Butteflies are Hope!: altered art with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends!
I made this altered wooden word HOPE and a matching tag for Meg's Garden February blog post with this very new and awesome Butterfly Garden  collection and a lot of other Meg's Garden products.

The very old and forgotten wooden Hope was in my closet for like 5 years and  I finally found a reason the alter it: this new Butterflies collection was sure a symbol for Hope.

So I traced the letters from the backside and glued them over the front\, adding a bit of blues to this colors 9I think blues are a great for for Hope).
Then I added all kinds of Meg's Garden embellishments, such as ribbons, vintage metal trinkets, hand cut and glittered butterflies, colored flowers and .... This was actually done and I love the final result a lot. Hope you like it too.
 Then I decided to add a big handmade tag and I used the same paper collection and the same color pallet with pretty much similar embellishments to make this match.

I made a big tag and added a small one with hand cut words from the paper. Some die cuts were added on the right tag side and I added  flowers, trinket, ribbons and ...yes, glittered butterflies again.

Products used from Meg's Garden shop:
Butterfly Garden  6*6'' paper pad
 Butterfly Garden  12*12'' collection
Temptations in blue embellishments
Other products:
Dies- Spellbinders
Wooden word
Pearls
 Inks

Gentleman's Pandora Box by Adriana Bolzon

Hi there everyone, welcome bloggers....

Adriana here today, with a project I created using the wonderful papers from 

"Meg's Garden of Papercraft delight" paper, 

The Gentlemen's Collection, designed by Kerry-Jean Watson.

These papers are great for all your Vintage Projects.

So, as many of you who follow my blog and my

projects, will know that I love vintage and altering things.

I have a collection of old boxes, which are screaming to be

altered to some way, and are too good to throw out.

So, I have created, a "Gentleman's Pandora Box"

a place for a gentleman to collect little things and tokens along his travels. 

There is a little draw at the bottom of this box, so I also

created a very small notebook, which one

can hold photos, a collection of notes and memories.

So, sit back and relax, let me take you all back in time to around 1915, 

a time of simple things, where ladies wore long dresses with petticoats and 

men wore suits with tails and top hats. 

I decorated the outside as well as the inside of the box 

with The Gentlemen's Collection papers.

Here is the side view of the box.

All the metal elements are available from Meg's garden 

Vintage trinkets

Metal Cogs

Tim Holtz products

I lightly painted a little gesso on the metal elements to

make them look older.

Now I chose not to decorate the outside too much,

because these papers are so wonderful as they.

They have textured finishes, which is great.

I just inked around the edges to hide any white bits.

the front view of the box deocrated with

metal elements from Meg's Garden embellishments.

For inside of the box,

I decorated the lid and compartments.

Here I decorated it with washi tape,

Metal and chipboard cogs.

All available from Megs Garden Website

Now I want to show you what the box looked like before

I altered it. It was very blue and has a lid that lifts off, 

I think it was a jewel box.

It has little compartments inside and a little secret draw on the bottom.

Inside the lid. I altered all the metal cogs with
distress paints and ink.
Making them look very old and rusty.

Vintage trinkets  Metal Cogs & Tim Holtz products

The little draw pulls out to reveal a mini notebook inside
which I also created with The Gentlemen's Collection, 

Some little treasures a Gentleman collects on his travels. Mini Glass bottles
a little compass, some coins and metal keys...

The mini Notebook with some of
the inside pages.

List of Materials used from Meg's Garden website

here are the links to all the products

The Gentlemen's Collection

Vintage trinkets

Metal Cogs

Tim Holtz products

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, till next time :)

Cheers Adriana XX

Little Bird Nest - Triptych by Adriana

Hello Bloggers, Adriana has created a Triptych -

Adriana explains,

"Hi Everyone, today I have a special little project 

that I have created for

my DT work for Meg's Garden.

It is a Triptych, you may ask

"What is a Triptych?????" it is  pronounced "Trip-tik"

It is a picture or carving on three panels, hinged together vertically and used as an altarpiece but in my case it is an Altered Art piece! 

I made the panels from the Tim Holtz

"Artful Dwellings" die cut

covered it with the latest release of papers -

Dreaming in Lavenders & Dreaming in Mulberry papers

German Scrap border

Silver Diamonte trim

Pearl loops

Velvet flowers

Duchess jewel pin

Transparencies butterflies

Green Medley Jazz fibres

Fancy Circle frame

Small clock face

Silver Diamonte trim

The side panels are just flat but the middle panel I made it into a little house. 

Inside the opening is a little cute birdie. 

I made his nest with Fibres and a Mulberry 

paper flower all from Meg's Garden website.

                   around the back I covered with the

Dreaming in Lavenders & Dreaming in Mulberry papers

and did some fuzzy cutting of the flowers from the papers.

My Little Bird Nest - Triptych

All the products I have used are all from Meg's Garden

Please check out all the wonderful products at

 Megs Garden Website

and see other DT members inspirational work at

Meg's Garden Blog 
Until next time 
Cheers Adriana XX :)"


A very whimsical art piece - well done Adriana. Love all the little pieces & embellishments.  Great ideas!

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com