Happy Friday!
Today is a BIG day for My Mind's Eye! They are celebrating their 2 Year Blog Birthday! Of course, they are celebrating the only way they know how, with a GRAND CELEBRATION!
It has been TWO years since they have started their blog! It is their Birthday, and YOU are invited to join the party! If you are just joining us, you may want to begin the blog hop at My Mind's Eye, so you make sure to visit each blog.
Today, My Mind's Eye is having a Blog Birthday Hop, and they are giving something BIG away! Did I mentioned it was BIG?? Are you ready? By playing along with MME, YOU could WIN ONE of EVERY New release shown last week!!
One lucky winner will win one of everything in MME: Six by Six, Mischievous, 12 Days of Christmas, Lost & Found Christmas AND Lost & Found 2! Think of all the lovely papercrafts you can create! You might even share with a friend. Well, you might! {*wink *wink}
July has been a month of excitement, and a calendar filled with daily activities. Now, my children have also attended summer school, so this added another detail to the calendar. Note to self: please do not enroll the kids in summer school next year! LOL Of course, I am thinking about myself, because my kids have truly enjoyed every day! Especially, Roman. This summer he decided to take up a new activity, learning how to play the electric guitar! It has been so much fun watching him practice, and ask questions each day. Tomorrow, is his last day of guitar practice at summer school. However, I will have a SURPRISE for him after school. He will continue his guitar lessons, and he will be very Surprised!
Now, I also like surprises, and I was very Surprised to find this Sunshine Collection in my box. I knew it would be perfect for this photo of Roman. The yellow in the papers just makes you happy! My son does make me very happy, and he truly has a heart of gold!
This is one of the pages I created for CHA,and I am looking forward to creating with the entire Lost & Found 2 Collection:
"I will love you forever"
details:
I love the gold, and black combination on these papers! The plaid is my favorite! Since it was a page about my sweet Roman, I chose to create circle medallions as my embellishments. I layered each one, and accented with stars. Now, the layered brad embellishments in the package, can be taken apart. Do not be afraid of mixing, and matching to create your own unique embellishment!
I really liked the notebook scallop border, and used it to anchor my photo. This paper had a vintage feel to it, so I decided to use a filmstrip diecut along the bottom. I originally was going to layer a different piece of patterned paper underneath each window. However, the one color of patterned paper seemed to be all my page needed.
Okay, here are some of the Blog Hop details:
- Start at the My Mind’s Eye blog, and “hop” on over to every blog you are sent to.
- Each of the 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!
- When you hop back to the My Mind's Eye 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)
The blog hop will close Sunday, July 31, 2010 at midnight.
There will be two ways for you to win:
1) Grand prize: After visiting every blog, email Amber the secret words. One winner will receive one of everything in Summer CHA 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!
Good luck to all of you, and your next hop is over to the talented Tamara Jensen!!
Thanks for reading today, and may you have a "cool" weekend! It has been HOT the last few days. I am looking forward to the cooler months ahead. (I know, I have some time in front of me, but I can hope. Right?)
Beautiful LO! The papers you chose are perfect.
Posted by: Samantha T | July 24, 2011 at 07:09 AM
Love how you made the medallions - they look great on this layout!
The paper line you chose is awesome - I love the color combos and the patterns - so versatile for boy pages!
Posted by: Hilde/Scoobie | July 24, 2011 at 07:45 AM
I LOVE your layouts!!! The composition and color choice is wonderful and I hope you don't mind if I copy a few of your ideas! What a great talent you have and thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Vangee | July 24, 2011 at 08:22 AM
Handsome layout and a handsome boy! Thanks for sharing your talent.
Posted by: Robin Mowat | July 24, 2011 at 08:26 AM
Love the colors and the different shaped embellies that have to used. They all work so well together!
Posted by: Heather L | July 24, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Love the colors, great layout!
Posted by: Jody B. | July 24, 2011 at 01:54 PM
I'm sure the surprise will be appreciated by this obviously charming young man! Great layout, too!
Posted by: Ruth | July 24, 2011 at 02:58 PM
Enjoyed your blog!
Posted by: Kelly Reisacher | July 24, 2011 at 04:26 PM
Awesome boy page...I love the colors!!
Posted by: Melissa Vettorel | July 24, 2011 at 05:07 PM
Another amazing layout and color usage. Great job.
Posted by: Yvette | July 24, 2011 at 05:38 PM
What a handsome little man and an equally stunning layout!
Posted by: Kim M | July 24, 2011 at 05:45 PM
Great lay out! The sunshine color is so happy!
Posted by: Taneha Littlejohn | July 24, 2011 at 06:46 PM
Loveee all your layouts!!! You are sooo talented!!!!
Posted by: Monica E. | July 24, 2011 at 07:27 PM
great layout. thanks for sharing your blog with us! :)
Posted by: Stephanie M | July 24, 2011 at 07:35 PM
Really love this layout, just the right amount of mixed elements.
Posted by: sandra m. | July 24, 2011 at 07:35 PM
Suzanne... Terrific LO... I really like the yellow and gray colors in the sunshine collection... This is the first Blog Hop that I have done... it is a lot of fun and it is so awesome to meet people online and share ideas... this is great! Happy 2nd Birthday to MME!!
Posted by: Rebecca Pritchett | July 24, 2011 at 08:32 PM
I love this collection - I requested it when our LSS asked what we want to see, along with the Blush collection showcased on Jana's blog. Love how you made a great boy lay-out
Posted by: Charmaine | July 24, 2011 at 08:57 PM
Fabulous Layout...TFS :)
Posted by: Francisca M | July 24, 2011 at 09:29 PM
I love your layout and the colors that you used. I am a big fan of MME. Thanks for sharing
Posted by: Shauna Carlson | July 24, 2011 at 10:00 PM
give me that gold!! love love love...your layering of all the fab borders and brads and cool papers is awesome as always!
KateB
Posted by: kate blue | July 24, 2011 at 10:27 PM
I love love the Lost & Found 2 collection and your layout is stunning!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Mandee | July 24, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Love the colours and the layout xxxx
Posted by: Rikki Graziani | July 24, 2011 at 10:46 PM
LOVE IT!! Your LO is so cute.
Posted by: Erica Houghton | July 25, 2011 at 04:32 AM
Ack! That hat! That hat is killing me it's sooooo cute!!! I love how you pulled off using damask on a boy layout. Genius.
Posted by: Rebecca B. | July 25, 2011 at 05:41 AM
Wow, there is so much talent on the MME team. This layout is stunning!
Posted by: Jennifer Roach | July 25, 2011 at 06:10 AM
Love this page. I have a son who has done some theater and this would be a perfect scrap lift! ;) Thanks to the MME blog for leading me to your site.
Posted by: amycrops2@aol.com | July 25, 2011 at 06:21 AM
Love how you used gold as your color to coordinate with your "heart of gold" saying, very cool!
Posted by: Cathy D. | July 25, 2011 at 06:23 AM
Great layout~
Posted by: Michelle | July 25, 2011 at 07:06 AM
Oh Suzanne this is adorable! I love the photo, the colours and the layering is to die for :0) Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!!!
Posted by: Ali | July 25, 2011 at 07:15 AM
Oh my!!! This is entirely fabulous - beautiful!!! I love the colors and I’m just totally addicted to all of MME’s brads. Anytime I see them on a LO I fall in love with them all over again!! Beautiful job!
Posted by: Heather I. | July 25, 2011 at 08:16 AM
What a lovely layout! So far I am wanting alllll of the MME collections!!! Happy 2nd blog Birthday!
Posted by: Tammy | July 25, 2011 at 09:01 AM
I really like the Lost & Found collection..super fun!!
Posted by: Heather Donahue | July 25, 2011 at 09:39 AM
Love this! I love boy layouts!
Posted by: Katlott07 | July 25, 2011 at 09:43 AM
great layout, love the colors, thank you.
Posted by: angelic | July 25, 2011 at 09:45 AM
I love how you made your picture "pop" in this layout!
Posted by: MelissaO | July 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM
what a handsome little man!
Posted by: Minh | July 25, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Great layout! I really like the different dimensions/textures.
Posted by: Season Hoogstad | July 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM
I really love your layout! Of course, I really love MME too! TFS!
Posted by: Kristin | July 25, 2011 at 11:37 AM
I absolutely LOVE how the yellow offsets the blue in your son's shirt! Great layout! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Posted by: Ashley | July 25, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Really cute layout. Handsome little man too.
Posted by: Marie D. | July 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM
A great layout, and such a handsome boy.
Posted by: Raven | July 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Hope your son was pleasantly surprised!
I hope I have the word right too for this blog hop!
Posted by: Jan | July 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM
What a great layout! Love it!
Posted by: Vera W. Yates | July 25, 2011 at 01:01 PM
What a great LO! Love the color combo too!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Happy scrapping :-)
Posted by: Kerys | July 25, 2011 at 01:01 PM
beautiful layout - so many great details! I love the softness of the yellow and blue - really makes the photo the main attraction!!
Posted by: Rona | July 25, 2011 at 01:40 PM
I'm from Missouri and Black and Gold is the Univ. of Missouri colors and I love them too, they look great on your layout.
Sunshine looks like a great collection.
Posted by: Barbara Greenberg | July 25, 2011 at 02:28 PM
Who knows, maybe Roman will be a big rock star with his electric guitar! Super cute layout (and kiddo).
Posted by: kim castillon | July 25, 2011 at 02:35 PM
Gorgeous layout!! This is becoming one of my favorite color palettes for boy layotus!!
Posted by: Aimee K | July 25, 2011 at 03:12 PM
Love the layout! Love the hollywood look!
Posted by: Marlene Gomez | July 25, 2011 at 03:49 PM
I always love your boy layouts!
Posted by: StephD | July 25, 2011 at 03:50 PM