Traveling Man by Kerry-Jean Watson

Hello Bloggers! Here is another heritage layout.

I wanted to play with my paper collection Correspondence but in a more masculine way. 

This is my Great Uncle who at a young age in the early 1900 travelled by ship from South Africa to New York. I was lucky enough to find information in genealogy archives about his movement around the USA. 

So in this layout I have used the awesome cogs and gears from Meg's Garden, along with some of Finnabair's trinkets from Prima which I LOVE.  I added clock faces from Old World Time transparency and a hot air balloon , with a then a few Vintage Advertisements over a Vintage Map.

I hope you like this project and please feel free to leave a comment or question.

Adriana's Christmas Projects

 Hi ladies
The bell has rung for the Design Team - they had a choice from the Christmas shop for papers, embellishments, lace & more.
This is what Adriana has done from her goodies box - a really beautiful & creative collection of projects



Angels on Christmas Lace Card



Meg's Garden items used:

Vintage Christmas 1 collage photo

Mini paper pack Christmas 1

Red and Cream Lace 12’X12”

Merry Christmas ribbon

Green Holly

Millefiori red Beads

Jewel pin

Lace left white

Other items:

Card stock Red, cream, Green & Gold metallic

Paper flowers, inks.

Tim Holtz tattered flowers diecut

Martha stewart vine punch

Embossing folder





The Angel page Layout - Everytime a bell rings an angel gets Its wings

Items used from Meg’s garden:

Red & Cream Lace paper 12” x 12”

Mini paper pack Christmas 1

Vintage Christmas 1 Collage photo

Peace on earth paper 12” x 12”

Lace from Meg’s Garden which has been Glimmermisted

Green Holly

Jewel pins

German scrap gold

Red/Green ribbon and Merry Christmas ribbon

Flitter gold flakes

Jingle bells

Other items used

Bazzill stock - red, Black, Green

Burgundy and gold ribbon

Paper flowers

Red diamontes

Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Diecut -

Martha stewart vine punch

Glitter mist, inks

Angel Canvas

Materials from Meg's Garden used for the Angel Canvas:

Vintage Christmas 1 collage photo

Mini paper Christmas 1 pack

Red and cream lace paper 12” x 12”

Lace with glimmermist spray

Jewel beads

Other items used

Bazill red & Black stock

Paper flowers

Ribbons

Tissue

Tissue tape

Gesso

Twiddleybitz frame

Gold  and cream paint

Tim holtz Tattered florals diecut

Martha stewart vine punch

Red diamontes

Glimmer mist

inks

What a fabulous collection of artistic work - well done Adriana

Denise is up next & her projects are also fabulous - they will be on the blog on Saturday 22 Oct

Bye for now

Meg

Some More Doily Ideas

Hi Ladies
I love taking classes & try to expand my square as much as I can.  On Saturday morning I took a class with Steph Devlin - she is a brilliant Colourist & is on the DT of  Prima, Webster Pages & more.

The subject of the Class was 'White + One'. Steph chose Lilac.  On this page there are 2 10cm doilies used as embellishments - they were then themselves embellished. The pics are not showing the background as white. My mother as a young girl is the featured photo.

Another class we did a while ago was a Wedding Double Spread - also using doilies- this time the 25cm square doilies were used as a background. Steph loves to use doiles (also so much easier than using a border punch) & I really love the way she uses them.

The second page shows how the design can be used for Heritage (my paternal grandparents) & for a modern approach, me sipping champagne.

The next examples are of 2 cards, also done in a class with Belinda, using the Once Upon a Springtime papers from Graphic 45.
The first card was a 3-fold using the Frames from the Collection with acetate. The front page used a strip from a 10cm doily as an embellishment under the green braid

The second card was a multi step with a strip from the same round doily to accentuate the right side of the front of the card. You could also have used some strip doily in place of the punched border at the bottom of the front of the card.

Now to work on my new Spring Flower papers - as you can see they did not get done over the weekend - the weather was too good to stay indoors
Bye for now
Meg