Vintage negative dies journal "Secret Garden" in box for Meg's Garden

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden


I like this quote. When I received Meg's new paper collection "Rose Quartz" this book came up to my mind. I really don't know why,maybe because of all amazing flower images or maybe because that super amazing gem I received with all kit which I really love

..so I was quiet sure I am going to make journal or diary with my secret garden :D 

  Maybe you noticed that I am more in grunge style,not too much in shabby or pink so I was really surprised how easy was for me to work with this collection.That mix of soft pink and kind of purple,nearly brown purple (I know sounds crazy,but this color is very likable for eyes,can't describe it better) made me think about romantic garden, about magic, about girl who is keeping her diary hide somewhere from other people. So I made a box for her and her diary and I made a diary.

As my embellishments for a box I used images from Cut & Create sheet.This images look so great in metal frame.When we talk about metal,I used few charms from Meg's shop in my diary as well. Meg has amazing metal stuff in her shop.

 I am guessing it will be for long time to explain everything I made with a box and diary/ journal so I will let pictures talk behalf of my work ;-)

I also made a short video, so if you are interested...

So this is all my sharing for today.I really hope that you enjoy it,maybe you found some inspiration and hopefuly you will decide to make some your creation out of this amazing collection.For more inspiration go to check out other projects Meg's girls made.I am telling you those are fabulouse.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a wonderful time.

Hugs Eva xx

Fun by Dana Tatar - English Rose Garden

Hi Meg's Garden fans! Dana Tatar here today sharing a layout that I created with the gorgeous new English Rose Garden collection. I used a neutral piece of patterned paper from the Butterfly Collection for the background of this page. I then added whipped spackle through a stencil to select areas of the page to add some dimension to my design.

I cut roses and leaves from the Pink Rose Vine patterned paper and ephemera from the English Rose Garden Cut and Create patterned paper to layer under my photo, which I matted with the Leaves and Foliage patterned paper from the English Rose Garden Mini Pack. I cut a Circle Paper Lace Doily into several pieces and tucked it between the layers of patterned paper.

I further embellished this page with chipboard pieces from my stash, Antique Champagne Tassels and Off-White Open Roses.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Meg's Garden Supplies:
Butterfly Collection - Another Delicate Garden for Butterflies 12x12 Patterned Paper
English Rose Garden - Pink Rose Vine 12x12 Patterned Paper
English Rose Garden - Cut and Create 12x12 Patterned Paper
English Rose Garden Mini Pack - Leaves and Foliage 6x6 Patterned Paper
Circle Paper Lace Doily
Antique Champagne Tassels
Off-White Open Roses

A Pocket Letter by Sarah

Hello Again Meg's Garden fans! Sarah here today to share a new project using a combination of the gorgeous Butterfly Garden and Forgotten Meadows collections, as well as some embellishments from the Meg's Garden Store and from my stash. Have you heard of pocket letters? I just recently learned about them and, since I love making Artist Trading Cards, I thought it would be fun to create a pocket letter page, which is (essentially) a collection of coordinated ATCs in a trading card page! The Meg's Garden Mini-Papers and Cut & Create Ephemera papers are absolutely perfect for creating pocket letters - you can also use bits and pieces leftover from your larger papers! I wanted this page to look as though it were a collection of vintage memorabilia from a trip to Paris, so I have distressed and added Vintage Photo distress ink to the edges of the papers.

 Here are some close-ups of each of the rows  (out of the plastic trading card page to avoid glare)!

I hope you like my pocket letter page - it was so fun to make! If you create one with Meg's Garden products, leave me a link in the comments below so I can pop by for a look!

Happy Scrapping!

Meg's Garden Products Used:

Forgotten Meadows Paper Collection - Cut & Create Ephemera and Mini Paper Pack

Butterfly Garden Paper Collection - Cut and Create Ephemera and 12 x 12 A Flower Garden for Butterflies

Meg's Bundle of Goodies - Temptations in Cream and Sage and Temptations in Blue

"Love is Like A Butterfly" Mini Book by Suzanne Crowther

Hi Its Suzanne again. As I said I went mad with this paper and the amazing thing is that this is the second mini book, but I also have made a Scrap Layout, 3 cards, 4 Thank You cards and a tag. The sad part is I ran out of paper before I could do the off the page projects lol.

“Love is like a Butterfly” Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

 This little mini boom I deigned myself, I must say I made a few as I did one back to front anyway all was good I hope you like this project and you may get to see the other projects on another day!!!

Using Black cardstock cut your card 12 inches long x 4 inches in height so this will form the size of the book. Score this at 6 inches and fold. Cut your next piece at 12 inches x 4 inches score at 1 inch this will glue to the back page to form your album, score at 6 inch that gives you 1 page and the piece alone will only be 5 inches left. Your next piece is 12 inches x 4 inches this is scored at 2 ¼ inches, 3 ¼ inches, 4 inches and the last piece will glue to the 5inch panel this will give you 12 panels to decorate and add photos to ext.

You can add more pages by gluing some flip pages, I made a few like that but I think this looks pretty awesome. I cut the front and back cover leaving a space all around the front cover. I added a lace die cut, a texture paste butterfly, metal leaf, blue flower, small flower, metal decoration with little nob, metal butterfly, blue brads, ribbon and gesso.

Page 1: I used a plain backing paper added Butterfly Collection paper lace + ribbon, silver metal trim, gold + silver crosses, Butterflies and ink. This page has Charlotte and Blake on their Christening day. The book opens like a concertina

Page2: Butterfly Collection paper, fussy cut flowers, a beautiful saying from kit, I used the perfume emphera as a little book to add journaling, trim and butterfly added

Page 3: This page is the Butterfly Collection paper with texture paste, glimmer mist and the beautiful butterflies.

Page 4: This page has a beautiful rose in texture paste, ribbon charm emphera, glimmer mist and paper from the butterfly collection.

Page 5: A photo of Miss Charlotte, ribbon and emphera. 

Page 6: Small page has gather your dreams  + paper from the butterfly collection and lace + ribbon trim.

Flip the Book Over

Page 7: Is the little page with the butterfly collection paper stamp and a saying mounted on blue card stock.

Page 8: With this beautiful paper I made a small pocket and made some small tags and tickets.

Page 9: More beautiful with me in a frame. I made a small frame and place a vintage beauty in then used glossy accents. When dry I added trim and Ribbon, I also die cut a frame and put a photo of me in it dressed for a vintage day.

Page 10: This was the very pale paper I put a mask on it and some texture paste, when dry I sprayed glimmer mist, added flowers and a little butterfly with the saying Gather your Dreams.

Page 11: I cut out a bigger shape of the small frame in the kit and I added Viva Ferro and Viva Metallic Paint with a mask. I also added texture paste and lightly added some inks and a saying.

Page12: More beautiful paper with some mask and texture paste, glimmer mist, a saying from kit and one of the beautiful big butterflies fussy cut out.

The Back Cover has some emphera and a beautiful butterfly. I laced a ribbon around the spine and added a star and a crystal heart.

I hope this little book has inspired you all today

Thank You Suzanne Crowther

Products Used Meg’s Garden

The beautiful butterfly collection

Metal butterflys – handle leaf

Little gold butterfly

Ribbons

Trims

Emphera

Acitate Sheet Butterflies

The butterfly Collection Card Kit

The butterfly Collection “Another Delicate Garden for Butterflies”

The Butterfly Collection “A French Butterfly”

The Butterfly Colllection “A Butterfly Garden at Night”

The Butterfly Collection “A Flower Garden for Butterflies”

The Butterfly Collection “Vintage Beauties”

Lace

Flowers

Other Products

Inks, Glimmer mist, Masks, Texture paste, Gesso



" The Garden" Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

Hi everyone welcome to Megs Garden blog. Its Suzanne here today to share a mini book with you all. The book features the beautiful butterfly collection from Megs Garden. Grab a tea or coffee relax and come into “The Garden” a mini book by me!!!

When I received this stunning paper from Megs Garden I was so happy I had so many ideas of what to make that sadly I ran out of paper.

“The Garden” Mini book by Suzanne Crowther

When I designed this book I had made up my mind to use some dies to cut out my mini book. I think it gives it a little bit of style.

I used my largest die size 98.67 x 121.88mm inches + 3.88inch x 4.8inch. With that picked 1 die cut 8 shapes in black card stock as I wanted the beautiful butterfly collection to shine. I mixed and matched all the papers in together. I then trimmed the paper to fit all the pages and I also cut some blue card stock which I use as matting to these beautiful papers.

As you travel the garden book you will notice I have used back ground stamps, other stamps, glimmer mist and inks. I measured and cut everything onto blue cardstock I used 2 way tape and the pages were all inked. Then I fussy cut some butterfly’s from the acetate sheet I glued them onto white cardstock. When fully dry I added some glitter and I also used some white flowers which I sprayed with ink and glimmer mist. I did die cut a few butterfly’s just in case I needed more with all this preparation done it was time to put the book together.

At this stage I also had blue fingers lol, with the help of a black coffee I was ready to get it all together.

I took 8 pages and measured up for a spine. I cut some black cardstock 2 inches x 3.2 inches and trimmed top and bottom to match the inverted corner I scored this at ¾ inch in on both sides this gave me a ½ inch spine for my pages. This was glued to the front cover and the back cover leaving a ½ inch spine down the centre, while the covers layed flat on the table I took this time to cover he front the spine edges are glued to the inside of the book front and back this will leave the outside of the book nice and smooth. I cut one long piece of paper I trimmed it to fit, inked edges and with the cover done I turned the cover over and got the pages ready six in total but I did add 2 small pages as I put this all together.

I had pre-cut some black pieces that I used between the pages that fitted into the spine, but has no page, I wanted to have room to embellish the book. The blanks and pages where all glued with Helmar 450 for strength with all this done I glued 3 striped of black top, middle and bottom of spine. I then glued all this into the spine and left it to dry overnight it needs to be fully dry before you open the pages and work on the book. When you first open the book it will be a bit stiff but this glue is amazing.

On the front cover I used some beautiful lace from Megs Garden and I threaded some ribbon top and bottom the piece I cut fitted end to end. I glued this down to give more strength to the book. The metal piece on the cover, I added a brad and some seed beads and filled it with glossy accents I then let it dry and glued it to the lace I also added a couple of little flowers, a bow and one of the butterfly’s with glitter.

I had pulled out a few stamps with some positive words for this mini book. Butterflies give hope, everyone loves butterflies so this Garden Book is a positive up lifting book a book of hope and love it was made with love. You could decorate your pages with whatever you have in your stash a lot of these bits and pieces all come from Megs Garden. All the ribbon, laces and trims are from Megs Garden so come along and check out the store you will be amazed and inspired.

 

Products Used: Megs Garden Products

The Butterfly Collection card pack

The Butterfly Collection – A Flower Garden for Butterflies

The Butterfly Collection – A Butterfly Garden at Night

The Butterfly Collection – A French Butterfly

The Butterfly Collection – Another Delicate Garden for Butterflies

Sheet of Acetate Butterflies

Selection of Ribbons

Selection of Metal Embellishments

Stick Pin Products from Megs Garden

Seed Beads and Beads

Selection Trims and Flowers