Stamping on a transparency

Trace Geworsky
I have always loved the Hambly transparencies but I find them so expensive, so I rarely buy them.
I was looking around in my local office supply store, when I saw a box of plain transparencies, and I thought…hey, why dont I make my own decorative transparencies?!
To start, take one plain transparency, either staz on…  |  read more »

stamping on photographs

Trace Geworsky

I love stamping on my pictures, and find myself doing it time and time again.  It is a simple way of filling in the white space of a picture, while making it  look nice, and it also adds a lot to the photograph.
Layout #1  “love is so many things”
I used white ink to stamp…  |  read more »

Clear resist pad and glossy paper samples

Trace Geworsky
While walking into my lss, their new shipment of glossy cardstock, and the clear resist pad (Ranger) caught my eye.
I thought..well how hard can it really be to figure out? Well aparently for me, it was quite hard!!! LOL I am going to be totally honest when I say that all the ideas I…  |  read more »

Show & Tell…..What fun!

TO DO......

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter… if you are like me and have kids, they are likely home today.  Mine spent the morning “working” like Mommy…. stamping!   I spent the morning “playing” like a kid with my stamps!
I used one of my favourite myStampBOX sets,  JUST ADD NOTES.  I love journaling stamps!  they really…  |  read more »

Creating Clusters with Stamps

Clusters of embellishments are all the rage in scrapbooking these days.  But have you ever thought to use your stamps as another interesting element in a cluster of goodies?
In this example, I used the Memories Seal from the Just Add Notes set as a frame for a button.

Here you will see a flower center from…  |  read more »

Stamp Spotlight: Road Trip

Howdy all!
My family and I are really big into road trips so I thought it would be fitting to showcase one of my very favourite myStamp BOX sets, “Road Trip“.
My aim was to use every single stamp on one page… and I ‘almost’ succeeded… just one stamp short!
Here’s all the elements of my page…
To create…  |  read more »

seal it!

I love the look of old wax-seals, they add just the right amount of beauty to a plain, old envelope.
The “seal it!” stamps are at the moment one of my mSB-favourites – so versatile and fun – and they gave me the idea making ”real” wax-seals to use as embellishments on my vintage-projects.
I used Ultra…  |  read more »

4 layouts using the “She says-He says” set

Trace Geworsky
While I absolutely LOVE every single stamp set I have from my Stamp BOX, the ‘She says-He says’ set seems to be one that I use on almost every layout.
I love it because its so versatile, and even just using it once on a page, still adds so much to the layout.
Layout #1 “mr…  |  read more »

Hey, Cut It Out!

Sometimes I get so excited playing with colored pencils and fun ink techniques that I forget about two very easy ways to use stamps: hand cutting and punching. I used a small circle punch with images from the Seal It stamps and adhered them with pop dots. I also handcut the Letterboxes title letters for…  |  read more »

Mixin’ and Matchin’

To create this page, I started with the Funky Circles set.  I stamped a design on a white piece of cardstock using black and red ink.  This formed the basis of my page and the rest just evolved from there.  Having all my stamps sitting on my desk upright in the stamp box holder made it…  |  read more »