My Little Shoebox

Day 1- Blog Hoppin with the Twinery

We are so excited to be partnering up with The Twinery this week for a fun-filled week of projects by both company's talented Design Teams & there will be prizes for you to have lots of chances to enter to win!!

Each day we will be posting a sneak peek of our MLS designer's projects with a link to their blog as well as the list of all participating designers with links to their blogs.

Our team is thrilled to be sharing their projects & crafts with you.

However before we get hopping and in case you’re not familiar with The Twinery..here’s a little bit about their products…

Our twine is made from 100% cotton, it’s eco-friendly and made in the USA. Whether you’re gift wrapping, crafting or tying up baked goods to give to a friend, our baker’s twine adds a fresh, yet nostalgic look to any project at hand! Our baker’s twine comes in 18 delicious colors and is uniquely twisted against a bright white hue, creating an eye-popping burst of color and a creative embellishment! Our twine has lots of color which lends to a fun, candy-striped look.

 

Now let's share the MLS team sneaks!

Jenifer Cowles

Megan Aaron

Grace Tolman

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Here is today's BLOG HOP ORDER.

My Little Shoebox- where you are right now!

The Twinery
Jenifer Cowles
Angelica Suarez
Jamie Cripps
Megan Aaron
Jen Carter
Grace Tolman
Kathy Skou

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Twinery's prize

Four Spools of baker's twine

in your choice of colors

&

My Little Shoebox Prize

3 Lucky winners with each win one of the 3 collections kits shown

In order to be entered to win a prize you:

• MUST comment on each particpating blog on the hop throughout the week
• Follow the My Little Shoebox & The Twinery blogs
• Follow the My Little Shoebox & The Twinery Facebook pages

Deadline to comment will be Midnight Eastern Time, Sunday, June 24th

Winners will be announced Monday, June 25th on each company's blog.

So please visit us everyday this week for a fabulous week-long blog hop!!

Happy Go Lucky Summer Girls

Hello MLS fans!  Linda here to share with you three layouts and a card I created with the My Little Shoebox Happy Go Lucky collection.  I loved working with this collection - wonderful, vibrant colors and really cute icons.  This is my granddaughter, Kenzie, climbing the rock wall on her redwood gym set.

Supplies:  Happy Go Lucky Ride Along, Love Notes B side, All-a-Bloom B side, On Clous 9 B side, Cardstock Stickers and letters, and Out and About.  I also used Destress Ink and brown embroidery thread for accent.

In this next layout, my granddaughter, Lucy is "borrowing" her mother's iphone at the park. 

Supplies:  On Cloud 9 B side, All-a-Bloom, Love Notes, Cardboard Stickers and letters, Bakers Twine, and Out and About.

In this last layout, Hannah is playing in the park and asking Grandma to come and play with her.  I rolled some of the papers in the collection to add dimension and separate parts of the layout.  I used the Circle Pattern paper and attached some heart ribbon around the inside.

 

Supplies: All-a-Bloom B side, Love Notes, Circle Pattern paper, cardboard stickers, Out and About journaling tag, and ribbons to add accent and color.

I love butterflies, and this card is a colorful wal to say hello to someone.  I used Love Notes B side as by background, embossed a piece of Linen paper, and punched out butterflies from most of the Happy Go Lucky papers, added sequins to each butterfly, and used Brownie mini letters for the sentiment.

I loved using this truly wonderful collection, and I hope you enjoyed and were inspired with my work!

A Birthday Theme with Keepsake

Hello everyone, Beckie here today and I'd like to share with you my projects that I have made using the Keepsake collection.  I really do love the music notes and little birds which feature on some of the papers.  I love the mix of colours too, so bright and cheery!  

We have this Musical Birthday Hat which is passed around the family for them to wear on their special day .... this time it was my MIL's turn and the colours matched perfectly with the Keepsake papers!!

I cut out the centre of the scallop circle so that the background paper could be seen.  I used a small section of the cut out again at the base of the circle but have saved the rest for some cards.

The scalloped border, which is on the 3D flower sheet, is great for adding some texture to the layout, I added some adhesive gems in the centre of each of the scallops.

Products used

• MLS -Keepsake - Window View
• MLS -Keepsake - English Rose
• MLS -Keepsake - Music To My Ears
• MLS -Keepsake - Simple Treasures
• MLS -Keepsake - Razzleberry and Chiffon
• MLS -Keepsake - 3D Flower Die Cut
• MLS -Keepsake - Sound of Music
• MLS -Keepsake - Cardsticker
• Kuretake Opaque White Journal Pen
• Papermania Adhesive Stones
• Rusty Pickle Buttons

For the next project I decided to use the scallop circle differently.  This time I cut it in to equal sections,  just as you would with a pizza.  I decorated each of the sections up before I glued them together.

I used the journal tags on the Keepsake - Simple Treasures as background pieces for the chipboard letters which are covered in the Garden Delight paper and a thin layer of glitter.  You can make the banner as long as you wish, this one helped to celebrate my daugthers birthday.

Products Used :

• MLS - Keepsake - Garden Delight
• MLS -Keepsake -English Rose
• MLS -Keepsake -Music To My Ears
• MLS -Keepsake -Simple Treasures
• MLS -Keepsake - Flower Die Cut
• MLS -Keepsake - Cardsticker
• Rusty Pickle various buttons
• Papermania - Mini Roses

Have a Creative Day and Thanks For Stopping By

Beckie :)

From Simple to Elaborate Aiko Cards

Hello Beautiful My Little Shoebox Fans!  I am thrilled to be sharing with you the cards I made this month using the "exotic" Aiko line.  I don't know about you, but there are times when I see paper and immediately it transforms into a finished product in my mind.  That is exactly what happened with Aiko.  From the moment I set eyes on the stunning little Asian dolls -I knew EXACTLY what I was going to create.

One of the things I love about the My Little Shoebox is the fact that the papers and embellishments are so beautiful.  This allows for simple little projects to look stunning; even without a lot of effort.  That was the case for this little card. 

All I did to make this card was shred the edges of the paper (I used the Distrezz-it-All), pop up the stickers, and add some bling and glitter.  That was literally it!  Here is a closeup of that (in case you did not believe me lol)

The next card is also very simple to make, but in my opinion it does not look like it was simple to make.

To make it I pretty much used the same techniques that were used to make the other card, except that I actually had to cut one of the blossom stickers and align it in such a way that it looked as if it was already like that.

The next set of cards involves one of my absolute favorite techniques for card making: Iris Fold.  I love it because it is very easy to make, but the final product seems to have taken HOURS to make.  Take a look for yourself:

Can you see the "elaborate" detail in the umbrella? 

I know that it looks like I spent a lot of time with this card - I did NOT!   Once I finished creating the umbrella, all I had to do was add the stickers, a flower, and a sentiment. 

Look at the other card I made using the same technique:

Here the folding used to make the fan was a bit different, and a whole lot easier than the folding used in the previous card.  

My favorite part of this card is the cluster of flowers that sits right next to the beautiful girl.  They were all made using the 3D Roll Up Flowers that come with the Aiko line. 

Aren't they lovely?

Last but not least, I made a very elaborate card:

In this card I wanted to bring tons of different techniques together, as well as ton of dimension and texture.  Using the 3D Roll Up flowers really helped with accomplishing my goal, and adding the bling swirls was the perfect finish.

This month, I basically wanted to showcase the versatility of the My Little Shoebox paperlines.  You can create anything your mind can possibly think of!  From the simplest to the most elaborate of cards can be created, and each looks stunning in its own way.

 

I hope you enjoyed these creations!

 

Have a lovely "Aiko" Day!

 

Hugs,

Nana

Tuesday Tutorial with Grace

Hello My Little Shoebox fans, Grace here with this week's Tuesday Tutorial. Today I am going to share with you my process on how I made this family banner.

For the month of June, I was assigned to use the "Up in the Trees" collection and after studying the patterns I bit, decided to choose the graphic and solid colors versus the bolder designs so that it will work with my smaller canvas which is the chipboard pieces that I had strung a few together to make a banner. Here's the result...

and here are a few more details....Because this is a project that I intend to hang somewhere in my home, I wanted it to be very dimensional so I made sure I layered elements on top of each other and adhering them with foam adhesive to give each layer than extra "boost".

So here's the process on how I made my banner....

First, I decided on what paper to use for the background. I wanted it to be neautral so I can layer as many papers as I can without having to worry if the colors clashes with the base. I ended up choosing the "heart on the string" paper using the tan dot side. I adhered my chipboard pieces on the back side and then carefully cut out the shape from the paper using a kraft knife. I covered 8 chipboard pieces.

Next, after covering one side of the chipboard with paper, I distressed the edges.

Third step was to ink the edges. I wanted the shape to be really noticeable so I opted for a darker brown ink to cover the edges.

These chipboard pieces were from a minibook set and it only had one hole. I wanted to thread each one so I punched another hole on the opposite side of all of the pieces.

Next, I worked on my layering elements. I started off by diecutting a scallop circle shape from the "Free as a bird" paper using the red dot side. I made 8 circles.

Then I layered another paper, this time using the other side of the "Heart Strings" paper. I cut out circles from this paper, 8 in all to match my red scalloped circle cuts.

Then, I cut out the word FAMILY from my die cut machine using the "My Way" paper. I measured my letters to be 2" which fits perfectly in my circle accents.

After playing around with the layers, I decided to add one more element and this time, it's a strip that will go behind the circle accent. I used the "Birds Eye View" paper, using the hexagon yellow side. I trimmed it to an 1" in width and ran it through my paper crimper to give it more texture. I then cut the strips into 5" long strips and cut notches on each end to mimic a ribbon strip.

Afte I got all my layers, next step was to adhere them onto my base chipboard. I started with the crimped paper strip, adhering that to the center vertically. Then I layered the blue circle on the center of the scallop shape then adhering that pairing with foam adhesive on the center of the chipboard.

Then I added smaller foam adhesive to the backs of the die cut letters and then added that on top of the circle accents.

Next was to curl some die cut flowers from the Flower Die cut sheet. I used the end of a paint brush to curl the flowers to the desired size. I added a dot of glue gun to the bottom of the die cut flowers to secure the curls in place.

Then add the flowers to the two remaining chipboard pieces, 3 in each chipboard. These will serve as your end boards for the banner.

I wanted to add bling so I layered two foam adhesive on top of each other then adhered that to the rhinestone before securing it in the center of the curled flowers.

To put them all together, I threaded some blue twine through each of the holes that we've made on the top corners of the chipboard pieces. I secured the ends, on each side, by creating a loop and then tying on the back.

And finally, to keep the pieces from shifting side to side, I added some clear scotch tape on the backs of the pieces to keep them in place.

So there you have it. Here's the final project once again.....

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers- (Free as a bird, 11877; Heart on a string, 11875; bird’s eye view, 11873, my way, 11876) Up in the Trees Collection; Flower die cuts- (3D roll up flower die cut, 11871) Up in the Trees collection; Twine- Denim, Twinery; Chipboard pieces- Want2Scrap; Rhinestone- Tangerine, Jewels, Doodlebug Design Inc; Circle cutter- Creative Memories; Die cut machines- Cricut, Spellbinders; Dies- Eyelet circles, Spellbinders; Cartridge- Creative memories Cheerful Seasons; Crimper- source unknown; Ink- Chestnut, American Crafts; Adhesive- Glue Arts, Creative Memories

I hope my banner inspired you to make something beautiful today.

Have a great day.

 

Up In The Trees projects

Hi, Carol Theng here today. Would like to share with you 2 projects that I made using "Up In The Trees" line.

First is a layout, "rock a bye baby", that I made for my son. I love the woodgrain paper and use it as the background. For the blue sky, I use seafoam to sponge gesso unto the paper to create a cloudy effect. And you can see here that I love to fussy cut.

For all that I fussy cut, I also layered some of them to create a more dimensional look. To create the sun, I just inked the edges of the 3D flower with distress ink.

Supplies used:

• Up In The Trees: - 11872 Woodgrain Love         - 11877 Free As A Bird     

                                                - 11879 Ocean & Brownie      - 11875 Heart On A String   

                                                - 11873 Bird's Eye View          - 11878 Ruby & Oregano

                                                 - 11874 In The Trees                - 11871 3D Roll-Up Flower

• MLS Glitter Alpha Sticker - Snowflakes
• Claudine Hellmuth gesso
• Martha Stewart punches
• Papertreyink die - fence
• Distress Ink - Wild Honey
• Spellbinders die - Oval
• Foam dots

My second project is a mini album of journalling tags that I made for my husband's birthday. Its a very simple project but requires some fussy cut as well.

"What I Love About You" mini album

I use the journalling tags as the album base and simply adhere or layer the cut-outs and sentiments.

The colourful papers gave a bright, cheery look to this album. I love to pop up the mini alphas to create the sentences. 

Supplies used:

• Up In The Trees: - 11877 Free As A Bird            - 11871 3D Roll-Up Flower        

                                                - 11873 Bird's Eye View       - 11872 Woodgrain Love

                                                - 11876 My Way                    - 11874 In The Trees

• MLS mini alpha stickers - Sky, Gumball, Mint
• Cheerylynn Die - Heart Flourish
• Foam dots
• Distress Ink - Wild Honey
• Martha Stewart punch
• Marvy Uchida punches

Thank you for joining us today and I hope you will find more inspiration through our projects. Have a creative day.

A "Lovely Day" needs Candle Light!

Hi there My Little Shoebox friends! It’s Monique here with a few fun “Lovely Day” projects just before the start of the weekend!

First off my favorite project for today: an altered Candle Holder.

This candle holder was a present I got about a year ago. Although I think it’s beautiful as it is, I decided to give it a more personal touch and dress it up a bit.

When I saw those awesome 3D Roll-Up Flowers I knew exactly what I was going to do! I started with 4 strips of paper (one with a punched border), layered them on top of each other and machine sewed them together:

Then I created the centerpiece, using a hand cut journaling spot (New Story) as my base and attaching 3D Roll-Up Flowers, some die-cut flowers, banner pieces, a sentiment and a bird cage sticker:

I attached this to the strip of paper and finished it off with more flower and bird stickers from the Cardstock Sticker sheet:

And this is the result:

Hope you like it!

But wait, there’s more! I have also created 2 cards for you: a birthday card and a card for a good friend.

I don’t know about you, but I for one, almost always forget to send people birthday cards. I think it’s because I don’t want to buy them, but make them myself and then I forget about it until it’s too late. So what did I do today? I created a birthday card in advance AND a card for a good friend whose birthday card I forgot.

First the birthday card:

This 5”x 5” card exists of a white cardstock base, 2 layers of paper (Chocolate & Easy Breezy), a doily, a punched birdcage (Chiffon), a (border) punched strip of brown Chocolate paper, a straight strip of yellow Chiffon paper, a punched brown Chocolate vine, a hand cut journaling spot (New Story), a punched out pink Raspberry bird and a sentiment cut from the “New Story” sheet. I finished it off with a piece of twine (The Twinery) and a self-adhesive pearl for the eye (Inkido).

And my other card:

This one measures 5”x 6” and has a white cardstock base as well. Followed by a piece of Raspberry and (the B side of) Let The Sunshine, a punched doily (B side Easy Breezy), 3 dove tails (Raspberry, B side of Seeds of Happiness, B side New Story), some punched leaves (B side Happy Together), 2 clouds (Cardstock Stickers), a hand cut journaling spot (Cardstock Sticker), 3 3D Roll-Up Flowers, a sentiment (Words-On-The-Go K&Company) attached with a mini clothes pin for the finishing touch and letter stickers also from the Cardstock Sticker sheet. The hearts of the flowers are filled with little beads.

All these projects are created with the “Lovely Day” collection. Don’t you just love this collection?!!

Supply list:

Lovely Day – 3D Roll-Up Flower

Lovely Day – Cardstock Stickers

Lovely Day – New Story

Lovely Day – Happy Together

Lovely Day – Raspberry & Aqua

Lovely Day – Chocolate & Chiffon

Lovely Day – Seeds of Happiness

Lovely Day – Let the Sunshine

Lovely Day – Easy Breezy

MLS: Mini Alphabet Stickers (Kiss)

Additional supplies: pearls and pins (Inkido), twine (The Twinery), Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels), Words-On-The-Go (K&Company), stamping ink (Color Box) and liquid pearls (Perlen Pen Viva).

This is it for today!

Thanks for visiting our blog today and please don’t forget to share your My Little Shoebox projects with us on our Facebook Page!!

Hugs from The Netherlands,

Monique

www.moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com

Fun cards with Up In The Trees collection

Hello, My Little Shoebox fans! Liz here with you today. I was assigned to make some cards using the 'Up In The Trees' collection. This collection is so darn cute, my cards came together like a breeze.

Happy Birthday

To make the large flower behind the rolled up rose, I positioned several of the flag cut outs from the Up in Trees 3D Roll-Up Flower sheet to resemble petals. It turned out great. Supplies used: Up In The Trees Free As A Bird, In The Trees, Woodgrain Love, My Way, Flying High and 3D Roll-Up Flower sheet.

Sweet Love

For this card I cut my background shape from a die cut and cut a border using the same shape. The make the flags, I cut out two of the word strips from the cut out sheet and adhered them to toothpicks. A little grass and a few roll-up flowers make a nice scene. Supplies used: Up In The Trees Free As A Bird, In The Trees, Heart On A String, Woodgrain Love and 3D Roll-Up Flower sheet

Thank You

I made this card a bit simpler to bring the focus to the cute hanging hearts. I embossed the pink bottom portion of the card and sanded it down a little for extra dimension. Supplies used: Up In The Trees Free As A bird, Woodgrain Love, In The Trees and Heart On A String Heart On A String.

" Tweet" Love

For my final card, I added several layers and border strips. I used the bird as my theme in the title and added a small cluster of roll-up flowers. Supplies used: Up In The Trees Free As Bird, Woodgrain Love, My Way, Bird's Eye View and 3D Roll-Up Flower sheet.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Up in the Trees Project Share

Hi everyone! It's Robyn with you today to share the projects I created with the adorable Up in the Trees collection.

One of my favorite techniques with this collection was fussy cutting, and I trimmed out a tree limb and some birdies from the In the Trees paper to create this layout:

To create a background on the top portion of the layout, I used half of the Fly High scalloped circle paper and layered on a few pieces I cut from the Free as a Bird journaling spots.

I finished it off with some rolled flowers that I topped with Epiphany Crafts bubble caps.

Next I created this layout about the school Sock Hop. I love this photo!

The pinks and blues in the Hearts on a String paper was a great match for the sweet and sassy girls in the photo. I added glitter alphabet stickers onto a journaling spot for the title and topped it with a rolled flower.

 To add some balance at the top, I created two pennant swags by mixing the scalloped pennants from the Flower Die-Cuts with some hand-cut pennants I made with the b-side of the Hearts on a String paper. I cut out some of the hearts to put on a few of the banner pieces.

This collection was also a perfect match for my Easter Egg Hunt photos.

More fussy-cutting on this one: I cut out the heart swag because I wanted something light and fun to layer onto the brown scalloped border. I also added a birdie and a music note sticker from the Keepsake sticker sheet.

By using some clouds and a sun (originally a flower) from the Flower Die-Cuts, I was able to create a sunny scene on the page that captured the beautiful day.

Finally, I had plenty of supplies left over to create a simple and sweet thank-you card.

For the flower,  I took some of the die-cuts and very loosely wrapped them together instead of rolling. That created a nice wide base for the tighter rolled flower I added to the center.

I had such a great time playing with the bright colors in this collection, and I hope you love it, too!

Supplies:

• Up in the Trees Patterned Paper: Woodgrain Love, In the Trees, Heart on a String, My Way, Free as a Bird
• Up in the Trees Cardstock: Ocean and Brownie
• Up in the Trees Flower Die-Cut
• Up in the Trees Fly High Scalloped Die-Cut Paper
• Keepsake Cardsticker
• Glitter Alphabet Stickers and Sprinkle Glaze Alphabet Stickers
• Epiphany Crafts Round 14 Shape Studio
• Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper, Canvas Corp
  
• Adhesive: Glue Arts, Beacon Adhesives
• Journaling Pen: American Crafts
• Corner Rounder: We R Memory Keepers
  

 

Projects made with the Up in the Trees Collection

Hi everyone, Grace here to share with you two projects I made with the "Up in the Trees" collection...

Family Banner

For this banner, I used the more subtle and solid colored papers from the collection. My art medium was smaller than say a layout, so I picked the designs that would suit best with the size of my chipboard shapes.

Here's some close ups...

 

I will have a tutorial for this project next week, so stay tune for that. :)

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers- (Free as a bird, 11877; Heart on a string, 11875; bird’s eye view, 11873, my way, 11876) Up in the Trees Collection; Flower die cuts- (3D roll up flower die cut, 11871) Up in the Trees collection; Twine- Denim, Twinery; Chipboard pieces- Want2Scrap; Rhinestone- Tangerine, Jewels, Doodlebug Design Inc; Circle cutter- Creative Memories; Die cut machines- Cricut, Spellbinders; Dies- Eyelet circles, Spellbinders; Cartridge- Creative memories Cheerful Seasons; Crimper- source unknown; Ink- Chestnut, American Crafts; Adhesive- Glue Arts, Creative Memories

 

Thanks Card

For this card, I wanted to challenge myself to see how many papers from the collection I can layer on top of one another. Did you count? I was able to get 7 pattern papers on this card! the trick I found is to mat solid colored papers behind the papers with design so that there's a bit of breathing room between the many designs on the paper. I also think if you choose the more subtle papers, you can layer as much as you can without making your project too busy.

Here's a couple more close ups....

 

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers- (Ocean & Brownie, 11879; Ruby & Oregano, 11878; Free as a bird, 11877; Heart on a string, 11875; bird’s eye view, 11873) Up in the Trees collection; Cardstock- WorldWin; Ribbon- Source Unknown; Rhinestone- Tangerine, Doodlebug Design Inc.; Border punch- Fiskars; Circle cutter and corner rounder- Creative Memories; Die- Spellbinder; Ink- American Crafts; Stamp- Fiskars; Adhesives- Glue Arts

So there you have it. Thank you for stopping by.