My Little Shoebox

Journal tag challenge

 

Hello MLS fans! We mentioned earlier this week that that we had a fun challenge to share with you. Today we are hoping to inspire you to get out your My Little Shoebox journal tags and create something fun with them for our Journal Tag challenge.

Some of the design team girls have created some fun ideas to help get your creative minds off to a running start! Let's see what they've created.

Best Wishes card by Erin Yamabe

 

Erin's notes: Created with MLS Lovely Day and Aiko lines.I trimmed around the shapes of 3 tags, and stitched around the insides

Hi card by Becky Williams

Supplies: 

Up in the Trees: Free As a Bird, Cardstock Stickers

Beckie's Notes: For this card I layered two of the journaling cards. I too the top one with the birdie on the branch and cut out around those shapes and layered the remaining frame onto another journaling card. I punched some butterflies with that same paper to add for detail on the card.

I Love You card by Becky Williams

Supplies:

Up in the Trees: Ocean and Brownie, Free as a Bird, Cardstock Stickers

Beckie's Notes: On this card I cut the hearts from one journaling card to use as an embellishment on another card, layered that on the brown cardstock (Ocen and Brownie) and layered that on the polka dot which is on the reverse side of the paper with the journaling cards. I added a bit of twine and some stickers and popped up the spot with foam adhesive.

Love card by: Ro Philippsen

Ro's Notes: The journaling note cards, is one of my favorite pattern paper, and I did this Card, using only the sheet of journaling note cards from the "Up in the Trees" Collection , and the birds from the Cardstock Sticker. MLS journaling note cards are so versatile and easy to use, you need to try!

Happy spring by Linda Kretz

 

Created with Keepsake Simple Treasures (11837). 

Linda's Notes: I cut out frames and paired them with pieces I cut out, adding small stickers, pop dots, ribbon and Stickles.

 

Easter Tag by Beckie Dreyer

Product Used:

Audrey Roman Holiday paper

Anitas Ribbon

Papermania Adhesive Stones

Beckie's notes: I made the flowers using the shapes on the paper which I cut out and rolled up.

Oh happy day card by: Ilene Tell

Created with MLS Playtime collection

Mini Album by: Norine Borys

Norine's Notes: Using the journal sheet from Up in the Trees, I cut two strips, glued them back to back and scored them to fold into a mini album.  Add some photos, cardstock stickers, twine and you've got a quick and easy keepsake for someone special!

Thanks a bunch card by: Shemaine Smith

Created with MLS Aiko collection.

Shemaine's Notes: For my card I cut several of the journal tags and layered them to create a thank you card. I added some Quickie Glue and Martha Stewart iridescent glitter to the largest tag to create some dimension.

So here's our challenge to you MLS fans. For a chance to win a mix of My Little Shoebox goodies simply create a project of your choice using one or several of our journaling tags and post your creation to our Facebook wall by Sunday April 1st at midnight pacific time.

We'll randomly select one winner, announce them here on April 2nd and post a photo of their project. If you'd like us to include a link to your personal blog if you are chosen as our winner, then please include the address in the comments when posting your photo to our Facebook wall.

If you don't have a Facebook account then feel free to email your project to us at dt@mylittleshoebox.com.

Have a creative day!

Sweetheart Sketch challenge

Hello MLS fans! It's exactly one week until Valentine's Day. Have you been making Valentines for your kids to take to school or for your very own Sweetheart? Today designer Melinda Spinks shows us how our Winter Wonderland collection is perfect for her beautiful love themed layout. And..she's even created a beautiful sketch to share with you so we've decided to have a little Sweetheart Sketch challenge.

Here's Melinda's sketch created exclusively for the My Little Shoebox blog.

Here's a look at Melinda's layout that she created featuring her very beautiful daughter. Melinda's style is amazing and her attention to detail is what makes her layouts fun to marvel at.

 

My Little Shoebox Supplies:

Winter Wonderland - Counting Down

Winter Wonderland - Boughts of Holly

Winter Wonderland - Snowflake Valley

Winter Wonderland - Winter Folly

Winter wonderland - 3D Roll-Up Flowers

Glitter Alphabet Stickers - Snowflake

Mini Alphas - Seaside

 

Other Supplies:

White card stock

Aqua baker's twine

Minimarks rubons

Metal Nail Heads

i-rock queen bee iron-on motif

A closer look at Melinda's eye for detail.

 And some stitching she did on her banner.

 Oh and those polka dot clouds.

So how about it? Are you feeling crafty today? Create your take on this sketch using any My Little Shoebox collection and leave a comment with a link to your project and one lucky winner will win a fabulous mix of My Little Shoebox goodies.

But you only have til next Monday February 13th at 12 a.m. pacific time to link up your Sweetheart Sketch. We'll choose the winner using Random.ord and announce that winner here on Valentine's Day!

Have a creative day!

 

Here's our Wish List Winner!

Enchanted Garden is so pretty! My hubby just doesn't get my paper obsession...lol, So no scrappy stuff for me under the tree.

Posted by: Wendy Crowe | 12/26/2011 at 10:06 AM

Congratulations Wendy! Please claim your Enchanted Garden Collection by emailing us your name, address and a link to your blog to confirm your comment post to dt@mylittleshoebox.com.

 

**Winners must email us within 14 days of announcement. Prizes are shipped within two weeks of notification from winner.

 

 

If you didn't get your My Little Shoebox Christmas wish leave a comment here telling us which MLS collection was on your wish list and we'll make one random commentor's wish come true!

Product Spotlight: The Scrapping Cottage

Hello MLS fans! It's our last Product Spotlight day with The Scrapping Cottage and last week we had fun featuring some of their designer's work here on the blog. Today we are showing the last of our designer's creations with these fun dies.

First is Norine with a beautiful card using the 3D flower from the Pink Peony die

Hello card by Norine

 Next is Erin with a very elegant card created with our Audrey collection using the Cameo & Oval frame die.

Audrey card by Erin

 

Next we have a fun layout created by Linda with our Enchanted collection and the Pink Peony die.

layout by Linda

Patti used the clouds in the Summertime fun die to create this card. I love how she inked them too.

 Thinking of You card by Patti

And so did Pearl for her card. Pearl added some depth to her clouds by embossing.

Dreams make em happen card

And finally a Trick or Treat collection card by me. I used the ornate circle frame to show how versatile it can be.

Boo card by Shemaine

 

We hope you'll find these dies are a fun addition to your My Little Shoebox collections.

Have a creative day!

Winners!

Thank you to all who enjoyed our Card Hop! Here are the winners of the Winter Wonderland collections!

From Becky’s blog:

smyiow said...

So many great cards! I love the sparkling holiday card! I also love that you used twine.
my-o-scrappin.blogspot.com
smmyiow@gmail.com

And from Melinda’s blog:

Ange said...

That is so soft and pretty! Love the addition of the pearls.

November 22, 2011 8:14 AM

 

 And our Facebook Winner is…Elizabeth Lowry

 

Congratulations Winners!!

Email your mailing addresses to dt@mylittleshoebox.com

 

Product Spotlight: The Scrapping Cottage

Hello MLS fans! It's Thursday and we are pleased to be spotlighting The Scrapping Cottage all month long. We are so pleased to have partnered with The Scrapping Cottage to bring you high quality dies to coordinate with our My Little Shoebox collections.

Today we're featuring work with the co-branded dies from The Scrapping Cottage design team. Let's start with our very own

Pearl Liu

Pearl's tip: On of my favorite techniques using Cottage Cutz MLSB designed dies is to diecut with patterned paper - and this card is one such example . I used the following Cottage Cutz MLSB dies - leaves from the Ornate Circle frame ,  Orchid Flower; the oval frame from the Cameo and Oval Frame die set.  Finally , I added a little feathery boa to the flower set for a fun, wispy touch.

Lorie Souther

Lorie's tip:  My tip or technique would be using white card stock and coloring the die cuts with Copic markers, rather than using the colored card stock. 

Gini Williams Cagle

Gini's tip: try creating cards like a is a Z-fold card., this is a really easy folded card to make (especially if you are using your Scor-pal.

Janice Wilson 

Janice's notes: I cut all the die cuts with white cardstock and then colored with my copics, with the exception of the scissors.  I used a Creative Memories silver pen to color the scissor blades.

Lori Leng

Lori's tip: Don't be afraid to think outside of the box when creating with dies. For a complete look at this beautiful box visit Lori's post here.

Cheryl Walker

Cheryl's tip: have fun by making your own embellishments. Check out this post to see a video I made when I created this card.

Kay Norman

Angelica Suarez

Thank you ladies for all of these wonderful projects today! Please be sure and visit the Scrapping Cottage blog for more inspiration from this talented team.

Next week we'll be wrapping up our month long spotlight with more designs from our team.

Have a creative day!

Product Spotlight: The Scrapping Cottage

Hello MLS fans! It's another Thursday and time to share some more inspiration with this month's product swap from The Scrapping Cottage. We are so pleased to have partnered with The Scrapping Cottage to bring you high quality dies to coordinate with our My Little Shoebox collections.

These dies are so fun to create with and our design team has come up with some really cute projects.

How old are you now? by Ilene Tell

Supplies:
Paper, Letter Stickers, Stickers: My Little Shoebox
Die: Cottage Cuts/My Little Shoebox (to create the blue cloud)
Ink: Tsukineko

Thank you by Rocio

Rocio used the clouds from the Summertime fun die.

Love Grows by Nicole Wragge

MLS Enchanted Garden papers

MLS Blush Mini Alphas

Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Power Tape

Chalk Glimmer Mist

Bakers Twine 

Glossy Accents 

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink

3D Zots

EK Success Flower Punch 

Craft Stick

Granny by Beckie

 

Supplies:

My Fair lady

Breakfast at Tiffanys 

Love in the Afternoon

Funny face

3D Roll Up flowers

Beckie's notes: Once I had die cut the ornate frame I threaded some this ribbon through the holes to add some texture to it before adding it to the layout.

Thank you ladies for your beautiful creations.

We hope you enjoyed these projects today and found some inspiration to get out your dies and create with us.

We'll be showcasing more projects our designers have created using The Scrapping Cottage dies paired with our fun collections every Thursday this month on the blog.

Have a creative day!

Sketch challenge winner!

Hello MLS fans! We're thrilled to announce our sketch winner from our guest blogger post with Julie Bonner. Thanks to everyone that created with us and to Julie for a fabulous sketch!

Congratulations to....

Angela A.

We love Angela's layout that she created using the sketch along with our Garden Party collection!

Congratulations, please email us your choice of collection to dt@mylittleshoebox.com.

Thanks to everyone that created with us! We'll be having another contest soon so keep checking the blog for details!

Product Spotlight: The Scrapping Cottage

We are so pleased to have partnered with The Scrapping Cottage to bring you high quality dies to coordinate with our My Little Shoebox collections. Our debut release with Scrapping Cottage offers 8 sets that coordinate with our Summer 2011 collections and our still popular Sew Cute collection.

 

 

It's been so much fun for our team creating with these coordinating dies. Today we are going to shine our spotlight on some of the amazing projects our girls have created.

Kristine Berc

Kris used the tug boat from the Scooter & Tugboat set to create this fun Happy Birthday card.

Supplies:

Destination patterned paper: Souvenir
Destination patterned paper: Happy Hour
Destination patterned paper: Postcard
Destination cardstock sticker
Mini Alphabet Stickers: Razzleberry
Metal die: MLS/The Scrapping Cottage co-brand

Other products used:
cardstock (Bazzill)
glitter glue (Ranger)
sewing machine
fabric paint

Melinda Spinks

 

 

Melinda used the watering can and flowers from the Laundry Line and the cloud from Summertime Fun set  and our Playtime collection to create this fantastic Pop-Up card.

Supplies:

Pretty Little Things - Seed Packets (11527)
Pretty Little Things - Just Add Water (11523)

Pretty Little Things - Lovely Lady (11525)

Pretty Little Things - 3D Roll Up Flowers (11521)

Pretty Little Things - Cardstock Stickers (11529)
Cottage Cutz - Laundry Line Die Cuts

Kraft card

Kaiser Pearls

American Crafts Rubons

Pebbles Chalks

Zoe Nemburt

Zoe used the Ornate Circle Frame with our Audrey collection to create this beautiful shabby chic Just Because card.

Supplies:

My Fair Lady Paper 11542

Roman Holiday Paper 11547

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Paper 11544

Love in the Afternoon Paper 11546

Cardstock Sticker 11549

Cottage Cutz Die

Doily

Kaisercraft Flower

Natural Twine

Prima Flowers

Button

Pink Paislee Trim

 

Keely Yowler

Keely used the Pumpkins from the Spooky Treats die and our Trick or Treat collection to create this fun Trick or Treat card.

Supplies:

MLS Trick or Treat collection

Cottage Cutz Spooky Treats Die

Sakura Pens
Stickles black

Colorbox ink Chocolate Roan

Offray ribbon

Bazzill cardstock

We hope you enjoyed these projects today and found some inspiration to get out your dies and create with us.

We'll be showcasing more projects our designers have created using The Scrapping Cottage dies paired with our fun collections every Thursday this month on the blog.

Have a creative day!