Our designers have been busy and created an abundance of wonderful designs. Check out what they create in the Summer:

Happy Birthday Card by Jolene Johnston

Thanks You Card by Eva Pizzaro

Sigh Layout by Jill Hildebrand

Gruta do Lago Layout by Virginie Delbecq

Ready, Set, Grow Layout by Tracey Taylor

Thank You Card by Agata Pfister

Hope you enjoyed the pretty display!

Happy Stamping,

As you can see this layout does not include a picture- but that is the fun about it, isn’t it? I wanted to create kind of like a motivating poster, For the walking girl I cut out a silhouette from a magazine and used it twice as a mask with Glimmer Mist and watersoluble Crayons. I stamped the title by using the Splash Me a Lot Alphabet. I stamped the letters on a kraft cardstock and cut the letters out. I used the Wishing you Sunshine Stamps with those lovely clouds. As you can see on the top I cut two of the clouds and used them to the left and right of the paper so the clouds look as they would continue over the paper. For the tree I used the Tree for all Seasons Stamp Set. I stamped directly onto patterened paper and then cut the tree out.

I had a lot of fun with this layout and maybe it inspires you to use your myStampBox Stamps even for a non-photo layout!

Nat

For this project I used two sets of myStampBOX stamps: “Tree for all Seasons” and “Abundant Blossoms“. We’re going to use the tree trunk from the first set, and the maple leaf from the second set.

To complete this project, in addition to the above stamps you’ll need the following supplies:

• Patterned Paper (at least 3 different colors/designs) – I used the new “Amber Road” collection from Pink Paislee.
• Red & Green Ink ( I used Stampin’ Up Stampin Spots in Bravo Burgundy and Always Artichoke)
• Helmar Liquid Scrapdots
• Adhesive Runner (I used the Helmar Quick Fix)
• Ranger Perfect Pearls and Perfect Medium Marker
• Gold Embossing Powder
• Small detail Scissors or a craft knife
• A heat embossing tool
• a foam stamping pad is optional but recommended
• Versamark or other embossing ink

Attach the tree trunk stamp to your stamp block. Apply your embossing medium (Versamark) to the stamp. Place a foam stamping pad under your paper. This will ensure a nice, crisp image transfer.

Sprinkle your stamped image with the embossing powder. If you have a tray to put underneath it makes things alot easier, but it isn’t required.

Shake the excess powder off, making sure that your image is completely covered. Using your heat tool, heat up the powder using a quick, circular motion. You don’t want to stay on one spot or you could scorch your powder and ruin your image.

Notice how the top part of the tree is shiny gold and the bottom half is still dull. That’s how you know that your embossing has taken effect. Continue until your entire tree is shiny gold.

Once the embossing is finished, use your precision scissors or cutting knife to cut out the image. Leave a little bit of the paper around the edges as this will keep your piece sturdy and help it stand out more.

Attach the tree trunk to the card using dimensional dots. I prefer Helmar Liquid Scrapdots but other dots will work as well.

Now, apply the Maple Leaf stamp from the Abundant Blossoms set. We want to make our leaves looks more realistic, so we’re going to layer our two colors of ink.

Apply the red ink randomly onto your stamp, then apply the green ink making sure to overlap the two colors.

Stamp your first leaf, then wipe off the stamp and do the same thing again until you have stamped 7 or 8 images. Try to make them all a little different.

When you have all of your images done, pick out the 5 or 6 that you like the best and cut them out.

Attach the leaves to your card.  Apply some to the top, and some to the bottom so that it looks like the leaves have fallen from your tree.

Take your Perfect Medium marker and color over a few of the leaves, then brush them with Perfect Medium pigment powder. Brush off the excess. This will give your leaves a sheen when the light hits your card.

Using your Perfect Medium marker, draw a border line around the edge of one of the pieces of patterned paper. Brush over the line with pigment and brush off the excess.

And there you have your completed card! Wouldn’t that be great to give to the hostess (or, if you are the hostess, one of your guests) with a nice bottle of wine?

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Until next time,

Marci

Well, it’s the first official day of Fall, and while I will miss summer, and the easy schedules with the kids, the garden, the trips to the beach and all that BBQ’ing, I have to admit that I truly LOVE fall.

The crisp slightly cooler air, the fresh smell of the wind whipping through the gorgeous fall leaves, and of course, all the celebrations! I love thanksgiving (almost more than  Christmas), and Halloween too.

I decided that since I love thanksgiving so much, why not really celebrate it right? Including sending out some invitations made with the totally gorgeous myStampBox set a Tree for all Seasons? I then took it one step further, and made a little pillow box which I will fill with truffles and use as placetags for each person at dinner.

I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.. Just have 13 more to do now!!

Happy Fall everyone!

Card Recipe:

myStampBox Stamps: A Tree for all Seasons & Floating Leaves

Core’dinations Cardstock cut 7 x 11 3/4

Prism Simply Smooth White Cardstock

Memento Rich Cocoa Ink

Copic Markers:  Assorted Colours

We R Memory Keepers Patterned Paper  cut 2  1/2 x 7″  & buttons

Cut the cardstock and score at:  2 1/2 and 7 1/4 from the left hand side of the paper.  Fold.

Cut 2 pieces of the Simply Smooth cardstock to 2 3/4″.  Cut a mat of cordinating cardstock to 3×3″

Stamp tree trunk using memento ink onto one of the white cardstock pieces.

Stamp the leaves overtop of the trunk, and colour in using copic markers.

Mat the completed Tree image.   Attach the  piece of  patterned paper.  Adhere the matted stamped image so that is centered when the card is closed.    Adhere the second piece of white cardstock behind the attached image on the right hand side of the card.. so that it is hidden when the card is closed.  See photo.

Stamp sentiment.   Attach buttons using glue dots.

Pillow Box Place Cards:

Sizzix Pillow Box Die Cut

myStampBox Floating Leaves Stamps

Copic Markers

Foam Dots

To assemble pillow box, use Sizzix die cut in and cut out.  If you don’t have the die,  you can download the template here from the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine website which I made for a previous project in last winters issue.

Make a band using matching coodinating patterned paper.  Wrap around the pillow box and attach with adhesive.

Write or print each persons name onto a small piece of cardstock.  Set aside.

Stamp desired leaves from Floating Leaves set onto Prism Simply Smooth Cardstock.   Colour as desired with Copic Markers and cut out.  Adhere using pop dots to give extra dimension and depth.  Attach names and you’re done.

I dug out my most recent stamps from my Stamp BOX - A tree for all Seasons, Floating Leaves, and Funky Flowers and I created scenes using these stamps, leaving room on the pages for plenty of journaling.  I made large, full pages for the teachers and staff to write on, and smaller (4/page) sections for some of the students who have had this teacher for many years.  Everyone loved it, and I got to play a little putting together trees, flowers and leaves into scenes.  It was so much more interesting than blank journaling pages and WAY less expensive than buying a Guest book or something.   Thanks for looking!

The front cover

The 4/page section for student comments

Some of them even coloured the images in, exactly as I thought they might

One of the staff pages with stamps from Funky Flowers

Thanks for looking,

Cathy