Colour Challenge // bold & whimsical

Good Morning Stampers -
If anyone knows me…..they know I LOVE COLOUR!!!!!!  It’s everywhere in my home – I can’t get enough of it.   I love to decorate my home & create projects and layouts using neutral backgrounds mixed with bold colour combinations.  One of my favourite colour combinations is this one:

I am also totally inspired by home decor……in magazines, on blogs…  |  read more »

Guest Designer Gladys Chia

Hello… My name is Gladys Chia and I am from sunny Singapore. I started scrapbooking in 2008 through my elder sister. Loving all the beautiful things – papers, ribbons, stickers, flowers. I used to hoard them because they are soooo pretty to use them! Ha! I started to create a few pages of layouts and…  |  read more »

Post it Note Holders

Hi everyone! It’s Janet here today.
I teach a fitness class a couple of times a week and soon the session will be over for the summer so I want to give all the ladies in the class a little something to say thank-you.
It has to be something economical but at the same time I wanted…  |  read more »

Love… with Pockets!

Hello everyone!  Ally here! And today I’m going to share a quick tutorial on a mini pocket album.
For this mini album, I started with a raw chipboard album by Maya Road called the “Love Word Album”.  I then adapted it and made it my own and that’s what I’m going to share with you now. …  |  read more »

Custom jewelry

I really like to come up with fun ways to use my stamps on something other than paper… One of the materials that I love especially is shrink plastic. With shrink plastic I can have these lovely butterflies from the Colorful Companions set around me all day!

For this particular necklace I stamped the Colorful Companions…  |  read more »

Royal Celebrations

Hi!
Here is my first post for the myStampBOX blog!!!
Today is the big royal wedding in England! But did you know that in the Netherlands we have a royal celebration of our own? Tomorrow is Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) and most celebrations start tonight with Koninginnenacht (Queen’s Night)! Queen’s Day is a Dutch national holiday on which…  |  read more »

Easter Showcase

Spring and Easter are finally here and this weekend we are into pastel colours!
For most of us it was a challenge to work with these subtle hues, but the end products are all spectacular! Get inspired to leave your regular colour range and try out a new and different palette.

Marsha Valk stamped and embossed on…  |  read more »

Wrapping paper tutorial with Audrey

I love the look of kraft for all types of projects, and one of my favorite gift ideas is to use plain kraft mailing paper for the wrapping. It’s inexpensive, looks great, and is easy and fun to personalize using stamps and embellishments you probably already have on hand. For my gift box, I used…  |  read more »

Matching Stamps to Patterned Paper

Usually when I want to use my stamps on a layout, I try and match the theme of the layout or the graphics in the patterned paper. For this layout, I was using patterned paper with little cameras and talking about how much my son loves to have his picture taken, so I grabbed a…  |  read more »

Paired-up project: picture inspiration

Hi there! It’s Eva and Agata here to share with you our work. We’ve decided to take some inspiration from a picture. Here it is:

It seems that both Eva and I we were inspired by it in the same way: the overall design. Here are our versions:

Eva turned it into a 12 x 12 layout…  |  read more »