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Today I am guest blog­ging at the Fiska­teers blog. Well, because I am Fiska­teer. And if you are a crafter you will absolutely love being a part of this fam­ily! And its free to sign up (go here)

This is the lay­out I am shar­ing, made using only My Mind’s eye prod­ucts (Except for the thick­ers– if MME made thick­ers I am pretty sure I would have had them. You see, I hoard col­lect thick­ers. I may have a slight problem)

Stephanie How­ell has a chal­lenge open right now– to make a lay­out using only My Mind’s eye prod­ucts. I have been in a scrap­book­ing rut lately, and this chal­lenge excited me. The first thing I did though, was to ask her if older prod­ucts would do?

I have been sav­ing this old MME col­lec­tion Lost and found 2 that is absolutely gor­geous. So gor­geous in fact, that I am scared to cut into any of those pretty papers. I want to make a spe­cial lay­out with it.

That was the thought at least.

Then I remem­bered that I have been get­ting the Stu­dio Cal­ico kits for almost a year now, there must be plenty of new MME prod­ucts in those! I know I have atleast 4 of those enamel sheets. And so I pulled out all the MME things I had from my lat­est kits and got working.

I found 3 pat­terned papers, and loved how they looked together and started my lay­out. I wanted to use this date/month let­ter­press plate (plus this die) in my lay­out but I wanted the date 26 to stand out, so I inked the let­ter­press plate first with black ink. I then care­fully wiped the black ink off of the other dates with a baby wipe. I then reinked those dates using a smaller chalk ink pad in a blue color.

Love the let­ter­press ease of the Fuse Cre­ativ­ity sys­tem!

I also wanted a pop of color on my black pat­terned paper and for this I sim­ply punched large cir­cles from another pat­terned paper and scat­tered them around my layout.Luckily the cir­cles were of the same size. I think its a 3 inch lever punch. I love pat­terned paper and am always look­ing for ways to mix and match papers.

My ini­tial thought was to make this a quick lay­out (a’la Time’s up style) and so I cre­ated a pocket of the tag using some long strips of glue lines… (In the end though, I added a bit of hand stitch­ing to this layout)

I then added my photo, title and jour­nal­ing. I fin­ished off the lay­out with some embell­ish­ments and like I said stitching.

And I must say, I never really make lay­outs about myself. And I never really have a lay­out with­out a splash of pink these days (Hi! I am a mom of two tod­dler girls). So this was a nice change for me.

Here is to scrap­book­ing more!

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