Hello MLS fans! We are pleased to finish off our design team introductions with...

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Hi!  I’m over the moon excited to be joining the My Little Shoebox Design Team.  I have been paper crafting for 11 years and love to create 12 x 12 layouts, stamped cards, mini-albums, and altered projects.  I live in Georgetown, Kentucky with my husband, our 5 children, and lots of puppies and kitties.   There is never a dull moment in our house J  You’ll find me all over the scrapping world chatting on message boards and entering challenges.  I love visiting blogs and galleries admiring the creativity of fellow crafters.  When I’m not scrapbooking, I enjoy photography, weekend road trips, and reading my favorite magazines.

Here's a look at Keely's submissions

Well as you have seen all month long, we've got some talented ladies! We look forward to seeing more designs from Keely during her term.

Well the Royal Wedding is over and what an affair it was! Some were staying up all night to watch!  Not us tho, we've got to be up for our kids but thank goodness for Tivo right!

Enjoy your weekend !

Hello MLS fans! We have been so honored to have Nichol Magouirk join us this month as our guest designer. Nichols work is so beautiful and inspiring! We can hardly believe how fast this month flew by but we are so thankful for all the inspiration that Nichol provided us.

We told you that we saved the best for last so here's a look at some altered projects that Nichol created with our collections.

Thank you again Nichol for sharing your talents with us all month long!

Hello MLS fans! It's the middle of the week and so far I feel like I haven't even put a dent in my crafty to do list for the week. Speaking of crafy to do's, are you creating for our current contest? Find out all the deets right here on this post.

Today we are pleased to introduce...

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 Here's a look at Becky's submissions

Wow...beautiful work right? We look forward to more of Becky's work this year! Let's leave Becky some welcome message today!

Tomorrow we say goodbye to our Guest Designer Nichol Magouirk. We've saved the best for last so make sure you visit us tmr to see what Nichol created for her send off!

Hello MLS fans! Today we are also welcoming back...

Bio:

Greetings! My name is Nicole Wragge and I currently live in the Phoenix with my dear husband and two silly daughters. I am blessed to be a stay at home mom and it has brought such joy and a deep sense of thankfulness to my life. My family keeps me pretty busy with play dates and charity events, but when I get some "me" time I usually spend it scrapping, taking photos of the everyday super-fun chaos and listening to music. I have been scrapping a few years, however it wasn't until recently did I discover the true depth of this amazing craft. When inspiration hits me it's time to brainstorm, sketch, raid my ever-growing stash and CREATE! I have been known for hosting family picnics in our living room because the kitchen table is covered with my in-the-works projects!  I feel so very lucky to be a part of this design team and I look forward to all the creativity to come! Creative Cheers!

Here's a look at Nicole's beautiful work

And a warm welcome back as well to...

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Hi, Susan Dupre here. I am a wife and a mom of a fabulous little boy who is my favorite scrapping subject. I have been scrapping now for about t hree years, and I absolutely love it!! I have been on several manufacturer teams, and I have been fortunate enough to have been published in various magazines as well. All, which makes me feel truly blessed. However, the most rewarding part of scrapping is the amazing people that I have met throughout my journey. I looking forward to my term with My Little Shoebox and calling my fellow design team members friends. Thanks MLS! It will be such an honor to design for such a fabulous company

Here's a look at Susan's work

We're thrilled to have both these talented ladies return for another term. Leave them some welcome back wishes!

Hello MLS fans! We hope you had a great Easter weekend with your families. We are pleased to resume our introductions today with a warm welcome back to...

Bio:

Hi There, my name is Beckie, originally from the South of England but after many years of travelling have settled in Scotland with my hubby and our two wee girls, who keep me on my toes daily.
As well as creating with fun products I love to take my camera and head out with the family into the hills or down the beach, these are great places to find the lost mojo that has decided to take a wee holiday!
My early memories of crafting were with my gran when I used to go and visit and she would show me all the things she had made. I love to scrapbook and make cards and can often be seen at the school gates glistening with glitter!
I have had work published in the UK and US magazines and also enjoying teaching the joy of scrapbooking!
Basically I am just a girl who has been let loose with paper and scissors, living life to the full and scrapping to preserve it!

Here's a look at Beckie's beautiful submissions

Hey MLS fans! We want to give a shout out to the Punky Sprouts designers who've been creating some fabulous projects with our collections paired with Punky Sprout albums and other products! Make sure to stop by the Punky Sprouts blog for some beautiful inspiration and leave them some blog love!

We've even heard they have a giveaway too!!

Happy Friday MLS fans! What are your weekend plans? Maybe a little scrapping? Today we are pleased to introduce...

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Hello MLS fans! Let's give a big warm welcome to our special Guest Designer today, Linda Auclair

The Crane Campaign is something that has been near and dear to my heart since March, and I felt that I needed to scrap about it.

Crane close-up

Here is the journaling

Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11th, I felt strongly that I needed to do something to help.  My friend Jo who lived and worked in Japan for many years, immediately started a fundraising project with the International Club and the Crane Campaign for relief efforts in Japan was born.  The Campaign has now spread to all three schools in the district, and to date we have raised almost $2000 – that is a lot of crane folding going on!  We have filled the windows at the library with cranes at the High School, and they are displaying them in the Middle and Elementary Schools as well.  I’ve lost track of how many people I have taught how to fold, and how many I have folded myself.  The fundraiser ends on the 21st and I am so thankful to the school staff and the community who have given so much to aid those in need half a world away.                 April 2011

Thanks so much!

Linda

Here are a few more projects from Linda

A big thanks from all of us at My Little Shoebox Linda for sharing your work with us today! Next Thursday join us and we say goodbye to Nichol Magouirk and take a look at some altered projects she'll be sending us off with.

Have a great day!

Hello MLS fans! Today we are pleased to introduce...

Bio:

Hello, my name is Norine.  I'm a not-quite-50, mother of 4+ a daughter-in-law, married to Paul for 30 years, misplaced Canadian living in Arizona. 

All my life I have loved photos. Even ones of people I don't know. And I've loved listening to the stories that each photo tells. But eventually the story-tellers are gone and (if we’re lucky) the photo albums remain and while it's fun to imagine the story behind each picture, it's much more satisfying to know the real story. That is what motivates me to put pictures and pen to paper.  Well, that and the patterned paper.  Oh, and the mists and rub-ons and ribbon and chipboard.  And the adhesives!  What other hobby could you find that requires so many types of adhesive!?  Isn't it great!?

Four kids, one endlessly supportive husband and many varied interests (cooking, reading, snowboarding, travel, photography, cottaging; but not cleaning, yard work or technology, no interest at all in those) provide me with more photos than I will ever get scrap booked, but in the meantime, I'm having a great time messing around with fun and artistic techniques and products. And when I need to sound more credible, I refer to myself as the "Guardian of my Family's History".

And I'm thrilled to have been chosen for My Little Shoebox's DT and am SO looking forward to what the next year here will bring!! 

Here's a look at Norine's beautiful work!

Love all those paper

roses!

Join us tomorrow for a special Guest Designer!

Hello MLS fans! Today we are pleased to introduce...

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Here are Shelly's adorable projects

We look forward to sharing more of Shelly's work here in the coming months.

Hello MLS fans! We hope you had a great weekend! We're resuming our Design team introductions and are pleased to welcome...

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Here's a look at Melinda's stunning submissions.

We were inspired and hope you are too! We can't wait to see what Melinda creates next!

Join us tomorrow as we welcome another designer but before we go we wanted to share this post with you again in case you missed it.

We hope you are having a fantastic weekend! We promised you another My Little Shoebox challenge would be posted this weekend and today we're sharing all the details!

So here we go... I'm excited...are you??

We love our Farmer's Market collection so we'd love to see you create a project using our Farmer's Market collection for one or all three of the categories listed below.

Layout- Create a 12x12 layout of any theme with our Farmer's Market collection utilizing the paper, cardstock stickers, acrylic stamps, glitter letters or mini alphas.

Card- Create a card of any theme with our Farmer's Market collection utilizing the paper, cardstock stickers, acrylic stamps, glitter letters or mini alphas.

Stamping- Create a stamped project of your choice with our Farmer's Market acrylic stamps and coordinating collection.

Layout from Beckie Dreyer

Card from Shemaine Smith

Stamped project from April's Guest Designer Nichol Magouirk

Now that we've given you the challenge...it's time to find out what you can win!!

The winner of the layout category will win $50.00 in MLS product from a collection of their choice.

The card and stamped project winners will win $25.00 in MLS product from a collection of their choice!!

We look forward to your submissions!

Below are the rules:

Link your creations to this blog post and make sure you tell us what category you are submitting to.

Contest will run now thru Monday May 16th.

You must use 75% Farmer's Market collection or our Winter 2011 Releases.

We'll select 3 submissions from each of the categories (2 from each category using Farmers Market and 1 from each created with our other releases).Then we'll post them here on our blog and Facebook page and let the readers vote for their favorite. The person with the most votes in each category will win the prize mentioned above.

If you have any questions about the challenge pls email us at dt@mylittleshoebox.com

Good Luck!

Hello MLS fans! It's Friday, can you believe how fast the week went by?? Who has crafting plans for this weekend? We're going to be posting our next challenge tomorrow and there will be a couple of prizes up for grabs this time around! So keep your eye out on our FB page and here for the post.

Today we are pleased to introduce

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My name is Zoe Nemburt and I live in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia, with my husband of almost 9 years and our 3 children Yasmin 8, Aydin 6, and Ceyda 4, I work for Canada Post Part time A girls gotta scrap right!!

I was born in southern England and we all moved here to Canada in 2006 and have never looked back this is our new home and we are proud to call Canada our home! I've always enjoyed playing with paper and have dabbled in scrapbooking for many years however in February of 2008 I got bitten by the scrapping bug and have never looked back, I am now proud to call myself a scrap-a-holic. I am SO excited and honoured to have this opportunity to work with My Little Shoebox over the next year.

 Thank you

Zoe x

Here's a look at Zoe's beautiful work 

We are looking forward to posting more beautiful creations from Zoe in the coming year.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Hello MLS fans! We're back with some more amazing projects from our April Guest Designer, Nichol Magouirk.

Last weeks layouts were simply amazing. If you missed that post you can see them here. We are thrilled to be showcasing more of Nichol's work with our newest collections today for Guest Designer Thursday.

Here's some more of Nichol's amazing work.

These stitched clouds are wonderful.

Next is this beautiful card created with our clear stamps.

Beautiful coloring techniques here.

Thank you Nichol for inspiring us again with your talent! You can see more of Nichol's work on her blog and at Two Peas in a Bucket.

Hello MLS fans. Today we continue to introduce our new design team and we are pleased to introduce...

Hi!  My name is Linda Kretz, and I'm truly excited to be joining the MLS Design Team as a new member!  Crafts of all kinds have been an integral part of my entire adult life; the last 4+ years have awakened a strong passion in me for scrapbooking.  I am retired, so my time is now available to devote creative energy and time to enjoy many of life's pleasures, with scrapping at the top of the list!  My two children have presented me with 4 wonderful grandchildren who have enriched my life immeasurably - their young faces and excitement with almost everything around them provides terrific scrapbooking ideas!  I have used MLS collections for quite a while - their whimsical, fresh, colorful themes lend themselves to great layouts, projects and cards.  I love working with new techniques, experimenting with copic markers, making and using flowers, and working with varieties of color and paper textures.  I hope you will enjoy my work as much as I do creating it!

Here's a look at Linda's work

Love the city scene Linda created with our City by the Bay collection.

The stamps in the Oasis line are easy to color and use on cards like Linda did here.

Handmade flowers are the best!

We look forward to getting to know Linda more in the coming year and seeing more of her work!

Join us tomorrow for more inspiration from this month's Guest Designer, Nichol Magouirk!!!

Hello MLS fans! We're announcing the winner of our March sketch challenge! First we want to say thank you so much for all of your beautiful layouts you linked up! We really love it when you create with us. It's really hard to choose only one winner but we finally did so a big congratulations goes to...

Chelsea Langworthy!

We love Chelsea's take on the sketch that she uploaded to our Facebook page! Congratulations! Pls email us at dt@mylittleshoebox.com to claim your prize.

You can check out Chelsea's gallery at Scrapbook.com here to see more of her beautiful work.

We'll be announcing another fun contest very soon so keep an eye out for an extra post this week with all the deets.

Hello MLS fans! Today we are pleased to introduce...

Bio:

Hi!  I’m Kristine Berc.  I’m from the Chicago area but I’ve been living in central Wyoming for the past 4 years.  I have a graduate degree in school psychology and worked full-time in special education for many years.  I’m very blessed to have recently become a stay-at-home-mom working outside of my home only part-time.  I have an amazing baby girl and an equally amazing husband who is completely supportive of my scrapbooking addiction.  The two of them are my inspiration and my favorite subjects to scrap.  Scrapbooking is my creative outlet and is a large part of my everyday life.  One of the best parts about this hobby is all of the wonderful friends that I have been making along the way.  It is a dream come true for me to be a part of the My Little Shoebox design team and I’m absolutely thrilled to share my passion with you!

Here's a look at Kristine's beautiful work

Love those hand cut paper flowers! What a darling project.

We really liked the layering Kristine did here

The detail in each one of these projects is simply amazing! We are looking forward to seeing more of Kristine's work in the coming months.

We'll be posting a second post later today with our March sketch challenge winner and announcing a new contest! Keep an eye out for the announcement on our Facebook page here

Hello MLS fans! We hope you all had a great weekend. It's been so fun sharing each of our new designers work and bios here on our blog. We are kicking off another week of more submission inspiration from these talented ladies.

Today we are pleased to introduce...

Ilene Tell

Here's a look at Ilene's beautiful work

We loved the layered flowers Ilene created.

The lace that was incorporated into this layout was stunning.

This altered project, 10 questions for Morgan was stunning.

These were beautiful projects and we look forward to many more from Ilene in the coming months!

Join us tmr as we welcome another designer and showcase her work. We hope these ladies are inspiring you to get out your MLS stash and create something fun.

Before we go we want to say thanks to all who created with us for our April sketch challenge. We are looking over all of the submissions and we'll announce our winner tmr!

Hello MLS fans! Before we introduce our next designer we'd like to announce the winner from Tuesday's post. I printed out each comment and cut them into strips and let my son draw the winner and this is the one he grabbed...

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My name is Rosangela Philippsen, but you can call me just by my nick name Ro.

I live in a beautiful city called Curitiba, in the South of Brazil, with my hubby and my 14 old year son, Rafael.

I´m graduated in Philosophy but 5 years ago I decided to leave behind a boring and stresses profession (I was Manager Account to a great insurance company), in search for something that could make me happier. Today I live among papers, scissors and inks! I scrapbook every day, I give lessons, I travel with my courses in my country and go to fairs too. I am passionate about creating and inspiring different people and I love trying new and interesting materials in my designs.

I hope you enjoy my stay in My Little Shoebox !

I'm very honored to be part of the new design team and happy to be able to inspire you all!

Here's a look at Ro's beautiful work 

We loved the layering and fussy cutting on this layout.

The stitched clouds on this layout are amazing!

We loved the scene Ro created on this canvas project. There are so many details here that make you say "wow". We are looking forward to seeing more of Ro's talent in the coming year.

We'll return Monday with more introductions! Have a crafty weekend everyone!

Hello MLS fans! We are so excited that it's finally Guest Designer Thursday! Today we are pleased to welcome...

Nichol Magouirk

Bio:

Nichol Magouirk, a 2003 Creating Keepsakes Hall of Famer and 2004 BHG Scrapbooks, Etc. Creative Team member, has been scrapbooking and stamping for thirteen years. During that time, Nichol has been published in many different scrapbooking publications and idea books and has contributed to several manufacturer's design teams. Currently, her work can be found monthly at Two Peas in a Bucket where she is a Garden Girl. She is thrilled to be teaching another free year-long class at Two Peas in 2011 called "Scrapbook Stamping" that focuses on what else but stamping in your scrapbook and a weekly layout + how-to video feature, From Start to Finish that shows the creation of a scrapbook layout from start to finish. Nichol also regularly updates her blog (www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com) with new projects and how-to videos. She is passionate about scrapbooking and card making and hardly a day goes by where she doesn't create something. Nichol's favorite techniques are die cutting (with her Silhouette) and stamping.

Nichol resides in Kansas with her husband of fourteen years, Chad, and their three children, Brenden (11), Payton (10) and Ethan (5).

Here's a look at some fabulous layouts Nichol created with our newest collections

Love that she used so many photos

 Here's a closer look at the accents

Another great example of using multiple photos

These layouts were amazing. We loved Nichol's designs and use of multiple photos. Visit Nichols design blog for a look at more of her work. Join is next Thursday for as we bring you more inspiration from Nichol.

Hi MLS fans! Thanks for all your comments on yesterday's post! We really appreciate your feedback and honesty. We want our blog to be a place you love coming to each day! So we're giving you til midnight pacific time on Thursday to leave a comment here to be entered to win our giveaway!

Today we are pleased to introduce...

Here's a little about Mandy

Hello there! My name is Mandy Starner, most call me MandyKay or just Mk. I live in Maryland with my wonderful and supportive husband, our 3 beautiful daughters, and our 2 crazy dogs. I love to spend as much time as possible making, baking, painting, learning, smiling, and laughing. I eat way too much chocolate and I never get enough sleep. I collect owls and typewriters. I love thunderstorms and Tootsie Pops. I am a little bit vintage and a little bit modern, a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll. I have been fortunate enough to have my work published in CARDS, Scrapbook Trends, Paper Crafts, and Page Maps2 by: Becky Fleck. I have been doing make-n-takes at my local scrapbook store, and my very first class is coming up.  And I'm so VERY excited to be a part of the My Little Shoebox team!

Here's a look an Mandy's beautiful work

We loved the scene Mandy created with the trees and those clouds...LOVE those clouds!

This layout is so fresh and clean.

Ohh she charmed us again with those clouds...we loved the creative use of the journaling tags

Mandy's altered Notions project was stunning. We loved all the views too! We are looking forward to sharing much more amazing work from Mandy this year!

Join us tmr as we bring you some AMAZING work from our April Guest Designer, Nichol Magouirk! Mark my words...you're going to be inspired!

We appreciate that you make our My Little Shoebox blog a part of your day. So today we introduce you to Shemaine Smith, our social media/marketing and design team member.

I am so excited to be a part of the My Little Shoebox team. I'm a work at home mom with two wonderful children and married to a great guy. I'm really passionate about  paper crafting.  I always share with my fellow mom friends that scrapbooking saved me from the baby blues. After 10 years of service in the financial industry I became a SAHM when my daughter was born in 2007. It was quite a shock to go from a full time job to being home with a newborn. I needed something to keep me busy so I started searching out challenge sites and would create my entries while my little one slept. I had no idea that there was an entire industry of scrapbookers out there until I was given a ticket to the Craft and Hobby Association Winter Trade show in 2009. Now I am happy to be the social media girl for MLS and designing for Helen. I have to say the best part of my journey so far has been the friendships I've made while designing alongside so many talented ladies.

Here's some of Shemaine's work

We look forward to more inspiration from Shemaine this year!

We'd love to hear what inspires you to keep coming back when you visit a manufacturers blog. Leave a comment telling us and we'll send out a mix of MLS goodies to one lucky winner to be announced Friday!

Have you finished up your sketch for the sketch challenge? We'd love for you to post it to our Facebook group here

Hello MLS fans! Spring is in the air and we've got a great month ahead of us with the new Design Team introductions, welcoming April's Guest Designer, Nichol Magouirk and announcing the winner for March's sketch challenge just to name a few.

You've still got time to create with us and link up your sketch! The deadline to link your takes on the March sketch challenge is Sunday April 10th at midnight pacific time .

Now onto the Design Team introductions. Today we are pleased to introduce Design Team Coordinator, Pattie Beltran!

Here's a little info about Pattie and her beautiful designs

Hi! My name is Pattie Beltran and I'm thrilled to be a part of My Little Shoebox. I love designing and teaching for My Little Shoebox and truly enjoy being DT Coordinator. I love working with My Little Shoebox! The colors are bright, the patterns are cheerful, and the embellishments are so cute and user friendly!
I am the wife of a wonderful man who encourages me in all things, and "enables" me in my hobby. I'm also the mom to two fantastic children who brighten my life. I've been crafting all of my life and scrapbooking for 12 years now. I love all things paper (I'm kind of addicted- anyone else out there like me? hee hee), and love bling, ribbon, lace, and flowers. I teach at my lss and love every minute of it!

And here is some of Pattie's work 

We are excited that both Pattie and Erin are heading up our 2011 Team and to be sharing Pattie's work here on the MLS blog for another year!  

We'll be back tmr with another introduction. Until then, have a very crafty day!

Hello MLS fans. Yesterday we were so excited to share our new 2011 My Little Shoebox Design Team! We are so excited to learn more about each of our new and returning designers that we're thrilled to be featuring them here on our blog all month long. We'll be showing each girls submissions as well as their bio and a link to their blog.

Let's kick of April 1st (no foolin) with our Design Team Coordinator