Army Strong **Memory Maze**

My husband is serving in Kabul, Afghanistan at Camp Phoenix as part of Task Force Centurion for the US Army.  He deployed in September 2012 and is still there.  We miss him so much.  With this picture he sent us (rather to my oldest son for a school project) I thought it deserved a grungy layout to go with the colors of the army and also with how dirty he says everything including the air over there is.  We can't wait for you to come come Captain Reed.

The fun part about doing a layout like this is you can add anything you want.  I look at my complete work as a grown up version of an I SPY hunt a find layout.  I do try and use objects that fit with the theme of the layout.  So masculine, army, manly, worldly, or just geometric shapes were the items I chose.   

Here I used all sorts of old plastic jewelry, metal bits, old rivets, plastic chain, and other found items glued them down and them covered them in gesso, let it dry then sprayed them, painted them, and used Gelatos until I achieved the colors I wanted.  some of these pieces were black, pink, grey, brown, or white before I grunged them up.  One found item was a dog tag that was given to my oldest son that says "With you all the way".  I could not resist putting it on the layout, it just ties in so well.

I used various metals, found objects and wonderful Memory Maze chippies.  Here are 2 square buckles, a little angel, and the back small wheel and handle bar of a penny farthing bicycle (pictures below so you can find them in my grunge)

 

Here I used the front wheel of the Penny Farthing Bicycle, another small angel, another square buckle, and the word "Best" from "best wishes".

 

Memory Maze Supplies

Penny Farthing - Product ID : C0127

"Best Wishes" - Product ID : C0015

Buckle Square Medium - Product ID : C0042

Angel 3 - Product ID : C0165

Supplies Used

Cardstock - Kaisercraft

Patterned Paper - Bobunny and Prima

Punches - Martha Stewart

Found Items

Embellishments - 7 Gypies, Prima, Tim Holtz, Pink Paisley, K& Co, other

Rubon - Prima

Adhesive - Martha Stewart

Mediums/Inks/Paints - Clearsnap, Deco Art, Ranger, Faber Castle, and Tattered Angles 

Chipboard - Memory Maze

Enjoy!!