'CHERISH' and 'CIRCA 1950'

Hello Bloggers,

I hope that you had a really lovely Easter with family and friends and managed some 'Me Time' to catch up on your hobbies.

I had the opportunity to be a little creative with some of Meg's Gardens lovely collections and did a little mixing and matching which worked perfectly.  For my first layout 'Cherish' is have used  'Chantilly Cream' cut and create and 'English Rose Garden'.

 Some of Meg's Garden lovely small flowers, doilies, lace and ribbons and a little washi tape for the borders.
The extremely versatile 'cut and create' I backed onto cardstock and then applied Dimensional Magic, which gave the pretty pictures an added lift.

As I had a little extra time, I decided to work with Meg's garden 'Cafe au Lait' collection.  I have used an old family picture of my family  teamed with a little coloured gesso to match.

A little close up of textures used with this wonderful collection.

Well Bloggers I trust that you have been inspired this time to do a little 'mixing and matching' of Meg's Gardens Collection and be sure to keep an eye out for next month's new release.  It is absolutely amazing and I am sure you are going to love it.
Until next time........happy scrapping.......Love Liz

Two cards to share today

Hi Everyone, Trish here today with 2 cards - one from the Dreaming in Lavender collection and the      other with a combo of forgotten Meadows and English Rose garden



The Dreaming in Lavenders card was from some papers I had in my stash,that I really love.

Here I made some fuchsias to match the bluebells on the paper

I moulded some of the flowers that were on the design to pop them a bit

Thanks for taking a peek into Meg's Garden with me

Handmade Notebook from Scratch with English Rose Garden Collection

Hi Meg's Garden Lovers! 

I'm Mabel and I'm back this time round with a handmade notebook that I made from scratch.

The notebook is measuring 4.5 x 6 inches tall with a book spine of 1.5 inches thick. I simply cut 2 pieces of 4.5 x 6 inches chipboards and a 1.5 x 6 inches chipboard for the book spine. 

I choose Meg's Garden's A Bouquet of Roses (P6429) patterned paper from the English Rose Garden Collection as the book cover. All I did was to glue down the chipboards, leaving a small gap in between each chipboard such that I have the space allowance to fold it later. If my description is too vague for you, you can check out a video tutorial HERE! I finished my book cover by using Roses and Lace (P6428) from the same collection in the inner side. 

This is a notebook that I wished to carry it around with me, hence I did not want the front of the cover to be bulky and delicate. I chose to embellish my book cover simply with a round doily as well as some laces.

Moving onto the inserts of the notebook, I had stack of white printing papers measuring 8.25 x 5.75 inches. You need not follow my measurements! I would suggest you choosing the measurements of your inserts and preparing them as your first step. Book cover can be prepared after the inserts are done. 

I grab 5 sheets of papers and fold them into half, forming a signature (a group of pages). I made 6 signatures, washi-taping the folds and started binding.

I'm doing French link bookbinding with hemp cord. As the strings are thicker, it's harder to bind. I would suggest beginners to start with waxed threads. The process might be slightly complicated, hence you can check out the link HERE for more information.

After my inserts are done, I simply glued down the last page to attach the pages to the book cover. I started embellishing the first page by fussy cutting from the French Garden Collection. 

List of Supplies Used

Meg's Garden

English Rose Collection A Bouquet of Roses (P6429)

English Rose Collection Roses and Lace (P6428)

The French Garden Papercrafter Mini Pack (20122)

Paper Lace Doilies Circle 15

Puffy Paper Flowers (puffies)

Small Roses Ivory 1cm (ivory 1)

That's all for this blogpost. 

Thanks for reading! :)

Vintage Christmas Shaker Tags by Dana Tatar

Hi friends! Dana Tatar here today sharing a pair of shaker tags that I created with some festive Meg's Garden products. My inspiration for this project came from Andrea Ockey Parr.

I printed and cut several tags from the Vintage Christmas Papercrafter Pack ephemera page and layered them with paper tags that I cut from a piece of English Rose Garden Leaves and Foliage patterned paper. I sprinkled glitter onto a chipboard transparency embellishment and glued a piece of clear packaging over the top to seal the glitter inside. I then punched a hole in the shaker embellishment and the tags and tied them together with a piece of white twine.

I further embellished each layered tag set with buttons, charms, chipboard, pins, Cream Lace, and some ivory blossoms from the Temptations in Cream and Sage Bundle.

I'm thinking of wrapping all my gifts this year in brown paper and string. These handmade tags will make beautiful gift toppers and will add a fantastic pop of color to my packages.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I wish you and yours all the best this holiday season!

Meg's Garden Supplies:
Vintage Christmas Papercrafter Pack
English Rose Garden - Leaves and Foliage
Temptations in Cream and Sage Bundle
Cream Lace

You Are My Sunshine by Dana Tatar - English Rose Garden Layout

Hi friends! Dana Tatar here today sharing a layout that I created with the beautiful English Rose Garden collection. It is Fall in the United States so the deep greens and oranges present on several of the patterned papers in this line caught my eye.

I framed my photo with chipboard and flowers from my personal supplies and lots of fussy cut flowers and leaves from the Roses and Lace, Paisley and Roses, and A Bouquet of Roses patterned papers.

I embellished a strip of cardstock with leaves and flowers cut from the same patterned papers as listed above, plus pieces of Lace, Copper Trim and portions of a Square Paper Lace Doily. I topped this cluster with a chipboard bird from the Temptations in Blue Embellishment Bundle.

I finished the page with a metal butterfly charm and a clear title sticker.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Meg's Garden Supplies:
English Rose Garden - Leaves and Foliage
English Rose Garden - Roses and Lace
English Rose Garden - Paisley and Roses
English Rose Garden - A Bouquet of Roses
Paper Lace Doily
Copper Trim
Temptations in Blue
Temptations in Cream and Sage

A Lovely Rose Romance Mixed Media Layout by Mabel Sim

Hi fellow scrappers!

It's my turn today to share with you a mixed media layout I did with Meg's Garden Supplies. The full list of supplies can be found at the bottom of this post.

Supplies Used

Meg's Garden:

English Rose Garden Collection Cut & Create P6434

English Rose Garden Roses and Flowers P6431

English Rose Garden Leaves and Foliage P6430

Paper Lace Doilies

PRINTERS TRAY by MIRIAM HAGGER

PRINTERS TRAY by MIRIAM HAGGER

Hello everyone.

I found this printers tray in my stash and I thought it would be perfect  for Meg's English Rose Garden Collection in the new Papercraft Pack.

I stained the outer with Vintage Photo distress stain with some lace from Meg's Garden and a few bits and pieces from my stash, do hope you like it.  

Products from Meg's Garden

English Rose Garden Collection

Lace.

Other products

Vintage photo distress stain

Embellishments from my stash.

My English Rose a FRIEND shaped word mini

Hello everyone, this is Patti sharing with you today.  I'm using the gorgeous English Rose collection in my Friend mini where each page is a letter spelling out the word FRIEND.

The mini is from a Bo Bunny chipboard set.  I must admit I've had this mini for so long and had totally forgotten about it until cleaning the crafty closet other day.  What a find!  As I was pondering what to use to cover it with I remembered the wonderful box of yumminess Meg had sent me from the store to play with.  Perfect!  Here's a look at what I started with.

There are so many fun elements included in this mini it's hard to know where to begin.  On the first page, which is the letter F, I used one of Meg's Gardens paper roses which came white and I used some Tim Holtz Distress inks to alter it to the pink shade.  See that lovely paper peeking from behind?  That's the Roses & Flowers from the collection.

Here's the back side of the letter F and the front of the R.  On the left I've placed part of a die cut mat for some journaling and on the right I created a pocket from the lace.  Tucked inside is a tri-fold to hold photos and the mat with the little girl on front.

Here's the back of the R and the front of the I.  This luscious paper is Paisley Roses, you can buy them by the sheet or in a mini collection of 6"x6" papers.  On the left I took a mini paper bag and stamped the Dreams saying on it from a Kaisercraft stamp set.  On the right I've taken a large Graphic 45 tag and folded it to form a pocket.  By fussy cutting the floral image and only gluing it across the bottom I created another tuck in spot. Notice how I've tied both pages together with the soft cream cotton lace.

As the letters get larger there becomes more and more room for larger photos and tuck ins.  Here you see I used the paper strips and complemented them with a paper doily on the opposite page.  I think these may be two of my favorite pages.  The paper strip creates a pocket and the fussy cut image (which I backed on white) holds a multitude of photo mats.   I added the organza lace flower on the left, one of my favorite items from the store.

Here's the backside of the E and the front of the N.  These pages have been covered with the Pink Vine Rose paper.  I glued all the papers to the letters with Angel Craft semi-gloss podge, you can get it at Amazon.  It dries without forming any bubbles or ripples in the paper.  After I'd matted all the letters front and back I took a file to the edges to remove any rough edges and uneven paper and this also adds a soft border around the outer edge.  This isn't a hard process, to cover a letter mini like this, it's just time consuming.  The tuck in mat on the left was done on photo paper with Tim Holtz alcohol inks.  The envelope pocket on the right is from another of Meg's collections but worked perfectly with this collection.  I added another of the white gardenias that I altered to a soft pink along with a tag with tea-dyed seam binding for the pull in the pocket.

The last two pages (the back of the N and the front of the D) were made by die cutting the mats from Spellbinders Filigree Delight and Luscious Labels One dies from the Roses and Lace paper.  Since placing the die cut mats directly on the matted letters would cause them to be lost I backed them all in a Burgundy colored shimmer paper.  I added all the accents so that the photos could slide underneath and be placed in the ovals and squares of the mats.

The outside of the book is covered in the Roses and Flowers paper and then  I added a strip of the lace with the green satin ribbon woven through to complete the back.  I use Beacons Fabri-Tac to glue my laces to my pages.  It's awfully sticky but dries like cement and is perfect for lace.  The mini came with pre-cut holes and I simply wove the satin ribbon through the holes and tied them in a bow.

I have so many more photos to share with you on the video and I'll go through each page to give you an in depth look at how and what I placed on each letter.  I'm not sure Bo Bunny makes word minis anymore but I know that you can purchase them at Sa Crafters.  If you've never made one you should give it a try.  This was so fun to make and The English Rose was the perfect collection for my pages.

Thanks so much for joining me on the Meg's Garden blog today, be sure and stop by the Meg's Garden of Papercraft Delights today and pick up some luscious papers and accessories for your next project.

Supplies from Meg's Garden include

The English Garden Collection

Paper Flowers

Laces

Fibers

Paper Lace Strips and Doilies

Butterfly Transparencies  

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Chipboard Wedding Card by Liz Hocking - English Rose Collection

Good day to all our Blogger friends,

Glad you have decided to visit our Blog once again, so hope you will have a cuppa and settle down for our latest inspiration.

I was looking through my stash and found a 'LOVE' mini chipboard album.   I thought that the lovely Meg's Garden 'English Rose Garden' Collection would be suit this album.  As I was choosing which papers from this collection to use, I decided it would make a 'different' , but lovely Wedding Card for my niece who is getting married later in the year.

I have also used English Rose Garden 'cut and create', teamed with Meg's Garden lace, ribbons and doileys.

As you can see I have also used my Big Shot machine to create words, embellishments from the Collection.  They worked out a treat, don't you think?

I had so much fun putting this altogether and was so glad that I had decided to turn it into a Wedding Card and here it is all completed.

I hope you have enjoyed your journey today and be sure to keep a look out at what is coming up in the near future.  Until next time.......Happy Scrapping.....regards Liz DT Member

Two Cards ~ English Garden Collection~

Hello friends of Meg's Garden! Today I am sharing two cards that I have made using papers from the English Rose Garden Collection from Meg's Garden. I was really drawn to the ephemera in this collection and used it in the card above.

I used some roses from stash that complimented the rose in the ephemera. I also used some chipboard from my stash as well, which I kept raw as it worked well with the papers.

To create the vintage look, I used my distressing tool and I also tore some of the papers gently in areas. I also applied Walnut Stain Distress ink to all of my edges as well.

My second card has quite a few die cuts. I used Spellbinders A2 devine eleoquence set and stamped my sentiment onto it. I also used some lace from my stash.

I really liked this sentiment and the elegance of the frame. I applied foam tape to them to add extra dimension.

Meg's Garden Supplies

English Rose Garden Collection 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cathy