Making a scene with my Stamp BOX

The front cover

I work at a school and when there’s scrappy-type work to be done for the staff, it seems to fall into my lap.  Not that I mind at all, of course   I  love to get paid to scrapbook!  This past month, we had a long-standing music teacher retire and for her retirement tea…  |  read more »

Stamping on Metal

Trace Geworsky
I have a huge pile of leftover metal in my scrap room that I just didn’t know what to do with.  I had used some as front and back covers for mini albums, but wanted to try something different with them so I decided to use them to make a card.

Supplies needed:
2 pieces of…  |  read more »

Flock. (It’s not a naughty word.)

Have you ever played with flocking fibers? Flocking is the process of adding millions of individual cut particle fibers (called flock) onto adhesive to create a soft, fuzzy texture. Flocking is often found inside jewelry boxes. You can also add flocking to your craft projects when you want to achieve that same fuzzy texture. Here…  |  read more »

Summer reading

Hi all.
Gudrun here from “tropical Oslo”.  We are having a heatwave here up north, and we are really enjoying the hot weather.  So what better can we do than having some small paper-projects and reading a good book in the shade in the hammoc.
So, I’ll share my little summer-project with you. It is so simple, and…  |  read more »

A visit from Sarah, guest designer for June

Please welcome Sarah Mullanix from Indiana, USA. She is our very talented guest designer for the month of June. Meet Sarah and check out her beautiful projects below the questions that we asked her about scrapbooking.

Sarah lives in Chesterfield, Indiana, with her handy husband Steve, her two active daughters and baby boy Carter. She likes…  |  read more »

Stamping On Acrylic

Acrylic was made for stamping.  It’s really that simple.  At least it is for me.    Sure acrylic looks great with lace cardstock, trims, rub-ons and the like but there is just somthing about stamping on acrylic that I simply adore.  As an example, I created a mini album using a tabbed album from Clear Scraps, one…  |  read more »

Summer & flowers

Hi all, Gudrun here.  It is finally summer in norway, the sun is shining allmost all day and all night – and the norwegians enjoy the long, beautiful days outside.
I have also had fun making some easy, cute flowers. This is a small project is  ideal for outdoor-scrapping.
I have used scraps of some colorful, happy papers…  |  read more »

Gift Card holder

We’re closing in on “Schoolteacher/Coach/Piano-Dance-whatever teacher Thank you season” here so I’m trying to create a few unique cards for putting gift cards in for these once-a-year occasions. I also thought I’d use this one, my original, to ask my DH out on a date   I used the Just Add Notes stamp set…  |  read more »

Watercolor Resist

Here’s a fun technique to try! Create an embossed resist background using watercolor paints. Here are the supplies you’ll need:

your favorite my Stamp BOX stamps
Versamark Watermark ink or any embossing ink
white embossing powder
watercolor paper and paints (palette, pencils, crayons)
fine point marker or pen

1. Stamp your images using embossing ink. I used the Birthday Numbers set…  |  read more »

Spring wall hanging tutorial

Trace Geworsky
Hi Everyone,
This is my first blog post for my Stamp BOX(along with using a friends laptop that I have never used before, so please bear with me:))
To celebrate the beginning of spring, I wanted to make an acrylic wall hanging to hang in my front entrance.
The supplies you will need to create this:
my Stamp…  |  read more »