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 »

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 »

masking tutorial

so along the line of keeping it simple, I am going to show you how to mask.
step 1: stamp your image onto the page.

step 2: stamp the same image onto a sticky note and cut it out. Then stick over top of the image you previously stamped.

Step 3: then take a different colour of ink…  |  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 »

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 »

Stamping on acetate

Garden Sketches Acetate Card

Hi all!
This is my first Blog posting for myStampBOX… I hope you all enjoy it.   The kids have been playing lots this week for March Break and I’ve been playing too… with ACETATE and new STAMPS!
You can make some really great projects, but you do have to know about a few special products.
Acetate -…  |  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 »

Let’s create some fun patterned paper

I hope everyone has had a chance to see Canadian Scrapbooker Basic Series vol.2 & 3… It deals with what we LOVE! inks, stamps and other things that compliment  our craft.  Anyways, I am going to walk you step by step to creating your own paper. Let’s have some fun with this fabulous stamp set…the…  |  read more »

Back Ground Tutorial

Howdy all!
Today I’m going to show you how to make a fun and easy back ground for your cards using the alphabet stamps, “Lots of Dots“.
When I first saw these stamps I immediately thought of typewriter keys!  So I thought I would create a simple back ground and card around that idea!
Let’s get started…
Step One:
Arrange…  |  read more »

Stamp Spotlight

Today I am going to show you how to make a simple but stunning card using only stamps, ink and cardstock. Stamping images on pieces of paper that are smaller than the whole design really makes your images stand out and is a good way to get rid of leftover bits of coloured papers. You…  |  read more »