glitter pen for some added fun. The finished card is pretty and very lightweight. The next time you reach for patterned papers and lots of bulky embellishments, consider making a big impact with stamping alone. I’m sure you’ll love the effect!
Check out myStamp BOX for all sorts of great sentiment, background, and image stamps.

I created this layout fairly quickly, using a coordinated beach-themed collection and neutral kraft cardstock:

Stamps used:  Mini Alphas, Just Add Notes, Wishing You Sunshine

Using foam adhesive, I added depth to the layout by popping up the stamped sun, and a few key fishies cut from patterned paper.

As this is my last official project with the myStamp BOX team, I would like to add a huge thank  you to Bettina and the team for all the fun I’ve had over the last year.  Family obligations and other commitments prevented me from pursuing another term, but I can’t wait to see what the new team comes up with!  It was a pleasure working with you all!!

Cheers,

Normally when I make a project and I want to include a bow I pull out my ribbons. Well not this time. This time I made a bow from patterned paper and I love how it turned out!!

Here is my card:

So my challenge to you today is to create a project with a paper bow on it and of course include some stamping too.

To make the background of my layout, I first mounted all the letters of the Friday Night Stencil set onto my acrylic block and repeatedly stamped that onto my background paper.

After stamping the background, I applied a thin layer of gesso to the entire page to work the stamping a  bit more into the background.

Finally, I stamped some of the hearts of the Cherry Blossoms set in blue and yellow on the left side of my picture, almost like confetti thrown onto the page.

This kind of background stamping is a very easy way to break up the white space, without making somethingtoo busy.

We have 3 lucky ladies, who are winning a myStamp BOX stamp set and a Faber-Castell set:

Dorina Denton (Abundant Blossoms)

Maureen Bosch (Funky Flowers)

Bethany Becker (Colourful Companions)

Please send us your address and we will put the prizes in the mail for you!

Congratulations!

Don’t forget to share your creations with us!

Welcome to Spring! Welcome to our joint blog hop!

Today is the day to see our fabulous products merge and see ways on how to use Faber-Castells beautiful lines with our clear stamps. Our wonderful designers are inviting you to get inspired by their imaginative creativity.

The Blog Hop starts at the Faber-Castell blog, please begin your journey here: (http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/design-memory-craft/).

If you have missed blogs, you can visit any one from here by clicking on the link. If you have seen all of our blogs, just leave a comment below and check on Monday, if you are one of the lucky winners!

START AT: Faber-Castell (http://designmemorycraft.typepad.com/design-memory-craft/)
Marsha Valk (http://marshavalk.wordpress.com/)
Linda Abadie (http://lindaabadie.com/)
Jaine Drake (http://www.craftydrake.blogspot.com/)
Janet Zeppa (http://janetsjoy.blogspot.com/)
Els Brigé (http://bestamped.wordpress.com/)
Jolene Johnston (http://jolenejohnston.blogspot.com/)
Rita Barakat http://letsembellish.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Mattot http://arttalk-sigmagirl.blogspot.com/
Mou Saha http://collagecollagecollage.blogspot.com/
Isolde Pyncket (http://sollie79.blogspot.com)
Agata Pfister (http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com/)
Jill Hildebrand  http://www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com/
END HERE: myStamp BOX Blog

Tell us in your comment: which projects you will be using for inspiration for your next creative moment in stamping!

We are giving away some amazing product from both participating companies. All you have to do is COMMENT on all designers blogs along your journey to WIN. Our three blog hop winners will be drawn from all participants, so be sure to leave comments by Sunday March 25th at 6pm EST. We will announce the winners on the myStamp BOX blog and Faber-Castell blog on Monday, March 26th.

And here is a glimpse at the stamp sets we will be giving away to three lucky winners! Spring inspired they will each be matched by a Faber-Castell package.

We hope you enjoyed our Blog Hop! Don’t forget to leave your comments!

Good Luck!