Victoria Freze - May Reveal

Hello everyone!
I'm so happy to share with you some of my projects. I will start from a card as it is as warm and sunny as the weather outside.

Thank you

For this card I used chipboard Thank You, a phrase that I really often use in my life. 

I covered it with acrylic paint and after it has dried used distress inks to create light shadows. This simple technique is absolutely wonderful for me. It helps to create depth to the title. 

As many of you already know, I love volume in my projects. To create it here I just cut a piece of honeycombs and stitched it to the background. Then I made a cluster of leaves, flower and butterfly which I stapled and also added a brad to a flower. After that I just glued chipboard.

Chipboard used:

Thank You Product ID : C0010

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My second project is layout that you could see before on my blog. It is for my friend's little daughter.

Wonderful

For the title I used chipboard Wonderful because this girl is totally wonderful! First, I created a layout and began to paint chipboard with different inks to create the color I need. 

To be honest, it took about an hour to mix all of them in order the color could match the photos and papers. 

As a background I almost always use gesso, then I used acrylic dabbers and different glimmer mists and finally it looked nice for me. When it was dry, I covered it with glossy accent.

If you tried this technique before, you probably noticed that the color become more darker when glossy accent dry. I knew it, so I painted the chipboard in a color a little bit lighter than I need. As  for me this title looks like candy. I love this font and size of the chippie. 

Chipboard used:

Wonderful Product ID : G0202

I hope my projects inspired you to create your wonderful pieces of art! Don't forget to share them with us on our Facebook page. And welcome to our first Blog Hop! 

Have a fabulous week!

Blog Hop

Welcome to the Memory Maze's first ever blog hop!! We hope to inspire you to get out your chipboard or to order more wonderful designs from your local shop. 

 You will need to comment on ALL of the blogs to be eligible for the prize. Plus some of our awesome designers are giving away a prize on their blogs as well. You will not want to miss out on the prizes. 

Here's what you could win from Memory Maze.

Our theme for this blog hop is Technique, each of our wonderful design team members will show you how to decorate those chipboard pieces or create new chipboard pieces.

Our blog hop runs from Monday 20th May and you have 5 days to do the hop.

You must comment on all the blogs for a chance at the Prize's, and return here with your answer to a question hidden on one of our designers blogs.

The Winner will be announced here on the 26th May !

The next stop on the blog hop is Julene Mathews so pop on over and leave her some love.

Thank you for playing along with our first Blog Hop, we hope that you had fun and will be back to join in again.

Here is a list and order for our blog hop.

Julene Mathews

Kylie Symons

Susan Moy

Amanda Lawrence

Tracey Campell

Donna O'Leary

Lucy Ohanyan

Misty Willis

Erin Reed

Rebecca Mosher  

Sharm Nidyanandan

Hilde Aaslund

Victoria Freze

Linda Thompson

Memory Maze Chipboard

It's in the details - Hilde Aaslund's May reveal

Hi!

 

It's Hilde Aaslund here. I often look at other scrapper's work, bot to admire, to get inspiration from or to learn from - or all of it. It's not always obvious what makes some creations stand out from the rest, it can be a striking color combo, a general design, a perfect photo et etc, but one thing they have in common is that there are some details that emphasizes the hearts of the creations. Chipboards are perfect for creating those details.

 

Some times you don't need huge chipboards on a creation - they can be too much - but other times the large ones are just what you need. Or a mix can be perfect. In the Memory Maze shop you find both small and large chipboards, and today I'm going to focus on the smaller ones - the micros and ATC sized items - and show how you can use them on different kind of creations. As a bonus I will also show a project made for the challenge blog The Studio Challenges, which Memory Maze is sponsoring in May

 

 

Let's start with a collection of three ATC sized samples I have put together from small size chipboards - these will be used for an ATC, a tag/card and a layout.

Products used:

ATC Frame 1

Wanted Frame

Fawns

Micro Mushrooms

 

 

ATC - Shut The Buck Up

 

ATC - Artist Trading Card - you can read more about what it is here. Size: 2,5"*3,5"

 

 

 

My background is stamped, inked and doodled, the chipboards painted with acrylic paint.

 

Additional Memory Maze product used:

Speach Bubble (Sheet)

 

Other products: Bazill Cardstock, Ranger Ink, Stamps from Kaiser Craft & Amy Tan, Adornit Alpha

 

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Hello Deer Tag/card

 

Size 4"*6"

 

 

You really don't need much to make a cute tag/card!

 

Additional Memory Maze products used: None

 

Other products:Bazill cardstock, American Craft papers, Crate Paper alpha, inkidoo pearls, pretty ribbons

 

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Oh, no! (Layout)

 

There is a lot of white-tailed deers where I live. As my gardens is fenced, just a low fence so my dogs can run free in it, they usually don't visit us. Spring this year must have been tought on the deers with lots of ice on the ground, making it hard to find anything eat, becuase they decided to pay my garden a visit - and they ate the pancies I had on a table next to the kitchen window.

 

 

 

A close up photo:

 

 

 

Additional Memory Maze products used:

Polaroid Just You (blank)

 

I covered the polaroid frame with a light patterned paper to add more interest and added a ribbon as decoration as well as bling, but except for this my layout is pretty simple

 

Other Products: Harmonie papers, Petaloo bling, AC ribbon, cheesecloth (unknown provider)

 

 

 

I hope this post so far have given you some ideas on how to use small chipboards on different kinds of projects.

 

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But wait - there is more!

As I said, Memory Maze is sponsoring the challenge blog The Studio Challenges in May.

 

Here is the first layout I made in May for the Studio Challenges, featuring Memory Maze chipboards (the second one is going live on sunday).

 

 

Sketch Challenge:

 

Memory Maze products used:
Cog Corner
Micro Cogs

Memory Maze products used:
Word Sheet Authentic
Micro Cogs

 

 

Recipe Challenge

Link coming

 

Image coming

 

You are welcome to visit The Studio Challenges blog to play along in the challenges (you have the entire month of May to do so) and to see more lovely examples from their Design Team.

 

 

Have a happy week!

 

 

 

Sharm - May DT Reveal

Hi there! I'm here to share two projects I recently made for my DT stint with Memory Maze Designs chippies. I've got an altered photo frame and card to share with you lovely crafters!

First one up, 

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Altered Photo Frame 

1) First I applied gesso all over the frame

2) Next, I applied texture paste using a Brick Wall stencil

3) While waiting for the texture paste to dry, I applied gesso to the chippies that I wanted to add on to the frame

4) I proceeded to adhere the flower ephemeras, die cut flowers and of course not forgetting the chippies :)

Closeup of the Chipboard

Memory Maze Products Used:

farmgate,barb wire and wheel 225x100

Product ID : L0177

Micro film reels 100 x 120

Product ID: S0762

Other Materials Used:

Gesso, Graphic45 Patterned Paper, Brick Wall Stencil, Texture Paste, Tim Holtz Rosette Die, Flowers, Blings for the birds' eye, Daisy Ephemera

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Girl Card

Here's a quick card made using the photo wheel chippie

Some scrappy info:

1) Cut cardstock to 5x12. Fold in half

2) Fussy cut image from patterned paper. Adhere to the cardstock

3) Die cut flourishes and adhere

4) Layer with flowers & gesso-ed chippie

Memory Maze Product Used:

Micro film reels 100 x 120

Product ID: S0762

Other Materials:

Graphic 45 Patterned Paper, MFT Die, Gesso, Flowers, Cardstock

That's it from me this week! Happy Scrapping ya'll!!

Memory Maze May DT reveal

Hi all 

Kim here from the UK, I hope you lovely mums all had a wonderful Mothers day this year and had lots of special treats.

I am here to show my little May treats so without further ado I will start with my gorgeous little box for a new baby boy..

 As you can see I used the Stackums again this month but made a pretty 6x6 box and also used the Its a boy chippie, I used Sakura pens to colour it in and then highlighted in white gel pen to give it some movement.

A close up and you can see all the gorgeous spots on the elephant, what fun.

Here is a side view so I can show you the ribbon work on the sides.
I really enjoyed making this one for you  all and I think it would be lovely with some little booties inside and maybe some mittens or a little hat in tissue paper, How nice would that be for a new mum.

Code C0001

                                                                   

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My next project was a melted art card and I added a little gold bird cage into the effect.

 I melted some Ultra thick embossing powder onto some card on my craft sheet and then had a stamp ready so soon as it was melted I pressed the stamp into it and waited for it to cool just a little, I then lifted out the stamp and ripped the edges away on the paper then left aside to cool completely.

 You cannot really tell from this picture as it quite late at night but i coloured this gorgeous little birdcage in gold it twinkles in real time so much but unfortunately you cant see it so you will have to close your eyes and imagine water sparkling with the sun on it for me because this is how this glints in the light with the Mica powder in the composition.

Code C0170

                                                                  

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Lastly I again used the Stackums and this time I used a very special horse and foal with a very unusual right edge stack um, I have tried to get in close so you can all see it too.

 I covered a frame in leather or skin type paper and cut out the aperture for the main image. I made a couple of rosettes One for !st place with a red ribbon and the other to hold the Happy Birthday chippie as you can see below.

 I spritzed it with its zingy turquoise colour and added a translucent gold on top for sparkle, Then used a Sakura pen to line each letter too.

 If you look closely on the right hand side you can just see the triangle shapes in the stackum.

Code C0142

Code E0002

Thank you to every one who has been enjoying my post for May and I would like to wish all the girls taking part in the blog hop good luck and sorry I couldn't attempt it this time, I am going in to hospital Friday for a small operation but girls I will be thinking of you all. good Luck .

All for now 

Kim 

xxxxx

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Blog Hop 20th May

Coming Soon

Who doesn't love freebies while doing something you properly already do. How many of you visit blogs and leave a little love in the way of a comment. 

Well in 7 days we will be having our very first Blog Hop, there is a great prize pack to be won from Memory Maze and a few of our hosts will also have gifts of their own to share.

Come Back here on the 20th May to see all the details

Erin Reed - May DT Reveal

Best Wishes

Happy Mother's Day Card

Mother's Day is almost upon us and for this I created this cute card.  I love the simplicity of the 3D Stackum sheets, all you need is some scissors and go for it you have a wonderful project almost completely ready for you.  The flowers, leaves, Best Wishes paper, and pink patterned paper are all from the sheet.

Similar product used Product ID : DS0418

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Merci

Teacher Appreciation Gift Bag

This past week has been teacher appreciation for my sons.  I created this cute gift bag with the 3D stackums sheets.  The bear, flowers, and green bow at the bottom are all from the sheet.

Similar Product used Product ID : DS0213

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 Cute Bare Bum

12x12 Layout

When my oldest Morgan was 11 weeks old I got his first smile on camera, it happened to be in the bath tub because he was contained and I had my camera with me.  When we had our second child, Kristen, she started smiling at the same age and I thought I got Morgan's smile on camera in the tub why not her, and it worked.  After I looked at both picture I realized how similar my two children were at the same age, even though they were different genders.  It then became a thing for me to take a picture of all my kids in the same bath tub of just their face at 11 weeks old, so then came Brandon and Catherine.  It is truly uncanny how similar they all look at the same age.

For all the chipboard pieces I used orange acrylic paint mixed with a little tan paint so it was not so bright.  For the word "Bare" and "Bum" I then used a brown Bic Mark Its pen to trace the letters so they would pop of the page better.

I cut apart the "Bare Bum" from the bear, but still stuck all three part into my clusters at the top and the bottom.  Never be afraid to cut apart your chipboard, especially when it is the perfect words or shape just does not fit with the design for you layout.

 

Products Used:

 Bare Bum 2 - Product ID : S0601

"Cute" - Product ID : G0169