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Halloween Layouts

Happy Halloween, MME fans!  Missy here.  I just LOVE creating Halloween layouts, and I couldn’t wait to put the new Frightful collection to use!  I created two layouts, and I’m sharing the both with you. 

 

The first layout features my little one a few years ago at her school.  She was Wonder Woman, and her little cape was all twisted.  I just love it! 

 

I started with some white cardstock and used a digital cut file from The Cut Shoppe.  I backed all of the open spaces with various patterned papers.  It was really easy and fun, and it makes the photos really pop in the center.  I back my photos with a few more pieces of patterned paper and an awesome chipboard frame.  The adorable pumpkin and glittery spider web are from the Mixed Bag!  A total must have for a Halloween project.

 

 Supplies:  Frightful—“Spooky” paper, “Dots” paper, “Frightful Words” paper, 6x6 paper pad, Chipboard Elements, Mixed Bag, Decorative Brads, Sticker Embellishments; Necessities—Alpha & Word Stickers – Black & Gray, Decorative Tapes – Metallics; Other—cardstock, Silhouette Cameo, The Cut Shoppe digital cut file, Thickers, sewing machine, thread, black Sharpie pen.

 

Here you can really see the layering.  The chipboard pieces are fantastic for layering.  And so is the decorative tape!  I pulled out the gold metallic tape from the Necessities line to give this page some sparkle!  I love how easy it is to use.

 

Here I used one of the decorative brads and some of the small alpha stickers from Necessities.  I wanted to split my title at the top and bottom of the layout, so I used those to spell out the “Crooked Cape” part. 

 

My second layout features my older daughter at her school’s Fall Festival.  She has a lot of sensory issues, so this type of function is not her thing.  Her sweet teacher helped her walk around and play the different games at the event, and she wound up having a great time! 

 

I started with the Frightful “Chandelier” Paper because of the gorgeous orange color.  I used a square punch and punched out lots of squares from various papers to create a mosaic-type background. 

 

I also added some gesso and modeling paste to throw in some texture.  I only had to add minimal embellishments since the squares really did all the work here.

Supplies: Frightful—“Chandelier” paper, “Stache” paper, “Dots” paper, “Pumpkin” paper, “Zig Zag” paper, “Spooky” paper, “Frightful Words” paper, 6x6 paper pad, Enamel Shapes, Enamel Dots, Chipboard Elements, Sticker Embellishments, Mixed Bag, Decorative Brads; Other—Crafter’s Workshop stencil, Liquitex Gesso, Golden Modeling Paste, Silhouette Cameo, cardstock, sewing machine, thread, black Sharpie pen.

This die cut banner is my favorite piece in the Mixed Bag!  I just had to add it below my title and “secure” it with some black enamel dots.  Here you can also see the texture from the paste and how I layered the title.

 

Enamel bats!  What!  I fell in love with these instantly!  They are SO adorable.  I also used up some of the Sticker Embellishments and Chipboard pieces here.  This line really is so fun and festive!

 

 

I hope these help get you into the Halloween spirit and inspire you to create something spooktacular!  I love that you can create fun and cute projects with these and not have to get very scary at all.  Lots of fun and possibilities!

 

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Halloween!!

 

Missy

Halloween Cards

Hey everyone! Tonya here today to share with you some fun Halloween cards that I made using the new Frightful line. This is such a fun collection that can go many different directions. You can go spooky, classy, or cute. The orange glitter adds just the perfect touch of sparkle!

Supplies: Frightful- 6x6 Designer Paper Pad, Sticker Embellishments, Enamel Dots, Decorative Brads, Mixed Bag, Chipboard Elements Kraft Funday- Everyday Fun Twine

 

For this first card I split the front wooden paper panel on the diagonal and backed the split with that adorable pumpkin paper. The woodgrain panels are popped up with foam tape and then I embellished the edges with some black glitter. The 'boo' and the large pumpkin are from the sheet of chipboard pieces. The little pumpkins that are adorning the large chipboard pumpkin are fussy cut from the patterned paper.

 

For this next card I started by backing the chipboard frame with the jack-o-lantern faces paper. Next I layered a sticker, a die cut, and a brad. Topped them all off with a sticker sentiment. The final embellishment was the placement of the four glitter enamel dots.

 

This last card was inspired by those awesome witches legs! Though it would be fun to have them dangling down on the front of a card, complete with their orange glitter buckles!

 

Here's hoping you all have a frightful and spooktacular Halloween this year!!!!!

Tonya

Halloween Tags

 

Hi there! It's Ronda here today to share with you three boo-tiful halloween tags.  

I love this time of year and especially love creating tags for this season. Tags are a great little project to get your creative juices flowing. I like to hang them up together as decoration and then use them either on my layouts or all together in a mini album.  

Supplies:  Frightful: Frightful Words Paper, Mixed Bag, Decorative Brads, Chipboard, Other: Ranger Ink Wakley Media Paint, Golden Paints, Uniball Vision Black Pen. 

On the Little Monsters tag I painted the background purple. I like using pops of color with the typical orange & blacks.  Purple is definitely one of my favorites to pair with those colors.  Once my background was dried, I layered the frightful words paper on top, ripping the bottom edge to expose the purple.  I added some burnt orange paint to the paper and then began layering my elements.  

 

Those witch legs are so stinking cute paired with the banner! I wanted to bring some of the black color to the top so I added the little monsters banner along with the 31 pennant and two chipboard bats.  The pumpkin brad looks great as the final pop of color.  

  Supplies:  Frightful: 6x6 Paper Pad, Decorative Brads, Chipboard, Stickers, Other: Golden Paints, 

On this 31 tag I also started with a pop of color, a dark turquoise.  I mixed the turquoise with a little bit of white paint to break up the dark color.  I grabbed my 6x6 paper pad and picked out this frightful piece of patterned paper to layer on top.  The white against the turquoise really stands out. 

 

I didn't think this tag needed much more so i just layered a few pieces here and there.  The sticker arrow to the top is paired with the fun spider.  

Did you notice there are three around the page? Three is always a good number in design.  I adore the giant sparkling 31 chipboard frame so I made it my focal point of this tag.  I love that it echoes the design of the patterned paper.  I finished the tag with the chipboard "October 31," adding that touch of white to the bottom.  

Supplies:  Frightful: 6x6 Paper Pad, Mixed Bag, Decorative Brads, Chipboard, Stickers, Enamel DotsOther: Ranger Ink Wakley Media Paint, Uniball Vision Black Pen. 

The Boo Crew tag is all about pairing patterned paper.  Again I went to my 6x6 patterned paper pad and pulled out a few sheets.  I wanted an orange base without too busy of a pattern so this orange chevron was perfect.  Next I layered the same pattterned paper in three different strips across the top of the tag.  By using the front & the back of the paper plus adding some purple paint, I really changed up the look and stretched my paper.  

I created a rosette "flower" out of patterned paper in a simple white & black design.  I added the brad circle on top changing out the small brad for a larger one. Don't be afraid to change up these fabulous brads to suit your design esthetics. I then added another brad element and a sticker circle design to the background before adding my rosette piece on top.  

The enamel dots around the page add that perfect pop of color and reinforce my circle elements around the page.  

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Home Decor

Hi everyone Laurel here.  As a child I was never really a fan of Halloween (well I loved the candy but the dressing up part I could do without).  As an adult I still am not a huge fan of it – I have never been creative enough to come up with good costumes!  However, I LOVE to decorate my house for it, especially if I am able to create my own items. 

 

Supplies: Frightful:  12 X 12 paper – Zig Zag;  Mixed Bag;  Decorative Brads

 

Today I have an altered witch’s hat for you.  I picked it up on clearance after Halloween last year.  I was happy to put it to use this year.

 

 

I used the Frightful collection and just went to work.    It really didn’t take that long and will look great with the candlesticks and witch’s shoe that I have on my hearth.

 

I wrapped some black tulle around the base and then tied it into a bow.  I then just tucked in some of the ephemera from the mixed bag.  One of the spiders is cut with my Silhouette and embellished with a brad.  The others are fun glittery plastic ones I picked up from the Dollar Store. 

 

 

 

My favorite thing about making my own decor pieces is that they are then one of a kind and that is fun!

 

Laurel

 

I'm So Fancy Blogger Event with My Mind's Eye

This month My Mind's Eye hosted a fabulous and fancy blogger event to celebrate the launch of our new party and stationery products.

The theme was "I'm so Fancy" and we glammed up our offices and welcomed 70 local craft and party bloggers to join us for a fun and fancy evening.

We decorated with our party products including an amazing fan wall photo booth using all our gorgeous gold foil and glitter fans.

Here are the ladies of My Mind's Eye who planned and prepped to make this party happen.

From the left: Paige Hill (social Media), Jen Dicou (Project Managing), Amber Packer (Designer), Marcia Cornell (Owner), Jen Allyson (Product Designer), Renee Stosich (Product Designer). 

The backdrop included this giant glitter sign - and the food table had gorgeous cakes from Cakes de Fleur, macarons from Seine Macarons, Croissants from La Caille, and Organic Cotton Candy from Maison.

Here's the party from the balcony above. The room looked so awesome and there were so many great bloggers there having a blast!

Marcia, the owner of My Mind's Eye, took a few minutes to talk about the genesis of the company and how it's a dream come true to be creating gorgeous party and stationery products in addition to our designer scrapbooking products.

After she spoke, everyone partied, took pictures, ate yummy food, cake, cotton candy, macarons... and of course we crafted!

There was a lot of fancy photo boothing, and KC (Lead Sales Guy) had the pleasure of doing the fancy giveaways. 

We had so many awesome bloggers attend, here are pictures of a few of them entering on our gold carpet! Recognize any faces?

To see more pictures taken by the bloggers attending, check out #mmyfancyparty on Instagram, and be sure to follow My Mind's Eye on instagram too!

We had so much fun showing off our party and stationery products and meeting the fun and talented bloggers who were able to attend. Hopefully we can do this again next year!

Photography by Mark Heywood and Cara Stosich

Halloween Treat Bags

Hey there, everyone!!  It's Lea again with some cute ways to give treats as gifts!  Halloween is on Friday, and I have created a couple of different fun gift ideas for friends & family!

 

Supplies: "Frightful" collection - 12x12 papers (Dots, Frightful Words, Pumpkin), 6x6 paper pad, chipboard elements, decorative brads, Mixed Bag, & enamel dots.

I used tons of products from the Frightful collection to create my little treat containers!  The little plastic holders are filled with candy corns, & they are super easy to put together.  The boxes are filled with maple frosted pumpkin spice cookies.  They require a little more time, but are definitely worth it!

The candy corn gifts were actually made from some of the plastic containers that MME washi tape comes in!  Normally I put things like that right into the recycling bin, but for some reason I held on to them....and I am so glad I did!  After filling them with candy corn, I added a strip of 6x6 paper & washi tape around the middle of each container.  I hung chipboard ornaments from the top of each one, then tied a bow to the same side & covered the bow in a decorative brad.  To finish I added diecuts & enamel dots to each one.

After baking & frosting the cookies, I assembled three cupcake boxes, & added the cookies into them (each box holds 7-8 cookies).  I wrapped 12x12 paper strips around each box to start.  Then I tied ribbon around each box, & topped the bow with a decorative brad.  Then I added sentiments & accents to the front & top of each box using chipboard and diecut shapes! 

Because the items I used are either not wrapped or homemade, these gifts would be best for family & friends that know you.  But you can always switch out what I used to wrapped candies & baked goods if you want to give them to people you don't know as well. 

Here is the recipe for the cookies if you want to make them!

Pumpkin Spice Cookies

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour or gluten-free flour blend
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Pampered Chef Cinnamon Plus
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
• 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
  
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease baking pans.

Combineflour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon plus and salt in medium bowl. Beat sugar and butter in large mixer bowl until well blended. Beat in pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract until smooth. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Drop large spoonfuls onto prepared baking pans.

Bakefor 15 to 18 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Maple Icing

• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
• 2 cups confectioner's sugar
• 3 teaspoons maple extract

Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat.  Add the sugar & maple extract to the butter; stir until smooth.  Add more sugar if you need a thicker consistency, or add hot water a teaspoon at a time for thinner consistency.  Frost cooled cookies.

I hope you enjoyed my Halloween treat post today! 

Lea

Mini Albums with Monika | October 2014 Edition

Our Canadian friends have already celebrated their Thanksgiving and here in the US, we're just weeks away. As we head into the season of thankful thoughts and counting our many blessings, I wanted to share a free download along with my project today.

 

Hi, Monika here and welcome to another...

 

Supplies | Jubilee Mint Julep -  "Wild" patterned paper + flair pins, "Beautiful" patterned paper, "Journey" rub ons + journal cards, Jubilee "Live It Up" transparent frames, "Ride" label stickers; Jubilee Tangerine - "Awesome" patterned paper, "Adventure" flair pins, "Honor" label stickers; Jubilee Sherbet - "Enjoy" patterned paper, "Pretty" flair pins; Just Sayin' enamel dots and shapes, transparent frames; Other - binder rings, doily, glue stick, stapler, tab punch

 

 

I'm adding a little twist to this month's mini album project, actually it was a first for me, but this entire mini album has been created without a single photograph. Gasp! I challenged myself to let the awesome array of My Mind's Eye products "stand in" for places where I would usually use a photograph.

 

 

The Setup

The left side of the spread has a thankful journaling card {in a colorway that works well with the Jubilee collection} and the right side of each spread has a different patterned paper embellished with flair buttons, transparent frames, letter stickers, chipboard elements and journal cards...and sometimes a combination of two or three items...making for a chunky, layered, colorful mini album.

 

The Design Elements

I had a vague idea of things I wanted to include in my Thankful mini album, so when browsing through the Jubilee collection, I noticed that I could create and craft my album with just the supplies I had on hand.

My thinking was that I could incorporate the design elements from the MME collections to help the reader picture what I had journaled.

 

Let me show you how I did it.

 

Using the Transparent Frames from the Just Sayin' and Jubilee Live It Up collections, I inserted frames between my thankful journal card on the left and my patterned paper on the right side. I even added Rub Ons and Letter Stickers to the frames!

 

Layering Chipboard Elements is one of my most favorite ways to add depth and dimension to layouts and mini albums.  For the feather page, the coral rectangular shape had a sentiment that didn't fit my project, but served as a perfect anchor for my other elements. 

 

The polaroid frame comes with the photograph chipboard, but I separated the two items, and added the chipboard arrow between the two by adding foam squares to lift the frame off the page.

 

I might just be a little bit in love with the Rub Ons. I used them in a few projects earlier this month for the October challenge and haven't stopped playing around with them since. Here, I used them on a transparent frame and on patterned paper to highlight a flair button.

 

 

The Album

 

One can never have enough layers, I think it adds a bit of surprise and makes me want to keep turning the pages to see what comes next. Sure, I could have begun with just the thankful journal card, but instead I opted to add a transparent frame that I stapled a chipboard element to.  I lined it with patterned paper so that the raw chipboard wouldn't show through to the back side of the frame. I popped a chipboard frame atop the journal card and it fit perfectly. And no, I didn't plan it...it just happened, lucky me.

 

 

All these little pieces come together to help me tell my thankful story: life is an adventure, the good life...all a part of what I want to document.

Using journal cards is always a favorite way to jumpstart a story for me. So many times, they spark a memory of a moment that needs to be documented.

 

And the butter that holds this biscuit together are the awesomely gorgeous patterned papers, don't you think. And who says you can't cut into your favorite piece of paper? Not me...here I've trimmed the gold glitter nerdy glasses paper to use as journal card.

Go ahead, it's okay. I say it's better to use your paper and enjoy it than to save it and never see it.

The Downloads
Don't forget to download your thankful journaling page. And, I've also included what I journaled on the left side for each right side page decoration.

 

JOURNALING

 

THANKFUL CARD

 

 

Have fun and until next month,

Throwback Thursday

Supplies: Jubilee - Wildberry: Diamonds patterned paper, 6x6 paper pad (blue, red, and stripe), transparent frames, mixed bag, decorative brads, chipboard, sticky notes, journal card; Misc: white and black cardstock, black ink and pen, foam tape.

Today I am "throwing it back" 14 years to the time when my 16 year old was an adorable little 2 year old toddler.  His FAVORITE thing to wear every day was his special helicopter hat that his Grammy mailed to him.  I love his sweet grin, round cheeks, and the fact that he is only wearing one Blues Clues shoe!!

 

Even though the Jubilee Wildberry collection is very feminine with floral patterns and a lot of pink - I was able to find the perfect elements to coordinate with the colors of the photo. I used a piece of the diamonds paper as the foundation for my page and cut around the blue diamond edge. 

 

I layered 3 6x6 papers with a strip of the green paper. I tucked a journaling card under the photo and layered the black transparency title "Always Wear a Smile" over it.

 

To the left of the photo, I layered the "hey" white cutout, from the journaling cards package, with the "2" and "adorable" pieces.  I added foam tape under the "life is an adventure" and blue labels and inserted brads.  I finished the page off with the "Friday" sticky note, "lovin' it" chipboard, and banners from the mixed bag.

 

I always enjoy scrapbooking photos from the past: reminiscing about cherish memories and marveling at how much family members have changed.  

 

Non-Traditional Fall Cards

Hi everyone Laurel here with some non-traditional fall cards.  I love using non themed paper to create themed projects.  I was given the fall card assignment and I challenged myself to use one of the collections that wouldn’t be thought of for fall.  I decided on the Jubilee Sherbet collection.  I paired it with the Necessities Wood Grain collection for a bit of shabbiness.

First upis this sweet card. Of course when I think of fall I think of leaves so I created this simple card using some of the Jubilee post its which tied perfectly into the theme I was aiming for.

 

 

I then thought of the cooler fall days and what better way to warm up than coffee with a friend.  Some stamping and paper piecing and a simple quick and easy card was created.

 

 

Finally, I decided to really layer it up to create an out of the ordinary fall card. 

 

 

Products Used:

Jubilee:  Sherbet 6 X 6 pad, post its, enamel dots

Necessities: Woodgrain – 6 X 6 pad, brads, enamel dots

 

Thank you! Have a wonderful day!

 

Laurel

Fall Decor

The weather has cooled, the leaves are cascading down and the rain has started…must be time for fall. My front door was in need of a little something. I found a wire pumpkin at our local craft store and went to town decorating with various My Mind's Eye products.

Supplies: Necessities- Woodgrain Monogram Alphas, Wood Decorative Tape, 6x6 Designer Paper Pad Frightful- 6x6 Designer Paper Pad Cut & Paste- Presh "Good Times" Decorative Stamps Lost & Found- Breeze "Boyish" Buttons Miss Caroline- Fiddlesticks "Lucky" Twine Decorative Tapes Set- Pink and Orange

The tag above was cut out using a tag die from Papertrey Ink. I stamped it with the leaf and berry image from the Cut & Paste Presh stamp set. Colored in the leave with Copic markers and added a little Wink of Stella glitter to the berries. The word happy was die cut from one of the papers in the Frightful Halloween line. Finished it off with some sequins, twine, hand dyed seam binding and that adorable button.

 

For the word 'FALL' I used the large letters from the Necessities Woodgrain collection, gussied them up a bit with the glitter tape. Lastly I covered the clothes pins with some orange decorative tape.

 

Glad you stopped by today. Happy Fall Y'all!