My Mind's Eye Blog

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

Going for the Gold

Supplies: Just Sayin': Belong patterned paper, Believe patterned paper, Posies patterned paper, alpha/word stickers, decorative brads, chipboard; Jubilee - Mint Julep:  mixed bag, transparent frames; Necessities: Metallics Monogram Alphas; Misc: foam tape, light brown ink, white thread, Tombow Mono liquid glue.

 

My sweet 14 year old daughter,Torianne, had a pretty exciting day last month.  After countless hours of hard work composing her own songs on the ukulele - she had the opportunity to record them professionally.  It was amazing to see her album "Up" appear on iTunes and Amazon!  We all started screaming with excitement - it felt like the scene from "That Thing You Do" when they hear their song on the radio for the first time!

 

I wanted to capture the excitement of that day and the sweet, uplifting feeling of her music through this layout.  I used a lot of gold foil and gold glittered elements on my page. The pink background paper from Rhonna Farrer's Just Sayin' - perfectly echoed the lines of the bridge on her album cover and draw you eye "Up".

 

The bold foil monogram letters "UP" were the perfect title for the page. TIP: I cut off the top of the chipboard sheet and used it to add dimension to my letters.  Much cheaper than foam tape!

 

I printed her song list on the blue lined paper. I used the gold foil number from the Jubilee Mint Julep "mixed bag" to number her songs.  I added foam tape underneath to "pop" them off the page.

 

 

TIP: I used the green bottle of Tombow mono multi liquid glue on the back of the "Shine" transparency.  I only applied it on the printed letters and let it set for a few minutes.  Then you never see the adhesive through the transparency!

 

I layered the transparency, Just Sayin' word stickers "Best Day Ever!" and "Perseverance", glittered chipboard "Today is the Day", and decorative brads.

 

For the finishing touch - I added her name with the fabulous gold glittered Just Sayin' alpha letters.

 

Tamara

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!

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!

Collection Spotlight | Necessities Wood

Hey there, everyone!  Missy here. The layout I’m sharing today focuses on the beautiful Wood papers from the Necessities collection. 

 

I decided to use the 6x6 paper pad to back a die cut I found in the Silhouette store.  I love that backing die cuts allows you to use lots of different patterned papers.  There are so many shades and types of wood papers in the paper pad…whites, greys, tans and browns. 

 

I chose a photo of my daughter wearing a bright (and hard to scrap) colored shirt.  I think it really pops against all the beautiful raw and natural wood papers.  I like that it really stands out, and the focus is on the photo.  Usually if a photo contains a hard color, I’ll change it to black and white.  But I really love this photo in color, so this is how I showcased it.

 

Supplies: Necessities Wood 6x6 Paper Pad, “Word Wood” paper, Wood Decorative Tapes, Wood Decorative Brads, Wood Shapes, Wood Alpha & Word Stickers, Wood Monogram Alphas, Black & Grey Decorative Brads; Other—Silhouette Cameo, cardstock, grey thread, cord, white pen, brown Sharpie.

 

Here you can see up close the details of the die cut and some of the different patterned papers.  It does take some time to cut each piece out by hand, but the result is so worth it!  It creates this beautiful mosaic look in the end.  I added in some cord here.  I like that it looks neutral, just like the colors in the layout, and it also adds interest and texture.

 

These wood shapes are to die for!  They stick really well, and they can be used just about anywhere.  I used them close to my photo to draw more attention to it.  There are also a ton of these adorable Word & Alpha stickers in this collection.  Almost every shade of wood color is available.  And don’t forget about the large monogram alphas.  I have loved using them on layouts as a large focal point.  I used the R here for my daughter’s initial and simply added bits and pieces on top of it.

 

Here is another angle of the die cut, the layering and the wood pieces and brads.  I love adding in those little elements at the end of my design process.  A few of those brads are from the Black & Grey Necessities collection.  I love how all of these MME lines work so well together!

 

I hope this gives you some ideas on what to do with the Wood collection.  Pick a photo that contains colors that are hard to coordinate with and make a neutral background.  It really does help the photo to stand out!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

Missy

Monochromatic Layout

Hello! Valerie here today. The end of summer is upon us, but I'm hanging on tight to these last few days and celebrating with another summer layout. Before we know it, it will be time to make those back-to-school layouts. 

SUPPLIES:Now & Then Milo "Little Things" Anchor paper and Izzy "Dream Big" chipboard elements. Necessities Black & Gray "Stripe" vellum paper and enamel dots. Blues enamel dots and decorative brads. Other: Silhouette Cameo, American Crafts Thickers & cardstock, pen.

 

I have been almost exclusively mixing the Necessities line with Market Street, but when I chose these photos, I knew it just had to be Necessities with Now & Then this time. I gravitated toward a very monochromatic color palette with this layout and love how it really makes the photos pop. 

I started this page in Silhouette Studio. I picked this circular raindrop shape I originally designed for another purpose, and decided on a horizontal strip of photos. I kept the colors all very soft and similar for a great texture effect. 

 

Next time you sit down to make a layout or two, I challenge you to try a monochromatic scheme. And remember, monochromatic isn't just shades of white and black. It can be any color. I'd love to see what you make. 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Valerie

Anatomy of a Double Page Layout | July 2014

Hello everyone! This is Shelly returning again this month’s dose of the makings of a double page layout.

I was sitting on a bench watching my kids play in the sand and splash in the waves. That is when it hit me. OH! This would make the perfect memory to be scrapped using the new MME Necessities line! Yes, that was me. I like to think I am not the only one out there that is living in the moment and enjoying it, but then a creative idea pops into your head of how you want to get this memory on paper. Right?!? Please say I am not alone.

So, here it is... fresh off of my scrapbook table, our annual beachy memories that were captured over our family Fourth of July vacation that happened only a few short weeks ago. This has to be a world record for me to get a memory scrapbooked this quickly. I guess when the creative impulse hits, you better run with it!

Supplies: Necessities: Blues –  “Confetti” Vellum Paper, Foil Monogram Alphas, 6x6 Paper Pad; Reds – “Stripe” Vellum Paper, “Triangle” Paper, Glitter Monogram Alphas, Decorative Tape, 6x6 Paper Pad; Wood – “Light Wood” Paper, 6x6 Paper Pad; Metallic – “Dot” Vellum Paper, Metal Dots; Other: String

You will notice throughout my process, I tend to switch out different pictures along the way. I almost always order a few extras for that “just in case” moment, which I inevitably always have. You will also note that I continuously switch the “Elsie” picture too. Why is it that I couldn’t get a grasp on how I wanted that to be? The funny thing is, after taking pictures of the layout for this post I realized I needed her name to be upside down just how I took the pictures.

Here is my sketch I worked with. What kicked started my process this time around, were the two horizontal detail shots. I wanted those to shine on my page by printing them 4x6. I still wanted to have a 4x6 shot of the typical kid face picture too, and that is when I decided to print the two vertical shots of each of my kids. Having those (4) 4x6 photos pretty much dictating my design, the rest of it just flowed to have a few smaller shots.

I pulled out the Necessities Blues and Reds just how I had envisioned while sitting on the beach watching my little ones play. The light wood patterned paper was just meant to be for the background. I was so happy that it worked beautifully with the color of the sand.

After having those on my desk, I added in a pop of gold. I wasn’t sure how the role of gold would play just yet on my layout, but I knew this layout would need a pop of it somewhere along the way. Maybe the letters? A gold vellum sun? A brad or two here or there? Only time would tell!

After pushing around pretty papers and cutting a few up, I had a plan that I loved. It was great how the woodgrain background gave the vellum papers a beautiful soft feel. For the title, I opted for the blue with a touch of red. I tried on the gold letters for size, but it just didn’t give enough “wow” factor to the title for it to stand out. So the quest for gold continued…

Then it was time to fill in some of that open space. I know the banner craze started a long time ago, but come on, they are just too fun and versatile not to bring them back into play every once and while.

Swooping them across each side of my layout created a path for my eye follow and let me add in a little more texture and color too. It also gave me the perfect opportunity to bring in that pop of gold I was itching for.

To create my banner, I got out a couple of my trusty circle punches; creating a stack of colorful circles from the 6x6 designer paper pads and a shiny gold stack of circles from the gold dot vellum. Then I simply folded them in half and wrapped them around white string.

Thank you for stopping by for another glimpse of what happens inside my head while I create a double page layout. I hope I have given you a little bit of inspiration to create one of your own. Have a wonderful day!

 

Birthday Scrapbook Layout + Bonus Card | by Valerie O'Neall for MMME

Hello! It’s Valerie with a multi-photo birthday layout and a card for you today. My son’s birthday party photos are one of my favorite things to scrapbook. I love comparing year to year and always can’t believe how much he has grown and changed.  

Supplies:My Mind’s Eye Necessities Teals and Black & Gray 6x6 paper pads, Blues enamel dots & enamel shapes, Teals enamel shapes, Reds alpha & word stickers, Teals alpha & word stickers, Blues alpha & word stickers, Blues decorative foil tape.  Market Street Ashbury Heights 6x6 paper pad. Now & Then Dorothy “Lovely Day” enamel shapes. Other: date and phrase stamps, paint, mist, Silhouette Cameo (font: Barrio).

I grabbed a couple 6x6 paper pads and picked some patterns I thought coordinated well with my photos. I love playing around with typography and decided to make a big, emphasized, repetitive title. I adhered my photos to the page with some decorative foil tape from the Necessities collection. And then a birthday layout doesn’t seem complete without some splatters of paint—like confetti.



I took the birthday layout, and using a sketch of it, created this card from the sketch. I had extra letters left over because I cut out some extra knowing I’d create a card too. Who doesn’t always need a stash of extra birthday cards ready to put in the mail for friends!?

Anyone else ever use their layouts for card inspiration? I challenge you to try it next time you sit down to scrap.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Pie Chart Scrapbook Layout | by Missy for MME

Hey there, friends!  It’s Missy here with you today.  I have been really inspired lately by die cuts.  If you own a Silhouette Cameo or another type of die cutting machine, you know how easy it is to get almost any shape you want. 

I love this pie chart shape, and I decided to use it in several places on this layout.  I love the colors and patterns in the Ashbury Heights Market Street line, so I decided to back the pie charts with various pieces of patterned paper. 

I love the shiny gold in this collection, so I incorporated the Metallic tape in gold to the mix as well.  I cut a few smaller pie charts that I didn’t back with paper to add some texture an interest to the white space.  This collection is so versatile and can be used for so many different types of photos.

Supplies : Market Street-Ashbury Heights:Dotted Paper, Shine Paper, Flowers Paper, Label Stickers, Chipboard Elements, Decorative Brads, Flair Button Pins, Mixed Bag, Decorative Tapes, 6x6 Paper Pad; Necessities-Metallic: Decorative Tape; Other—cardstock, Golden Modeling Paste, Crafter’s Workshop Template, Watercolors, Stampendous Ink, Gold Thread, Silhouette Cameo, Dear Lizzy Date Stamp, StazOn Ink, Black Sharpie Pen, Heidi Swapp Color Shine.

The chipboard words are amazing in this line.  The colors are just so pretty, and the fonts are really nice.  I layered one of the mixed bag banners with chipboard here as part of my title.

Don’t these colors and patterns go so well together?  I love how they all look up next to each other like this.  That gold metallic glitter tape…I can’t stop using it!  It adds such a brilliant sparkle anywhere you use it.  I added in some gold thread underneath my photo.  I love the look of a neat page mixed with a bit of a messy factor.

Lots of layering going on here…chipboard, stickers, paper, thread.  Everything coordinates so well together.  I like making sure all the colors in my layout are sort of evenly distributed around the page, and the chipboard pieces make that easy to do.

I hope this inspires you to incorporate die cuts in your projects.  The really do add that little something extra to your designs, and it’s fun to play with them.  They make great layers as well as focal points. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!