DREAMS ~ PARISIAN GARDENS

Hello Mary here again. I couldn't resist creating another layout with the New Parisian Gardens Range, I just love this range so much and wanted to create a layout with one of the ideas I had when looking through my DT goodies Meg had sent me.

DREAMS

My idea came from when I saw the envelope image on the Cut and Create Sheet.

I decided to cut around the opening with my Kraft Knife to create a opening to keep a Newspaper cutting about my Mother and Fathers wedding. Now it has a place to live , is safe and tells the story of my page.

I fussy cut another image from the cut and create sheet  of the music book image to place my photo on .  The fancy oval frame houses the beginning of my bouquet of flowers, containing the lovely lemon flowers and the gorgeous glass flower . I have sat the word Dreams , cut from the cut and create sheet and shaded with mauve ink amongst the bouquet , along with some pearl trim , lace and muslin . A mauve ribbon ties it altogether . To the side sits a gold dragonfly charm.

Everything besides the "happy" word chippy , that I have embossed in mauve can be found at  Megs Store
Thank You for calling by. I looking forward to creating some more projects with this range and I hope you are inspred to do the same.
Until next time
Happy Creating
Mary x

Chantilly Cream Greeting Card

Hello my crafty friends, this is Patti back with you using up some of my leftover Chantilly Cream bits and bobs.

I hope you'll join me on todays video where I even reveal my messy desk!  I'll share how my 'mind' process works on creating a card with bits and pieces.  Such a fun project, I just love doing this and seeing what evolves.  I've used mainly Meg's Garden Chantilly Cream collection, there may be a stray item or two from another collection or my stash.  I've used a 6" square card base today, using Spellbinders Celebra'tions Cuddle Cream cardstock, one of my favs.

I've layered this gorgeous Gardenia flower with a few of the Copper Paper leaves and tucked in some tiny flowers here and then.  I went back off camera and scrunched and tucked in some tiny pieces of lace I'd been saving, just what the flower cluster needed for depth.

On the right side I cut a doily in half and pleated it in the middle.  A small staple holds the pleats together until I get it glued in just the right spot.  I added a tiny bow of dyed seam binding in the lower right and even though you don't see it in this photo I used my Scallop Corner Chomper on the outside corners of the card base.

After I finished filming I thought this upper right corner was a little naked so I went back hunting for a sentiment and found this Live Today snippet.  I fussy cut it out and backed it with a couple of layers of packaging scraps.  The antenna are the left over piece I snipped off the pearl spray that's tucked into the flower cluster.  I went over the antenna with Diamond Stickles to give them a little sparkle. The layers are distressed with my Tim Hotlz distressor and then tucked between are little pieces of lace.

Inside is a simple distressed mat of the Chantilly Cream striped paper with a trimmed flag of lace and a strip of Meg's lace over top.  Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you'll stay and watch the video.  All supplies will be linked directly below the video.

Supplies from Meg's Garden

Chantilly Cream Collection
Gardenia flower
Copper Paper leaves, large and small
Small Roses
Fantasy Blooms
Dark Brown Raffia

Natural Jute Ribbon
Paper Lace Doilies
Antique Champagne Tassels
Lace off white/cream

Long Filigree Vintage Trinket

Vintage Victorian Christmas Card

Hi everyone, it's Patti sharing with you today.  I've created a card for you combining both of the new Christmas releases, Vintage Christmas and Victorian Christmas both available in the Meg's Garden of Papercraft Delights store in either digital download or printed paper.

 

This is a standard A7 card 5"x7" on a Kraft cardstock base.  Both of the Christmas Papercraft Packs come on 8 1/2"  x 11" paper including 3 sheets of 5.4" design blocks with an accompanying 1.5" x 5.4" strip along with 3 sheets of ephemera.  I chose the on block design of the Santa and Compass and snipped them apart.

I took accompanying strips, ephemera and snipped pieces from the block to create a collage around the focal images covering up the Kraft card base.  The video will show this whole process from start to finish so any of you who hesitate making a card like this will see first hand it's really simple and anyone can do it.  Diamond Stickles on Santa's beard and NOEL along with a black flat backed bling finish off the front of the card.

Across the bottom I laid a strip of burlap and covered with a floral cluster.  My flowers started out as white blooms from the store, small white roses and white apple blossoms which I changed up to match the designer paper.  I used a combination of Tim Holtz Distress inks in Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twigs and Fired Brick to transform the white to the correct color.  The tiny flowers were actually pink but picked up the distress inks well to alter their appearance.  I tucked a couple of Copper Paper Leaves behind to finish the cluster and completed it with a bow from distress ink dyed seam binding.

The inside sentiment is a piece of white cardstock inked with the same three Distress inks as the flowers and die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Forty-Two.  I then added two ephemera pieces from the collection.  Both mats were inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Ground Espresso, I also used this darker ink around the outer edge of the card front to tie everything together.  The finishing touch is a raffia bow in the corner. 

I hope you'll join me on the video where I'll share the paper collections with you and do a start to finish of how to make the card.

Supplies from Meg's Garden 

Vintage Christmas Papercraft Pack

Victorian Christmas Papercraft Pack

Paper Flowers 

Copper Paper Leaves

Burlap and Raffia

Sherlock Book Card Set by Nicole Doiron

Hello Meg's Gardeners!

It's Nicole and it's my turn once again to share with you a project designed for Meg's Garden.

Last month, I created a Vintage Mini-Album using the Sherlock Book Kit.  Well, this time around, I decided that I would use more papers and trinkets from the Sherlock Book Kit to create a multi-card set.

As you can see, I created 5 cards, all complementing one another in their design, patterns and colours.

I tried to use several paper patterns from the Sherlock Book kit in order to showcase it all.

Most metal accents were included in the embellishment kit that I received with the kit.

Look at the end of this post for the complete list of products used 

that came from the Meg's Garden shop.

Card 1

I decided to use french sentiments on my cards as I'm participating in a craft show in December in my hometown which is mostly French and am hoping that a client will want to give this card set a new home.

Card 2

The Sherlock Book kit papers offer many vintage images that are perfect to add to cards.

Card 3

 All the beautiful and colorful paper butterflies used were fussy cut 

from the Butterflies ATC paper available at Meg's Garden.

Card 4

 I added some handmade stitching to my cards to give them a bit more dimension.

Another way to add dimension is to pop up some parts of the card with 3-D foam dots, 

like in this case, the sentiment tag and the fussy cut pocket watch.

Card 5

 

My favorite part of the Sherlock papers are the tags.

I used 3 of this card and added metal eyelets that matched the Vintage Brass piece.

This was a fairly short post, but I wanted show you how versatile the Sherlock Book Kit is 

and let the pictures do the talking.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards

and that you will visit my blog HERE to see more of my creations.

List of products used from Meg's Garden Store:

The Sherlock Book Kit

Butterflies ATC Paper

Vintage Trinkets

 Small Blue Roses

Small Copper Paper Leaves

Vintage Layout from Kerry-Jean

Hello Bloggers

It is only appropriate that we start the Correspondence Collection projects with one of the Designer's layout & Kerry-Jean explains:

"The Correspondence collection works really well with vintage photos.  The photo is of another distant Great Aunt, this time on my mother's side. My grandmother was the last born out of 9 children in 1904. This has to be one of my favourite layouts because of the colours. 

I have used the Correspondence collection for the background and the tiles of paper in the background. The flowers used are a collection of Azaleas, Cream and White Gardenias and the Small Blue Paper Roses with the Copper Paper Leaves both medium and small.   

As I have used those lovely blue roses I thought I would add some more of that turquoise to the layout by using the Blue Vintage Brads and then some gems down the right.  Behind the bird cage is a fantastic product I have been getting used to working with called Dodo Vine Wire. The clockface is also from one of Meg's Garden Elements papers called Old World Time.

I hope you like this layout as much as I do.'

Fabulous heritage LO - well done Kerry-Jean.  Love the way you have layered the papers & lace;  the touches of blue & copper are unique additions & work really well on the distressed papers. 

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com 

Stacks of Happy Hues card from Heather

Hello Bloggers,

Gorgeous card from Heather:

Title : ‘Stacks of Happy Hues’ with Heather

'Hello everyone , Heather back with you again after being away on a short break . Have you missed me ? I’ve certainly missed all of you, and creating with these glorious papers .

Today I am showcasing a card with stacked embellishments .. Denise has designed these papers  to blend and flow together perfectly .

Process

1. My base is a deep purple cardstock which I cut into 12” x 6” and folded in half .

2. Cut another piece of cardstock slightly smaller than 6” x 6” , to create my front cover. 

3. I adhered the Christmas paper to the card and stitched around the edge .

4. Beginning with a Tim Holtz Die cut I mounted that onto my base piece. I used various Sizzix dies and began layering them . I included some cardstock to bring out the richness in the papers along with kraft  for contrast .

5. I completed my cluster with a bloom and two leaves .

6. The inside is embellished with a border punched piece on the left side and some washi tape on the right. Finished off with a tiny strip of paper and a tab folded around the edge of the card. Use a stamp if you desire .  

Handy tip 

Sometimes with this technique only tiny sections of the pieces can be seen but this adds to the magical appeal.  In my opinion embellishing the inside really completes a card with style. 

These are such quick and easy cards with lots of dimension and texture.

 

Megs Garden Items used

Copper paper leaves

Leafy foliage diecut

P6326 - Christmas Music

P6329 - Christmas Berry Stripes

Other items

Deep purple cardstock

Kraft cardstock

Washi tape .

Flower.

Thanks for looking , big hugz from Heather x'

Totally Love it - well done Heather & Welcome Back - we have missed you & your fabulous projects. The combination of colours here is magical & the layers as well. Just beautiful!

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com