Chantilly Cream Cards with Flowers

Hello Bloggers

This post really should be called leftovers & mats since I used some of the ephemera that were not used on the Chantilly Cream mini book & created some cards using the Flower ephemera & different mats.

Vanilla bazzill was used, antique linen distress ink & leftovers from Chantilly Cream Papercraft kit - 3 pieces of ephemera featuring cream flowers.

Card no. 1:

The Snowdrops ephemera was mounted on green cardstock & then onto a sage green fibre material.

A butterfly charm, green ribbon & a pearl spray were used to embellish.

Card no. 2:

Was matted on blue/grey cardstock & then onto vanilla bazzill. It was them embellished with a small piece of tattered net, paper rose leaves, 2 blue paper flowers & an antique blue velvet forget me not. A blue ribbon was tied around the front of the card, a piece of dodo wire tucked into the

 flower posy & a ladybird charm added for whimsy.

Card no. 3

Is a tall slim card using the cream roses ephemera matted on sage green cardstock & then onto the vanilla cardstock.  The embellishing is again kept very simple - a cream woven edge organza ribbon, a pearl spray & a heart charm

The 3 cards were made in very little time; they used leftover ephemera, scraps of cardstock in my stash for mats & were embellished very simply.

The ephemera were all printed on a cream patterned background so, when cutting them out, you can use part of the this background as an additional mat - this is what I did with cards 1 & 2; card 3 had none used.

Hope these give you some ideas on simple cards

Bye for now

Meg

A Victorian Christmas Decor/Tableau

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I opened one of the new Victorian Christmas Papercraft packs & decided I would do something different with it.  Decided to do a decor for a mantle, an entrance hall table, a sideboard in the diningroom or wherever you want a touch of Christmas

Front view - I used grey/blue cardstock.

  The panels at the back of the piece are 6" sq with a join in the middle. The panels in the foregound are 11.25" x 3.5" with a tab attachment at the end.  The whole piece folds up with a ribbon tie at each end of  the main back piece. The little lady in front is a separate piece with an easel back.  Cream cotton lace with antique blue velvet forget me nots, some green paper leaves & copper organza ribbon with a blue edge  are the only embellishments on the foregound panels.  The ephemera were chosen so that the sizes matched, somewhat, on each side

Close up of left foreground panel

Close up of right foreground panel.  

The back of the left back panel 

The back of the right background panel

The middle 2 panels of the back of the decor

The Papercraft pack contains 6 pieces 5.4" square plus 6 matching/same strips 2" x 5.4" - all of them were used here - 4 on the front & 2 on the back. All or the images are included in the papercraft pack. There were several images not used - these could be made into tags, mini cards or used on a layout.

Hope this gives you some ideas for decorating the house or office for the Holiday season.

Bye for now

Meg

www.megsgarden.com