Hello Paper Artists - my update for December 2022

Welcome to the latest collection - Shades of Lilac -

11 papers 8.5x11”, 300dpi for quality printing, JPG format:

6 Cut & Create Ephemera, 4 Backgrounds, and 1 extra with PNG images

PNG images

The top video shows the papers, the 2nd is a completed mini-book using the papers

Papers are available at https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1368659675

Lilac is a pale and soft violet shade that represents innocence, youthfulness, spirituality, and tranquility. The color is named after the small, delicate flower of the same name. Lilac and lavender are two different colors. They are both pale shades of purple but lilac has a pink tint to it, while lavender has a blue tint.

It is a beautiful, elegant & extremely shabby chic color to inspire you to use it in your art.

If you are a Cardmaker then this collection is perfect for you - the ephemera will make really elegant cards.

And a coupon for you to try them out:

https://www.etsy.com/au/shopMegsGardenPapercraft?coupon=THANKS

Bye for now

Meg

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 Hello Paper Artists - November 2022

Ready for some Gift ideas?

The latest Collection of Digital Papers M541:

  French Vanilla

 

                            11 papers 8.5x11”, 300dpi for quality printing, JPG format:

            6 Cut & Create Ephemera, 4 pastel Backgrounds, plus an extra word art & tags

 

Designed especially for Paper Arts & Junk Journal Artists but also for my new Mini Books

If you love making Junk Journals or Vintage Art, then these images are ideal & a must to add to your stash

 

If you are a Cardmaker then this collection is perfect for you - make mini books for the paper artists on your Christmas List, doorknob tags, tree decorations & more.
 

Link to Video of papers: https://youtu.be/Bcj-Q3nSxks

Link to the Collection on my Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1340656181

Link to my finished mini-book - cover pic above:

https://youtu.be/acByQUL9exA

Let these papers inspire you to create beautiful art.

Bye for now

Meg 

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Hello Paper Artists - October 2022

Ready for some Fantasy?

The latest Collection of Digital Papers M540:

  “Fairyland”

 

                            13 papers 8.5x11”, 300dpi for quality printing, JPG format:

            6 Fairy Cut & Create Ephemera, 4 pastel Backgrounds, plus 3 extra Cut & Creates

in PNG format - this means that there is no background - you can print the paper on any type of paper & you only get the ephemera image itself - beige, white, or any color cardstock, vellum (transparency paper) is very effective especially if tea or coffee dyed, transparency film or even a background paper with script, etc.

 

Designed especially for Paper Arts & Junk Journal Artists but also for my new Mini Books

If you love making Junk Journals or Vintage Art, then these images are ideal & a must to add to your stash

 

If you are a Cardmaker then this collection is perfect for you - make mini books for the Fairies on your Christmas List, doorknob tags, tree decorations & more - just remember to use fairy dust.

 

Link to Video of papers: https://youtu.be/wfNwpZB6YPo

 

Link to the Collection on my Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1311648213

 

Link to my finished mini book:

https://youtu.be/ikGKQbBIejM

Let these papers inspire you to create beautiful art.

 

Bye for now

Meg 

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Hello Paper Artists - update September 2022 Welcome to my finished mini-book - Sherlock & Dr. Watson - fabulously vintage & exciting! 12 papers 8.5x11”, 300dpi for quality printing, JPG format: 6 Cut & Create Ephemera, 4 Backgrounds, and 2 extras - 1 with 4 Cut & Creates is in PNG format and 1 is totally Sherlock images (others are not). Being in PNG format means that there is no background - you can print the paper on any type of paper & you only get the ephemera image itself - beige, white,   or any color cardstock, vellum (transparency paper) is very elegant, transparency film or even a background paper with script, etc.  The vellum signature shows 2 of the 4 Cut & Creates that have PNG format printed on T-dyed vellum The video shows the finished book

 

M539 - https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1285862003 Link to papers review video: https://youtu.be/5tNB40jfpMA You can choose to help  Sherlock & Dr. Watson solve the case using the specific Sherlock paper  or just have lots of fun with the Vintage papers. And a coupon for you to try them out: https://www.etsy.com/au/shopMegsGardenPapercraft?coupon=THANKS Bye for now Meg megsgarden@outlook.com

 Hello Paper Artists at August 2022

Ready for some serious Vintage?

The latest Collection of Digital Papers M539:

Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson have a new case - a package of old papers was special delivered to them - the papers are the only clues to their new client & case.

12 papers 8.5x11”, 300dpi for quality printing, JPG format:

6 vintage Cut & Create Ephemera, 4 vintage Backgrounds, plus 2 extra Cut & Creates.

 

One of the extras is in PNG format - 4 images - this means that there is no background - you can print the paper on any type of paper & you only get the ephemera image itself - beige, white, or any color cardstock, vellum (transparency paper) is very effective especially if tea or coffee dyed, transparency film or even a background paper with script etc.

 

The other extra has images specific to Sherlock Holmes.  You can choose to help Sherlock & Dr. Watson solve the case or just have lots of fun with the Vintage papers.

Designed especially for Vintage Paper Arts & Junk Journal Artists but also for my new Mini Books

If you love making Junk Journals or Vintage Art, then these images are ideal & a must to add to your stash

 

Link to Video of papers: https://youtu.be/5tNB40jfpMA

 

Link to the Collection: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1285862003

 

Let these papers inspire you to create beautiful art.

 

Bye for now

Meg 

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                                                 Hello Paper Artists - July 2022

                 The paper collection for this month is called:

Shades of Pink

Designed especially for Vintage Shabby Chic Arts & Junk Journal Artists 

but also for my new Mini Books

The collection is 11 papers: 6 Cut & Create papers 8.5”x11”, high-quality 300dpi, JPG format PLUS 1 of the Cut & Create papers is done using PNG format & 4 Backgrounds 

PNG means that there is no background - you can print the paper on any type of paper & you only get the ephemera image itself - pink, white, or any color cardstock, vellum (transparency paper) is very elegant, transparency film or even a background paper with script, etc.

 https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1266142877

Let these papers inspire you to create beautiful art.

Bye for now

Meg

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For some ideas on how to use ephemera in junk journals, please visit my YouTube Channel to see several videos of Junk Journals:https://www.youtube.com/user/megsgardenpapercraft

 

Hello Paper Artists This video shows my completed Mini Book using the Shades of Blue Papers You can take it to shabby chic or to a more vintage style - totally up to you. I used lace, ribbons & flowers for Shabby Chic - hope it gives you some ideas

Shades of Blue Mini Book

Dimensions:

Cover:  12” x 6”

With a 1.5” spine - score of 5.25” from each side

(For a 2” spine - score 5” from each side)

Signatures: 12” x 5.5”  each will have a 0.5” spine

Score 5”, 5.5”, 10.5” - leaves 1” to either cut off or fold in for tucks

Smaller signature:

7.5” x 3.75” with 0.25” scores in the center  

Etsy link

Meg

 megsgarden@outlook.com

    

Hello Paper Artists

Shades of Blue   May 2022

 Latest Collection designed for Mini Books:

Shades of Blue - a beautiful shabby chic color.  Collection #M535

 

A pack of 10 papers 8.5x11” - high-quality 300dpi, jpg format:

4 background papers & 6 papers full of Cut & Create Ephemera.

 

Etsy listing:    https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1213497906

Papers video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iBW53P256PE

Project video: https://youtu.be/  in  process

Have fun with this Collection - use different textures, colors & cardstocks & enjoy.

 

Meg

 megsgarden@outlook.com

 

Meg’s Mini Books are made 6” high or less ie. 1/2 of a sheet of cardstock. They are much easier to make than large journals & also more economical. On top of that, they are lots of fun & very forgiving. A new type of paper Collection has been designed especially for these mini books:

 

What Wikipedia has to say about the 'color blue' is fascinating: 

From Wikipedia. “Blue is one of the three primary colors in the RYB color model (traditional color theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) color model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light.  Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colors; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet.

Blue has been an important color in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewelry and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century, Chinese artists used cobalt blue to color fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used it in the windows of cathedrals. Europeans wore clothing colored with the vegetable dye woad until it was replaced by the finer indigo from America. In the 19th century, synthetic blue dyes and pigments gradually replaced organic dyes and mineral pigments. Surveys in the US and Europe show that blue is the color most commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and occasionally  sadness.”

 

 

 

April 6, 2022

Hello Paper Artists

Meg’s Mini Books are made 6” high or less ie. 1/2 of a sheet of cardstock. They are much easier to make than large journals & also more economical. On top of that, they are lots of fun & very forgiving.

 A new type of paper Collection has been designed especially for these mini books:

  - A pack of 10 papers 8.5x11” (high-quality 300dpi, JPG format) containing:

 4 background papers & 6 papers full of cut & creates in the same tones as the background papers. The cut & creates have been sized to fit the mini-books.

 There are 2 new Mini Books to show you today

 

Apricot Blush - a beautiful shabby chic color.  Collection #M532

 

Etsy listing:    https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1196275817

Papers video: https://youtu.be/taWM4zRKuTQ

Project video: https://youtu.be/6PJNR3M1tLE 

Sepia Flowers - a favorite collection of shades of browns, beiges & blacks. #M533

 

Etsy listing:    https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1182320332

Papers video: https://youtu.be/Ki5XCHSkoMY

Project video: https://youtu.be/Bbne3X-ILRU

 Dimensions:

Cover:  12” x 6”

For a 1” spine - score 5.5” from each side

For a 1.5” spine - score  5.25” from each side

For a 2” spine - score 5” from each side

Signatures: 12” x 5.5”  each will have a 0.5” spine

Score 5”, 5.5”, 10.5” - leaves 1” to either cut off or fold in for tucks

Smaller signature:

7.5” x 3.75” with 0.25” scores in the center  

All measurements are Wide x high

Have fun with these Mini Books - use different textures, colors & cardstocks

Meg

megsgarden@outlook.com

 Meg’s Mini Books

By Definition:  A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover. The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a composition, nor even be called a book. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings or photographs, crossword puzzles, or ‘cut & create ephemera’. 

 By Definition: Mini denoting a miniature version of something

 Combine these 2: Meg’s Mini-Books are, therefore, made 6” high or less ie. 1/2 of a sheet of cardstock. They are much easier to make than large journals & also more economical. On top of that, they are lots of fun & very forgiving.

 A new type of paper Collection has been designed especially for these mini books:

  - A pack of 10 papers 8.5x11” (high-quality 300dpi, JPG format) containing:

 4 background papers & 6 papers full of cut & creates in the same tones of the background papers. The cut & creates have been sized to fit the mini- books.

 The first 2 of these collections are:

 1.Periwinkle - Pantone’s color of the year 2022 - a fabulous color between purple & blue. #M530

 Etsy listing:

2.Vintage - a favorite collection of shades of browns, beiges & blacks. #M531

Etsy Listing

The mini books can also use up those smaller pieces of cardstock, patterned papers & tea dyed papers.

 Dimensions:

Cover:  12” x 6”

For a 1” spine - score 5.5” from each side

For a 1.5” spine - score  5.25” from each side

Signatures: 12” x 5.5”  each will have a 0.5” spine

Score 5”, 5.5”, 10.5” - leaves 1” to either cut off or fold in for tucks

Smaller signature:

7.5” x 3.75” with 0.25” scores in the center  

 Smaller Mini Books:   8.5” x 4.5” with 0.5” spine

       7.75” x 3.75”

All measurements are Widths x heights (except spines)

Have fun with these Mini Books - use different textures, colors & cardstocks

 Meg,

 megsgarden@outlook.com