My Mind's Eye Blog

Market Street Clipboard Album

Hello everyone! It’s Alexes here and I’m super excited to share one of my latest projects with you all! When it comes to memory keeping two of my favorite things are mini albums and interactive projects, so I decided to combine the two in a fun clipboard album using Market Street!

Supplies: Nob Hill “Framed” Paper, Nob Hill “Glimmer” Paper, Nob Hill “Glow” Foiled Paper, Nob Hill “Sparkle” Foiled Paper, Nob Hill Chipboard Elements, Nob Hill Foiled Mixed Bag,  Ashbury Heights Foiled Mixed Bag, Ashbury Heights Chipboard Elements, Ashbury Heights Decorative Stickers

It was such a simple album to make, and it took hardly any time at all! Those are always my favorite kinds of projects! Being a mom to three kiddos, I’m always looking for easy and quick but beautiful projects and that’s where this album comes in!

 

The first thing I did was to paint my clipboard black and because I didn’t like the look of the silver hardware I decided to glitter it! I took some glossy accents, and with a paintbrush, “painted” a coat onto the hardware. Then I took my favorite gold glitter and poured it on. After dumping the excess off, I gave it a coat of clear spray paint to kind of seal the glitter in place. I love me some glitter but I don’t love when it falls off my projects over time!

The next step was to grab some scraps of leftover paper I had from another project and layer them on top of each other until I had it arranged in a way that I liked.

I had a scrap of this beautiful glitter fabric lying on my desk and I knew it would be a fun addition to this layered album. I love the texture of the glitter but also the transparency of it, leaving the layers underneath visible.

Then I added some of my favorite embellishments from this collection to each of the pages. After adding in some of my “favorite” photos I was all done! See, easy peasy!! And here is what each of the different layers looks like

and here is it all said and done! Hope you enjoyed this project and I hope it inspired you to go get creative!

 Alexes

Valentine's Day Gift Wrap

Hi there, MME friends!  Lea here today to share some ideas for using your My Mind's Eye goodies when you wrap gifts!  I LOVE to give gifts, and I LOVE to make the outside just as pretty as whatever might be on the inside!  And I am always raiding my scrapbooking product whenever I have to put together a gift!

Supplies: Jubilee "Mint Julep" - "Ride" 12x12 paper; Market Street "Nob Hill" - chipboard elements, chipboard buttons, flair pins; Necessities Metallic - alpha & word stickers; Now and Then "Mildred" - "Today" accent stickers; Record It! "Charmed" - enamel dots; other: wrapping paper, glitter cardstock, twine, bow die.


Valentine's day is right around the corner, so I went with a love theme for my gift wrapped projects today!  But, I didn't use the traditional red & pink.  I actually used gold, black & white, pulling goodies from different My Mind's Eye collections to accent the boxes.  These would be great for the man in your life because they aren't super girly, but he might not love all the glitter from the glitter wrap.  :)

I started by wrapping the larger box with glitter wrapping paper.  After that I added added a doily to the side of it, then tied twine around it.  I threaded the gold chipboard button to the middle of the twine bow, then layered a heart sticker & polka dot flair piece underneath it (tucking them under the twine as well).

I added the chipboard piece to the lower corner, added the word love in letter stickers & then accented it with enamel dots.  Are you wondering how I got everything to stick to glittered paper?  HOT GLUE.  It will be your best friend when embellishing gift wrap.  It still makes the package easy to take apart, but everything should stay on perfectly until they open it!

Next up is the smaller box, which I wrapped in some 12x12 MME paper.  After wrapping it, I diecut the bow from gold glittered cardstock, then assembled it & adhered it to the top.  I accented the middle of the bow with a gold chipboard circle.

To finish the small box, I layered a heart sticker & word sticker to the front and then embellished it with some enamel dots.  Easy peasy!

Be sure to make your valentines feel extra special this year by wrapping their gifts up in super pretty products from My Mind's Eye.  They will for sure feel loved by added touch of beautiful packaging!

Thanks for checking out my projects, and I hope that you have a wonderful rest of your day!

Lea

Market Street Layout

Happy Thursday everyone! This is Tonya here with you today. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new collections. Can. Not. Wait. 

 

While trying to be very patient I decided to make a layout using Market Street. I haven’t given this collection the attention it is so deserving of. Now is the perfect time to do just that. 

 

I printed up this goofy picture of myself with my oldest and my youngest. Love this photo as it is just so “us”. I pulled out some card stock to use as my background. It seems like it has been awhile since I have really used it on a layout. Speaking of which did you notice that My Mind’s Eye is releasing their own cardstock that coordinates with the new releases?! Yippee!

 

Supplies: Market Street- “Ashbury Heights” Globe Paper, “Ashbury Heights” Gold Shimmer Paper, Chipboard Elements, Journal Card, Decorative Brads, Foiled Mixed Bag, Decorative Stickers

I’ve used a lot of chipboard on this layout. The quotes on the chipboard strips were perfect to place over the upper left corner of the photo. There is a rather large black truck that is trying to take over the photo and those were the perfect cover up. To dot the ‘j’ I used a decorative brad for a little more visual interest.

 

 

 

I adore the metallic gold and that ‘perfect’ was just that…PERFECT! I snuck in a little 3x4 card from the journal card pack, and added one above the photo too.

 

 

Love those bigger floral die cuts, they add so much to a layout.

 

Lastly, I finished it all off with a striped metallic gold and white chipboard heart. 

 

Thanks for taking a peek today!

 

Tonya

Collection Combination! Market Street + Necessities Metallics

Hi! Tina here today with a layout featuring one of my little pups!

Supplies:Market Street-Nob Hill:Fields Paper,Framed Paper, Flair, Foiled Mixed Bag, Enamel Dots, Decorative Stickers, 6x6 Paper Pad, Decorative Tape, Chipboard Elements; Necessities-Metallics: Confetti Foiled Vellum,Tiny Word/Alpha Stickers;Other: Cardstock:  American Crafts Adhesive: Tombow (tape runner)

I love to scrap about my dogs. My two french bulldogs, Moose & Flikka have such great personalities and this is captured in their photos. Since my children are grown, I don't get the chance to use their pictures in my layouts much, but that doesn't stop me.My dogs are 'willing' (okay - maybe not so willing, but available) subjects, so why not?

I pulled out one of my all-time favorite MME collections, Market Street to highlight this photo of Flikka. Market Street is one of those timeless, go-to collections that will always be horded in my stash! I covered a sheet of white cardstock with a sheet of the Necessities Metallic Confetti Foiled Vellum for a great pop of gold!

I am seriously in love with the color palette of the Market Street range and simply adore it combined with gold!

So I want to know! Do you scrap mainly your family? Or do you like to scrap about your pets and other events? I think it's fun to scrap about the non-typical. It's a great way to expand your creative options and gives you a reason to pull out your favorite MME collection! :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Tina

Mix and Match with Karen | September 2014

 

Hi everyone,

This is Karen. I am back with another Mix and Match layout. For this month, I wanted to experiment with leaving a little more room on the bottom of my journaling page to see if I could find a slightly different
way to unite my two pages without doing a border. So I left some empty space on the bottom and then used washi tape to make strips that go across both pages. Here's a look at my full page:


Even though this page has no border to unite the two 6x12s, the tape going across the bottom and top makes it feel like one 12x12 page. You can read the full journaling here.

Since the Mix and Match posts are all about how you can match your older products with the new ones, I wanted to show you a trick I used on this page. My Mind's Eye uses several differing shades of pink and blue in their products.

Most of the time, I love combining these and it doesn't bother me if they don't match perfectly. But once in a while, I find myself annoyed at a particular shade. In this layout, I wanted to use the joy chipboard piece from the Market Street line and the blue glittered tape from the Necessities line.

The chipboard piece was more of a green/teal blue whereas the tape was more baby blue and I didn't like the way the two sat near each other. So once I finished my whole layout, I covered the chipboard piece with some Stickles that matched my tape.


To many of you, this may not matter at all. But, for me, the end result was closer to what I wanted for this particular layout. I wanted to point this out as an option when you find yourself wanting to use a product but don't like the particular shade of the color.

You can also cover it with clear glitter which will make it shiny enough that the shade won't matter as much. You can also paint it, of course.

To give the layout a bit of balance, I then added two more small bits of glitter. One on the left side, on the chevron and one on the top right on the little heart.


One of the reasons I love washi tape is for its flexibility. After I made my strips going along the bottom of the page, I knew I wanted one on top, too, but I hadn't left enough room on top to allow for that. I knew I wanted to leave a strip of white on top so I was stuck with having to go around the journaling.

To make this look more purposeful, I picked a tape with the Chevron pattern and cut out the edges and taped
it around my journaling.


This way I got the stripe I wanted and having to cut a piece out even added a bit of extra interest.

I created several little and big triangles in this layout. One is with the three little hearts on the right page and the other one is the chipboard flag piece on the top right, the right side towards the bottom and the chevrons on the bottom of the left page. These help keep your eyes focused inside the page instead of wandering out of the layout.

And finally, I added little word tidbits here and there:


To remind myself that one can never achieve perfection and to adhere my pieces with my favorite adhesive, I then stitched all over my page. I like stitching in black because it adds texture and contrast.

Here's the layout once more:


And that's it for September, thank you for letting me share my page and I'd love to see some of yours in the comments!

Product Spotlight | Decorative Tapes- Market Street

Hi!  Tina here today with a great way to use decorative tape to create a frame on a scrapbook layout.

Supplies:Market Street-Nob Hill:Chipboard Elements, Flair, Foiled Mixed Bag, Enamel Dots, 6x6 Paper Pad, Decorative Tape,Journal Card Packs; Other:Cardstock:  American Crafts Twine: American Crafts Adhesive: Tombow (tape runner)

I have a confession.  My love for decorate tape was starting to wane.  I have loved decorative tape for so long and have been inspired by the amazing patterns, colors, and sizes, but had felt the time had come to de-stash myself of my decorative tape collection. 

I felt that feeling of defeat up until the new decorative tape appeared in the Market Street and Essentials collections.  The decorative tape in these 2 collections made me fall in love with washi all over again, and I am again obsessed with adding tape to every project. 

Instead of using decorative tape for hints of color, layers, and pattern, why not make the decorative tape the star attraction?I created a frame around my cardstock with 2 tapes.  I trimmed the corners to mimic the look of a wood frame. 

Using some of my favorite chipboard, sticker, and die-cut embellishments, I layered more goodness across my page.  I even used a journal card for fun.

Tie it up with a bow!

Do you still love decorative tape?  What is your favorite use for tape?  I’d love to know.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Tina

Mixed Media with Karen | August 2014

This is Karen, back with a Mixed Media with Karen for August

This month, I decided to couple my Mixed Media page with my assignment for May's One Little Word homework. Our assignment in May was to make little cards to fit into 2.5  by 3.5 pockets. To just have fun with them and then journal on each of them with the "i am" prompt.

So I went back to my trusty cards from My Mind's Eye and picked a collection that spoke to me. I then cut them all down to 2.5 by 3.5. One  of the cards I pulled had a camera and some hearts coming out of it. Because the cards are 3x4, I lost some of the camera, and decided I didn't want the rest either, so I pulled out some tape and covered it.


I just want to make sure to remind you that embellishments can be altered to your heart's content. I mess with mine all the time. I then pulled out some ephemera from my Mixed Bags and lay it all out randomly.

I moved all the stuff around back and forth until I ended up with something I liked.


I then decided to move on to my second layer, which is where I added paint. I pulled out yellow, red, green, and gold paint. I added some to the edges and sometimes all over. At the end of this stage, my cards looked like this:

and then I stamped each card with "i am", added a few lines of journaling and stitched around the whole card. After which I ended up with these:


And finally, I put them in my album into their pockets:


I also wanted to show you a side view since it shows the shimmer so much better.


This was a fun project that can be as time consuming as you want it to be. Mine took a while mostly because I was having a good time and wanted to just play. I could have left the cards in the first stage after ephemera and they would have been wonderful just that way. So your taste might vary.

I hope you pick up some of these cards and play just to see how much fun it can be!

Thank you for letting me share and see you next month!

Rebecca Part 2

Yesterday we introduced Rebecca Keppel and shared some of her AMAZING projects. If you missed it you'll want to take a look...Click HERE!

Today Rebecca is back and she's providing another blog post full of eye candy. Enjoy!

 

Supplies: Market Street-Nob Hill:Foiled Mixed Bag, Decorative Stickers,Enamel Dots, 6x6 Pad,Brads,3x4 Journaling Card Pack,Washi Tape,Flair Pins,Chipboard Stickers;Necessities-Teal: vellum

Rebecca says: I loved using the Journal Card Pack as a base for a pocket page spread. I used some cards as is and others I embellished with enamel dots, chipboard, Mixed Bag pieces, Flair Pins, Brads and more. For my row of 3x4 slots I alternated photos and Journaling Cards.

For my 4x4 pockets I used photos in every other pocket. For the rest I cut down pages from the 6x6 pad, cut a piece of Teal Necessities Vellum into 4x4 and cut a Ready To Frame 8x10 into 2 4x4 pockets. Those 4x4 parts were also embellished.

 

 

Supplies: Necessities-Teal:all Papers,Glitter Monogram Alphas,Alpha and Word Stickers,Enamel Shapes,Washi Tape

 

Rebecca says:I used the large dots paper as the card base. I sewed a slightly smaller piece of vellum on top. I wrapped washi tape around 3 parts of the large alphas and adhered them to the vellum. I added a piece of washi, word sticker and several enamel shapes.

 

 

Supplies: Market Street-Nob Hill:"Sparkle" Foiled paper,"Starburst" Foiled Paper,Washi Tape,Flair Pins,Chipboard Stickers,Foiled Mixed Bag,Enamel Dots,6x6 Pad,Brads,Decorative Buttons,Decorative Stickers;Necessities-Wood: Wood Shapes; Misc: Silhouette Cameo,Therm O Web Adhesive,Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mist

 

Rebecca says: My FAVORITE layout with Market street is coincidentally called Favorite!I started with the Nob Hill "Sparkle" Foiled paper as the base of my layout. I cut a smaller piece of black cardstock and splattered it with gold mist. Then I took the Nob HIll "Starburst" Foiled Paper and using the new PixScan technology with my Silhouette Cameo I was able to cut out several starbursts from the patterned paper.

I also cut several small circles from within other starbursts using the same technique. I printed small favorite photos in black and white and placed them behind the cut outs.

Once all that was adhered down I just had fun embellishing! I popped up some of the cut out starbursts on top of others. I used Brads and Flair Pins, chipboard, Enamel Dots. I had a blast!

 

You did it again, Rebecca- left us speechless. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us this month, you really made MME shine!

Project LifeⓇ with Shelly | August 2014

Hello everyone, Shelly here! I am back with this month’s Project LifeⓇ inspiration. Today, I am sharing a week in the life using mostly Market Street along with a touch of the Record It! Charmed Collection.

Supplies :Market Street: Ashbury Hill – “Framed” Pattern Paper, 3x4 Journaling Cards, Mixed Bag, Decorative Brads, Designer Tapes; Ashbury Heights – 3x4 Journaling Cards, Label Stickers; Record it! Charmed Journaling Kit; Other – Becky Higgins Design A page protectors, Date Stamp, Black Ink, Corner Rounder

I am finding that the Charmed Collection is the perfect accessory. I mean, what doesn’t need a pop of extra gold? And Market Street is the ultimate companion for it.

I kicked off my inspiration for this layout with that striped “A Week in the Life” card. Oh stripes, how I love thee. With that in place, I knew I needed something with a little less color. That’s when I pulled out Record it! Charmed journaling kit and found the perfect fit for a title card.

The green striped paper has been calling my name since I first laid eyes on it. Like I said, stripes are my thing right now. I trimmed down a 4x6 piece for some added interest along with some short journaling.

The decorative tape was a nice added touch over my picture. I finished it off with an enamel dot that I easily separated from a decorative brad.

The weather actually gave us a little break from the extreme cold and snow, which was great for letting my kids actually get outside to play! The “Happy Days are Here” banner was just meant to be for that open space on that photo.

So there’s another week in the life documented with the ease of pocket pages and MME’s awesome journaling cards. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Shelly

 

Product Spotlight | Market Street 3x4 Cards

Hello there and Happy August!  Missy here today to share a fun layout featuring the beautiful Market Street collections.  I have always been a 12x12 scrapbooker.  Even though I don’t do pocket pages or Project Life, that doesn’t mean I don’t love those small cards that are used for it.  The last several MME collections have had 3x4 and 4x6 Journaling Cards in them, and I challenged myself to create a 12x12 layout using ONLY the small cards from the Ashbury Hill line.  It was actually very easy because they served as my patterned paper.  Once I decided on where to place my photos, I pulled lots of fun embellishments from the Ashbury Heights and Nob Hill lines.  Here is what I created.

 

Supplies:  Market Street Ashbury Heights: 3x4 Journaling Cards, Mixed Bag, Label Stickers, Chipboard Elements, Decorative Brads, Chipboard Buttons; Nob Hill: Mixed Bag, Label Stickers, Decorative Tapes, Decorative Brads, Chipboard Buttons, Flair Pins; Necessities: Metallic Decorative Tapes, Metallic Metal Shapes; Other: cardstock, Stampendous Ink, Golden Modeling Paste, Crafter’s Workshop Template, thread, Sharpie pen, black thread, Amy Tangerine date stamp.

 

I love that so many of the cards have fun sentiments on them.  I decided not to give my layout a big title since there were so many fun sayings scattered all over the page.  I raised my photos up so I could layer chipboard, thread and stickers underneath.  The cards also leave room for journaling.  I strategically placed them so my photos wouldn’t cover up and words, and then the one I journaled on had plenty of space for writing.

 

 I know I sound like a broken record, but I can’t get enough of the shiny gold pieces in these collections!  I layered this fun gold piece with some chipboard pieces and added a fun brad.

I used some of the metallic shapes (the arrows) here as well as some chipboard buttons and sentiment stickers.  I think one of my favorite parts of this layout is the strip of metallic tape at the very bottom.  It’s a rose color, and it is SO gorgeous once you adhere it to your page!  I just wanted to stick it everywhere, but I restrained myself…haha!

 I hope this gives you some ideas on how to use those 3x4 cards on a regular layout.  Just pick your favorite ones and cover up the entire background.  It’s a fun way to get lots of color spread around the page as well as give you lots of fun little titles.  I had so much fun creating this one!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!