Special Sale

Hello Paper Artists You are invited to take advantage of our Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale. Starts 12:01 am on 23 November & ends 11:59 pm on 26 November 2018 The Sale centres around the Spring Flowers Paper Collection & the Watercolour Papers - Spring is such a magical time of the year 1.    The Sale is also an opportunity to introduce 3 new Classes in a Box using Accordion Books & the Spring Flowers Paper Collection. The Accordion Books covers are 13.5cm square & the pages 12.5cm square - no spines, easy to make, 6 pages Full materials & directions with video. The books can stand upright & are designed to be a display of the centre pages - you can use your own photos to display  The Spring Garden Book uses the green watercolour & patterned papers: https://youtu.be/DimMxMpdAaQ      The Iris Blue Book uses pale blue watercolour & patterned papers: https://youtu.be/aAkgv04bzhQ      The Dusty Pink Book uses pale pink watercolour & patterned papers: https://youtu.be/fQKn2Re8dVs      They will normally retail at $25 but in this sale $19.95 Great gifts for Christmas or any time - give the kit or make them up for a gift (you did make it!) https://megsgarden.com/collections/a-class-in-a-box 2.  The entire Spring Flowers Collection is also included in this sale at 30% off: https://megsgarden.com/collections/printed-a4-papers-collections/products/spring-flowers-paper-collection 3.  If you already have some of your favourite papers & embellishments in your stash &/or want to use photographs throughout the book - there is a special sale for you - all 3 directions to download. Want to add accordion books to it? - these are on sale at $3.25 What a way to continue a magical year of inspiration!   Already working on ways to start the New Year for creativity & inspiration Bye for now Meg www.megsgarden.com Meg Foreman – Mgr Director Meg’s Garden megsgarden@outlook.com www.megsgarden.com megsgardenblog.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/megsgardencraftsupplies https://www.youtube.com/user/megsgardenpapercraft.videos https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MegsGardenPapercraft?ref=search_shop_redirect

Mini Books

Hello Bloggers

I love making mini books & these are truly minis with only 2 double page inserts.

Pale blue cardstock is used on all pages. The cover ephemera is double matted on blue with white. The silver glittered ribbon is placed behind the ephemera (foam mounted) to close the mini book with a bow.  When the book is left open the ribbon can be artfully draped.  White german scrap is used along the bottom of the entire book.

The inside of the first double page showing hanging baubles. When the book is open they can be tied together

Left inside page

Right inside page

The second double page insert shows 2 more hanging baubles as well as two crystal jewels  glued to the left inside

The back of the mini book is also decorated

The red & green mini book uses one of the Accordion Book Kits

The covers of the book & the middle page use the Green Traditional cardstock of Christmas with jingle bells, gold holly & red beads as berries

Inside 1st page

Middle page has ephemera & tags

3rd page s back to red

Back cover

Plenty of room to insert photos, correspondence & journalling

Bye for now

Meg

A Mini Book using Chantilly Cream papercraft pack

Hello Bloggers

The Chantilly Cream Papercraft pack is a great way to do a mini book kit.

Cut up the papers & ephemera;  then decide on your distress ink, cardstock & tape or glues.

I chose Bazzill Vanilla cardstock, Antique Linen distress ink plus an accordion Book Kit.  The advantages of using the accordion book kit are:

there are 6 accordioned heavy weight papers &

extra heavy 2 covers - no cutting of cardstock, no attaching of papers & then deciding on how to bind them.

There are also disadvantages of this method:

limited to pages that are 12.5cm square & covers 13cm square - your mini book can only be this size.

The Cover of the Book: is covered with Vanilla cardstock & embellished with 3 of the ephemera in the papercrafter pack mounted on cardstock.  The butterfly was chosen because of its colour to highight;  a vintage trinket handle & a mini bottle with a piece of vintage paper inside  were used. A coffee/cream ribbon ties the book closed.

Page 1:  Since the papercrafter pack papers are 13.5 cm square they all need to be cut down.  The strips in the pack & also some of the cut pieces were used on each of the pages of the mini book to create either pockets or bands to hold the ephemera.  Instead of using ephemera you could use photos or you could also use the photos on the back of the cardstock backed ephemera. This page has a pocket to hold the ephemera

Page 2:  has a corner strip with a vintage trinket as decoration holding the 2 pieces of ephemera backed with cardstock

Page 3: The tag is foam mounted & a cut off piece of paper used as  band for the ephemera

Page 4:  Has a strip from the pack of matching paper as a belly band with a vintage trinket

Page 5:  Two pieces of ephemera tucked into a strip on the corner with a foam mounted tag word.

Page 6: has a side pocket with a foam mounted tag

Back cover: is kept simple. Covered with cardstock & a pieces of ephemera

You could also do the other side of the accordion pages - these were done on 1 side only & use it standing open or tied with ribbon (as above)

Accordion Book Kits

Chantilly Cream Papercraft Pack - there are 6 papers 8.5x11" in the pack

 - 3 are backgrounds with strips, the other 3 are ephemera

Vintage Trinkets

Hope you enjoyed this little book - the ephemera in the pack also include some in a shabby chic style so you can make the book in several different styles

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

PS - the Papercrafter packs are also available in digital downloads & there are several different ones

Forgotten Meadows using an Accordion Book Kit

Hello Bloggers

An Accordion Book Kit is perfect for making a mini book & using one of the cardmaker/mini packs of papers. This one is using the Forgotten Meadows Collection mini pack designed by Kerry-Jean Watson & is made to stand as shown.

Front of book

details of front corner

page 1 & 2. stamps from Design Elements Collage Stamps
oops - pearl missing

pages 3 & 4 Vintage Ladies from ATC006 but you could easily use your own pics 

pages 5 & 6 + Cut & Create Forgotten Meadows

back of book is kept simple

 Hope you like it. Please remember when using an accordion book kit that you have to add the ribbon closure between the covers before you add paper & embellishments to the hard cover. Second thing to remember is to leave enough between the covers so that you can add embellishments inside the book.  Best way to accomplish both of these is to do the inside pages & finish them before adding ribbon closure & covers.  This one uses cream organza ribbon which does not show up well in the pics.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Bonjour Paris Book by Adriana

Hi

Adriana has us all visiting Paris in her time travel adventure - we have saved fares & hotels because she has presented us with the best of Vintage Paris.

Front cover of the Book

Back cover of book

Adriana describes her project:

"Bonjour Paris"

'I wanted to create a theme around Paris.

Paris is such a magical city, which one day I would love to visit.

I created a book cover which holds an accordion set of pages about vintage Paris. This is a keepsake that holds a memento of a time in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was built for the World Fair in early 1889. It was to hard to bring it down so they left it there.

120 years on and it is the very symbol of Paris. A great work of Art.

This book is cover on the front and back, inside this is a folded accordion pages decorated with vintage paris pictures and vintage french ladies.

I hope I have taken you on a trip to Paris in the early 1900's.

Meg's Garden materials are:

Le Belle Jardin 6x6 papers and French Garden paper collections.

Ribbons, lace, paris charms, chipboard frame, velvet and paper flowers german scrap, gold charm little frame embellishment, small doilies, transparency bird cage and french pot, vintage french ladies collage.

The accordion pages are just black card stock with patterned papers on top, just showing a little of the black card stock around creating a border. Then the photos have a border of cream stock card, then black stock card and that's all it is all flat.'

How fantastic are these projects?

Beautifully done Adriana - love the layering in the book; so many elements to amaze

Bye for now

Meg

Heather's Garden Book

Hi

Heather has created this Garden Book for inspiration

Cover of book

Open book

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

Garden Book - back page tag

Garden Book tags

'SCRAPBOOKING MEG'S GARDEN APRIL PROJECT

BY HEATHER JACOB

I decided to alter the accordion book by cutting the cover away from the accordion pages .

I created a spine with cardboard and covered the cover and spine with the delicious new paper range.. “Forget me not Collection…. “

My theme for this mini book is about the ever changing seasons.…

The “Forget – Me – Not “ Collection is sooooooooo stunning I felt I wanted to create a book that reflected a walk through the ‘Cycle of Life .”

Cover

Shades of blue P6302 , Velvet flowers

Inside pages

Birds in Forget me nots P6303, Nesting P6301A , Articles de Paris P62394

My first page …. I joined 2 pages together creating a pocket to hold tags and photos.

The rest of the book is made up of double pages and tied to the spine with ribbon .

I had great fun, fussy cutting the flowers and using a diecut  to add dimension on each page.

Flowers, leaves, keys, muslin  and chipboard have all been added throughout the book…

The keys are covered with texture paste (Golden ) and dried with a heat gun then mounted on chipboard covered with paper and muslin

I also added positive affirmations and quotes throughout the book

I adored working with these papers for my very first project as a DESIGN TEAM MEMBER with MEG’S GARDEN …

They are so versatile and a dream for anyone who loves fussy cutting .. the colors are exquisite .

I hope I have inspired you in some way ..

Thanks Meg for choosing me on your team, I know I am going to love this journey …

 hugz from Heather x

Other items used

Imaginarium chipboard ….Kaiser chipboard and sparklets… muslin.. ribbon'

Fabulous book Heather - well done - a challenge & inspiration to us all

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Adriana's Bird Art Journal

Hi

Today we have a look at one that Adriana has created -  called  'Bird Art Journal' - an extremely appropriate title for an extremely fabulous journal.

Front cover

Back cover

'DETAILS OF BIRD ART JOURNAL

I decided to make my accordion kit into a mini book,

A Mini Bird Art Journal.

First I covered the foam covers with Music sheet paper, then

glued the pages together, so it formed 6 pages to decorate

I wanted this book to look like a study of different birds,

A vintage journal style book, with a very rustic feel to it.

Before I glued the covers to the inside pages, I used Tim Holtz

Die cut “Hardware Finding” using the long hinged shape,

cut out of Grungeboard, I inked them and secured it in place

with brads. This created a hinge for my mini book. Then glued

the pages to the cover. All the lace I used from Meg’s Garden

was white, I stained them with distress inks to make them look

vintage colour. I did the same to the Paper doilies.

Front cover & Back cover

Megs’ garden materials are

Paper doily small , Key, mini rosebuds, gingham ribbon,

Foliage, lace, white paper gardenias, tassels

Collage images Bird of Paris 3341A,

French writing ephemera collage sheet 3377,

Other materials

Dusty attic frame and dragonfly chipboard

Ink, paint, hessin, letters.

Inside pages

Megs’ garden materials are

Lace, Gingham ribbon, forget me not flowers, tag,

Paper doily, Mini Oval Frames, German glass glitter,

Birds of a feather stamps kit from TJ designs

Designs Galore ATC 023 light rulers

Birds of Paris collage sheet 12 x 12 -  3341A

Other Materials

G45 Paper of Tropical birds,

Calico, ink stains, feather, brads, kraft stock card,

Music sheets paper.

You can make more pages to this book by cutting up more

Card stock and glue it together.

I really enjoyed  and had a lot of fun making this mini book, I hope

it has inspired you to create one for yourself.'

The accordion book kits can be found at:

accordion book kit

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com