What Is a Mother?

Hello everyone it is another post from Kim again today and I thought that with this post I would do a tribute to my mother and define what is a Mother as Mothers day is this Sunday. I will say now this is a very long post but I do hope you enjoy seeing what can done with the Memory Maze chippies.

To complete my tribute I thought I would make a memory file and fill it with lots of Memory Maze Chipboard.

I have decided to start this post with a short poem,

 "What is a Mother?"

A mother is someone to shelter and guide us,

To love us, whatever we do,

With a warm understanding and infinite patience,

And wonderful gentleness, too.

How often a mother means swift reassurance

In soothing our small, childish fears,

How tenderly mothers watch over their children

And treasure them all through the years.

The hearth of a mother is full of forgiveness

For any mistake, big or small,

And generous always in helping her family

Whose needs she has placed above all.

A mother can utter a word of compassion

And make all our cares fall away,

She can brighten a home with the sound of her laughter

And make life delightful and gay.

A mother possesses incredible wisdom

And wonderful insight and skill-

In each human heart is that one special corner

Which only a mother can fill!

Author: Katherine Nelson Davis

On the cover I have used the Picket fence and coloured with Heidi Swapp Glitter Pens

On page 2 I have used the awesome Butterfly Corner large and again coloured with Heidi Swapp Glitter Pens

Page 3 

Page 4

I have used the cute little flower flourish from the wheelbarrow set and again have coloured it with the Heidi Swapp Glitter Markers

Page 5 

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On this page  I have used a bird from the wheelbarrow set and again coloured with the Heidi Swapp Glitter Markers

Page 8

On this page I have used one of the funky Steam Punk Owl set 

Steampunk Owl Set

Page 9

I just love these beautiful vines they come from the Birds in Garden set

Birds in Garden Set

Page 10

Page 11

And finally Page 12

I just love the Vintage Frame Layered Oval frame which comes as a set of 2 so they could be layered. 

Thank for allowing me to share my large blog post with you and I hope you have enjoyed it. Kim

Hand-made With Love~Donna O'leary

Welcome everyone,  I hope this post finds you all well.  This months them is a about mothers!  What would we do without them :-)

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Handmade with love

I created this layout of my mum and oldest daughter Sammy.  Sammy had her 21st this year and my mum and family came down to celebrate with us.  My mum had a special gift for her.  She had spent MANY hours making a crazy quilt for her our of velvet.  My mum did not have a sewing machine at the time and she hand stitched the whole quilt together and THEN she added embroidery stitches to every patch.  Talk about labour of love.

So I created a layout of mum finishing off the quilt on my sewing machine and then the very special time when Sammy received the quilt xox

Memory Maze had the perfect chipboard to complement my layout.  A reel of cotton with needles.  I used metallic rubs and white pen on this.  I then threaded cotton around it to make it look real.

I added the wee hearts to show the love in these photos, again I kept it simple and just coloured it white.

Here you can see the pride in my mums face.  This was the last part of the quilt.  Finished after many hours of love!  I added a needle to the flowers with thread and some more hearts.  The fancy stitches in the background are a stitch my mum showed me how to do, and a did on a couple of the patches.  I wanted to added some sort of stitching to the layout.

The last chipboard I added was the scissors which I coloured with pen.  mums scissors were red :-)

I am going to get this layout framed and send to my mum.

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ARTIST TRADING BLOCKS

I am apart of a New Zealand scrappy facebook page and every now and then we have a swap.  This time round it was trading artist blocks.  I had so much fun making these and I plan on making more.

I constructed the blocks with memory maze flat chipboard sheets,  It's perfect for creating off the page projects that need strength behind them.   I then painted and added a background to my blocks.

 I stamped images onto water colour paper, embossed and then coloured with distress markers.

 Then the fun began with adding the finishing touches.  I added alot of memory maze chipboard to my blocks.  I painted them with distress paint, sanded, aged and  added ink to get the effect I wanted.

Close ups of chipboard.

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BEST MATES

My last share for today is a layout I created of my wee man.  Alex has found a wee mate who just lives around the corner.

I added memory Maze arrows to frame my photo,  these have had the same treatment as the above blocks and are perfect for framing my photo.

Products I used for my projects this month.

Arrows, assorted

Make your own steampunk

Miniature cogs

Thank you for stopping by and having a look at what I have created,  please stop by the other ladies and say hi to.  Take care and Happy Scrappin xox Donna

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.