Just the Little Things...

This week's challenge over at Creative Prompts 4U this week comes from Ro and she's challenged us to incorporate or be inspired by this quote: This is what I came up for my inspiration this week: Our Big Boy
supplies: patterned papers, die cuts, sticker, Crate Paper; cardstock, Bazzill; mist, Tattered Angels; pen, Sharpie; other, thread.
I chose to just simply include the quote within my layout. Come and on check out what the rest of the Creative Crew did with Ro's challenge this week. For participating, you could win a copy of the newly released Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine, CardMaps. Good luck!
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It's Sketch Time!

It's my turn to challenge the myStamp BOX blog readers this week and I chose to challenge you with a sketch this week. This is the sketch I chose to share:
Click the sketch to see the cards I created with it!

One of my cards today has some pretty little autumn inspired leaves so I thought I'd show you how I created them.

First I stamped out 5 oak leaves on a piece of scrap white cardstock in brown ink.

Then I used my Ranger ink applicator and variety of autumn inspired Distress Inks and applied the inks to my stamped images.

Then I took a fan paint brush and dipped it into my "Suede" Glimmer Mist bottle and splattered the liquid all over my leaves. This just added a bit of dimension to each leaf and made them look a little more realistic!


Once I fussy cut them out, I adhered them to my card front. Click the sneak peek image below to see my full card!

Come and check out the rest of my card creations today! Just click HERE!
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myStamp BOX Blog Hop: Welcome Our New DT!

It's a WELCOME BLOG HOP today at myStampBOX, and we are thrilled to introduce our new designers to you. If you stumbled upon our blog hop today, be sure to start back at the myStampBOX blog so you don’t miss any of the action!

Come visit all of our returning design members' blogs, and you will be introduced to our new team members one by one. Make sure to leave a comment on each participating blog and a final comment once you return to our home page. Leave your comments by 6 PM EST on Sunday April 3rd for a chance to win free stamps. On the way enjoy our welcoming cards made with our fun myStampBOX stamps.

But first we would like to thank all the wonderful and talented designers that are leaving our team. A BIG thank you goes out to:
Stephanie Ackerman
Maryfrances Fabbri

Cari Locken

Eva Pizzaro

Kristen Swain

Melissa Wright

Thank you for your hard work over the last 6 months. You’ll always be a part of the myStampBOX family. Best wishes from all of us in your next crafty adventures!

Now… let’s find out more about who will be joining the myStampBOX design team. Follow the blog hop and visit each of our returning designer blogs. Each team member will be introducing a new member of our team. At each stop, please leave a comment. When the blog hop is complete, return to the myStampBOX blog and leave one final comment to have a chance to win a myStampBOX stamp set of your very own!


We hope you enjoy our little welcoming blog hop! Don’t forget to leave a comment on each one of the design team blogs and the mSB blog for your chance to win!

Good luck and happy hopping!

I'd like to introduce you to our final new Design Team member....

Janet Zeppa

Janet's blog: Janet's Joy

Hi there! My name is Janet Zeppa and I live in St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Born here and never left. It's close to Niagara Falls if that gives you a better idea of location. I'm a wife and mother to 3 grown children. They are 31, 29 and 28. A girl and 2 boys. I am newly retired from being a Medical Laboratory Technologist but have stayed on as a casual. Have to have that extra money to feed my scrapbooking habit. :) I love to play with all the pretty papers and love the idea of my grandchildren looking through my albums one day and seeing a part of their history. I also teach classes at my LSS and am having a blast!

And here's the card I made to welcome Janet to our team....

I wanted the front panel VERY simple. I used the polka dotted cloud from the Wishing you Sunshine set and the Congratulations greeting is from the Mention It! set. I hand cut the legs and hand drew a little head on my sheep.

And this is what you open up the card to....

The sentiment is created from the Lots of Dots Sentiments and the Mini Alpha stamp sets. If you read it carefully... it says...

Welcome to the neighbourHERD!

To create the back ground I used the farm scape from the Neighborhoods stamp set. I stamped and cut the silo, barn and farmhouse on red cardstock and then hand cut them out and added it over the initial stamping of the image.

I used a variety of the different clouds in the Wishing You Sunshine set to make my herd of sheep.

That cute little butterfly and the pretty blooms are both from the Funky Flowers stamp set. I also used the grassy stamp from the set too for the grass in the fore ground.


You have now successfully completed our little blog hop welcoming our new Design team members for myStamp BOX. Please make sure you have left a comment on each and every blog you have visited and you may just WIN yourself a new stamp set to play with! Good luck!!!

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Scrapbooker's Paradise Challenge #09

Howdy everyone! Happy Friday!

This week's challenge over at Scrapbooker's Paradise Karan has asked us to incorporate some fun banners into our work.

This is the card I creating using Karan's challenge this week:

Hello There

All of the cardstock I used this week is from the Bazzill Smoothies line. There's nothing better than using gorgeous smooth cardstock for a card!

The Spellbinder's beautiful die cut shapes I used this week were: Parisan Motifs Shapabilities, Petite Circles Nestabilities and also Classic Scallop Circle Small.

My super fun banners were made using the Hero Arts, "Friendly Flags Clear Set". I just adore all the fun sized banners in this cut stamp set. I used my Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad by Tsukineko to stamp each banner piece.

Come on and out and play along with the Scrapbooker's Paradise Challenge team this week and you could win two Stampavie stamp sets, retail value at over $20.00!!!

Take a moment or two and check out what my fellow Challenge Team members have created this week:

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