'Summer at Last'

Hi

Eila presents her LO that she calls 'Summer at Last' and has the following to say:

'It was instant love when I saw the Forget Me Nots Fabric paper. It brought back memories of my childhood summers in Finland, a seemingly endless row of sunny days. The covers of my grandfather's mattresses had an almost identical pattern, only they were in a pale blue and white pattern.

The photo is from internet but it has all the trimmings of the carefree childhood that I remember; the old red wooden houses so typical of northern parts of Sweden and Finland. They wild meadow that has been left to grow, the bare feet and the white cotton summer dresses that I had as a little girl.

The elegant grey of the paper can be combined with practically any other colours, I chose orange for its sunshiny qualities. The trims are just adorable and so wonderful to use as decoration instead of lace or ribbon.

The red roses/yellow rose buds/blue bells and the mushrooms are cut out from some pieces of scrap from older paper collections that I had sitting on my desk. The whimsical and darling details add a charming feel to the clusters. The fussy-cut butterflies are from the same Fabric's paper, absolutely adorable.

The photo is matted in the stripey Birds paper that I also punched with a delicate lacey border.'

 

What a beautiful summer LO. Love the orange flowers & the additional touches of red, yellow & blue colours; look at the tickets to Hillside Farm & the framed 'hope'.  Absolutely love the bird & the butterflies just hanging out at the edge of the LO;  you can almost smell the scent of the grass. As we go into winter here, we are all remembering summer & cherish the warmth of the sun on beautiful days

Gorgeous LO Eila, love all its elements that come together to make the LO extraordinary - Well done!

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Friendship Garden

Hello

Adriana is still playing in her papercraft garden & presents this beautiful layout:

Adriana explains her layout: 

'This layout is called, “Friendship Garden”

The poem reads,

“The heart is a garden

That always has room

For the flowers of kindness

And friendships that blooms.”

I just loved this poem, not sure who wrote it.

When I saw the delightful vintage images of girls in the garden, I knew I had to create something with them. I wanted to create a garden with the girls, who look like they are best friends.

Also I wanted to showcase the wonderful new papers ‘Forget me Not’, all the blooms are from the paper range.

The paper I used to create the borders of these two layouts are the “Butterflies & Blue Forget me Not” P6304 12 x 12 with the addition of a strip 4 x 12.

You will need two of the sheets to create 4 sided border.

 Materials used from Meg’s Garden:
Forget me not paper collections and images

Velvet flowers and paper flowers, leaves, paper gardenias, vintage lace

Other materials used:
Imaginarium designs chipboards vine & gate window.
Gold glitter stickles, May arts vine ribbon,
MME paper background. Inks, distress inks.'

A very beautiful papercraft garden Adriana - love all the fussy cutting of the flowers with the embellishment of additional paper flowers & the border; love the addition of the burgundy highlghts & the background panels. Love it all.  Well done

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

The Papercraft Gardens of Adriana

Hi

Let's step away from books and look at some layouts using the Forget Me Not Collection.

This post & the next show Adriana with her fabulous papercraft gardens.



How gorgeous is this!!

Thank you so much Adriana for the dedication

'My 2 layouts are themed around “Gardens”

First one is called “Meg’s Garden”

This is dedicated to your business Meg’s Garden which is full of papercraft delights and embellishments.

The “Forget me Not” paper collection, is such wonderful & delightful Garden of papers.

Materials used from Meg’s Garden:

Forget me not, paper collections

Velvet flowers, paper flowers,Leaves, paper gardenias

Other materials used:

Imaginarium designs alphas

Tim Holtz diecut – Hanging sign'

Where do I start in commenting on this LO?   The collection of both paper & velvet flowers is an exquisite choice on this paper; the fussy cutting of the paper is fabulous;  the framing of the LO using paper;  look at the three dimensional butterflies & how they are scattered as if they are flying around the garden with one very beautiful butterfly framed on the side with a chippie frame.  Simply divine.

Well done Adriana - just gorgeous

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Variations on the Little Book by Charlotte

Hi
These 2 projects were designed by Charlotte to show how 1 design can be changed.
The 1st little book used Graphic 45 papers, lace, ribbons & femininity; shades of apricots, laces & pearls & little velvet flowers.

closed cover of book - the apricot ribbon is between page 4 & the back cover
  & ties in a bow on the front - could also be tied to the side

the lace goes behind the green paper on the front cover & ties in a know on the front

inside showing the tags, the tiny booklet on page 2 & the stampings

inside

first page details

inside tiny booklet on page 2

page 4 detail

all pages

These little booklets are perfect places to use those little scraps of paper that are too good to throw away - they are perfect embellishments - tear them & distress the edges.

The 2nd little book uses rub ons & variety in ribbons - it is less feminine feel than the first book & could very easily become a masculine book with a slight variation in embellishing.

Closed book - the ribbons go between page 4 & back cover
& the to front to tie in a bow at the side

cover of book showing ribbon wrapped around the
 2 patterned papers before attaching to the cover

 

inside of book without tags

inside of book showing tags, tiny booklet & details

tags details

inside of tiny booklet on page 2

Neither of these books have journaling or photos but are shown so that you can see how 1 design can be changed dramatically to suit the purpose of the project - the booklets can be a fabulous alternative to a card:

• a thank you for a special dinner with photos inside
• a new baby
• mothers day luncheon or a fathers day BBQ
• christening or graduation
•  and many more ideas ....

Hope you enjoyed these postings on books & booklets

I love doing them

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Charlotte's Web Stamping & PaperCrafts

69 Finniss Street, Marion. SA 5043

Ph: 08 8377 0600    

A Little Book by Charlotte

Hi

Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web in Marion SA, made this project & taught it to retailers for Meg's Garden at a trade fair in Sydney.   Charlotte Barratt is one of the Queens of Shabby Chic & this little book shows you why.

The booklet can be as simple as you want but can also have additional pages added. With a booklet type project, always wait until the book is finished before adding front & back covers to it - you need to allow space for the book to be closed. This one has the green ribbon running on the outside of the covers & is closed by toggles on the ends of the ribbon at the side; you can also have the ribbon between the covers & the inside to close with a bow on the outside.

Front cover

Tags

Inside without tags

The Completed inside

The book is made from 1 sheet of A4 paper cardstock;  fold it in half lengthwise & then into quarters with the half fold as the peak & the quarter folds as valleys. Cut & make 4 tags from the same cardstock.

Cover the front & back chipboards with paper; tear, cut & punch the A4 sheet as shown in the pic; distress all edges & then decorate with charms, lace, ribbons & more. Add journaling & photos. All products are from Meg's Garden.

Fabulous little book Charlotte - she can be found at:

Charlotte's Web Stamping & PaperCrafts
69 Finniss Street, Marion. SA 5043  Ph: 08 8377 0600    

I have 2 other little books, also designed by Charlotte, to show you in the next post.

After that we return to some gorgeous projects using the Forget Me Not Collection papers from the Design Team.

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Book by Heather - The Garden Book

Hi

This is the second in our book postings - Heather has created this Garden Book for inspiration

Cover of book

Open book

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

Garden Book - back page tag

Garden Book tags

'SCRAPBOOKING MEG'S GARDEN APRIL PROJECT

BY HEATHER JACOB

I decided to alter the accordion book by cutting the cover away from the accordion pages .

I created a spine with cardboard and covered the cover and spine with the delicious new paper range.. “Forget me not Collection…. “

My theme for this mini book is about the ever changing seasons.…

The “Forget – Me – Not “ Collection is sooooooooo stunning I felt I wanted to create a book that reflected a walk through the ‘Cycle of Life .”

Cover

Shades of blue P6302 , Velvet flowers

Inside pages

Birds in Forget me nots P6303, Nesting P6301A , Articles de Paris P62394

My first page …. I joined 2 pages together creating a pocket to hold tags and photos.
The rest of the book is made up of double pages and tied to the spine with ribbon .
I had great fun, fussy cutting the flowers and using a diecut  to add dimension on each page.
Flowers, leaves, keys, muslin  and chipboard have all been added throughout the book…

The keys are covered with texture paste (Golden ) and dried with a heat gun then mounted on chipboard covered with paper and muslin
I also added positive affirmations and quotes throughout the book

I adored working with these papers for my very first project as a DESIGN TEAM MEMBER with MEG’S GARDEN …

They are so versatile and a dream for anyone who loves fussy cutting .. the colors are exquisite .

I hope I have inspired you in some way ..

Thanks Meg for choosing me on your team, I know I am going to love this journey …

 hugz from Heather x

Other items used

Imaginarium chipboard ….Kaiser chipboard and sparklets… muslin.. ribbon'

Fabulous book Heather - well done - a challenge & inspiration to us all

Bye for now

Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Books - Bird Art Journal

Hi
In the next few posts we are going to look at some very creative books.  They are such a challenge & can be done in any style you want.

Today we have a look at one that Adriana has created -  called  'Bird Art Journal' - an extremely appropriate title for an extremely fabulous journal.

Front cover

 

 

 

Back cover

'DETAILS OF BIRD ART JOURNAL

I decided to make my accordion kit into a mini book,

A Mini Bird Art Journal.

First I covered the foam covers with Music sheet paper, then

glued the pages together, so it formed 6 pages to decorate

I wanted this book to look like a study of different birds,

A vintage journal style book, with a very rustic feel to it.

Before I glued the covers to the inside pages, I used Tim Holtz

Die cut “Hardware Finding” using the long hinged shape,

cut out of Grungeboard, I inked them and secured it in place

with brads. This created a hinge for my mini book. Then glued

the pages to the cover. All the lace I used from Meg’s Garden

was white, I stained them with distress inks to make them look

vintage colour. I did the same to the Paper doilies.

Front cover & Back cover

Megs’ garden materials are

Paper doily small , Key, mini rosebuds, gingham ribbon,

Foliage, lace, white paper gardenias, tassels

Collage images Bird of Paris 3341A,

French writing ephemera collage sheet 3377,

Other materials

Dusty attic frame and dragonfly chipboard

Ink, paint, hessin, letters.

Inside pages

Megs’ garden materials are

Lace, Gingham ribbon, forget me not flowers, tag,

Paper doily, Mini Oval Frames, German glass glitter,

Birds of a feather stamps kit from TJ designs

Designs Galore ATC 023 light rulers

Birds of Paris collage sheet 12 x 12 -  3341A

Other Materials

G45 Paper of Tropical birds,

Calico, ink stains, feather, brads, kraft stock card,

Music sheets paper.

You can make more pages to this book by cutting up more

Card stock and glue it together.

I really enjoyed  and had a lot of fun making this mini book, I hope

it has inspired you to create one for yourself.'

The accordion book kits can be found at:

accordion book kit

The next posting will show a  book done by Heather

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com