Jan's May Projects

What a glorious Autumn day it was here for Mothers Day. 

Mothers Day Cards 

Memory Maze chipboard used:

Happy Mothers Day with Flowers (pkt 10)

Mother mini word

Flourish

Canvas ~  this reverse canvas I have created for my son and daughter-in-law of their wedding day.  The significance of the No. 16 is they were married on the 16th and we released 16 live butterflies after they were wed.   I have used the flower_dot stencil and texture paste around the edge of the canvas.

Wedding Day

 

Close up showing of texture paste on frame using flower stencil
Butterfly painted red, white gesso added then Picket Fence Stickles

Memory Maze chipboard used:

Corner Flourish

Butterfly Plate

Window Frame

Plus Memory Maze Stencil:

Flower_Dot

Boy LO ~  Grandson Liam is such a cutie - need to be quite at the Doctors surgery!  I have used the Sunburn stencil with texture paste and blue paint.

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Memory Maze chipboard used:

Chicken Wire - Small

Micro Arrows

Plus Memory Maze Stencil:

Sunburn

Thank you for checking out my projects for May. 

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 

Page 7

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