Challenge: Paper Piecing

I love cute stamped images, but I’m not good at coloring them in. So whenever I want to add some color to my stamped images, I go for paper piecing. Since we’re about to get ready for a new holiday season, I made a few Christmas tags with the fun HoHoHo set.
I had a lot of…  |  read more »

Challenge: Recycle/Recover

So many of us are going green and love to save money, so today’s challenge might be for you! My pal, Cheryl, recently went back to an office job and inherited lots of items from the previous owners. While cute in their day, these items needed a little sprucing up to match up with her…  |  read more »

give Halloween some COLOUR

Happy (almost) Halloween all you stampers!!!
I want to share a COLOUR COMBO with you today that I used when creating my latest Halloween layout:

It’s not your traditional colour combo when it comes to Halloween — maybe, instead, you think of birthdays, the beach or the backyard pool.
Yeah……well…….I’ve mixed things up a bit and brought these…  |  read more »

Magazine inspired

I love magazines: I love to read them, look at them and… I especially like to flip through them, looking for ideas! One of the most inspiring magazines I know is the French Marie Claire Idées:

I buy this magazine, even-though my French is not very good and I never actually make any of the projects…  |  read more »

Challenge Day:Embossing

I was using some corrugated chipboard elements on my layout and I just didn’t want to use them “raw” they way they came.
I thought that I would ink them up so they would stand out but I wanted more. I wanted them to “pop”. Here is where I took out my stamps and stamped directly…  |  read more »

Challenge Day: Krafty Kicks

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 »

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

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 »

Colorful world

Hi there!
Rebecca and Agata are here to put some color into your world! We’ve teamed up for this challenge and chose to make some layouts using a great stamp set: Colorful Companions which is all about butterflies! Here’s Rebecca’s beauty:

She took only one stamp from that set, stamped it numerous times in colors…  |  read more »

Going Beyond

Hi there stamp lovers! Agata here to entertain you today on myStamp Box blog!
I remember watching in my childhood a TV show called Beyond 2000. My English was sort of in its beginnings back then so I was puzzled by the word “beyond”. Plus year 2000 seemed so far away! …  |  read more »

Sketch Challenge!

Hello, my happy little stampers!  Today, I’m bringing you a sketch challenge, to help motivate and inspire you:

And here is my bright, colourful take on the sketch:

Stamps used:  Mini Alphas, Wishing You Sunshine, Just Add Notes
Using the Wishing You Sunshine stamps, I stamped various cloud shapes in bright ink colours on white cardstock, embossed them…  |  read more »