My Little Shoebox

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Just for you fans in case you missed the May newsletter! A sweet sneak peek of what's to come this summer at CHA in Chicago!

Up in the Trees Layouts and Cards

 

Hi Jenifer here with you today to share some layouts using the Up in the Trees collection.  I absolutely love this collection and just couldn't stop using it.

For my first Layout I did some hand stitching using the wood grain on the paper as my guide.  I then used some green scraps of ribbon and paper to make it look like leaves in a tree.  I couldn't help using the name of the collection for my title, it was just too perfect ;)

Supplies:  Up in the Trees, ribbon May Arts, floss DMC, adhesive Therm O Web

For my second layout I cut out random spots in the honeycomb patterned paper and then put some fun sparks of color through out.  I also had a fun time using various letter stickers in my title.

Supplies:  Up in the Trees collection, ribbon May Arts, adhesive Therm O Web

For my first card I did some quick layering.  The rolled flowers make creating so easy I can't help but to use them on almost every project.

Supplies:  Up in the Trees Collection, ribbon May Arts, adhesive Therm O Web

For my second card I used a piece of canvas to help anchor my elements and give my card a little bit more texture.

Supplies:  Up in the Trees Collection, ribbon May Arts, adhesive Therm O Web

I hope you have enjoyed my post today, make sure you come back daily for your inspiration :)

Jenifer

Product Swap: Punky Sprouts

Hello MLS fans! Today is our last day of inspiration with Punky Sprouts. We've had a great time swapping products with them and the girls loved creating with them. Today  we have 3 more talented designers to showcase. First let's look at Monique's mini.

Mini Album: “10 x Manon”

by Monique Liedtke

 

Supplies:
Keepsake – Music to my Ears
Keepsake – Window View
Keepsake – Garden Delight
Keepsake – Picture Perfect
Keepsake – English Rose

Keepsake – Simple Treasures
Keepsake – Razzleberry & Chiffon
Keepsake – Cherry & Fog
Keepsake - Cardstock Stickers
Keepsake – 3D Dimensional Roll Up Flower

Alphabet Stickers – Sprinkle Glaze (Salsa)

Mini Alphabet Stickers (Chocolate Cake & Kiss)

 

Other supplies:

Mini-album (Punky Sprouts “Teenie-Beanie”)

Embellishments: Twine, Doilies (Punky Sprouts)

Acrylic Sheets (Hambly Studios, KI Memories)

Flowers (Prima Marketing)

Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels)

Paint (Amsterdam)

Stamping Ink (Color Box, VersaMagic)

Words-To-Go (K&Company)

Adhesive Pearls (Inkido)

Epoxy shapes and buttons (Epiphany Crafts: Buttons Round 14, Heart Buttons 20, Bubble Caps Star 25)

Pen (ZIG)

Liquid Pearls (Perlen Pen Viva)

Adhesive (Tacky Tape, Scrapbook Adhesives, Scotch)

Book Pages, Staples, Ribbon & Fabric (misc)

Next we have a different take by Jenifer!

I can't believe you're 10!

by Jenifer Cowles

 and finally a look at Carol's album

"Six Wonderful Years" Punky Sprouts Album

Supplies used:

Aiko - 11812 Little Princess

        - 11813 Bouquet

        - 11814 Blue Sky

        - 11815 Festival

        - 11816 One FIne Day

        - 11817 Happy Notes

        - 11819 Kiss and Sky

        - 11811 3-D Roll up flower diecut

        - 11821 Cardstock sticker

        - 11820 March

        - 08432 Mini alpha stickers - Sky

        - 08429 Mini alpha stickers - Brownie

Punky Sprouts Teenie-Beanie Sprout Mini Album

Cardstock (Bazzill)

Chicken wire template (The Crafter'sWorkshop)

Clipboard clip (7-Gypsies)

Gesso (Claudine Hellmuth)

Multi-medium (Claudine Hellmuth)

Acrylic paints (Claudine Hellmuth, Daler Rowney)

Glimmer mists (Tattered Angels)

Gelatoes (Faber Castell)

Thank you so much for your beautiful work ladies.

That's it for today fans! Please visit the Punky Sprouts Facebook page and tell them how much you love their products. Make sure you tell them we sent you and I'll choose one lucky winner to win some MLS goodies!

I'll announce the winner when I return from the Great American Scrapbook Convention next Monday!

We love our Facebook fans!

Hello MLS fans! We love that you share your work with us on our Facebook wall. It's so fun to see what you are creating with MLS products and how you make them your own. So today we're celebrating the fans that caught our eye in May!

Happy Me

by Rebecca Boyer

 

Great friends are like your favorite shoes

by Jennifer Ingle

 

My Lady Bug car

by Angela Alexander

 

Mother's Day cards

by Jessica Pascarella

We hope you'll swing by and visit their blogs! Thanks for sharing your creations with us ladies!

We'll celebrate our fans again in June so keep posting your designs and you could be featured here on our blog with a link to yours!

Have a creative day!

Tuesday Tutorial with Linda

Hi everyone!  Linda here with a tutorial using crayon resist for a fun, colorful technique.  Here is the card I made, using the Let the Sunshine and Seeds of Happiness from the My Little Shoebox "Lovely Day" collection.

 

Step 1:  Using a smooth white piece of paper suitable for stamping, randomly stamp several line flowers (or butterflies, etc.) on the strip of paper.  Then, borrowing the white crayon from your child's craft box, color in the petals of the flowers and centers, leaving some small spaces clear.  Use a permanent ink, such as StazOn, and let it dry for about 10 minutes before applying the wax crayon.

 

Step 2:  Using a yellow ink pad, such as Memento or Distress and a dabber, ink up a part of the paper strip.

 

Step 3:  Using a blue, or any compatible color, add ink to the strip, blending portions as you go.

 

 Step 4: Immediately rub over the entire strip with a paper towel or napkin, especially over the flowers, and watch them brighten and stand out.

You can use any size of paper strips to any layout, project, or card.  This technique is fun to do, easy, and can even be used to design a background for a card. 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Try different color combinations, stamps, and even varied crayon colors!

Have a creative day!

Linda

Friendship Jar-Aiko

Hi,

Jenifer here with you today with my first My Little Shoebox post.  I am so excited to share this super cute "Friendship Jar" that I made using the Aiko collection.  The little girls in the Aiko collection were just perfect and I wanted to showcase them in a unique way.  I found a cute little jar and using the cardstock stickers started adding layers until I was satisfied with my placement.  I then started working on the outside using twine and Zots to keep everything in place.



Supplies used: 

Aiko - 11821 Cardstock sticker

          Bakers Twine (May Arts)

Zots (Therm O Web)

Jar, toothpicks (Other)

I hope you have enjoyed my project today.  Make sure you come back daily for all the inspiration that we have planned for you.  If you decide to make one of your own friendship jars, leave me a link I would love to see it.

Jenifer

I am learning with You

Hello MLS fans, it's Rô Philippsen sharing with you a layout I did that to me is very special!

This layout I did for Mother's Day, using the amazing MLS Keepsake Collection.

This layout "I am learning with YOU", I did for a Special Mother's Day Class, and I'd like share with you because it is very special for me, because I did it for my son.
When we have a baby, we know we'll have to teach him everything, the most basic to the most complicated answers that he will one day make us! But sometimes we have no idea how much a child will teach us through life ... It was this inspiration that I created the project "I am learning with You", because every day my son teaches me something, but the biggest lesson I'm learning from him is that people are not we want them to be, even a child. A child is an individual one, which I can not shape, he has his faults and his qualities, and to me it accept it as it is, and love Him above all!

Keepsake Collection have the colors and the e patterned perfect for this layout.
I just need add some pearls, inks and trims for a perfect layout!

Supplies list:
11832 - window view
11833 - Garden Delight
11834 - English Rose
11835 - Music to my Ears
11837 - Simple Treasures
11840 - Sound os Music
08951 - Licorice Sprinkle Glaze Alphabet Sticker
08401 - Mini Alphabet Sticker - Rose

I'd like to do a big thanks to My Little Shoebox for creating such beautiful products for our scrapbooking!

Thanks for stopping by,

Rô Philippsen

 

Product Swap: Punky Sprouts

Hello MLS fans! It's Punky time! This week's designer's are Beckie, Megan and Nana! Let's take a look at how they rocked their Punky projects!

Punky Sprouts Album – Believe Banner

Up in the Trees Woodgrain

Up in the Trees Bird’s Eye View

Up in the Trees In The Trees

Up in the Trees Heart on a String

Up in the Trees My Way

Up in the Trees Free as a Bird

Up in the Trees Ruby & Oregano

Up in the Trees Ocean & Brownie

Up in the Trees Flower Diecut

Up in the Trees Fly High

MLS Carnation Glitter Alphabet Sticker

Rusty Pickle Random Chipboard Alphabet

Yellow and Blue Buttons

Papermania Yellow Brads

 Beckie's Notes: I adore these little books and the shapes that are in them.  I used mine to make a banner.

 

That's it for this week's Punky inspiration! Before we go, here's last week's prize winner

April Walker

My Little Shoebox sent me over to say HI!!

1 · May 17 at 1:29pm

April email us your address to dt@mylittleshoebox and we'll get your prize out to you!

 

Have a creative day!

Lovely Day Project Share

Hi all and I'm super excited to be sharing with you my May projects in my very first post over here at the My Little Shoebox blog. I was able to "play" with the Lovely Day collection and here are my shares for you today....

Melts My Heart

In this page, I wanted to play a bit with the journaling blocks from the Lovely collection. I cut out three of them and placed them on the bottom of the page where I treated each one differently, housing my journaling and other elements like cut out paper and punched out butterflies.  I used two die cut banner pieces as an accent for my larger flower. They remind me of the ends of a ribbon.

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers-(Seeds of Happiness, 11892; Easy Breezy, 11896; New Story, 11897; Sweet Memory, 11894; Chocolate and Chiffon, 11899) Lovely Collection; Letter stickers- Glitter Alphabet sticker, Lake 10114; Ribbon- Hobby Lobby; Twine- Twinery; Buttons- Pebbles; Pearl- Recollections; Flowers- Prima, Accent Creative Designs, Piggy Tales; Butterfly punch- Martha Stewart Crafts; Circle punch- Creative Memories; Border punch- EK Success; Decorative Scissor- Fiskars; Black pen- Creative Memories

Family Gamers

In this page, I used the “Lovely” collection’s graphic papers. I did add the birdhouse paper on the right edge which, if you notice, the way my son and husband in looking in the photo, leads them to that direction. Because this page is a masculine page, I used chevron and star shapes. I love layering items on top of each other like the circle accents, stars and brads in this page.

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers-(Chocolate and Chiffon, 11899; Let the Sunshine, 11895; New Story, 11897; Raspberry and Aqua, 11898) Lovely Collection; Letter stickers- Glaze alphabet sticker, Snowflakes 10117; Mini Alphabet Sticker, Peppermint stick 08431; Ribbon- American Crafts; Twine- Twinery; Star punch- Fiskars; Circle punch- Creative Memories; Rubons- Scenic Route; Brads- SEI; Decorative Scissor- Provo Craft; Thread- Coats and Clark; Sewing Machine- Kenmore; Black pen- Creative Memories

Mother's Day

I made this page a two page spread so I can fit all of my photos and still have room for my accents. I love how the papers from the Lovely collection are so soft and feminine in style that it fit perfectly for this page about last year’s Mother’s day celebration. To break up all of the boxy shapes of my photos and journaling/title block, I had cut out the papers into circles and made a border for most of them. I added some of the circles with foam adhesive so it will create some dimension.

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers-(Seeds of Happiness, 11892; Let the Sunshine, 11895; Easy Breezy, 11896; New Story, 11897; Sweet Memory, 11894; Raspberry and Aqua, 11898) Lovely Collection; Letter stickers- Glitter Alphabet sticker, Lake 10114; Twine- Twinery; Buttons- Pebbles; Circle punch- Creative Memories; Circle Cutters- Creative Memories; Decorative Scissor- Fiskars; Typewriter- Royal

and last but definitely not the least...

For this card I used some more papers from the Lovely collection. I handcut the flower accent from paper to create my own embellishment and finished it off with some pearls. The bright pinks from the paper background, the flower and the red button really stands out against the mostly blue hue of the card.

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers- (Seeds of Happiness, 11892; Let the Sunshine, 11895; Easy Breezy, 11896; New Story, 11897) Lovely Collection; Ribbon- Doodlebug Design Inc.; Twine- Twinery; Buttons- Favorite Findings; Pearl- Recollections; Brads- SEI; Border punch- Fiskars; Rubon sentiment- It takes two

thank you for joining me today and I hope my project share inspired you to make something beautiful today.

-Grace

Happy Mother's Day card using Lovely Day

Hi everyone.  Pattie here with a quick little card using the Lovely Day line.  I was really happy that I wouldn't be showing my card until after Mother's Day- no peeking right!

I love birdhouses and seem to use them relatively often in my own personal scrapping.  The colors of the Lovely Day paper line were just perfect to create this little birdhouse scene.  To create the rooftop, I cut strips of the Let the Sunshine paper with my scalloped scissors and covered a triangle of paper, starting from the bottom of the triangle, working your way to the pointed tip.  I then flip the paper over and trim the excess paper off.  Another fun trick if you are making a larger birdhouse (this card size is too small) is to use foam squares on the scalloped edge and tape runner on the other edge.  It gives great dimension and a cute look to the house. 

Supplies used:

My Little Shoebox: Lovely Day: Easy Breezy, New Story, Let the Sunshine, Happy Together, Chocolate & Chiffon, Cardstock Stickers

Ink:Prima; scallopededged scissors: Fiskars; Border punch: EK Success; die: Spellbinders; pen: Sakura; pearls: Darice; Stickles and Glossy Accents: Ranger; vintage sheet music

 

Hope you all had a beautiful Mother's Day.  And maybe you'll make a cute little birdhouse sometime in the near future.  We would love to see it on the My Little Shoebox Facebook page!

Happy Scrapping!