Thank the high heavens! Months ago I read an article on mica and I bought some to experiment with. I rubber stamped a piece with a big swirly pattern and embossed it with Enchanted Gold. The piece turned out really pretty but I had nothing to use it for. I set it aside, tucked it into a spot with my stencils because I couldn't find anything like it to store it with and I didn't want it to break and it's now moved from one side of the country to the other.
I was working on my mothers scrapbook (of me actually, I'm redoing it to get it out of the magnetic pages) and I did a page of me singing in a Christmas pageant in preschool. I used a patterned background paper (cream with kind of a peppermint diagnal stripe pattern) and double matted the two images with red and green. I rubber stamped a big black music note directly on the paper but it kind of faded into the patterned paper. I put the mica piece over it with an eyelet and it's perfect! It balances the page but is still a faded embellisment so it doesn't compete with the photos and it brings a little highlight to the musical note.
I'm so happy to have finally found a use for this one embellishment that's been the bain of my organizing existence!
Alex