i'm really excited to be joining my mind's eye for the month of october, as their guest designer! if you head over to their blog, you can read my post, where i shared a bit about myself and my family, how i started scrapping, and shared some of my favorite my mind's eye layouts from over the years. keep in mind, some are newer layouts. and some are super duper old layouts (like 4-5 years). i've used my mind's eye products since the beginning of time, and have always loved them!
this was a new layout that i created over the weekend. i used the lost and found: sunshine collection, in great yellow, brown, and aqua colors. that yellow polka dot paper, on the background, is that great paper i mentioned before. with the glitter around the edge of each circle.
i choose some of my favorite photos of us, from a family get-together back in june. i love all the cool frames apps and square photos that people are doing these days, with their iphones and smartphones. but i'm not cool enough to have a fancy phone like that, and i can't pry the girl's ipod touch's out of their hands long enough to use for taking photos. so when i saw the new insta-frames, by audrey neal, i knew i had to have them. it gives the same look, but i can do it with any photo i have. i just added the frames, and cropped my photos to fit. after printing these all out (at 2 inches square), i trimmed each one and adhered to my layout.
in my head, i thought the 6 photos would fill up the space well. i must have mis-judged, since 9 photos would have worked better. so i just cut some squares of pattern paper, to fill in the gaps on my little collage. which worked out well, to handwrite just a few facts about the photos.
i love the die cut title pieces, for pulling a layout together quickly. this one here says "such a lovely day". it also has glitter around the edges, which ties in nicely with the background pattern paper. i adhered it with lots of pop dots, and tucked some decorative pins behind it.
the burlap trim is nice and thick, and added some great texture to the page. i adhered a strip of it down the left side of the page, and then embellished it with brads and buttons. you see the layered pieces? those brads come just like that, with the layered paper pieces behind them. they are so quick and easy to use. i love premade products like that!
i'll be working on quite a few projects over the month, for the my mind's eye blog. i'm really looking forward to it, and hope you'll keep your eye out for me!
Hi laura,
I love love this layout. Congrats on being a guest designer for the month. I know you love MME products and so do I.
It looks great with the pictures and the little squares with writing in them, looks balanced and fun. Those are great little squares and the brads/buttons are AWESOME!!!
love all the colors and textures here, way to go.
My computer was down last week so I have to catch up to your posts now. Hope you and family are doing well.
Posted by: dawn | October 04, 2011 at 02:39 AM
I saw the announcement on the MME blog yesterday and was so excited for you! Congratulations! MME is one of my favorite companies too... But even though I have a nice stash of their (gorgeous) papers, I end up jealously hoarding them, haha! I'll have to start using them up :)
Posted by: Natalie (QSOgirl) | October 04, 2011 at 05:20 AM
Oh yippeee, another place for me to see you work this month...and SO LOVING MME products in the past 6-7 months. They are coming out with some GREAT new lines and I love their brad packs- getting quite a collection of them now, they are the PERFECT thing to finish off a page. You did another great job- you amaze me every.single.week.
Smiles from PA - which we may actually get to see the sun for the first time in nearly 10 days. yippee!
Posted by: Janet | October 04, 2011 at 05:22 AM
Loooove the Burlap with the random button placement. So cute. I always love how your layouts are so clean and linear but have random tidbits of awesomeness.
Posted by: Jen Day | October 04, 2011 at 06:10 AM
This is such a neat layout, Laura! Love it!
Posted by: Vera W. Yates | October 04, 2011 at 06:50 AM
Congrats Laura on your guest designing spot with MME!! I also love their products, your layout is great, you're really good at getting lots of photos onto a page and it always look so neat and clean, luv that!!
Posted by: Laurie | October 04, 2011 at 07:07 AM
I found you through My Mind's Eye and am now your follower -- I love your style!
Posted by: Patchi | October 04, 2011 at 09:57 AM
Congrats on being guest designer at MME. Love them, and I love this new Lost and Found collection. Love how you used. it!
Posted by: Debbie Piercey | October 04, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Laura, I love this layout with the small pictures. Super cute!
Posted by: Stephanie | October 04, 2011 at 01:04 PM
Hey girl! Congrats on the DOTM (designer of the month)! I know how much you love MME! This layout came out so cute! And the pics really go well with this color scheme! I saw the MME entry yesterday but for some reason I couldn't leave a comment...will try later.
Congrats again! Well deserved!
Posted by: CarTar | October 04, 2011 at 04:46 PM
great layout! I really love the paper that you used! I'm a sucker for aqua and I usually pair it with brown or pink or orange or black... but yellow??? LOVE!
Posted by: Jill | October 04, 2011 at 07:42 PM
Congrats on the guest spot at MME! A perfect match, if you ask me!!! :D
Posted by: jen shears | October 04, 2011 at 08:31 PM
a huge congrats!!! and your creations with their products is amazing. loving that layout :) gorgeous & congrats again! {can't wait to see more more more more} ;)
Posted by: piradee | October 05, 2011 at 09:45 AM
I can not tell you how much I love this! I am addicted to my iphone camera & this LO would be PERFECT for some of the pics I took on our last Disney trip--took a ton of pic with my phone!! And CONGRATS on the designer of the month!! I am off to find some of that paper--the glitter has me in a trance! ;)
Posted by: Sara Rossi | October 05, 2011 at 06:29 PM
Congratulations...you obviously deserve this honour...and it is always so cool when others recognise one's talent and creativity! I look forward to much inspiration and creativity and am excited to see all your pages.
Posted by: Denise van Deventer | October 09, 2011 at 05:21 AM
FAB FAB layout!!!!
Congrats on the GD gig too girlie!
xoxo
Posted by: Wendy Morris | October 09, 2011 at 08:35 PM
i really like this design!
Posted by: Krista Lund | October 11, 2011 at 12:23 PM