Love by Hetty Hall

Good morning crafty friends and welcome back to the Memory Maze Chipboard Blog, it is Hetty with you today! For today's blog post I created a layout with hearts. I simply punched out the heart solid in the middle and used it to the side of the big heart. I painted it in a smokey grey and added a little bit of gold wax for some interest. The papers are from Scrap and Me.

Love

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Hugs

Hetty

Start Over by Suzanne Franin

Hey Everyone Suzanne here

This weeks project for Memory Maze Laser Cut Chipboard make sure you check out the website for all the fantastic products and make sure your favourite store stocks them

Make sure you check out the rest of Blog for great inspiration from the Design Team every week 

This project was for a friend that seen something I had made and asked for me to make them something so I showed them some quotes I had printed and this is the one they picked 

It's one of my favourites

So I started off with the Door Wire Stencil (one of my favourites) with some texture paste once it was dry I painted it all with some White Gesso from Colour Blast

I also painted all my embellishments and chipboard with it and set them aside to dry while I worked on the canvas

I used Sienna Colour Shimmer Cube (which unfortunately Colour Blast no longer stock due to manufacturing issues hopefully they'll be back one day soon)

Painting it on with lots of water and spraying every now and then as well so it wasn't too intense 

I used the largest flourish from the 12 X 12 Flourish Corner Set and cut it up so I could use a piece in either corner otherwise a lot of it would have been covered and I wanted it to be seen

I also painted it with the Sienna Colour Shimmer Cube and then stamped over the top with a Kaisercraft bird cage stamp for some added interest

One of the requests was there be a bird cage on the project somewhere so I had this little metal one and I painted it with and all the other embellishments which are paper clay with Colour Blast's Soot Colour Artist Ink - I added some water too it so it wouldn't be too black but for some reason turned it out blue (lucky for me they love blue) I then made a mix of the Dorland's Wax Medium and  Espresso Colour Mica Powder to rub over the top to add dimension and bring out the details

Then I used some die cuts from Kaisercraft to add making sure there was a bird cage on one of them 

The stem with buds I coated them with the wax mixed with the Mica Powder as well because the colour they were didn't go with the colours on the canvas

I added some seed beads randomly and a few Prima Art Pebbles for dimension

Memory Maze Products I used -

Door Wire Stencil

12 X 12 Flourish Corner Set

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will come back soon x

'Believe' by Elisa Ablett

Happy Friday everyone,

Elisa here from the design team, with another project to share with you, it features loads of Memory Maze goodies.

This layout started as a watercolour background that I demonstrated at a recent retreat and also a quote that I stamped and embossed with Colour Blast Snow White Embossing Powder and watercoloured over the top with Colour Blast Shimmer Dust.

I wanted to re-use the background, so I added Colour Blast Texture Paste in Deep Water over the watercolour with a mini heart stencil from Memory Maze, once dry i used another larger heart stencil and a black pen to trace grungy hearts. I also added drops of black ink to the background.

Once the background had dried completely i added a large white circle and traced around it in black ink, i then started on my hand made dream catcher. I repurposed a chipboard heart frame from Memory Maze and gesso'd over the top of the frame and also over my chosen feathers, i then used the rest of the water colours with a paint brush to colour the frame and feathers, i also added some enamel dots to the frame using Nuvo Crystals.  

I found some embroidery thread and using a couple of metal embellishments (old Basic Grey) i threaded the metal embellishments to my watercolour frame and to the feathers as well. 

I stuck the frame down first then added my photo and quote to finish off.

Here are some close ups!!

That's it from me today, thank you for stopping by, make sure you leave some love :-) 

Here is the wonderful Memory Maze products that were used to make this layout, you can find them all here at the Memory Maze Shop.

http://www.memorymaze.com/product_info.php?products_id=20688&osCsid=3rlup97r6ffdm1gi49niqt1127

http://www.memorymaze.com/product_info.php?cPath=128&products_id=20846&osCsid=3rlup97r6ffdm1gi49niqt1127

http://www.memorymaze.com/product_info.php?cPath=128&products_id=19414&osCsid=3rlup97r6ffdm1gi49niqt1127

http://www.memorymaze.com/product_info.php?products_id=19186&osCsid=3rlup97r6ffdm1gi49niqt1127