Secret garden story - part 2 for Meg's Garden

Hello, everyone!

Veronika here to share with you my second project with the papers from Meg's Garden collection, this collection is called Correspondence Collection, which was created by talented Kerry-Jean Watson.

My work is another layout from our family trip to the Chersonesos Archaeological National Museum in Crimea.

List of materials available from Meg's Garden

Mademoiselle Louise

Many Letters

A French Account

Lace 3.5cm off white

Carabella Rose Posy - fairy pink

Please check out all the wonderful products 

Megs Garden Website

and see all the design team members inspirational work at

Meg's Garden Blog

Thanks for looking, Veronika

Secret garden story - part 1 and video tutorial - by Veronika Galenko

Hello, everyone!

Veronika here to share with you my first project with the papers from Meg's Garden collection, this collection is called Correspondence Collection, which was created by talented Kerry-Jean Watson.

My work is a layout from our family trip to the Chersonesos Archaeological National Museum. in Crimea.

You can spend all day here viewing the exhibits or taking a tour of the ancient city.

In ancient Greek the word chersonesos means "peninsula." The city was indeed located on a small peninsula between two bays. "Tauric" Chersonesos further denotes the location of the colony, that is, "in the lands of the Taurians". This a warring tribe that inhabited the neighboring mountains. The city was destined to exist for nearly two thousand years, and its history is intertwined with that of ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium.

Please check out my video tutorial below.

List of materials available from Meg's Garden

Letter from Tucson 1909

Many Letters

Lace 3.5cm off white

Ashlee - white

Rose leaves -3cm - bunch of 10

Please check out all the wonderful products 

Megs Garden Website

and see all the design team members inspirational work at

Meg's Garden Blog

Thanks for looking, Veronika 

Victorian Easel Card by Sue Smyth

Victorian Easel Card 

By Sue Smyth 

Hi Crafters 

Today I am sharing a card with you, it is an Easel card and has 

a Victorian theme. I have used a chipboard frame and altered it,

along with Toile Paradise paper and a paper doily.

This time I have fussy cut flowers from left over papers.

I have raised them up with 3 D foam tape.

Add some punched leaves to soften and you have yourself a

Victorian style Easel card

How To

To alter the chip frame, apply swirls and flourishes with 

liquid pearls and allow to dry.

Then paint with gold paint and dry with heat gun to 

blister and bubble the paint.

Rub over with a little gesso to age the frame and 

use as desired.

Materials 

Small rectangular Parisian Frame

Toile Paradise Paper

Square paper doiley

Correspondence_Collection.html

Happy Crafting 

Mini Accordion Book by Miriam

Hi everyone, Miriam here. This is my first project for Meg's Garden, and I am so happy to have been invited to become a member of her Design team. This is a new adventure for me and I am still finding my way. This book was inspired by Charlotte Costain from a class I did with her when I first started card making .All the items I have used will be listed below. I hope you like it.

Meg's Garden Products

Correspondence Papers

Denise Anne Paper, French Bouquet

Mini charms

Lace Hoop Pearls

Other products used from my stash

Velvet flower

Pearl Brad

Victorian Velvet Distress Ink

Ribbon

Stampin Up tab  punches

Spell Binders Die

Metal Key and brads

Memory Box Die

 .

Rosemary: A Heritage Layout by Cathi O'Neill

Hi friends!! Cathi here again, back in Ireland, getting ready for the start of another school year for my girls.  I love taking photos of them, but I am also grateful that I have an aunt on my mom's side that has kept track of an amazing wealth of ancestral photos for our family. I am using another one this month for my layout, this time my own maternal grandmother, Rosemary Jones. This is her First Communion photo, I just love the big bow and ringlets in her hair, such a great photo!! I focused on the Correspondence Collection this time, using the gorgeous Correspondence Collection - A French Account 12 x 12 sheet, the Correspondence Collection - Mademoiselle Louise and Correspondence Collection - Cut & Create Correspondence 4x12 sheets. I love how you can use the smaller bonus sheets to build up layers on your projects!

Here you can see the flower cluster I created featuring the Chocolate Small Roses, Dusty Pink Poppy and Paper Lilies.  I added a fun Tim Holtz Pen Nib to the cluster to tie in with the cut out images I used from the Correspondence Collection - Cut & Create Correspondence sheet.

I love how this Large Rectangular Laser Frame looks after I have covered it in gesso for a base coat and then used my Walnut Stain and Victorian Velvet Distress Inks to color it. I wanted to have an aged look but also pick up the color of the Dusty Pink Poppy. I finished off the frame with a favorite script stamp in my stash.

Meg's Garden carries some amazing metal trinkets perfect for any project. Here you can see the Vintage Trinkets - Butterfly pieces I used to adorn the chipboard frame. I finished them off with a few pink pearls I had.

I hope you like heritage vintage layout I created. I think Meg's Garden papers and embellishments are perfect for heritage pages and beyond! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies from Meg's Garden:

Correspondence Collection - A French Account

Correspondence Collection - Mademoiselle Louise

Correspondence Collection - Cut & Create Correspondence

Chocolate Small Roses

Dusty Pink Poppy

Paper Lilies

10 cm Paper Doily

Vintage Trinkets - Butterfly

Pen Nibs

Large Rectangular Laser Frame

Butterfly Bay Window by Angela Johnson

Hello my crafty friends.

When I received my Slide Mailers from Meg's Garden, I really loved the shape of the windows.
I had so many thoughts and ideas rolling around on how to use these little beauties, I just had to use one.
These are obviously designed to hold securely your glass slides for postage,
but I had a different purpose in mind.
Coupled with some beautiful paper from the Correspondence Collection

designed by Kerry-Jean Watson and some butterfly images, I created myself a little bay window scene.

Can you tell that recently I have been on a bit of a canvas and Mixed Media kick.

For this project I carefully separated the pieces of a Quad Slide Mailer, and slightly curved
the windows to create my bay window.
I then cut my sheet of Distressed Letter paper into little bricks.
To allow the bay window to pop, I dry brushed my brick background with a little Gesso.
I also die cut the leaves and flowers from paper from the Gentleman Collection.

Meg's Garden Products Used

Distressed Letter Paper
A Gentleman's Bike Paper
A Travelling Gentleman Paper
A Gentleman's Ephemera - Cut and Create Paper
Fairyland 12" Collage Paper
Old World Time Transparency
Butterflies & Nature's Wonders Stamps
Doily Strips
1cm Off White Lace
Cottage Cutz Leafy Foliage Die
Temptations in Dusty Pink
Filigree Strip

Other Products Used

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

6" x 8" Canvas

Matisse Turquoise Background Paint
Gesso

Flower Die

I thought this might make a wonderful gift to a special someone.
So as a bonus project, I created a handmade card to accompany it.

Meg's Garden Products Used

Distressed Letter Paper
A Gentleman's Bike Paper
A Travelling Gentleman Paper
Cottage Cutz Leafy Foliage Die
Temptations in Dusty Pink

Other Products Used

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Leathergrain White Cardstock
Cardstock Scarps for Matts

Cheesecloth Offcut

Gesso

Flower Die
Doohickey Die
Chocolate Kaisercraft Pearls

Thankyou all for stopping by and happy crafting to all.

Home Canvas Set by Nicole Doiron

Hello everyone at Meg's Garden!

Nicole here, and I am thrilled to be sharing with you this very special project
created with some beautiful Meg's Garden products.

Home Canvas Set

I made this canvas set as a special order from a neighbour who wanted to offer it as a gift to her brother.  She had a lot of old and new pictures as keepsakes of her brother's life.

 

I immediately thought that the Meg's Garden Correspondence collection would be perfect 

to document all these treasured memories from the past and present.

The first and main canvas measures 12" x 12", featuring the most recent pictures of the man's life.

Large Canvas

I used a mixture of papers from both the Correspondence and Gentleman collections, many embellishments available on the Meg's Garden website as well as lots of 2Crafty chipboard.

All papers were distressed and misted with various color inks to give the canvases a more aged look.

The big Moonlight fabric flower seen above was a perfect focal point for the flower cluster 

on the large canvas as it is quite large itself, measuring at 11cm diameter.

I gave it a more antique look by dabbing brown ink on it followed by white paint. 

The Puffy Paper Flowers were just as perfect, being that they're very thick and ideal for giving added dimension and relief to such a project.

 

Adding a strip of Burlap Trim covered by the Watchband Silver Trim 

gave just the right amount of antique and at the same time pizzazz to my canvases.

You can see here a close-up of the mixed media techniques I used on my canvas.  I started off adding layers of the beautiful Meg's Garden papers.  I then used a stencil with molding paste to add texture and then went crazy with the mists and white paint for whitewashing.

More close-ups of the details...

And finally a sideways look to show you the depth of the canvas.

Each side canvas I used to document the earlier memories and older pictures 

measure 15" x 6" approximately and were less deep.

Small Canvas 1

Small Canvas 2

I added some several family-themed quotes that I already had in my stash.

 

I also added a few pieces of the Round Silver Diamante Trim with a brown gem inside each centre.

Below you see a chipboard keyhole that I covered with gesso, 

glimmer mists and paint to give it an old rusted look.

Wanting to keep the same look constant across the 3 canvases, I put smaller flower clusters on each smaller canvas along with butterflies from the Butterflies Collage Art ATC Paper.

 

One last look at some precious childhood memories...

My neighbour was very happy with the finished result and I can say that I made her shed a few tears.

She couldn't believe the finite details that I added and the amount of beautiful flowers and products used.
She had never seen scrapbooking done this way before.

I told her that it was thanks to Meg's Garden!

  

Thank you for joining me on this DT reveal.

If you liked this project, please visit my blog at http://scrap-utopia.blogspot.com to see more.

List of supplies used from Meg's Garden Shop

The Gentleman Collection 
Gentleman (P6407)
The Correspondence Collection 
Distressed Letter (P6402)
Letter from Tucson 1909 (P6403)
Mademoiselle Louise (P6405)
Butterflies Collage Art ATC paper (ATC015) 
Fabric Flowers 
Moonlight (mh003-4)

Paper Flowers & Leaves 

Puffy Paper Flowers (puffies)
Small Roses white 2 cm (008wh)

Silver Diamante Trim Embellishments

Watchband Silver Trim (RBY47)
Round Silver Diamante Trim (RBY28)
Rafia & Burlap

Coffee Burlap/Jute 38mm (burco)
Jute Twine (twine)