Mini Accordion Book

Hello Bloggers

An accordion book using the Damask Garden papers shows how well the blues & greens in the collection work so well together   

        

Cover of the book. To make a transparency extremely effective, fold down on each side of the body. Score the folds & allow the wings to fly.  Double sided tape on the body attached the butterfly perfectly.  The bees wings were also folded up a little to give dimension.

Inside front cover & page 1 - the lady is my Great Grandmother. I love double mounting

 The accordion book has 6 pages - 2 inside the covers & 2 opposing pages.  To add more pages you can use cardstock pasted to the pages. The middle of the accordion book had flaps added to both pages using cardstock.

Inside the second flaps

Inside back cover - room for tags, music transparency & of course, some lace

Back cover which should never be ignored

Accordion Book Kit

Elements, Backgrounds Mini Pack & Elements/Ephemera

Damask Garden Collection

Hope this gives you some ideas - I love the accordion book kits  - they just wait to be painted, embellished, papers added & more ....

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Christmas Cones Ideas from Adriana

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As promised, this is the first of our Christmas projects. 
These ideas are perfect for the beginner, the intermediate & the experienced papercrafter. 
 I gave Adriana a box of goodies along with papers, (of course all from Meg's Garden), & asked her to 'do her thing'.

The following are what she came up with - very yummyyyy!!! Adriana

Christmas Cones Decoration Kits and Ideas.

Christmas Cones are so easy to make

and can be filled with Christmas candycanes or flowers. 

The are also a fabulous idea for decorating your home

or Christmas tree. 

They also make such wonderful

Christmas wrapping for small Christmas treats to give as gifts.

Here are some examples of what you can create:

Using the French Christmas cones paper and some

flowers, holly leaves, gold tassels and skeleton leaves mesh.

All available from Meg's Garden online shop.
The Christmas Cones Papers are now available 
from the Meg's Garden shop.

Here is one decorated with Music sheets and a paper circle doily with

some flowers and holly leaves. Gold Tassels with gemstones, pearl loops and

seam binding ribbons to hang your cone on a Christmas tree.

Here is a cone from a single sheet of Paper square doily,

formed into a cone and decorated with the Santa microscopes slides

image, with the touch of holly leaf and flowers.

So just a few ideas on making "Christmas Cones"

Visit the website for all products used    Meg's Garden Website

Fabulous designs Adriana - well done. Lots of ideas on these projects

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

When Meg's Garden becomes Versaille's Garden

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This is what Sylvie calls this small shabby chic card and its matching box envelope & she explains this beautiful project: 

 

I cut in differents papers: Birds in Forget me Nots P6303A, Old Writing from the Element Collection, Old World Time 1037; Summer Beauty from the Ode to a Summer's Day Collection, Antoinette 3373A.

This is what I like about Meg's Garden papers; there are so many small patterns that can be kept & all the paper falls to create  an entire  project... I love above all flowers and foliage..Just take a look at the card frame or the Eiffel Tower embellishment at the  back of the card to see how these small patterns work together to adorn themselves as a part of the project.

 I used  paper lace doily square to create an envelope. I just  folded the doily paper and I stiffened it with cardboard. I then cut another lace doily paper and this time I kept the pattern inside the square. I colorized it with pastel Brown chalk. To finish I used gesso on the flowers, round silver diamante trim and  iridescent gold paint on the frames to remind me of the gilding of the castle of Versailles and its gardens...

  

What a beautiful card & box envelope - well done Sylvie.  The way you have put so many different papers together is fabulous & each of the embellishments & elements is terrific.

Papers used:

Antoinette

Old Writing & Old World Time

Summer Beauty

Birds in Forget me Nots

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Sister's Love Layout by Adriana

Hello Bloggers, today we have Adriana's layout using the new paper collection
Dreaming in Meadows, Adriana explains her layout .....

"Hi everyone

 I have created a layout for

my DT work for Meg's Garden.
Using the latest release papers
Dreaming in Meadows paper collection

Sister's LOVE- layout by Adriana Bolzon

The story behind the photo.

This photo is of my Great Aunties on my 
mother's side of the the family. 
Taken around 1937.

The one on the far left in the photo, is Iseta, 
she was getting married and was leaving the family 
to live in Roussillon in France with her new husband. 
So this was the last photo of them together, 
she is the only one still living, 
but she now lives in Italy, 
she is now in her 95th year. 
The other two sisters, married as well 
and migrated to Canada with their husbands.

The paper I have used for the background 
is the Dreaming in Willows paper 
from the new paper collection.
 I just love the soft greys and with 
touches of lavendar and white.
I used a leaf Stencil and soft ink on the background

Dreaming in Willows paper

Paper flowers

Large ladies hand charm

In the bottom right hand corner is a small collage tag the
Paris Effiel tower placed on a
Vintage tags and elements sheets tag, 
Elements paper and an old airmail envelope 
are tuck underneath the layout, 
depicting the many letters that were written to 
each other back in olden days.

Clusters of paper and velvet flowers and leaves.

German Scrap border

Green Medley Jazz fibres

Dreaming in Willows paper

Velvet flowers and leaves

Paper flowers

Transparencies Collage sheet in the
top right hand corner, creating a flourish around 
the photo and some Lace on the bottom of page. 

Check out all the wonderful products from

 Megs Garden Website

and see more inspirational work from

Meg's Garden Blog

Thanks for looking, Cheers Adriana XX :)

Very beautiful Adriana - well done.  It is so nice to see old photos & thank you for giving us some history of the 3 ladies.

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Vintage Layout from Heather

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Heather is with us today with one of her fab projects & she explains:

'Hi everyone ,

Today I decided to go Vintage , creating a layout with the ‘Top hat & Automobile Collection. These magnificent new papers are perfect for Vintage / distressed/and grunge art.

I discovered this old postcard, which I felt was just perfect for this layout. I wanted to create an impression of an envelope, with oodles of stamping and an old grungy /messy background suggesting age and days gone by.

Women would gather together for afternoon tea and support each other.

The fashions back then have always fascinated me with such amazing detail. Although quite impractical, still very beautiful with delicate hand crafted lace and the hairstyles of the day were beautifully exquisite.

A little bit of trivia about me :

As part of our hairdressing registration exams we were required to reproduce a Vintage hairstyle, and I truly adored creating from this era . I have always loved detail, and I guess I intuitively transferred my love of detail from my hairdressing days into my scrapbooking !!   he he he !!

This vintage distressed clock fitted in perfectly with my theme, mimicking the time and the layers of that era.  I altered the Tim Holtz metal frame with gesso and paint, and stacked it over the clock element.

Again I distressed the papers and layered the diecuts to create dimension and interest . 

 Another layered cluster with papers, diecuts, chipboard, finished off with a metal brad .

Papers and items used  

Automobile Parts P6354

Roadster's Front Seat Blanket P6359

Old World Time (clock) 1037

Music Washi Tape

Tim Holtz metal Ornate Plate

Other items.

Tim Holtz die cut/ metal brads, Sizzix die cuts, Brads

2Crafty chipboard, Kraft paper .

Thanks for popping by and I truly hope you are inspired to buy some of these papers and have a play.

Hugz from Heather x'

What a fabulous LO - well done Heather. The flap at the top with a die cut makes me want to open up the LO & get more!!  The multiple layers are awesome with their tears & the die cuts terrific.  Totally fabulous but what else did I expect.  I think my favourite element is the Ornate plate on top of the Old World clock.  The music washi tape adds just a hint of frivolity.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

A Pencil Box from Sylvie

Hello Bloggers

Sylvie loves to play with a variety of OTP projects.

Here is her latest:

"this is another creation for my DT infinimentscrapdesign and since I used your papers I would like to show it..

 I used Fantasy Dancer 1064 and the Elements Collection Old Writing 1

 

 This is an altered box of colored pencils in metal .I hollowed part of frame in  Fantasy Dancer paper to put the photo and I used old writing paper in background within the box

 

hugs"

  

What a unique project - well done Sylvie

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Sandrine's Cowboy

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Even though Sandrine has gone, she left us one more project - her Cowboy:

'Hello to all Meg’s Garden’s friends!

Today you are with Sandrine with a grungy layout using “Elements” with Kraft and Black Bazzill, a very nice combination.

I created a background with some black Glimmermist splatter, and then a collage of Elements Papers for behind the photo.

I used one of the fabulous clock face as an accent. All the papers were distressed/torn/inked.

And I created fun banner:

So that’s it for my grungy layout, I hope you liked it!

Meg’s Garden Papers used:

- Elements - Vintage Tags 1031

- Elements - Vintage Map 1035

- Elements - The French Cinema 1038

- Elements – Old Wold Time 1037

What a great layout - well done Sandrine - totally agree with your choice of black & kraft bazzill - perfect combinations. The banner is a great embellishment

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Sylvie plays with Shabby Steampunk

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Sylvie explains her card with matching envelope:

'This is a card and matching envelope in a shabby steampunk style.  I used couture collection embossed silk and satin, couture collection birdie fly across the ocean, elements old world time, and  french garden collection mini squares of sneak peak packaging for the word "friends"

 the clock hands were glued to thin cardboard to stiffen.

I hope you'll like this project...'

Card with envelope

Envelope

Front of card

Inside of Card

Back of card

Card in front of pink envelope

You have really combined the shabby with steampunk - well done Sylvie.

Love both the envelope & the card - the theme travels well across card & onto the envelope.

Products used:

The Couture Collection

Elements Collection

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Vintage Chocolate Box by Adriana

Hi everyone, 
Adriana show us her project for Meg's Garden this month.

Adriana explains,"Today I have covered a chocolate box 
with the Elements papers from Meg's Garden and 

New paper collection Dreaming in the Meadows

 Meg's Garden website

Firstly, I ate the chocolates.....yummy.....
then I covered the top and bottom of the box with 
dusty pink coloured card stock, 
which I embossed with a Couture Creations embossing folder.
I applied white Distress Paints on the embossed cardstock. 
It looks and feels like velvet.

On the top of the box I decorated it with
German Scrap border on the each edge. 
Then I glued some German scrap border on the each end.
I apply glossy accents to the chipboard frames and placed
some German Glass Glitter and tea stained fragments. 
I placed a paper Doily and a Vintage Beauty Image
inside the glittery frame.

I adhered two Organza Lace in dusty pink and green 
at each end and a 
transparent Butterfly for an extra touch.

Around the edges I covered with the newest paper collection
Dreaming in Rose paper , some German Scrap
To finish and close this 
box with a Striped satin Ribbon - Brown and latte colour 

Inside the box I covered it with
French Cinema Elements paper from the

Elements Packs available also from 
Meg's garden website. 
Then I decorated on the edges with small
 paper Doily and German Scrap

Inside the box is a Vintage Beauty tag and a little note book
and matching pen. These are made from the new papers 
Dreaming in the Meadows paper - Dreaming in Mulberry & Dreaming in Lavendar

The materials I have used on the tag are 

Viola Pansy violet 
Vintage Beauty Image

paper Doily

Striped satin Ribbon - Brown and latte colour 
5cm white lace

The notebook and covered pen is made with the
Dreaming in Mulberry paper
Cornsilk flower
Elements for the Paris cover

Thanks for looking
Cheers Adriana XX

What a gorgeous box Adriana - well done & thank you so much for your instructions - very clear.
Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com

Stephanie uses the Elements as embellishments

Hello Bloggers

'Hi, it’s Stephanie here with a layout of some pictures of my daughter and niece when they were on their trip through London and Europe last summer. As soon as I saw the new Elements papers and tags from Meg’s Garden I knew they would be perfect for the pictures of them in Paris. I printed the pictures out in sepia colors to go along with the paper colors better.

I used some background paper from my stash and then cut out the “Paris” tag and a blank tag from the “Vintage Ornate Tags” sheet and I then printed the date and names out onto the blank tag. I double matted the photos with a light and dark brown cardstock. I cut a piece approximately 4x6 from the “Vintage French Writing” paper which I inked over with some Vintage photo distress ink. I also cut out a strip from the “French Cinema” paper and one of the clocks from the “Old World Time” sheet. I distressed all my papers and tags etc with my distress tool and with distress ink and layered them as shown.

I wanted to use this beautiful organza lace flower and leaves from Meg’s Garden on the layout and also a few small cream colored Prima flowers from my stash along with some small die cut leaves as well as a tiny handmade rosebud that I put between the torn paper. To finish the layout off I printed off a graphic of the Eiffel tower and used some pop dots on it for a 3D look.'

Fabulous use  of the Elements as embellishments on this Layout - well done Stephanie

Elements papers

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com