My Little Shoebox

Altered Monday

Hello MLS fans. We hope you had a great weekend and got some scrapping in. Thanks for all your comments on Friday's post. We agree that we also get most of our scrapbooking done on the weekends and evenings too.

Today we're featuring some altered projects that our team has created with our new collections. Let's get started with designer Melanie Stanczyk

Melanie created this awesome home decor project with a 7 Gypsies frame and our Home Tweet Home.

Next up we have a altered chalkboard for the kitchen from Shemaine Smith with our Farmer's Market collection. The top of the chalkboard is decorated with our punch out journaling tags layered with pop dots.

Next is this beautiful jewelry box created by Erin Yamabe with our Sew Cute collection

and check out the coordinating jewelry

Next we have this beautiful mini album created by Kathie Davis

These were great projects ladies! Thanks for sharing your talents with us today!

Before we go we'd like to mention that we have a sketch challenge going on. To find out how you can play along and get a chance to win some MLS goodies click here!

Getting sketchy on St. Patrick's Day

Hello MLS fans! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Did you remember to wear green? It's not too late to run and change if you forgot. I am notorious for forgetting to wear green today and I'm even part Irish. Whatever you're doing celebrate, make sure you sport your green!

Now onto today's post...The team has been creating with our March sketch to bring you some inspiration but so many of you have already gotten busy and sketched it up! We're loving what's being posted on our Facebook page. Keep them coming!

Here's a look at the March sketch and what some of the girls have created

From Erin Yamabe

from Pattie

from Susan

from June

from Nicole

Thank you to our designers for creating your visions of the sketch for us! Join us next Thursday as we show you the rest of the Design Teams takes on March's sketch and if you'd like to give it a try hop over to the main post HERE to read all the details so you can play along. We are giving a prize of MLS goodies away too!

It's Sew Cute today

Today design team members Tracy and Cindy are sharing their creations with our Sew Cute collection. I must admit it is a favorite collection of mine and many of the design team girls as well. You can create so many different themes with it and the colors...oh my!

From Tracy

Beach Baby

 

Anna

 

Here's some beautiful layouts from Cindy

All Dressed Up

Sew Happy

And some cute cards too!

With Love

That's a wrap for today's inspiration! We challenge you to make it a crafty day and create something handmade!

Just for you

Hello MLS fans! It's Friday and the waiting begins for those that applied for our Design Team as our call came to a close at midnight last night but you don't have to wait to long. We'll be announcing our new team March 31st right here on our blog and we can't wait to welcome our new team! Of course the other side of this coin is that we say goodbye to our current team soon...sniff sniff

And so, I am happy to announce that on Monday March 28th we'll be having a...

Join us as we look back with the girls at their favorite My Little Shoebox project with a hop from each member's blog. It's going to be fun and yes there will be a prize at the end of the Hop!

Now onto today's inspiration from our very own Gudrun

Just for You

You're the best!

Muffins

Thank you for being you

All of these projects are simply stunning and not to mention the photographs Beautiful work with our Garden Party collection Gudrun! Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Enjoy your weekend everyone! Go get crafty!

Freshly picked just for you!

Hello MLS fans! We're bringing you some fresh picked designs from our Design Team with our Farmer's Market collection today. First we have some layouts from Pamela.

A new friend

Go ahead and cut up that cardstock! The banner that Pamela cut out of the Cherries Jubilee paper works great on this layout. Sometimes you may not have the right embellies in your stash so don't be afraid to create your own!

Happy

Is this fabulous quilt like hand stitched creation amazing or what? I asked Pamela how she has the patience to stitch so much on her layout and she shared that she does it while watching TV. Pretty smart if you ask me.

It's that time

Love these gardening pics and the way Pamela used the vegetable cardstock stickers in the right corner with her journaling above.

What a pair

Now we have some cards from Pattie

Happy Birthday

Stamping on ribbon is an easy technique for beginning stampers. For best results use Staz-On ink.

We make a perfect pair

You're invited

and finally from Pattie a layout

Sweetpeas

Those are Pattie's kids and they are so sweet. She also used some stitching here on this layout and created her own flower with paper and accented the leaves with Glossy Accents.

And to finish off today's post, here are some fun creations from Heather Brown.

So yummy

Special Girl

Happy Birthday

Love the way Heather used the flower stamp to create her own pattern in diferent colors of ink.

Welcome lil one

Thanks for stopping by the MLS blog! We hope you'll be inspired to create something fun today.

Nicole delights us with City by the Bay

Hello MLS fans. Today we have some beautiful projects from Nicole Wragge with our City by the Bay collection. First up are some adorable layouts she created for our booth at CHA.

Nicole used a whole sheet of our mini alphas on this layout as an embellishment.

 Love this sweet layout of her daughter.

Nicole added some adorable trim to this layout that really softens it.

And with this layout, a little bling goes along way with this one! 

Here's a few cards Nicole created. Love that sun!

I like how the title is stacked and then cut out on cardstock.

City by the Bay is a fun collection that can be adapted to so many different themes. We hope you'll share your creations with our collection on our Facebook page here.

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

More designs featuring Sunday Market

 

With CHA just days away now we're wrapping up our Summer collections with some more great projects created by our Design Team ust for you.

Let's have a look at Sunday Market with designs by Melanie Stanczyk

Love this summer themed double page layout!

Next we have some lovely cards from Aphra Bolyer

And a fabulous calendar project

 

 

Now for some beautiful layout from Carol Figueiredo

and this 2011 planning album

We'll be back tomorrow with some more inspiration from our Design Team with the January Sketch Challenge!  

Only 3 more sleeps til CHA! If you're attending the show please come visit us at Booth#2758

Sneak peek week winners

Last week was tons of fun wasn't it? Today is going to be even more fun because we get to announce the winners of our sneak peek week collections!

Thanks for your comments and spreading the word about My Little Shoebox. We love our fans and we love when you share your work with us too! Please load your projects to the My Little Shoebox Facebook page because each month we choose a project to spotlight in our monthly newsletter and we link YOUR blog so our readers can learn more about you and your work!

OK, so not only are we giving away an entire collection to 6 lucky winners today, we're also giving you a look at each complete collection. So let's get started!!

 

 

Oh I am really excited about this new line. Can't wait to get me some City By The Bay.
I have signed up for the newsletter & am a fan on FB.

Posted by: Bea | 01/22/2011 at 11:45 PM

 

 

I love the vegetables!!!!!

Posted by: HeatherC | 01/19/2011 at 11:43 AM

 

 

I am a follower! And this set has me humming the song "I went to a Garden Party" (Ricky Nelson). So very lovely!

Posted by: Lillian Child | 01/21/2011 at 12:29 PM

 

 

I am loving this collection, the colors, the patterns, they are all so sweet and happy!

Posted by: Eva | 01/21/2011 at 07:23 PM

 

 

So fun! I love MLS...How fun would it be to win some. Yikes! How exciting. I liked MLS on FB and signed up for the newsletter! Thanks for the opportunity to try and win some MLS goodies!

Posted by: Karry Weaver | 01/22/2011 at 01:06 PM

Fabulous...my fav on the sneaks is the cherry blossom paper! Love the colors as well. I'm a FB fan and a subscriber.

Posted by: Charity Donaldson | 01/22/2011 at 07:48 PM

Congratulations winners! Please email us your full names, mailing address and in the subject line please write Sneak Peek Week Winner and the collection name you won to [email protected]

**Please note these prizes will not be shipped until mid February due to our travel to Winter CHA**

Day 6 of sneak peeks City by the Bay

It's our last day of sneak peeks and we're excited to share our 6th and final winter collection with you today. We thank you for all your comments yesterday about our Garden Party collection. Don't forget to leave your comments today so you can be entered to win! All the details on how you could win one of our new collections will be posted below.

So let's introduce our final collection...

 

City by the Bay!

 

This collection like our previous 6 collections features 5 double sided papers, cardstock stickers, clear stamp and journaling punch outs! The colors of this collection are so soft. From rows of little houses to water fountains and lined trees, this collection will help you tell the story of your home towns or favorite vacation spots..

So that's it...all 6 of our beautiful collections. We can't wait to announce the winners of our sneak peek week so we can get these collections out there for you to create with! Here's how you can win!

Rules:

•  To be entered to win, commentors must sign up for our monthly newsletter if they are not already a subscriber and Like us on our Facebook page. Once you have done both leave a comment on each reveal post telling us you did. Commentors who do not have either Facebook or Twitter can leave a comment letting us know as their entry.
• If you share the post on Facebook or Twitter by clicking the Like or Tweet this links at the bottom of each post leave an additional comment that you did for an extra entry.
• One winner will be drawn from each new release pool of comments received on each of the 6 posts from January 17th-January 22nd.
• By entering, you allow My Little Shoebox to publish your first name and a quote from you, on the My Little Shoebox Blog and in promotional materials.
• Winning commentors will be posted along with the reveal of each of the 6 collections in their entirely on Monday January 24th.

If you are just reading about our sneak peek week don't worry. You have til midnight Sunday pacific time to leave your comments on each of the 6 posts to be entered to win!

Be sure and come back Monday to see if you've won. Good Luck Everyone!!