Grab that Glitter!
February 4, 2010 by Allison · 5 Comments
Happy Thursday everyone!
Today I want to show you an easy way to use glitter. Yup… you know. All those little tiny bottles of wonderful and super clingy glitters we all hide in our scrappy stash!
So grab your stamps and glitter and come play along with me today!
I started off by stamping a few flower images from the Garden Sketches stamp set with black Memento ink.
I masked off the flower images and stamped a few fern images from the Floating Leaves stamp set.
Then I coloured my flower images with my Copic markers, using the same colours (or close) to the colours of glitter you choose to use.
Once all the images were coloured, I used my Quickie Glue pen and started to colour each flower in individually. Once my glue was applied, I sprinkled on my glitter and tapped off the excess.
Here is the image completely coloured and all the glitters applied.
I finished off my glittered squared with some soft inking around the edges, some Copic airbrushing for some speckles, some piercing using my piercing tool and adding some pretty green adhesive pearls to the center. I then took my square and applied some hairspray to it. This was to ensure the glitter stays in place and it didn’t effect the ink either!
I added some purple frames and then used the same fern stamp again with Versamark ink on the green card base and placed the purple frames on the card base. I also added a quick sentiment using the Oval Office stamp set.
I hope that you too grab your stamps and glitter and create a fun card today!
Thanks for joining me today!
~ Allison Cope ~
Layout Colour Challenge
December 2, 2009 by Kim · 8 Comments
Good morning and welcome to my very first challenge layout here on the my StampBOX blog.
I never really thought much of the colour orange and cringed whenever an orange piece of paper/cardstock/embellishment made its way into my craft area. But somehow I have grown to love this colour and when you team it with pink, you can get such exciting projects together.
So, this week I challenge you to not only use the colours ORANGE and PINK together on a layout but also to include CIRCLES in different sizes.
Here is what I came up with – can you guess how many different stamps I have used on this layout?
Stamp Sets used (if you click on the images you get directly to the set in the store and can add it to your cart)
Stamped Titles
October 30, 2009 by Cherie · 6 Comments
So many times when creating layouts people always grab their go to item. Having worked at my local scrapbook store, I’ve seen that most popular is usually a sticker or chipboard alphabet. However, I’ve always thought that you are so limited when you buy a sticker/chipboard alpha because it’s one colour.
That’s where alphabet stamps come in! They’re fabulous! You can make them look so many different ways just by altering the way you stamp, the colour you use or how you display the title.
In my first example (isn’t my niece adorable?), I cut out a small rectangle of white cardstock and stamped “ATTITUDE” in pink at varying angles to represent her tendency to show her own unique personality. I then added the smaller alpha stickers for the first part of my title.
Supplies: Bazzill Cardstock, American Crafts Paper, Making Memories Letter Stickers, my Stamp BOX Wishing You Sunshine, my Stamp BOX Colorful Companions, my Stamp BOX Splash Me A Lot, my Stamp BOX Seal It!
In my next layout “Starting Over”, I created a special page about my father having a new baby later in life and starting the process of parenting all over. A very different look is created when you overlap your stamped letters and then hand cut them out.
Supplies: My Mind’s Eye Paper, Making Memories Paper, Bazzill Cardstock, Copic Markers, my Stamp BOX Seal It!, my Stamp BOX Floating Leaves, my Stamp BOX Rough Copy
Did you know that my Stamp BOX has 23 alphabet, number and punctuation sets? They are all unique in their own way. Be sure to check them out!
Thanks for popping by today!
Happy Stamping!
Fall Colors
October 14, 2009 by Gudrun · 5 Comments
I’m allways inspired by the colors of fall. The warm yellow, orange, red and brown, combined with the crisp blue sky and the first ice on the puddles, the freezing cold nights and the clear sunny days allways seems to spark my creative mind.
So today I decided to share one of my favourite fall-color combinations with you.
I have used these yummy colors along with some of the cutest cloud stamps I have ever seen for my LO and my card. The”Wishing you Sunshine” stamp set make my heart smile 
Thanks to this stamp-set I had totally fun making this LO. :)
First I stamped on my background craft-cardstock using glimmermist. I sprayed glimmermist directly on to the stamp and pressed it gently to the paper. The clouds get a cool watercolor-look.
I stamped some of the clouds on to white cardstock using the same glimmer-mist technique. Cut out the clouds from the white cardstock.
Some of the clouds are just stamped on the background with black inkpad. I added the cut out clouds to to the background-paper to add dimension.
When all this was done I added my photo and embellishments. Used a leftover cloud as a “leaf” along with my flowers. so simple and so fun!
Same technique is used on the card above. Stamped with glimmer mist and some of the clouds just with black ink pad. All of the clouds are cut out and some was outlined with black pen. They are added with double sided tape or 3D foam tape to make them pop.
Now I challenge YOU to use my favourite fall colors to spark your creativity and create a card, LO or projects. Please link up your creations in the comment-section of this blogpost. I would LOVE to see what you all create with this color-combo.
Happy creating!
Fall card using “floating leaves” and “happy word juble“
You’re Invited….
September 21, 2009 by Lara · 12 Comments
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.
Autumn greetings
September 17, 2009 by Gudrun · 12 Comments
Hi all. Gudrun here from a rainy, wet Oslo. The fall came so fast this year, can’t believe the autumn storms have started allready, and the trees and leaves have turned yellow, orange and red.
Anyhow, I kind of love the fall. I love it when school starts, and we all get into the swing of things. I love the cool, crisp air and the beautiful colors. Fall allways makes me feel inspired. Inspired to create and to make stuff. And rainy weather gives me plenty of time to dig into my scrapstash and play.
Today I’ll share two projects with you. I have used the wonderful “floating leaves” stamp set and the ” tree for all seasons”.
On my LO I stamped different leaves on my background paper with brown distress ink, I sprayed the background paper lightly with Glimmer Mist, added photo, tags, embellishments and title.
I stamped leaves on a white cardstock and colored all the leaves on the cardstock using my favourite shimmering H2O watercolors. I cut the leaves out of the cardstock and added them to my LO with 3Dfoam for extra dimension.
I did allmost the same on my card.
Sprayed the cardstock/background paper with Glimmer Mist (to make a background for the tree) Then I stamped the tree. I added the rest of the leaves from my LO-project. Some are added with glue and some with 3D foam.
Thank you for looking.
happy fall!!
Making a scene with my Stamp BOX
July 9, 2009 by Cathy · 4 Comments
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 she requested a notebook like I’d made for another teacher the year before, that everyone could write notes in so she could remember everyone.
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
Inspired by DP
April 27, 2009 by Krysten · 2 Comments
Sometimes, when I am dry out of ideas and inspiration (like right now), I turn to my designer papers. They have done most of the work for you! I feel like all that’s left for me to do is accent work, just a little of this here and there and you’ve got yourself a finished project in no time.
Here are 2 quickies that I whipped up.. using no ink colors! Versamark and embossing powder doesn’t really count as colors, right?
The stamp set I chose to use (and looove) is Floating Leaves.
And from that card, I made this using the same colors. I left the card sentiment-less so I can use it for any occasion later on.
Not just for laundry
April 20, 2009 by Cathy · 5 Comments
I get tired of the loads and loads of laundry around here – especially now in Spring when the kids come home soaked from head to toe every day from playing in the puddles on the way home from school. So…while I’m doing laundry….I put a little bleach to work for me too
Stamping using Bleach instead of ink turns the paper you stamp onto, a lighter shade instead of the color of ink. Different cardstocks react differently to bleach so you may want to experiment to find the paper that works best for you…some turn bright white, some turn a pale yellow, and some cardstocks that have a colored core, let that color shine through.
I used brown Prism cardstock for this example and the bleach turned the cardstock an orange color. 
How to:
Cut and fold several paper towels to fit inside a saucer. Pour a little bleach onto the paper towel to make your “ink pad.” Use your stamp as usual, on an acrylic block and stamp onto cardstock. Give the bleach a little time to work into the cardstock – the colors don’t always change immediately.
Here’s my stamped image, and my card:
Thanks,
Cathy
Stamping with Leaves
March 30, 2009 by Krysten · 8 Comments
Today I want to show you how fun leaves can be! And how much learning how to stitch can really add to your designing arsenal.
For the simple, no fuss card maker — here is a simple and clean design. The leaf is from the stamp set Floating Leaves. You can stitch your cards with a pen. It doesn’t really matter if the lines aren’t perfect, heck, I can’t stitch straight myself! But, the faux stitching really adds pop to the card!
Here I stamped the leaf, also from the Floating Leaves set, onto a tear out of a book and colored it in with prismacolor pencils and baby oil.
Yes, baby oil! I did try to search for gamsol or odorless mineral spirits at my LSS, but I gave up and tried baby oil instead since I have heard that it achieves the same results. I’ve been hooked ever since! When you color with your pencils, start light. Color in circular strokes over your entire image with the lightest color first. Then, choose a darker color and only color in the outer edges and in towards the center but not all the way. Finally, choose a darker accent color and just color the outlines. Now comes the fun part, take your blender and dip it into your baby oil, in small circular motions, blend all the colors together. The baby oil will smooth out any hard edges and make the colors flow right into each other! My lightest color here was yellow. I did a reverse and colored the middle with red and the outer with a dark olive color… then blend, blend, blend. It looks like any old Autumn leaf in New York!
I stitched a frame around the leaf and went over it verrrry lightly with a green pencil to make it more visible.
Last but not least is this fun collage with the leaf from All Year Round. I wanted to try a different, but hot color combo – grey, yellow, and blue! Funny, this started off as the traditional 9 squares lined up perfectly lay out, but Audrey kept sneaking her tiny little fingers into my workspace and messing things up. I got annoyed and just jumbled it up together and it looked even more interesting that way! (Thanks Audrey!) I did some random stitching and I think it came out great — and very different!
Hope you enjoyed these leafy creations!
