So, I’m a HUGE fan of mini books and with the stash of mSB stamps, seriously just amazingggg coolness, I decided to create up this mini, “Our Love Soars”.  I wanted to go outside the normal colors of pink for loveeeee and went with a play on different colors with red & blue.

Beware:  Photo heavy….since I’ll show you how I worked the different mSB stamps inside along with all the fun fun details & pages throughout this mini.  I usually work lots of stamps in my minis’.  I LOADED this mini up with a big dose of mSB eye candy!!!

A tidbit about this book….My boyfriend, Gianluca, & I have been together for a little over a year.  He’s Sicilian and lives still in Italy (Turin, Italy).  “Our Love Soars” across the distance of 2 continents, across that big ocean of the Atlantic, 2 different languages, many flights, many long hours on those flights, many miles (or kilometers)…yet it’s all worth it, he’s so worth it. “Our Love Soars” in bringing us together in many parallels.

One of my favoriteeeee mSB sets, Bold Blocks, used here in the phrase,“Who is that?”

Using the mSB, Color Me Sentiments, here in “hello hello”.

A couple of different mSB sets used on this page, Symbols (heart),

{yeahhh, I think I was singing the Black Eyed Peas when I made this )}

Yes, many many miles for love!

But the phrase “crazy stuff” from mSB Bold Blocks was just perfect because he’s like a child with a new toy when getting a new comic book! )

This is quite a common play on words between Gianluca & myself…it’s the norm ))

Soooo…hope you enjoyed my mini & inspiration!!

Now, I (Marsha) also had a song to inspire me. You know: the kind of song that you hear on the radio and then stays with you all day or (in this case) all week? When I was thinking of our theme ‘Baby, Be Mine’, I had the Bob Marley song ‘Is this Love’ stuck in my head. I had to take it as a sign and started to create my project around it!

I created my funky fabric flowers using the myStamp BOX Funky Flowers set to stamp on denim with StazOn inks. I then cut the stamped flowers and leaves out and machine stitched them onto hand-cut pieces of felt. I used cardstock and another piece of felt to create the grass. The flower stems are stamped directly onto the photo mat.

I took the glass from the shadow box frame (Ribba from IKEA) and stamped part of the lyrics on the outside of the glass with myStamp BOX Mini Alpha using StazOn inks. I used the same inks to stamp the swirl from the Funky Flowers set onto the inside of the glass.

The photo I placed in the frame is one of my favorites that I took during a (table top) photography class. It features two figurines that have been in my possession since childhood!

So… we hope you enjoyed our projects & inspiration!
Grab up some mSB stamps & create it up!!

Supply List for Wendy’s mini:

mSB Stamps –
Bold Blocks
Color Me Sentiments
Symbols
Friday Night Stencil
Programmed Robots
Repeat After Me
Seal It
Road Trip
Sigh Gush Gasp

Other -
Cardstock – Recollections (Ocean Blue), Paper – My Mind’s Eye (Stella Rose), October Afternoon (Rocket Age), Fancy Pants Designs (It’s the Little Things), Cosmo Cricket (Odds&Ends), American Crafts (Amy Tangerine), 4×6 Chipboard Covers – Creative Imaginations (Bare Elements), Glue & Seal (Ranger) – Matte, Inks – Ranger (Broken China, Fired Brick), Binder Rings –  7 Gypsies, Color Wash Mist – Ranger (Adirondack – Red Pepper), Smooch Spritz – Clearsnap (Vanilla Shimmer, Ginger Ale), Color Mist – Studio Calico (Mister Huey – Calico White, Bonny Blue), Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels (Olive Vine, Pattina), Glitter Heart Metal Stickers – Making Memories, Wood Heart – Studio Calico, Brads – Making Memories, Tapes – Tim Holtz, K&Co (Smash), American Crafts (Amy Tangerine), Rub-ons – 7 Gypsies, October Afternoon, Kaisercraft, Puffy Fabric Hearts – Making Memories, Heart Trinket Pins – Maya Road, Letter Stickers – Recollections, October Afternoon (Rocket Age), American Crafts (Thickers), Foam Glitter Star Stickers – Darice, Word Stickers – The Girls Paperie (Authentique), Label Stickers – Jenni Bowlin, Pearls & Bling – Basic Grey, Kaisercraft, Dimensional Stickers – American Crafts (Amy Tangerine).

Well, we know Christmas is not too far away now, so I thought I’d create some candy bags.  These are quick and easy to make when using myStamp BOX stamps.   I used “Color Me Sentiments” merry x-mas and  stamped it in brown ink on green cardstock.  Then I used the gift package from “Merry Mr. Snowman”.  Since I made a number of these, I colored each one with my Copic markers.

Why not make a bunch and put them on the table or place them in someone’s Christmas bag.  This is the sample bag topper.

These are the completed bags.

I hope I inspired you to make some fun giveaway Christmas bags!

For the place card settings, I first folded Bazzill cardstock, one of our preferred partners, into a piece that was 3″ x 6″, then folded it in half to create a 3×3 card. Using my Cricut and the new Thanksgiving cartridge, I die cut the leaves. I used Bold Blocks stamps to stamp the date.

For the napkin rings, I cut cardstock 2″ x 6″, covered it with matching pattern paper and added a punched strip of leaves.  Using  Merry Mr. Snowman stamp set, I stamped the ornament, then flipped it over and used it as the hanging tag on my napkin rings.  I then stamped initials using  Colour Me stamp set.

This “cracker” is actually an empty toilet tissue roll that I covered with Bazzill cardstock.   I first stamped “thanks” all over the cardstock, using Color Me – Sentiments, then wrapped it around the toilet tissue roll. I spritzed some white tissue paper with Candlelight Glimmer Mist and once dry, I wrapped it around the roll, placed candies inside and sealed it at the ends. Who can resist some sweetness on the dinner table?

So I grabbed my stash of monster papers by Daisy Buckets, my ink pad and my stamps and came up with 3 fun cards.  Here they are….

You’re Great

supplies: stamps, my Stamp BOX (Color Me Sentiments); cardstock, Bazzill;  patterned paper, Daisy Buckets;  ink, Copic, Memento;  buttons, BasicGrey;  die cut shapes, Spellbinders;  adhesive, 3M, Glue Dots;  twine.

Thanks

supplies: stamps, my Stamp BOX (Color Me Sentiments); cardstock, Bazzill;  patterned paper, Daisy Buckets;  ink, Copic, Memento; die cut shapes, Spellbinders;  punch, Fiskars; adhesive, 3M.

Fanks

supplies: stamps, my Stamp BOX (Color Me Sentiments); cardstock, Bazzill;  patterned paper, Daisy Buckets;  ink, Copic, Memento; die cut tag, Spellbinders; adhesive, 3M, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L.

For my last sentiment, I carefully cut the “F” from the word “From” and the “anks” from the word “Thanks” and put them together on my acrylic block.   I thought that the little green monster would have a hard time saying “Thanks” and would most likely say “Fanks” due to his cute little fangs!

So the next time you’re looking at your stamps, think how you may alter them to suit your card or layout.

For more my Stamp BOX inspiration, please visit my blog, Your Memories.

Thanks!  And happy stamping!

Allison.

There is a night and day version of each of these cute homes. Hope this inspires you to do some fun cards and layouts.

You can use a sentiment from this set and customize it with your own words from the Color Me Alphabet set.

These little pictures are sweet to use on layouts (make backgrounds by using one stamp repeatedly in different colours), cards and tags as well. This set covers many seasons and occasions.

To win one of the stamp sets, you can leave up to two comments, each entry will win you a ballot. You must do one or both (for 2 entries) of the following:

1. leave a comment, please include your first name and last initial, plus your city/country

2. on a second comment post a link to the place where you have posted about my Stamp BOX’s  blog (on your own blog or in a forum), again you need to include your name and last initial, plus your city/country – Good Luck!

This contest is open until August 30, the winner will be announced on August 31. Make sure to check the blog and to send in your address, if you win!

Good luck!

Bettina