It’s All About Interaction!

In my mind, there is nothing better than cool, interactive cards!  With Spring now official here, I thought I would share some Spring inspired cards with you today.
Let’s start with a fun flower pot card.  Here are the dimensions of the pieces of cardstock you will need to create this card:

9 x 3 1/2 –…  |  read more »

Let’s Talk Birthdays!

We have had a lot of birthdays in the last few months for the members of the myStampBOX design team.  Cherie had a little boy in mid December, Mason and Tracey just had a little girl at the end of February, Daphne.  Congrats to Cherie and Tracey and their families!
So in honour of all the…  |  read more »

Grab that Glitter!

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…  |  read more »

Altered Bottle Project

For my project this month I decided to decorate a bottle that I’ve been saving! I got it for Christmas a couple of years ago with hot chocolate and stuff in it… and have been saving it for the perfect project! I finally decided it was time to use it!!
It was simple… layered some pretty…  |  read more »

One sketch, 3 ways

Trace Geworsky
When I first started scrapbooking, I was quite intimidated by sketches…I didn’t know what exactly to do with them, and I thought that if you were working with a sketch, that You had to follow the sketch 100%.
Over the years, I have learnt that You can use a sketch for anything….cards, layouts, calendars, canvases,…  |  read more »

DIY Shaped Cards

I created three different shaped cards today to show you just how quick and easy they can be.  All you need is a shape to trace (template, piece of chipboard, etc.), or if you are the adventurous type  you can draw your shapes freehand.
NOTE:  All of my cards were made using templates from the Maya…  |  read more »

Creating a Waterfall Card

Step 1: Cut four 1 ¾”x1 ¾” squares of cardstock.

Step 2: Stamp desired images on each square piece using coordinating colours.

 Step 3: Cut four 2”x2” squares of cardstock in the same colour of ink you stamped in and mat each stamped square on its coordinating piece.

Step 4: Cut a 2”x9” strip of cardstock.

Step 5: Score…  |  read more »

Raid Your Kids’ Craft Tools!

Today I’m going to show you a fun and easy technique using a white crayon.   Yes… a simple white crayon from your kid’s crayon carton!  This simple and easy technique is called a white crayon resist.
Step One:

Stamp the images you want to highlight.  For this card I used the two small flowers from the Garden…  |  read more »

Show & Tell: Skylines & Sentiments

For today, I wanted to showcase some skylines and sentiments for some fun cards!
So I grabbed my Neighborhoods stamp set and my newest stamp set, Oval Office!   Here is what I came up with….
Little Red Barn Greetings

I used the barn skyline from the Neighborhoods set and the “hello” greeting from the Oval Office set for…  |  read more »