Farewell Post

Working with the Memory Maze Design team has been wonderful. This is due to the talented people on the team and the great products that Memory Maze Designs has. So here is my last post and even though it has been fun, I am feeling a bit sad that it has come to an end but I do have other exciting adventures to look forward to!
AUSTRALIA DAY MATES
My grandsons are both so gorgeous but then I probably am a bit bias!

I left the map as raw chipboard and used marker pens to colour in the letters and scribbled around the edge of the map to create a waters edge. The plain background was decorated using the Memory Maze mask and Distress Paint. When it dried I moved the mask slightly off the paint and sprayed again with Glimmermist in "denim," which is similar in colour to the background so it ended up with a slight watercolour effect. The distress look on the bottom of the layout was achieved by turning the mask over when I had painted the top part of the page then pushing down to press the paint and ink onto the cardstock.

 

I made this as a 2 page layout because as usual I have lots of photos I wanted to use. I tied the two layouts together by using the same mix and match papers and colours.

The red is marker pen, the white and blue is Smooch in azure and moonlight with illuminate over the red. When it all dried it was coated with Dimensional Magic.

I used the negative from "beachboys" and saved the letters for another project. It was then sprayed with glimmermist in sapphire.

 

MEMORY MAZE PRODUCTS

Australia Day   LO329

Mate

Beachboys   GO245

Mask   bricks

 

Other products used

Bazzil cardstock, Paper Inklings-Australia Day & Aussie Flag, corrugated card.

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1ST DAY OF SCHOOL

It is always an exciting time of year when the children or grandchildren go back to school...especially for the parents!

 

 

Marker pens are so versatile and easy to use on detailed pieces of chipboard because you can direct where you want the colour to go. I coated the title itself with Dimensional magic so it would be glossy and stand out from the books.

The arrow was painted with Smooch in lettuce, the frame with Distress Stain in black soot and the zig zag was covered in paper and inked along the edges.

The 2 stars with coated with Distress Stain in brushed pewter and layered with foam dots to adhere them to the layout.

 

MEMORY MAZE PRODUCTS

1st Day of School   NO133

Arrow (set)   LO199

Stars (pinked star set)   LO263

Frame

Zig Zag

 

Other products

Bazzill cardstock, Bo Bunny-Grease Monkey Rivet, tag, washi tape.

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Thankyou for the wonderful opportunity to be able to share my love of scapbooking with you all.

Feel free to have a look at my blog anytime to see what I have been up to.........                                                         

  heartsoul-scrap.blogspot.com

Happy crafting from Susan.

 

 

 

A little bit of Love

Hello to all our MM fans.

With February be the month of love I thought why not do something with a heart on it.

"Tomorrow Yesterday Today"

12" wooden frame with hanging heart.

MM  Ion corner has been coated in gesso then distress stain used along with pink and green paints.

Super cute MM bike was first covered in gesso then using sprays and inks to create all the shading and blending.

MM fence was also covered in gesso then white crackle paint added here and there, once dry distress ink was added using a blending tool so that it only covered some areas giving it more of a rustic look.

Lot and lots of texture on this one including paper, texture paste, crackle paint and sprays.

Memory Maze products used

Picket fence

Vintage bicycle with flowers

Ion corner

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"Little love bird"

This gorgeous little bird house in a money box, can you believe it, money has never looked so good.

MM micro bike has been gesso'd then coloured in with black texta then purple paint

Cute little vine was also gesso'd first then using paints and inks to create the colours

MM Tree branch also treated the same way.

MM tree & fence

MM cute feathers popping out of the top and a little bumble bee.

Small MM grass added to the front.

Memory Maze products used

Picket fence - L0145

Micro feathers - S0747

Micro bicycle

tree with swirls small - S0021

Bee's

Mini Grass

Bird in a garden

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That's all from me for now see you all again later in the month

Linda xxx

Tracey Cam'pbell's February Reveal

Well the kids are all back at school now and hopefully you got some great photos of them. So now is the time to print off those photos and get scrapping them whilst your thoughts and feelings are still fresh in your mind. So this month we are concentrating of getting those school photos scrapped.

This post I want to demonstrate that you do not need a stack of products to make your layout shine, with just a few pieces of chipboard you can add the finishing touch and create a master piece.

Just the Start

This layout is of Bronte's first day in Year One last year. I wanted the attention to be on the photo so I used a simple background of old dictionary paper and some ink splatters. I wanted to keep the embellishments simple so I used the banners, the geo tag and the letters from the Memory Maze chipboard range. Simply a matter of applying some purple and blue calligraphy ink to chipboard to give them a really dark tone.



 Memory Maze Product Used:

Flat Banners Words: Sweet, Smile and Happy

Letters and Numbers: K0001

Geo Tags: Too new for a photo and stock number just ask Sally in an e-mail when you

place your order.

School Days

This is one of the few photos I got of Bronte going off on her first day of Year Two this year. I was told not to bring my camera to school. :( A sign that she is growing older.  On this layout I used a black stamp pad over the chipboard to give it the solid black colour. And peaking out behind the photo in the background is one of our new Poly Templates "Big Bricks", such fun to use.

 Memory Maze Product Used:

Letters and Numbers: K0001

Months: S0630

Scribble: Z0044

Poly Template: Big Bricks

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have gotten some back to school ideas for your pages.

Hugs

Tracey