A little Itty Bitty can go a long way

Don’t you just love those myStampBOX Itty Bittys?! I know I do! That’s why I decided to show you a few cards I created with this fun and versatile set of small square stamps!
Itty Bitty images are perfect for colouring with your favourite markers or (watercolour) pencils:

And some of the Itty Bittys, like the woodgrain,…  |  read more »

Masking hearts

Yes, it is almost that time again. You know, when you are totally allowed to go all lovey dovey. Valentine’s Day. I have a clean and simple card to share today for the occasion. I used the masking technique for the hearts on the background and am about to show you how I did this.

I…  |  read more »

Happy 2012!

Hi mSB fans! Happy New Year to all of you! I thought it wasn’t too late to give you my best wishes! And show you a card I made for the occasion. Here it is:

I used one of my favorite stamp sets, Neighborhoods, and my favorite stamp from this set. I guess this stamp makes…  |  read more »

Challenge with Guest Designer Weiwei

Weiwei is back today with a great reuse idea for a cup that held instant noodles.
She cut out the paper to the right size to cover up the cup (with a light curve) then stamped the grass on the paper by slightly “curving” the grass stamp. She stamped the grass twice with Memento Inks, each…  |  read more »

November Guest Designer

I am Weiwei, married with two young children. I grew up in Singapore and am still living here. I started scrapbooking when I gave birth to my older boy and wanted to make monthly scrapbook pages documenting his growing process. Looking back at those pages now still brings back fond memories. I would love to…  |  read more »

Colourful canvas

Sometimes you just need to create for the sake of creating. I have an art journal that I use for this purpose, but I haven’t cracked it open for quite some time now. I was really beginning to feel a need to play with inks, paints and Glimmer Mists, so I decided that it would…  |  read more »

Origami Boxes and Stamp Set Winner

Our Design Team Showcase was well visited over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who left a comment and entered the draw for a stamp set!
But before we announce the winner of the draw I want to show some of the Origami Boxes that I did a mini class on during the Creativ Festival in Toronto…  |  read more »

Magazine inspired

I love magazines: I love to read them, look at them and… I especially like to flip through them, looking for ideas! One of the most inspiring magazines I know is the French Marie Claire Idées:

I buy this magazine, even-though my French is not very good and I never actually make any of the projects…  |  read more »

Challenge Day:Embossing

I was using some corrugated chipboard elements on my layout and I just didn’t want to use them “raw” they way they came.
I thought that I would ink them up so they would stand out but I wanted more. I wanted them to “pop”. Here is where I took out my stamps and stamped directly…  |  read more »

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Being a really terrible hoarder as I’m sure most of us are, I’ve managed to hoard a huge collection of different quilting fabrics.  I no longer quilt but I do try to incorporate these fabrics into my mixed media projects and one of these projects recently was to make cuff bracelets. 

These are so easy to…  |  read more »