Well, my time as a Guest Designer for My Mind's Eye has come to an end. I can't believe it! I have been SO honored to be a part of this FABULOUS DT for a month! These ladies are so sweet, kind, generous, and encouraging. Thank you SO much for having me and I'll still be participating in all the challenges because I LOVE My Mind's Eye!!!

I also want to thank the My Mind's Eye fans!!! You have been SOOO welcoming and I have read all of your comments and responded to those that I could respond do! I really appreciated the warm welcome and support!!

Without further adieu, here is "Courtney Style".

I needed a couple of shape cards of course.

I made the banner for the 4th of July of course, but wanted to share it with you anyway.

And the last project was for a friend's set of twins for the road trips this summer. They were going to drive all over the place and I thought this could keep them entertained for a bit! I also wanted to leave room on each page for them to write down some of the special things that they "spied".

 

Seek Sweetness in Everyday Life

Cartridge: Kate's ABC's™

Patterned Paper:

• My Mind’s Eye: Lush2 “Navy Flower Paper”™ (solid blue)
• My Mind’s Eye: Lush2 “Navy Damask Paper”™ (off white with navy blue damask flocking)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel “Play” Damask Paper™ (light blue for flowers and tag)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel “Little Lady” Fine Flowers™ (yellow with white and blue flowers)
• Brads: My Mind's Eye: Lush2 Brads™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweetest Cupcakes™
• Embossing Powder: Silver from Paper Trey Ink™
• Ribbon: Offray
• Glossy Accents
• Ink: Versamark in Neptune
• White Gel Pen
• Foam Dimensionals

 

Fluttering By to Say Hi

• Cartridge: Kate's ABC's ™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: “Delightful” Blossom Paper™ (brown)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel “Joy” Crocheted Paper™ (tag)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie “Girly” Diamonds Paper™ (grass)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie “You & Me” Ornamental Paper™ (grass)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel “Love” Letters Paper™ (script)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel “So Sweet” Herringbone Paper™ (orange)
• My Mind’s Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie “Girly” Lace Paper™ (pink)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Buggy Punnies™
• Glossy Accents
• Foam Dimensionals
• Twine: Paper Trey Ink

 

4th of July

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Birthday Bash™ (banners) and Cake Basics™ (circle)

• My Mind's Eye: American Made™

• Charms: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hattie "Happy" Bits and Pieces™

• Doily Ribbon: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Little Lady" Trims™

• i-bond by Imaginisce™

• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™

• Crop-a-Dile™

• Eyelets

• Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink in Enchanted Evening Saddle Stitch™

• Twine: PTI™

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Create a Critter™ (sun, clouds), Birthday Bash™ (letters), Straight from the Nest™ (grass and flowers), Life is a Beach™ (cruise ship, lighthouse, birds), Kate's ABC's™(jar, letters for what was being spied (ex. red, small, tall)), Wall Decor and More™ (elephant), Nifty Fifties™ (bowling ball)

• Cuttlebug Embossing Folders: Forest Branches™, D'vine Swirl™, Paper Lace II Companion Folders™, Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy™, Album: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy™, Sticker Stacker:  My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy™, Turquoise Rhinestones: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy™, Stickles in Orange Peel and Diamond ™,

• Glossy Accents™

• i-rock™

• Hot Rocks in Glitter™

I read a lot of your comments and you were wondering how we lived in 450 square feet and where I kept my scrapping supplies. So I thought I would show you!

Yes, that is Casablanca on the TV. I always put movies on in the background to inspire me. Spoon is sitting on the chair next to the one I sit. Under the TV there is the white sideboard. The left side of that is where I hide my die cutting machines, laminator, and paper cutters.

I also have a drawer in the white cupboard behind the couch.

This is what it looks like when I craft. ... when it's clean...

Almost all of my paper and embellishments are stored under the bed in boxes.

This is what it looks like. It's on both sides.

Filled to the brim with yummy My Mind's Eye collections!

Thank you again so much!

What an awesome challenge we had this month.  It was so much fun to see what you celebrate.  Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

We are excited to announce this month’s winners.

Layout Winner: Theresa Neubaum

 

Layout Honorable Mention Winner: Emmy

 

Card Winner: Melissa Bell

To see see all the beautiful entries, please visit the card and layout galleries:

Card gallery

Layout gallery

We hope you will join us next month!

Join us for a grand celebration - My Mind's Eye style!

It's been TWO years since we started our blog.  That’s right!  It’s our two year Blog Birthday and YOU are invited to join in the party!

Here at My Mind's Eye, we love to get your creative juices flowing. What better way to do that than with a blog birthday blog hop and the biggest giveaway of the entire year!?

WHAT, you say!?  The biggest giveaway of the year? Absolutely!!! By playing along with us, YOU could win one of EVERY new release we showed you last week.

Yes, one lucky winner will win one of everything in our Six by Six, Mischievous, 12 Days of Christmas, Lost & Found Christmas AND Lost & Found 2!

Here's what we’re going to do:

• Start here, at the My Mind’s Eye blog, and “hop” on over to every blog you are sent to.
• Each of our fabulous designers will share a secret WORD with you.  Gather each word as you visit the blogs.
• Leave a comment on each blog.
• At each blog, you will be directed to another blog. Be sure to visit and comment on each blog, to increase your chances of winning!

***IMPORTANT: Begin the blog hop at the My Mind's Eye blog so you make sure you visit each blog.***

• When you hop back to this blog, leave a comment saying that you are done AND email all seven words to: amber@mymindseye.com.  (don't include the words in your blog comment)

Our blog hop will close Sunday, July 31, 2010 at midnight.

There will be two ways to win at our party:

1) Grand prize: After visiting every blog, email Amber the secret words.  One winner will receive one of everything in our CHA-S release.  (7 blogs = 7 words).

2) Bonus entry: We will randomly draw one of our designer’s blogs and draw one winner from the comments on that designer’s blog.  This winner will receive the collection of their choice!

Are you ready?  You will first hop from here to … Amber’s blog

To thank you for your support of My Mind’s Eye and making our blog birthday possible. We are happy to celebrate this milestone with you!

Hello!  We scheduled the birthday blog hop to begin at 10:00 am this morning and also set it as a “featured” post.  Featuring it made the post show, but did not show any of the posts and caused some confusion.  We have made the correction. 

Our blog hop will begin at 10:00 am MST today.  Thank you for your patience (and for making us aware of the issue).

Happy Friday!

One of the best parts of my job is giving our designers their CHA assignments.  Seriously!  Which amazing new collection do you get to design with?  It’s like I’m Santa Claus.

I have a cute nephew that has a landmark birthday coming up and I was asked to create an album for him celebrating how much he has grown and changed in the past 8 years.  The new Six by Six collection with all 12 different color and design schemes makes creating an album SO easy.  So, I  assigned myself to change to play with it.

Since this is for a special occasion, I wanted the album to be a little more formal with soft colors that highlight the pictures.  I chose to use the Paris & Co. pad mixed with Lost & Found 2 – Breeze embellishments.  By keeping the design fairly simple and using TWO Paris & Co. pads, this album came together in an afternoon – a record for me!

Since this month marks the 2nd birthday of something we all love (guess what) I thought it was appropriate that I share it on Good Things Utah today.

I’ve included instructions to make it easy to recreate this album for your loved one.  No matter what special birthday is coming up for your loved one, this idea is for you!

Download 2011_07_20_MME_Album Instructions

Lost & Found Christmas Winner: Heather C

WOW! Both of those lines are super fantastic!! I think they are my favorite of your Christmas lines! I really enjoy the playfulness of 12 Days of Christmas, but also am in love with the classic look of the Lost & Found Christmas (plus... I LOVE L&F!) Just stunning!

Posted by: HeatherC | July 08, 2011 at 10:43 AM

 

12 Days of Christmas Winner: Steph Ross

Christmas is such a magical time of year - I'm so lucky that my favourite supplier are making yet another gorgeous line for me to scrap with. Thank you!!!

Posted by: Steph Ross | July 10, 2011 at 09:22 PM

 

Lost & Found 2 – Blush Winner: Brenda Lubrant

You absolutely will not have any problems selling these gorgeous collections. My fab fav is the girl collection. Thanks for the fun peak.

Posted by: Brenda Lubrant | July 11, 2011 at 03:31 PM

 

Lost & Found 2 – Rosy Winner: Valerie

Just another yummy line from the best..wow. I am in love with all the new lines, but this is by far the best and you guys did save the best for last...

Posted by: Valerie | July 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM

 

Lost & Found 2 – Breeze Winner: Ellie A.

Oh goodness me my heart is skipping a couple of beats. Amazing collection! Thanks for the chance.

Posted by: Ellie A. | July 11, 2011 at 10:32 AM

 

Lost & Found 2 – Sunshine Winner: Kathy Aquiar

ahhhh! everytime I look back at it I fall in love a little more! :)

Posted by: Kathy Aguiar | July 13, 2011 at 06:06 AM

 

Congratulations!  Thank you for your kind words about our new releases.  We are proud to offer them to you.  Please email amber@mymindseye.com with your shipping information.

 

Thank you for your wonderful comments.  We will resume our our normal blog schedule on Wednesday.  Be sure to check back on Friday - YOU are invited to a birthday party!

Six by Six winner: Charity Becker

it's a toss up between Paris and Co and Vanity Fair. I guess you'll have to send them all to me so I can make an informed decision!!!!

Posted by: charity becker | July 06, 2011 at 06:55 AM

 

Mischievous winner: Shannon Blinn!

That witch is by far my favorite of the Halloween papers I have seen so far!!

Posted by: Shannon Blinn | July 11, 2011 at 08:32 PM

 

Thank you for all who commented.  Charity and Shannon, please contact amber@mymindseye.com with your mailing address.

With rolling our our newest releases and this being our blog birthday month this is an entire month is a celebration! We thought our challenges should be too.

The challenge: Design a card based on this fabulous sketch and use “celebration” as your theme (by Anam Stubbington).

Remember that along with the sketch, you must use this theme: Celebration

The rules: Use ANY My Mind’s Eye products (current or past) as long as your project has at least 80% My Mind’s Eye products.

The deadline: Add a link to your project to the bottom of this post using inlinkz by Sunday, June 19, 2011 (midnight, MST).  Please include your first and last name and project name when uploading.  (a photo of your layout or project will show directly in the post)

(For tips on how to best photograph your entry, click here)

The PRIZE: The winner will receive three ENTIRE collections of their choice!  We will also award an honorable mention winner with one collection of their choice!  All winners will be featured in a blog post and have bragging rights!

Enjoy this inspiration from our Design Team to help get YOUR creative juices flowing!

Courtney Lee: Big Sur

Featured Collection: Lime Twist 

 

Tamara Jensen: Party Girl

Featured Collection: Hip Hooray – Girl

 

Add your entry here:

With rolling our our newest releases and this being our blog birthday month this is an entire month is a celebration!  We thought our challenges should be too.

The challenge:  Design a card based on this fabulous sketch and use “celebration” as your theme (by Anam Stubbington).

Remember that along with the sketch, you must use this theme:  Celebration

The rules: Use ANY My Mind’s Eye products (current or past) as long as your project has at least 80% My Mind’s Eye products.

The deadline: Add a link to your project to the bottom of this post using inlinkz by Sunday, July 24, 2011 (midnight, MST).  Please include your first and last name and project name when uploading.  (a photo of your card will show directly in the post)

(For tips on how to best photograph your entry, click here)

The PRIZE: The winner will be announced on the blog Monday, July 25, 2011 and receive one collection of their choice!

To get your creative juices going, check out this amazing card from Courtney Lee, our July guest designer:

Good luck!

 

Add your entry here:

We saved the best for last!  Introducing:

That’s right!  We have taken last summer’s splash hit, Lost & Found, and added all new designs, color combinations and embellishments.  We’ve even improved the glittering process. You will enjoy the same amazing glittery effect without as much of it getting on you.

The four new color combinations: Blush, Breeze, Rosy & Sunshine feature so many beautiful papers & embellishments you will have a hard time not using them all!

Each collection features:

• 10 double-sided papers (most of them glittered on one side)
• 5 Glittered Titles
• 2 Decorative Brad packs
• Buttons
• Label Stickers
• Layered Chipboard Stickers
• Trims
• Stamps
• Layered Stickers
• Transparent Frame
• self-adhesive Pearl embellishments
• 6x6 paper pad

You will be amazed at the beautiful projects you can create using this beautiful collection.

 

 

 

Each collection has so much goodness, we are going to spread the goon news around and will have FOUR winners.  One winner will win Blush, one winner will win Breeze, one winner will win Rosy and one winner will win Sunshine.  To enter, leave a comment on this blog post by midnight, July 17 and we will announce the winner on the 18th.

You’ll definitely have visions of sugarplums while creating with our two new Christmas collections!

12 Days of Christmas is a must have with everything a bright, fun Christmas collection needs!  There are trees, ornaments, snowflakes, presents and banners in the fabulous colors of reds, greens, blues and creams.

 

Lost & Found Christmas is a timeless and elegant take on the traditional Christmas papers.  Designed in distressed reds, greens, creams and browns.  With old world style and glitter in all the right places, you will find yourself reaching for this collection over and over.

Both our 12 Days of Christmas AND Lost & Found Christmas (glittered) collections feature:

• 9 Double-sided papers
• Chipboard Accessories Sheet
• Cardstock Accessory Sheet
• Decorative Brads
• Stamps
• Trims
• Layered Stickers
• 6x6 Pad
• Rhinestones

 

We would love to give one lucky reader our 12 Days of Christmas collection and one reader our Lost & Found Christmas collection.  To be entered to win, simply leave a comment on this blog post by midnight, July 17.  We will announce the winner on July 18.  Good Luck!

What happens when you combine traditional Halloween oranges and blacks with off white and add a touch of blue?  A hip, trendy Halloween collection that is truly Mischievous!

Our Mischievous collection is complete with:

• 9 double-sided papers
• Chipboard Accessories Sheet
• Cardstock Accessory Sheet
• Decorative Brads
• 6 x 6 pad

Want to WIN it before you can buy it?  Of course you do!  Leave a comment on this blog post by midnight, July 12.  We will announce the winner on July 13.

p.s. When we reach 500 comments, we’ll throw in a bonus prize!

Calling all card makers, mini album lovers and scrapbookers!  Have we got a new collection for you!

Meet our newest collection:

Six By Six includes 12 different 6x6 all ORIGINAL paper pad designs. Each pad contains 24 double-sided sheets.

As is always the tradition when we roll out new collections, we would LOVE to send one lucky blog readers ALL of our Six by Six pads.  One All you have to do is leave a comment on this post by midnight, July 11, 2011.  We will announce the winner on July 12.

We’d like to take the time to wish our U.S. readers a HAPPY 4th of July! 

(and our Canadian readers a belated Canada Day!)

Since today is a day of celebration, we are taking the party to the Creating Keepsakes Blog and you are all invited!  Our Design Team Lead, Amber Packer, is today’s Creating Keepsakes guest blogger.  She shares this fabulous layout using our American Made collection (with a dash of Lush 1 & 2).  We are also giving away one set of American Made to one lucky winner.  Be sure to join the fun!

In fact, be sure to check back often this month.  It seems like we have something to celebrate almost the entire month!

Your friends at My Mind’s Eye!

Hello!!! I am SO excited to be the Guest Designer for June for My Mind's Eye! I absolutely love their papers, embellishments, ribbon, everything! It's so easy to work with and everything coordinates so perfectly! Okay, you probably already know that if you are reading this blog, so I'll stop there ;)

A little about me...

I started crafting just over a year ago now. I started in May of 2010. So this is all very new to me still! The crafting world has opened up so many doors, new friends have been made, and a new passion has been discovered! I love to make cards and send them to people. I think it's wonderful to get something in the mail other than a bill so I want to share that!

I live in San Francisco with my handsome husband Hans and our sweet Yorkie named Spoon. She is my constant companion. I am a stay at home wife as my husband has a start-up - which basically means I'm a personal assistant, travel agent, office manager, and so many more roles - as most of us housewives have. :) I love my job and am so thankful for the choice that we have made for me to stay home.

I almost never make anything without die cuts (cut by my Cricut). My passion is shaped cards and my newest addiction is crinkled ribbon!

A quick 10 facts:

1. I LOVE boba. If you don't know what it is, you are missing out! If you like gummy bears, you will LOVE boba. It's little chewy gummy-like balls that sit on the bottom of your drink. I know it sounds weird, but it's SO good!

2. I am a redhead but I always told people I was a brunette and they were all colorblind. :) Since my husband likes redheads however, I have changed my tune...

3. Spoon is a spooner. Big time. She is the best snuggler ever! I guess that isn't about me, but isn't she cute!?!

4. I live in 450 square feet. We bought a studio here and you won't believe where I can hide my crafting stuff!

5. I feel like I was born to emboss. I LOVE embossing. I started crafting because I ran something through a Cuttlebug at something called the Maker Faire. I was hooked.

6. I love entertaining. I could host dinner parties every other night (one to prep and then clean the next day!)

7. I have seen 48 of the states - most of them driving to them. I have driven more miles then most people I know. And I'm a huge advocate of being aware of everything around you when you are driving. Be safe. Text later - or pull over.  Typing "LOL" isn't worth dying for.

8. I'm an Apple girl. Don't even ask me to go back to a PC.

9. I'm an open card - ask me any questions you would like! I'm happy to answer them!

10. I'll be at CHA in July (and probably January too). I would love to meet you!

Here are some of my favorite projects!

I did a Woodland Themed Birthday Party (I love doing sets like this!).

Invitation - I wanted it to look like the bee flew from the woods to their house:

Banner:

Cupcake Toppers:

Favors (up-cycled from empty toilet paper rolls):

Thank you:

Let’s give Courtney a big My Mind’s Eye welcome!  Leave some love for her on this blog post by midnight on Sunday, July 10, 2011.  We will announce the winner on Monday, July 11, 2011.

p.s. Be sure to visit our blog next week (hint)!