Mireille and Moniek- **MY MIND'S EYE**

Today we have two layouts focusing on summer traditions. The first comes from Mireille. "Every year we take pictures on top of the Fort in Pula. Years ago it was just pictures of me. Then pictures of me pregnant. Later it was pictures of me and Amber, then pictures of Amber and me during my second pregnancy. Last year we had someone else with us to take the pictures and then all four of us were in the picture. It became a true tradition to have our pictures taken at the end of our holiday. To bad that this beautiful tradition came to an end. This year again we took someone else to take the pictures and found out the fort had been sold. There were big closed gates and no way we could climb on top to take pictures. For the first time we took the pictures in front of the fort in stead of on top."

Summer tradition
by Mireille Divjak

SUPPLIES
Cardstock: Bazzil
Patterned paper, Rubon titles, rubon alpha's , transparency and rubon swirls: My Minds Eye
Ink: Stazon
Stickles: Ranger
Buttons: Foof-a-la
Ribbon: chatterbox
tag: quickuts
pen: Sakura

HOW TO
I used 2 sheets of patterened paper and 3 sheets of cardstock for this layout. Cut out a large flower out of cardstock and one out of patterened paper. Distress the edges with Rangers distressing tool. and outline with Stickles. Adhere the flowers to the background sheet. Adhere the picture on yellow cardstock and cut a scalloped border (I used the edges of my fiskar circle cutter which has a scalloped pattern. )
I used MME rubon titles and rubbed them on cardstock. Cut them in a rectangle and a tag, then distressed the edges and inked them. Cut a hole with the crop-a-dile in the tag, cut edges out of the transparency and adhere them with clear glue to the tag. Tie a ribbon through the hole and add a mini tag.
I cut out flowers out of the patterned paper, crumpled them and adhered them with gluedots for dimension. Add buttons. Take four clear buttons and rub the initials of your family members on the button. Adhere with a gluedot. Print journaling on your cardstock and cut it into strops. Outline with a black pen and decorate with mini flowers cut from the patterned paper

Our second project is from Moniek. "On our summer vacations, I usually buy my kids a disposable camera for them to take their own photos. And I found out that it is awesome to see our vacation through their eyes. They take pictures of stuff I never would choose to photograph! I keep all their photo’s, even the blurry ones, because I love them all. I have put them together in a small album and put some of my journaling in between."

Bette's Summer Vacation Photos
by Moniek Jannink

SUPPLIES
Paper: MME Garden Party – My sunshine sunburst stripes / my sunshine lazy days / my sunshine sunny days
Cardstock: Bazzill – pinecone / cream puff
Clear Stamps: Making Memories – journaling / Hampton Arts
Brown and black ink
Black Stazon ink
Quickutz Studio skinny mini
Ribbon

HOW TO
I have used a very old SEI album I had in my stash for years and covered it with MME garden party.
Ink all the edges of the papers with brown ink.
Adhere ribbon on the front of the album.
Print part of the title on cream Bazzill and then stamp jounaling stamp on top. Handcut journaling stamp and adhere to front of the album.
Handcut 2 flowers from the Lazy Daisy papers and use them as two 0’s
Use QK to make letters and adhere these to the front.
Use the Hampton Arts stamps to embellish your album.
The SEI album comes with 4 x 6 page protectors and I stamped on the pageprotectors with Stazon Ink in order to embellish some of the pages. I also adhered some stamped and handcut journaling spots on top of the pageprotectors for journaling.

"Dans le Petit Monde de Lucien"

"Dans le Petit Monde de Lucien" (In Lucien's Little World)
by Carole Maurin

SUPPLIES:
Paper: Scenic Route, Fancy Pants (for hidden journaling) Sassafrass Lass, SEI
Die Cut: Making Memories (Animal Crackers), Colors Conspiracy, Every Jot and Tittle, BasicGrey and other
Chipboard Alphabet: Making Memories (Animal Crackers)
Rub-on Alphabet: Doodlebug
Rub-on: Hambly Screen Prints
Chipboard: KI Memories, Love, Elsie
Buttons: Making Memories (Animal Crackers)
3D mounting squares

HOW TO
This layout is not based on printed papers but on embellishments and a three dimensional look. I chose an animal theme and included things that my little boy loves. I framed these things around the photo. When adhering the embellishments, I used mounting squares with various thickness. This adds lots of layers and volume.

Origami Card

When Jessica began scrapbooking, she bought alot of those photo mat stacks. Years later, they are still sitting in her scrapspace, mostly unused. Until now! She shows us a way to make a origami style card utilizing the mats as a base. It's a great project for any holiday.

By the way, "Mahal Kita" mean "I Love You" in her mother's native language of Tagalog (a dialect from the Philippines).

The mini album/card folds so that it is flat, but opens to expose four seperate pages!



SUPPLIES

Cardstock Mat Stack: DCWV Spring Mat Stack

Cardstock: Bazzill, DCWV "Scalloped Stack"

Patterned Paper: DCWV "Blossoms and Butterflies," "Nana's Nursery (Boy)." Creative Imaginations "Cream Lined Scallop"

Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Rubon Stitches: Daisy D's

Flowers: Prima Sprites, Heidi Swapp

Felt: Queen & Co. Fun Felt

Buttons: Fancy Pants

Cardstock Stickers: Love, Elsie "Lola," DCWV "Blossoms and Butterflies,"

Chipboard: K&Co.

Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts "Remarks," SEI "Ally's Alphabet," American Crafts "Thickers Hat Box."

Stickles Pink

Bone Folder or Scorer

Ribbon

HOW TO
You will need 4 pieces from your mat stacks (if you don't have this, cut cardstock 4.5" x 4.5"). Put to the side for now.
Cut a piece of cardstock 4" x 4". Score the square diagonally and then in half. Using a bone folder, fold along the scores so that your square looks like this:

Unfold your square and lay it flat on your table. Position it like this:

Put glue on the sections marked with an "*". Be sure not to move your square from this position!!
Now you will add your mat stacks where the glue is. This might be a bit tricky, so practice laying your mats down first before gluing. Once adhered, your card will look like this from the back:
You can see that the whole square is on the mat stacks, but only certain parts are glued. This will allow you to fold your card into one piece.

Once your base is dry, you are ready to decorate! I cut spring themed patterned paper to 4" x 6" and placed them atop the mats. It's best to keep your embellishments to a minimum so you can fold it flat.