Happiness is

 Good morning and welcome to another journal page by Fi. Today I am using my Art by Marlene A4 journal to create a page. To start with I used Tim Holtz’s distress paint ( in the dabbed bottle) in ‘Barn door’ to colour the page. I am a big fan of the plaid, so decided to attempt to recreate the pattern using my uniball pen and a posca pen. I drew everything freehand mindful to keep a bit of white space. 

From there I had the perfect picture from last years holiday to Canada, partially framing the photo with recycled cardboard box which I had pulled apart to use the corrugated part of the cardboard. I used my Memory Maze chipboard word ‘Happiness’ for my page title then found some stamps and a sticker to go with my Canada theme, colouring them with both posca pens and distress ink, Using glue stick and modge podge to stick them all down. 

A quick add of the word ‘is’ using very old creative memories letters and job done. It really is simple to turn a plain white background into a colourful  piece with minimal supplies and a bit of recycling! Think about how you can re purpose things on (or around) your desk in your next project. Happy hump day!!!

Good morning everyone, Hetty with you today. Time for me to share another layout with you full of gorgeous Memory Maze Chipboard pieces, so grab a cuppa and lets get started.

I swear I am up to no good

I used a metallic gold paint to add to both my frame behind my photo as well as my title/sentiment piece and finished it with a dab of gesso. Just love that sentiment, it goes so well with my photo, don't you think?

I covered the swirls which you can see amongst my flower and leave clusters in copper embossing powder which gives the chipboard a beautiful shine and fits in well with the colours of the background paper. The papers are from AB studio and I really like how the layout came together with all these gorgeous colours.

I have used the following chipboard elements:

Fancy Frame Vintage

I swear I am up to no good

Reed corner small

Floral Flourish 2 piece

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs

Hetty

Snippet Rolls

 Hi Everyone. Today I have a very short snippet strip, this will be added to and made into a full roll that I will add to a old cotton bobbin if I dont use it all in the upcoming Journal.

I start with strips of paper that I add double sided tape to one side.

Grabbing the scrap basket I start adding on small pieces to the double sided tape.

                                            

Then start adding pieces of fabrics and laces, leaving some space between each cluster.

                                            

Then add embellishments and Memory Maze Chipboard.

                                            

              I then rip off a cluster when needed and these can be added to Tags,                                             Pockets, Journal Pages.

                            

Thankyou for your time today. I hope that you have an amazing day x

Products used

Ranger and Seth Apter Embossing Powders

Fabric and Lace

Memory Maze Chipboard

Score Tape

Art Glitter Glue

{The Good Life}

 Hey there!

I'm so excited to be sharing my first post for the Memory Maze design team. I have created a beach themed layout using lots of little Memory Maze beach themed chipboard.

I used some chunky white embossing powder for the fishing net chipboard.

I used some crushed olive colored paint for the lighthouse.

And for the seashells, starfish & compass chipboard I used a variety of inks. All products used will be listed below.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you liked my layout and I look forward to sharing more with you again soon.

Until next time...happy scrapping!

Mel x

Products Used

- 3Quarter Designs 'Beach House' collection
-Kaisercraft blue card stock
-Unbranded rectangle dies
-Trimming
-Memory Maze seaside chipboard
-Green Tara 'Rustic Sky Blue' flowers
-Couture Creations 'Mint/Silver' glitter & 'Chunky White' embossing powders
-The Dusty Attic 'Crushed Olive' paint
-Ranger Distress Oxide inks in 'Evergreen Bough', 'Squeezed Lemonade' & 'Tumbled Glass'
-Ranger Distress Ink in 'Fossilized Amber'
-Small art stones

Survivor

 

Hi Mez again,

Another image from Michelle Grant Designs, this time the Warrior pack. Along with Seth Apter IZINK Dye Sprays & Ice. Again just played until I was happy with the background I let everything dry naturally (that way I get housework done). I used 6 different stencils in the background, I really like using the smaller ones as they are easier to control. Pop on over to  the website, grab a coffee or tea & have a browse, there is a lot to look at follow the link http://www.memorymaze.com.au/

Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Nature Journal

Hi Everyone, Kerry-Ann here. This is my first post to the Memory Maze blog and super happy to be here. Today we are going to start the steps towards having a completed Journal. This is going to take a few posts so hang in there. The first thing I start with is some base tags. These will get more embellishing when finishing the journal and I know what page they will be going into.

First I start off with tag bases. These I have made out of old hanging files.

I collect scraps of paper and gather up Memory Maze Chipboard in the theme that I want, here will be a Nature theme. 

 I have use a mixture of Embossing Powders and covered the Chipboard pieces with.

I lay out my papers and Chipboard till happy then glue them down.

            Can add more embossing and embellishing.

Next time we will make the Pockets for the tags to go in. Until then have a great day x

Weather the storm

 Hi everyone, it’s Fiona here and this is my first blog post for Memory Maze! I am super excited to be sharing my journal page spread with you. I used my Dina Wakley blue journal on the watercolour and white burlap pages where I sprayed Dina’ acrylic gloss sprays onto both surfaces. When spraying on a less porous surface you will see how the colours resist each other and create beautiful backgrounds.  I used the wet spray paints to glue down torn up pieces of tissue paper.

I used the chipboard snowflake as a mask to spray the darkest colour - night, moving it to different areas of the page.

 I sprayed directly onto the back of white printed tissue paper to match the page and drew roughly around the images with black pen, then cut one of the snowflakes to give the illusion of 3 snowflakes as I only had 2, these snowflakes had a hanging loop which I had cut off earlier.

Once the sprays had dried I used Dina’s new stamp set ‘everyone welcome’ to stamp the windows onto the background for more depth to the page and add more detail.

From there I glued down the tissue paper and snowflake chipboard then printed off the quote and tore around the edges before I went over the chipboard with a clear glitter pen for that added sparkle!

I hope this has given you some ideas on using chipboard for masks and not as a whole piece.

Supplies used:

Dina Wakley journal - blue edition

Dina Wakley gloss sprays -  turquoise, night, medieval and ocean

Dina Wakley tissue paper - Just words

Dina Wakley stamps - Everyone welcome

Memory Maze chipboard large snowflakes

Colourblast clear shimmer pen

Chipboard Frame and Glitter

 Hi everyone! Today I decided to try something I haven't done before....GLITTER! 

I already had a hardcover journal base covered with fabric and ready to go.

I started with this gorgeous chipboard frame and painted it in aqua. Then I added a rust effect paste over the top that gave it colour and added texture. Then I dabbed some copper paint over the top to add some more rust colour.

These flower stems were calling to me so I painted them green and prepared them for some sparkle. Now for the fun part .... GLITTER! I used nuva glue pen on the flowers and sprinkled glitter over the top.

Now to assemble the front cover. I distressed the journal cover with some rust paste and copper paint and added an image behind the frame. Then I simply layered the flowers onto the frame to finish it off :)

Oh, I forgot to mention I also added some glitter to the edge of the frame for a bit more dimension and bling.

See you next time, Melissa x