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The Color Room talent – palette 108

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Manor House Creations

More amazing talent over at THE COLOR ROOM this week starting with the fabulous Design Team.  Such gorgeous colours too…. and just look at those flowers!

Yumi Takasaki

Products used: Country lane – green, Taneisha.

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Belinda Spencer

Products used: Ballroom – Waltz, Mascarpone, Cutie pies – lime.

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Solange Marques

Products used: Enchanted – sweet dreams.

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Naomi Capps

Products used: Cutie pies – lime, taneisha, Blossoms – party mix.

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Kerry Murray

Products used: Party time – Princess party, Sprinkles – lime, The Tropics – By the pool, Nikita.

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Yuka Ogawa

Products used: Taneisha, Ballroon – Waltz, Wild frosted orchid, Wishes – peace, Cutie pies – lime.

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Eila Sandberg

Products used: The tropics – Dusk & By the pool, Sprinkles – lime.

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Belinda Spencer

Products used: Ballroom – Waltz, Taneisha, Cutie pies – lime.

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Please join in the fun and have your chance at winning an amazing prize of MHC flowers!

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You won’t want to miss this…

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Manor House Creations

Manor House Creations is having its first ever blog hop. It begins THIS SUNDAY 6th of May at 8am (Australian Eastern Standard time) right here at the Manor House Creations blog, through until midnight on Tuesday 8th of May. There are 4 fabulous prize packs, chock full of beautiful Manor house creations flowers to be won.

We want to get the word out to as many people as possible, so, as well as these prizes, we are also offering one bonus ‘mystery’ prize for anyone who advertises our blog hop on their blog. (Prize drawn randomly).

All you have to do is advertise our blog hop, on your blog, ASAP, to be in the running to win this prize, and leave a link to your post on our blog, or Facebook page. We can’t tell you what the prize is, but we can tell you it contains some gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers :) .

And remember to put the 6th to the 8th of May in your diary, cos you don’t want to miss this one.

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Guest designer -Trudi Harrison (part 2)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by karenshady67

It is our absolute pleasure to have the immensely talented  TRUDI HARRISON as our guest designer this month. We have already seen a fabulous dressform created by Trudi and now we have some amazing layout to share…her style is so unique, it just grabs your attention.

Here’s what Trudi had to say about these gorgeous layouts:

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Hi Again Everyone,

Trudi here with some more layout inspiration for you today.

 I have once again combined some gorgeous Manor House Creations beauties with the sublimely luscious The Scrapcake ‘One Moment In Time’ Collection.

First up something on the ‘mauve’ side.I started with the ‘A Heartbeat Away’ patterned paper and added a touch of misting using Tattered Angels Juneberry Wine Glimmer Mist and an acrylic decorative doily mask.

Long Banner strips created from the ‘Each Day I Live’ paper were added over the top. Strips were cut in different lengths and attached vertically and horizontally.

Some decorative accents hand cut from ‘The Much Remains’ paper were attached along one side of the photo, along with a large flourish die cut vine.

An assortment of Manor House Creations blooms were added.  These included Frosting, Country Lane, Fairy Floss and Nikita.

The centre part of the Nikita was only used on this occasion.

Fairy Floss blooms were sprayed with  Juneberry Wine Glimmer Mist to coordinate.

Layout: ‘Butterflies’ by Trudi Harrison

Products Used:

Manor House Creations: Frosting, Country Lane – Quaint, Fairy Floss – Mixed, Nikita – WV

The ScrapCake: One Moment In Time Collection – 12 x 12 -  A Heat Beat Away,  This Much Remains,  Each Day I Live; 7 x 12 -Make It Shine, Borders, Taste The Sweet

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Next, something more on the ‘blue’ side.

I started with the ‘If You Seize That’ pattered paper for the base.

Elements from the 7 x 12 Borders were hand cut and attached.

A die cut decorative frame and large flourish vine were added along with more Manor House Creations blooms.

This time around, I have incorporated the following beauties: Frosting, Plain Janes, Party Mix Blossoms and Beauty. Blossoms.

The centres were removed from a couple of Fairy Floss and Plane Jane blooms.  There were then layered over the top of some of the Party Mix.

Layout: ‘Dream’ by Trudi Harrison

Products Used:

Manor House Creations: Frosting, Romance – Devoted, Plain Janes, Party Mix – Blossoms, Fairy Floss – Mixed, Beauty – WV

**Packaging**

The ScrapCake: One Moment In Time Collection – 12 x 12 – If You Seize That; 7 x 12 – All Of My Dreams, Borders; 6” x 6” Paper Pad

Thanks so much for dropping by the Manor House Creations Blog today!

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We thank Trudi for all the amazing inspiration today and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

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The Color room talent – pallete 107

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Manor House Creations

Hello! This is the 3rd week we are sponsoring THE COLOR ROOM and the next palette is up later today, but this last week’s palette was a really interesting one with rich reds, black and gold.  We just HAVE to share some of the layouts seen over at The Color Room – they are just fabtastic! Here’s what some of the TCR Design team did…

Layout by Eila Sandberg

Products used: Ballroom – Tango, Marguerite – Mocha.

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Layout by Lindy Gillespie

Products used: Marguerite – Mocha, Silverbells.

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Layout by Yuka Ogawa

Products used: Ballroom – Waltz.

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Layout by Kerry Murray

Products used: Romance – Sweetheart, Naomi, Sugar & Spice – mixed, Ballroom – Tango.

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Layout by Naomi Capps.

Products used: Plain Janes (& torn painted petals)

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Layout by Solange Marques

Products used: Naomi.

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Layout by Belinda Spencer

Products used: Ballroom – Waltz, Plain Janes, Naomi, The Tropics - Resort.

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Please join us over at The Color Room for some fun!

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Step x step with Delaina (revised)

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Manor House Creations

(OUR APOLOGIES – THIS POST PUBLISHED WITH WORDPRESS FAULTS, SO WE HAVE RE-PUBLISHED IT)

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Hello,

Its Delaina with you today. Thanks for taking the time to check out the step by step canvas I created this month. Manor House Creations make it easy to produce a beautiful project.

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1. The first step is to paint a thin coat of cream acrylic paint over your canvas, and allow it to completely dry.

2. Cover a mask with modeling paste. I have used a scrolly mask in each corner, and have only covered portions of it in a few places. Allow to completely dry.

3. I have used pink, beige and green paint here. I simply used a small paint brush and smeared streaks of the color onto the canvas. TIP: If you feel you have added too much color, paint over those areas with the cream paint you started with.

4.  Add a 4×6 photo, after popping it up with pop dots.

5. Attach the beautiful Manor House Creations flowers with liquid glue.

6.  I then fussy cut some flowers and leaves from the Scrap cake collection ‘One moment in time’, I then adhered those aroung the flowers as shown

6. Add some butterflies, and your title, and you canvas is ready to frame.

Products used: MHC Marguerite-mocha, Beauty-off white, Merangue-pin, TSC-One moment in time.

I hope you enjoyed this step by step as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Happy Scrapping!

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Manor House and The Color Room #108

Posted on April 26, 2012 by jenioc

 This month Manor House Creations has joined with the creative talents of the team at The Color Room. For the month of April, Manor House Creations  has been proudly supporting The Color Room team. This is week number four, with some of the girls from our design team as featured guests.

The Color Room is a challenge site started by a group of well known scrappers who “strive to push your creativity through new inspiring colour palettes, sketches and tutorials.”

 http://thecolorroom.ning.com/

 Here is this week’s palette #108

DELAINA BURNS has created an adorable page filled with a gala of Manor House beauty. Her sweet niece’s photo is surrounded in the rich textured blooms and hand stitching, giving it a country feel.

Layout “Beauty” by Delaina Burns.

Products used: Frosted wild rose, Mascarpone, Fairy Floss, Grandma’s Garden – antique.

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JOANNE BAIN’S soft, feminine layout captures the youthful delight of her daughter and friend. The allure of the Manor House Creations Chiffon flower compliments the feel so beautifully. Jo has colorized the Cutie Pie flowers to match the colour scheme. Her little nest and rose flowers were a handmade gift from a friend.

Layout “Cherish” by Joanne Bain.

Products used: Cutie Pies, Chiffon, small leaves. The Scrap Cake – “My Private Happiness.”

Drop into The Color Room  http://thecolorroom.ning.com/ is see Manor House Creations design team featured and check out the work from the team from The Color Room using Manor House flowers.

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Step by step layout from Melinda

Posted on April 26, 2012 by karenshady67

We have a very special treat for you today. Our talented designer Melinda has created a step by step tutorial, giving us a behind the scenes look at how she goes about creating one of her wonderful layouts.

‘Hello everyone, it’s Melinda here and I am very excited to share with you a very simple Step x Step on how I created this layout for The color room.

Step 1……

 I almost always use a little misting on my backgrounds.  So with this gorgeous rich colour palette I decided to go with some TA Walnut Gold, one of my favourite colours, and just randomly spray around the page.  At about the centre of the page I gave a few good spritz’s in the one area and lifted my page and let some of the mist run down.

Step 2….

 I fussy cut around some flowers on some Hambly transparency and just placed them on the page.

Step 3….

Next I got my chipboard clock along with my distress ink (Antique Linen) and gently dabbed some ink over the chipboard to give it more definition.

Step 4….

I placed my chipboard over the top of my Hambly and then started layering and building up my layout with my papers and flowers.

Step 5….

Often with layering on a layout, it is just a matter of getting the balance right.  I most always work in a triangle. So here you can see that on my triangle corners I will place my flowers so that it surrounds my photo.

Step 6….

More fussy cutting of some Crate Paper to add further interest to my layout. I just kept placing them on until I was happy with the balance.  Once I was happy I added my photo, embellishments and title’.

Products used:  Blossoms (altered), Mascarpone (altered), Christmas Star (altered), Enchanted – little princess (white)

We hope you enjoyed Melindas tutorial, and the wonderful layout she created.

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April Guest Designer – TRUDI HARRISON

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Manor House Creations

We are thrilled to have the amazingly talented Trudi Harrison grace us with her talent this month and as she is also a Design Member of The Scrapcake, she has her very first project to share with us using some of the papers and, of course, some Manor House flowers, on this gorgeous little dressform. Just take a look…

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Hi, Trudi here with a little altered project to share with you all.

It is currently Autumn or ‘Fall’ for our OS friends here at the moment.   The colours of the leaves about my place are glorious and I have taken some colour inspiration from them for my following project.

I have combined patterned papers from The ScrapCake ‘One Moment In Time’ collection with some gorgeous Manor House Creations blooms to come up with this little altered wire dress form.

 Some leaves have been die cut from patterned paper– I used  Spellbinder dies for these.  The leaves were distressed and given a light coating of ‘Diamond Dust’ along with a quick spritz of Tattered Angels Patina Glimmer Mist before being arranged and attached around the top of the skirt.

A bodice was created from patterned papers.

And a corsage has been created from the following Manor House Creations flowers.

The flowers were altered with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists to coordinate

Some Coffee Shop and then a touch of Candy Apple Red for the Wishes Hope bloom.

Yellow blooms from the Taneisha pack were also altered with Coffee Shop.

A sweet Fairy Floss bloom from the mixed pack finishes the back detail off perfectly. Again the bloom was altered with some Coffee Shop and then a touch of Candy Apple Red glimmer mists to coordinate.

Altered Dress Form – ‘Autumn Glory’ by Trudi Harrison

Materials –  Manor House Creations: Wishes – Hope, Taneisha, Fairy Floss Mixed.

The Scrap Cake: One Moment In Time: In My Hands, One Moment In Time: 6 x 6 Paper Pad.

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Lots of prizes to win…..

Posted on April 24, 2012 by karenshady67

Manor House Creations is having its first ever blog hop. It begins Sunday 6th of May at 8am (Australian Eastern Standard time) HERE at the Manor House Creations blog, through until midnight on Tuesday 8th of May. There are 4 fabulous prize packs, chock full of beautiful Manor house creations flowers to be won.

We want to get the word out to as many people as possible, so, as well as these prizes, we are also offering one bonus ‘mystery’ prize for anyone who advertises our blog hop on their blog. (Prize drawn randomly).

           

All you have to do is advertise our blog hop, on your blog, up to 2 weeks prior to the start of the hop to be in the running to win this prize, and leave a link to your post on our blog, or Facebook page. We can’t tell you what the prize is, but we can tell you it contains some gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers :) .

And remember to put the 6th to the 8th of May in your diary, cos you won’t want to miss this one.

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A new Educator – altering flowers.

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Manor House Creations

Hello to you all. Today we have an exciting announcement  – we have a new EDUCATOR Which we are thrilled about!

MELINDA THOMPSON.

Mixed Media

OK, so we know you have already met Melinda before but have you seen her talents with mixed Media??? She is amazing and we here at MHC wanted to make the most of this, so we have asked her to join our Education team and be one of our ‘LADIES OF THE HOUSE’.

So without further ado, here’s Melinda to take over.

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Hi there everyone, its Melinda Thompson here from the Design Team and I am excited to give you a little step x step in altering this gorgeous ‘Mascarpone’ bloom, which I have used in my layout titled Kindy 2011 for Palette 107 at The Color Room.
Step 1….
I have used a couple of different styles of white flowers on my layout but I will show you how I altered the gorgeous new flower….Mascarpone! Love all the twist and turns in these lovely petals, it really makes for an interesting flower!
Step 2….
So to start with I love using some sort of mist as a base and because I am a little addicted to my Shimmerz lately, I decided give the flower a ‘light’ spray with some Heavy Metal Shimmerz.
I was careful only to give a few pumps with the spray as I didn’t want to colour the whole flower.
Step 3…..
Next, I wanted to used some TA Gold Glimmermist to give the flower more of a ‘goldy’ feel to it.
Lift up all the petals making sure you get in underneath.  With the blending of these 2 colours, it gives you a rich caramel colour.
Step 4….
Because this colour palette screamed all things gold and sparkly, I added some Shimmerz Enamelz, Molten Metal. So while the mist was still a little wet, I just got a little of the Enamelz in my fingers and sprinkled over the flower.  Then I tipped the flower over to shake of the excess.
Step 5…..
So once this was dry, it still looked a little dull to me to I grabbed some Shimmerz Pearlz (Sunny) and a fine paint brush and just lightly and randomly went over some of the petals. This put a little more colour back in the flower as well as give it a pearly/shimmery look. I also dug out some good old Kindy Glitz.  I put a little on my finger and just dabbed in on in a few various areas.
The ideas and ways to alter flowers are endless.  The main thing to remember is there is no mistakes and just to have fun…you will be surprised with how they turn out! I hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial.

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