Even tho in some places it's already the New Year, it's New Year's Eve in the US. Do you have fun plans for tonight? All over the states people will be gathering to ring in the New Year and 2010 certainly brought many beautiful projects from our design team. Today we're showing you some more of those beautiful projects.

First up is Melanie and a fun Harmony project

This note card set is adorable.

a closer look at the cards

Next we have another altered project from Shemaine

A cute altered purse

and layout

Next we have a beautiful altered wreath from Rocio with our Green collection

a closer look at the flowers

and this cute card

and wrapping up our Green artwork is June with a couple layouts

Love this title!

and who can't appreciate a little snail searching?

and we'll finish today with a little thanks card. Thank you for stopping by.

Whatever your plans are for this evening, have a great time ringing in the new year!

It's the final Guest Designer Thursday and we are wrapping up December with a beautiful altered project by Dina Wakley. We've enjoyed all Dina's work with our My Little Shoebox products and her signature style. Please take a moment to visit her blog and take a look at her mixed media work she has posted recently. I spent alot of time hanging out at her blog myself.

Today she is sharing this beautiful altered album with our Green collection.

Love the stitching on the cover and the way she used out journaling die cuts.

Thank you Dina for all your amazing inspiration this month!

Today we are wrapping up our Summer Breeze collection with some designs by Heather. First she's got a fantastic altered project for you

Oh what a gift inside there and packaged up so adorably! The recipient of this gift will surely be pleased.

A closer look

And now some beautiful card ideas

I am still loving the current banner trend. There are so many ways you can dress up any project with banners.

And this simple and sweet birthday card

Thanks Heather for all of your beautiful work here today! Be sure and join us tomorrow as we say goodbye to December's guest designer Dina Wakley with her final project for December.

 Hard to believe there are only 3 days left of 2010! What are your New Years plans? Any resolutions? Leave  us a comment today and share your answers with us.

Hello friends. Today we are wrapping up some Simple Life projects created by Taj and Kathie.

First, let's look at this stunner from Taj

I love the way she cut out the images from Farm Fresh and arranged them to create this fun layout.

I love the way she rolled the paper here

This face says it all...

Next we're looking at some beautiful work from Kathie and this lovely altered wall hanging is

A D O R A B L E!

Here's a closer look

Next up is this beautiful layout with a clever journaling idea

If you've created some projects with our Simple Life collection be sure and post them to our Facebook fan page. We always love to see your work!

Now that the rain has let up here in CA as well look outside the My Little Shoebox warehouse all we see is Green. So today we're gonna show some of our Green creations from our design team.

Here's some inspiration from Erin P.

 A cute peep card

Love that wood grain background paper

Next are some fun projects from Hilde

What a little cutie and great layering here

And this adorable altered album...so cute!! Just look at the inside

We hope you enjoyed our Green projects today! It's almost the end of the year and we have some great things in store for you so keep visiting us here at the MLS blog!

Hello friends! Only 2 more sleeps til Christmas day. I know it's been cold and chilly in most places around the states but here at the My Little Shoebox blog we're enjoying a nice bit of Summer Breeze today...this one blew in from from Pamela

A layout title CHA with some fun photos from her trip to Chicago this summer with some of the Design Team.

  A sweet card perfect for offering support

Another fab layout

Oh how I love the stitching in that sun

the next breeze is from Susan

And this adorable mini album titled "my peeps"

We hoped you enoyed today's projects created with our Summer Breeze collection

We are excited to share our October Guest Designer, Dina Wakley's talents with you!? Today we have two more layouts Dina created

This layout was created with our Harmony collection and I love the way Dina added paint and ink.

This next layout features Dina's signature style of using sewing on her work. Each flower is stitched onto the layout. Beautiful!

We'll be wrapping up Dina's work next Thursday so join us to see a fabulous altered project she created next week!

We're feeling just a wee bit water logged here in California after riding out the Pinapple Express. Yea I know, I giggled too when I heard that's what they were calling this downpour. I know compared to all you weather experts in the mid west and back east we seem like sissies but this much rain this fast is terrible!

Just ask designers Erin and Shemaine...Erin's roof is leaking and Shemaine's got video to prove how leaky her bay window in the living room is...but regardless of the rain we're still in the mood for a little Harmony...

Here's some beautiful projects by Carol

First a cute card

and an amazing layout with a masking tape technique

close up of masking tape...so nicely done!

another beautiful layout

amazing detail here!

and another beautiful card

Now we have some Harmony projects from Aphra

Her attention to detail amazes me

beautiful added accents of twine and bling really make these chipboard accents stand out.

Love this layered flower and design

This close up really shows the detail

Did I mention that she also has a great sense of humor?? Love this fun layout. Can you hear the hawaiian drums a rollin?

and a closer look at the title

and a beautiful card to finish today off! I personally love this collection and these ladies have really done a beautiful job. Be sure and leave them a comment letting them know which project you enjoyed the most.

It's really 5 days til Christmas. Wow December really has flown by. I have to admit all the hustle and bustle of the shopping season tends to stress me out a bit. I mean have you sat in LA traffic before? Some of you can totally identify with me here I know.

So let's relax and enjoy some Simple Life inspiration from a few of our designers. First a fun project from Pattie

She made this adorable altered mirror

a close up of the tractor

Pattie also created these cute cards

Love these handmade flowers!

Next we have some amazing creations by Kathleen, I really love this first layout

the paint over the pattern paper produced a stunning effect. The twine adds a whimsical feel to this fun layout.

A day at the Farm is another fun 3 dimensional layout. So much detail here.

And finally we leave you with these adorable cards...are they just amazing! I really love the style and added felt embellies.

We love seeing your work so if you've created something with our Simple life collection, load it up on our Facebook page here.

We randomly choose a fan's artwork for our monthly newsletter and next month it could be YOU! Don't subside to our newsletter? Sign up at the top right of our blog. You don't want to miss out!

I know it's winter time but let's spread a little warmth around with some designs from our girls with Cute as a Button!

Erin Yamabe has some beautiful projects for you today. First up is this beautiful banner

and some adorable cards

Next we have some beautiful work by Tracey. First we have her beautiful daughter modeling an adorable headband and altered purse. Two things every girl MUST have.

and this layout

and next we have some projects from Cindy

a cute card

a fabulous layout

and another sweet card

And finally some cute creations from Debbie. We'll start with this layout

a fun birthday card

and a few more fabulous layouts!

this handmade flower is simply amazing!

This layout is so very girly and we love it!

We hope these Cute as a Button projects will inspire you to get out your collections and create some cute projects!

Hello friends! Here's a wrap up of all our fabulous Holly Jolly Projects that the design team created for you. Enjoy!

It's been so much fun these past few weeks showing you some really fabulous holiday crafts!

Now it's time to announce our Holly Jolly holidays winner! Thanks to every single one of you that came by the blog and left comments each day, gave a shout out on Facebook and told all your friends!

The winner (as chosen by Random.org) of their choice of two My Little Shoebox collections is...

Posted by: ellen s | 12/08/2010 at 09:58 AM

We'd like to thank you all for leaving comments each and every day here at our blog. We've truely enjoyed each and every one. Our Holly Jolly Holidays have been filled with loads of inspiration and fun projects all created by our talented Design Team.

Today we share one last project from Susan...some fun and festive holiday gift bags. One of the best things about our Holly Jolly collection is the bright colors. These bags are so festive and fun! The bows and tissue paper really make these a nice way to give holiday gifts.

Leave your comment today and we'll be back tmr with some more inspiration from our December Guest Designer and the winner of our Holly Jolly Holidays prize!!!

and we're bringing you a beautiful recipe book from design team member Debbie. The holidays aren't complete without those special recipes handed down from generation to generation. It's those special memories of Grandmothers and Mothers in the kitchen working hard to bring beautiful dishes to their holiday tables that make this time of the year so special!

So Debbie put together some of her favorite holiday recipes here in this fabulous recipe book created with our Holly Jolly collection. Enjoy!

Thanks so much to Debbie for creating such an adorable recipe book for us today! Join us tomorrow and we wrap up our Holly Jolly holidays.

We're thrilled your joining us for day 13! Today Pattie has created a fabulous holiday gift idea for you! Handmade gifts are by far the best in my opinion. Just look at this beautiful table center piece she created

The paper leaves and flowers are all hand created from our Holly Jolly collection!

Here's a closer look at the detail of these flowers, love the scalloped edges.

Love the glitter added for sparkle!

This is a stunning gift very easy to create. We thank Pattie for sharing her talents with us again for our Holly Jolly Holidays.

Leave us a comment below and don't forget that we are getting close to the end of our Holly Jolly Holidays! We'll be picking the winner from all the comments left on each post.

If you're just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

We'll be back tomorrow with more inspiration for you!

Hello friends and thanks for joining us for Day 12 of our Holly Jolly Holidays!! It's been 11 days of fabulous projects from our very talented design team and today Shemaine is back with a cute home decor idea:

When I am crunched for cash during the holidays I always know my family prefers home made gifts. My mom still proudly displays all of my handmade ornaments from my college days on her tree.

This year I decided a nice holiday themed shadow box would be nice for her to hang on the wall by the tree.

Find an inexpensive shadow bow and line it with your pattern paper like I did here.

Then add a layer of color for the back ground

and use pop dots to pop your photo off the page

add some extra's to the outside of the box like I did with a plastic snowflake and snowman die.

To finish him off I added a felt ball and some glitter on his scarf

Thanks to Shemaine for the easy home decor idea. We'd love to hear your home decor ideas today! Leave us a comment below and don't forget that we are getting close to the end of our Holly Jolly Holidays! We'll be picking the winner from all the comments left on each post.

If you're just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Hello friends! Today Taj and Deanna are showing you some festive ideas for wrapping up those gifts for someone special on your holiday list.

First Taj shows us a fabulous altered gift box!

I love getting boxes like this so I can save and re-use them again or place memento's in to hold onto in the coming years.

Here's a look at the detail in this adorable project

I love the 3D effects here with the house. The added touch of pearls softens it too.

Now if you're a terrible wrapper like me then the gift bag is your saving grace during the holidays! What I love about gift bags is they can start out ordinary and be transformed to extraordinary! Just look at what Deanna did with this bag.

Deanna used a die cut machine to cut the holiday greeting and transform this bag. I admit I am the one who saves the packaging for just about everything to reuse. I even came home with gift bags from my annual Citymommy White Elephant holiday party last night. I know, shameless right?

Love the added touch of paper garland on the tree and using a black pen to outline the die cut greeting.

Here's another tip for dressing up gift bags, create a handmade ornament and attach it to your bag. A little something extra will go a long way for that special someone you are presenting your gift to.

Thanks ladies for the great projects! We hope you bag it or box it with love this holiday season by adding homemade touches with My Little Shoebox Holly Jolly collection to your gifts!

We're coming to the end of our Holly Jolly holidays. Only 4 more days left! If you're just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Time to dress up your tree. How many of you put up your holiday trees the day after Thanksgiving? We have had our tree (a fake one) up since the 5th but have not had time to decorate it. I know, where's our holiday spirit right? I promise we're getting in the spirit this weekend now that my son's soccer team is our division champs and the playoff games are over til Jan when they head to Region finals.

Today Cindy is helping us dress up our holiday trees with a cute idea for fun paper garland:

here's a closer look

Aren't these photos amazing? Beautiful job Cindy!

Creating this garland is easy, just punch out 3 circles and use a glue dots to secure them. When threading them thru your twine or string you can add beads or other decor to dress up your garland. For Cindy's look sprinkle glitter on your circles by using any brand of liquid glue and your favorite brand glitter or if you'd like a more detailed look we suggust using a glue pen.

We hope you'll be inspired to make your own holiday garland and if you use My Little Shoebox products be sure and load it up to our Facebook page.

Tomorrow we'll be back with even more inspiration! If you're just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Hello friends! Welcome to Day 9 of our Holly Jolly holidays. Today both Melanie and Hilde have created some adorable ideas for gift tags using our Holly Jolly collection.

First we have Melanie's tags

Melanie displayed them beautifully for you on this adorable holiday tree.

Love the tulle she added here to the snowman and tag

This little guys glitter scarf is adorable too!

Love the accents of Stickles and Liquid Pearls

Loving the punched snowflakes and bling

And this cut folded Christmas tree tag is quick and easy to create

And the inside is just perfect! Great job Melanie and thanks for all the inspiration!

Now from Hilde, a gorgeous collection of tags embellished with soft flowers

Love that polka dot ribbon too!

Well...are you inspired to create your own gift tags? Be sure and share them with us on our Facebook page here.

If you are just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Now a little switcherooo... as we welcome Dina Wakley

She's our December Guest Designer. We gave her some My Little Shoebox goodies to create with and boy did she...

Love the use of paint and stitching on this fun summer layout. Ahh summer...seems a distant memort now that we are immersed in holiday hot chocolate, scarves and mittens! Dina did a great job on this layout and really took us back to some warm weather for a bit.

Stay tuned for more of Dina's beautiful work each Thursday this month!

Everyone has holiday tradition. It's those little things we do during the holidays that grandma passed on to our mother's and she's been doing them year after year so we too remember to do them for our children. Family traditions are priceless and deserve scrapbook pages all to their own. Today our designers Erin and Pamela created layouts about their family traditions. First up is Pamela:

 Here's a few close ups of Pamela's details, love the little house.

Love how she used hand stitching here as an accent.

Beautiful layout about your family's tradition for the holiday Pamela. Next we have Mommy's wish list, a layout from Erin:

Erin likes to record her holiday wishes for the coming year as her tradition layout expresses her feelings. I love the use of mist here and the snowman peeking from the top right corner too!!

Thank you ladies for sharing your work with is today! Tomorrow we'll be back with more inspiration! If you're just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Welcome back to Day 7! Hard to believe there are only 17 more shopping days til Christmas! Is your home decorated yet? If not Beckie has created a beautiful spin on the traditional Christmas wreath to inspire you. That's right Beckie has chosen to create a special holiday wreath and all from our Holly Jolly collection:

Isn't this adorable! Using die cuts like these older Sizzex ones that Beckie used for her wreath.

Here's a close up of the cute snowman family. Love their little bows!

If you are just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Hello friends! It's Day 6 of our Holly Jolly Holidays and we've really enjoyed reading all of the comments you are leaving. If you are just joining us make sure you start at this post to find out all the news about our Holly Jolly holidays so you don't miss out on how you could win 2 collections of your choice!

Today we're talking about table decor. It's the holidays and anything goes when it comes to home decor. Dress your table up in style with these cute ideas from Pamela:

These place cards and fun paper trees will look adorable on your holiday table.

Here's a closer look at the trees

Love the stitching on this place card too!

Thanks Pamela for creating these adorable projects today! We hope you'll give this project a try or if you have a great idea for table decor that you've created with My Little Shoebox products you'll share it with us on our Facebook page!

Now before we go we'd like to introduce you to our December Guest Designer!!

Dina Wakley

Hi, I'm Dina and I live in Glendale, AZ with my husband and 3 boys. I've been scrapping since 1995...I love everything about paper arts! I do mixed-media art and visual journaling, too. I love to teach scrapbooking and art classes, read good books, eat good food, and hang out with good friends. My husband works for an airline, so we're lucky to get to travel all over the world with our boys. I'm a docent (tour guide) at the Phoenix Art Museum, and I love giving tours to school kids and getting them excited about great art.

We'll be featuring Dina's beautiful work every Thursday this month! Welcome Dina! We are thrilled to have you with us!

See you all tmr for Day 7!

Hello friends, it's already Day 5 of our Holly Jolly Holidays! We've seen some adorable projects so far and we still have 10 more days! Today we have a super cute Advent Calendar from Rocio!!

This project is just darling and perfect for all your scraps!! I keep a file folder just for scraps and when I need to make a quick card or project. I also love the way Rocio used all of the Holly Jolly collection to embellish her calendar.

A closer peek

Thanks again for making us a part of your day! We'd love to see you create an advent calendar out of our Holly Jolly collection too! Link your My Little Shoebox artwork anytime to our Facebook page here and show your tips to other fans!

We can't wait to hear what you think! So leave a comment telling us what holiday projects you love to create to get an entry into our Holly Jolly Holidays Giveaway!! Share us below on Facebook for an extra entry every day!!

For full details on how to win click back to Day 1 here

Oh and if you have any questions about any of the projects you see here pls leave a comment and the designers will be happy to answer them for you.

See you tmr!

Hello friends! It's day 4 of our Holly Jolly Holidays and today Heather is showing you some adorable handmade ornaments!

This first one was created with a die cut sentiment from Cricut and the paper rosettes. These are so quick and easy to make with Martha Stewart's scoring board. I own one and love it! You simply start with your scallop circle base add your handmade rosette and then the die cut sentiment. Use hot glue instead of glue dots to affix so they will last year after year.

Rosette's are so versatile you can cut your 12" paper by 1" X 12", 2 X 12" or even 3"by 12" and score every 1/2 inch. When making larger rosette's at 3" X 12" you'll need to glue 2 of them together but the end result is stunning. Heather made the rosette the base for this ornament.

For this final ornament Heather used out die cut journal tags and some wire. Love that little banner at the bottom too! Just punch holes in the top of the tag to attach and embellish!

Here's a look at all 3 of Heather's gorgeous ornaments! We hope you'll create some of your own handmade ornaments too! Remember to load them to our Facebook page here as we always love seeing what you create with our My Little Shoebox collections!

We can't wait to hear what you think! So leave a comment telling us what holiday projects you love to create to get an entry into our Holly Jolly Holidays Giveaway!! Share us below on Facebook for an extra entry every day!!

For full details on how to win click back to Day 1 here

Oh and if you have any questions about any of the projects you see here pls leave a comment and the designers will be happy to answer them for you.

See you tmr!

Welcome back friends! So far we've been having fun celebrating the Holly Jolly Holidays here at the MLS blog. We hope our projects will inspire you to create something handmade this holiday season.

It's day 3 and Shemaine has created a great holiday organizer for you today. I'll let her take it from here:

So how many of you are rushing to finish up those holiday cards? I've got about 20 more left to make but I wanted to show you a great holiday organizer. Now I am not a planner when it comes to shopping and cooking for the holidays but I do plan out my holiday cards. One thing I use to get organized is a holiday card list. Usually it's a PDF (I know totally boring) so I decided to show you a super quick (really, like 20 minutes quick) holiday card organizer I made with our Holly Jolly collection

Supplies: a front and back cover (I used pages from and acrylic album) Holly Jolly patterned paper, glitter stickers, mini alphas and journaling die cuts. Misc supplies: plastic snowflake, blue satin ribbon, clear plastic dress it up buttons(Michael's) Vintage button and twine Papertrey Ink. Pop dots and Extreme Glue squares Glue Arts.

I just cut the paper, rounded the corner, punched holes and adhered the paper to the acrylic cover with Glue Arts perma-tac. Then I embellished it lightly. I like to keep it clean and simple as you can see.

The inside is basic, I used pages from an old address book that I got for a $1. Love that!

And the back is just plain. Nothing fancy although you could create a pocket on the back inside cover of the organizer to slip in some envelopes or stamps.

See, I told you 2o mins tops to create this little organizer. Now you'll never forget anyone on your holiday card list!

We can't wait to hear what you think! So leave a comment telling us what holiday projects you love to create to get an entry into our Holly Jolly Holidays Giveaway!! Share us below on Facebook for an extra entry every day!!

For full details on how to win click back to Day 1 here

Oh and if you have any questions about any of the projects you see here pls leave a comment and the designers will be happy to answer them for you.

See you tmr!

Hello friends and thanks for all your comments on yesterday's kick off post. We're excited to be having you join us for Day 2 and our girls Kathie and Erin have created some adorable holiday cards for you.

Let's start with the lovely Erin

 I  love the snow she added to make the card very frosty.

I also love that Erin added glitter to these snowmen. I found that Martha Stewart's glitter glue pens are excellent for adding these types of accents because they have a great tip.

How sweet that she photographed her cards on poinsettias! Very nice Erin.

Erin's glitter really makes these cards sparkle. It's easy to mix and match patterns from Holly Jolly to create so many different combinations of cards.

Next we have cards created by Kathie

I love how Katie used the journaling tag with the snowman as the background of her sentiment.

the faux ribbon is a great idea too!

Circle cards are always fun! And this card has lots of sparkle!

Here's a closer look at the glitter glue accents.

Thanks ladies for some great examples of holiday cards! I know I am not nearly done with my own card lists but hopefully I will get them all out by the 10th.

We can't wait to hear what you think! So leave a comment telling us what holiday projects you love to create to get an entry into our Holly Jolly Holidays Giveaway!! Share us below on Facebook for an extra entry every day!!

For full details on how to win click back to Day 1 here

It's December 1st, let's celebrate the holidays! Home baked goods, handmade cards, holiday decorating and more are a few of the things we love about the holidays. We also love our Holly Jolly collection

We are so excited everyone is talking up our Holly Jolly collection, that for the next 15 days we'll be treating you to some fabulous projects created by our design team with our Holly Jolly collection!

That's 15 full days of inspiration and ideas for your holiday crafting! At the end of our Holly Jolly Holidays one lucky commentor will win their choice of TWO My Little Shoebox collections! Yes that's right, you get to pick TWO of your faves!

So let's get started with Day 1 of our Holly Jolly Holidays! Our very own Pattie created an adorable Peace banner to show you today!

Here's some close ups so you can see the detail of this fabulous banner!

There are so many elements here that are so beautiful! Love the stitching and rosettes with the added glitter. The base is pink felt and cut with pinking shears. I also love the way Pattie used our journaling die cuts to accent her banner.

The cute sowflakes really make this banner festive!

A big thanks to Pattie for kicking us off with this beautiful project! Stay tuned for day 2 of our Holly Jolly Holidays! Are you excited???

Our design team thought you might be so click thru each DT members blog for a special sneak peek of their upcoming project!

• Carol Figueiredo
• Aphra Bolyer
• Beckie Dreyer
• Cynthia Stevens
• Deanna Misner
• Debbie Sherman
• Erin Payne
• Erin Yamabe
• Gudrun Loennecken
• Heather Brown
• Hilde Janbroers
• June Goh
• Kathie Davis
• Kathleen Glossop
• Melanie Stanczyk
• Nicole Wragge
• Pamela Young
• Pattie Beltran
• Rocio Duran
• Shemaine Smith
• Susan Dupre
• Taj White
• Tracey Locher

We can't wait to hear what you think! So leave a comment telling us what holiday projects you love to create to get an entry into our Holly Jolly Holidays Giveaway!! Share us below on Facebook for an extra entry every day!! That's a total of 30 entries to win!