My Little Shoebox

Silhouette + My Little Shoebox = Free Giveaway!!

Hi everyone!  We are excited to announce a great promotion that Silhouette has for all of our fans!  Starting today through March 8th, Silhouette is offering fabulous deals for all of you who would like to own one the wonderful Silhouette cutting machines.

We have some samples of what our designers created with their Silhouette machines along with the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition program that we will be sharing in the next few days.

In order for you to be able to take advantage of these great prices, please visit the Silhouette Store here

You will need to enter  "SHOEBOX"  as your promo code to pick up these great products at this special price.

And of course, what would be better than buying these great product than having the chance to win one of these fabulous machine? 

That's right, we will be giving away the new Silhouette Portrait.  All you need to do is leave us a comment about what you would create with the Silhouette Portrait machine.

Make sure to stop by everyday to see the creations of our design team using the Silhouette Studio Design Edition program and for an extra chance to win the Silhouette Portrait we are giving away. 

Good luck and Happy Scrapping! 

A couple of mash up pages

I just love all the lines so much! I also love how well they work together, so as my farewell to My Little Shoebox, I created a couple of mash up pages.

The first one is a two pager using some Cherry Delight, some Up in the Trees and some Coming home.

I used a sketch from Creating keepsakes. The letters and kites were created with my cricut.

This one has a mix of Secret Garden and Notebook. The background was created with a Crafter's workshop template and some modeling paste. I left it plain, without inking or misting it, so that it creates a subtle texture.

I want to share my gratitude for the chance to be on this team and work with these fabulous products. I am glad that the My Little Shoebox line will be continuing with the adorable bags and home products!

Tuesday Tutorial with Rô Philippsen

I really like to recycle objects, especially by the charm of transformation.

I think magical turning a object that inevitably would go to waste on something new, creative and beautiful. Undoubtedly, it is the power of transformation that delights me so much in this process.

And today I have something to show you!

The raw material for this small "Pillow Box" is an empty toilet paper roll.

You will still need a cover pot, measuring 3 inch, and something to mark, can be spatula, etc..

The raw material for this small "Pillow Box" is an empty toilet paper roll.

You will still need a cover pot, measuring 3 inch, and something to mark, can be spatula, etc..

Repeat this process on the two ends of the two sides of the roll.

See in detail how it should be:

It is then only folding each of the score lines before,

to close the box.

To decorate, I "messed" with a little gesso.

And then stamped with a stamp writing on the gesso.

Then just give wings to the imagination, and decorate with a lot of creativity, using the gorgeous and colorful MLS Products!

So, Easter is around the corner, you can use this for gift small candies!

I hope you enjoyed it!

Calendar Tutorial from Monqiue



Desk Calendar Tutorial

Although almost everyone has a digital calendar nowadays I still find it handy to have a “real” calendar on my desk and so I made this one. Let me share with you how I made it:

Find a printable calendar on the internet and print on a A4 sized sheet (I used the “Linen” sheet (11859)). Make sure you choose a calendar with three rows like this one from “http://annystudio.com/calendars/”.

 

Cut in three rows (2” x 9,5”):

 

Take a piece of cardstock (9.5” x 12”) and score in three places (every three inches), so you have three rows of 3” x 12” and a row of 0.5” x 12”:

 

Cut 3 strips of patterned paper a bit smaller than 3”x12” and adhere to cardstock.

Adhere your 3 calendar strips on a mat, repeat this step and then adhere to the cardstock with patterned paper base:

 

Choose stickers you want to use for your calendar and make them less sticky (as you’ll be adhering them with 3D foam adhesive). To lessen the stickiness I always stick them on my clothes:

 

Because the stickers aren’t adhesive anymore you can now place and replace them on your project to see where you want them before you adhere them with some 3D foam adhesive. Don’t make your project too “bulky” as it will always have to stand on one of the sides:

 

Your final step is to place a strip of tacky tape on the upper strip of cardstock and fold your calendar closed like this:

 

Your calendar is now ready to use on your desk at home or in the office:

 

 

I hope you'll give this a try with your MLS stash! It makes a great teacher gift too!

Have a great day!

 

Special Purchase Sale this weekend only!

A whole heap of My Little Shoebox

Mmm I so love it when we get to mix all the collections up together!  It shows how easy and how all the MLS creations can compliment each other.

I have a few projects to share with you where I have done just that .....

This layout is of me enjoying a warming cup of spiced cider at the German Market over Christmas, it is seriously yummy!!

 I love how the muse alphabets looked on the finished layout.

Products Used 

Cherry Delight - Bliss, 3D accents and flowers

Secret Garden - La Petite, Bon Bons, 3D rolled flowers and accents

Vintage Shop - French Lace, Heirloom

Next I delved deep down into my bags of  'scraps' and create these cards ........

These cards mix and match most of the new collections that are provided to by local store.

As this is my last post designing with My Little Shoebox papers, embellishments and funky alphabets I have to share that I have loved every minute of working with the many other talented ladies and seeing there amazing creations!  Helen's amazing designs have really filled my craft room with fun and cheerfulness!  It has been a honour to have worked on the team for a few years now and I have loved every minute!  So a huge shout out to Helen for her wonderful designs and the rest of my team mates for the inspirational designs.

I hope you have a wonderful day

Beckie :)

A little Coming Home and a lot of Cherry Delight

Hello MLS friends. Today I am sharing a couple of projects I created with our Coming Home and Cherry Delight collections.

First Cherry Delight

Soccer Star

I love everything about this collection from the colors to the designs in the doily paper. That pattern is my favorite of the collection not to mention the sweet little girls.

Supplies: Patterned Paper Bliss, Charming and Happy Times

Cardstock Stickers: Cherry Delight

Muse Cardstock Alphabet Sticker :Honey Dew

Misc: Papertrey Ink Dies, Recollections paper flowers and Queen and Co. gems

 

I love creating my own flowers from paper and then layering them with 3D foam squares from Therm-O-Web.

Next I created a card using my favorite sheet of patterned paper from the Coming Home collection.

You're Going Places

I made this card for Helen. I am so excited for her new Adventure of taking MLS designs into Lifestyle products. I just know her bags are going to be a hit all over the world. Helen's beautiful designs paired with things we use everyday is a wonderful partnership!

Supplies: Patterned Paper Coming Home Town Square

MLS Trims

Stamped Image: Unity Stamp Co.

Misc: buttons, Queen and Co. bling

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Mix and Match MLS

Hello MLS fans, here's Rô Philippsen today, sharing with you some Mix & Match Projects I did mixing some of my favorites MLS Collections.

In fact, I did a layout and a Card to celebrate Valentine's Day, so you can see below two very romantic creations, how I love.

The first one, is a Page: "We 2"

And the second one:"Love Card"

Supply List:

Cherry Delight Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Bliss

Cherry Delight Collection - Cardstock Stickers - Cherry Delight

Oh, Deer! Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Creekside Trail

Vintage Shop Collection - 3 Dimensional Roll Up Flower

Oh, Deer! Collection - Cardstock Stickers - Oh, Deer!

Keepsake Collection - Cardstock Stickers

Happy Go Lucky Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Love Notes

Happy Go Lucky Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - All-A-Bloom

Lovely Day Collection - Cardstock Stickers

Vintage Shop Collection - Cardstock Stickers - Vintage Shop

 

Before I go our friends at Canadian Scrapbooker have a fun Taste of CHA promotion going on. Head on over to this post to find out more.

 Have a nice and creative day!

 

Spring Wishes with Cherry Delight

Hello, MLS Friends! It's Robyn with you today, and I don't know about you, but I'm ready for SPRING!!

At our house, Spring seems to be the season of birthdays, so I've been getting a jump on things by creating some cards with the Cherry Delight collection from My Little Shoebox.

 I love how the doilies in this collection give it a bit of a vintage look. I decided to use this paper as a background image and add in a few die-cuts to create this card:

To create the flower, I used a starburst punch shape in between two of the die-cut flowers and added a vintage button to the top.

This next card uses one of my favorite color combos: bright pink and lime green. I added foam dots to the backs of the stickers to pop them off the card a bit.

The doily was cut with my die-cutting machine, but you could just as easily add a mini paper cake doily to achieve the same look.

Thanks for visiting today and many wishes for beautiful days ahead!

 

Mixed Media Tutorial from Carol

Mixed Media Art Journal Page using scraps by:

Supplies needed: 

• MLS Stickers/ Paper (Vintage Shop collection) scraps (Cut out the used part, as in the bottom picture)
• MLS Vintage Shop (3D roll up flowers and accents, Cardstock sticker)
• Mixed Media paper (Canson)
• Unity/MLS stamp
• Tattered Angels and Shimmerz mists
• Acrylic paints (Folkart)
• Multi-Medium (Claudia Hellmuth)
• Beacons glue
• Toilet roll
• Black Pen (Zig)

Spray the mists onto the craft sheet. Drag the mixed media paper across to create the background colors. You might have to do this several times.

Adhere the MLS sticker/paper scraps with multi-medium.

Add paint within the cut-outs, drew the stems and stamped randomly across the page. Use a toilet paper roll as a "stamp" and stamp randomly with white acrylic paint.

Add stamped sentiment and flowers and leaves and pearl centres. Outline the flowers and clouds with a black pen.

Now you have a finished simple art journal page.

I hope you'll give this technique a try, if you do please share yours with us on our Facebook wall here.

Have a creative day!