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Some glitz and glamour

Posted on May 23, 2013 by aliciakatebarry

The new Manor House Creations collection is inspired by all the glitz and glamour that is the epitome of the Great Gatbsy era. When I think of the 20′s the first thing that pops into my head is the amazing head pieces that are so typical of the time.

To create this piece, I started with a piece of dyed vintage lace which I hot glued to a flexible headband. I added a strip of the gorgeous new Lavish bling trim from the winter collection along with goose and peacock feathers. Finally I finished off with some very glamorous red razzle blossoms.

MHC supplies used: Lavish bling trim, Peacock feathers: red, ivory. Goose feathers: Roaring 20′s mix, Razzles: red.

There you have it, simple but so effective. Perfect for a party, or for dress ups, or just to feel pretty.

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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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Shabby chic ‘off the page’ with Elena

Posted on March 18, 2013 by karenshady67

Today, we have a stunning, shabby chic, spring inspired creation from ELENA. This beautiful key holder is so so pretty, we love the fresh green tones, with just a touch of Gesso, to give the whole piece a gorgeous shabby feel.

Elena tells us a little about her project ‘When I found these polka dots Maja Design papers, I definitely knew they would be perfect to use with the Mayglo – green flowers

I adhered the papers to the wooden box and started adding the embellishments and flowers. The white Meadows flowers add a lovely soft touch, while the Green Mayglo adds a spring freshness.

I just added a bit of gesso on the flowers and over the papers to maintain the shabby look of this box.’

Shabby key holder by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Mayglo – green, Meadows – white.

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Thanks so much to Elena.

We wish you all a wonderful week, and hope you will join us again, as we have lots of beautiful creations in store for you this week.

Happy crafting

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‘Effortlessly beautiful’ with Karen Shady

Posted on March 8, 2013 by karenshady67

Hi everyone, and a big warm welcome to our blog today.

I have had this frame sitting in my cupboard for a long time, not really knowing what I wanted to do with it. Then I got a new photo of my daughter, that I thought made her look very lady like. She is a farm girl through and through, and these photos of her all dressed up are few and far between, as you can tell by the other 2 photos Ive used, lol, so I made the most of the photo, and created this very feminine, vintage style frame. I am really happy with how it turned out

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I cut up an old vine I had lying around, and adhered some of the gorgeous peach coloured mini roses to it.

The beautiful, soft folds of the ’Ruffles’ flower was the perfect addition here

I inked a white ‘Idyllic’ flower using an apricot coloured spray ink to match the colours in my project

‘Effortlessly beautiful’ Frame by Kaen Shady

MHC Products used: Ruffles – cream, Idyllic – white, mini roses – apricot.

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Thanks eveyone for calling in, we look forward to sharing some more inspiration with you soon

Karen x

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Altered and amazing

Posted on March 1, 2013 by karenshady67

Hi, and welcome to our blog today. You will be so glad you called in, as we have a very special treat for you from the incredibly talented Joanne Bain. Just take a look at these stunning creations

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Joanne shares ”This was one of those fake book type boxes that you can get to hide keys and other valuables in, in you bookcase. Well not anymore…lol. It is now what I call a Vintage Trinket Box.

I scraped a little of the glitter away from the mini roses to make them
a little plainer

I turned the Rue – Watermelon flower inside out and removed the black stamens. This gave me a fuller flower that blended perfectly with the Winters Song blooms.

Vintage trinket box by Joanne Bain

MHC Products used: Winters Song – Fire Glow & Embers, Glitter Mini Roses – red & white, Mini Dahlia – white, Rue – Watermelon & Small light green leaves.

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This second, stunning project began its life as a hanging glass votive or as I would say a hanging glass Tea Light holder. Anyway when I purchased them I knew what I wanted to do with it and that was to make it into a bird nesting ball…lol. So it no longer hangs and is now firmly attached to a candelabra. I wanted to create a shabby icy feel to this one so I white washed lightly a lot of what went onto it.

I have used the feathery Fascinating white bloom as the floor inside the glass ball. I scraped away a lot of the glitter from the Capri flowers, I then painted with gesso to give them a soft wintery feel. I also pulled apart some
of them to make some smaller flowers by scrunching them

I pulled apart the Winter Song Ice Crystals White flower and used only the bottom section and nestled one of the Capri flowers to the centre so it was not quiet so big. I also slightly white washed the blue Dahlias to tone them
down just a little so they would blend nicely with the Winters Song Snowbird bloom.

Tea light holder by Joanne Bain

MHC Products used: Winter Song – Snow Bird & Ice Crystals, Mittens, Ashlee – Blue, Capri – Blue & Silver, Dahlia – Blue & White, Fascinating – White & small leaves.

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An inspiration overload

Posted on February 23, 2013 by karenshady67

Hello everyone, and happy ‘Saturday’ to you all. Today, being the first day of the weekend, we thought we would try to get those creative juices flowing, by giving you an ‘inspiration overload’. We love to see what our fans create, and love to share them will 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 March.

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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This amazing canvas was designed by ELENA. The clever mixed media techniques, along with a stunning collection of Manor House Flowers compliment the beautiful photo of Elena perfectly.

Elena has given the flowers a shabby feel by dabbing them randonly with Gesso.

Canvas by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Springtime - Blue, Mia – White, Ashlee - Blue, Glitter Mini Roses – caramel, Powder Puff – Melon.

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A pretty card perfect for someone special from GWEN

Card by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Glitter mini roses – Pink and Red, Celeste – mixed pack.

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TIFFANY has scrapped this adorable photo of her daughter, and has used such a pretty colour combination here with the blue Ashlee mix, and the watermelon colours in Rue and Powder puff.

Layout by Tiffany Morgan

MHC Products used: Ashlee – Blue, Powder Puff – Citrus, Rue – Watermelon, Springtime – blue, Christmas – Angelic

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Another adorable little face, this time beloning to GWEN’S little girl.

A beautiful colour combination here, which match the papers perfectly.

Gwen has sprayed the white Rue flowers to match her layout.

Layout by Gwen Wruck

MHC Products used: Glitter mini ross – gold, Rue – white, Eternity – white, Romance – devoted.

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ALICIA has created this very pretty, and very clever easle card

Card by Alicia Barry

MHC Products used: Rufles - white, Glitter mini roses - red, Meadows - white.

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Lastly, a gorgeous layout from MELINDA, full of lots of gorgeous mixed media techniques, that Melinda does so well.

Melinda has misted the white Springtime flowers to match her colour scheme.

Layout by Melinda Thompson

MHC Products used: Rue – Watermelon, Wild Orchid – sherbet, Petite Rose – melon, Cutie Pies – orange, Springtime – white (misted)

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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.

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Designer spotlight – Linda Langes

Posted on January 24, 2013 by karenshady67

Today, we have some wonderful creations from the amazingly talented Linda Langes. Linda is one of our card-making specialists.

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Linda tells us a little about her style, and the inspiration behind her gorgeous projects ’I love lots of layers and pretty things – flowers, ribbons, bling,
glitter and swirls to name a few. My projects for this month were created with
a purpose – the “S” box I filled with goodies for my sister who hosted
Christmas this year and the Tussie Mussie I will fill with chocolates for my
daughter for Valentine’s Day. No matter what I create or what techniques I play
with I can’t help but keep things fairly neat and tidy – that’s my “default”
setting, shall we say lol.

‘S box’ Gift box

MHC products used: Fascinating, Solitude, Glitter mini roses.

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I made this cute tussie mussie to fill with chocolates, to give to my daughter for Valentines day

‘Tussie mussie’

MHC Products used: Glitter mini roses, Capri roses, Fascinating, Ruffles, Powder puff – melon & watermelon.

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‘Today is the day’ Card.

Products used: Dahlia – blue, Wild orchid – green, Hayley – yellow.

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Designer spotlight – Heather McMahon

Posted on January 17, 2013 by karenshady67

Hi, and welcome.

Continuing our month long designer spotlight, today, we are featuring some of Heather McMahons lovely work.

Heather shares a little about her style, and about how she goes about creating her wonderful creations.

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I don’t think I have a particular style as I am constantly trying out different techniques and products. If anything, my layouts tend to be textural and often arty. I use a lot of mists, chipboard, haberdashery items and, of course, flowers. I tend to make several layouts in one style as I experiment with it, then discover something else and head down a different path. I love variety and am very focussed on colour.

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I used two full sheets of 12 x 12 paper to make the fan background. I have attached a sheet of chipboard to the back for strength. I incorporated a wire crane from a card I bought In Japan and added trails and “leaves” using a Japanese-style ribbon. I even added small chopsticks.

Above all though, I think the gorgeous Manor House flowers make the page. They’re so elegant and the colours work beautifully.

‘So Jananese’

MHC Products used: Romance – sweetheart champagne, Sublime – aqua & cream, Country lane – green, Blossoms – airlee, leaves.

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I was inspired by the gorgeous colours in the ScrapCake papers for this layout. They created such a wonderful summery feeling and matched Indi’s zinc perfectly!

‘Think zinc’

MHC Products used: Taniesha.

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I love this photo of my mum when she was a girl. She lived on a farm and loved it. Mum’s favourite colour is purple so, even though it’s a colour I don’t use a lot, I decided to make it in purple for her. I’m glad I did as I love the result! I covered wire in florists’ tape then hot glued the Manor House Creations flowers to it. The birds are cut from the Manor House packaging.

Layout ’1951′

MHC Products used: Country lane – purple, Sprinkles – mauve, Blossoms – byron, Cutie pies – mauve, Shimmers – snow, MHC packaging.

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I love these pics of my daughter. She doesn’t like posing for photos but this day she was more than willing as she was showing off her new clothes. It was a bit scary how well she could pose when she wanted to!

Layout ‘Pose’

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Video Class with Tiffany Morgan

Posted on December 30, 2012 by tiffanyspaperdesigns

Today we are going to share a fun project with you from Tiffany Morgan.

One of our talented ‘Lady of the House’ Educators.

We hope you enjoy Tiffany’s video showing how to create a couple gorgeous headbands. You can make these headbands any size and with any of your favorite MHC flowers.

Sit back and watch how to create this headband.

Here is a picture of the other headband.

MHC flowers used: Lotus – Timeless, and Powder Puff – Citrus

We hope you enjoyed TIffany’s video. We hope she has inspired you to have a go at creating your own gorgeous headbands.

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Gift ideas to inspire

Posted on December 29, 2012 by karenshady67

Well, Christmas is over for yet another year, but, if you are like me, it just seems to come around again way too fast. I have grand plans of making hand made cards and gifts for all my family members,but, time always runs out, and I never end up doing half of what I planned to do. So, my plan is to start now, surely if I start in January, I can get them finished by December right?. So, here are just a few more wonderful ideas from our design team girls, both for Christmas, and other occasions, in the hopes that I can get myself, and you guys motivated to start creating some beautiful handmade cards,and gifts, all ready for next year.

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Karola truly is a genius when it comes to making stunning tags. And, its not too late to create some of these adorable tags, designed the welcome in the new year.

Tag by Karola Witzcak

MHC Products used: Christmas star.

Tag by Karola Witzcak

MHC Products used: Capri – blue

Card by Karloa Witzcak

MHC Products used: Capri – blue

Card by Karloa Witzcak

MHC Products used: Capri – blue, Glitter roses – white.

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Next, are 2 lovely gift ideas from Nancy. First, a lovely picture frame, perfect for a special little girl

Baby frame by Nancy Winter

MHC Products used: Mayglo – pink, Iris – green, Springtime – lavender

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And then this oh so pretty baby card, also from Nancy

Card by Nancy Winter

MHC Products used: Mayglo – pink, Iris – green

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And, lastly, we have a truly beautiful Christmas wreath to share with you, created by the amazingly talented Elena Olinevich. This wreath is a masterpiece,

Elena shares some of her tips for making this wonderful wreath, ‘ I covered the wreath by wrapping some linen around a chipboard shape, I made some canvas bows, and gessoed randomly over them. I also misted the wreath with some starbust mist, which has added a pretty shimmer to it. I finished off by adding some festive, silver balls.’

Christmas wreath by Elena Olinevich

MHC Products used: Christmas star – Snow, Ashlee- Blue, Ashlee – White, Solitude

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Manorhouse Creations

Category Archives: Off the page projects

Some glitz and glamour

Winter Collection gone shabby…

Shabby chic ‘off the page’ with Elena

‘Effortlessly beautiful’ with Karen Shady

Altered and amazing

An inspiration overload

Designer spotlight – Linda Langes

Designer spotlight – Heather McMahon

Video Class with Tiffany Morgan

Gift ideas to inspire

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