Heather has an affirmation for this Month of Love

Hello Bloggers

Hope you are enjoying the OUAS collaboration.

Heather is next up with her gorgeous layout.  You will be seeing so many different projects this month & Adriana has done a fabulous job in the scheduling so that each posting is different than those next to it. Thanks Adriana.

Heather is famous for her affirmations & this one is perfect for the month of love.  She explains:

'Hello there, Heather with you today showcasing our beautiful new Paper collection .

This month there is a delightful ‘twist’ as we are joining in with ‘Once Upon a sketch.’

A challenge site with sketches and is all about journaling the journey of life.

I am loving the softness and colours of this new range and thoroughly loved working with them .

This layout is based on a divine sketch created by Nadia Cannizzo, the founder of OUAS.

My page came together so quickly and is deceivingly very simple .'

‘LOVE’

Hearts

Rosette

Journaling

MY PROCESS

I created the splashes of ink with Tim Holtz shabby shutters stain.

Layered over with the black Inked the Kaiser stamp

Cut the circle ( this can be done by tracing around a plate )

Mount the photo, add file labels around edge .

Place inked chipboard under top right corner of photo

Proceed by adding  a border of flower clusters/ rosette and hearts framing the photo .

I used the delightful Buds of May paper for the circle and the stacked hearts.

The diecut file labels, honeycomb shapes and leaves are created by using a combination of both A Summer's Day and Buds of May.

The two strips at the bottom of the page are random left over pieces .

These collections are perfect for mixing and matching .

MEGS GARDEN PAPERS

Buds of May P6335

A Summer's Day P6333            Ode to a Summer's Day

OTHER MATERIALS USED

Tim Holtz rosette die cut and stain, Dusty Attic chipboard, Imaginarium designs chipboard, Green Tara blooms, Spellbinders nestabilities/ heart diecuts, vintage brads, Kaiser stamp and resin blossoms, white/green  bazzill .

The photo is taken by TARA from SIMPLY PHOTOGRAPHIC .

Pop over to OUAS to be inspired www.onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.com.au

THANKS for dropping by and hope I have inspired you to have a play with these papers .

Hugz from Heather x'

Thanks Heather - a very elegant layout & beautiful use of the 2 papers - well done

Bye for now

Meg

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Denise uses her own paper

Hello Bloggers

Denise Ann is up first in our month with Once Upon a Sketch celebrating Summer Love in February. 

Denise Ann is the designer of the paper collection that the Meg's Garden Design Team is using - 'Ode to a Summer's Day'.

It is totally appropriate for her to create this layout in celebration of her Nephew's wedding - a commitment of Summer Love.

The LO is going to be framed as a gift for them - how beautiful.

The papers Denise chose are:
P6336 A Summer Bouquet from the Ode to a Summer's Day Collection & she introduced a paper from the Spring Paisley Collection - P6322 Pale Pink Paisley.  The Pale Pink Paisley is used as a base for the fussy cutting from A Summer Bouquet & the embellishment.

The other materials are shown in the 2nd pic.

The verse is "Grow Old with Me" by Wendy Silva.

This is a beautiful start to the Summer Love celebration with  Once Upon a Sketch

This is a very beautiful & elegant LO & I am sure that the wedding couple will love it & cherish it as a momento of their wedding day.  Well done Denise. Thanks for starting this month with such pizzazz.

Bye for now

Meg
www.megsgarden.com


To see the complete of 'Ode to a Summer's Day' collection of papers designed by Denise Ann, please visit  Meg's Garden - Ode to a Summer's Day

Meg's Garden & Once Upon A Sketch in the month of Love

Hi Bloggers

Summer Love

To celebrate the release of the new collection of papers "Ode to a Summer's Day" designed by Denise Ann, the Meg’s Garden Design Team are special guests over at “ONCE UPON A SKETCH” for the month of February.   Each Meg’s Garden Design Team member has created a layout based on the sketch and theme for this month.

http://onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.com

The month of February is the month we celebrate St Valentine's Day here in Australia and in many parts of the world. Love takes on many forms..relationship love, parental love etc etc. So let's think about what the above quote can mean and how you can interpret it on a layout. You are free to scrap about any kind of love you wish however you like based on the following sketch. 

Ideas for journalling: love for your partner, family , parents ,siblings , children, work, students, craft, music, extra curricular activities. Whatever it is that you connect LOVE with. 

Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . You are allowed to journal in any language but please tell us where on your page we will find your journalling. Remember journalling has to be a bit more than a title, or a generic comment. Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Throughout this month, I will share the Design Teams layouts created with the new release papers “Ode to a Summer’s Day” with all the materials list and ideas, here at Meg’s Garden Blog.  If you enter in the challenge at Once Upon a Sketch this month there is a Prize package that Meg’s Garden has donated.

Once Upon a Sketch Blog

Meg's Garden Blog

Looking forward to seeing the results

Bye for now

Meg

To purchase the new paper pack, please visit  Ode to a Summer's Day 

New Embellishments for a New Year

NEW Embellishments!!

• Silver Diamante Trim

10mm Round $2.35/metre

• Silk & Organza Flowers

   

Primulas: 4.5cm Ivory and Pale Green $1.45 ea

Wild rose 6cm Silk & organza - Ivory $2.10 ea

• Pearl Stamens

Pink & White Pearl
$2.15/bunch 144 double end (288 heads)
- 65mm long with 8mm anthers

• Lace

   always need more laces
1.6cm off white lace $1.45/m

• Paper Flowers & Rose Leaves

Burgundy 5cm                 Moccha 10cm             Champagne Roses

6/pk $6.25                         2/pk $2.95                  9cm 2/pk $2.50

Rose Leaves - 50/pk        Pale Green                    Wild Oatmeal colour
2.5cm wide $5.65            Roses 4cm 6/pk $6.50           5cm 6/pk $6.50

• More fabric flowers:

Lotus - Imperial               Lotus  - Divine               Lotus - white
2/pk 7-8cm $6.50            2/pk 7-8cm $6.50           2/pk 7-8cm $6.50

All of these can be found at www.megsgarden.com

Paper Flowers & Rose Leaves - absolutely gorgeous on layouts, cards, little books - colour them to match or compliment your project; just distress the edges but you know how to do this

Silver Diamante Trim - use just 1 piece or sprinkle onto your art piece. This new one is the same as the other daisy trim that you love - just smaller which makes it ideal for small flowers & trim

Fabric Flowers & Lotus Flowers - absolutely gorgeous on layouts, cards, little books

Laces - you can never have too many

Stamens - fabulous finishing touches to your hand made flowers

Bye for now
Meg

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Heather's Layout is called Love

Hello Bloggers

'Hello every one today I am sharing a layout using some of the BEAUTIFUL FRENCH INSPIRED papers designed by Denise ‘ The Articles de Paris .’
This is one of my faves  and I have mixed it with snippets of the Christmas papers and the Forget me Nots paper collection from 2012.I love the soft muted colors and here I decided to create a background using two grey toned cardstock.The banner consists of Ann-Le Belle Jardin papers mixed with grey cardstock. The photo is mounted with Ann-Le Belle Jardin papers and then the velvet flowers and die cut foliage are clustered around the bottom edge .I fussy cut the ‘Clouterie Label’ and mounted it next to the photo . To add extra interest I altered The Tim Holtz metal elements with gesso and ink . '

Banner & Blooms

Banner

Blooms

'MEG'S GARDEN MATERIALS USED

Scrolls with Forget Me Nots

P6311

Forget Me Not Collection 2

Christmas Music

P6326

A musical Christmas collection

Articles de Paris

P6294

Ann- Le Belle Jardin Collection

Metal Foliage-Tim Holtz

th92788

Keyholes-Tim Holtz

th92718

Forget me not - antique purple velvet flowers

Fn035

other materials used

Kaiser cardstock and stamps, Green Tara blooms, thicker letters, brads/vintage charms, lace.

Thanks for dropping by and I do hope I have inspired you to mix and match these delightful papers .

Hugz from Heather x

www.heatherartandlife.blogspot.com.au'

I can see you had fun with this one as you said in your email.
Totally love the colour scheme - 'the velvet flowers look so rich and delish with the papers'. The greys, muted pinks & darker colours are so gorgeous & elegant - well done Heather

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Adriana scraps her cat

Hello Bloggers

“Adore” layout by Adriana Bolzon - her explanation follows:

'Last year I was very fortunate to be published in the “Australian Scrapbooking Ideas” Magazine. In Issue 17 which was available in the shops last November I had created a few layouts of which one I am going to show you today.

Here I made a lovely garden scene with Meg’s Garden Papers “Green Toile” papers in which I placed my cat in the lovely paper garden.

My commissioned technique assignment was how to cut around photos and create a different background for your photos. Animals can be fairly tricky to photograph as they tend to move around a lot. By placing pets on a bed and keeping them comfortable and still you can take the photo, it does not matter what background you have because once your photos are printed, you can cut around them and place in your layout.'

'Meg’s Garden Green Toile P6295 Paper X 2

Olive, white, burgundy & Brown cardstock

Kaisercraft  lamp, birdcage, “Adore” wood

Pearls

Versa brown & black inkpad

Range glossy accents

Red Berries

Punch, Distress Tool, die cuts

Thanks again, till next time, Cheers Adriana XX'

Fabulous LO Adriana - well done.  Did you tell your cat it was famous??  Love the way you have cut out the cat & sat it in a garden of flowers. Beautiful

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Vintage Beauty Tags from Adriana

Hello Bloggers

Adriana shows us her tags using some of the Vintage Beauties images.  Adriana explanins:

 “Vintage Beauty Tags” by Adriana Bolzon

'I love vintage tags, so today I am going to show 2 tags that I have created using strips of Meg’s garden papers with pretty vintage beauties collage images with all the gorgeous embellishments that are available at Meg’s Garden website.

When you purchase a 12’x12’ paper from Meg’s Garden you also receive a strip 12’ x 4’ of the same paper design. So today I am going to show you an idea to use this small strip to make backgrounds for tags. Cut the paper strip to the size you require and adhere to your tag. I used normal size manila tag.  Megs’ garden website sells packs of various sizes.

I gently white washed the papers with Tim Holtz Distress Stain Picket Fence to give them a very shabby look to them and inked the edges with brown ink.

Then I decorated each tag with all the embellishments that I have listed below. Each vintage image is cut from the collage sheet; there are many images to choose from you get 5 different sized images on a 12’ x 4’ strip. Also if you can not decide which image you like, there is a Vintage Beauty pack (see more details on the website). I distressed the edges of the images and then inked around them and layered them on top of a ATC collage paper another paper repeating the same process.'

Tag#2 “ Discover, Trust, Adore”    Meg’s Garden MATERIALS

Musical Christmas 12’x4’ strip (but you can use any strip)

Vintage Beauty strip – many images to choose from– you get 5 different sized images on a 12’x4’ strip.

In the Garden Charm pack – I use the butterfly charm

Lace which I tea dyed beforehand

Tassels – silver blue & ivory

French writing Ephemera collage strip

Viola Pansy Burgundy velvet flowers

Viola Pansy lilac pink velvet flowers

Chantilly velvet leaves

Small circle doily – applied Distress stain (Old paper) then inked edges with brown ink

German scrap Viennese small gold swag, which I painted over with white paint, I place these on the top corners

German scrap black border-, which I painted with white paint then over again with gold paint – the result looks like brass colour.

Tag#1 “Live, Laugh, Treasure”         Meg’s Garden MATERIALS 

Musical Christmas 12’x4’ strip (but you can use any strip)

ATC023 Rulers ATC papers

French writing Ephemera collage strip

Vintage Beauty strip – many images to choose from– you get 5 different sized images on a 12’x4’ strip.

In the Garden Charm pack – I use the butterfly charm

Lace which I tea dyed beforehand

Tassels – antique green

Flower trim silver – which I changed the colour with gold paint

Duchess jewel pin

Viola Pansy Burgundy velvet flower

Forget me not – antique blue velvet flower

Mini rosebuds white & red

German scrap Viennese small gold swag, which I painted over with white paint.

Extra materials used

Punched vines branches, burgundy ribbon and seam binding ribbon and Tim Holtz word stickers, inks.

Beautiful tags Adriana - well done.  I think you must be the Queen of the Vintage Beauties - you come up with so many different ideas & embellishments that work so well.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Vintage Beauties link