May Marvels

Welcome to some marvellous May moments from Susan....just as the weather here is beginning to cool, it is a great reason to stay indoors and catch up on some scrapbooking and craft! I hope everyone enjoyed our blog hop and that you found some great inspiration from it. Here are a couple of more ideas...

 

ADVENTURE

 

This camping trip was our "adventure". The word was painted with Lumiere in Halo-violet gold.

I hand stamped the tickets and cut them out and layered them with the other elements. The big tags were made by dripping distress reinkers onto the craft mat and pressing the tags onto the ink. The edges of the tags were inked.

The flourish swirls were painted with Lumiere in Halo blue gold and when dry they were topeed with Distress Stickles with crushed olive. The flourishes were mounted on top of die cut swirls. Strips of patterned paper and hand stitching decorated the background card. I find it easier to hand stich onto card and paper if the holes are prepunched first. It may take a little longer but it makes it easier to sew.

MEMORY MAZE DUCTS USED

word-adventure

Flourish swirl ( LO125)

 

OTHER PRODUCTS

handmade flower, washers, stamps & inks

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BELIEVE

 

Firstly, a quick apology for the photography on this...must have had my head leaning over or something!! I must admit I wasn't too sure what I was going to do with this chair at first....Then I saw this photo and knew it would fit perfectly. To make the "frame" piece I cut patterened paper into 4 strips and used a border punch along the outer edge then mitred the ends so they would fit together into a frame. They were mounted with foam tape to lift it off the bacground paper. White rubons were used on the corners of the background page.

To decorate the chair, I looked at Santas chair in the photo for some inspiration. Firstly I put the chair in an embossing folder and ran it through the Bigshot machine. The cushion of the chair was coloured with red Tombow marker, the back of the chair was coloured with Smooch in gold and the rest of the chair was coloured with distress stain in bronze. Once it was all dry I stuck on pearl dots.

For the flower cluster I used the 3D stackums sheet and cut out some of the flowers seperately. These were embellished with paper flowers, glitter glue and pearl dots.

MEMORY MAZE PRODUCTS USED

3D stackums (merry christmas)

chair

OTHER PRODUCTS

Kaisercraft gems & pearls, Flourish with a bling pearl swirl, glitter glue, tags, Smooch, Distress Stain, tombow marker, tag, stickers, paper flowers.

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FUN IN THE SUN

 

With this layout I was looking for a relaxed grungy feel. The great thing with chipboard is that it can be altered to fit in with what you want on your project.

Texture paste was applied as a base coat on this piece and left to dry. I debated whether to sprinkle sand onto this for texture but decided to colour it instead with yellow acrylic paint. The orange was painted on using sparkling H2O's. It was left to dry( you can speed this up by using a heat gun) and then distress stickles were smeared over it.

"Family" was painted with Sparkling H2O's with rock candy Distress Stickles smeared over the top. It was layered onto some muslin for a beachy feel. Pearl swirls were added to mimic shells and waves.

MEMORY MAZE PRODUCTS

Fun in the Sun (with sun 100x92    SO206)

word- family

OTHER PRODUCTS USED

Kaiser-Tropicana Collection-Serenity, Paradise locals, pearl swirls, muslin, flowers, shells.

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I hope this has inspired you to play and have some fun with your craft!!