My Little Shoebox

Tuesday Tutorial with June

Hello MLS fans! Get out those MLS acrylic stamps cause June is hosting today's Tuesday Tutorial with a lesson on making your own patterned paper! Take it away June...

Making your own pattern paper

By: June Goh

Here's a simple way to make some pattern paper for your layout or card. All you need are some pattern papers and stamps from My Little Shoebox and you are all set.

 

You will need to pick a lightly patterned paper and the B-sides of the MLS papers are perfect for this purpose. Next pick the stamp image that best suits your requirements.

 

Stamp randomly all over the paper with your preferred ink. If you like your images a little glittery, sprinkle your stamped images with some glitter embossing powder and set the images with a heat gun. Once your images are dry, you can cut your new pattern paper and start creating.

 

 Here is another pattern that I did with some green pattern paper, green ink pad and the cute trees from the Simple Life stamp set.

 

Finish off with some MLS die cuts and stickers and you have a cute card for a loved one in no time.

 

Here's another card I did with the heart stamps that goes perfectly with the die cuts from Cute as a Button line.

 

Thanks for stopping by for my Tuesday Tutorial. I hope you will have a go at creating some of your own personal patterned paper with all the MLS goodies you have on hand.

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Friday mini inspiration with Hilde

Hello friends! Today we have a beautiful mini album project to share with you from design team member Hilde with our Summer Breeze collection.

 

Love the faux stitching here with white pen!

 

 

As Hilde shows here, it's easy to add other embellishments like Prima flowers and Maya Road velvet pleats to our collections.

Thanks for an amazing project Hilde!  We hope you have a great weekend! Don't forget we have a Design Team call that was announced this week. You can find out all the info here.

Summer 2010 collections Inspiration

Our design team members wrapped up their designs with our Summer collections while we were away at CHA. Let's take a look at what they created this month.

First from Tajanee

 

 

 

Here's some fun cards from Kathie Davis

 

Love those sentiments!

And a layout

Next from Gudrun

Now for some cute cards from Hilde

 

and finally some layouts and a card from June

Join us tomorrow as we say goodbye to February's guest designer.

Friday inspiration from our designers

Hello MLS fans! It's the weekend already and we're gonna send you off with some inspiration from Beckie creating with our Harmony collection.

I love how she chose to mix up the positive and negative chipboard alpha's here.

Paper flowers are a great way to create your own coordinating embellishments.

This gingham ribbon shines on this card!

Tracy's altered project titled "anna's room" is just darling!

And Cindy is rocking this two pager above with our Sunday Market collection as well as this lovely creation layered with black cardstock that really makes it pop!

Thanks for stopping by today. We'll have a very exciting announcement on Monday for you MLS fans so stay tuned...

Checking in again with this month's Guest Designer, Becky Novacek

It's time for another Thursday inspiration with February's Guest Designer Becky Novacek! Today we're sharing some more of her projects created with our Harmony collection including this card created with a mash up of our Summer 2010 collections.

 

Here's a close up

and this darling layout with our Harmony collection and the cutest little girl!

Here's a close up of her journaling. Simple and to the point. So perfect!

Make sure you pop over to Becky's photography blog as she shared some happy news about her family and congratulations are definiately in order!

That's it for today MLS fans. Join us next Thursday as we say goodbye to Becky with one last Guest Designer post to wrap up February!

The girls are goin green

Our girls have some fabulous projects to share with you today with our Green Collection. Let's take a look!

A fun card from Kathleen

A fun layout from Aphra

a great example of layering elements to create a fantastic look on your pages.

A few cute cards from Aphra

Some cute layouts from Carol

Love that twine!

A layout from Melanie

Thanks for making our blog a part of your day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's a little conversationValentine from all of us to you!! Happy Valentine's Day!

                       { XXOO} Gudrun

 

 

                            {S.W.A.K.} Hilde

 

 

                         {Smooches} Becky

 

 

                             {Hug Me} Debbie

 

                         {Love Bug } Erin P.

 

 

                         {You Rock} June

 

 

                       {U R Cute} Erin Y.

 

 

                     {Sweet Talk} Pamela

 

                       {All Mine} Shemaine

 

                     {Only You} Kathleen

Tags Tags and more Tags

Hello! We hope you enjoyed this week's Tutorial Tuesday! We're following up today with even more tag inspiration from our design team. Let's take a look at how some of our team uses our journaling diecuts to create with.

Here's a fun TO DO board project created by Kathleen

Kathleen used transparency sheets and cut the centers out of the die cuts from our Green collection to create the lists for each day of the week

Aphra used Cute as a Button diecuts to accent her title and sub title in this layout she created.

Love all those layered circle scallops. That's a lot of work for beautiful dimension!

Taj used journaling die cuts to create two adorable bookmarks with a mash of our Green and Cute as a Button collections.

And finally Kathie layered her journaling die cuts into her layout design using our Green collection

We hope you're inspired to get out those diecuts and create! We love seeing all the My Little Shoebox creations posted to our Facebook fan page. Click here to post your work for us to see!

Great News...

We are back from CHA Chicago... we had the best show yet and met so many amazing people and store owners.  Can't wait to update you with news of MLS hitting your stores. 

Heather, Pattie, Aphra, Shelly

Pamela, Aphra, Erin, Shelly, Helen, Pattie, Heather

Our time in Chicago was so fun.  Thanks to the MLS girls who worked the booth and helped with set up and take down.  We couldn't do it without you all.

NOW FOR THE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT....

It's August which means that we have a new Guest Designer for the month of August.  Please welcome... 

Virginia Tillery

Bio:
I'm a stay at home mama to my four littles (5 years and younger!!!), and happy wife to Shaun for one whole decade. With such a crazy, fun life, I absolutely need time every evening to kind of "re-center" myself. Scrapbooking is that tool. It helps me to remember all the beauty in our day-to-day lives, and create a little beauty to go along with it. 

I have been scrapbooking for a little over 10 years, and designing for almost 5 years. I'm currently designing for Noel Mignon Kits, Lily Bee Designs, and Girls' Paperie. You can keep up with my creative endeavors, my kids' silly antics, and my random musings on my blog, blackflipflops.blogspot.com

Here are some sneaks of what to expect from Virginia...

 

Check back every Thursday of August to see more of our guest designer Virginia!!

CHA sneak peek the final line...

It's been so much fun feeling your excitement over our new releases and even though this is our last line we can't wait to start showing off what our DT is creating. 
So here is Summer Breeze...

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Isn't everything about this line perfect... I can't wait to play with this one!!

Stay tuned for more info when these lines will be hitting your stores and online stores.  We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous papers.