My Mind's Eye Blog

Summer Fun with My Mind’s Eye

Sandpit Fun by Sonia Thomason:

 

Featured Collection: So Sophie – Savvy, Lush Rhinestones in Green

I wanted to have a bit of fun with this layout and really try to get a feeling of some summer warmth. The red, yellow and green colours seemed like a wonderful bright combination and I thought putting in a large sun shape would add a bit of whimsy. After I’d finished it still looked like it needed an extra touch to add some dimension and the rhinestones from the Lush collection completed it perfectly.

Sonia took a break from the winter cold to create this gorgeous layout for us.  We have absolutely enjoyed having Sonia as our Guest Designer this month.  Thank you, Sonia!

 

Wacky Water War by Jana Eubank:

  

Featured Collection: Alphabet Soup

I came outside one day to find my silly kids dressed up in full on "battle gear" having the wackiest water fight I've ever seen. :)

The Zoofari Paper from the Alphabet Soup - Boy Collection, with it's blue wood grain pattern on the backside, was a perfect way to recreate water on this page.

I cut out a few strips following the curve of the wood grain and then layered them together with pop dots for added dimension.

The sun, clouds and the word "Wacky" were cut using a digital cutter. The blue flocked chipboard letters are from the Lush Blue Collection

 

Splash Park by Tamara Jensen:

 

Featured Collection: So Sophie

One of the highlights of our summer was having cousins visit from Iowa (a 36 hour drive!).  Our kids look forward to it every year.  The title "Never Enough Time With You" perfectly expressed our feelings about this special time together.

The fresh, bright colors of So Sophie Savvy coordinated perfectly with our photos cousins playing together at the Splash Park. The zig-zag stripes even matched my niece's swimsuit!  I LOVE MME journaling tags and titles and have fun layering them on layouts. 

I borrowed Amber's fun idea and cut out the red bracket strip from the barcode end of the paper (that is normally thrown away).

Powell Tested by Amber Packer:

Featured Collection: Lost & Found – Portobello Road

I am IN LOVE with Lost & Found and knew I wanted to use it for my layout today.  I also knew it would be a little tricky since the papers do not scream “Lake”.  The subtle blues in the Portobello Road collection and, specifically, the neutral background of the First Class paper are perfect.  The blues compliment the blues in the water and sky and the neutral tones make the colors in the pictures POP!  It allows the viewer to feel both the serenity of the lake and the fun being had by my sons.  This is definitely a favorite of mine.

We hope you are enjoying your summer (or winter) as much as we are. 

We hope to see you back here on Monday!

Design Team lineup change

As we are moving into the second year of our blog.  We are grateful we are going to be able to keep our entire team intact, with one small change.  With a busy family line up this year, Tiffani has requested to move to our Part-Time Design Team.  Because of this, Jana will be moving to our Full-Time Blog Design Team.

 

Thank you for your support of our ENTIRE Design Team!

Blog Challenge #13: Hope

We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to share their talent with us.  Be sure to check out ALL the entries in our Blog Challenge 13: Hope.  Please look at both album pages.  Every entry is included in the album and are listed in alphabetical order by designer.

We are thrilled to announce our two winners.

Winner:  Karen Grunberg

Featured Collection: Quite Contrary

We love how Karen opened up her circles!  Her accent made from punched flowers that were overlapped and sewn are brilliant and unique!

Honorable Mention Winner:

Florence Teixeira

Featured Collections: Wild Asparagus, Out And About, Quite Contrary, Signature Life, Abbey Road, So Sophie, Laundry Line and Bella Bella.

Flo might just win the prize for the most collections used on this gorgeous layout of her darling son.

To claim your prizes, please email [email protected].

Blog Birthday Winner

CONGRATULATIONS! 

What a fun time we had during the hop.  We have been giddy with excitement waiting for THIS moment!  With 425 official entries, there are a lot of you who are anxiously awaiting this moment, too!  We won’t keep you in suspense any longer. 

 

Our Blog Birthday Blog Hop winner is… Cari Cummings!!!

We received Cari’s email Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 9:19 am.  Here is her winning email:

The phrase is ‘You’ve had a birthday shout  hooray’.  Thanks for the opportunity to win some of your wonderful paper and embellishments!

Thanks again,

Cari

 

Remember that there were two ways to win.  Be sure to visit Anam Stubbington’s blog to find out who the winner of the So Sophie collection is.  She will announce the winner soon.

We are thrilled at the response to our Birthday Blog Hop!  We hope you will join us throughout the next year for more fun and inspiration.

The My Mind’s Eye team

Christmas and Lost & Found winners!

Lost & Found Winner: Rosann Santos-Elliott

OMG. I thought that you could do no better after the LUSH Line. I LOVE the LUSH line. But this?! This is just as beautiful. Madison Avenue and Union Square, my kind of town. I'm a New Yorker all the way and I can't wait to get my grubby NY hands all over these collections.
Pick me. LOL
Rosann
Brooklyngirlnextdoor.blogspot.com

Posted by: Rosann Santos-Elliott | July 11, 2010 at 02:08 PM

Christmas winner: Melissa D.

My Minds Eye Christmas collection?!?!? I am in heaven! Beautiful!!

Posted by: Melissa D. | July 13, 2010 at 08:11 AM

Please email [email protected] with your mailing address.

Have you participated in our Birthday Blog Hop!?  Follow this link for a chance to WIN BIG!

1 Year Blog Birthday

“They say it’s our birthday, Happy Birthday to us!”  (sung with joy)

July marks one year since we started our blog.  That’s right!  It’s our one year Blog Birthday and YOU are invited to join in the party!

Here's what we’re going to do:

• Start here, at the My Mind’s Eye blog, and “hop” on over to every blog you are sent to.
• Each of our fabulous designers will share a WORD with you.  All these words together make our Secret Phrase. 
• Leave a comment on each blog.
• At each blog, you will be directed to another blog. Be sure to visit and comment on each blog, to increase your chances of winning!

***IMPORTANT: Begin the blog hop at the My Mind's Eye blog and hop in order so you can have the correct secret phrase.***

• When you hop back to this blog, leave a comment saying that you are done and email the secret phrase to: [email protected].  (don't include the words in your blog comment)
• Our blog hop will close Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at midnight.

You know My Mind’s Eye, and we aren’t doing this just for fun - although we will have fun.  We’re doing it for prizes!  By playing along with us, YOU could win one of EVERY new release we showed you last week. 

WHAT, you say!?  Yes, one lucky winner will win one of everything in our Alphabet Soup (Boy & Girl), Haunted, Blackbird, Holly Jolly, I Believe and Lost & Found (all four color schemes) collections!

   

There will be two ways to win at our party: 

1) Grand prize: After visiting every blog, email Amber the secret phrase.  One winner will receive one of everything in our CHA-S release.  (6 blogs = 6 words).

2) Bonus entry: We will randomly draw one of our designer’s blogs and draw one winner from the comments on that designer’s blog.  This winner will receive our entire So Sophie collection!

Are you ready?  You will first hop from here to … Anam’s blog

To thank you for your support of My Mind’s Eye and our blog, there are door prizes at our party, too.  Before you leave to start hopping, don’t forget to pick up some birthday inspiration given to you by our Design Team!

Trisha Ladouceur:

Featured Collection: Alphabet Soup – Boy

Tamara Jensen:

  

Featured Collection: Alphabet Soup - Boy

The fresh and bright colors of the NEW "Alphabet Soup" line were perfect for these birthday photos!  I cut off the end of the rainbow border strip to make a circle frame for the number 7.  I used Glossy Accents on the fun circle photo frame, ticket, and chipboard letters to make them "pop" and coordinate with the fabulous epoxy brads.

Sonia Thomason:

  

Featured Product: So Sophie & Lush 

The flower was made by cutting different length strips of Lush ribbon and layering them into a flower shape and securing with a brad.

 

Featured Product: Lush

I wanted to put a photo on the top of the box so I cut a circle to fit the top of the box and wound white string around it for texture. I then made two types of flowers using the luxurious Lush Damask Line to decorate the top and added two leaves cut from the Helpful Hounds tooth paper. A bit of clear transparency over the photo helps protect it from sticky fingers!

Jana Eubank:

  

Featured Collection: Alphabet Soup – Girl

Anam Stubbington:

   

Featured Collection: Alphabet Soup - Boy

How Fast?  Text: “Will it really be two years next week? Time has flown so fast! Two years of lily has been amazing so far! 16^th July 2010”

Amber Packer:

 

Featured Collection: So Sophie

Map of America

Designer: Amber Packer, Featured Collection: So Sophie 

I demonstrated this project this morning on Good Things Utah.  This map is a beautiful home decor item, a fun way to help children know where they are going on a road trip this summer and a great help for your 5th grade child who will be studying the United States.  Or, if your family is scattered across the U.S., add push pins and string to help your children know where they all are. This project is perfect no matter what country you call home. I simply searched the internet for an outline map of the United States.  I’m sure you could find a map of your home.

Fun story: My son came up to me as I was finishing and told me this was a “cool” project.  He then asked me what I was going to do with it when today’s segment was over.  I asked him if he wanted it and, YES, he does!  It looks like this has found a home.  Although, I may need the map somewhere that I can see it since Geography was definitely NOT my best subject in school.

If you’d like to make your own, all you have to do is click here to download the instructions: Download 2010_07_15_MME_Map of America.

When the video of today’s segment is available, we’ll add the the video to the left column on this blog (the video is up!).  You can also click here to read the segment on the Good Things Utah website.

p.s.  The current blog giveaways are: Christmas and Lost & Found (click to follow links) 

Winners!

Halloween Giveaway winner:  Kelly Swonsinski

These are awesome ! I love the kraft papers and muted colors, perfect for Halloween !!

Posted by: Kelly Swosinski | July 07, 2010 at 03:00 PM

 

Alphabet Soup winner:  Cassie W

These are so cute! These collections already have me thinking about all the pre-school pages I can make when my daughter starts school in the fall.

Posted by: Cassie W | July 09, 2010 at 02:04 PM

 

Sonia’s Favorite Things winner:  Wendy Rasbach

Wow! I love all of your LO's--the clean lines you use are so powerful, and your photos...gorgeous!! Looking forward to even more inspiration!!

Posted by: Wendy Rasbach | July 06, 2010 at 05:35 AM

 

Ladies, CONGRATULATIONS!!!  Please email your mailing address to [email protected].  We still have two more giveaways that are currently open.

Our June Top Tens of 2010

Jumping June

 

Designer: Trisha Ladouceur, Featured Collection: Lush

No picas... only journaling. This time I used the cover from the red LUSH album as an actual page. It allowed me to simply use a journaling block embellished with a co-ordinating strip of paper and velvet ribbon with rhinestone brads and leave it at that. I embellished the flocked letters with red self adhesive rhinestones. A simple page in a LUSH-ious album!

{June 2010}

Designer: Sonia Thomason, Featured Collection: Meadowlark

I went with Meadowlark as I wanted to keep my photos in colour so the black and white was absolutely perfect! The numbers for the photos came from the calendar card on the Cards paper

Summer Kick-Off

Designer: Jana Eubank, Featured Collection: So Sophie 

Ahhhh, Summer! June is the perfect month to kick it off in full-fashion with lots of ice cream treats, days spent playing in sprinklers, and impromptu camping trips.

To keep my layout from feeling too chaotic, I printed all the photos in black and white and let the colors of the So Sophie Clever collection do the "talking".

The aqua color is reminiscent of all the water play we've done, while the pinks, creams and corals remind me of vanilla yogurt with sprinkles and juicy popsicles.

Top Ten {Grade 1}

Designer: Anam Stubbington, Featured Collection: So Sophie

Fay loves school and Grade 1 was an awesome year for her. Her top ten things were:  Friends, Winspear theatre field Trip, Art, Library, Gym, Her teachers and Ms Olson, Hot Pizza Lunches, Oil Kings Hockey Game, Music and Everything.

June

 

 

Designer: Amber Packer, Featured Collection: So Sophie with a little Breaking Free

My June Top Ten ended up being a Top Twelve and could have easily been a Top Twenty!  I feel like June went by at a full and complete RUN!  The minute school ended, we were in a race to get everything done: a concert, a new baby (It was a miracle), planting the garden after the wet spring was over, swimming lessons, TWO Open Houses at the hospital and one retreat my husband worked so hard on, Cub Scout Camp, Basketball Camp, The Wasatch Back relay (third year in a row for Bryan), Father’s Day, Father’s & Sons Campout.  Somehow I fit in work amongst all that!  It was a fun, event-filled month with very few computer games played.  And I am happy CHA time is here so we can settle down a little bit of a regular schedule ;)

 

We would like to feature Michelle’s May Top Ten.  Michelle has been enjoying this project with her Mom and Sister.

Michelle says:  “This was the easiest 10 things to come up with - mostly because I kept track (instead of waiting) by the end of the month I had 11 things to chose from.  My 10? I went to field day, carnival, Nik got an award, I made 40 invites, Hubby turned 50, End of school, made a book by hand, hubby went to Arkansas, I qualified with a 98 (for non law enforcement - that's my yearly weapons certification). I realized as I was typing this, that I put the end of school on there twice. So my 10th thing would have to be hubby went to the Memorial Day celebration at the State Cemetery. I guess that the end of school was that important!”

Challenge #13: Hope

The challenge:  Design a layout or other project based on this sketch (by Anam Stubbington) and the word HOPE.

The rules: Use ANY My Mind’s Eye products (current or past) as long as your project has at least 80% My Mind’s Eye products.

The deadline: Email your project, first and last name to [email protected] (with Blog Challenge 13 as your subject) or add a link in a comment on this post by Thursday, July 22, 2010 (midnight, MST).

(For tips on how to best photograph your entry, click here)

The PRIZE: One winner will be featured in a blog post and receive three ENTIRE collections of their choice!  We will also award an honorable mention winner with one collection of their choice!

Everyone is a winner!  We are excited to see what you design for our challenge and are grateful to everyone who will participate.  We will put every entry in a photo album here on the blog.  By submitting, you are giving My Mind’s Eye permission to include your entry.

 

We hope you enjoy this month’s samples:

 

Designer: Sonia Thomason

• So Sophie – Forever with You – Botanical Blue Paper
• So Sophie – Living Proof – Spontaneous Floral Paper
• So Sophie – Brother’s & Sister’s – Petite Floral Paper
• So Sophie – Simple Things – Thoughtful Flower Paper
• So Sophie – Anything for You title
• Lush Flocked Chipboard Alphas
• Lush Rhinestones in green

 

   

• So Sophie – Forever with You – Botanical Blue Paper
• So Sophie – Brother’s & Sister’s – Petite Floral Paper
• So Sophie – Simple Things – Thoughtful Flower Paper
• So Sophie – In Love –Small accessories card
• Lush Rhinestones in green

 

Designer: Trisha Ladouceur 

 

Journaling reads: Mackenzie, I hope so many things for you but most of all... happiness!

• Charming "Living Proof" frame (SS1009)
  "Anything for You" Reliable Red paper (SS1095)
• "In Love" Splendid Surroundings Paper (SS1113)
• "Possibilities" Content Geometric Paper (SS1018)
• "Brothers & SIsters" Gracious Greenery Paper (SS1107)
• Lush "Decorative Brads" Brown (LU1051)
• Lush "Flocked Chipboard Alphabet Stickers" Green (LU1047)
• Clever "Celebrate" Large Accessory Stickers (SS1039)
• Graceful :"Open your Heart" Notebook Page Card (SS1074)

“I finished this in record time: 1 hour from start to finish! I LOVE the simplicity of being able to use a sketch :)”