Together with MM chipboard

"Together"

One of the very rare photos you will find of me and properly the only one of me and hubby together since we were married 17yrs ago.

Large MM hearts in 2 sizes had their edges coated in gesso then covered in paper and sprinkled with glitter and the edges inked. Mixture of Prima, Manor House & Petaloo flowers with a little vine heart from Scrappers Garden.

Small tree branch treated with gesso then distress inks, cute little carnation flowers also from Scrappers Garden.

Clock face treated with gesso then distress ink

Scrappers Garden Large flower teamed with with Prima, Manor House & Petaloo flowers

Bricks were coated in gesso then copper embossing powder, some areas were not covered in the powder to give a worn look.

Together word treated with gesso then distress paint and glitter.

Memory maze products used

Words - S0807

Words - S0843

Bricks - L0080

Branch -

Clock - MC

Nested Hearts - L0265

Other Products used

Scrappers Garden flowers & heart

Prima flowers

Manor House flowers

Petaloo flowers

Kaiser papers

Tim holts distress paint, ink & stains

"Totally Stumped"

I named this page Totally stumped because i looked at it for 3 days trying to come up with a cool caption/quote or title but it had me totally stumped, which worked out well in the end.

I started with a fairly plan background paper from and old range from Fancy Pants, using a mask and texture paste to create some texture in 3 areas. Once the texture paste was dry I placed the mask back over the over and randomly added 3 tones of ink here and there to colour the textured area, by placing the mask back over the area only the texture paste is coloured and not the background paper.

A close up of the texture and ink.

And close up photos of the finished textured areas. Once finished I added some drops of glue and scattered glass beads around once dry tipping off the ones that weren't stuck I then used some watered down white paint and dabbed a little paint onto the beads to help them blend into the background.

Memory Maze log was first painted in a white paint that had been watered down, i didn't paint the entire thing I then sanded it lightly to ruff up the surface but not take the paint off, adding brown ink to the edges for a little extra colour, I then re-did the engraved lines in black.

A small cluster of flowers, metal flowers are Petaloo and all other flowers are Green Tara

Another cluster of flowers and a metal charm tree that has been painted white then sanded and Tim Holtz stickles added to the tree like leaves.

Memory Maze large gate, lock and key have all been painted in white and had rusting powder added but only here and there. The lock and key tied onto the gate with Green Tara wire cord.

Close up of the key and lock. Another small cluster of flowers

Something super bright and way out of my norm, this was one of those layouts that no matter what you did it didn't work, I tried cutting things out, different backgrounds etc but in the end I gave up and came back to it the following day.

I change the background paper and kind of put back together the bits I had cut out the day before and presto it worked, I love how it turned out and hey NO glimmer mist lol just paint on this one.



Scrap Cake papers, Prima Fabric word, Green Tara - Prima - Petaloo - Manor house Flowers, Green Tara ribbons.

Beautiful Green Tara Bright pink spotted ribbon is perfect for this layout.

Green Tara's flower takes Center piece.

Green Tara gardenia's are one of my most used flowers teamed with with manor house and petaloo flowers.

The Color Room



My first attempt at a Color Room Palette

New Green Tara Flower in green

Prima Flower & Green Tara Roses

Papers - Kaiser, webster, Prima & DCWV, Texture paste with flakes, Kaiser paint, dew drops ink, Flowers - Petaloo, Prima & Green Tara, Alphas - Heidi Swapp, Adorn it, Lil Davis, Misc - doily, white flower stem & buttons.