Garden of Dreams by Sue Smyth

Hello Bloggers
This is Sue's first posting to the Blog & we welcome her

'Garden of Dreams 

By Sue Smyth 

'Hello bloggers, this is my first post as a Meg's Garden design team
member. I am so thrilled to be here and those that know me
will know I love flowers and frills, so I should be right at
home. 

I loved the iron fencing on this paper and thought straight away of a garden

with a fairy in it. Of course the photo is of  my daughter, now a lot older, but still

she was my little fairy back then.

To start with I have fussy cut the gate and layered over the top of the 

image on the bottom. This way I could make the gate

seem a little further up the page.

I love to alter papers, even when they are as nice the Damask Garden Collection.

I have splattered a little purple Glimmer mist and White dylusions over the surface 

to add depth to the background.

I love to coil the wire on paper roses and dab them with 

a little gesso to soften the look.

I have cut out the striped flowers in the Damask labels. I like to roughly

cut them out first, then use a dry glue stick to adhere

the shape to smooth white cardstock.

Then I fussy cut the image, this makes the element sturdy and 

you can attach it to your layout with less 3 D foam tape.

Ink the edges with black ink to disguise the white card on the sides.

I have done this for the vines at the top right of the 

layout too.

I have sprayed the chipboard gate with black spray paint, then covered with Dimensional magic

while wet I added micro beads. Allow to dry, then

swipe with gesso to bring up the texture of the micro beads

I have trimmed the tassels of the band and adhered them to the rail of 

the gate. 

Meg's Garden Products 

Gates into the Damask Garden P6381

Damask Labels P6382

More Butterflies Tr004 More little butterflies with colours designed for Damask Garden papers

Rose Pink Open Paper Rose 6 flowers/bunch. 2.75cm diameter

Azaleas - paper azalea

Evening Blush da808 Fabric & paper flowers:

Antique green tassel ft9 2cm tassel

Other items

Edward Relief Door Chipboard

Sophia Mimi dies

pearls & lace 

Glimmer mists and black ink

Muslin and gesso

Happy Crafting 

Cheers Sue'

What a start to the team - well done Sue. Love all the fussy cut flowers & butterflies & also the coils of wire from the flowers - they really add another dimension to the page along with the black chipboard gate.  Great description of what you did & why - thanks.

Kind regards

Meg

www.megsgarden.com