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CHA Summer 2010 – My Mind’s Eye

July 30th, 2010 — 7:54pm

I’m sorry ahead of time for how long this post may take to load. It’s VERY heavy on the photo side! But also very heavy on the fun side!

I just got back from CHA and I’m exhausted, but I had to share all these lovely photos of the My Mind’s Eye Booth. Particularly the line that I designed called Lost & Found. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll have noticed that I took a bit of a break from blogging. The reason was because I was working my tail off getting this gorgeous line designed! I am so in love with it – but photos just don’t do it justice. It must be experienced in person! The glitter is amazing and the designs are timeless and beautiful.

Here is me standing in front of the display — I should have taken this photo on the first day of the show — at this point, I just wanted to go home and see my hubby.

Lost & Found has all sorts of goodies — including acrylic stamps, layered stickers, 3-d embellishments, trims, brads (epoxy, pearl, flower), chipboard album covers & rings, buttons, alpha stickers, and all sorts of glittery bits and pieces.

My most favorite project at the MME booth was a mini album that Amber Packer created using the “Union Square” papers and pieces. It’s all black, cream, and red — and 100% gorgeous. Don’t forget the amazing red glitter that is already on almost everything in the Union Square collection.

There was another lovely mini album – created with two sets of album covers from the “Market Street” collection. I’m not sure who this one is by, though Amber will probably let me know.  My Most favorite part of this album was the use of my banner acrylic stamps. She must have stamped different colors on cream paper and then cut them out to create these adorable banners inside the mini album.

Here are those stamps — also you can see the awesome coral glitter that is all over the Market Street Collection.

Here are some photos of each of the sides of the display so you can get an idea of how much product is in this line (and why I’ve been missing for so long). I’m tired just looking at it all! That’s 40 double-sided papers folks!

And here are a few little close-ups – hopefully you can see some of the foil glitter detailing.

I can’t believe I didn’t get any close-ups of the buttons! They are one of my favorite items — all the sets look like mixed vintage sets of buttons like you would find in an antique shop – and they are sewn to little unique button cards. So fun!

Here are some of the amazing Lost & Found layouts by the Design Team:

And a few close-ups – notice the crepe paper trim in this one — thats part of the line!

I keep hearing over and over again how easy it is to build layouts with this line. I love to hear that!

And here is one of my favorite photos… if you squint hard enough you can see my teeny little name there by the logo. Love it!

Well thats all the photos I have for Lost and Found. Hopefully you can get a good idea for what the line looks like. It will be in stores VERY SOON — 2-3 weeks! This is a great time to ask your LSS if they are going to carry it though — if they get their order in soon then they’ll get it right after the shops who ordered it at CHA.

Of course this wasn’t the only line that My Mind’s Eye debuted at CHA. There were lots of other goodies too!

First off we have Zoe Pearn’s Alphabet Soup. This line is so adorable! My favorite part are the matching decks of ABC cards. I can think of a million cute things to do with those! The chipboard and epoxy brads are fabulous too.

Next we have Halloween. These two lines are done by Deena Rutter (top) and Carina Gardner (bottom). Blackbird is all illustrated and such a cute line. Haunted is kraft paper that has white printed on it as well as black flocking which feels like velvet. It’s beautiful and such a unique Halloween line. I love both of these lines and hope that they jump off the shelves!

Last but not least, here is Christmas! This is actually my Christmas line called Holly Jolly. I am so happy how it printed out. The colors are very vibrant without looking garish. I think I’m going to cover some wood blocks or something with it. I can’t wait to play! Also I need to get started early this year on neighbor gifts — now that I actually know people here.

Here you can see both Christmas releases from MME – Holly Jolly & I believe.

And finally here is a shot of the booth from the outside… This was at the end of set-up so it’s a bit candid and you can see everyone taking a load off and resting. My favorite part is the vacuum cleaner.

This one is less messy — from the front:

Sorry about the bad quality of all these photos — I’m not the best photographer and the lighting is horrid inside convention centers. Hopefully you got a good feel for Lost and Found and also all the other fun lines that My Mind’s Eye released at CHA Summer 2010! Thanks for reading all the way to the bottom! Maybe next CHA you can come meet me at the show!

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Silly Disguise Kit Free Download

April 1st, 2010 — 12:46am

Happy April Fools Day! I’ve never really celebrated this silly day because I’m not much of a prankster, but I decided to make a silly printable Disguise kit this year. Print out a few of these for your kids to play with after school, or if you’re at work on this fine holiday,  you can wear them around the office if you want to pretend to be Steve down the hall. Heck, if you still have Halloween pumpkins out, or a Santa hanging around, you can dress them up and have instant April Fools decor! I’m sure all of you can think of lots of funny things to do with it!

To download the kit you’ll have to go to Design House Digital’s Blog and download it there, but its free and easy, and in the end you can pretend to be Steve, so it’s totally worth it.

Have a great April Fools!

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Disguise kit is for Personal Use only.

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Some very Crafty ladies

January 14th, 2010 — 3:23pm

If you haven’t checked out Design House Digital because you’re not a scrapbooker, you’re missing out on all the great projects you can make with digital kits that are not scrapbook related. There are some very crafty ladies who are posting fun printable projects and tutorials on the DHD blog, and they are too awesome not to share!

You must see this fun tutorial on decorating a cake:

And if you’ve got a party coming up, consider printing digital designs on transfer paper to make T-shirts:

And if that all is WAY TOO Crafty for you, Melissa Esplin has come out with some beautiful blog kits to help you beautify and customize your blog:

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We’re constantly updating the DHD blog with fun project ideas, inspiration and tutorials, for scrappers and non-scrappers so be sure to check it out!

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Super Cute Pumpkin Pops!

October 12th, 2009 — 11:14am

I was checking out a blog that I stalk on a regular basis – design.wash.rinse.repeat., and noticed that a few days ago she posted an awesome halloween freebie that would be a super fun project to do with kids! I’ve been trying to get my halloween projects up and running but in the mean time figured that I would pass along a link to her site so you could download & print these great pumpkin pops!

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My Mind’s Eye Blog

July 6th, 2009 — 9:38am

For those of you who are fans of My Mind’s Eye, they have just recently started a blog! Its very awesome and has tons of projects like this beautiful canvas designed by Amber Packer:

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It also is featuring MME CHA Summer Sneak Peaks! You know you want to see these. Such beautiful lines! Here are just a few of my favorites:

Abbey Road (Deena Rutter)

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Ooh La La (Zoe Pearn)

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Boo To You

halloweenThere are tons more sneak peaks on the MME blog, and they should be all popping up at your local scrapbook store in July!

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