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Christmas card showcase – WIN

Posted on November 3, 2012 by karenshady67

Well, as promised, we are back with some more wonderful Christmas card creations from our talented design team. And, dont forget to get your cards in to us by midnight on Friday November 30th, 2012, for your chance to win this wonderful prize . Send your entries along to inquiries@manorhousecreations.com and we will showcase them here on our blog.

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THE PRIZE:

Card-making flowers, of course! 6 packs each for 2 very creative card-makers.

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Here a a few more, wonderful examples of how to use our gorgeous ‘Christmas release’ flowers

Elena has dabbed a little gold acrylic paint on the flowers, for a more festive look

Card by Elena Olinevich

MHC products used:  Capri Roses, Poetry –  Sage, Idyllic – Burgundy.

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Another lovely festive card from Elena, this time, she has very cleverly used some scraps of acrylic, to create this gorgeous, clear card

Card by Elena Olinevich

MHC products used: Capri roses – gold

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Next, Joanne with another beautiful, traditional style Christmas card

Our new glitter roses are the perfect size for card makers

Card by Joanne Bain

MHC Products used: Glitter roses – red.

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This adorable card was made by the talented Erin Blegen

Card by Erin Blegen

MHC Products used: Iris – green, Meadows – white, Capri – gold, Glitter mini roses – white.

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And lastly, another beautiful, vintage style card from Tiffany

Tiffany has sprayed the green Mayglo flowers with brown ink, just leaving the green around the edges of the flower

Card by Tiffany Morgan

MHC Products used: Mayglo – green, Royalty mix

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We hope we have inspired you to have a go at creating you own Christmas cards this year. We will be back again in a few more days with some more inspiration from our DT girls. And believe me, you wont want to miss it.

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Ending October in style

Posted on October 30, 2012 by karenshady67

Today, we have  a little something for everyone, from pretty pink and soft pastels, beautiful shabby chic creations, to rustic browns, and blues, in a gorgeous masculine layout from Tiffany.

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This first, pretty in pink layout was created by the very talented Trudi Harrison. Combining an array of soft pink flowers, with the adorable images in the ‘Sweet Childhood’ paper collection from The Scrapcake.

‘This and that’ Layout by Trudi Harrison

Manor House Creations: Idyllic – Pink, Petite Roses – Marshmellow, Winters Song, Sprinkles – Cupcakes, Party Mix – Blossoms

The ScrapCake: Sweet Childhood Collection – A Child’s Love, Come n Play, Oh So Cute, Sweet Innocence, Die Cuts

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Karen to has chosen some beautiful pink flowers for her shabby chic layout of her and her girlfriend.

Karen has given a more vintage shabby look to the flowers, by simply swiping the edges of the petals with some distress ink (antique linen).

‘Friends’ Layout by Karen Shady

MHC product used: Idyllic – pink, Idyllic – plum, Idyllic – white.

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Tiffany has made this gorgeous, masculine layout, featuring some stunning flowers from our ‘Winter collection’

Tiffany has inked some of the flowers, giving them a rich brown colour, while she has used white gesso on others, giving them a gorgeous rustic feel.

‘My handsome little boy’ Layout by Tiffany Morgan

MHC products used: Sublime – aqua, Poetry – white, Idyllic – oatmeal, Romance – devoted, Imagine – cocoa

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Elena, has created this beautiful layout titled ‘Waiting’ featuring a lovely photo of her just 2 weeks before the birth of her son.

‘Waiting’ Layout by Elina Olinevich

MHC products used: Springtime – Lavender, Mayglo – Green, Mia – White.

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Next, this wonderful layout from Erin

This layout is not only stunning to look at, the journalling is wonderful, and after all, isnt that what scrapbooking is all about.

‘Anyway’ Layout by Erin Blegen

MHC products used: Mayglo – pink, Iris – sherbet, Celeste – pink, Meadows – white, Springtime – lavender.

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Lastly, this beautiful altered book centre piece again from Tiffany Morgan

Tiffany is the queen of shabby chic creations, and isnt this just stunning

‘Altered books’ from Tiffany Morgan

MHC products used:  Meadows - white, Celeste – white, Springtime – lavender

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A flower fest

Posted on October 14, 2012 by karenshady67

Hello, and welcome to our blog on this lovely Sunday morning.

Today, our talented designers have put together a wondeful display of layouts, featuring our gorgeous flowers, combined with The ScrapCake papers.

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Erin Blegen  has created this adorable layout, using the delightful new paper collection from The ScrapCake called ‘Sweet Childhood’, designed by or very own Karola Witczak.

Erin has sprayed the white ‘darling’ flowers a gorgeous orange to match her layout. Our paper flowers take colour amazingly well, and looking at them, once sprayed, you wouldnt even know they had been inked.

‘Happy Birthday’ Layout by Erin Blegen

MHC flowers used: Petite roses – soft pink, Romance – devoted, Darling, Solitude. The Scrap Cake papers: Sweet Childhood.

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Karola has created this adorable little frame, which holds a cute photo of her daughter.

Karola shares a little about her gorgeous frame. ‘I found a beautiful, small and inexpensive pink frame and decided to alter it a little bit. I began with one of The ScrapCake cards , and simply cut out the hole and put the photo of my Rose in the middle. I added a selection of stunning Manor House Creations flowers, and a fussy cut kite also from the paper collection, and created this cute, girly frame’.

‘Oh so cute’ Frame by Karola Witczak

MHC flowers used:  Wishes – Hope peach, Sublime – Cream, Apple Blossoms.

The Scrap Cake papers: Sweet Childhood.

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And, lastly, Gwen, has scrapped an equally adorable photo of her and her daughter.

Gwens layering is wonderful

‘Dream come true’ Layout by Gwen Wruck

MHC flowers: Beauty, Darling, Whimsy – Cream.

The Scrap Cake papers: Summer City.

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Thankyou for calling in today. We hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

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Designer inspiration

Posted on October 8, 2012 by karenshady67

We have a bit of a mixed batch of creations today, from a few of our very talented designers. But I’m sure you will agree, that each one is a masterpiece in its own right, and we are very pleased to share them with you today.

Firstly, this delightfully bold and beautiful creation from Joanne.

Joanne has misted the cream roses with Licorice ShimmerZ & Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist to create contrasting coloured roses for her page.

‘Wonder’ Layout by Joanne Bain

MHC Products used:  Jubilee – Ornate Orange, Petite Roses – Mauve & Cream ( altered with spray mist)

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Elena is amazingly talented with mixed media type products, as you can see below

 Elena shares a little of how she went about creating her canvas.

‘The canvas was a great opportunity for me to try painting, misting, stamping, embossing, adding modeling paste, again misting and so on.

I have misted the Eternity flowers with Starburst mist, and added Shimmerz paint on the dark ones, Idyllic Burgundy and Imagine Burgundy.

also I added some vintage elements to complete the project about how busy a woman can be. For some dimension I added pearls on the woman’s dress to extend the design of it’.

Mixed media Canvas by Elena Olinevich

Products used: Imagine Burgundy, Idyllic burgundy, Eternity

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This next ,beautiful creation is from the very talented Erin Blegen. Erin, like Elena is a master when it comes to using mixed media products on her layouts. Take a look at this

Erin has used a mask, to add some wonderful flourishes to her background, using texture paste.

‘Joy’ Layout by Erin Blegen

MHC Products used: Romance - Sweetheart, Sublime - Cream, The Tropics – Dusk,  Poetry - Sage, Kyeesha - WV.

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Focus on green – NEW FLOWERS!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by karenshady67

OUR NEWEST FLOWERS…..

Hello , and a big welcome to our blog.

It is spring here in Australia, and the birds are singing, and the flowers have just started to open up after a long, and cold winter. The thing I love most though about spring is all the greenery. Everything is growing so fast, and the grass, and the leaves on the trees are just starting to grow again after the winter, and everything is a wonderful shade of green. Today, we want to share with you some wonderful spring inspired layouts, featuring, yes, you guessed it, green! Green flowers can add such a fresh, prettiness to a page, just take a look at these.

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Alicia has created this oh so pretty layout, teaming green, aqua and pink together, to create this lovely layout of her daughter.

‘Little wrinkle nose’ By Alicia Barry

MHC Products used: Mia – white, Wild Rose – green, Celeste – pink, Solitude - white, Mayglo - green.

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Karola has also chosen to go with a green, pink and aqua colour scheme to create this stunning layout.

Karola tells us what inspired her to create this layout ‘ When I found this photo of Rose, taken when she was sitting on the grass just  enjoying nature I decided to create the colourful, but delicate layout with green flowers as a main feature. I placed the flowers close to the photo, to imitate a flowery meadow’

‘Nature’ By Karola Witczak

MHC flowers used: Poetry – sage.

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The green’s in Erin’s stunning page add a wonderful cool fresh ‘outdoorsy’ feel to her layout.

‘So gorgeous’ Layout by Erin Blegen

MHC products used: Poetry – sage, Mia – green, Iris – green, Sublime – cream, Gratitude, Leaves – Lime green.

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All these layouts feature some of our brand new green flowers and some other colours as well. We hope you love them – they will be hitting the stores very soon!!!

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“Winter Song” Inspiration with Erin Blegen

Posted on October 2, 2012 by erinblegen

Hi there! It’s a new month and a new week, and I hope that wherever you are~ BOTH are treating you well! I’m very excited to be here with you today because I get to share a little inspiration featuring some of the fabulous “Winter Song” flowers from Manor House. Let me tell you, these blooms are HARD to beat! They are the perfect size for taking center stage on your layout- and they are just FULL of texture. AND I’m going to show that you can use not one, but TWO of these amazing flowers on a layout.

“My Angel”

I’ve combined both the Winter Song “Snowbell” and “Log Cabin” flowers to make up the majority of my main cluster. If you’re looking for “fullness” on a layout, this is most definitely the way to go!

I’ve added just a touch of gesso to the “Log Cabin” flower, to help it meld with the rest of my layout. I was really going for a “white washed” look here, and by applying gesso throughout the elements on my project, I was able to create a softy, dreamy effect to compliment my photos.

            These “Imagine” flowers layer so nicely! Perfect for tucking under photos or under each other.

Layout ‘My Angel’ by Erin Blegen.

Products Used:  Winter Song- Snowbell & Log Cabin, Solitude, Imagine- Light Blue & Cocoa, Country Lane- Raindrop (center).

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope I’ve inspired you to get working with some of these beautiful Winter Song flowers yourself!! Take care and have a great day~

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DT Inspiration featuring ‘The Scrap Cake’

Posted on September 13, 2012 by karenshady67

Hello, and welcome once again to our blog.

Today, we are excited to share with you some wonderful creations from our Design team, featuring the papers from The Scrap cake. Notice how perfectly our flowers match the colours of these papers.

Firstly, Karola has mixed a couple of different paper collections together, and created this wonderful, spring inspired layout of her daughter.

‘Live, love, inspire’ Layout by Karola Witczak

 Products used: MHC flowers, Fantasy wishes & fairy dust, Fairy floss – lemon, Country lane lemon, Taneisha.

The Scrap cake papers: Spring awakening and My private happiness.

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Next Alicia Barry has focused on the apricot tones in the The Scrap cake ‘Sweet childhood’ collection.

Alicia says ‘It can be hard to create layouts with boy’s in the photos using flowers. To achieve this, I used an orange and green colour combination. This coupled with the checked pattern in the Scrapcake papers gave it a boyish feel, which were then perfectly complimented with the ManorHouse Creations flowers’.

‘Love, cherish, adore’ Layout by Alicia Barry

Products used: MHC flowers,  Solitude, Idyllic - Oatmeal, Imagine - oatmeal, Leaves, Nikita, Christmas Star – snow, Petitie roses - orange, TSC Sweet childhood collection.

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Next, Gwen has created this beautiful bright, summery layout about her best friend. She has chosen a mix of ‘Sweet childhood’ and ‘Summer city’ papers.Notice the hint of gesso to the tips of orange Jubilee flowers.

‘Love my bestie’ Layout by Gwen Wruck

Products used: MHC flowers, Kyeesha – Orange and Yellow, Jubilee – Ornate Orange  (altered with Gesso), Petite Roses – Peach, Apple Blossoms , TSC papers, Summer city, Sweet childhood.

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Next, this wonderful ‘all boy’ layout was created by Erin Blegen.

‘Play time’ Layout by Erin Blegen

Products used: MHC flowers, Winter song – log cabin, Solitude, Poetry – white, Sublime – cream, Nikita. TSC: Sweet childhood collection.

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Welcome new DT – Erin and Tiffany

Posted on September 7, 2012 by karenshady67

It is with great pleasure that we welcome 2 more talented designers to our team.

ERIN BLEGEN

Hi! My name is Erin Blegen and I live in rural Northeast Minnesota, USA. There my hubby Josh and I make our home in a little cabin in the woods along with our 3 beautiful children. We enjoy anything the outdoors has to offer and we live a fairly simple lifestyle that most people would not choose (no running water for starters lol)- but it’s a good, quiet life and we like it that way :)
I first started scrapbooking back in 2007 when my first child was born, completed one album, and then quit until July 2010 when my second child was born. Since then, I haven’t looked back! In that time I”ve discovered my “style” which generally includes lots of beautiful layers, flowers, and distressing. I’ve also recently expanded my interests into cards and altered projects, which I’ve quickly fallen in love with! I’m a bit of a paper and flower collector, love to work with chipboard, and experimenting with different mediums. I’m super excited to be joining the team at Manor House Creations! You can find me at my blog: My Scrap Cabin.
Blog Address: http://erinblegen.blogspot.com

‘Ten precious months’ Layout by Erin Blegen

MHC products used: Winter Song- Embers, Rosettes - Baby Pink,  Darling,  Sublime - blue,  Petite Roses – Soft Pink.

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And a huge welcome to

TIFFANY MORGAN

My name is Tiffany. I am in my mid 20′s. I
live in a very small town in Nevada with my husband and my 2 wonderful kids. I
am blessed to be able to stay at home with my 2 kids. My son is 5 and my
daughter is 1. I started crafting almost 4 years ago. I started making cards at
first then after a short time fell in love with making scrapbook pages and most
of all altering items. I am in love with crafting. I am always trying to learn
new techniques. I feel so honored to be a part if such a fabulous company and
working with such talented group of crafters.

Tiffany’s blog: http://stampingattiffanys.blogspot.com.au/

Altered spool by Tiffany Morgan

MHC products used: Belief, Sublime-cream & Apple Blossoms flowers

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