Hello friends of Meg's Garden. I am thrilled to have returned to the Meg's Garden Design Team. It's great to back creating with such beautiful papers and products. Today I have two projects to share which use papers from the Parisian Gardens Collection.
For my card, I have used two sheets of the patterned papers and used one of the vintage images from the ephemera sheets as my focal image. I used lots of foam tape between my layers to add dimension.
The 'love' sentiment also came from the ephemera sheets. I fussy cut some tags from the ephemera sheets to frame the focal image. The edges of my base papers were distressed and all of the papers were inked with vintage photo distress ink. I used a variety of paper flowers to frame my image, varying the size to add interest and depth. The butterflies, doilies and chip board elements came from my stash.
I used up some of my left over paper to embellish this card envelope box so that it would coordinate with my card. Again, I used pieces from the ephemera to frame and create layers. This box accommodates my embellished 6 inch card perfectly.
The sentiment was a stamp and die set from my stash by JustRite. The doily is from Prima. The paper flowers are all available from Meg's Garden.
Below I have video tutorial showing how to make one of these envelope card boxes.
Hi Meg's Garden friends! Sarah here to share a set of four Pillow Box Shaker Ornaments I created using the absolutely divine Meg's Garden Vintage Christmas Papercrafter Pack! I've put together a video slideshow tutorial showing how to create one of these easy but beautiful ornaments - I hope you'll give it a try.
Here are a couple of photos from different angles of the set of ornaments - aren't the papers just gorgeous?! And I love those vintage Santa images. I embellished with some flowers and winter berries from my stash and added some heavy gesso and fairy dust as 'snow' to the embellishments and "Noel" cut-out!
And here is the full step-by-step slideshow tutorial!
Hello everyone! It's Cathy here on the blog today and I hope that you are well. Recently I have been interested in finding projects to create that are time effective. At work, I often hear that you need to 'work smart not hard' in terms of time management. We are all time poor, yet we always have to 'do more.' I found some mini albums on the internet that looked interesting and I am so excited to be able to share this one with you. This album is constructed with a manilla folder and I made and decorated the entire album in one evening!
This is the inside of the album. I modified the manilla folder to accommodate the mini papers from the French Garden Collection. As you can see, there are pockets filled with ephemera and cut aparts from the collection. There is also room to fit in photos and other personal items that you may wish to add.
I also decorated the back of the album. You could leave it plain or it provides another place to add photos.
This really is an easy album to construct. I have a video tutorial for you so that you too, can create your own. With just one manilla folder you can create a mini album in a relatively short amount of time. Once you see how easy it is, I'm sure you'll start making your own and adapting the dimensions to suit your purpose.
Hello friends! It's Cathy here today and I'm so excited to share with you my second mini album using The Sherlock Book kit. This mini album uses paper bags, LOTS of paper which enables you to fill it with lots of photos, embellishments, journalling and memories.
To help you get started, I have supplied a list of measurements for the album, to make things easier for you as well as a start to finish video tutorial to help you along the way. My second video is a walk through of the completed album to give you ideas on how you can start to embellish your album. I used stamping as a way of personalising my album. These papers are so versatile that you can use your stamps to start your album in the theme/direction of your choice.
I was inspired by My Sisters Scrapper and followed one of her tutorials for the construction of this album. The decorations/embellishments are my style!
Here I have used some stamps to add some spaces to journal.....they are interactive as well....
The album has flaps that fold out, giving more space for photos etc. Again stamps have been used for embellishments.
This is a page with a photo mat....
Project Cutting Guide
Item
Measurement
Extra Information
6 x black paper bags
Trim paper bag to 7 6/8”
(purchased from Spartys part of Spotlight)
Flap using black cardstock
7 ½” x
5 ½” six in total
Score on side at ½
and use a decorative punch to punch along the other side
Flap mat using papers from the collection
4½ x 7
3/8” twelve in total
Page
No trimming required
six pages in total
Back of page
Trim 3” of the bottom of one book page from the collection, leaving
you two parts.
This is the page where there is the folded section of the paper bag.
It will form a pocket.
Photo mat using black cardstock
7½ x 5”
This will be inserted inside the paper bag. There will be a total of
six.
Photo mat contrast
7¼ x 4
7/8”
This is where you place your photo.
Hidden Hinge Binding
11¼ x 7¾”
Score both ends at 2”. Then score at :
½" ½ " ¼", repeat until
reaching the end 2” score line.
Cover using chipboard
two 5 ¾
x 8½” for the
cover and one 2” x 8½”
for the spine
I used a 0.6mm chipboard thickness for my album.
Cover Papers
two 12.5cm x 21.5cm for the covers and 12.5cm x 4” for the spine.
Yes, I do work in both cms and inches. This will leave a small border
around your papers.
