And here is my bright, colourful take on the sketch:

Stamps used:  Mini Alphas, Wishing You Sunshine, Just Add Notes

Using the Wishing You Sunshine stamps, I stamped various cloud shapes in bright ink colours on white cardstock, embossed them and fussy cut them out.  I attached them to my layout using various levels of foam adhesive.  I also stamped and embossed the memories button with the Just Add Notes set and used my scalloped punch.  I then inked around the edges using the same colours of the chipboard letters, stamped letters and clouds.

I stamped the minor words in the title/quote using the Mini Alphas stamp set.  First I stamped the letter block in a bright colour, then I quick stamped my alpha in black.  I then heat embossed both layers at once and fussy cut the blocks out.

If you play along with this challenge, please leave a comment with a link to your project so we can admire it!

Cheers,

I used a kraft base, white and red ink, white embossing powder and white gel pen. I did not hesitate to use my hand writing for journaling.

I must admit that I cheated a little bit by printing my pictures at home and also I had that butterfly stamped, embossed on vellum and cut out all ready to use. But I’m sure it’s possible to scrap while at vacation. Finally, it’s all about preserving your memories! So happy summer scrapping to you!

Stamps used: Abundant Blossoms, Colorful Companions, Royal Flush, Just Add Notes

Today I want to share with you some fun bookmarks I made for my little girl.

She has to read many books in school and when she is done she has to write a report on every book.

This way she can not only keep track on where in the book she is but she can also make notes while she is reading it of things she thinks are important to remember and mention in her report at the end.

I just cut some strips of the cute Prima Jack & Jill collection papers, punched borders at the bottom and cut them as a tag on the top.  I stamped along the edges with the zigzag stitch of the “Repeat after me”-set. The other stamps all come from the “Just add notes”-set.

Finally I made a hole at the top and slide some ribbon through. Super easy but fun! My daughter loves them!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy stamping!

It seems that both Eva and I we were inspired by it in the same way: the overall design. Here are our versions:

Eva turned it into a 12 x 12 layout and still kept a large picture on the top with text underneath. She used the Neighborhoods and Graphic Borders sets to make the border for pictures and Just Add Notes set to do the little circle accent. For the plane trail, she stamped repeatedly the phrase from the Neighborhoods set. Here are some details:

I loved the clean style of the picture, it went great for the layout I had in mind about my son and the way he says how old he is. I also used a picture showing just a part of the body, in this case the upper part of my son. Here are some close-ups:

The title was stamped directly on picture with Staz’On ink and  Summer Alpha set.

For the border I used the fine stitching stamp from the new set Repeat after Me. It’s perfect for bending and making shapes with it!

Hopefully this picture will inspire you to make a project. Please be sure to share it with us! Happy scrapping!

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Take a look at my sketch…

I used some of my favorite stamps from MyStamp Box.  Backgrounds…my new favorite.  The “Celebrate” stamp from Bits and Pieces.  The lines from Just Add Notes are awesome for journaling lines or even to create a cross-hatched pattern.  And the little dash marks from Mini Pennants add a little extra stamping to the top left of my photo.

Here is my layout…

And here is my card.

I did the card as the sketch shows but then by accident it got turned on its side when I glued the card to the base….and I liked it even more.  Turning a sketch is not against the rules and sometimes lets you see a different perspective of your layout or card.  I really love how this turned out.

Have a great one!

Today I want to show you a gift I made for a friend. It’s a little box filled with sugar candies.

It was so much fun to use my myStampBOX stamps to embellish it!

I added some ribbon to close the box and for my tag I used a sentiment found in the Small Greetings set. To make the border I used my Just Add Notes stamp, I covered the image in the middle and stamped only the borders with the same ink as the sentiment.

To embellish the box I stamped a heart with the Back to Basics set. I then cut it out with my scallop scissors to add a little border. And to finish it I added a butterfly from my Colorful Companions Set. I used chalk ink, I love it because it gives a velvet look!

What do you think??? It was so much fun and you can easily do some of these to give as gifts!

Have a fabulous day!

Eva

The stamps I used in this layout are the colorful companions set and the Just Add Notes set.  I felt that the butterflies were perfect for this as they reminded me of the grace of dancers and the just add notes had the perfect date stamp to help me remember when I had this wonderful experience.  I also chose these colours for the layout to go with my costume but also to go along with the cold, dreary day and the ocean water.

Here are some detail shots of the stamps:

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to check out all the details of our design team call!

Happy Scrapping!

Today I will be showing you a project that is not a layout or card.  Todays project uses MyStampbox stamps in a fun and cretive way.  I have a ton of storage boxes that I keep all my stamping and scrapping supplies in…they are sorted by theme and supply.

I am a very lucky lady and get to scrap with my best buddy every Wednesday at a local scrap store.  I also have a great room in my house but there is something about scrapping with a friend and not in your own spot that makes it more special….can the fact laundry and dirty dishes are not staring me in the face helps?

So, I thought it was about time to label  my boxes so I knew what I was grabbing before I headed out the door to scrap.

Here is what I cam up with using the Back To Basics set and Just Add Notes.

I just grabbed some avery labels in the size that I had on hand and started stamping.  This is so easy to do.  I can see these labels on the kids notebooks, toy bins and how about some fun lables on your baking supplies in the kitchen?  I also added in a little ouline around the outside and the stamped word with a black sharpie.

Here is a fun shot of the boxes all stacked up…they came out great and look so awesome all together.

And even more stacked up…

Well, thats it for me for today. Got to get cracking….tomorrow is Wed. and I am off scrapping again!

Here’s a layout I created showcasing my son and how’s he’s “my world”…

My World

Here are areas that inspired me to use all kinds of myStamp BOX stamps on this layout…

These “male gender” symbols are from the He Says – She Says stamp set.  Notice I stamped on the chipboard star from one of our Preferred Partners, Magistical Memories using the new Backgrounds stamp set too.

I added this fun tag detail using the Road Trip set…

I made a cluster of stamped images in between my two photos.  I used the new netted star from the Back to Basics set, layering it with the male symbol from She Says – He Says stamp set.  The fun arrow and the seal are from the Road Trip set.

I knew I wanted to hide a little bit of hidden message inside my star chipboard so I took a subtle blue and then a green ink and stamped the “YOU” from the She Says – He Says set right over top of my patterned paper.  Then I created my layered title using two different alphabet sets, Funky Alphabet and Royal Flush.

I also used the equals sign (=) from the She Says – He Says to create the look of a strip of lined green paper.  It’s amazing the designs you can make with simple stamps!

In order to add some journaling to my page I used the journaling tag stamp from Just Add Notes set.  The circle stamp is from the fun Funky Circles set and the date block stamp is from the  Bold Blocks set.

I wanted to create some fun visual effects using circles so I pulled out my Funky Circles stamps and incorporated them with my Lots of Numbers set.  My son is five so that’s the significance of the number.

One final touch was the addition of the corrugated cardboard stamp from the new Backgrounds stamp set plus a cute little star from the Review Time set to complete the look.

I had a ball creating this layout.  So many details and SO much fun to create!  All in all, I ended up using ELEVEN different stamp sets!  Yup… ELEVEN!!

I hope I’ve inspired you to get out your stamp sets today and go WILD!   Pull out some fun photos and let them inspire you add all kinds of fun stamped images to your page.

Happy stamping!

Now that Halloween is over it might be nice to jump right into those layouts needing to be done with you kiddos pics.  Here is and easy and fun sketch to get you going.

How about trying this one…

How about checking out some close ups using the stamps.  I love these Boo stamps soooo much.  I can’t stop using them.  Anything Halloween just gets me everytime.

And the line stamps from the Just Add Notes set is perfect for journaling lines…I use it all the time.  I even added some lightly stamped cobwebs to add something extra.  And don’t forget your date stamp…not that we all don’t know when Halloween is…lol.

And one last peak at the title of this layout.  I uesd the stars from the Deck the Halls set to add to my chaulkboard chipboard nubers…just perfect!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you find these sketches useful and give them a try.  Link us to what you come up with…all of us at MSB would love to see your work.

I’m always inspired by things around me and make time each day for art.  Since starting scrapbooking 15 years ago, I’ve been addicted since the beginning.  I have passion for life art, lots of creative spirit, and love experimenting with new products and techniques. My favorite products are a combination of the old + new.  I love combining vintage products along with the latest trends in scrapbooking products and adding stamping in the mix.

I’ve been published/featured in Beyond Scrapbooks (available on amazon), PaperArts (now Scrap & Stamp Arts) Magazine, QVC UK and serve on several design teams – Sausan Designs, Memory Works, The Creative Type, guest designer for Mission Create, and past design teams include Creative Imaginations – Art Warehouse.  I’ve taught at CK Convention, Scrapbook Expo (USA), Memory Works Scrapbook Retreat, and local scrapbook stores & retreats within USA & Europe.

I’m also excited about my new Etsy shop, ScrapNspire, that will be your, “Mini book source. All in the details.  Inspiration delivered.” Within my blog, ScrapNspire (http://www.scrapnspire.blogspot.com/), I share life art ideas, what inspires me, tutorials, and projects.  I live with the motto to “find inspiration everyday & everywhere”.

Thanks for having me over this month! Wendy

Thanks for sharing your technique and design with us Wendy! It was fun to meet you. We hope to see more from you and your inspirational work in the future.

Happy Stamping!

Love,

It’s my last post here at the my Stamp BOX blog so far, so I wanted to share two project using my all time favorite stamp set with you.  There are SO many beautiful mSB sets, and I have many favorites…. depending on what I’m going to create, the occation, the time of the year and so on.  But seriously… “floating leaves” must be the set I have used the most. I use it for my layouts, as backgrounds, for classes, stamp and cut out the leaves…. They are really so versatile you can use them for any occation.

For these two layouts I have used floating leaves to create the background. On the first one I used the ” just add notes” set for my journaling and part of the title as well.

On this layout, made for a class I teached in Trondheim, Norway, I have used “floating leaves” along with “funky flowers”.

Some of the flowers are embossed.

Thanks for popping by, and thank you for your wonderful comments.

This week’s challenge is all about pretty pockets!  Yup… I want to see some use of a pocket on your creation.

To get you started, I thought I would show you a few ways to use or create a pocket on your layouts or cards.

Sweet Treat

Stamps sets used: Let It Snow, Mention It!, Symbols.

First off, I started by using a kraft envelope that I punched the edge of using a snowflake design.   I don’t have anything store d in this particular pocket but you could add some journaling or another picture or two.

For the second part of this layout, I used the top of brown paper bag as a pocket to slip in my journaling tag.  I stamped a few subtle ice cream cone images from the Symbols stamp set.

I used some fun snowflakes from my Let It Snow! stamp set to stitch and attach along with a fun statement tag from the Mention It! stamp set.

The next way to add a pocket to the design of your work is to create a faux looking pocket.  For this, I used some Moda fabric swatches and stitched it up to look like a pocket you might find on a shirt or pair of pants.

This particular pocket has no actual pocket but you could certainly create a space behind it to drop in a fun tag or gift card.

Have a Very Merry Christmas

I used the edge of the journaling box from the Just Add Notes stamp set and the stamped in the “Winter Greetings” message from the Winter Flakes stamp set.  I also used the Winter Flakes set to stamp and layer my snowflake images.  The beautiful greeting on the embossed banner is from our Lines of Life stamp set.

And the final reason that you might add a pocket to your layout would be to store something in it.  In my case, I wanted a layout to store the 2 pieces of art that I had kept from my son’s pre-school year.

Just Like Mom

For this page, I used some of our fun papers from Kiki Art, one of our generous partner companies.  I used the Wishing You Sunshine stamp set to continue the cloudy patterned paper by Kiki Art and stamped out my title using the alphabet stamp sets, Color Me and Lots of Dots.  The Color Me alphabet set was perfect for that “child like” drawing quality I wanted on my page.

I created the pocket by popping up the red cardstock with long lines of foam adhesive to create a space behind to slip in the artwork my son created.  So fun and so easy to do!

There are so many ways to include a pocket on your creations and I can’t wait to see what you come up!

Happy stamping everyone!!

You participate in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer’s blog and all of our partner companies’ blogs as well. myStamp BOX is offering a Road Trip stamp set as a prize among the participants who visit all blogs. The winner will be announced next Monday on this blog. Our partner companies will offer up a prize as well, you will find the prizes and details when you get to their blogs. So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what your favourite project was along the way for a chance to win! Have fun!

The challenge for the participants of this Blog Hop was to take anything that makes you think of Summer and create a project that fits the inspiration. This could be a colour scheme, a pool party, a trip, the possibilities are endless.

For my project I made a mini album for a travel log. Since we do a lot of travelling in the summer, and need to bring a lot of stuff with us, I prepared a full album and only need to fill it with pictures, travel memorabilia and notes. The fun thing is that I can finish it along the way and keep my creative luggage small.

I love pinks, reds and oranges (colours of the Summer heat) and decided to create my album with these colours. I chose papers from our partner companies Kiki Art (patterned paper from Family Collection) and Core’dinations (solid cardstock from Black Magic Collection). To make the Black Magic collection shine, I carefully tore each page on the outside. It is a pretty effect when the book is closed, as you can glimpse at the colours inside.

The pages were cut to 12″ x 6″and then folded. I used 4 papers to the book. I chose the black side of my paper to make the cover. Since the colours are very vibrant inside, I wanted the outside to be more muted. Three things hint at the colours inside: the orange thread that I used to bind the booklet, the pink arrow and the torn purple cover page edge.

For the title I used Versamark ink and stamped a suitcase in the middle of the page, then embossed with black embossing powder from PK Glitz. The word “Trip” is also taken from the Road Trip stamp and embossed with white powder from PK Glitz. The arrow is embossed onto pink paper, then cut out and attached with a blob of Professional Acid Free Glue from Helmar.

The binding has been done in a pamphlet-stitch.

Here are the different pages clearly visible. The torn edge adds a bit of texture.

To pre-decorate the book, I used a tape roller from Kiki Art from the Family Collection and added fake stitches on most pages, like on the pink one in the centre.

To finish everything off, I stamped many designs from the Road Trip, Just add Notes and Your Story stamp sets in black onto pink and white paper and embossed some of them in black. If I need to add anything to my pages, I will use it from this stash.

This summer I can pack light, I will just need to bring my mini album, the Mini Alpha stamp set with a small block and black ink, a small bottle of Helmar Glue, my prepared journaling blocks and embellishments and a fun tape roller from Kiki Art and I will be able to finish the album on the go!

AND NOW, please hop along to the next blog of our designer VIRGINIE and check out her Summery inspiration!

Here is our Summer Blog Hop schedule just in case you miss anyone:

myStamp BOX Blog http://www.mystampbox.com/blog
Virginie http://lescrapdenovalen.canalblog.com
Tracey http://tailoredpages.blogspot.com
Cherie http://cherie-inked.blogspot.com
Helmar Adhesives http://helmarusa.typepad.com
Jing-Jing http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.com/
Jolene http://jolenejohnston.blogspot.com
Monique http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/
Eva http://www.evascrap.blogspot.com
PK Glitz http://www.pkglitz.com/blog/
Ellen http://closeyourears.blogspot.com
Maryfrances http://maryfrancesfabbri.blogspot.com/
Gudrun http://papirbloggen.blogspot.com
Lynda http://positive-force.blogspot.com/
Jill http://www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com/
Kiki Art http://www.kiki-art.com/blog_en/
Agata http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com
Ally http://yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com
back to the myStamp BOX blog

Have Fun!

Bettina

For my layout today, I wanted to show you that you don’t have to necessarily use all of the same font to create your titles but you can create a title using a variety of different alphabets.

I first created the word “Learning” as part of the beginning of my layout title.

I stamped the word using a simple white ink on a dark blue cardstock using the Color Me alphabet set.

Next I created the word “To” as the second main word in my title.

For this word, I used a simple yellow ink on a plain white cardstock and I used the new Royal Flush alphabet stamp set.  I love this new font!

And the last word in my title was “Print”.

For this word, I used the fun alphabet stamp set “Rough Copy Alphabet” and some navy blue ink.  But I wanted to add something just a little bit fun to this word, so I grabbed the polka dots from the “Itty Bittys” stamp set and stamped the dots in red ink all across the word.

Last but not least, I wanted to create a fun alphabet related journaling block to write the journaling for my page on.

So I started by masking out the center of the journaling tag from the Just Add Notes stamp set.  I then stamped the fun brackets, both the outline and solid bracket as a decorative aspect of my tag.  Then I randomly positioned my alphabets from the Mini Alphas (small box) stamp set over top the bracket image using red ink.

So I took all of the components of my title and my completed journaling block and put them together to create my final layout…

Learning to Print

So the next time you go to create a layout title, make sure you pull out all of your fun alphabet stamps to create a unique and fun title!

Thanks for joining me on the mSB blog today!  I hope this page inspires you to do something similar on your next layout project!

Happy stampin’!

Allison Cope

On returning from our family trip to Costa Rica this winter, I printed an endless amount of photos (thinking a mini album was in the works).  Well… winter is extremely busy here in hockey-Manitoba so those favourites were still sitting on my desk.  I found these cute, inexpensive (4×6 inch) frames and thought: “perfect for a myStampBOX project”.

I white-washed the frame with some white paint and water and added some turquoise hints of paint as well.  After the frame dried, I used green paint to stamp the journal lines from the Just add words stamp set to add character to the frame’s background.  LOVE the look that was created.  Definitely going to try this on a layout background very soon!!!

After the paint completely dried (about an hour), I decorated the bottom corner of the frame with a mixture of purchased flowers, handmade paper flowers, epoxy stickers & a vinyl rub-on.  I then added crystals to the corners of the frame and some sticker words at the bottom: “relax, Getaway, travel”.  And, of course for that whimsical look, I added two patterned butterflies and folded their wings up for dimension. 

Finally, I stamped the circle date stamp from the Just add words set and hand-journaled my title: “one fine day”. 

A perfect frame to house my favourite ”beachy” photos.  Come to think of it, I may need a collection of them. 

Off to create,

jill

Today I would Love to share  my excitement for the wonderful mSB sets with labels and textboxes. I  really love textboxes, it allways brings some little extra to my LOs and cards   and the “your story” and “just add notes” set are some of my favorites. Even if I’ve owned these set for a long time I still reach for these stamps over and over again. They are so versatile and fun.

This time I have created 2 LOs and one card.

The LOs are totally different both in style and colors – but I used the textboxes to make a special design-element and to capture the story on both of them.

On this LO I wanted a light, happy and whimsical “patchwork”-look. And the textboxes helped me to add dimension and make room for my journaling. I didn’t need a lot of journaling here, just the most important things: who, what where, when… And the text “memory” in the set was perfect as a part of the title.

I wanted to capture the story behind the pictures on this LO, and I decided to use lots of textboxes to make room for my journaling, and to add a fun, whimsical element to my LO. I used the text “the story” from the stamp set as a “under title” on this LO as the story is a important part of this LO.

A little “just because” card. I used the textboxes to make a fun design-element on my card, and it also gave plenty of room for my title “for you”.

Hope you feel inspired.

Happy creating!

gudrun

And ad can evoke a colour combination, you may be taken by the font used, or some design elements…it just amazes me how many different takes you can get from one ad challenge. So, for this month’s challenge I just had to grab one of my favourite ads – look at it: the possibilities are totally endless…are you gonna look at the colours? The font?? The elements???

So, which element of this ad would tickle your fancy and get your creative juices flowing??
I chose the circle theme and the focal blue.

The stamp sets used for this layout were:

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)

I arranged the paper bits on the card stock and fixed them with small glue dots. Then I sewed them onto the card stock for a unified look. Then I distressed the edges of the white sheet. The stamp sets I chose for my layout were “Lots of Dots” and “Just add Notes” and I stamped them on white and yellow scraps to spell out the title and for the date.

Now I printed a few pictures of Caspar scattering dandelion seeds and printed them onto white card stock. I used an old and almost dead toner cartridge for this (it even has a line running down the page). The resulting print looks very similar to a transfer, but with much less work involved. I kept the cartridge for projects like these, I will only recycle it once it is truly empty

The background for the page is a green sheet that I cut out in the middle to save card stock for one card (ok, I don’t do this all the time, but once I was on my quest, there was no stopping me). I tore the edges off for a more rustic look.

Voilà, now it just needed to be assembled. The title spells “Pusteblume” (blowflower), which is the German word for dandelion seed head.

Share your recycle tips with us in your comments, if you like. We love to learn some neat tricks from you. Now I need to try some other layout ideas using my mini scraps.

Happy recycling!

Bettina