My Mind's Eye Challenge #12: I Remember

My Mind's Eye is one of my favorite brands. I love their pretty papers, cute titles & journaling cards. I decided to play along with their Blog Challenge #12 - to create an 'I Remember' layout based on this sketch:

This is a really great sketch. You can flip it any which way, and it makes a super layout! Here's my take on it, using an old photo of my dear grandma & I...

I rotated the sketch clockwise so I could incorporate the Jenni Bowlin 'ADORE' Bingo card in as my title. I used papers from My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary 'Jack & Jill' and 'Sooo Cute' lines, stickers from the My Mind's Eye So Sophie Savvy line, vintage seam binding, Martha Stewart bakers twine & a few vintage buttons. Distressed some edges & did a little stitching. I do love these colors together!

The theme was 'I Remember', but the note I included on my layout just states

'remember * i will always adore you'

Worked on some other pages & cards this past (very rainy!) weekend, so will be back soon to share...

A Party Hat & Some Birthday Cards...

Friday was my mama's birthday, so I put together this bouquet of flowers (a combo of peonies from my garden & roses from Costco) and made her this party hat to wear at dinner.

I've also been on a mission to use up some of the paper scraps I have laying around. (Sometimes it's just so hard to toss those pretty little scraps!) I stuck with the birthday theme and created some fun and simple cards. Here are a few of them...

I made an extremely small dent in my scrap pile, but I loved how quickly these came together...and am inspired to create some more! Any themes you want to see? My card stash is low on Thank You & Just Because cards, so maybe I'll work on those next. Father's Day is coming up too!

Happy crafting...
Bethany