Hello everyone at Meg's Garden!
Nicole here, and I am thrilled to be sharing with you this very special project
created with some beautiful Meg's Garden products.
Nicole here, and I am thrilled to be sharing with you this very special project
created with some beautiful Meg's Garden products.
Home Canvas Set
I made this canvas set as a special
order from a neighbour who wanted to offer it as a gift to her brother.
She had a lot of old and new pictures as keepsakes of her brother's life.
I immediately thought that the Meg's Garden
Correspondence collection would be perfect
to document all these
treasured memories from the past and present.
The first and main canvas measures 12" x 12", featuring the most recent pictures of the man's life.
Large Canvas
I used a mixture of papers from both the Correspondence and Gentleman collections, many embellishments available on the Meg's Garden website as well as lots of 2Crafty chipboard.
All papers were distressed and misted with various color inks to give the canvases a more aged look.
The big Moonlight fabric flower seen above was a perfect focal point for the flower cluster
on the large canvas as it is quite large itself, measuring at 11cm diameter.
I gave it a more antique look by dabbing brown ink on it followed by white paint.
The Puffy Paper Flowers were just as perfect, being that they're very thick and ideal for giving added dimension and relief to such a project.
Adding a strip of Burlap Trim covered by the Watchband Silver Trim
gave just the right amount of antique and at the same time pizzazz to my canvases.
You can see here a close-up of the mixed media techniques I used on my canvas. I started off adding layers of the beautiful Meg's Garden papers. I then used a stencil with molding paste to add texture and then went crazy with the mists and white paint for whitewashing.
More close-ups of the details...
And finally a sideways look to show you the depth of the canvas.
Each side canvas I used to document the earlier memories and older pictures
measure 15" x 6" approximately and were less deep.
Small Canvas 1
Small Canvas 2
I added some several family-themed quotes that I already had in my stash.
I also added a few pieces of the Round Silver Diamante Trim with a brown gem inside each centre.
Below you see a chipboard keyhole that I covered with gesso,
glimmer mists and paint to give it an old rusted look.
Wanting to keep the same look constant across the 3 canvases, I put smaller flower clusters on each smaller canvas along with butterflies from the Butterflies Collage Art ATC Paper.
One last look at some precious childhood memories...
My neighbour was very happy with the finished result and I can say that I made her shed a few tears.
She couldn't believe the finite details that I added and the amount of beautiful flowers and products used.
She had never seen scrapbooking done this way before.
She had never seen scrapbooking done this way before.
I told her that it was thanks to Meg's Garden!
Thank you for joining me on this DT reveal.
If you liked this project, please visit my blog at http://scrap-utopia.blogspot.com to see more.
List of supplies used from Meg's Garden Shop
The Gentleman Collection
Gentleman (P6407)
The Correspondence Collection
Distressed Letter (P6402)
Letter from Tucson 1909 (P6403)
Mademoiselle Louise (P6405)
Butterflies Collage Art ATC paper (ATC015)
Fabric Flowers
Moonlight (mh003-4)
Paper Flowers & Leaves
Gentleman (P6407)
The Correspondence Collection
Distressed Letter (P6402)
Letter from Tucson 1909 (P6403)
Mademoiselle Louise (P6405)
Butterflies Collage Art ATC paper (ATC015)
Fabric Flowers
Moonlight (mh003-4)
Paper Flowers & Leaves
Puffy Paper Flowers (puffies)
Small Roses white 2 cm (008wh)
Small Roses white 2 cm (008wh)
Coffee Burlap/Jute 38mm (burco)
Jute Twine (twine)
Jute Twine (twine)
No wonder your neighbour was thrilled - each of these is a work of art. Beautiful layering and details and superb showcasing of Meg's Garden products :D
ReplyDeleteThis is just beautiful your neighbours are very lucky to have you create a stunning few pieces of atr
ReplyDeleteThis is totally adorable! I love those tall canvases too- never made those and yours are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteSimply stunning creations Nicole!! Not surprised at all that your neighbour was thrilled, these are awesome. Love the soft colour and all the details. Just beautiful!! x
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