Thursday 14 June 2012

Garden Girl Layout
2 Cards
Headband
by Vicky Alberto

 
 I had this cute close-up shot of my daughter as a toddler but hated the background so I fussy cut her out and created a garden scene for her to sit in. Oh where to start... I used a mix of beautiful floral papers from Meg's Garden (Garden of Blue Flowers and Le Belle Jardin and French Garden collections) and started piling on chipboard, flowers, trim, a doily, pearl bling (yup basically the kitchen sink, LOL). I think I have nearly 25 Green Tara buds and flowers on this one!


Here is a close-up of my "garden" - purple gardenias, pink cherry blossoms, red rose buds and a beautiful large pink velvet rose from the newest product release
 
Green Tara Products Used:


**NEW** Gardenia Purple
CODE: FDV054Pu5

1cm Mini Rosebuds Red
CODE: FDV025R


 
A Couple of Sentiments


Here I have used gorgeous Green Tara trims and flowers and papers from Meg's Garden Forget Me Not" collection. I actually made these from concept to completion in 45 minutes. Since I live 20 minutes from a shopping mall, well... that's 2 cards made in the same time as driving there and back and standing in line to pay for cards. I'm sure the recipients will appreciate handmade cards more than store-bought ones too!

I cut one piece of paper to make these 2 cards. This first one is a more feminine in style, pulling out the cream in the paper and accenting with pearl beads and butterflies to compliment the pretty gardenias, cherry blossoms, cream and olive trim - that matched this paper so perfectly. I LOVE the new Green Tara lattice trims!
 

For my second card, I played up the black and green in the paper to be able to be able to give this to a man. Men like flowers too (my hubby gardens while I scrap, LOL!). These green cherry blossoms really pop against the vintage inspired paper and work well with the gold tones in the paper (that I also enhanced with some bling). This time I used the lattice trim in black.
 
Green Tara Products Used:
Cherry Blossoms Peach/Cream
CODE: FLC22PeC
Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Sea Green
CODE: FLC22SG

Gardenia Ivory
CODE: FDV054Iv5

20mm Self Adhesive Leaf Garland
CODE: RB796Gr

25mm Lattice  Black
CODE: RB6735BL

25mm Lattice Ivory
CODE: RB6735Iv

Acrylic Bead Headed

 
My daughter LOVES headbands so when Green Tara sent me a plain plastic headband and a challenge to "dress it up", well I just couldn't resist creating another pretty headband for her. I immediately grabbed some of their beautiful pearl trim, an acrylic bead flower and a dragonfly. Helmar's strong holding 450 quick dry  was just the right glue I needed for a long-lasting bond of all the pretty elements you see here. Aren't these embellishments just gorgeous?
 
 
I gave her the headband on the morning of her 4th birthday, and she wore it all day long - full of smiles!
 
Thanks for letting me share this & my other projects  with you today!
Vicky

4 comments:

  1. Ooooh Wowsers Vicky, there is sooo much yumminess happening here. Love them all. Gorgeous. Di xo

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  2. Gorgeous as always Vicky......

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  3. Goregous layout, love the flowers, so pretty :)

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  4. These are all so beautiful Vicky - I love that you fussy cut your daughter's photo

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