Adore - by Brenda Caldow

Hello crafty friends it's Brenda here today and as always welcome to Megs Garden Blog it is great to have you here with us. We are coming to the end of another month and I just can't believe how fast the time is going. I have finally got myself back to my craft space and in doing it I had a box of yummy products from Meg to create my page with. This latest range is just beautiful and I had so much fun working with it. 

The beautiful young lady in my photo is Miss Meghan, my girlfriends daughter. Meghan had come on holidays my my boys and I and we went to a pioneer settlement where they dressed in period costumes and had so much fun doing it. 

Thee beautiful patterned papers I used are from the Rose Quartz Collection and I really do mean beautiful. I love them so much.

On the background I used a exquisite Basket Lace Doily 25 and around the edge on the spots I used Rose Gold Liquid Pears. I used a little hint of Distress Ink - Gathered Twigs so the pattern in the doily stood out just that bit more against the the sea of white and soft rose I was using. 

The very beautiful and delicate scalloped edged Antique Pink Nylon Lace I used is stunning. I just loved the look, colour and feel of this new lace. 

On each of the corners of the mounted photo I used Vintage Trinket Small Corners and I think they went perfect with the vintage photo. The title is a chippie which I coloured with a Copic - Lipstick Natural. I chose the title because we all adore Meghan. Behind the photo I used some corrugated cardboard and I inked it with Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick and Gathered Twigs. 

I just love these paper flowers I have used and you have probably guessed that by now. I use them on just about all my craft work. They come in 11 different colour flower packs. On this page I chose to use the White and and Rose coloured blooms.

My center piece flower is an Organza Lace Flower with diamante - Moccha, very vintage in looks and was great in colour for the Rose Quartz Paper Collection. 

The final item I used on my page was a Dusty Attic Vintage Clock chippie which I coloured with Copics - Olive and Lipstick Natural. 

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my page and remember that all you have to do is click on the links for the beautiful products at Megs Garden I have used. You will go straight to them in the store and you can find lots of other beautiful products too. 

You can also keep scrolling down and see what the rest of the Design Team have been creating and what they have used as well. There are so many wonderful creations on the blog to get you crafty mojo flowing. 

Happy crafting and loads of love

Brenda xxx

Products Used -

Rose Quartz Collection 

Basket Lace Doily 25 

Antique Pink Nylon Lace 

Vintage Trinket Small Corners 

flower packs 

Organza Lace Flower 

 

Accordion Book by Brenda Caldow

Hello, Brenda here with you today and welcome to Meg's Garden. I just can't believe how fast the months are going. Seems like yesterday was Christmas but I look at the calendar and think where have the days gone. 

Today I would like to show you my latest creation. I have created my accordion book using the beautiful Chantilly Cream paper range. Meg says these papers have been whipped until light and fluffy. Wow is that true, the do take on that look and I just love them.

As most of you know I love to fussy cut and these beautiful papers are so elegant with lovely picture to be able to do this. Thee beautiful framed girl has been cut from the papers. 

For the  small rectangular Parisian frame I chose to colour it with a brown Copic and then coated it with Glossy Accents just marking up the Accents here and there a little to give it an aged look.

The clock face comes in a pkt of 5  which is great for choosing the best size for your project, in this case I chose the small of them.  

When creating for Meg's Garden you will see me using these beautiful flowers a lot. I love them and they come in such lovely colours and look delicate and real. I also love the fact that they are in a variety of sizes in the packet.

To me the Camel Coloured Jute Ribbon I have used at the sides of my cover look aged. I felt it fitted in well with papers and frame. It comes in 7 different colours.

Now from the cover we go inside my accordion book. 

 The elegance of this beautiful period lady speaks volumes, I love it so I fussy cut it from the papers and raised it up to make it a feature on the page. The word Cherish on the left in the resin frame is also fussy cut from the papers. I have made the pocket from cardstock and cut out some tags so as I'm able to journal on the back of them. 

I have used various rubons on the pages and I also used a brown Distress Ink.
Down the side on top of the journal tag pocket I used the Silver Grey Jute, such a natural looking colour which is in all this range.
I have cut the beautiful girl from the papers and placed it in the small oval Victorian Frame, again I have coloured the frame with a copic but a slightly lighter brown as the girl looked so delicate. Over this I used a little Irresistible gold spay and rubbed it over the frame to give it a little gold fleck to make it looked aged.
The beautiful burgundy butterfly has been fussy cut from the papers along with more journal tags.

My final page I tried to show a page of elegance and beauty.  From cardstock I cut another punched another pocket for the journal tags. Across it I used Camel Mesh Ribbon which took the darkness from the pocket but the pocket allowed the mesh to stand out. The lady has been fussy cut frm the papers and raised to stand out. The reason I love to fussy cut is because it adds to your choice of embellishments and a complete use of the papers.
Again cut from the papers is the elegant lady which I placed on cardstock that I have punched the edge of to match the pocket on the other side. The word adore is cut fromthe papers and mounted the same and finally the cute butterfly has been fussy cut too.

I hope you have enjoyed my accordion book and that I have been able to inspire you a little. Maybe even inspired you to do a little fussy cutting with these beautiful papers.
Until my next post keep coming back because there are some wonderful creations from the rest of the design team for you to have a look at for more inspiration.
Happy Crafting...... xxx

Meg's Garden Products

Accordion book

Chantilly Cream paper

small rectangular Parisian frame 

clock face 

Jute Ribbon 

Victorian Frame 

Camel Mesh Ribbon

  

Layout - "Love" - With Brenda Caldow

Hello crafty friends and a very warm welcome to Meg's Garden Blog.

Today I would like to bring to you my first DT post for Meg and I'm very excited to be part of the wonderful team. Today I will be showcasing some wonderful products that are all available in the Meg's Garden Shop.

The layout I have created is of my beautiful mother and myself.

These stunning papers are from "The Butterfly Collection" and the minute I looked at them I knew I was going to enjoy working with them. I love to fussy cut and these 12x12 papers were going to be great with beautiful butterflies to cut out.

I chose to use the 12x12 A Delicate Garden For Butterflies as my background to create on. It has a very soft print on it which I thought was beautiful. 

I decided to use some spray on my background just to bring the colors out in the butterflies more and so it also brought out the colors in my mothers top. I tore two of the 12 x 12 papers - A Flower garden For Butterflies and The French Butterflies up into smaller pieces larger than the photo and inked the edges. The tags I fussy cut from the Collections Cut and create Emphemera 12x12 sheet.

As you can see this is one of the fussy cut butterflies and they are just beautiful. The beautiful fabric and paper flowers are cornsilk.and the larger blue flower is from the Temptations in Blue collection. This collection has so many things in which you can create your layout, card or any project with.

The leaves are great and come in pks of 10. I thought the gold filigree butterfly was too cute not to use on these papers. It fitted in so well with them. The filigree Vintage Trinket placed under the photo reminded me of many things I gave seen in my mothers house over the years including in her broaches.

 I just love lace and the cotton cream lace I have used is just beautiful and I placed it behind each of the flower clusters. The frame has also been fussy cut from the cut and create 12x12 sheet. I used a little ink on the edge to make it stand out and then fussy cut one of the butterflies and placed in it.

 I used a love heart punch (Small) and punched out some hearts and come down from them I did some stitching with my journal pen. Stitching doesn't just have to be from a machine, I use my pen more often than getting the machine out. Around the flowers I used some Blue Jazz. You can get this from Megs Shop in the Fibers where you can find it in different colors or there is some in the Temptations in Blue collection.

  We have now come to the end of my layout and first Meg's Garden Blog first post.  I hope you have enjoyed looking at what I created with the beautiful products that are available at Megs Garden Store. There are so many other beautiful products available too so please take a look as I know you will love them all very much. 

Like the rest of the DT I'm so happy you have called to the blog and looked at our work. I would love to have you leave a comment as they are important to all of us.
Happy crafting, Hugs Brenda xxx

MEGS GARDEN PRODUCTS USED

"The Butterfly Collection"

flowers 

filigree butterfly

Temptations in Blue collection 

leaves 

filigree butterfly 

Vintage Trinket 

cotton cream lace 

Blue Jazz