I stamped the tiny beverage glass from Symbols in black and used my iRock tool to add tiny bling to outline the design. (Talk about patience!) Stamped starbursts from the Pennants set added an extra pop of pattern on the subtle honeycomb paper. The sentiment is from my favorite words set called Whatever! This fun card is ready to jot down some details for my pal so we can schedule our next pool date.

Pajama shirt design (above), Stamped design (below)

Inspiration is everywhere! Keep your eyes open for great color combinations in jewelry, funky patterns in handbags, or fabulous textures in clothing. You’ll certainly find a way to translate great fashion design into papercrafting.

Supplies: My Mind’s Eye papers, Die Cuts With a View scalloped card panel, Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink, Ranger Archival Ink, Ranger Stickles, Imaginisce iRock and bling, American Crafts Foam Adhesive, Recollections rhinestone.

to this…….?

You use some fabulous myStampBOX stamp sets, that’s how!!!!!!

Here’s a list of favourites that I used for this project:

Lovely Houses, Enjoy your latte!, Repeat After Me, Striped Stems, symbols, Sigh Gush Gasp, Snapshot, What’s your number?,  Border Lines, Itty Bittys, Neighborhoods, Floating Leaves & Colorful Companions.

Now I just have to think of the perfect place to hang it.

Happy Stamping.

I’m going to give them these little treat bags filled with candy hearts and to decorate the bags I made the treat bag toppers which will double as a card.

On both the toppers I used little heart from the Symbols stamps set to create my background.

Each topper has a robot (which I know the little boys will love) from the Programmed Robots set which I stamped, coloured with Copics, cut out and popped onto the topper.

For Evan’s treat bag I used the sentiment from Programmed Robots to stamp onto an extra heart.

For the sentiment on Ryan’s bag I used a stamp from the Straightforward set and stamped it on a banner.

I think they turned out adorable!!

Have a great Valentine’s everyone!!

I want to share a COLOUR COMBO with you today that I used when creating my latest Halloween layout:

It’s not your traditional colour combo when it comes to Halloween — maybe, instead, you think of birthdays, the beach or the backyard pool.

Yeah……well…….I’ve mixed things up a bit and brought these colours into my layout.

(“Pumpkins and black cats.  Halloween must be just around the corner”).

With a combination of teal, light blue & a mix of oranges, this layout has a little more colour than the typical black, orange & purple Halloween layout that I’ve created in the past.  I added some black & grey elements to keep the “mysterious” Halloween theme, but the main colour palette is more fresh & light.

Here are some close-ups of the mSB stamp sets I used — a combination of the circles from Symbols & the little dots from Itty Bitty’s.

I challenge you to think outside-the-treat-bag with your COLOUR COMBOs this Halloween as you create layouts that will burst with colour.

keep stampin’,

We love that you can use many stamps that are not directly topic-related and make them work for a specific project. Stamp are so versatile that way!

Let us know which project you would like to duplicate and you may win a myStamp BOX stamp set! All you need to do is leave a comment on this post until Sunday, 23th October and check in on Monday, when we announce a winner!

The picture shows the front and inside of the card by Janet Zeppa

Layout by Marsha Valk

Card by Jolene Johnston

Journal Page by Jaine Drake

Card by Els Brigé

Card by Linda Abadie

Layout and detail by Isolde Pyncket

Friendship Card by Agata Pfister

Artist Trading Cards by Wendy Morris

Thanks for leaving your comments!

Happy Stamping!

Love,

It’s Sue and I’m going to share a fun tutorial to make this quick and easy hostess gift.

To start, you’ll need patterned paper scraps; a sheet of coordinating cardstock (8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12); a scoring board or blade trimmer and stylus; scissors, your favourite myStamp BOX stamps; coordinating inks; punches; a strong wet adhesive; dimensional foam adhesive; twine or ribbon.

Start by cutting your cardstock to 4.75″ x 10.5″  This will create a box that is slightly larger than 3″ x 3″ x 0.75″.  Turn your cardstock as shown below.  Beginnning at the left side, score your cardstock at 2.5″, 3.25″, 6.5″ and 7.25″.

Turn your cardstock and score at 0.75″ and 4″.

Fold along scored lines and crease sharply, using a bone folder or the edge of a ruler.  Turn your cardstock so it is lengthwise and cut along the scorelines just to the vertical lines.

Repeat on both sides.

Using your border punch, trim the 2.5″ flap at the end of the cardstock, as shown:

Using your patterned paper, cut the following: 2 pieces that measure 3″ x 3″ and 4 pieces that measure 3″ x 0.75″.  You will also need two pieces for the sides of the lid that are 0.75″ wide and one that is 3″ wide – the length of both will depend on the punch that you used.  Attach them to the cardstock and assemble your box, using a strong adhesive.

I punched a circle from patterned paper and stamped it with the “just for you” sentiment from the Itty Bittys stamp set.  On a scrap piece of white cardstock, I stamped and embossed a butterfly from the Colorful Companions stamp set.  I cut out the butterfly and attached to the side of the circle just down the middle.  I then folded up the wings for a bit of dimension.

I added a line of foam adhesive horizontally to the back of the circle and attached it to the box.  I then wrapped twine around the box several times, sliding it under the circle and tied it in a bow.  Voila!

I also created very simple, coordinating 3″ x 3″  cards to slide inside the box.

I used the Border Lines, Colorful Companions and Symbols stamp sets

The sentiments (from left to right) read:  ”You Make My Heart Flutter”, “You’re SWEET!” and “You’re tea-riffic!”

This project can be adapted to house any size of card or occasion.

Cheers!

So, I’m a HUGE fan of mini books and with the stash of mSB stamps, seriously just amazingggg coolness, I decided to create up this mini, “Our Love Soars”.  I wanted to go outside the normal colors of pink for loveeeee and went with a play on different colors with red & blue.

Beware:  Photo heavy….since I’ll show you how I worked the different mSB stamps inside along with all the fun fun details & pages throughout this mini.  I usually work lots of stamps in my minis’.  I LOADED this mini up with a big dose of mSB eye candy!!!

A tidbit about this book….My boyfriend, Gianluca, & I have been together for a little over a year.  He’s Sicilian and lives still in Italy (Turin, Italy).  “Our Love Soars” across the distance of 2 continents, across that big ocean of the Atlantic, 2 different languages, many flights, many long hours on those flights, many miles (or kilometers)…yet it’s all worth it, he’s so worth it. “Our Love Soars” in bringing us together in many parallels.

One of my favoriteeeee mSB sets, Bold Blocks, used here in the phrase,“Who is that?”

Using the mSB, Color Me Sentiments, here in “hello hello”.

A couple of different mSB sets used on this page, Symbols (heart),

{yeahhh, I think I was singing the Black Eyed Peas when I made this )}

Yes, many many miles for love!

But the phrase “crazy stuff” from mSB Bold Blocks was just perfect because he’s like a child with a new toy when getting a new comic book! )

This is quite a common play on words between Gianluca & myself…it’s the norm ))

Soooo…hope you enjoyed my mini & inspiration!!

Now, I (Marsha) also had a song to inspire me. You know: the kind of song that you hear on the radio and then stays with you all day or (in this case) all week? When I was thinking of our theme ‘Baby, Be Mine’, I had the Bob Marley song ‘Is this Love’ stuck in my head. I had to take it as a sign and started to create my project around it!

I created my funky fabric flowers using the myStamp BOX Funky Flowers set to stamp on denim with StazOn inks. I then cut the stamped flowers and leaves out and machine stitched them onto hand-cut pieces of felt. I used cardstock and another piece of felt to create the grass. The flower stems are stamped directly onto the photo mat.

I took the glass from the shadow box frame (Ribba from IKEA) and stamped part of the lyrics on the outside of the glass with myStamp BOX Mini Alpha using StazOn inks. I used the same inks to stamp the swirl from the Funky Flowers set onto the inside of the glass.

The photo I placed in the frame is one of my favorites that I took during a (table top) photography class. It features two figurines that have been in my possession since childhood!

So… we hope you enjoyed our projects & inspiration!
Grab up some mSB stamps & create it up!!

Supply List for Wendy’s mini:

mSB Stamps –
Bold Blocks
Color Me Sentiments
Symbols
Friday Night Stencil
Programmed Robots
Repeat After Me
Seal It
Road Trip
Sigh Gush Gasp

Other -
Cardstock – Recollections (Ocean Blue), Paper – My Mind’s Eye (Stella Rose), October Afternoon (Rocket Age), Fancy Pants Designs (It’s the Little Things), Cosmo Cricket (Odds&Ends), American Crafts (Amy Tangerine), 4×6 Chipboard Covers – Creative Imaginations (Bare Elements), Glue & Seal (Ranger) – Matte, Inks – Ranger (Broken China, Fired Brick), Binder Rings –  7 Gypsies, Color Wash Mist – Ranger (Adirondack – Red Pepper), Smooch Spritz – Clearsnap (Vanilla Shimmer, Ginger Ale), Color Mist – Studio Calico (Mister Huey – Calico White, Bonny Blue), Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels (Olive Vine, Pattina), Glitter Heart Metal Stickers – Making Memories, Wood Heart – Studio Calico, Brads – Making Memories, Tapes – Tim Holtz, K&Co (Smash), American Crafts (Amy Tangerine), Rub-ons – 7 Gypsies, October Afternoon, Kaisercraft, Puffy Fabric Hearts – Making Memories, Heart Trinket Pins – Maya Road, Letter Stickers – Recollections, October Afternoon (Rocket Age), American Crafts (Thickers), Foam Glitter Star Stickers – Darice, Word Stickers – The Girls Paperie (Authentique), Label Stickers – Jenni Bowlin, Pearls & Bling – Basic Grey, Kaisercraft, Dimensional Stickers – American Crafts (Amy Tangerine).

I have a sketch challenge for you today. I don’t know about you but I love using a sketch as a jumping off point to get my layout started. It may not end up looking like the sketch at all but that’s okay because it got my mojo in gear.

Here is my layout:

Here is the sketch that I started with.

I stamped my “Welcome” into the diecut using just part of the stamp from the Neighborhoods collection.

Using the little camera from the Symbols set I stamped it multiple times on a strip of paper to make my own border strip and then also stamped and cut it out a few times and pop dotted them onto some of the existing cameras to give some dimension.

I challenge you to get out a sketch and your mySTampBOX stamps and have some fun!

Janet

Hello, all!  It’s Sue again and I’m going to share a fun video tutorial with you today – how to make scented embossing powder!  I used the Symbols stamp set and created a raspberry scented “scratch & sniff” stamped image for my card.

This is a quick and easy project, and so fun to try it with a child!

You can use this scented embossing powder with any bold stamp – that is, one with a relatively solid stamped area, for a better “sniff” factor.  Here are some examples of stamps that you could use:

Wishing You Sunshine:

Back to the Basics:

All Year Round:

Click below for the tutorial:

Note:  If the video does not play on your browser, try watching it directly on YouTube here.

The video includes a list of required items, but for easy reference, I’ll include them here:

You’ll need:

• cardstock for project
• stamp
• acrylic block
• Tsukineko Versamark ink
• heat tool
• clear embossing powder
• sugar free powder (Crystal Light, Kool-Aid, cocoa, Jell-O, etc)
• bowl
• mixing spoons
• scrap paper (optional)
• small artist brush (optional)

And there you have it! Easy peasy!

Thanks for watching!

Stamping the sentiment with the Sigh Gush Gasp set right on the masculine patterned paper also helps add to the look:

If you have other ideas about how to manly up your cute stamps, I’d love to hear them and if you take this challenge I’d love to see them!

Rebecca

However this weekend we are celebrating NSD and are sharing some of our beautiful layouts with you. And since celebrations are (mostly) nothing without presents, we are giving out a stamp set to  one of you leaving a message today or over the weekend (deadline Sunday 6pm, EST). A winner will be announced on Monday on this blog.

And now – be inspired and enjoy our projects!

by Sue Sykes: Using the Border Lines sets, I stamped and heat emboss 10 squares, and used markers to colour in the squares.  I cut our the centres and then attached them to photos and cut each square out.  I used one side of the box and the circle to create the “10″ in my title, using the same technique as the squares. The banner was created by affixing an American Crafts letter sticker to cardstock.  I then inked my banner stamp with Versamark and stamped over the letter, centering it on the banner.  I sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat embossed the entire thing – sticker and all!

by Marsha Valk: I’ve created a lay-out using Colour Me, Borderlines and Roadtrip. First I sprayed my background with mists, then I stamped and embossed the Borderlines images and then I taped all my pictures in place. The title is stamped on patterned paper and then cut out and adhered to the lay-out.

Supplies used: all paper: Studio Calico Metropolitan kit, the mists are self-made (Talens Ecoline, with added Ranger Perfect Pearls), embossing powder: AC Zing! Metallic Finish Blue, Versamark, and Stazon Rusty Brown for the ‘You are here’ and the date (stamped with an office date stamp). iPhone photo apps used: Instagram and Hipstamatic. The journaling reads something like: ‘How have I lived without an iPhone for so long? I’ve had mine for a Month now and it’s always at my side. E-mail, internet, Facebook all within an arms reach! But the most fun are the photo apps. They make even very mundane things look awesome!’

by Wendy Morris: I used the following MSB stamp sets – Sigh Gush Gasp, Seal It, Symbols

by Jolene Johnston: the layout uses Summer Alphas and Snapshot. It also uses papers from our product partner Core’dinations.

by Allison Cope: Allison used stamps from many different sets including Funky Circles, Graphic Borders, Timelines, Pennants and Birthday Numbers

by Jill Hildebrand: I used the Colour Me stamp set with bright yellow acrylic paint, and stamped slightly off the top of the layout.

by Birgit Koopsen: I used “Seal it!”, “Repeat after me” and “Timelines”. She added different buttons in the centres of the seat it stamps to create the graphic border at the bottom of her photo.

by Agata Pfister: Agata used the Let it Snow! stamp set and embossed with holographic powder.

by Janet Zeppa: Janet used the pennants set to create this banner.

by Jaine Drake: I’ve used Colour Me, Friday Night Stencil (in the background) and Snapshot! The film strip was stamped on a transparency.

by Rebecca Keppel: Rebecca used Snapshot, Symbols and Sigh, Gush, Gasp to break up her journaling.

Enjoy your NSD and have a creative weekend!

Happy Stamping,

Love,

My first post here on the MSB blog as a new design team member & happy to share up the 4/27 Color Challenge!!

Color inspires me in many ways whether it be in home decor, fashion, scenery, buildings, etc….lots of great inspiration can be found in color!

Today, I’d like to challenge you to use this palette of colors that I was completely inspired by Pinterest (love love love this site for all sorts of inspo):

So, using this great combo of color, I created this fun mini book using a great mix of MyStampBox stamps!!

Also, be sure to check out the full list of stamp sets used in this mini at the end of this post!

And a few close up pics…

Fun mini, eh?!

Here are the MyStampBox stamp sets used in this mini….

Road Trip

Graphic Borders

Symbols

Sigh Gush Gasp

Friday Night Stencil

Seal It

Hope you enjoyed this fun color challenge & feel free to play along using the color combo featured above.

Share up your link in the comments!!

I stamped it tone on tone on the green polka dot paper. I used the same camera stamp and stamped it in black on Kraft cardstock and punched out small circles. Those I popped up on hearts from the Border Lines set. The whimsical hearts match the feel of the patterned paper and the theme! So next time you want to add stamping to your layouts think about matching them to your patterned paper and theme.

Rebecca

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!!

A very interesting part of this process was to see that some of the colours in these combinations are very muted and maybe boring by themselves, but mixed with a vibrant one, they are quite striking and exciting. And here is what I came up with after spending some time digging through my stash of stamps and papers:

I used the shape of the leaves of the water plants and tore them from  Core’dinations paper. To give them more colour I stamped the “heartfelt thanks” stamp from the “Word Jumble” stamp set with Versamark Ink on each leaf and used PearlEx Powder to bring out the writing. The card is 5×5″.

This card is 4×6″. The green circles mock the lichen on the rocks that grow in circular shapes and are punched out of green cardstock with three different circle punches (1/2″, 1.25″ and 1.4″). I used the “Symbols” stamp set to decorate the circles. Finally I added faux stitching, grey brads and the sentiment stamp from the “Whatever” stamp set.

This final card is made with the “A flower for you” stamp set. I used brown ink only to keep the colours muted and pulled together. The little flower centre is popped up with a Helmar pop dot.

I hoped you enjoyed following my creative process. Inspiration is all around us, it just needs to be noticed.

Happy Stamping,

I first gathered my supplies…ink, silver embossing powder, and this cute martini glass stamp!!

I stamped the image and embossed it.  I then cut it out and embossed the edges of the cardstock with the same silver embossing powder.  I then mounted the martini glass on some grey colored cardstock and then onto pattern paper.  I added the sentiment (which I printed onto cardstock) and the ribbon to finish off my invitation to my martini party!!

what party would be complete without name cards…well not my party that’s for sure…so I used the same martini stamp, silver embossing powder, and created name cards for each of my guests!

so…here are my two pieces together…I hope my party comes together as beautifully as my invitations did!!

Happy crafting….Lynda

If you are like me, you always are doing things at the last minute!! So, I thought it might be a fun idea to show you some “make it quick” cards using the brand new SYMBOLS set of stamps!!

Each one of these took less than 10 minutes to make!!! You can dress them up more, or make them as simple as you like!!

Here we go!!

Supplies:

Scraps of paper ( i used all the same line in these 3 cards)

Cardstock for base

Circle punch, border punch, corner rounder

Tule, lace, ribbon, flower…

Embossing powder, beads

THANK YOU

For this simple card, I simply used one pattern for the bottom half of the card… used my border punch for a trim on another piece. Then added Tule, a flower and my stamps! Rounded the bottom edge…

To achieve this stamped look, I stamped the Heart from the SYMBOLS set first in pink. I outlined it in pink with a glitter pen. Then I stamped my sentiment in green! So simple!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY

For this card, I cut my cardstock base in a rectangle to add interest. The Patterned paper was cut slightly smaller, rounding 2 edges. Again, i added a strip with one edge trimmed using my border punch. Stamp… add ink and you’re all set!

Gor this stamped image, I stamped the coffee cup from the Symbols set onto white cardstock. I then cut it out using my circle punch, inked the edges to match my flower. I adhered the stamped image to the flower, and the flower to the page. Did the same with the sentiment… but chose a rectangular shape… To complete the card, I inked the outside edges  in pink.

HAPPY DAY

This final card is another quickie, but has a few more techniques in it to try! I cut out 9 circles using my circle punch.  I chose a solid circle for the center.  I positioned the outside 8 circles to the card with a small amount of glue and then stitched them down with my machine!

For the stamped image, I stamped the circle from the SYMBOLS set onto matching cardstock using VERSA MARK ink, and added some embossing powder to it!! I heat set it using my heat gun and them cut it out using my circle punch. I stamped the cupcake from the SYMBOLS set in brown in the center of the circle. I then used Dimensional pearls in white to make the icing! While it was wet, I added some beads… looks good enough to eat!!

I also heat embossed the sentiment using the same technique onto white cardstock and mounted it onto the card. Embossing powder was from PK Glitz!

So there you have less than 1/2 an hour’s work… and 3 simple cards to show from it!!

All sentiments were taken from the MENTION IT stamp set.

Can’t wait to see what YOU can do in 1/2 hr!!

Please do not send us any more applications now. We are taking a few days to review all applicants and will announce the final decision on the blog Monday, March 29th. Please understand that we cannot write to every applicant, who is not chosen, individually. We will only be able to contact the final design team members.

Thank you for sharing with us your love for stamping and your wonderful creations. There are so many talented ladies out there and – unfortunately – we only have a few spots on our design team to offer.

Here are a couple more cards from my tic-tac-toe / 3-in-a-row cycle. Embossed with P K Glitz embossing powders (our partner company this Spring).

A birthday card in German (Geburtstag = birthday) for my mom. I love the simplicity. Mini Letters were used for the sentiment.

I love the thickness of the embossing powder. The colours in Bronze Patina are beautifully blended. Here is a closeup of that yummy look.

Keep Stamping,

Bettina

After coming home from a restaurant where we played “tic tac toe” on the paper table cloth while waiting for our food to arrive, I tried out several cards with groupings of three symbols and different ways to use a tic tac toe grid on a card.

These cards are very simple, just using inks, embossing powders and a sowing machine.

I hope you enjoy the inspiration.

The grid on this card is done with the sewing maching. I used different symbols in two colours (Squash Blossom and Bronze Patina) as “markers”. The P K Glitz powder works great with our symbol stamps, the pictures look glossy and thick. Perfect “girls-night-out” or birthday card for a girl friend.

This card was complemented with our “Mini Letters” set, a great stamp set to add your own sentiments or names to projects. I guess the message is clear here …

On this card I created the grid with Versamark pen and embossing powder, then sewed around the finished grid to contain the bags. This card will be send to a friend together with a handbag.

If you have any grid or tic tac toe cards, comment with a link. I would love to see them.

Happy Stamping,

Bettina