Messy Box will ship around the 10th of each month. Each box is filled with items to scrapbook with including paper and cards, stickers, embellishments, and special items! I design each of the kits with my in-house designer, Ryan, and the team at Studio Calico. Each month is color-coordinated and comes with a different technique theme that I will be sharing projects with here on the blog!
Just like with Happy Mail, you can get an even better deal by subscribing with a larger commitment. We offer 1 ($24.99/mo.), 6 ($21.99/mo.), and 12 ($19.99/mo. best value) month subscription commitments. On the 10th of every month during your subscription, we'll collect payment of the fee stated next to the level of commitment. Your subscription will begin with the first month's shipment in mid March 2015. The price is valid for the commitment listed. After that, we'll continue your subscription at that price, unless you cancel.
Here are a few pages I made with the first Messy Box!
(I'll share even MORE pages next Sunday! I can't stop playing!!)
Get more information and subscribe here! xx. Elsie
P.S. We're finalizing some details on our albums and page protectors. We don't have an exact launch date, but it will be VERY soon. We'll post about it here and on Instagram as soon as they're on the shop! (sooo excited!!!)
Credits// Author: Elsie Larson. Photography by Erin Kunce and Elsie Larson
94 Comments
It looks wonderful!!
I would have to get the albums and the plastic pages on my own, though, right?
Yay! Just ordered mine 🙂 Question- what is a good source for 9×12 albums?
It’s so cute!!!! Great job!! I LOVE the washi and the gold letters.
Wish you could buy the washi alone….
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How exciting! Just wondering, because I can’t seem to find it on the other page – what are the shipping prices each month (for Canada and/or internationals?)
Thanks in advance!
Mel
I was wondering the same thing..they’re not in the store yet though as far as I can see.
How inconsiderate of you guys! Some of us have a stationary addiction (it is an illness, I swear!) and can’t possibly resist such an offer 😉
I will have to order it now, just to aid my addiction of course (illness, remember??)
🙂
Hi Natalia! We will be offering albums and pages very soon. We will announce as soon as they are available, so hold on tight! 🙂 -Jacki
Hi Avery! We will be offering albums very soon. We will post about it as soon as they are available! 🙂 -Jacki
Hi Melanie! International shipping is $3 🙂 -Jacki
OMG Girls! You are awesome!!!
It’s the perfect idea and inspire us to scrapbook more often.
I loved!
Hi Denise! We will be selling albums and pages very soon. We will make an announcement when they are available! 🙂 -Jacki
Soooo excited! Andnim have to say thar $3 international shipping is really reasonable. Thank you!
x Kathryn
http://www.throughthethicket.ca
Oh my gosh, this stuff is amazing!
so awesome!!
-Adrienne. xo
Oh my gosh…amazing!!
Huge congrats!
As a fashion designer, I know how much work a line can be!!
So proud of you! I love it!! 🙂
-Adrienne. xo
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Ooh, how fun! These messy items could be used for anything! Might have to give it a try 🙂
Circus & Bloom
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This looks amazing!!
Can I make a suggestion? I already subscribe to Happy Mail and I love it. Is there any way you can start offering a monthly or yearly subscription that alternates between the two boxes? One month Happy Mail, the next Messy Box, and so on. It would help those of us who love both boxes but can only afford to get one!
I love it 🙂 Such a cute idea! I just signed up for your Happy Mail box so I will have to wait on this one, but I sure am looking forward to it!!!
I would be allll over the Messy Box if it came in more standard sizes i.e. 12 x 12. I understand the reasoning behind the 9 x 12 design but I’m afraid of jumping in and getting pigeon-holed into only one source for scrapbooking. The designs look so great so I’m super bummed out by the size.
Yay! So excited for when the pocket pages come out! 😀
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This monthly box looks like it would be a lot of fun! It’s full of great items to get you inspired 🙂
EmmasBeginning
I may have missed this in a previous post but how do you print and size the photos?
I notice you guys didn’t make an ‘unveiling’ video like you do for Happy Mail. I can see most of the items in the photo, but it would be nice to see things individually so I can make a decision on purchasing. Any chance this will happen for future messy boxes? (I’m sure making and posting the videos is a time investment so I don’t blame you if you only choose to do so for one subscription!)
I like this idea!
Wow amazing things happening for A Beautiful Mess! Congratulations on all your success! Love the Messy Box and can not wait to see your albums & protectors. If you ever need newbies on your Design Team, let me know *wink, wink*. Again congratulations!!!
Fabulous idea! This looks so fun!
Warm Regards,
Alexandra
http://www.littlewildheart.com
Wow amazing things happening for A Beautiful Mess! Congratulations on all your success! Love the Messy Box and can not wait to see your albums & protectors. If you ever need newbies on your Design Team, let me know *wink, wink*. Again congratulations!!!
I am so thrilled the patterned papers are 9×12!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to get my first box!!
What size will the journal cards be?
wow can’t wait…one question, if I go with the month to month will I continue to be billed at the $24.99 unless I decide to cancel or will I only get the one month and have to order if available kits as the occur each month?
Hi Robin! You will need to cancel if you aren’t interested in receiving the kit after the first month. 🙂 -Jacki
I am a 12×12 scrapbooker myself, so when I saw a scrapbooking subscription I was SUPER excited, but when I saw the 9×12 I thought the same thing.. this would change my whole way of scrapbooking! But maybe that isn’t a bad thing. I could still use materials I have for 12×12 scrapping,and maybe I could try out making one album in this size and see how I like it.
Hi Erica! We don’t be doing unveiling videos for Messy Box, but you can see more product photos here: http://shop.abeautifulmess.com/preorder/messy-box Let us know if you have anymore questions! 🙂 -Jacki
So excited for this! The box this month looks great! I can’t wait to get mine in the mail!
Laura
http://www.laurahager.blogspot.com
I am so so so so excited. Messy box is totally going to inspire me to complete 52 weeks of scrapbooking!!
This is exciting news! I love the gold chipboard alphabet and transparency sheet.
Ordered! Been waiting and waiting with such anticipation, ever since it was first announced. So pumped to do this in conjunction with the Capture Life in 52 Weeks course.
Very happy with this rate, it is extremely reasonable.
LOVE THIS!
so EXCITED! I’ve been waiting for the day! Thank you beautiful gals so much for providing this fun stuff!!
This is such a neat idea!
I love the gold letters – I’d love to see more fonts in gold too 🙂
M.
This is so exciting guys! I love all of your scrapbooking ideas but I can’t seem to find the materials from where I am. Having the messy box would solve all dilemmas!
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Do you guys ship it to other countries? I’m living in England, but I will be back in my home country Brazil by September… By the way, if I get a 12 month pack, can I change my address??? It’s a gorgeous kit.
Hi Leila! We offer international shipping for only $3 🙂 You can change you address anytime through your account page. -Jacki
Oh Elsie, totally loving that days of the week washi tape! 🙂
xoxo from Miami, FL – Jessy
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I love this idea!!
Oh wow – such amazing ideas! I would love to do something similar for art sketchbooks 🙂
Haha! Thank you Lou!
xx- Elsie
Hey there!
Honestly this kit could be used for 12×12 scrapbooking too. The only thing it’s missing is 12×12 papers (which are available everywhere) but if you use any type of pocket papers (Project Life etc) it is compatible!
I love the 9×12 size personally, but you could totally use these items in a 12×12 book as well!
xx- Elsie
I resize my photos in Photoshop and print them with my Canon printer. I have been meaning to do a full post about this process, so thank you for the reminder!! 🙂
xx- Elsie
Thanks so much Carol! We haven’t planned on doing a design team, but if we do I will probably choose people who are already using it on Instagram!! :)) xx- Elsie
Hooray! I can’t wait for you to receive it!
xx- Elsie
They are 4×6, 3×4 and 3×3 inches. They fit the pocket pages for our new Messy Book album (coming soon!) xx- Elsie
Hooray!!!
Thank you so much Meagan!
xx- Elsie
You truly always have the best ideas!
Hooray!
xx- Elsie
Thank you so much Jessica!
xx- Elsie
love it all!!
I missed out on the daily planner so I HAD to get this! I can’t wait to get it and start putting all my travel pictures into albums! I’ll probly buy like 5 albums right when you get them. So excited!
Like you, I enjoy seeing what other people make of your creations, you should make a blog post, or even a special hashtag, just to see what people have made.
So much love for ABM right now!
The photo album looks great, the way you have filled and decorated it to show the products in the box beings used!
I want this so much!!!
Looks amazing, love the colours and layout.
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Guyssssssssssss congrats on this!!!! But honestly pleasepleaseplease create a messy box that includes the messy book all together! 🙁
How about us digi girls? Any works in the plan for digital scrapbooking.? TIA
I’m so sad I couldn’t pre order my messy box, I really hope it’s only a temporary thing and that i won’t miss out on the first one :-(((
I sent an email to explain the situation and now i will sleep with my fingers crossed!
Coline from France
This is super awesome and $3 international shipping, heck YEAH!
This looks amazing! Love your creativity xx
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This looks pretty fun. I always keep a lot of scrap and odds and ends for art stuff and diary stuff and decorating and journalling. I love it!
Yay! The contents of this are so cute! Love it 🙂
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The day of the week washi tape is my favorite- what a neat idea! Can’t wait to order- I’m already excited to see next month’s!! Congratulations on the launch!!! 🙂
This is amazing! I already pre ordered mine! I have a question.. I need some help with the photo printing, is there a layout or preset that you guys (mostly elsie, haha..) use or how do you get the correct sizes to print!? I always get them wrong and I am cutting my photos individually…
Thanks!
Elsie, you would help all of us a lot if you make this post! I have been wondering the same as Whitney. Please enlighten us!
With love, a reader since you started ABM!
Tamara
(PS: I never post, but always read. ABM looks amazing and so professional! I feel like an aunt that has been watching her niece/blog grow little by little and now, just wow. Congratulations 🙂
Oh this is so cute!!! You’re making me wish I did scrap booking!! Maybe I should take it up as a hobby! 😛
^_^ I love all Your DIY stuff! :O I especially love the scrap booking ideas but I never get the chance to do any 🙁
Oh & I featured one of Your Insta’s in tonight’s post on My blog ^_^ do check!
-SJay
The Chronic Dreamer
I would really REALLY really love to see this because I got a Canon printer for Christmas, tried to print my photos to start project Life but I can’t get them to print in the proper size. It’s driving me nuts, and honestly, I haven’t even touched my album again because of it. 🙁
I’m sad, Elsie. Take away the sad.
LOVE THIS! I’m hoping to be able to add another sub to my list soon!!
What a good idea! That would be awesome as I’m soooo torn between the two
Are you going to ship around the world? That would be awesome!!
Ana Lu
Hi Ana! Yes, we ship worldwide for only $3 🙂 -Jacki
oh my goodness, this looks amazing! All my craft dreams in one box!
Louise x
Question – I think I am reading this right, but maybe not. If I go for the 12 months, am I billed for the entire year at once, or monthly? And what day of the month would I be billed on?
Thanks!
Hi Sparker! You will be billed on the 10th of each month. 🙂 -Jacki
how cool!
xx nikki
http://www.dream-in-neon.com
This is such a good idea! This is what would help me pull the trigger on a yearlong subscription.
What did you use to spell out “Our Week in Color”? Did that come from the box?
Everything looks amazing. I’m so excited to see more pages on Sunday! Hopefully there’ll be some good ideas for the vellum and confetti! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Those are some stickers I already had (from a brand called Pebbles).
Thanks so much! Elsie
Hola: Soy de México y mi ingles para nada es bueno, soy muy fan de su página, la veo a diario. Quisiera adquirir su caja (esta maravillosa), pero no entiendo nada como comprarla. Podrían ayudarme un poco. Gracias!!
Hi! I’m so loving this and thinking about a subscription but was wondering… as someone whom, for example doesn’t celebrate holidays like Easter or Christmas, are the April and December boxes going to be themed to those holidays or will every month be more generic?
Thanks!
Hi Jessica! Most of them will be generic. There might be a few holiday cards throughout the year, but they won’t dominate the whole month. 🙂 -Jacki
Such a cool idea! For me I think it would be like a little boost of creative inspiration and motivation to get crafty every month!
Nina x
littlepinkcactus.blogspot.com
I just tried to order the messybox but all the links within your shop to “pre-order messy box” just re-direct to the homepage. I know today is the 10th so the first month has been shipped, but what if you want to sign up for next month/a yearly subscription?
Hi Kat! Sorry about that! This link should be working: http://shop.abeautifulmess.com/messy-box if not, you can contact our customer care team here: http://shop.abeautifulmess.com/conversations/new 🙂 -Jacki
Thanks SO much for this Elsie – it’s really great to see that you can achieve so much (because your photos are consistently good) in a relatively straightforward way. Great links, too
If a box doesn’t sell out one month, will it continue to be available for purchase after that? I don’t see a way to do that, but if I’m on the fence and wait too long and it doesn’t sell out, I’d love to have the option to buy the previous month’s box (for messy box and happy mail)
Hi Teresa! We only offer subscriptions for the current month 🙂 -Jacki