{Days gone by}

Hey there crafty friends!

It's Melissa A with you today and I have a new DT layout to share with you all featuring some absolutely stunning Memory Maze chipboard.

I love using some background chipboard in my layouts and on this one I have used some honeycomb. I find it fills in some gaps nicely while also adding some texture.

I have used the beautiful 'Lady' collection from Mintay on this layout and matched the chipboard to the theme of the collection. I thought the flourishes said 'elegant' so added them in and used some of Little Birdies wax in 'Glimmer Moss' & their sparkle paste in 'Silver Sage' over them.

On the honeycomb chipboard I used a combination of Oxide Inks in 'Squeezed Lemonade' & 'Worn Lipstick'

I added some beautiful flourish embellishment chipboards aswell and embossed them with some 'African Ancient Gold' embossing powder, which added some sparkle to the layout.

And for the title I used Little Birdies sparkle paste in 'Gold Glitz'.

I hope you liked this elegant lady like themed layout and it has inspired you to add some background chipboard and pretty flourishes to your future layouts.

That's all from me today, I'll be back again soon with some more inspiration. Until then...happy crafting! :)

Mel x

Products Used

-Mintay 'Lady' cardstock & cut out elements
-Green cardstock
-Yellow lace trimming
-Memory Maze 'Chicken Wire' chipboard
-Memory Maze 'Flourish' & 'Embellishments' chipboard
-Memory Maze 'Days gone by' title chipboard
-Kaisercraft 'Sage' paper blooms
-Little Birdie 'Melissa Buttermilk' flowers
-Green Tara 'Cornflowers Peach' flowers
-Ranger distress oxide inks in 'Squeezed Lemonade' & 'Worn Lipstick'
-Little Birdie sparkle paste in 'Gold Glitz' & 'Silver Sage'
-Stampendous Frantage Mica Fragments in 'Yellow'
-Walltleido embossing powder in 'African Ancient Gold'
-Little Birdie wax in 'Glimmer Moss'
-Dreamweaver metallic F/X in 'Pixie Blush'
-White Gesso
-Little Birdie mixed media stones

Good morning Memory Maze fans and welcome to the blog. Today I would like to share with you a boy layout, which I don't do very often as well as a layout with multiple photos again I do not do very often. This layout was entirely created with Memory Maze Chipboard except for the Melange Art Pebbles.

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I started this layout by arranging my photos first and then picking a heap of chipboard cogs and started arranging them around my photos. To get the perfect design takes a while but once I am happy I am ready to paint the chipboard or in this case add some ink. But first I took a photo of my creation so I have a visual on how to put it all back together again.

I covered my Chipboard Cogs in Distress Oxide - Old Paper. I let that dry for 5 minutes and added everything back to my background including my photos. Once everything was adhered I added some Distress Oxide - Dusty Concord with my finger and rubbed it gently on my chipboard, after I added some water again with my finger which creates that oxidized effect, now it matches my background paper perfectly and has just added lots of dimension. I finished it by adding a tiny bit of wax - Mint Sparkle.

After I finished it I felt it needed a pop of white to bring everything to life so I added even more cogs but this time I covered them in white embossing powder, it really makes a difference I think.

  

I have used the following Chipboard elements:

- Cogs - lots of them :)

You will find these and heaps more chipboard righ here:

http://www.memorymaze.com.au/

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs

Hetty

Toxique - featuring new Cuttables

 Good afternoon, today on the blog I am sharing a journal page I created using the new Memory Maze Cuttables. These two pages below that I have used various pieces from are part of the steampunk range.

The card these are printed is a good thickness and easy to cut around. I am not a huge fan of the fussy cutting however did not mind these as they are mostly block shapes in which you can cut as little or as much detail as you like!

I started with a page from my A4 Art by Marlene journal which is a thick watercolour paper. I used distress oxides and inks to create the background, drying between layers building on the colours, trying to match them in with the printouts colours also. I started out with hickory smoke in distress oxide and black soot in the distress ink mini. I layers with more hickory smoke in regular distress ink and scattered straw before breaking out the clockwork stencil from Tim Holtz and using my absolute favourite colour - walnut stain, through that stencil to create more layers to the background.

I also used embellishments of the Tim Holtz 2020 curiosities sticker book along with the Memory Maze cuttables and a chipboard key that I coloured with spiced pumpkin distress ink. I used some text and a some words to add some further interest and called it done. You could easily turn something like this into a scrapbook page or a card with only the cuttables and some chipboard words!

The finished page...

Have a great week.

Fiona

Rediscover Yourself

Hello it's Mez,

I think I am starting to like journal pages. Here is I think my favorite so far, this one has dylusions sprays with stencil ghosting, the darker stencils around the page as well I used the tiny 4" butterfly stencil to give the girl a tattoo. The paste is Colourblast Snow White with shimmer dust mixed in to give me a colour similar. I have water pens with the dylusion sprays in them so they are what I did the hair with, water colours for the face just added a layer to give me shaows. The face Michelle Grant Designs Hope pack.

 Stencils can be found here: http://www.memorymaze.com.au/

Thank you for looking.

Enjoy

Flowers are always a good idea

 Hi team, Fi here bringing you another A4 journal page in my Art by Marlene journal. Today I was working away from the craft cave so decided I would use my scribble sticks as paint. These are a great and easy way to carry many colours of pigment with a full range of colours for any project.

I scribbled olive and evergreen scribble sticks directly onto the water colour page. I then used a wide water brush to blend the colours together and move the pigment around the page. Using Dina Wakley's X's stencil I placed it onto my page whilst wet and removed some of the paint with a babywipe, also wiping it over the blank areas to leave some colour. 

I then got some of the floral chipboard and sprayed it with water until saturated before halving the chipboard and leaving it to dry. Once mostly dry (as I can be impatient) I used the water brush directly onto the scribble stick to get colour and painted each of the chipboard pieces. I had also stamped a nest and coloured that the same way.

I glued down some tissue collage paper and assembled the chipboard onto the page before adding a little more stamping and the word stamps (also Dina Wakley). Shown below you can see where I have stamped onto the chipboard also to add some detail and texture - I used a distress archival stamp pad.

Assembled and glued down prior to the final stamping.

A very good morning to you all, I hope your day is going well, it is Hetty with you today!

Those chipboard heart are just the cutest and I used three of them on my layout which i simply covered in black embossing powder. The frame, flower sprigs and title are covered in pewter embossing powder and I tucked the flower sprigs amongst all my paper embellishments. The two little butterflies which are so sweet are covered in white embossing powder. It think it all tones in perfectly!

Hello

 I have used the following Chipboard elements:

- Butterflies

- Flower sprigs

- Frame

- Hearts

- Sentiment - Hello

You will find these and heaps more chipboard righ here:

http://www.memorymaze.com.au/

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs

Hetty

{Love thy heart}

 Hello again crafty friends! Melissa A with you today and I have a beautiful wedding layout to share with you all.

The bridge chipboard matched this image perfectly and I used silver wax on it so it subtly blends in.

I embossed the heart chipboard with Stampendous 'Shabby Pink' embossing powder and used Ranger liquid pearls in 'Petal Pink' on the clock chipboard.

For the title I used Wattleido 'African Ancient Gold' embossing powder and added some glitter paint to the white flowers to finish off.

I hope this layout has inspired you in some way to start adding some more chipboard pieces to your layouts. They really give the layout more character and they are just fun to play with.

Thank you for stopping by, I'll be back again very soon with some more inspiration. Until next time...happy crafting! :)

Mel xx

Products Used
-Uniquely Creative 'Gums & Roses' collection
-Memory Maze 'Bridge' chipboard
-Memory Maze 'Clock' chipboard
-Memory Maze title chipboard
-Memory Maze 'Heart' chipboard
-Cheesecloth
-Lace pieces
-Pearl adhesives
-Glitter paint
-Trimming
-Wattleido 'African Ancient Gold' embossing powder
-Prima metallique wax in 'Old Silver'
-Ranger liquid pearls in 'Petal Pink'
-Stampendous Fran-tage 'Shabby pink' embossing powder