Sketch 146 and My Little Shoebox

This month at Pencil Lines we are excited to be joined by the design team at My Little Shoebox. All through August, Pencil Lines and My Little Shoebox design teams will be inspiring you with sketches by Anna and supplies by My Little Shoebox. The Readers Gallery is also sponsored by MLS!

August sketches will be a mix of double, single,81/2" x 11" and even a card sketch! every type of scrapper will be accounted for! With 18 designers joining us from MLS over the next 5 weeks, you will notice that the design team from Pencil Lines is slightly smaller.

So without further ado, lets learn alittle more about Helen Chu and My Little Shoebox.

Scrapbooking has always been part of my life.  Back then I just didn't know the term "scrapbooking", I called it "beautifying" my photo albums.

I grew up in my parent's garment factory, and was surrounded by beautiful fabrics, laces, ribbons, and buttons.  My mommy used to make tiny dresses for my dolls out of leftover fabrics, and I would dress them with ribbons, and buttons.

My daddy loved to take pictures of my brothers, sister, and me, so my mommy was dedicated to keeping family photo albums.  We would put the albums together with whatever material we could find in the factory.

Fast forward to 2001.  When my loving husband, Cesar and I got married, I had designed our wedding invitations.  Then I went to work designing our wedding albums.  I arranged the cards, papers and embellishments to go with our photographs and wedding theme, and ended up incorporating a lot of fabric patterns and accessories in my design.

My wedding album was a big hit!  When everybody started asking me who my designer was, I knew I had done something right.  With encouragement from Cesar and my family I started "My Little Shoebox" in the spring of 2005.

My goal is to encourage people to take their precious photographs out of their "little shoeboxes" and turn their personal memories into creations that will endure for generations.  The idea behind "My Little Shoebox" is to make scrapbooking simple, quick, uniquely personalized, and most importantly, beautiful.

Thank you for letting me share my vision with you.  I sincerely hope you like it.

This week we are pleased to have joining us from MLS;

Erin Payne
Jana Eubank
Michelle Lanning
Pamela Young

Please take the time to visit our guests blogs and see more wonderful work by them.

Here are this weeks design team layouts:

Erin

Jana

Michelle

Pamela

 

Anna

Ania

Annie

Sue

Tracie

Michelle (using this weeks digital template)

This weeks digital template is here for you to download.

We really do look forward to receiving your layouts for the readers gallery. See the QandA on the left hand side bar for submissions.

Check back next week to see more from My Little Shoebox and the design team.

Happy Scrapping

The Pencil Lines Team xx

Comments

[tanisharenee]

awesome work ladies!!

[Kim T.]

WOW! beautiful stuff!

[shire]

wohooo, such stunning work and a wonderful sketch this week!

[Sus]

Wonderful sketch :)

http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=725673&ppuser=1061

Sus

[Sasha]

LOVE IT ALL .. will definately be doing this sketch ..

[erin p]

this website is the best thing since sliced bread! i love it!

[Caro]

Wow, what beautiful work from you all. You can see my attempt here:
http://carocrafts.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-believe.html

[Michelle Sauve']

I flipped mine:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=729028&cat=500

[Cecilia]

Hello!!!
Here is mine!!
http://ceciscrap.blogspot.com/2009/08/lo-feria-pencil-lines-146.html

[patrizia manni]

Here my entry for this sketch:

http://pattyscrap.blogspot.com/2009/08/sketch-pencillines-146-e-crop-di-agosto.html

Very nice sketch and your works are really amazing.

patty

[Scrapdolly]

Love this skecth and mine is now on my blog

[Mirjam]

Hi! It's the first time I play along:)
Beautiful work from you all!!!
Here you can find mine....
http://sweetandcolorful.blogspot.com/

[Merrilee]

I loved this sketch. Here is my version.
http://thisnthatandscrapbookchat.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-havent-done-so-well.html

[Stefania Gentilini]

This is my version!

http://stecreazioni.blogspot.com/2009/08/sketch-pencil-lines-146.html

[Alecia Castro]

Got mine done and had lots of fun with it. Thanks for the awesome inspiration!!

Summer Baby Layout ~by Alecia~

[Alecia Castro]

Oopsie, sorry, here's the link...

Summer Baby Layout ~by Alecia~

http://aleciac.blogspot.com/2009/08/summer-baby-this-was-really-fun-page-to.html

[robindiane]

Here is my take on the sketch: http://mylifeexpose.blogspot.com/