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weekend inspiration: my minds eye

 

 

 

Sue loves Christmas papers and embellishments so she was very excited when she saw the latest release from MME - Vintage Christmas.  Sue keeps a separate album for her Christmas pages and loves to look back over the years and see how her children have grown and changed.  Sue has used the wonderful sticker sheet that is available in the Vintage Christmas collection.  It has provided most of the embellishments for her page.  To make them easier to work with, Sue always adheres the stickers to cardstock and then cuts around the images.  It adds thickness to the sticker and allows her to mount them on her page, at different levels.  Stickers are a wonderful, cost effective way of embellishing a page.  And how gorgeous are those vintage Santa images?

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How gorgeous is this layout created by MME Design Team member, Tina Walker.  Tina has used the sticker sheet and papers from Kate & Co. collection, Cambridge Court.  We love how Tina has kept her background fairly neutral allowing the beautiful pops of pattern and colour to shine through.  Tina has positioned her adorable photos in the top left corner and then used the sticker sheet to embellish. What a clever design. 

 

 

We also loved this fabulous 6x12 page by Tina Walker.  She has combined two gorgeous My Minds Eye collections - Find Your Wings & Fly and The Sweetest Thing and lots of alpha stickers to create this soft and romantic layout.

 

 

Jana Eubank showcases the gorgeous soft colour palette of the Cut & Paste collection in this beautiful page.  We love how the diagonal lines of the patterned paper draw the eye to the centre of the page.

 

 

Finally we’ve found these beautiful cards by MME design team member Danni Reid, using the Cut & Paste collection, word stickers and cute speech bubbles.

Designing with…. a new reader’s challenge!

 

 

We’re starting a new readers challenge here on the Aussie blog and we’d love you ALL to join in!!  Each week we’re focusing on trends from CHa and a different product, or product type, and we’ll spend the week sharing great examples of the use of that product.  By the end of the week we’re hoping you’re inspired enough to create your own layouts to send into us, which we’ll feature on in a post each Monday.

This week we’re looking at one of the hottest trends from CHA Summer – delicious Chalkboard, as well as stickers in general – alphas, elements, icons – all our old favourites.  You might not be able to use these exact ranges on your projects because they’re fresh off the CHA shelf, but of course we want to see our own suppliers used in your projects.

So all you need to do to win a fabulous prize pack of chalkboard and sticker products is to send us an image of a layout, card, project life page or even a beyond-the-page project that showcases an innovative use of chalkboard or other stickers by next Sunday 25th August.  Each week we’ll choose our favourite to receive a prizepack.   Email us at [email protected] with your photos.

Stand by for our own amazing design team’s work tomorrow to continue to inspire you, but for now here’s some from our manufacturer’s design teams!

 

 

To start you off with some inspiration, here’s some fabulous projects and products from some of our favourite brands’ design teams…

My Minds Eye – Chalk Studio

 

 

 

 

Fancy Pants – Merry Little Christmas

 

 

 

 

Fancy Pants – Collecting Memories

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fancy Pants – Happy Go Lucky

 

 

 

 

Teresa Collins Designs – Memorabilia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bo Bunny – Zip A Dee Doodle..

 

 

 

Bo Bunny – Autumn Song..

 

 

 

Bo Bunny  - C’est La Vie

 

 

We’re so looking forward to seeing what you can all do with chalkboard and stickers!!!

2013 cha summer: my minds eye

It’s a stunning and huge release from My Mind’s Eye.  Cut & Paste is their major collection with four different colour ways, there’s two beatiful Christmas lines, Happy Haunting for Halloween and the very on-trend Chalk Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: my minds eye

 

 

 

 

Iris has always been a huge fan of My Mind's Eye. The reason - beautiful patterned papers with a whole matching collection including washi tapes, chipboard shapes, dimensional stickers, buttons and brads, stamps.... they thought of everything! Here, Iris takes a little bit from several embellishment packs to create this layout. Then she added a colourful outer border to the layout using torn washi tapes.

 

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This time, Iris creates a Project Life page using the tags from the same collection.

 

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Stacey is a big fan of the My Mind's Eye ranges and here she has created a funtastic layout using the Collectable collection.  In this collection there are 4 different colour schemes and this one is called Unforgettable.  She primarily took the yellow, mustard and turquoise colours out of the collection to suit the photo of her little boy.  She really loved the hexagon paper and couldn't help but cut some of those out and layer with foam tape.  The decorative buttons where also a great addition to the layout as they come in different shapes and sizes.

 

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Thankyou to Belinda Spencer for allowing us to share her Silly Faces layout.  Here Belinda has used the Collectable Notable collection. Her picture just matches in perfectly to the colours of this collection. 

 

Felicity Wilson has kindly shared her gorgeous creation with us using a little mix of 2 Collectable collections "Notable" and "Remarkable".  We just love her fun use of circles and her bold boyish colours.

 

 

Kim Price has also given us inspiration here with the Collectable Notable collection.  Her mixed media work is just fabulous teamed with the Notable paper.  The cute button adds a little more interest to this amazing piece.  Thanks for allowing us to share your work Kim.

 

 

Tina Walker is completely obsessed with scrapbooking and mixed media and love how they both embrace all types of medium, styles, and techniques. When asked If she had to describe her 'style', she said “I'm a craft chameleon.  I move (and am comfortable) with one style to the next; clean, graphic lines, to mixed up and cluttered.”  Tina’s work can be seen in various magazines (Scrapbook Trends, Creating Keepsakes, and Somerset Memories) and she is also on the Design Team for My Mind's Eye. She shares with us today, two amazing My Mind’s Eye layouts that will make you want to create asap! And a bit about the layouts...

Her first layout “Can you see me now” makes a beautiful sample layout for the new collection, 'Find Your Wings and Fly'. It is one of her all time favorites

 

 

Tina Walker’s 2nd layout “Believe in Yourself” showcases her love for sunbursts...they are free, fresh, and fun!  Tina really wanted to make a bold statement about her son, so a sunburst was the perfect design element for him.

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My Minds Eye has the most amazing coordinated paper ranges and Louise just loves the colour ranges . When you are scrapping everyday moments these ranges with the word stickers are just perfect to document the moment/memory.

 

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Jane needed to make a male thank you card for a friend and found that these papers were perfect even though the cover on the 6x6 pad was predominantly female tones. She die-cut the word ‘Thanks’ out of two of the papers and chopped off the ‘s’ so she then could add the small word ‘You’ separately which was from one of the other papers. Jane said that by layering the two die-cut pieces over each other it creates a shadow and makes the word stand out more. She also created a chevron banner to add more style to the card.

 

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You have to love a stamp set that has words, frames and motifs in it, they all compliment each other and make creating a card a breeze. Jane used the circle designs with a VersaMark inkpad to create a subtle background on the rouge card, she also stamped the square floral design on one of the pink papers for pizazz. Small flowers were cut from one design and the sentiment was stamped within the frame and cut out. Jane also used the flower punch to add a creative edge on the card.

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We would like to say a huge thank you the the fabulously talented Gina Rogers for allowing us to share all the above layouts created by her using beautiful My Minds Eye paper ranges.

cha winter 2013: my minds eye

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: my mind’s eye

 

 

The All is Bright collection from MME is a beautiful mix of vintage images and patterns and is perfect for scrapping your Christmas photos.  Sue has always adored Rhonna Farrer's designs so was very excited when MME released this collection.  Sue has hand cut many of the gorgeous images and layered them together with rosettes and the beautiful brads, to create this fun page.

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My Minds Eye never fails to impress and inspire you with their lovely Christmas collection releases and this year their Winter Wonderland is stunning.  The colour combination of red, blue and green throughout, together with the matching chipboard elements, stickers, twines and buttons make it a fabulously fun range to work with.  Leanne has created three cards with the 6x6 paper pad and some of collections co-ordinating embellishments. 

 

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Leanne designed this card to allow a treat of some kind to be included.  The pocket gift tag has some added decorative elements added so when the treat is removed the card still looks complete.   The 6x6 paper pad papers are double sided so the tag pocket need only to be cut once and you still see the two patterned effect.  Leanne then added some trim and co-ordinating chipboard buttons to finish it off.

 

Using the house themed chipboard buttons as a springboard Leanne created this card with her neighbours in mind.  She added a little sparkle to the chipboard elements with clear glitter pen and used a border punch to add some detail to the cards layout.

 

 

For this card Leanne used a simple block patterned background and added some bling and ribbon to finish off.  The sentiment embellishment was created from one of the mini tag pages included in the 6x6 paper pad.

 

We need double page inspiration around Christmas time, and though ours certainly isn’t winter, there’s plenty of inspiration to be found on this multi photo layout by MME DT member Shelly Jaquet.  She has used the All is Bright collection, and even has hidden journalling under her tag in the top left hand corner.

 

 

This gorgeous page was designed by Sarah Klemish using Lost and Found 3 Ruby collection.
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Jana Eubank from the My Minds Eye Design Team created this stunning layout using the Winter Wonderland collection.  Jana incorporated the fun chipboard embellishments together with buttons, decorative tape and other co-ordinating journaling elements to showcase her son, Owens, snow day fun.  Thank you for sharing your lovely layout with us Jana.

 

 

 

 

Michelle Woerner created these two gorgeous cards using the Winter Wonderland collection.  The Christmas tree was created from paper strips and Michelle added a piece of ribbon along the bottom of each tree piece.  The use of stamped little snowflakes on the background created a perfect backdrop to showcase the tree.  Thank you Michelle for sharing your beautiful cards.

weekend inspiration: my mind’s eye

 

 

 

After Suz took her son to the WWE Wrestling recently, she was thrilled that her son wanted to scrap some of their photos, even though the patterned paper that inspired him was one of her new MME chevron designs!  You can see his fab effort above, and as a dedicated scrapbooker, Suz of course had to scrap Alex scrapping his page..!

She used a slightly eclectic mix of paper from the Follow Your Heart – BeAmazing line as well as the newer Indie Chic range.  Note the WWE title – it came from one that actually started off saying ‘SWEET’, which (with her kids) might have started in the packet forever!  You don’t have to take them at face value though, and a simple letter sticker over the top works to customize her flags.

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Chris created these delightful cards using The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine.  My Minds Eye has put together such an amazing collection of embellishments, stickers and papers that Chris says this set of cards came together so easily once she started layering all the elements.

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We loved this beatiful layout by MME DT member Karen Grunsberg using the Sweetest Thing – Tangerine line, and how much detail she has worked into this single page.  Not just a handful of photos but meaningful journalling and a great design. 

 

We also adored the simplicity of this layout by Stephanie Howell, using a mix of The Sweetest Thing ranges.  The soft colours work so well together and that gorgeous layered flower draws your eye directly to the contrasting black and white photo above.

 

We’ve also got this head turning page by Jana Eubank, using the new School Daze Six by Six paper pads, combined with the On the Bright Side collection. 

 

We just love the way our guest contributor Tanya Fleur has used the My Mind's Eye All Is Bright range especially the christmas tree she has created with the All Is Bright twine.  Thank you Tanya for sharing such a great idea with us!

 

Finally, This sweet card by Savannah O'Gwynn really caught our eye!  Here's what Savannah had to say "I used both the My Mind's Eye Honey paper pad and washi tape to create this card. I love that I can stamp on the tape--soooo fun:)"  Many thanks for sharing Savannah!

2012 cha summer: my minds eye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: my mind’s eye

 

Suz loved the gorgeous depth of the colours in the Indie Chic Ginger range but stuck to a fairly monochromatic palette and very subtle patterns for this page.  MME Layered Chipboard gives a pop of colour and she had fun using one of the Martha Stewart ‘Punch all over the Page’ Flower punch to expand the theme of the photo. 

 

 

Sue was really drawn to the On the Bright Side collection from MME. The collection is full of wonderful bright colours that are a little muted which makes them nice and easy to work with. Sue chose papers to co-ordinate with the photos of her daughter Lily, releasing a monarch butterfly that they raised from a caterpillar. The On the Bright Side collection contains a fantastic accessory sheet which is die-cut.  Sue used lots of the die-cuts to embellish her page.  Canvas flowers from Prima, that have been coloured with glimmermist, along with a Hambly overlay and stamped butterflies added the final touches that Sue needed to complete her design.

 

Anabelle O'Malley created this lovely page using the MME Follow Your Heart line. Here's what Anabelle had to say about her page: "My son created himself and my husband out of Lego mini figures. I wanted to do a fun, graphic page using MME's Follow Your Heart range. I love the hexagons and added them to my page, adhering some with foam adhesive to make them pop.  We love the simplicity of Anabelle's design.  Thanks Anabelle for allowing us to share your page.

 

 

We loved this layout by Karen Grunberg using the Indie Chic Saffron and Nutmeg ranges.  She has fussy cut and layered the large flowers and laid it over the more subdued netural pages for a really eye catching page.

 

We love double pages and this one from Jana Eubank is a wonderful example. She has used the Indie Chic Saffron and Ginger lines which pop so beautifully on the grey background.  You can see this page in more detail here on the MME Blog.

2012 cha release: my mind’s eye

 

 

 

 

new years resolutions: louise williams

 

 

Louise W doesn't normally like to make resolutions but this one was one she knows she will keep. After a crazily busy year and too much working, she's resolving to spend more time just playing with her boys and being with her family. She chose to hide her journaling on a shipping tag and tuck it in behind the flower cluster so the layout still had a lot of white space to balance it.

By using a mix of My Minds Eye and Prima products, she has created a festive layout without using the traditional Christmas colours of red and green, but ties in the common New Years tones of gold, black and white.

weekend inspiration: my mind’s eye

 

Sue loves MME products. She adores the soft, prettiness of the Blush range which suited Sue's photos of Lily, perfectly. Often the MME papers are so beautiful, they can be daunting to cut into. Especially the glittered papers. The papers are designed in such a way that you really could just place your photos and embellishments straight onto one backing paper, and be done.

But Sue does like a few layers in her pages, so she has cut into them, utilising the bird cage image from one side of the paper, and the soft green pattern from the reverse. You may not notice when you first look at the page, but Sue has used one of the transparency frames and cut it into pieces to create a border of pink flourish around her photos. It helps to add another layer.

Sue has also used the gorgeous MME brads, along with Prima felt leaves and flowers. Her chipboard has been altered with Tim Holtz Distress Crackle paint.

 

 

The combination of grey and yellow with the touch of aqua make the Lost & Found Sunshine range a joy to work with. The large range of coordinating embellishments meant that Kim found it so easy to find the perfect finishing touches for this family layout.

 

This gorgeous layout was designed by Nicole Nowosad. Nicole and her family are lucky enough to live close to a beautiful beach, just outside their city. Nicole says they visited the beach in late Summer and were the only people around on one stretch of the beach. Her children were playing so well together and Nicole captured the moment with her camera.

Nicole knew she wanted to print her photo in sepia tones and it matched the MME papers beautifully. The soft aqua, mixed with cream, yellow and grey were really perfect! Nicole just love the touches of glitter in the line too, and had to use it! We think she has done a fantastic job. Thanks Nicole!

christmas reflections: iris

 

 

 

 

 

Iris takes a few sheets from the My Mind's Eye Christmas line and transforms a few wooden plate holders into a table centrepiece for Christmas. A Prima bouquet and butterfly completes the look for this vintage piece.

2011 cha summer: my mind’s eye

Knowing you can’t have too much of a spectacular thing, My Mind’s Eye has released a second series of Lost and Found – beautiful tones that make you just ache to scrapbook.  There’s also Halloween, a couple of Christmas lines that might just knock your socks off and a heap of 6x6 Pads in new designs perfect for cardmakers!  See here for all the images.

 

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Louise just loved creating these 3 layouts from the new My Minds Eye Stella & Rose - Mabel Range!! What she loved most was the versatility of the 6 x 6 paper pad from the range; inbeing able to paper decorate and embellish her layouts. As you can see she has not let her scraps go to waste, especially on her last layout.

 

 

A big thank you to Natalie May for sharing this glorious double layout featuring her beautiful daughter Jessica. I love how Natalie has used the pattern from the paper to create flower clusters and to create her own hand made flowers!! Just beautiful!

cha winter 2011: my mind’s eye

We’re thrilled to announce that we are once again representing My Minds Eye, and our design team for one can’t wait to get their hands on some of these softly beautiful patterns which are a trademark of MME.