Donna O'leary - Design Team Spot

Hello and Welcome to my wee slice of the world, New Zealand.  I live in a stunning country with amazing places to go and explore and  such friendly people.  Being such a small wee country it is hard to find embellishments  for  scrapbooking projects and cards.  One of the awesome things that Memory Maze does is if you think you have a good idea is to share it.  I suggested some New Zealand theme chip board would be awesome.  Today I am showing you just a few bits that has been sent to me by Sally ( shes awesome).

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I love the look of word art and have always wanted to give it a go.  So I got a small canvas (A5, I think).  I did not colour the canvas, I wanted the words and chippie to stand out.

I love how it turned out and will be making more very soon.  Here is a close up of the AWESOME CHIPBOARD 

I have covered them in a thick moulding gel and let it set and then randomly covered them with foil paper from WOW.  I have done that technique with all the chipboard on this project.  

I added distress ink on some to give a bit more detail.

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NEW ZEALAND

I REALLY love how my Sheep and lambs have turned out,  in my stash of embossing powders I found some white puff powder and it really worked a treat!

A close up...

Don't they look real!  I think Chip board is one of the best products to have in your stash,  you can do so many creative things with it.   I also added one of the New Zealand titles to my card

A really good trick to do when you are using really fine detailed piece is to add the glue to your non stick craft mat and then dip the back into the glue lightly.  That way you are not trying to get tiny bits on the back and get it everywhere.  

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HELLO FROM NEW ZEALAND

My last card for today is Hello from New Zealand.  I have made a step card and added my Cut out of New Zealand to the front.  Before I added it to the front I put a big blob of molding gel on my craft mat and dipped the right side up into it.  Creating creases ( in my case I was hoping them to look a little mountains) 

 A close up. 

Well I hope you have enjoyed my wee share of New Zealand,  Next time round I have a mini album to share with you all using some more New Zealand theme Chipboard.  ( bungee jumping, tramping and a few other cool bits)

Thanks for stopping by, take care and happy scrappin.

Donna

Amanda Lawrence - DT Projects

I've had a lovely time playing with all the wonderful Memory Maze chipboard pieces this month. I have three new layouts to share with you all today. 

Perfect Hat

My daughter loves to go through the bin ... gross I know. We've given up on a regular bin and instead have a small bench top one out of reach. Little bin = little lid and the perfect size for little heads! 

I used frames from the scalloped overlays pack which I inked in yellow. This piece was going to end up under my photo so I chopped it off to use here instead. They looked a little plain just in the yellow so I decided to stitch them on in a contrast colour to break it up. 

I used the 'perfect' word from the banner words pack as part of my title. I simply inked it and then highlighted the writing with my silver Sharpie. The title is layered over the other piece of scalloped overlay. 

I also used the largest size of overlay to go under the main area of my photo. The pack comes with several sizes all nested inside one another. It was the perfect size to layer over a paper doiley.

Memory Maze products:

Scalloped Overlays - L0092

Banner Words sheet

Other products used:

Echo Park papers, bazzil cardstock, ink, watercolour paints, thread, pen, D-lish Scraps flowers, lurex ribbon, paper doiley, AC thickers.

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Bus Trip Selfies

Being a Work from home Mum and running your own business has it's perks. Being my own boss still allows me to have the flexibility to be there for my kids when I need to. I was lucky enough to be able to head along on a recent excursion with the class. We hit traffic on the way home on the bus so amused ourselves by taking some selfies. 

I'm obsessed with stars! I love all the different types of chipboard stars that Memory Maze has to offer. They are the perfect accent for my boy pages. This smaller one is from the multipack and I have simply covered it in some patterned paper.

The other stars are from the 12x12 stars set. This sheet is such great value and you get sooo many pieces. A big set of nested stars fill the centre and all the other space on the sheet is filled with various size stars. I finished off my cluster with a few of the people from the micro sheet. Covering them in paper was a little tedious but well worth the effort. 

Memory Maze products:

12x12 Stars - Z0007

Stars Multi pack - S0243

Mini Micro People

Other products used:

Carta Bella papers, Teresa Collins papers, Echo Park papers, cardstock, Jillibean Soup alpha stickers, Studio Calico star stickers, MoTEX tape writer, A Piece of Cake Designs Cherry Flair, ink, pen, tiny attacher.

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Sleep

My daughter always sits on the couch while I vacuum. She doesn't hate the vacuum but I wouldn't say she's a fan of it either. I went down the hall to do the bedrooms and when I came back I found her fast asleep. She's certainly not one to just nod off so this was a very rare moment.  

I used the flower swirl piece for this page which I inked in pastel green. I they added some pen to the petals and some adhesive pearls to the centres of the flowers. 

There was a part of the design that would be completely covered by the flowers so I cut it off and rearranged it to poke out the other side of the cluster.

For the main area I used one of the nested inverted corner squares which I covered in some patterned paper. I split the frame apart under the photo area which gives the illusion of it actually being a rectangle.

Memory Maze products:

Flower Swirl 3 - S0095

Nested Inverted Corner squares

Other products used:

Authentique papers, cardstock, Scrappers Garden flowers and butterflies, ink, pen, paper doiley, D-lish Scraps resin flowers and leaves.

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Thanks for stopping by the blog, I'll be back again later in August to share some more layouts with you all. 

Amanda 

Trish Rheinberger August farewell but not goodbye

 Thanks for all the chippies Sally and allowing me to showcase memory Maze Chippies

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Christmas fun

I cut the Merry out from the title

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Merry Christmas deer

A bit of a play on words for my title

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Shasta daisies

I cannot find the code for this flower flourish,i thought it went well with my Shasta daisies

A closie

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A cute button nose

I used the Micro arrows and micro fairies on the LO

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Cardboard Christmas wreath

I used the small doiley SO529 on this wreath

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Thanks again for the fun 6 months

Hugs Trish xxxx

 

 

 

 

 

Tracey Campbell's August Reveal

Hello and welcome to August. This month I have a few new layouts to share with you and two that I have previously shown on a challenge blog. My first new one is titled Girls Go Wild, it is a photo that we snapped in Singapore. Myself and a group of friends flew over for a bit of a holiday. Let me tell you we had lots of fun and did lots of sight seeing.

Girls Go Wild

I wanted to use a festive touch with this layout to celebrate all the fun things we did - so out came the pinked circles, sequins and confetti. The pinked circles add a touch of fun by themselves so I left them raw and added the sequins and watercolour to jazzy up the area around them.

 Memory Maze Product used

Product ID: Pinked Straight Edged Circles

Product ID: Just Pinked Circles

Mother

My second layout that I made to share with you this month is a photo of my eldest daughter Bronte and I, taken not long after we got home from the hospital after her birth.

 I wanted to create a soft layout so used some gentle colours and feminine chipboard accents which I added a touch of glimmer to with some mist.

Memory Maze Product used

Product ID: S0540 Vintage Lamp

Product ID: Z0024 12x12 Flourish

 

 Product ID: S0376 Mother

 

New Puppy

This layout I have previously shared at a Challenge Blog, it is a layout of our latest furbaby Phoenix. Now this layout was just crying out for some chippie dogs to be added to it and lucky for me there are a stack of these micro dogs in the store.

Memory Maze Product used

Product ID: dogs4 Golden Retriever

 

 Product ID: dogs Alaskan Malamute

Product ID: S0099 Labrador

 

Joy

My last layout is another one I did for a Challenge Blog and for it I used the cage with the birds in them. I have added a touch of grey paint to the chip board to complete the look. 

Memory Maze Product used

Product ID: S0519 Cage with two birds

 

 Thanks for your time and I hope you all like what I have shared.

Hugs

Tracey