Stain Glass Butterfly Tutorial with Tracey Campbell

Do you like the look of stain glass? If so keep reading and you will learn a quick and easy way to create one with some of our Memory Maze Chipboard.

1. Take a Memory Maze Chipboard piece that has some space cut out of it. I have chosen the Large Butterfly 2 S0060 chipboard

2. Separate the chipboard into three separate pieces. As the chipboard is so thick and such great quality it is easy to do with success.

3. These are the three butterflies from the one chipboard piece. You will note that the chipboard piece that was in the middle of the layers will be slightly rough on both sides, while the outer edge pieces will be smoother. Take note of which is which as you will need the middle piece in a minute.

4. Mix some PVA craft glue with a tiny amount of ink or mist.

5. Lay the butterfly chipboard piece on some plastic or wax paper. Using a skewer fill up the cut-out details of the middle chipboard piece with the coloured glue. Taking care not to leave any gaps or over fill the cut-out details.

6. Keep filling until all the details are full. As this will once again be the middle piece it does not matter how messy it looks...as long as the colours do not bleed together.

7. Take the two outer layers (make sure that you have the smooth edges up) and heat embosses with grey or silver.

8. Once the coloured glue is dry gently peel off the plastic or wax paper.

9. With a little bit of gentle prying it will come off in one piece.

10. Glue the embossed outer layers back onto the coloured middle layer. I used Glossy Accents as it dries clear. I did have to put plastic on both sides of my butterfly and place a heavy item on top to weigh the layers down for a little bit until the glue dried.

The finished stain glass butterfly held up to a cloudy sky.

In a different light to see the difference the light can make.

Hope you enjoyed my stain glass window butterfly.

Hugs

Tracey

Sally here with just a little Grandson nostalgia for Memory Maze

Sally here, for Memory Maze chipboard.

Two of my favourite boys are featured in my post for this week. Isn't scrap booking

the most amazing way to keep up with your grandchildren?

My first post, what else can you say "frogs and Snails and puppy dog tails" along with my favourite animal the giraffe.

Frogs and snails and puppy dog tails.

Frogs and Snails

Giraffe 

Looking back in time.

Chevron papers are the feature of this page.

Again using one of our giraffes, these come in 3 sizes and are amazing for a child's page.

I used a little metallic gold to enhance the colours on the page.

With the giraffe I have sprayed with water and ran it through my Cuttlebug 

with an embossing folder which gives an amazing effect, I then coloured by spraying with a mist made from yellow food colouring with 1/4 teaspoon of perfect pearls added to the spray bottle. I then accented with the edge of a black stamp pad.  Finally I added the "a breath of fresh air" title .

Phobe-Fob watch

http://www.memorymaze.com/product_info.php?products_id=18870&osCsid=arif65fe5j388nc0phppnf6h10

A breath of fresh air.

Giraffe 

Thanks for taking the time to take a look

Sally McIntyre
Memory Maze Design Team Member 2015

Mixing things up with Alicia Barry

Welcome to another Memory Maze post. 

Create canvas

My first project today comes with a little story. In January this year I attended CHA and took a mixed media canvas class from a well respected international tutor. (I very rarely take classes). Long story short... I followed the tutor to the letter and ignored my instincts and the result was a canvas so truly awful I didn't even bring it home. I did however, promise to try it again someday. That day has come.
I recently hung out with my friend and artist Sue Smyth, and picked up a few tips. I have delved into mixed media head on, and here is my result. My first ever full size canvas piece that I actually like and don't wish to ceremoniously burn to bits. So what do you think? Have I managed to conquer the genre of mixed media, or should I stick to paper art (feel free not to answer that).

To create my canvas, I started with gesso, and a layer of crumpled tissue paper. I then added texture paste through  a stencil. Next I layered my chipboard pieces.  I also added metal items, paper flowers, mesh, tulle, dew drops and buttons. I covered the whole thing in plenty of gesso then started building up layers of colour. Next came more stencilling with glitter texture paste, some distress glitter glass glitter and mica fragments. Once dry, I dry brushed silver lustre paste around the edges and to the relief sections.

Finally after all hat, I treated the canvas as would background paper and added my photo and some floral embellishments.

Mixed media master or not, I'm pretty pleased with the result, and really enjoyed the process. I'm looking forward to trying another one.  I hope to have this on display in my tutor gallery at the Scrapbook and Papercraft expo in June. 

Memory Maze supplies used:

Flourish 2b

Chipboard flowers 4

Ornate frame set and corners



Beehive stencil

Live, laugh layout

My second project is a pretty little layout. Notice how I have used a left over chipboard section from my canvas project?

Memory Maze supplies:

Flourish 2b

Sweet, naughty, magic, love, live, laugh, family, boys.

Thanks for looking

A Little Bit of Vintage with Kim Kendell

Hi everyone and welcome to my Memory Maze blog post. 

Vintage Layout 

Hi all  today I am sharing a vintage style layout with you I have used a Frame Across the Page and have painted it then added patches of other coloured paints to age it then finished it off with Tim Holtz Candy Rocks Pop and then after dried rubbed over it with walnut ink stain to age even more.

I just love how it has come up.

The close up shows the effects of the distressing

I have also continued this same distressing of the chipboard onto the title and the clock

I have used the following Memory Maze products

Clock Face and Hands

Frame Across The Page

Title Captured Moments

Country Cards

My second share is a set of three cards suitable for many different occasions I have painted the black to highlight them.

I have used the following Memory Maze product

Cowboys Roping a Cow

Cowboy Frame

Country Cards

Thank you for coming to view my upload I hope I have inspired you to create something wonderful with Memory Maze.

Kim Kendell.

Memory Maze Design Team Member 2015