My Mind's Eye Page & Card Challenge {American Made}

Today, the newest Page & Card Challenge is up on the My Mind's Eye Blog. I have been wanting to scrapbook the following photos of Gabi for awhile now. Once I received the American Made Collection, I knew it was perfect for them.
This challenge gave me the opportunity to finally have these in an album.

I love the new American Made papers. They are perfect for the summer celebrations, and the perfect palette for everyday, too!

Here is the page I created for the Page Challenge: {Perfect Harmony}

 

Now, this month's challenge is to use song lyrics on your page. My favorite song is Over The Rainbow, so originally, I was heading another direction. However, once I saw the photos of Gabi with Coke, I decided to use the Coke theme song for my page. Now, I do drink diet coke, maybe too much of it! My kids very rarely will drink coke of any type. However, I saw the bottles at the grocery store, and picked up a few. It reminded me of my Father who's favorite drink is a cold Coke, but it has to be in a bottle! I prefer a fountain drink myself.
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I used the words from the theme song, as part of my title. {perfect harmony}
The diecut frame had another graphic inside, but I simply took my exacto knife, and cut the inside portion, and instantly had a frame. I layered a piece of patterned paper underneath, and used a Tim Holtz alpha,as part of my title.
 

Now, with a Fourth of July page, I felt the need for pleated flowers! They are perfect for the celebratory feel of my page! I added a touch of white seam binding, and very tiny stars as accents. I did use metal tags to layer on top of the pleated flowers!

Card Challenge:{Liberty}

After creating the above page, I wanted to create a Fourth of July card too! I tried to stay as close to the sketch as possible. However, I omitted a few things, and added bits of trim in its place! Pinwheels, and pleated flowers are perfect summer time accents!
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A little glitter, glittered punched stars, and trim from the Lost & Found collection finished my card beautifully.
Now, to enter the challenge simply hop on over to the My Mind's Eye Blog. There you will find the Page & Card Sketch along with other inspiration projects from this month's Guest Designer, Misty Willis!
Thank you for reading today, and who is ready for summer? 

 

Comments

[Amy H]

Seriously? How stinkin' cute is that layout!?! And the card, too! Wow!! Love it!

[Ashley]

This layout is completely gorgeous! Did you cut out the "perfect" in your title with a Tim Holtz alphabet die? I have been looking for a small alphabet die like this one.