Manorhouse Creations

A Special Keepsake

jenioc — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:47 +0000

Wendy Smith http://www.my-head-space.blogspot one of our recent guest designers from Anna’s Craft Cupboard sent us this truly stunning multi-photo frame.

Wendy created the frame following a challenge from WOW (Words or Whatever) co-ordinator Sandra Staples. Wendy explains, “ I decided that I wanted to make a romantic piece that would co-ordinate with the colours and feel of our bedroom. I kind of have a shabby chic, red and white bedroom, with ornate mirrors, white bedhead and side tables and red and white decorative objects. I thought that doing a shadow box frame with photos of dh and it would then be able to be used a nice centre piece on our book shelf. “

We think Wendy wins the challenge!

Decorative Photo Frame by Wendy Smith

”The MHC flowers were perfect. I misted a couple to co-ordinate, but otherwise, they were perfect!”

Products: Romance – Sweetheart, Nikita (misted), Marguerite, Christmas Star (misted).

Thanks Wendy for your gorgeous display using Manor House flowers. I bet it looks stunning in your room.

What a fabulous keepsake to treasure.

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If you’ve got something special you created using Manor House Creations products, we’d love to see it.

DT inspiration

Manor House Creations — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:01:21 +0000

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.

DELAINA has combined the Scrapcake papers along with some MHC Party lights and Sprinkles, and come up with this delightfully bright and happy layout, which compliments this adorable photo perfectly

‘Be happy’ Layout by Delaina Burns

Products used: MHC flowers, Party lights- mixed pack, Sprinkles-candles.

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Next, MORAG has created this colourful, yet pretty layout.

Layout by Morag Cutts.

Products used: MHC flowers, Enchanted – Sweet dreams, Sprinkles.

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Our talented MONIKA has made a lovely card

Card by Monika Martinson.

Products used: MHC flowers, Sprinkles.

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And another layout from MORAG, this time using some of our BLOSSOMS – Party mix – gorgeous bright colours and she has layered and curled them – great idea!

‘Remember’ Layout by Morag Cutts.

Products used: MHC flowers, Party lights, Blossoms-party mix, Sprinkles-pink, The Scrapcake-My private Happiness papers.

Doesn’t all this inspiration just make you feel fresh and ready for Spring?!

MHC at the EXPO!

Manor House Creations — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:32:37 +0000

Yes, you heard right! We are thrilled to announce that Manor House Creations will have a stand at the Brisbane Papercraft Convention & Scrapbooking Expo.

We are excited to be going, and lots has been happening in preparation in the past months. And because this expo is open to the public, you will be able to purchase our flower packs at a discounted price for the 3 days!

We will have SHOW SPECIALS, lots of DT and GDT work on display, and here’s just a few names:

KAROLA WITCZAK

STEPH DEVLIN

TRUDI HARRISON

and……

OUR NEW WINTER FLOWERS!

Yes, that’s right! Our new Winter collection 2012 will be available exclusively to anyone attending the show. Even the shops won’t have them yet! So here’s an excellent opportunity to get in first and SAVE!

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WHERE WILL WE BE?

STAND 24

Right up the front!

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We can’t wait to see you there! Come and meet some of Design Team girls.

Manor House and Flying Unicorn Flower Fantasy- Week 3

jenioc — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:02 +0000

We’re here again to celebrate May, the month of flowers. We want to spread some floral beauty around the world. Throughout May we’re sponsoring the team at Flying Unicorn in their Flower Fantasy celebrations.

http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html

From the Flying Unicorn, “The Flying Unicorn is a US based online scrapbook store and kit club that not only carries many of the products you know and love, but also specializes in one of a kind, hard to find papers and products.”

“Manor House has joined with The Flying Unicorn to host a Flower Fantasy during the entire month of May and each week we’ll be posting a challenge in the Flying Unicorn Forums featuring flowers, lots of flowers! Our creative team and the Manor House creative team will share example projects to inspire your creativity and get you going on the challenges. Every week a winner will be randomly selected from the challenge entries to win a RAK of Manor House flowers! How cool is that?”

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This is week 3 of the Flower Fantasy celebrations over at Flying Unicorn and this week is all about stepping beyond the boundries of the scrapbooking pages into the realm of altered art and crafts.

Melinda Thompson has created this sensational “Inspirational canvas” using texture paste, shimmerz products, and an assortment of Manor House Creations flowers and leaves. It’s the perfect accompaniment to any scrap room.

Canvas by Melinda Thompson

Products: Enchanted -Sweet Dreams, Country Lane, Oak leaves.

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Tammy Henderson, one of the Creative Team designers at the Flying Unicorn altered this sweet little box using a variety of Manor House blooms. It’s ready to be filled with treasures.

Tammy says, “I love Manor house flowers, there are many different styles and a array of colors to choose from! One of my favorites to use are the “Cutie pies,” they are the perfect little touch! I also love the fact that when I use them, a donation is made for World Vision for the children. Super fun flowers to work with on any project and a wonderful cause to support!”

Products: Sprinkles-blue and pink, Cutie pies- lime, Fairy floss- lemon, Plain Janes. The Scrap Cake- My Private Happiness

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ALDA STEVENS, the owner of Flying Unicorn has created this absolutely stunning wheel barrow filled with Manor House flowers. Here’s what Alda had to say about her project,

“From Spring planting in the Northern Hemisphere to harvesting in the Southern, a wheel barrow of blooms will bring a smile to anyone. A perfect way to send off that RAK of Manor House blooms to a friend, with some tea and chocolate nestled inside. A little note, and hidden in one of the package seeds is a gift card.”

What a wonderfully shabby, vintage look this has Alda!

Products: Marguerite – Floral Mix, Country Lane : Pretty & Quaint, Fairy Floss- Mixed, Grandma’s Garden

The Scrap Cake- One Moment in Time

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Drop into the Flying Unicorn here http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html to see Melinda featured and the incredible work from their fabulous Creative Team. If you join in the challenges, you could win one of the Manor House Creations prize packages.

BLOG HOP WINNERS!

Manor House Creations — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:58:49 +0000

Hi everyone – we hope all the Mums had a special day and at the very least felt appreciated!

Ok, so we had a few little hiccups along the way with the hop, so we thankyou for your patience (including waiting for the winners to be announced – it took us a while to check everyone’s entry) and some truly wonderful comments, but now is the exciting time to announce the winners….

ITS CONGRATULATIONS TO:

WENDY SMITH

DANA TATAR

LINDA EGGLETON

STACEY APPS

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And the winner of the ‘mystery’ prize, for advertising our blog hop goes to

LAUREN TOMECEK

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Ladies – please send us your postal details and we’ll get your prizes off to you to enjoy.

THANKYOU to everyone who played along. We hope you enjoyed the inspiration.

Design team colour inspiration

Manor House Creations — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:46:31 +0000

Hello everyone,

Thanks for calling in. Our designers were asked to create a project using the colours Apricot, blue, brown and green. As this scheme sounded a little hard to me, I was absolutely blown away by the amazing layouts our talented ladies have created.

Just take a look at this gorgeous creation from Jeni

‘What a wonderful world’ Layout by Jeni O Connor

Products used: Sugar & Spice, Shimmers, Ballroom – Waltz, The Tropics – By the pool, Nikita, Frangrance, Angelic.

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And now, Melinda’s floral masterpiece

“Our time together’ layout by Melinda Thompson

Products Used: Nikita, Christmas – Angelic, Sprinkles – Candle, Oak Leaves, Light Green Leaves, Grandmas Garden – Warmth.

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Finally, this lovely layout from Monika.

‘Vatten’ layout by Monika Martinson

Products used: Finesse, Shimmers.

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Step x step ‘Rose buds’ by Karen

Manor House Creations — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:14:35 +0000

Hello everyone,

Its Karen here today to share with you a quick and easy little idea I had to make your own rose buds. I have used the ‘Frosty wild rose’ for my card, but you are able to adapt this technique to any of the larger MHC flowers.

Step 1. Using wire cutters, trim the wire from the back of the flower. Remove the bottom 2 layers from the wild rose flower, keeping the 2 stuck together ( be careful so as not to tear it)

Step 2. Cut the flower in half

Step 3. Run a fine line of liquid glue along the bottom edge of the flower

Step 4. Roll the flower up, like a cone, as shown below, and set aside to dry.

Step 5. Cut a small piece of gypsophilia from the Frosty wild rose stem. Add a small amount of liquid glue to the centre of your rose bud, and add the gypsophilia to the centre of the bud.

Thanks for calling in, and I hope you enjoyed my little step by step ‘Rose buds’

Karen xx

Manor House and The Scrapbooking Hut

jenioc — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:41:58 +0000

Here at Manor House we love to promote our relationships with our retailers. We also love to hear the wonderful feedback they get from their customers who buy Manor House Creations products.

The Scrapbooking Hut is one of our retail friends. http://www.thescrapbookinghut.com.au They have a fabulous supply of Manor House Creations flowers for you choose from.

Di Landers the owner of The Scrapbooking Hut in Wagga Wagga, NSW is this month’s guest designer for May for the Australian challenge site Sketches with a Twist. http://sketcheswithatwist.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/scrapbooking-hut-manor-house-flowers.html#comment-form

The monthly promotion she chose for their blog site is Manor House Creations. Di says, “…as I am totally wrapt in your flowers – they are gorgeous and when asked what product I would like to promote – I didn’t hesitate…”

And here’s this weeks winning entry using MHC flowers:

Layout by Georgia Heald.

Using: Fairy Floss lemon, Blossoms.

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Thanks to Di Landers and her support of Manor House Creations. You can check out her shop here. http://www.thescrapbookinghut.com.au

Manor House sponsors Flying Unicorn- Flower Fantasy Week 2

jenioc — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:01:45 +0000

We’re here again to celebrate May, the month of flowers. It’s also the month for Mums/ Moms. What nicer gift is there than to give some stunning flowers.

Throughout May we’re sponsoring the team at Flying Unicorn in their Flower Fantasy celebrations.

http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html

LINDA LANGES is Manor House Creations’ representative and Flying Unicorn’s guest this week.
This week the challenge at Flying Unicorn is cards. We have an incredible selection to show from the combined talents of Manor House and Flying unicorn.

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Our first card is from Linda. She has created this beautiful card using MHC delicious Meringue flower. She’s also incorporated The Scrap Cake’s, “One Moment in Time” soft flourishes to provide a beautiful setting.

Card by Linda Langes

Products used: Meringue, The Scrap Cake pp- One Moment in Time

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Here’s another fabulous one from Linda. I love the shaped design of this and the sweet banner ribbons.

Card by Linda Langes

Products used: Sprinkles- lime, Country Lane. The Scrap Cake pp: The Bright Side of Life

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Denise Jensen one of our guests this week, from Flying Unicorn Creative Team has made this truly amazing “flower pot “card. Denise’s card was created from a template at http://itzuvit.blogspot.com/2009/11/flower-pot-shaped-card.html. Just look at this stunning array of blooms!

You can see Denise’s blog here. http://vintagescrappin.blogspot.ca/

Card by Denise Jensen

The tag insert lifts out to reveal your personal message. Isn’t that a wonderful design element?

Products: Tropics Islander- Meringue, Country Lane, Sprinkles - Lime and Pink, Sugar and Spice, Party Time- Frosting, Tropics Islander- painted with Glimmer Glam (it was white)

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Laura Gilhuly, also a Flying Unicorn Designer guest has created two lovely cards in beautiful contrasting palettes. Firstly, a gorgeous card for any occasion using pp from The Scrap Cake’s “My Private Happiness” collection, highlighting the Spring pinks and greens. Laura says. “I punched a line and then cut and glued each piece on the card. I also fussy cut the two scalloped circles out of “The Scrap Cake” paper.

Laura can be found http://angelbearscraps.blogspot.ca/

Card by Laura Gilhuly

Products: Sprinkles – pink, Shimmers – blue ice

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Our last card for our fabulous display is a sweet birthday card from Laura in the subtle purple and blue tones. Laura’s says her “… second card is made from 7 Dots paper which matched perfectly with the beautiful Manor House flowers. I punched the bottom edge of the card to add some drama and added a few gems.” The swirly shape was cut using her Cricut.

Laura has blended a fabulous mix of Manor House Creations flowers to make a precious card for a lucky birthday girl.

Card by Laura Gilhuly

Products: Shimmers – snow, Country Lane – charm, Sprinkles.

Thanks to the wonderfully talented team at Flying Unicorn for their fabulous creations. Drop in here http://flyingunicornforums.com/photos.html to see Manor House’s Linda Langes featured and join in this week’s card challenge.

A pretty frame for Mum by Morag.

Manor House Creations — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:31:42 +0000

Hello again! Hope you enjoying the blog hop and if you’re not participating, well jump onboard because there’s 4 chances to win major prizes plus random prizes as well along the way!

Meanwhile, we have a beautiful frame to share with you made by the lovely MORAG CUTTS. She has used some of our prettiest flowers from both the Autumn & Summer collections as well as some of the new ScrapCake papers. Take a look…..

This photo features the stunning ‘Party Lights’ blue flower – so sparkly but also pretty.

She’s added some bling to the ‘FROSTING’ blue flower & also to the ’TANEISHA’ flowers – subtle but very pretty. This photo also shows one of our most popular flowers ever – The Grandma’s garden ‘PINK LACE’.

Notice the bling also on the fussy-cut butterfly.

Products used: Taneisha, Party time – Frosting, Party Lights, Grandma’s Garden – Pink Lace, The ScrapCake: My Private Happiness papers.

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Who wouldn’t love this as a special gift? Thankyou Morag for your inspiration.