Happy St. Patty’s Day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
For the remainder of March, all of our Design Team members have been paired up to create inspirational projects to share with you!  Stay tuned to the blog for LOTS of great inspiration.
Since today is St. Patty’s Day, we thought we would bring you some Irish inspiration.
Melissa has created this fun…  |  read more »

Masking 101

Hello fellow stamp lovers!  Ally here! Today I’d like to teach you a few fun ways to MASK.
What’s masking you ask? Well in art, masking is using materials to protect areas from change.  In other words you cover one area to avoid changing it by applying something over top of it.
Today I’m going to show…  |  read more »

ATCs with Kiki Art

Last week I made some projects with Kiki Art paper. Their paper is really cute and very colourful. It inspired me to make some really small projects and I created a set of ATCs, which I haven’t done in a while.
I cut out two ATCs from one sheet of paper and punched out a few…  |  read more »

at “HOME” with Colour

Jill here……..taking design inspiration from something that sparks my creativity everyday………..Home Decor.
I have a love affair with home decorating {especially after a few years of home remodelling/home re-decorating in our own house}.  One of my very best friends & I take every opportunity to visit home stores, vintage shops, fabric stores……..& will someday be able to…  |  read more »

LOVING the partnership with…

Core’dinations. They sure have yummy stuff!
For my blog post todayI wanted to show you some layouts I did with our fabulous stamps and Core’dinations cardstock.
This first layout “Cute Smile” I had fun taking advantage of the different textures of the cardstocks. They are yummy. I LOVED adding the subtle butterflies in the background. To accent…  |  read more »

Show and Tell Friday!

Last month I received a whole bunch of new stamp sets from Bettina and they were so cute I just had to use them straight away!!!
With the stamp sets “Review Time”

and “Mini Alpha Small Box”

I created this layout about my son’s book party at school!

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And with this set “Lines of Life”

I created this birthday card:

I…  |  read more »

Picture This

I love coordinating myStampBOX stamps with other products that match, and here’s the perfect example. I recently got some filmstrip ribbon by Tim Holtz and matched it up with my Snapshot set of stamps. I created my own large filmstrip by heat embossing onto part of the clear packaging from the stamps. (Yay for recycling!) I carefully…  |  read more »

It’s Back to School Time!

Our new design team has been selected and emails have gone out!  Yippee! Join us later this week as we announce our new design team.  Thanks again to everyone who applied.  It’s so hard to pick only a few people from so many wonderfully talented crafters!
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For most of you, there’s only a week left of…  |  read more »

“stepping” outside

Good Morning crafty gardeners,
When the July weather starts behaving itself here in Manitoba, I love to bring my projects outside and enjoy the day.  What better inspiration is there than our own backyards and gardens?  So….in celebration of summer, I decided to create a garden stepping stone to add to the numerous pathways in the gardens around…  |  read more »

A Focus on Journaling

This project was created using myStamp BOX stamps in conjunction with two of our preferred partners:  Clear Scraps and Helmar Adhesive.

I used a Clear Scraps mini album and various other Clear Scraps shapes to form the base of this project.  The journaling for the album was done with three different myStamp BOX sets:  Mini Alpha, …  |  read more »