Hello MLS fans. Today we have some fun Playtime projects to share. This collection is so fun and can easily fit almost any theme you want to scrapbook. First Ilene is showing us how easy it is to create a perfect birthday package for someone special.

Birthday Gift Set

Gift Bag
Supplies:
Paper, Stickers, Die-Cuts: My Little Shoebox
Die: Cottage Cuts/My Little Shoebox
Kraft Bag: Celebrate (Michael's)
Ink: Tsukineko
Glossy Accents: Ranger Industries
Other: measuring tape ribbon
Ilene's Tip: I bought the kraft gift bag at Michael's - it came in a pack of 13 for $6 and after using my 50% off coupon, it came out to be less than a quarter per bag. This is an extremely cheap way to make very cute gift bags and it adds a nice personal touch....not to mention that they're fun to make!

Gift Bag Detail

Tip: To create the tree, I used my Cottage Cuts/ My Little Shoebox die from the Playtime line to cut out the tree trunk. Then, I used one of the die-cut 3-D roll up flowers to make the top of the tree. First, ink the edges, then put some low-profile pop dots or foam dots in the center of the die-cut and glue it down, so the edges are flat on the paper, while the center comes up a little. This is a really quick way to create a dimensional tree!

How Old Are You Now???
Supplies:
Paper, Letter Stickers, Stickers: My Little Shoebox
Die: Cottage Cuts/My Little Shoebox (to create the blue cloud)
Ink: Tsukineko

Here's a few cute cards from Rocio

Thanks card

Hi card

Thanks for these fabulous projects ladies. Please share your Playtime creations with us on our Facebook wall here.

Have a creative day.

Hello MLS fans. It's Tuesday and time for another design team tutorial. Today I've made a video tutorial showing you some fun techniques with our Roll Up flowers that I hope you'll enjoy.

Have a creative day!

Hello MLS fans! We hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving holiday weekend with your families. It's a brand new week here at the MLS blog and we've got some great projects to share with you. To kick off the week, we're sharing some lovely cards created by designer Nicole Wragge using our Enchanted Garden collection.

Thanks

THANKS: The stickers in the line are just beautiful and I wanted to make my own patterned paper featuring them. I cut a 4 x 5.5 inch piece of the "Graceful" paper and placed a flower sticker in the center, then worked my way around. I then trimmed the excess off and added the journal tag. The Glazed Alphas really make this card pop without adding a ton of bulk!

Supplies:

MLS Enchanted Garden Papers 

MLS Whoopie Pies Glazed Alphas

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Medium Zots

Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Power Tape

Thanks Thanks Thanks

A Simple Thanks: This card is just a quick, simple way to say thank you! I trimmed the bottoms of the flags from the MLS Die Cuts sheet and used the flowers stickers to complete the potted plants. I added the Mini Alphas {Blue Jeans, Chiffon and Blush} as the tops of the pots, then popped the flowers using the 3D Zots.

Supplies:

MLS Enchanted Garden Papers 

MLS Stickers

MLS Die Cuts 

MLS Mini Alphas {Blue Jeans, Chiffon, Blush}

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink

3D Zots

Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Power Tape

Thanks for your time

Thanks for your Time: For this card I wanted the blue flower from the MLS Sticker sheet to be the focus. I placed it on some white card stock, trimmed it and the used 3D Zots to raise the flower. I stamped the Magenta Clock Stamp image on the pink ledger paper and then centered the flower in the middle. I added the Recollections Rhinestone Sticker pieces underneath the flower to add a little bling! 

MLS Enchanted Garden Papers 

MLS Stickers

MLS Blush Mini Alphas

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink

3D Zots

Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Power Tape

Recollections Rhinestone Sticker

Magenta Clock Stamp

Bazzill White Cardstock

Love Grows

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!

Hello MLS fans! For many people the day before Thanksgiving is a big travel day. Everything is so busy! I never go shopping til the day before and it's always chaotic in the market. You think after all these years I'd wise up and shop earlier. If you are headed to the market or traveling to see family this Thanksgiving, please be careful out there. 

Now for today we are sharing some lovely layouts by designer Linda Kretz with our Garden Party collection.

Supplies:  My Little Shoebox Enchanted Garden  11556 and 11552; the Circle Pattern 11558 and Cardboard stickers 11559; rosettes ribbon, and Stardust stickles.

Linda's Tip: I cut edge pieces from a second Circle Pattern, and embellished with the rosette ribbon.  Pop dots gave dimension to the layout.

Supplies:  My Little Shoebox papers 11556, 11554, banners from 11551; Cardboard stickers 11559; Licorice Alphabet Stickers; Liquid Pearl, Prima pearl swirls, Diamond Stickles, and stamp Unities Enchanted Garden stamps.

Linda's Tip: I used the Unity stamps as a background for the sticker flowers, which gave it a different look.  I also doubled the banners to make them stand out, stickled the flowers; and used pop dots to add dimensions to parts of the layout.

Our Enchanted Garden collection is so versatile. Thanks to Linda for creating these wonderful layouts.

We know there are many beginner scrapbookers out there who stop by the blog and we'd love to hear from you. What technique would you like to see here on the MLS blog? We know getting started can be overwhelming at times so tell us your technique and we'll post a tutorial here just for you.

Have a creative day!

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

 Sale ends November 23rd! Click here to place your orders today!

Hello MLS fans! We couldn't wait to show you some inspiration with our new Winter Wonderland collection and one of our designers, Becky Williams suggested we have a card hop. We thought that was a great idea so here we are! You're all familiar with blog hops so below is a list of today's participating blogs in case you get lost along the way or a link isn't working. 

Kristine Baron Berc
Mandy Kay Starner
Ilene Tell
Erin Yamabe
Norine Borys
Becky Williams
Linda Kretz
Pattie Beltran
Beckie Dreyer
Shelly Berg
Keely Yowler
Nicole Wragge
Shemaine Smith

Be sure and leave a comment on each blog as we are giving away 2 Winter Wonderland collections to 2 lucky commenters! Our Facebook fans are currently at 4733 and we'd like to get to 5000.  Share our card hop with your friends and have them head on over to our Facebook page and tell us you sent them. That's 3 chances to win!

Click our little friend to start your hop!

Hello MLS fans! Do we have a project for you today! Our very talented team member Melinda has created a unique and fun wreath using our patterned paper and twine. There's no denying twine is a hot trend right now and with so many colors available Melinda was able to match some to our Pretty Little Things collection.

Floral Wreath project by Melinda Spinks

A look at the lovely twine.

Have a creative weekend!

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!

Hello MLS fans! We hope you enjoyed yesterday's tutorial from Becky. Today we are bringing you some layout inspiration from our team and a look at Becky's finished layout.

When you're creating layouts do you like to draw out sketches and plan your pages or do you just let your creativity be your guide? Let's see what our girls created but first a look at Becky's layout with her own handmade embellishments.

Becky created with

At the corn maze by Becky Williams

Next is some inspiration with

Oh the places you'll go by Mandy Starner

Supplies used:
11562 Miss U Already
11563 Sit Back and Relax
11564 Happy Hour
11565 Souvenir
11566 Journey
11567 Postcard
11561 Roll-up Flower
11569 Cardstock Stickers
10115 Cherry Pie alphas
08952 Marshmallow alphas

Thank you ladies for these wonderful projects today. We hope you're inspired to scrap a layout today! If you are make sure you post it to our Facebook wall.

Have a creative day!

Hello MLS fans! We are so excited about our mid release Winter Wonderland, that's arriving in stores now and the wonderful Unity Co Branded stamps and dies from Scrapping Cottage! This collection is so fun for scrapping all your winter fun and creating holiday cards. Take a look at our current catalog.

We want to help you get inspired to create some holiday cards with this collection so we're busy organizing a fun holiday card blog hop with our talented design team. There will be lots of inspiration and we'll be giving away Winter Wonderland collections too! Make sure you join us Monday November 21st right here on our blog.

Have a creative day!

Hello MLS fans. It's Friday already and that means we are finishing off another creative week at the MLS blog with a fantastic project from designer, Mandy Starner.

Mandy is sharing a fun project she created using our Destination collection.

Adventures of a boy mini book by Mandy Starner.

Supplies used:
11562 Miss U Already
11563 Sit Back and Relax
11564 Happy Hour
11565 Souvenir
11566 Journey
11567 Postcard
11561 Roll-up Flower
11569 Cardstock Stickers
10117 Snowflakes alphas
08956 Cricket alphas

Mandy'sTip: To make your mini book come together quickly, repeat one or two different layouts throughout the book. It keeps things simple and you won't get overwhelmed designing it.

This is such a fun project with so many great techniques and elements. A big thanks to Mandy for creating this fun mini to inspire our fans.

Have a creative weekend!

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

 

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

Hello MLS fans. Today we have some fun projects created with our Playtime collection to share with you from designer, Pearl Liu. Pearl was inspired to use some masking techniques in her projects for this month and hopes you'll be inspired to try this technique at home as well.

Catch me if you can by Pearl Liu

A closer look

Supplies:

Supplies:

Hello MLS fans! It's been a week since Halloween and you've probably taken lots of photos of your trick or treaters and Halloween memories that you're ready to scrap. Well, it just so happens that we still have some fun ideas to share with you. 

Halloween memories are perfect for saving in a mini album and I happened to have a fun mini from Making Memories tucked away in my scrap stash perfect for my assignment this month.

Using our Trick or Treat collection, our Unity Co-branded stamps and matching Cottage Cutz dies from Scrapping Cottage here's what I created.

Halloween 2010 mini by Shemaine Smith

Cover Supplies:

Trick or Treat patterned paper,

Monster Crossing

Scaredy Cat

Tick or Treat 3D roll up flowers

Glitter stickers: Cornmeal

Mini Alphas: Blackberry

Recollections: star bursts

Misc: multiple ribbons, RIP cup cake stick

Adhesive: Therm-o-Web

Tools: Martha Stewart Spider Web punch

*click images for larger view

Page 1 & 2 Supplies:

Trick or Treat patterned paper,

Monster Crossing

Spooky Treats

Fright Night

Cardstock Stickers

Mini Alphas: Blackberry

Adhesive: Therm-o-web

Misc: ribbon and stickers

Page 3 & 4 Supplies:

Trick or Treat Patterned paper,

Starry Night

Batty for you

Fright Night

Glitter Alphabet: Black Diamond

Cottage Cutz die Spooky Treats

Misc: Recollections Halloween embellishments, twine

Page 5 & 6 Supplies

Trick or Treat patterned paper,

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Scaredy Cat

Monster Crossing

Spooky Treats

Cardstock Stickers

Glitter Alphas: Cornmeal

Mini Alphas: Sunrise

Unity Stamp Co : A little trick or treat

Copic: Y36 7 YR04

Misc: Recollections bling

Tools: Martha Stewart Spider Web Deep Edge punch

Page 7 & 8 Supplies

Trick or Treat patterned paper,

Fright Night

Batty for You

Monster Crossing

Cardstock Sticker

3D roll up flowers

Cottage Cutz die: Spooky Treats

Stamped Image: Unity Stamp Co A little trick or treat

Misc: Prima Bling Swirl, misc Recollections Halloween embellies

Ink: Sakura white gel pen, Versafine black onyx

Tools: Martha Stewart Graveyard edge punch

Shemaine's Notes: I must admit that I have always looked at mini albums as exhausting because of the pressure to create multiple pages quickly. For me a layout is so much easier because it's only one page. So...I decided to look at this mini as one mini layout page at a time and I spent a few days to take my time to create each one and adding additional items that have been in my stash year after year like the cupcake stick on the cover. I realized that by changing my thinking towards this project I was able to create a fun keepsake for my kids.

And sharing some layout inspiration with you today is Norine Borys who has a few ideas for some Halloween layouts.

A few of our favorite pumpkins by Norine

Supplies used: Scaredy Cat - 11532, Itsy Bitsy Spider - 11538, Monster Crossing - 11533, Sunrise alpha minis - 08412, Cornmeal glitter stickers - 10119, 3D rolled-up flowers - 11531, Bazzill cs, Prima pearls, Cardworks Candi paper brads, SEI buttons.

Norine's notes: For this layout, I played with a Zig embossing pen and embossing powder by drawing over all the webbing and heat embossing the lines.  I love how it makes the web design pop!  More 3D roll-up flowers make for a very pretty Halloween layout!

Supplies used: Starry Night - 11535, Batty For You - 11536, Monster Crossing - 11533, 3D roll-up flowers - 11531, Blackberry mini alphas - 08409, Black Diamond glitter alphabets - 10113, Cardworks Candi paper brads, Crate Paper ribbon.

Norine's Notes: For this layout it was fun to leave the 3D roll-up flowers flat and use them as an embellishment that way.  To emphasize the roll, I inked the edges all the way to the center.

That's it for the Trick or Treat inspiration today. Have a creative day!

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!

Hello MLS fans. We hope you had a great weekend and found some time to craft something fun. It's a new week of inspiration here at the MLS blog and today we have some Audrey projects to share with you from our designers Zoe Nemburt and Erin Yamabe.

Sperad your wings project by Zoe

Supplies:

Love in the Afternoon Paper 11546

Sabrina Paper 11543

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Paper 11544

My Fair Lady Paper 11542

Roman Holiday Paper 11547

Cardstock Sticker 11549

Cottage Cutz Die

Martha Stewart Punch

Prima Flower

Dollarstore Frame

Hi Cards by Zoe

Supplies:

Sabrina Paper 11543

Roman Holiday Paper 11547

Love in the Afternoon Paper 11546

Cardstock Sticker 11549

Cottage Cutz Die

Maya Road Flowers

Ribbon

Buttons

Natural Twine

Mini Alphabet Stickers Chocolate Cake 08407

Audrey cards by Erin

Hello MLS fans! It's been another great week of inspiration and we're wrapping up this week with a fun banner from Shelly Berg. Shelly outdid herself this month with an adorable friendship banner created with our Pretty Little Things collection.

Fun Friends banner

The bling, cute fun banner and beautiful rosette make this an adorable project.

Thanks to Shelly for sharing her beautiful idea for a great banner!

We hope you have a creative weekend!

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:

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:

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

Hello MLS fans! Today we have a lovely mini from designer Ro Philippsen and a some fun cards to share with you that she created using our Destination collection.

Desination Mini by Ro

Supply List:
MLS Destination - Miss U Aready (11562)
MLS Destination - Sit Back and Relas (11563)
MLS Destination - Souvenir (11565)
MLS Destination  - Journey (11566)
MLS Destination - Postcard (11567)
MLS Destination - Cherry Pie Glitter Alphabet Sticker (10115)
MLS Destination - Mini Alphabet Sticker Razzleberry (08430)
MLS Destination - Cardstock Sticker (11569)

Ro's tip: I used cardboard to make a cover of this mini album, and inside I made ??an accordion, with the beautiful colors and pictures of the Destination Collection.

Invite card

Supply List:
MLS Destination - Souvenir (11565)
MLS Destination - Sit Back and Relax (11563)
MLS Destination - Cherry Pie Glitter Alphabet Sticker (10115)
MLS Destination - Postcard (11567)

Welcome

Supply List:
MLS Destination - Trip of a lifetime (11568)
MLS Destination - Souvenir (11565)
MLS Destination - Cherry Pie Glitter Alphabet Sticker (10115)
MLS Destination - Postcard (11567)
MLS Destination - Mini Alphabet Sticker Razzleberry (08430)

We hope you enjoyed Ro's mini and cards today! If you've created something fun our Destination collection please share it with us on our Facebook wall.

 

Have a creative day!

Hello MLS fans! Today we are pleased to share a fantastic Special Edition Advent Calendar available for a limited time from Silhouette. The calendar is a 15" wood shadowbox which includes a special download card redeemable for 25 boxes and drawers from the Silhouette Online Store.

Design Team Coordinator, Pattie Beltran was sent one of these fun kits by Silhouette to create her very own calendar using our brand new collection, Winter Wonderland.

Here's a closer look at some of detail she put into these darling boxes.

Here's our little snowman cardstock sticker

Here's what Pattie thought of the Calendar: "The program was really easy to use and the boxes were fun to make. I was really impressed that the box is made of wood and really high quality.  The Advent Calendar will definitely last for years to come and with the download I can create a new theme for my Calendar year after year!"

We are so pleased to share that Silhouette has a special offer just for our fans! Place your order anytime during the promotion dates of November 1st thru November 11th for your Limited Edition Advent Calendar and enter the code SHOEBOX to get this calendar for only 29.99 (that's $10.00 off!)