Merry Christmas House by Meredith Hilly

Hello everyone. With Christmas not to far away I enjoyed making a Christmas House to start my decorations. I used Megs Garden Microscope Glass slide mailers for this house.

Microscope Glass Slide 

  Living in a country that has hot to very hot Christmas days I used blues and whites to represent snow. I would love to have a white Christmas.

The lace is icicles hanging from the gutters with glitter on the roof to look like snow.



What's Christmas with out a Tree. And a lovely star on top. I cut around the plastic that the diamonds where bought on instead of pulling it of. I used double sided tape and stuck them to the top of the tree back to back.

Using a brick embossing pattern I rubbed white ink onto the grout side and then put the blue paper in it before running it through my Big Shot. This made the grout more defined against the bricks. 

I cut the centre of a paper doily out and stuck it to the roof. This pattern was like a huge snow flake.

Using very thin silver steel sheets I embossed snow flakes for the base of the decoration.

The diamonds stuck on the eves are little snowflakes. With a dusting of white ink on the embellishments.

I designed the house so I could place a little fake candle inside of it so the Santa windows would shine. 



Thanks for having a look at my little Christmas house. I really enjoyed making it.

Megs Garden

Transparencies Santa pictures

Lace

Silver Diamante Trim

Microscope Glass Slide 

Disc W Ring handle

Paper Dollies

From my stash

Tim Holtz Christmas Tree

Silver metal sheet (SHIM)

Santa Workshop sign

Peony Rose cards by Meredith Hilly

Hello everyone. And welcome to my Peony Rose Microscope Glass cards.

I am really enjoying using the microscope slide mailers.

Combine it with the art work that goes with it and you have a recipe for some really fun projects.

Using the German Glass Glitter and small crystal like tubes from Megs garden I made this flower

really shine. I dotted brown spots inside the flower using a normal texta then sprayed it with water.

The water made the texta run creating a nice texture. I put small pieces of brown Dodo wire vine sticking out which added a nice depth to the flower.



On the inside of the card I wrote a poem for my daughter. She recently go engaged and this will be her engagement card.

I used pink crystals that hung from the bottom of the card. They could be seen when the card was open or closed.

The second card had a silver trim which I carried through to the inside of the card.



Using a ink nib stamp from Megs Garden I teamed it up with a metal nib on the other side.

I love the colours in the tulip.

The last card is a tiny one. Using one length of blue ribbon I stuck it to the edges of the card.

The gold latch just finishes it of.

Inside I used the same blue ribbon with a lovely Art

Nouveau picture.

Thanks for having a look at my project. I recommend you to go to Megs Garden Web site and look at the  Microscope glass slides and mailers and you will be tempted to create something special.

 See you next time.

Products from Megs Garden

Microscope glass slides and mailers

Flowers

Ribbon

Brown Dodo vine wire

Gold embellishments

Stamp 

German Glass Glitter

The rest is from my stash.





Denise shows us how she used the Slide Microscope Papers on her projects

Hello Bloggers

We continue into November Christmas project with one of my favourite things slides & slide mailers - they are so easy to decorate & create fabulous projects.

The single slide mailers make a perfect tree deco while the double & quad mailers are perfect little gifts.  You can use the Santa Microscope Papers as Denise has done or use some photos trimmed down.  So easy!!

Denise explains:

'I have always wanted to decorate slides and I have finally taken the time to give it a try.  I will admit I did have a couple of big ideas and just ended up taking the easy option'

Cover of quad mailer 

The front is covered using P6363 Christmas Cherries & decorated using die cuts mounted with foam & topped with a slide covering 'NOEL' from the strip that comes with Christmas Angels P6366

Inside the quad mailer 

The Cherries paper is used to cover the inside front cover & also behind the slide & an image from the Christmas Angels is on top. The edges of the mailer & inside the cavities for the slides is coloured gold. The slides cover images are from the Santa Microscope Art papers

close up of slides

close up of inside cover

A satin ribbon is used to keep the decorated slide mailer closed

This shows the back of the slides which were made as decorations designed to be hung on the Christmas tree.  This pic shows the back side of the slides -   there are images on both sides since I have joined two slides together

Another set of slides

With the left overs I decorated a two slot slide book.  The slides are adhered to the book with glossy accents

  Everything is available at Meg's Garden including the slides and slide mailers.'

Fabulous use of the slides, papers & mailers - well done Denise.  Love the gilding & use of papers.  The decorated slides for the tree are awesome.

The slide & slide mailer projects are not only fabulous for Christmas but can be used with photos (cut to fit the slides), scraps of paper, vintage looks with pearls & velvets as well as masculine projects.

The papers specifically designed for slide art projects are at Microscope Art Papers

The mailers are heavy cardboard so will take all your embellishments, paints & papers with ease.  They are available in single, duo & quad as well as a combination pack.  The slides are in 10's or 50's & are at Slides & Mailers

There are several projects on display at the Slides & Mailers page - have a look for different ideas.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com

Geishas girl microscope booklets by Meredith Hilly

Hello Meredith here and welcome to my latest project. 

I totally enjoyed using the microscope glass booklets from Meg's garden to create some fun scrapbooking. The three sized frames gave me a lot of options to use different colours and embellishments with the same theme.

The largest frame I painted gold and used a symmetrical pattern to balance out the card. By using different coloured ribbons it gave it a frame to draw the eye to the Chinese symbol in the centre.

The two fans either side of the Chinese symbol made it look very oriental and the gold matched the painted cover.

I just love this little lion head handle to open the booklets. It was perfectly suited to the theme.

The inside of the booklets continued the gold theme and I used black oriental stamps to highlight the edges. Three Geisha ladies and some script were chosen with the glass panels going on top. I tried to capture in this photo how the glass gives depth to the booklets but not very successfully.

The following two booklets are smaller again. I painted the middle size booklets in a royal red and inked all the edges in gold. A small gold handle was used for the opening of the card.

The smallest booklet I painted a royal blue. I choose all the colour themes for the booklets from what was in the geishas robes. Gold was also a main highlight in the smallest card.

Inside the middle booklet was a lovely geisha girl the matched the golden outline on the opposite side. With the glass panel attached it was very regal looking.

The last booklet was very small no bigger than a match box. I used some lovely gold gilded maple leaf paper to reflect the Geisha robes.

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I had a ball making these three booklets. I cannot recommend strongly enough how much you would enjoy choosing a theme and matching papers with embellishments from Megs Garden.  You will be waiting anxiously by the mail box from them to arrive.

From Megs garden.

Microscope Glass Slides and Booklets

Ribbons

Lion Head handle

All the oriental embellishments

Oriental paper



Vintage Mini Book by Adriana Bolzon

Hello bloggers, Adriana today is on the blog with her
Vintage Mini Book.

"Hi everyone, 
today I am sharing a little vintage 

mini book that

I created using the new paper collection

The Correspondence Collection

from Meg's Garden along with 

collage vintage images from  

Microscope collage vintage images & Vintages Beauties

also available at Meg's Garden and other

wonderful embellishments also supplied by
 Megs Garden Website

Now, this little mini book is only 8.5 cm x 11 cm

such a very small and cute vintage book. 

On the cover is a Vintage Beauty image,
 decorated with some Paper roses & Diamonte Trim

To create the cover I used a cabinet card

from Tim Holtz ideaology 

This cabinet card in sealed on the bottom and

on both sides, with a very sharp craft knife, 
I cut open the bottom and only the right

hand side of this card, 

This will be the cover for the mini book.

To create the insert for the mini book, I used
a very simple folding method. 
I used the French Account P6401 paper from the
 The Correspondence Collection
 for the insert, this creates the
base of the pages in the mini book.
 I will show how to create the insert with a 
plain white piece of A4 copypaper.

1. Cut the paper to 29.5cm x 21cm (A4 size)
2. Fold it in half length wise, then in it fold in half and fold in half - two more times. 
The end result is 8 equal folded parts of the paper.
3. With a sharp craft knife, cut along the middle centre fold
only, as shown with red dotted lines.

Fold the page in half and glue pages together.

Insert and cover ready to be assembled.

Decorate cover with Vintage Image and then, adhere approx. 60cm length of ribbon inside cover before
adhering the folded insert to the cover of mini book
Ink edges all around book and pages.

 Decorate each page with flowers,
paper doilies
Microscope slides.

Here is a closer look inside some of the pages, 
I used paper doilies, Microscope collage vintage images and printed some quotes on paper and adhered them
to the pages.

List of materials available from Meg's Garden

Paper rose flowers

The Correspondence Collection.

Microscope collage vintage images & Vintages Beauties

Diamante Trim

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, Cheers Adriana XX

Slide Mailer Card

Hello Bloggers

Adriana shows us her slide mailer card:

'Hi everyone,

I have a quick and special little project 

that I have created for

my DT work for Meg's Garden

Using a microscope slide mailer with the

two slots and the stamps set which are all available
from 

Megs Garden Website

Front cover

Inside

Outside cover

I made a very quick step by step on

this project.......

1. Cut out the middle of the insert of the 
Microscope slider mailer

2. Prime your slide mailer

with two coats of white Gesso. 
Leave to dry.

3. Apply, Wild Honey, Broken China Distress

Stains or paints. Blending the colours together, 
until you are happy with the results.

4. Using Rubber stamps , apply your selected designs

with black memento ink pad. I have used

TJ Design Elements rubber stamp collection

for the outside of the folder. 

For the inside I used

some Paris rubber stamps.

5. Decorate the front with metal elements and flower.

6. Cut out the vintage ladies images from the 

Microscope collage sheets.

(I cut 3 images and then glued in the centre of the slide panels, decorate with metal embellishments around the edges.

Attach Key charms with Green medley fibres 

on spine of slide folder.

Cut a butterfly from the 

Transparencies Butterflies sheet and

glue on mailer as shown.

Meg's Garden products

Microscope slider mailers and collage sheets

Key charms

Rubber stamps 

Green Medley Jazz fibres

Transparencies Collage sheet 

Check out all the wonderful products from

 Megs Garden Website

and see more inspirational work from

Meg's Garden Blog

Thanks for looking, Cheers Adriana XX :)'

Bye for now
Meg
www.megsgarden.com