Start each day with a grateful heart - by Elisa Ablett

Hi Crafters,

Elisa here from the Design Team with a very bright layout featuring a gorgeous Memorymaze Chipboard and stencils.

I wanted to create a very vibrant ink and watercolour background to match the colours in my instagram photo. This layout features one of my favourite photos which is of myself on my regular early morning walk along our local beach with my girl, Lila. We have recently lost our beloved dog who was my regular walking companion. She loved walking the beach with me every morning greeting all who came along and happy to on the receiving end of loads of pats and cuddles. The title of my layout is 'Start each day with a grateful heart'.

To achieve the look - Gesso your chipboard piece and put aside.

Using watercolours and inks create your background and then stencil over the top in gorgeous Gold (Bling) Colour Blast Paste. Then Stencil over that with Shimmer Sprays using the Grunge stencil.

Add splats of watered down gesso and then using the 'ray' stencil trace the inside of the stencil from the middle of your layout. Add your extra embellishments once all dry.

I have added also a cool product which you can DIY colour, it is called Pink Paislee - Artisan Elements - Circles. You can customize each circle with your own colour!

Here are some close ups for you to see some of the finer details, from here you can see the gorgeous Daler Rowney Inks and Colour Blast Bling Texture Paste and Colour Blast Colour Shimmer Sprays which i used to create the vibrant background.

Here are some of the gorgeous products from Memory Maze that i used to complete this layout...

A day to shine - flourish frame

Link to Stencils

Thanks for stopping by the Blog today :-) 

Elisa xx

Lets grunge it up ~ Donna O'leary

Hello all and welcome back to Memory Maze blog.  Today I have a few projects to share with you.  Lots of fun to be had.  So grab a cuppa and enjoy.

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ALTERED BIRDHOUSE

This month the design team have all been sent a birdhouse.  I believe there is different ones that come in all different sizes and styles.

I covered my entire birdhouse in paper and then glued together.

I then added embellishments to pretty it up.  I have inked and stamped a cog for the door mat.

Added a number of flowers and some wee birds.

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Here you can see I have added some texture pasted and spray to grunge it up.

Used more cogs for decoration

and sprayed with ink to finish it off.

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A GRUNGED UP JOURNAL

I made this journal completely using the techniques I learnt from Finnbair.  If you ever get to do some of her classes. DO IT!  they are some much fun.

I have used a number of random Memory Maze micro chipboard bits to complete this journal.

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MIXED MEDIA CARDS

I love layers and I loved making this card.  full of lots of layers and chippie.  I have had this winded dress form for a while and was happy how this has turned out! 

Another mixed media card using naked ripped up chippie!  lots of texture!

MEMORY MAZE PRODUCTS USED

 

Cogs clocks and hands

Feather Flourish

Ladies form with decorative wings

Roman Numbers

Birdhouse

Thanks for popping on by.  XOX Donna