Summer in Paris

Hi

Gayle decided to spend the 'Summer in Paris' - at least with her projects. The bare bottomed lady is now fully dressed & ready for show. And she is so gorgeous & inspiring.

Here is Gayle's  little "speech" about her projects:

The beautiful papers I have chosen from Meg's Garden are so pretty and so detailed, they stand alone. I have deliberately tried to use minimum, if any, embellishment with these projects as I think the papers speak for themselves and need very little enhancement.

Meg asked us to choose a theme with the word "Summer" in it..........

my theme is "Summer In Paris"   

Firstly I have dressed a mannequin, very French and very fashionable at the moment, completely in paper from Meg's Garden and inspired by Marie Antoinette.

For my second project I made a bag, (of course you would need to go shopping while in Paris). It is however recycled from a brown paper shopping bag. I painted some cardboard in sage green and lined the bag to give it rigidity and then "voila!", transformed it with Meg's beautiful paper. I added some hand made flowers and velvet leaves and decorated the inside with beautiful lace.

For my third project I have made some vintage post-cards;  you would after all have to send all your friends a post-card to say, "wish you were here". I have used lots of distressing, stamps, and inks, along with the beautiful collage papers from Meg's Garden.

PRODUCTS USED

DRESS:

Meg's Garden background papers:

Cartouche 3402, A French Bouquet 3400, Pink Passion 3407

Paper lace – white strip, mini squares                                                                                      

BAG:

Meg's Garden background papers:

Green Satin & Flowers P6270, French Garden 3404

Lace - 6.3cm off white

Mini sq paper doily

Pale antique velvet leaves, sm pink & green leaves

POST CARDS:

Meg's Garden A4 Collage  papers:

Victorian Flower Oracle, Vintage Calling cards

Meg's Garden 12x12 Collage  papers:

Regency Romance 3366

Meg's Garden Background  papers

Chic Couture Flourish P6265,A French Collage label P6263:

Well done Gayle

Bye for now

Meg



What a fabulous Summer in Paris Collection of projects - love your little 'speech' describing the how & why of your projects.