My Mind's Eye Blog

Adventure Layout

Good Morning!
 
It’s Alexes here again! Yesterday I shared a 9x9 layout of my beautiful baby girl but today I want to share a really fun and adventurous layout with you all!
 
Some of you might know that my family and I just made a big move to the great state of Alaska, and over the past year we’ve done a lot of exploring! This page features some memories of our trip to visit Portage Bay, an absolutely breath taking glacier!
  


 
I’ve been wanting to experiment with oversized type for a while now and I thought this would be a great way to try it out! I used my silhouette to cut out the title and I used my Selphy to print out the 3x4 photos that run alongside it.
 

 
Then I just started adding embellishments after embellishment! I love these ahhmazing wood veneer, they’re awesome because they’re much thicker than normal which give layouts some great dimension AND they’re adhesive!! Win, win if you ask me! Adding some brads in between added some additional color to the page.
 


 
Then I used a bunch of these label stickers to add another strip of embellishments below the title.
 


 
After adding a few more stickers, some enamel hearts, and one of those adorable arrows, I felt like the page had evened out and was finished in the embellishment area
 
I toyed around with idea of adding a thin line of black ink around the edges of the cardstock but I thought that might cut off the feel of the page and I loved the freeness of it!

What do you guys think? Should I have added the line around the edges or do you like it how it is?
 
Thanks soo much for stopping by, I hope you’re all having an awesome Wednesday!

Let's Eat Cake

Hi everyone! Tonya here with you today. Have you all seen the new dies that My Mind’s Eye released at CHA? There are some great and versatile designs, plus they all cut AND emboss. Today I have two cards to share with you. Both of them use the same cake die, but in completely different ways.

This particular die is from the Niche line Fancy That Cut & Emboss plates. On this first card you can see how the die embossed the layers of the cake as well as a cute little scallop frosting edge on each layer. I die cut the cake twice, once from a pink card stock (for the cake) and a second time out of a shimmery grey ( for the cake pedestal). Then I just cut the two pieces right between where the cake meets the pedestal (there’s a nice embossed line there that make this super easy to do) and adhered them together.

Products: Fancy That- 6x6 Paper Pad, Blush Decorative Brads, I Do Sequins, Pearl Mixed Bad, Kiss Enamel Shapes 

Niche- Fancy That Cut & Emboss Plates Cardstock: Pale Blossom (Canvas), Polished Stone (Glimmer)

 

Then I embellished the cake with those new awesome sequins in the Fancy That collection. The sentiments came from a mixed bag of die cuts.

 

 

For this next card, I used the negative shape from the die cut and made a shaker window. 

 

Products: Hello World- 6x6 Paper Pad, Beauty Enamel Shapes Niche- Fancy That Cut & Emboss Plates, Party Time Foam Stickers On Trend- Happy Sequins Cardstock- Tropical Surf (Glimmer)

 

I filled that shaker window up with new sequins from the On Trend collection and also with some little micro beads and chunky glitter from my own collection. Then topped the cake off with a glittery gold foam sticker and a glittery gold foam sentiment too!

 

 

I can tell that I am going to be getting a lot of mileage out of these new dies and all of the brand new cardstock will be the perfect companion to go with them. Have you seen all of the colors and the different types. I think my favorites are the Glimmer (a beautiful shimmery sheen) and the Mini Dots.

Travel Themed Scrapbook Layout

Supplies: Hello World: World Map patterned paper, Here & There patterned paper, Flowers patterned paper, 6x6 paper pad, mixed bag, chipboard, rub-ons, decorative brads, sticker sheets, enamel shapes; Misc: Blue thread, black ink and pen.

 

I am so excited about all the fantastic new lines released at CHA!!  One of my favorites is the new Travel themed "Hello World" collection.  The colors, patterned papers, and embellishments are wonderful and so versatile!

 

I had fun using this line to document our favorite vacation - a cruise to the Mexican Riviera in 2009. The colors matched perfectly with this picturesque picture of my children playing in the golden sand on the beach in Cabo San Lucas. (the last photo I took with my Canon before if fell into the ocean when I was hopping into the glass bottomed boat - so happy the memory card was saved)

 

I used the b-side of the World Map paper for the background of my page and framed it with the aqua blue patterned paper.   I used the 6x6 map paper, a 6x6 light blue paper, and a navy blue journaling card to create the mat for my photo. I rounded the corner of the map paper and circled our location on the map - how awesome to visually mark where we were!! I added an epoxy arrow and a "You are here" rub-on.

 

I cut a strip of the chevron striped paper,to tie in all the colors of the elements, and inserted a large brad in the top.  The bottom strip of blue and cream paper is a 6x6 sheet that I cut in half and trimmed.  I covered the seam with the red tag and grouped chipboard and stickers around it.  I LOVE the letter sticker sheet included in the sticker package - great for titles!!  I placed the "Oh the Places We'll Go!" layered brad on the right corner of the photo to anchor the page.

 

I slid the journal card under the photo and layered a vellum tag from the Mixed Bag under it - love the transparent look.  I added the blue enamel chevron shapes and continued them onto the photo. For the finishing touch, I placed a chipboard banner piece and two banner stickers, and a date tab.

 

I can't wait to scrapbook more vacation photos with this new Travel themed collection!!

 

Tamara

 

New Collection Reveal : Hello World (GIVEAWAY!)

 

Happy Sunday MME fans! Welcome back to day two of our new collection reveals.

Today we are sharing our fun travel-themed colleciton... Hello World by Dani Mogstad.

Playful, vibrant, and comprised of primary colors with pop .... this collection will give you wanderlust for sure! 

Have you been holding off on creating that vacation album? Now's the time to finally make it. Hello World will add the perfect finishing touches to your travel photos.

Hello World contains:

+ eight 12x12 double-sided patterned papers

 

 

 

+decorative brads

+ journal cards

+ chipboard

+mixed bag (die cuts and ephemera)

+stickers

+wood veneer (NEW!!!)

+flair

+rub-ons

+enamel shapes

+photo overlays/transparencies

+sticky notes

+6x6 double-sided paper pad

 

 

That GLOBE! Those banners! My head is spinning with the possibilities!

So what do you think? Are you loving Hello World ? Let us know in the comments and you will be entered to win the entire collection.  Share the collection or your favorite piece on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook (make sure to use the #mymindseye hashtag!) and you can enter again. Just leave the link!

***WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY, JANUARY 19.

Good luck and Happy Commenting. See you tomorrow with our third reveal- hint: it's something totally NEW for us!