Friendship Canvas

Hello lovely crafters and followers. I am sorry I have not been around much, life and my situation has been getting the better of me, however things turns for the better this week. I have been busy.

New project is a custom order canvas that a new friend in Queensland commissioned for a dear friend of hers. Her directions were, Pink, flowers and pretty. This is what I came up with. Both the buyer and recipient LOVED it, which I am so happy about.





I used my Forgotten Meadows collection that I printed one sheet as an A3 to give me a base. In my stash I found this beautiful piece of antique pink lace that I had not found a project for in a number of years. And what do you know, it looks perfect. I printed out some of the ephemera from the Forgotten Meadows Book Kit too and added that in.

I am really happy with how it all turned out.

Midori Fauxdori Insert assembly.

Midori Traveler Notebook enthusiasts I thought I would show you all how I go about making inserts/booklets for my Travelers Notebook size Midori.

So these are the 12x12 size digital papers of my collections that have been printed on A4 size paper. The cover was printed on 200gsm paper stock and the rest of the booklet is printed on 80gsm on both sizes.

Here is the Cafe Au Lait collection Booklet/insert

Here it is in the Fauxdori I have available in my webstore.

This is the same format but done using the Forgotten Meadows collection which comes up really pretty.

 

Here it is in the Fauxdori I have available in my webstore.

Both inserts added to the Fauxdori using the expansion band that comes with the single string fauxdori.

Now to see how I put the booklets together. 

Making of the Forgotten Meadows Mega book

Hello everyone. Great to see you here again. 

My last post was of a mega book I did using my Forgotten Meadows collection. While cleaning up my computer I came across from video footage of me making the book, so I decided to edit it all and put it up on youtube for you all. 

Enjoy

Forgotten Meadow Mega Book Project

Big project to share with you today. It took me a while to get completed as I was very busy the last 2 months. 

I really liked the Forgotten Meadows collection through my webstore and wanted to make a project that really complimented it. There is a video at the bottom of the post.

I managed to use all the ephemera in the Book Kit for the collection. The metal embellishments that were used were all gesso'ed which added a lovely old work feel and totally changed the textures within the page layout.  I used a lot of Imaginarium and kaisercraft chippies and wood embellishments coated in crackle paint and then distress inked after they dried.

Forgotten Meadows: Lilac and Blue

Hello Crafters. Welcome!

I have some more cards for you today from the Meg's Garden Forgotten Meadows Collection.

I have used some of the cut and create ephemera from the 12 inch papers and then layers them over the Forgotten Meadows papers.

Both the cards are very simple and elegant. 

I have used some of the lovely fibers and fiber ribbons for both of these cards.

Product list

Paper flowers

Paper Leaves

Mesh Ribbon

Burlap Ribbon

Gauze

Vintage Brads

Tim Holtz Word Bands

I hope you like my cards. Please feel free to leave a comment or questions.

Meg's Garden: Forgotten Meadows Long Stitch Book

Hey all you create creatures out there reading my blog post today.

I got something new and oh so awesome for you. Well, I think it is awesome none-the-less. 

Now I have tried my hand at book making for a while and have done many coptic stitch and other binding methods before. This time I tried long stitch. I am so impressed with the outcome, I had to show you all. 

 There is a youtube clip at the end of the post that shows the whole process of making the book and it was a lot of fun.

I decided to use the Forgotten Meadows Collection and make a leather bound journal with the Long Stitch binding method. There are a few different tutorials out there, but I used this particular tutorial which seems simple and easy to do.

The two library card I put at each end of the book. Which I filled with tags and some of the journal cards that come in the kit.

I printed out three copies of the book pages from the kit. I used the line page to print of the back of all the pages too as I will use this book for notes while out and about.  

The book was the be for note taking while I was out so I didn't want to add any flowers or balky embellishing.  The book closes up nicely and will be very handy in the future. 

Remember to watch the video to see the making of the book and the final project.

Thank you so much for reading this post and I hope you like the project.

Please leave a comment or any questions.

Meg's Garden: Cards of Forgotten Meadows

Hello crafters and thank you for visiting my blog today. 

I have some step cards I have made with the new collection from Meg's Garden Forgotten Meadows that was released in February .

I really love the ephemera in this collection, which I really wanted to use for the cards. I am not big on the whole having "happy birthday" or " happy anniversary" on the front of the card, I like making generic cards where that information is written in on the inside to the recipient of the card. This gives me free reign to do whatever I want on the outside of the card.

For the first step card I used the Mini/card maker pack of Forgotten Meadows. I used the ephemera from the 12 inch Cut and Create page which has some wonderful ephemera.  I also used some of the Mini Rose Braid at the base of the card and the lovely paper flowers and rose buds.  The small bottles are also available as Meg's Garden and I love adding them to small cards as a bit of a feature. These two I filled with some of the ephemera rolled up. The inking around the edge of the paper is done with Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink.

For this second card I have use those wonderful paper leaves and paper flowers again, there is however this time a small white fabric Heirloom flower.  I found a Filigree Oval metal embellishment, a Tim Holtz pen nib and Word Band in my stash which works well. The edges are inked with Pumice Stone to add some contrast but not drown out that lilac in the wisteria on the paper.

I hope you like these two cards and please leave a comment or questions. Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Meg's Garden Forgotten Meadows

Hello creative readers.

Today I want to talk about the new collection at Meg's Garden called Forgotten Meadows that I designed.

The inspiration for the collection comes from one of my favourite movies that I watch a few times a year. Howards End (1992) starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgraves.

Set at the beginning of the 20th century in England. Vanessa Redgraves play the wife of a successful businessman who is very sick, and wants dearly to show her family home Howards End to her new friend played by Emma Thompson.  The part that inspired the collection was something Vanessa Redgraves said about the Howards End cottage. " It's in the morning my house looks most beautiful." This is because in the film the cottage is surrounded by meadows of grass and flowers and the way the morning sunlight hit the meadows is just beautiful.

My direction for this collection was a softer romantic feeling with a very subtle vintage aged look. I hope you like it and find it as inspiring as I was to make it. The collection is available in the 12 in single side papers, the mini/cardmakers pack, and a book kit as a digital download or printed medium.
So, head over to the webstore and buy your self the new collection and happy crafting!

The Forgotten Meadows Collection

The Forgotten Meadows Book Kit

 Video Reveals of the collection

Bye for now
Meg & Kerry-Jean
www.megsgarden.com
megsgarden@outlook.com