My Little Shoebox

More sketch inspiration and introducing April's Guest Designer!

Hello MLS fans! We're back with more layouts created by our design team with March's sketch by our very own Aphra! Here's another look at her sketch

Now let's see what our girls created

Created by Beckie

Created by Erin P.

Created by Shemaine

Created by Gudrun

Created by Deanna

Created by Rocio

We've seen some fabulous takes being uploaded to our Facebook page and we're thrilled that you are creating with us! There's still time to join the fun if you just found this post today! Click over here to find out all the details on how you can create with us too!

Now for an announcement! We are pleased to introduce April's Guest Designer today!!

Nichol Magouirk!

Nichol will be joining us every Thursday here on our blog in April to inspire you with her amazing talent! I can hardly wait to share with you what she created with our new collections!!

Getting sketchy on St. Patrick's Day

Hello MLS fans! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Did you remember to wear green? It's not too late to run and change if you forgot. I am notorious for forgetting to wear green today and I'm even part Irish. Whatever you're doing celebrate, make sure you sport your green!

Now onto today's post...The team has been creating with our March sketch to bring you some inspiration but so many of you have already gotten busy and sketched it up! We're loving what's being posted on our Facebook page. Keep them coming!

Here's a look at the March sketch and what some of the girls have created

From Erin Yamabe

from Pattie

from Susan

from June

from Nicole

Thank you to our designers for creating your visions of the sketch for us! Join us next Thursday as we show you the rest of the Design Teams takes on March's sketch and if you'd like to give it a try hop over to the main post HERE to read all the details so you can play along. We are giving a prize of MLS goodies away too!

March Sketch Challenge

Yes that's right! We're glad to bring you another My Little Shoebox Sketch challenge right here on our blog! We love getting you all to dig into your stash of MLS goodies and create with us!

Here's the Sketch Aphra created just for My Little Shoebox this month

 

Now here's all the deets:

 

 Here's how you can play along:

• Create a layout based on this sketch using My Little Shoebox products
• Post your layout to your blog or favorite gallery and link back to this post
• or upload your layout to our My Little Shoebox gallery titled March sketch at our Facebook page
• or Leave us a comment below with the link to your layout

You have until midnight Pacific time on April 10th to post your link to this post or upload to the Facebook gallery and title your project March Sketch.

 What will you win??

How about a fabulous prize package of My Little Shoebox goodies and your layout featured along with your blog link right here on our blog!!

Our design team will be showing their takes on the sketch challenge this Thursday and Thursday the 24th right here on our blog.

We can't wait to see what you create!

More sketch inspiration from our Design Team

Hello there. Many of our team is traveling to the winter trade show today so we want wish them a safe travel with no flight delays. See you soon ladies!

For those not attending the show, there is still time to get your sketch in forour January sketch challenge. To find out all the info, see this post here.

We still have a few more of our Design Team's takes to share with you today

Deanna

Nicole

Cindy

 and from Melanie

We hope you're inspired to get out your supplies and scrap up your take on Aphra's fabulous sketch. Be sure and get your sketch loaded up to the original post as there is a nice prize up for grabs!

We're off to CHA and we're hoping to bring you some My Little Shoebox fun begining Saturday!! Join us here for some fun from the show as we bring you pics of our booth, sold out class and more!!

See you soon!

Design Team January Sketch Inspiration

It's time to share some of our Design Team's takes on January's Sketch Challenge! We hope you'll be inspired to get out your MLS stash and get scrappin!There's a great prize up for grabs!!

Here's the sketch for January

Here's Erin Yamabe's layout featuring Harmony

And next is Susan Dupre who also chose our Harmony Collection

And here is mash up of MLS goodies and Harmony from June Goh

And finally a fun Holly Jolly take on the sketch by the sketch artist herself Aphra Bolyer!

These ladies created some ca-uuuute layouts so be sure and leave a comment telling them what you think. We always love reading what you think of our Design Team's inspiration.

Make sure if you are playing along you read the post here first and remember to link us to your own blog post or online gallery where your sketch is posted to be entered to win this month's prize. We also encourage you to post your photos to our Facebook page here.

One week to go!

There's just one week left to get your sketches linked up to our Sketch challenge post here. The deadline for this month's challenge ends Monday November 15th.  We have enjoyed checking out all the entries so far and can't wait to see yours.

Here's some more sketch inspiration from our very own Pattie!

I love the stitching on Pattie's layout!

 

And we also have Erin Yamabe's layout titled birthday bash with our Harmony collection.

If you missed our previous posts with the other design team members takes on the sketch just click the Sketch Challenge link in the Catagories tab of our blog on the left to see previous posts.

Have a great day!

There's still time!

It's November! We hope you had your fill of Ghosts, Goblins and candy! Don't worry about October being over tho cause there is still time for you to participate in October's sketch challenge! We've got a fantastic prize up for grabs if you join the fun and create a layout based on our October Sketch! Here's a look at some more of the design teams sketches with this fabulous sketch:

From Kathleen

From Cindy

From Melanie

From Shemaine

 
From Erin P.

Thanks to our design team for all their wonderful takes on the sketch! I'm sure inspired are you?

If you'd like to create a layout based on the sketch here's the deets:

1. The layout or card using the sketch as inspiration must be posted to an online gallery or blog with My Little Shoebox in your supply list.

2. You must leave a comment on this blog post with a link to your layout online.

3. Layouts and links must be posted by midnight PST on Monday, November 15th.

4. link it up to this post here

 

 

More sketch inspiration from our Design Team

Hello! I can hardly believe it's Friday already. If you find yourself with a little crafty time why not create with us this weekend! We've got a fantastic sketch challenge going on this month with a prize up for grabs!

Here's this month's sketch created by our very own Pamela Young!

Here's Pamela's inspiration for her sketch

Here's Becky's take

And Hilde's beautiful layout

And finally this adorable take on the sketch from June

We can't wait to see what you create with this month's sketch! For all the details on our sketch challenge click here.

Have a fantastic weekend from all of us at My Little Shoebox!

We had so much fun last month...

That we're hosting another

MY LITTLE SHOEBOX SKETCH CHALLENGE !!

Here's your challenge:

CREATE A LAYOUT OR CARD USING
THE SKETCH BELOW TO WIN A FABULOUS PRIZE!!

 

The prize will be YOUR PICK of an entire My Little Shoebox collection!!  The rules are as follows...

 
1. The layout or card using the sketch as inspiration must be posted to an online gallery or blog with My Little Shoebox in your supply list.

2. You must leave a comment on this blog post with a link to your layout online.

3. Layouts and links must be posted by midnight PST on Monday, November 15th.

Here's your sketch...

(sketch courtesy of Pamela Young)

Now let's have a look at all the inspiration our Design Team has created for you using Pamela's sketch

 

from Gudrun

 

from Aphra

 

from Susan

from Taj

 

and from Debbie

 

Look for more takes on the sketch here this month from some more of our designers.

Now it's your turn to be inspired by our sketch! Link up your layouts right here!

Thanks for creating with us!

Sketch Challenge Friday Feature...

We all need a little help sometimes and a sketch always helps get that mojo flowing.  So we decided to pull from our talented DT and have them create a sketch and challenge for you.  We can't wait to see what you do.

SKETCH CHALLENGE
CREATE A LAYOUT OR CARD USING
THE SKETCH TO WIN A PRIZE!!

This months prize will be YOUR PICK of an entire collection!!  The rules are as follows...

 

1. The layout or card using the sketch as inspiration must be posted to an online gallery or blog with My Little Shoebox in your supply list.

2. You must leave a comment on this blog post with a link to your layout online.

3. Layouts and links must be posted by midnight PST on Monday, September 13th.

And the sketch is...

(courtesy of Pamela Young)

Now a little more inspiration from our DT...

Pamela Young

Taj White

Aphra Bolyer

Susan Dupre

Kathleen Glossop

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN!!! 
Link it up on this post... happy creating!!!