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Guest designer – Lori Williams plus TUTORIAL

Posted on May 16, 2013 by karenshady67

It is with great pleasure that we welcome the incredibly talented LORI WILLIAMS as our Guest designer.

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I’m a happy, fun loving, Southern girl who lives in the Western North Carolina USA, mountains. I have two beautiful little boys who keep me running, they are 7 and 12. Cole is my younger and he’s Mr Energy. Will is my older son and he is disabled. Getting out of the house with him is a bit more challenging for me so I’m so blessed to be able to share my art with the world yet be at home with him. I live right next door to my best friend and sister, who also is a paper artist. We certainly are a dangerous pair at scrapbook expos. I have always participated in the arts in one form or the other, starting with pottery, then receiving my college degree in Jewellery/ Metal Production crafts and finally crossing over into paper after the birth of my first son. Art is my form of therapy and is an addiction that I love to share with others. I would describe my style as clean yet detailed. I love layers and have a great eye for colour and balance. I also love to bring a bit of metal into most of my work, hard to let my past not sneak into my projects.

Please feel free to check out more of my work at the following locations: Blog www.pinkcloudscrappers.blogspot.com, Pinterest : http://pinterest.com/pinkcloudscraps/lori-williams-work/

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Lori has very generously provided us with a step by step tutorial on how she has created the gorgeous ’Shadow box card’ above.

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We would like to thank Lori for joining us as our guest designer, and for sharing some of her wonderful work with us. Be sure to call in to her blog, for some more wonderful inspiration.

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Winter Collection gone shabby…

Posted on May 14, 2013 by karenshady67

We know you are going to be as excited about our gorgeous new collection as we are. Not only do we have the stunning glitz and glamour of the roaring 20′s, but we also have soft dreamy creams, pastels and lace, just perfect for beautiful shabby chic creations.

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Karen has used a mix of soft pastels and cream, along with the stunning pink Camelia flower for a blast of colour.

Notice how perfectly our flowers match this paper collection

Layout by Karen Shady

MHC Products used: Camelia – pink, Gelato – cherry, Teeny weenies - cream.

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Elena has made a stunning dress hanger. It really doesn’t get much prettier than this

Altered dress hanger by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Vine – dark pink, Apple blossoms, Shades – cream and fuchsia, Romance – white, Ruffles – pink.

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The stunning white flower vine, along with some pretty pink and white blooms, sets the scene perfectly for this delightful photo of Alicia’s daughter.

The ‘Sweeties’ shown here in white, are the perfect sized filler flowers.

Layout by Alicia Barry

MHC Products used: Vine – white, Sunflowers - white, Little Sweeties - white, pink, Teeny Weenies - white.

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This delightful bird house was created by Trudi Harrison, our amazingly talented educator. This beautiful creation would take pride of place in anyone’s home.

Trudi has used a blend of new flowers, and older flowers for this piece.

Altered bird house by Trudi Harrison

MHC Products used: Glitter Roses – pink, Glitter Roses – white, Glitter Roses – gold, Celeste – Pink, Fascinating, Starlight – , Solitude – white, Princess Party Pack.

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And lastly, the newest member of our Manor House Creations family, Beck Beattie, with a gorgeous cream and brown layout, featuring a beautiful photo of her, with her Dad on her wedding day

Beck, again has used a mix of brand new flowers, along with the elegant Shimmers flower.

We love how Beck has used the teeny weenie flowers to form a circle on her layout, and again below, to create a border.

Layout by Beck Beattie

MHC Products used: Sunflowers – white, Teeny weenie’s – cream, Shimmers – snow.

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Pretty in pink with Nancy Winter

Posted on May 5, 2013 by karenshady67

Hello everyone, and happy Sunday to you all. Today, we have some beautiful layouts to share with you from the very talented Nancy Winter. Nancy has such a soft, pretty, shabby chic, feminine style, and these layouts depict

that style at its best. Look closely at all the beautiful details within both these works.

The large feature bloom is called Fantasy – Moonlight. It was originally white but it has been sprayed with a watered down solution of paint.

MHC Products used: Idyllic – Plum, Imagine – Berry, Fantasy – moonlight.

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More beautiful details here, with this lovely layout Nancy made for a good friend.

This is actually a tri fold layout, which opens up, to reveal these two extra pages.

Nancy has added a little glitter to the petals to match the Capri roses.

MHC Products used: Royalty Mix – pink & Maroon, Capri Roses – Aqua & Orchid, idyllic – plum.

Australian retreat 2013

Posted on May 2, 2013 by karenshady67

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An inspiration overload

Posted on April 28, 2013 by karenshady67

Hello everyone, and happy ‘Sunday’ to you all , we thought we would try to get those creative juices flowing, by giving you an ‘inspiration overload’ from our amazing design team ladies. We also love to see what our fans create, and love to share them with everyone in our monthly ‘You’ve been spotted’ segment. So get creating, and email your projects in to us, for a chance to be one of our featured artists for May.

Our design girls are second to none, as Im sure you will agree. They really have outdone themselves this time, just take a look below.

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Alicia designed this floral beauty, featuring a very happy little girl on Eaaster morning

Layout by Alicia Barry

MHC Products used: Lotus: Divine Beauty, Capri glitter roses, Party mix blossoms, Whimsy - grape, Whimsy - cream, Imagine - berry pink, Imagine – light blue, Mia – green.

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A lovely elegant layout from Joanne. The white springtime and cream ruffles blooms are striking used with the stripes and polkadots on this layout.

Layout by Joanne Bain

MHC Products used: Springtime – White & Ruffles.

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Lots of dimension, and pretty details on this piece by Nancy.

Just look at all the work gone into this stitched border, but, it was well worth the effort.

Layout by Nancy Winter

MHC Products used: Glitter mini roses, Imagine – berry pink.

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This striking combination of colour is perect for this gorgeous photo of Heathers teenage daughter.

This layout was created for Scrapbooking Memories magazine, where Heather is currently working as a Scrapbooking Memories Master. She was asked to complete a layout featuring older style pepars in her stash. The gorgeous black ‘Party time’ flower, helps to modernize her layout, and give it a funky look, perfect for the cool photo of her daughter.

MHC Procuct used: Party time – white (sprayed black)

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Do puppies come any cuter than this one?. Meet ‘Paris’, she is the fur baby of Nancy Winter, all dressed up in her ballerina finery.

Nancy has used the same, gorgeous, and very effective stitching technique as in her layout above, and doesnt it make a striking border?

MHC Products used: Mini glitter roses, Apple blossoms, Imagine – berry pink

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So, are you still with us, or have you all rushed off to your craft space full of inspiration after seeing this gorgeous post. If you are still here, enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Happy Crafting

The team at Manor House Creations

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You’ve been spotted

Posted on April 23, 2013 by karenshady67

Hello, and welcome to our blog today.

Once again, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of amazing talent out there. We have had our spies out again, but its getting harder and harder to choose which projects to feature, as they are all so wonderful, we wish we could show all of them, but unfortunately, thats just not possible. But we do have alot to show you today, just take a look at these.

Layout by Adrienne Ford

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Layout by Hilary Nicholas

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Layout by Amy Voorthuis

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Layout by Dana Tatar

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Layout by Sandrine Dawes

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Layout by Keren Tamir

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Layout by Brit Sviggum

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Layout by Camilla Ekman

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Layout by Larissa Albernaz

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We would like to thank these talented artists for allowing us to share their beautiful work with you. and please take a minute to visit their blogs for even more detail and inspiration.

If you would like us to feature your work here on our blog, please forward your layouts to

designteam@manorhousecreations.com

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Cards to inspire

Posted on April 21, 2013 by karenshady67

Hi eveyone, yay, its the weekend, and hopefully, time for some much needed crafting time out for lots of you. We have a gorgeous post today, full of wonderfully creative card ideas from our talented designers.

Card by Linda Langes

MHC Products used: Fascinating – pink, Springtime – lavender.

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Card by Tiffany Morgan

MHC Products used: Glitter mini roses – White, Apple Blossoms – White.

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Gwen has simply layers several blossoms together, and secured them with a brad in the centre.

Cards by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Blossoms – aqua

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Card by Linda Langes

MHC Products used: Wild Orchid – Green, Wild Rose – Sherbet , MHC leaves.

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Card by Tiffany Morgan

MHC Products used: Rue – White

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Thanks for joining us today, and Happy Crafting

The team at Manor House Creations

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A flower of a different colour

Posted on April 7, 2013 by karenshady67

Are you ready to take an inspiring trip through our Manor House garden today. Our designers have once again created some stunning pieces to share with you.

MHC have a huge variety of flowers, in just about every colour imaginable, but, even with so many to choose from, sometimes, you will find that you just dont have that ‘perfect’ coloured flower that you need. So, we thought we would show you just how easy it is to alter our flowers, ever so slightly, and very easily, to match any project, and any colour imaginable.

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Firtly, Gwen has created a beautiful, heartfelt card, suitable for any occasion, and perfect for someone special. The pretty blooms frame the sentiment perfectly.

All our flowers take up ink so well, as you can see here, where Gwen has used Glimmer Glam to change the white ‘Ashlee’ bloom an impressive aqua colour. Notice how the blue edges of the Ashlee flower have given the flower a pretty, almost purple edge.

Card by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Ashlee -white (glimmer glam added), Mayglo – pink, Meadow – white.

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Karen is next, with a pair of pretty, shabby chic tags, made using the gorgeous Taniesha flowers. These flower sprays are just the perfect size for tags and cards.

Karen has used just a little Gesso on the edge of the petals on both the yellow, and mauve Taniesha flowers, to give them a more ‘shabby’ look.

Tags by Karen Shady

MHC Products used: Taniesha mixed pack

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Another beautiful, shabby card from Elena.

Elena had added just a hint of brown ink to the edge of the petals, to grunge them up a little, to better suit her card

Card by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Celeste – Pink, Mini glitter roses – pink.

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We love these 2 adorably cute layouts by Nancy. Starring her 2 gorgeous babies.

Nancy has used blue paint to alter the white flowers to match her layout. She simply put a small amount of blue paint into a spray bottle, and watered it down. Nancy said she was very pleasantly surprised at how well the paint took to the flowers. This is a very inexpensive alternative to buying ready made spray inks.

Layouts by Nancy Winter

MHC Products used: Poetry – bronze, Apple blossom – altered, Imagine – cocoa, Poetry – sage

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And, lastly, another beautiful mixed media layout by Elena. Elena is the queen of mixed media, and on this layout she has used lots of awesome paints and inks to completely change the look of her flowers.

Elena has been very inventive here. She has removed the centres of some of the flowers, and added them as the centre of others, giving a pretty 2 toned look to the flowers.

Layout by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Celeste – white, Ashlee – white, Mia – green, Meadows- white.

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We hope our post has inspired you to have a go at altering some flowers for yourself. You can see the gorgeous results.

Happy crafting

The team at Manor House Creations

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Designer Inspiration

Posted on April 4, 2013 by karenshady67

Our designers were given free reign, to create whatever they wanted, using whichever flowers and goodies they liked. They let their creative juices flow, and have come up with some stunning creations to share with you today.

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Firstly, Heather, with a bold, and beautiful layout, about a cute little friend

Heather shares a little about her layout, ‘I had a lot of fun with flowers and Dylusions sprays in this one. The two flowers on the left are their original colour while I sprayed the flower on the right turquoise to co-ordinate it with the sprays of ink. Spraying flowers to co-ordinate with your layouts opens up so many more options when designing a page. Dylusions tend to completely change the colour of the flower whereas other sprays will sometimes let some of the original colour show through which can produce beautiful results.’

Layout by Heather McMahon

MHC Products used: Mayglo – yellow, Imagine – cocoa, Hayley – white (sprayed with Dylusions)

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Next, Karola has created this oh so pretty decorated egg. Wouldnt this make a wonderful Easter gift for someone special. A little late for this year, but, you have plently of time to get creating, and stock up for next year.

Altered egg by Karola Witzcak

MHC Products used: Celeste – pink, Hayley – yellow, Dahlia mini – blue.

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The beautiful blue and gold colour scheme of Gwen’s ‘Fiji time’ layout, is the perfect colour choice for her beachy, holiday photos.

Layout by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Ashlee – white (Glimmer glam added), Springtime – blue, Powder puff (brad added), Wishes – serenity.

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Heather has created this very clever and striking layout, telling what happens in a typical day in her life

‘I wanted to do a layout about my typical day. I needed to incorporate a large number of photos so I started playing around with chipboard frames and assembled them in a grid pattern. Continuing with the chipboard theme I took some chipboard flourishes, decorated them with paint and liquid pearls then tucked them around my flower clusters. I thought the Manor House flowers worked perfectly to help frame the whole layout and to soften the grid pattern’.

Layout by Heather McMahon

MHC Products used: Darling – pink, Imagine – blueberry, Country lane – quaint.

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Let’s go off the page

Posted on March 29, 2013 by karenshady67

Welcome once again everyone! A feast for your eyes today with some varied and amazing projects – inspiration is just bursting from our team lately!

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This pretty quote book, created by Gwen, holds all her favourite Bible verses.

’This is an acrylic album Gwen created for display in my her craft room, it has some of my her favourite bible verse in it, things she likes to remind herself of.’

Quote book by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Springtime – white, Celeste – white and Pink, PT Blossoms, Celeste – Pink, Ruffles – muted mix, Hayley – Yellow.

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What child wouldnt love to have this gorgeous hat to help celebrate their next birthday party.

Party hat by Alicia Barry

MHC Products used: Rue – white, Springtime – white.

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We love the soft, delicate style of this stunning configuration box from Tiffany.

Configuration box by Tiffany Morgan

MHC Products used: Dahlia – White, Ashlee – Blue, Springtime – Blue.

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Next, Nancy has designed this stunning, tropical styled mini book.

Nancy says ‘ I have created an abundance of Tropical style blooms with the versatile MHC flowers. Using ink to change the colours to match the page and photos exactly was really simple to do and a little bit of Tim Holtz Stickles around the edges of the flower creations.’

Album by Nancy Winter

MHC Products used: Dahlia – green, Mia – white, Mayglo – green.

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Next, a goreous shabby distressed card from Elena

Elena has used some mists and inks to distress the flowers

Card by Elena Olenevich

MHC Products used: Dahlia Mini – white, Imagine – Blueberry, Sublime – Cream.

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And, lastly, this totally adorable canvas, created by the imensely talented Trudi Harrison

Paris dusk Canvas by Trudi HarrisonRed

MHC Products used: Glitter roses – red, Imagine – berry pink, Im agine – oatmeal.

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We hope your Easter is filled with love, peace and happiness. Enjoy your time with your family and friends.

The team at Manor House Creations

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Guest designer – Lori Williams plus TUTORIAL

Winter Collection gone shabby…

Pretty in pink with Nancy Winter

Australian retreat 2013

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