All About Mothers

This months theme on Memory Maze is "All about Mothers", so for my first share I have decided to use a photo of my beautiful daughter with her great grandmother.

 I have decided to only roughly ink the wheelbarrow to give the illusion of rust and then I have hand cut the flowers to form the layers of flowers in the wheelbarrow.

I have used the following Memory Maze products on this layout

Wheelbarrow and Watering Can set

Title Treasured Moment

I thank you for coming to look at my creation and I look forward to my next post with you where I will be sharing a Memory File I have created using more Memory Maze Chipboard

Some serious dimension on this page. with Sally

       

 For this page I have added a rotatory wheel, turn to show 5 different photos. pockets for photo's ,mini books, for some special journal ling, and beautiful Scrappers Garden flowers.

 I made the boxes to feature the rotating photos from some of the nested squares 

Remember in heart 47 x 47 

Tracey Campbell's May Reveal

Mother's Day is a celebration honouring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society. In Australia we celebrate Mother's Day in May, so this month on the Memory Maze Blog we will be showcasing all things "Mother".

If you have been having a hard time finding any Mother themed products for you crafting designs well you have now come to the right place. The Memory Maze Store is packed to the rafters with lots of beautifully designed products that would suit any Mother theme project.

I have three layouts to share with you this Month, two that celebrate my love for my mother and the other that details my love of being a Mother to my two cheeky daughters.

Mum

My Mum has always been there right beside me for my whole life, through think or thin. In and out of trouble through my teens and holding my hand on my wedding day and for the birth of my babies. With out her I have no idea where I would be. So to complement this photo of her I wanted to give the layout a subtle look so that the main focus would be the photo.

For this layout I cut the frame and the lamp post with attached embellishments out from the 12x12 sheet and painted with white Gesso to start off.

Once the white gesso was dry I used some water colour paints to give a subtle pastel look to the chipboard.

For the frame I added some texture paste over the gesso then randomly painted some of the texture paste with a light blue water colour. When it was dry I added some stickles around the inner circle of the frame to add a little sparkle and shine.

Memory Maze Product Used

Product ID: Floral Poly Template

Product ID: 12x12 frame

Product ID: SAA-141 Mixed Small Gardenia

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Love Being A Mum To These Two

 I have many roles in my life Daughter, Wife, Naval Officer, Friend, Sister....the list goes on and on, but my favourite role is as a Mum to my two daughters. They bring such joy and fun into my life and I wanted this layout to reflect that.

All the chipboard was painted white with some Acrylic Paint, a white base allows you to change the colour of the chipboard without loosing any of the tone from the original chipboard colour.

 Next I randomly painted some of the chicken wire with some pink ink and then coated the little girl with some light pink stickles.

Some of the chipboard I just left painted white.

Memory Maze Product Used

Product ID: Look at me girls with birds

Product ID: 12x12 Chicken Wire Z0010

Product ID: Hearts Multi Pack 5 S0019

Product ID: Fancy Tags Large

Product ID: Micro Open Butterflies

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Mum and Me

It isn't very often that I get a photo of Mum and I together....usually it is one or the other behind the camera, so for this photo I gave my much beloved camera over to my six year old daughter!!! I think she is a budding photographer.

For this layout I used lots of texture paste, one of the Memory Maze Poly Templates and three different coloured mists. I held the paper vertical as I sprayed so the mist would run down the page.

For the chipboard words I painted white with gesso then gave each piece a fine coat of peach mist and before the mist dried I wiped off some of the excess mist so that the white could be seen through the mist.

I wanted a bit of a textured look on the chipboard vintage corners so I painted roughly with texture paste then left it to dry. When it was dry I gave it a slight mist and wiped of most of the mist so that the colour just stayed in the valleys of the texture. Next I hit it with a stronger coloured mist in the very corner. When it was all completely dried I gave it a very soft going over with a bit of sand paper.

 

Memory Maze Product Used

Product ID: Vintage Corner S0538

Product ID: Swirl L0073

Product ID: Together Word Sheet S0789

Product ID: Authentic Word Sheet S0807
Product ID: Poly Template Brick Wall
Product ID: SAA-141 Mixed Small Gardenia

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Thanks for dropping in be sure to pop back in a couple of days for some more Mother inspired creations from the other Design Team Members.

Hugs
Tracey

 

Sally's month Just gone.

I have had a great month , lots of lovely ideas, and fun with chipboard from memory Maze and  flowers from Scrappers Garden

My first post is a tribute to my Son and His Aunt.

X0010 FRAME 

This is a beautiful frame, i have colored it neutral tones with a gold shadow using stamp pads  for a subtle effect.

Adding a wheelbarrow and  watering can , birds and trinkets just makes the page.

I treated the wheelbarrow  with black ink and then applied gloss accent to it for effect.

Added the Scrappers garden flowers and embellishments.

Just a bit of fun with Sally

This is a fabulous little book all in black and white, and in the shape of a little girls dress. Lots of scope for lots of embellishments and ribbons and words, add some photos for your little girl.

Add as many or as few as you want , a large or small project you decide.

 each page is double sided and is held with rings and ribbons on the shoulders 

I have covered each side of each chipboard page,and married up ribbons and embellishments.

LOOK FOR  BABY GIRL BOOK 

 ATC FRAME

ATC MINI OVAL

X0013 RIBBON FRAME 

You can  make this for any age, just change the colours and embellishments to suit.

A selection of cards today!

Hi guys, Danice here with a few cards I've whipped up using various Memory Maze products, It's been horrendous weather here on the West Coast with roofs flying and electricity off, topped of with a fairly impressive thunderstorm and lightening show this morning.  I didn't venture out for the Anzac Parade, but I hope those of you that did stayed warm and dry.

 Using the small vintage frame along with some Prima papers and matching flowers, I use any excuse to use the old manual typewriter!  Seeing as I particularly like doing older/vintagey things, I often leave note paper lying in the window so they get aged and faded by the sun for when I need "not so new" paper like this.

 Just one butterfly transforms this card, I coloured it in with plain old felt tip pens in matching colours and voila! an easy and happy baby card is made.

Last time I used these vintage hearts on a layout, and this time I have painted them with black soot distress paint and used the hearts to frame some pretty cupid paper, throwing on some kindy glitz to highlight one of the roses and stamped a jewellery tag with the sentiment.

Thanks for looking, and I'll have more soon!

Happy Easter with Linda

Hello & Happy Easter MM followers.

I'm sure you can guess by now that MM's theme for April is Easter so I'll kick of my post with an Easter card.

"Happy Easter Card"

Happy word from MM was been painted with gesso and then embossed in green. A small cluster of MM flowers.

MM fence has been inked in dark distress ink, little chickens embossed in yellow then glitter added while embossing powder was still wet. Another small cluster of MM flowers added.

Memory Maze products used

MM fence - so626

MM Baby chickens - 

Pink sweetheart blossoms 

Cosmos Daisy pink

Gardenia Yellow

Carnation Green

Lily flower green & yellow

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"Precious Girl"

Cute MM butterfly has been painted in gesso then in pink and blue and FWAB pearls added and touches off gesso applied with my finger at the end.

 The wings of the butterfly were popped up slightly.

Precious Girl MM words were coated in glitter.

MM corner painted in gesso then blue and more gesso added with my finger at the then.

MM Mushrooms painted the same way as the butterfly.

Memory Maze products used

Mushroom cluster - 

Precious word - G0019

Girl word - G0089

Butterfly - 

Vintage Corner - C0139