Anzac Heritage Layout by Sue Smyth

Anzac Heritage Layout

By Sue Smyth

Hello Crafters

Today I am sharing a Heritage layout

The Gentlemans collection is so suitable for all those heritage Masculine 

pages that everyone puts off doing.

This is a photo of my Great Grandfather, when he was young and handsome,

I knew him well as he lived to 84.

He was mischievous and adventurous and had a great spirit survived 

the war and married his sweetheart not long after this 

photo was taken.

To create the poppies simply spray flowers with red dylusions,

no need for glitter or anything else !

Fussy cut elements, combine with metal fasteners, fibres and 

trinkets to create an old world feel.

I have rolled back the edges of the paper, to cover

the white area on the back of the paper, I have

stamped an all over patterned stamp with sepia 

ink.

Fussy cut Hot Air Balloons, ink edges and 

cup them with a mouse pad and stylus.

Attach Balloons with 3 D foam tape to give 

a wonderful shaped dimensional look.

Materials 

The_Gentlemen_Collection

Clock Trinket

Large rectangle latch

Pale green and gold tassel

Flowers Rue white

Ivory Burlap

Butterfly ATC paper

Happy Crafting 

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)

Correspondence card

Hello Bloggers:

Kerry-Jean shares a card using the Correspondence Collection of papers:

I love using the new collection "Correspondence" for cards. Especially with the Butterfly Oval Laser cut frames which I coated in bronze embossing powder and the ever so pretty Gardenia flowers and paper Roses. The leaves are those delicate skeletal leaves which are quite stunning with these papers. I wanted to use the Sage Burlap ribbon to just break up the background and to add some more texture to the card. I just love those Tim Holtz Word Bands which fitted really well. I was going to add some butterflies however I went with the White and Grey Pearl Vintage Brads.  The paper doily is one of my own however there are some wonderful ones over on the Meg's Garden Store.

Fabulous card - well done Kerry-Jean. The embellishments used are perfect for your card background - just enough colour.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

"Letters from Paris" by Adriana Bolzon

Hello Bloggers, 

today we have Adriana taking us to Vintage Paris,

"Hi there everyone,

Adriana here today with my very Parisian Vintage layout

using papers from 
"Meg's Garden of Papercraft delight" paper, 

The Correspondence Collection.

These papers would be great for travel and for background of projects, 
also great for any vintage projects.


Here is my layout.......
"Letters from Paris- Time to Remember"

Using the paper "Distress Letters" as the background,
and several papers from the 6' x6' mini paper pack
to create various letters and correspondence.

With vintage Parisian collage image, velvet flowers, seam binding ribbon, burlap strip
butterflies transparancies,
Clock face images from Old world time clock collage papers. All of these elements are available from
Meg's Garden website.

List of Materials used from Meg's Garden website

here are the links to all the products

Viola Posy flowers

German scrap border

The Correspondence Collection.

Old world time clocks images

Burlap trim

Vintage Parisian Images

Transparancies

Seam Binding ribbon

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'

Fabulous project Adriana - well done. Love the idea of using the mini papers as letters on the layout.  The ephemera you chose are perfect to add more 'vintage' to the project. Love all the elements - brilliant!!

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com