Fabscraps DT - Bundle of Joy

"Bundle of Joy"

I have used the Fabscraps Baby Bears 1 Collection

1- Using paper C57 008 cut the inside out leaving a border as thick as you would like, I've done mine approx 1/2", I have also not cut it straight making a kind of waving pattern, Distress and ink both the inside and outside of the border carefully so as to not break the paper.

2- Use C57 007 as your background paper, placing the C57 008 over the top, you may find you will need to cut a very small strip of 2 sides of this paper so it fits perfectly behind border paper.

Add some texture paste with a mask in the corners of this paper and lightly ink them when paint is ddry.

3- As this page is for a boy I have cut the bow of the baby in the pram on the chipboard word DC57 00, it has then been inked with distress ink and edges touched with a paint brush and gesso.

4- Cut a strip of paper from C57 008 from the bunny side, approx 1.5 rows of bunnies, use a border punch leaving a full row of bunnies visible, cut into 3 pieces, ink each piece along the punched edge and crush up the punch edge to give it some detail. Pop them under the edge of the C57 008 paper on the top and 2 sides of your page.

5- Cut the small rocking horse from MC57 009

6- Cut the matching trim from the ribbon sheet MC57 008 and crinkle it back and forward to create a ruffle border.

7- Take some leaves and flowers from MCDC58 006 - MCDC58 002 - MCDC58 and slightly wet them and crumple them up gently, unfold and let them dry, I have used a die-cutter to cut more petals out of C%& 008 and using the same wet, crumple method to create some more matching flowers, layer them how you would like and ink the edges.

8- Taking the journal tag from MC57 005 cut it in half, ink the edges and tug one half under the photo at the top and the other under the photo on the left side.

9- Using the small chipboard feet from DC57 012 ink and gesso them the same at the words.

9- I've added some hessian ribbon & loose threads along with some little roses, add your journal details.

Today is my first official post as part of the new Memory Maze Design Team, the extra exciting part of it all is I've been appointed the Design Team Coordinator. 

"The one that didn't get away"

I guess everyone has at once heard the saying the one that got away, well not this time. My mum made this photo using my 2 youngest girls.

Lots of memory Maze chipboard of this page.

Once again Ive used a circle out of the circle frames pack, there are so many circles in the pack its great value for money. This time I have used texture paste on the circle and then inked it in distress ink and used it to frame my photo.

I have also used the Fishing boy chipboard, the base has also been texture pasted and inked in the same colour as the circle frame, the little boy has been ink black and then a metallic silver used distress stain used with a paint brush to add slight highlights to him along with his fishing rod that has been done in silver. each of the cats were done in picket fence distress stain then using a paint brush i have added black and brown distress stain to the edges. the little bucket was done in silver and lines drawn in black and a little wire handle added.

I added more wire to the little boys fishing rod to look like a fishing line. Using a climbing vine i cut it into 3 pieces and rearranged 2 of them to look like a tree, it has been inked in white distress stain and the leaves done in green distress in then everything has had black & brown added to the edges.

I used a chipboard chicken wire and texture paste to create raised areas on the background. And stitching around the outside edge of the background paper.

Lots of Prima Flowers to finish it off.

Memory Maze products used

Climbing Vine 2 - L0054

Circle Frames - Z0009

Fishing boy - L0168

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This week I was sent a parcel full of Stackums card making sheets, now I'm not really a card maker but these take the hard work out of creating beautiful card.

Simple cut each lot of pictures out and layer them with foam tape 

Vintage car Stackums

This card was used for my husbands birthday yesterday.

I started by layering each of the pieces then I white washed the entire stackum to give it more of a vintage feel. and inked the edge.

A Memory Maze cog was cut in half and inked then also white washed

The other half of the cog & some Green Tara Ribbon

Side view of the layers

Products used 

Vintage Green Car Stackums - DS0187

Cogs - L0048

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Pink Rose Stackum

I also white washed this stackum, I'm not a gold person so I wanted to tone down the gold elements

My wonderful 2yr old thought it would be a good idea to grab a piece of chipboard of my desk and start eating it, so to salvage this piece I cut it up into 3 smaller pieces, each piece has been white washed and lightly inked in pink

Manor House flowers

Side view of the layers

Products used 

Pink Rose Stackums - DS0017

Vintage Corners - C0139

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Frog Stackums

A cute card for any girl.

Memory Maze 16th chipboard inked in white then the edges inked in a pale blue

Cupcake chipboard done the same way as the 16th, handmade & Prima flowers

Side view of the Layers

Memory Maze Products used

Frog Stackums - DS0098

Cupcakes - C0034

16th - C0019