My Little Shoebox

Fussy cutting with Keepsake

Hi, everyone!! Carol here today. I want to share 4 projects with you using the Keepsake Collection. Keepsake is one of my favourite collection as they are bright and cheery!! I love the frames and flowers!! Love fussy cutting them out and layering them.

"A Little Birdie Once Told Me" card

Supplies: White cardstock (Bazzill); MLS Keepsake: Window View (11832), Simple Treasures (11837), Sound of Music (11840); Foam Strip (Scrapbook Adhesives); Unity Stamp

I love using white cardstock as the base for my projects as it really brings out the bright and cheery look of My Little Shoebox papers. For my second card, I created a pocket and insert a piece of frame tag inside.

"Life is a Song, Sing It" card

Supplies: White cardstock (Bazzill); MLS Keepsake: Garden Delight (11833), Simple Treasures (11837), Razzleberry & chiffon (11839), Music To My Ears (11835); Foam Strip (Scrapbook Adhesives); Unity Stamps

Normally I will see what elements are in each collection and will match my theme accordingly. So for Keepsake, I used birds, flowers, frames and music as my themes. 

For the next 2 layouts, I made one for my son and one for my daughter.

"Links" Layout

Supplies: White Cardstock (Bazzill); MLS Keepsake: Window View (11835), Picture Perfect (11836), Garden Delight (11833), Simple Treasures(11837), English Rose (11834), Flower Diecut (11831), Cardstock Sticker (11841); Self adhesive pearls (Kaisercraft); Masks (Tattered Angels, Prima); Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels); Glitter Dome Stickers (Mark Richard's); Foam Strip (Scrapbook Adhesives)

Being a masking/misting type of scrapper, I misted the background for both layouts. I also enjoyed cutting out the small flowers from the papers and layering and folding them to make them more dimensional. For the title, I popped the alpha stickers with foam strips to make them stand out. 

The idea to link up the frames and photos for this layout is taken from the photo of my son playing with his "links". Hence the title too.

" Picnic" Layout

Supplies: White and black Cardstock (Bazzill); MLS Keepsake: Sound of Music (11840), English Rose (11834), Wndow View (11832), Music To My Ears (11835), Garden Delight (11833), Simple Treasures (11837), Flower Diecut (11831); MLS Sprinkle Glaze Alpha Stickers (Whoopie Pies, 08958); Mask (Prima); Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels); Distress Ink; Foam Strip (Scrapbook Adhesives)

Yellow mist used for this layout is to depict the color of the sun and I inked the edges of the cloud diecuts with distress ink. I layered the papers and photos with black cardstock. 

By mixing the different flower cutouts and layering them, dimension is being created and it made the page looks more interesting. 

I hope you will be inspired by my projects. Do come back each day to view our talented design team's projects!! Thanks for viewing!

Fun with Keepsake

Hello MLS fans!  Linda here with a project and a card with the MLS Keepsake collection.  I love anything with birds and flowers, so it was especially fun to create with these papers, stickers and diecuts!  First I created a canvas wall hanging.

As you can see, the colors and wonderful and bright in this collection.

Supplies used:  Keepsake Garden Delight, English Rose B side, Picture Perfect, and Simple Pleasures.  I also used Cardboard Stickers, Walnut glitter letters, and a cloud diecut.   I inked all my edges with Vintage Photo distress ink, and added some ribbon from my 'stash'.

Thanks Card

This was a simple card.  I used an edge punch on the bottom of the background paper, backed a note card from Simple Treasures with English Rose paper, and fussy cut a trio of flowers to pop dot on top.  I added some white seam binding as a bow and added a button and twine from The Twinery.  A little lace, some Star Dust stickles,  some cardboard sticker letters, and the card was complete!

Please check out our MLS blog every weekday for more inspiration, techniques and fun ideas you can use!

 

Summers Gone By With Happy Go Lucky

I love scrapbooking ... do you? hee hee ;)  

I love the way that each time you create a page and look at the photos these little memories flood back which make you smile to yourself or even maybe let out a huge chuckle!

The Happy Go Lucky collection reminds me of European countries so are perfect for my memories of summers gone by when we visit Italy. 

Products Used :

Happy Go Lucky Our Place

Happy Go Lucky Out and About

Happy Go Lucky All A Bloom

Happy Go Lucky Line and Carnation

Happy Go Lucky Life Is Sweet

Happy Go Lucky Flower Die Cut

Happy Go Lucky Cardstock Stickers

The Twinery Bakers Twine : Cousins Pearl Beads

The little circular alphabets are perfect for creating tiny subtitles.  You can give them some depth by adding them with foam pads.

I twisted some of Bakers Twine together to acts as a border for the photograph.

Products Used :

Happy Go Lucky Our Place

Happy Go Lucky Out and About

Happy Go Lucky All A Bloom

Happy Go Lucky Cricket and Lagoon

Happy Go Lucky Cardstock Stickers

Kuretake White Opaque Writer Pen

The hearts from the sticker sheet are great for creating borders on your page.

Products Used :

Happy Go Lucky Ride Along

Happy Go Lucky Our Place

Happy Go Lucky Out and About

Happy Go Lucky All A Bloom

Happy Go Lucky On Cloud 9

Happy Go Lucky Love Notes

Happy Go Lucky Flower Die Cut

Happy Go Lucky Cardstock Stickers

Seed Beads : Twinery Bakers Twine

Seed beads are perfect for fine detail on your layout.  You will need to use a clear glue and tweezers to add them to your page.  Even though it takes a while to add them the results are worth it!

Finally I would like to share a card that I made for friends of out who got married recently.  Again this paper range just has romance written all over it!

Products Used

Happy Go Lucky Our Place 

Happy Go Lucky Out and About 

Happy Go Lucky All A Bloom 

Happy Go Lucky Love Notes

Happy Go Lucky Cricket and Lagoon

Happy Go Lucky Life Is Sweet

Happy Go Lucky Flower Die Cut 

Happy Go Lucky Cardstock Stickers

Xcut Doily Border Punch, Twinery Bakers Twine

Hope you have a really special day and thanks for stopping by

Beckie :)

Beautiful Aiko

Hey there MLS fans, Are you as excited about the new CHA releases than I am?? I sure hope so as they are looking AMAZING.

This month I worked with the Aiko Collection which is just fabulous I love the colours you can use them soft or vibrant and the designs have such a great versatility.

 

 

try using punched borders as layers on your pages to add some texture.

 

 

Next up I desgined another layout using the same punched technique but in a slightly different way and using the more vibrant colours from the collection.

 

Lastly I have a circle card

I really love the cut out tags... I use them alot for my backgrounds :)

Thanks for stopping by today.

CHA wrap up

Hello MLS friends! We're back from a fun week at CHA in Chicago and it was so nice to see those of you that attended the show and stopped by our booth.

We enjoyed exhibiting our 6 brand new collections last week and a big thanks to Julia Sandvoss from Glue Arts for the fantastic make and take she did on Tuesday.

The best news we have to share is that our collections are shipping to your local stores this week! Yes that's right! Orders were placed and our collections are ready to ship now! So look for My Little Shoebox where ever you like to shop.

Here's a few images from the show in case you missed them on our Facebook page.

Shemaine, Pattie, Linda and MLS owner/desinger Helen Chu

I wish you all could meet Helen. She is so sweet and funny! We all love her and she is such a talented designer. She designes all of the My Little Shoebox collections.

Our sold out class was so much fun Tuesday evening! We enjoyed meeting new and returning friends for our workshop. As always Pattie designed and taught our class and everyone had a great time! Here's Helen and Pattie.

 

And our class having a little crafty fun with MLS goodies.

 

 

Here's Kelly Nufer from Lafayette Indiana showing off her completed mini album.

 

 

Thanks to all our friends and customers that came by the My Little Shoebox booth.

Thanks to all our fans too! We can't wait to see what you'll be creating with our new products.

Have a creative day!

Lovely Cards with Happy Go Lucky

Hello MLS fans, here's Rô Philippsen today!
I am excited to share with you some lovely cards I did with the adorable and sweet collection "Happy Go Lucky".

This collection is so versatile that you can create all kinds of cards for many occasions.

I LOVE the colors an the Roll-Up Flowers, they are just perfect for this "Thanks" card.

This Cardstock Sticker is gorgeous, Tell me if this bike is not beautiful?

I just needed to add some buttons and ribbon to create this card.

The contrast between the colors of patterned papers is also perfect.

And here's one last card I have for you!

Supply List:

11852-Love Notes, 11853-Our Place, 11854-Ride Along, 11855-All-a-Bloom, 11856-On Cloud 9, 11857-Out and About, 11859-Linen&Carnation, 11851-3D Roll-Up Flowers, 11861-Cardstock Sticker.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards today and are inspired to create your own!
Thanks for visiting and see you soon.

xoxo

Rô Philippsen

 

You Make Me Smile with Aiko

Hello, friends!  Keely here with today's projects. I love this time of year.  Such beautiful weather and so many occasions to take family photos.  I love this pic of me and my son taken last weekend.  Aiko was the perfect collection to capture this happy day.

I love the cardstock stickers found in each My Little Shoebox collection.  I layer and mount them with dimensional adhesive to create fun accent pieces.

The bright colors and fun patterns are great for so many paper projects.  Don't limit yourself to using a collection for only one theme.  The colors in this collection would be wonderful for layouts about little girls, families, true love, pets, vacation, and so much more.

The sweet girls, floral vines, and lanterns are so beautiful.  Enjoy your Summer and create something lovely.

Keely Yowler

Create and Inspire canvases with the Keepsake Collection

 

Hi it's Jenifer here with you today to share a couple canvases and a couple cards with you.  This month I had so much fun using the Keepsake collection.  It was so hard picking out just a few of my favorite pieces so I think I used every single one of them.

First up are the canvases.  These canvases measure 6x6 and I just made them out of scraps of wood and some canvas that I had laying around.  I then decorated them with papers, ribbons and paints.  I had so much fun making these and my Daughter has already claimed them for her room :)  They look like mini hanging quilts and I just love them.

Here is a close up of Create.

Here is a close up of Inspire.

Next I have a couple of cards.  I made these cards on a long card trip that I took with my family.  I figured that since I was going to be stuck in the car for 5 hours I might as well get something done:)

Here is my second card.

Supplies:  All paper from the Keepsake collection.  Ribbon and Twine from May Arts.  Adhesive from Therm O Web.

I hope you have enjoyed my projects today, make sure you come back tomorrow for some more inspiration from the team

Hava a great weekend.

Jenifer

More Up in the Trees Inspiration!

The Up in the Trees collection is just full of possibilities. Earlier I, Megan, created a mini album and double page layout with it, so this month I went in a different direction with an altered item - gift and tag, and two cards! 

For this altered item I used a paper mache box that my grandmother gave my daughter for valentines day, filled with candy. I peeled as much of the valentines covering off as possible, to make the lid fit, and then covered it with the Up in the Trees papers and tied a big blue ribbon around the top.

Then I added a custom tag, tied with twine and stamped with a sentiment and some fun popsicles.

For this card, I took advantage of the die cuts, using the clouds and spiral flower. The sentiment and little green square with the tree I cut from the Free as a Bird paper. A little bit of machine stitching gives this card a finished look, but overall, it was very simple, thanks to the die cuts and cut apart sentiment.

This card has a totally different feel. I chose the paler papers to give it a more sophisticated look. Again I used the die cuts for the flowers and the scalloped trim. The extra branch was die cut from the back of the In the Trees paper.

Supplies:

• My Little Shoebox Up in the Trees papers: Woodgrain Love, In the Trees, Heart on a String, Free as a Bird
• My Little Shoebox Up in the Trees Flower Die Cut
• Clearsnap Ink
• Joy's Life Stamps
• May Arts ribbon
• Twinery Twine
• EK Success punch
• Sizzix die 

 Thanks for stopping by today!

Megan

Aiko project share *Grace Tolman*

Hello My Little Shoebox friends, Grace here to share with you the projects I made for MLS this month. Our assignment was pretty easy...make any project with any line we wanted to. Sweet! I haven't shared any from the Aiko collection and so that's what I decided to "play" with and here are the results...

Family Antics layout

-I cut up one of the journaling blocks in half and placed them side by side on my layout. It stretched my area for handwritten journaling.

-I added some liquid pearls on the centers of the die cut and sticker flowers to add more dimension and texture to the flowers.

-I added a strip of the paper to the top of one of my photos to frame it. I didn’t want to trim it anymore bec. The cropping was pretty tights when I took the photo but I still wanted it to have more precedence than the other one.

Supplies Used:

Pattern papers- (Little Princess, 11812; Blue Sky, 11814; One Fine Day, 11816; Happy Notes, 11817; Kiss and Sky, 11819; Flower Die cut, 11811; Cardstock sticker- 11821) Aiko collection; Letter stickers-Ocean (08963) Sprinkle Glaze Alphabet Sticker;  border punch- Fiskars; Liquid Pearl- Ranger Industries; Black pen- Creative memories; Corner rounder- Creative Memories; Adhesive- Creative Memories, Glue Arts

Happy Birthday Gift Bag

I altered this bag with the Aiko papers. Since this is not a project that will need to be slipped in a scrapbook, I made sure I added lots of dimension to it. I used some die cut rolled ribbons and layered some elements with foam adhesive.

Supplies Used:        

Pattern papers- (One Fine Day, 11816; Festival, 11815; Happy Notes, 11817; Flower Die cut, 11811) Aiko collection;  stickers- Cardstock sticker- 11821, Aiko collection; Corner rounder- Creative Memories; Twine- Bubblegum, Twinery; Rhinestone- Doodlebug Design Inc.; Adhesive- Creative Memories, Glue Arts; Paper bag- Hobby Lobby

U & I card

I was inspired to make this “friendship” themed card because of the cute Japanese girl stickers in the Aiko collection. I used a journaling block to house my title and added die cut scallop border accents and flower stickers for more embellishments.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock- WorldWin papers; Pattern papers- (Festival, 11815; Cardstock sticker- 11821; Flower Die cut, 11811; Kiss and Sky, 11819) Aiko collection; Letter stickers- Ocean (08963) Sprinkle Glaze Alphabet Sticker;  Liquid pearl- Ranger Industries; Pen- Creative Memories; Adhesive- Creative Memories, Glue Arts

Thank you for stopping by and happy creating!