My Little Shoebox

Cards, cards and more cards

Hello MLS fans! It's TGIF and the kick off to Halloween weekend! I'm sure many of you will be attending festive parties, running around for last minute costumes needs, scaring people in haunted houses and carving up pumpkins. It's been fun sharing all of our Trick or Treat projects with you this month and we hope you've been able to get lots of inspiration.

Today the design team girls have created some fabulous cards and we want to share their inspiration with you.

Shelly Berg creating with Enchanted Garden

Shelly's tip: Stack foam dots to achieve a layered look for stickers and other embellishments

 

 

Ilene Tell creating with Destination

Supplies:

Paper, Sticker: My Little Shoebox Destination
Liquid Enamel: Inksenntials
Lare Rose, Leaves: IAmROses.com
Small Rose: Prima Marketing
Trim: Webster's Pages
Pins: Maya Road
Ink: Tsukineko
Die Cutting Machine: Sizzix
Die: Tim Holtz (Sizzix)

Ilene's Tip: Who says the Destination line can't be girly! Just add some softer touches
and flowers, and you're good to go. Also, an easy way to make the most of your letter stickers is to use the negative left over sheet as a background.  Just choose a pretty colored paper for the card base, and then layer the left-over sticker sheet on top. The spaces where the letters used to be are outlined, so it makes for a pretty effect.

 

Supplies:
Paper, Letter Stickers: My Little Shoebox
Brad: Making Memories
Other: trim

Ilene's tip: Making this card, I realized just how perfect this line is for boy birthday cards! So easy and quick to make cute and very boyish cards - can't go wrong with all the various vehicles and the bright colors. I especially like this sheet with borders for making small cards.

Nicole W ragge creating with Pretty Little Things

This little project has so many cute details! My favorite being the little wire hanger.

Thank you ladies for these beautiful cards!

Have a creative weekend!

A mini for Friday

Hello MLS fans! We hope you had as much fun as we did yesterday Hip Hoppin with Unity Stamp Company! Don't forget if you missed the Hop you have til Sunday to find out how to win our prize! Head on over to the Unity Blog Here to start.

It's Friday!!! What's everyone's plans for the weekend? Perhaps you've got a weekend trip in mind, running the kids to soccer like me or you're just going to relax and spend a little time crafting. Whatever your plans are we want to send you off with some mini album inspiration. Today it's Pearl's turn to share her fabulous Truths mini created with our Destination collection.

Truths Pearl Liu

 

 

 

MLSB Destinations Supplies List 

Miss U Already - 11562

Sit Back and Relax - 11563

Happy Hour - 11564

Souvenir - 11565

Journey - 11566

Postcard - 11567 

3D Roll Up flower sheet - 11561

Cardstock Sticker - 11569

 Pearl's tip:  I love collecting quotes and decided to make this mini as a gift for a teenager - the patterns of the Destination line were my guide as to the kinds of quotes with pictures that I would want in the mini . I also did a little stamping on the kraft envelopes of the mini using the Unity Stamp set - A little destination . On some of the chipboard pages I simply misted with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist and the rest of them I simply inked around the edges for a quick treatment for the background .

Thank you for sharing this beautiful album with us today Pearl.

Have a creative weekend! 

Rocio shares some Destination pages

 

Hello MLS fans! It's me, Rocio and I am happy to be sharing a few of my favorite vacation photos that I scrapped with our fun Destination collection. So take a little trip with me today so I can show you some ideas for using this collection for your next project. Here we go...

  "Roma" by Rocio Duran

 

"Road Trip" Rocio Duran

 

Rocio's tip: Use colored inks with your stamps for a fun passport look on your layout.

"la tour eiffel" Rocio Duran

 

Rocio's tip: Use our mini alpha's to fill in your destination on the Souvenir patterned paper.

I'd love to see you use our Destination collection on your next vacation layout or project and don't forget to share it with us on our Facebook page. Our design team loves seeing your work posted to our wall.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Destinations: where did you spend your summer traveling to?

Hello MLS fans! Summer is officially over for most kids now that School has started. Did summer really fly by that fast? We hope you had fun traveling with your families and creating lasting memories of another summer of fun. Our designers have created some fun projects with our Destinations collection to share their summer trips with you. Let's find out how they spent the summer...

Beckie and her family went Racing

 

Supply List:

MLS Destination Postcard 

MLS Destination Journey

MLS Destination Sit Back and Relax

MLS Destination Trip of A Lifetime

MLS Destination Cardstock Stickers

MLS Destination 3D Roll Up Flowers

MLS Marshmellow Sprinkle Glaze Alphabet Stickers

Papermania Kraft 12 x 12 cardstock

Papermania Glazed Brads

Green and Yellow Acrylic paint

Zig Writer - Black

I mixed in a kraft 12 x 12 sheet to create this layout and painted it with acrylic paint to coordinate with the papers.  The flowers and banners made perfect embellishments and texture to the page and I have sanded them to bring through the white core.

When using alphabet stickers you can make them pop of the page but slowly (!) edging them with a black pen.  Here I used a Zig writer.

 

Erin and her family welcomed a new member

Supply List:

MLS- Destination

Happy hour, miss u already, postcard, trip of a lifetime, sit back and relax, souvenir

3D roll up flowers

mini alphabet letters:  carrot juice, razzleberry

Martha Stewart:  Border punch

Therm O Web:  sticky tape runner, Zot dots medium, foam squares

 Designer's Tip: I love the bright contrasts colors in this versatile line!  While it may have been primarily designed for travel, I thought it went perfectly for a baby boy...I chose to paper piece different combinations together, and added some stitching in between! 

 

Zoe's little guy is always on the GO!

 

 

MLS Destination Happy Hour (11564)

MLS Destination Souvenir (11565)

MLS Destination Journey (11566)

MLS Destination Postcard (11567)

MLS Destination Roll up flower (11561)

MLS Destination Cardstock Sticker (11569)

MLS Destination Trip of a Lifetime (11568)

MLS Glitter Alphabet Cherry Pie (10115)

MLS Mini Alphabet Sticker Carrot Juice (08423) Brownie (08429) Razzleberry (08430)

Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze

My Little Bit of Whimsy Buttons

Designer Tip – Use the 3D Roll Up Flowers as textured circles on boy layouts.

 

Thanks for the fabulous inspiration today ladies!

Have a great day!

 

Day 5 of sneak peeks and Day 3's winner!

Hello MLS fans! Thanks for joining us for day 5 of our sneak peek week! We are having so much fun reading all your excitement. Thanks for supporting My Little Shoebox. Today we share another full collection but first we have a winner for Day 3's collection Trick or Treat!

Congratulations to...

Very cute! Love the spiderweb diecut.

Posted by: Samantha T | 07/14/2011 at 08:56 AM

Congrats Samantha!!! Please email us @ dt@mylittleshoebox.com and include your mailing address and put Day 3 winner-Trick or Treat in the subject line. We'll be shipping you the entire Trick or Treat paper collection after we come back from CHA.

Now onto our next reveal! Introducing

Destinations

** click imager for a closer look**

and the adorable Cottage Cutz coordinating dies...

   

and last but not least... the Unity Co-Branded stamp set...

 

Miss you already

OK, that's a wrap for Day 5! Leave us a comment and tell us which one of these beautiful products inspire you the most. We'll choose one lucky commentor to take home the entire Destinations collection (stamp and die sets not included) before you can purchase it in stores!!!