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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Garden Girl Layout (Meg's Garden/ Green Tara/ Helmar)

I had this cute close-up shot of my daughter as a toddler but hated the background so I fussy cut her out and created a garden scene for her to sit in. Oh where to start... I used a mix of papers beautiful floral papers from Meg's Garden (Garden of Blue Flowers and Le Belle Jardin and French Garden collections) and started to pile on chipboard, flowers, trim, a doily, pearl bling (yup basically the kitchen sink, LOL). I think I have nearly 25 Green Tara buds and flowers on this one!

Here is a close-up of my "garden" - purple gardenias, pink cherry blossoms, red rose buds and a beautiful large pink velvet rose.

The background was glued with a Helmar adhesive runner and all of the flowers and chipboard were glued with Helmar 450 quick dry glue - clear and acid free! This stuff is seriously a little miracle in a bottle, LOL. The butterfly is also raised using Helmar's Zapdots.

18 comments:

misty said...

This is absolutely beautiful and that picture is so sweet!

Nadia Cannizzo said...

Lovely work Vicky!

gracescraps@gmail.com said...

Amazing LO, Vicki!! Love the curled corners and fabulous flower clusters!! ~ Blessings

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Romy said...

Oh wow, this looks gorgeous! What a wodnerful summer layout!

OK said...

очень мило и красиво!

ANUPAMA CHOUDARY said...

This goes into my faves, Vicki!

Cathy said...

LOVE your whimsical LO Vicky.. adore all the flowers and your silhouetted photo.. gorgeous work!! :)

Bellaidea said...

Wow, waht a beautiful garden, you have so much flowers there! Just lovely design!

Lizzyc said...

Oh how adorable! the clothes your DD is wearing have the sweetest colors which you have used perfectly on your layout,, love all the flowers! this is divine!!

Robin Shakoor said...

Vicky, this layout is absolutely gorgeous! I love everything from the flowers to the chipboard!

Scraps of Elegance said...

So pretty Vicky, I love how she's sitting in a sea of lovely pretty flowers.

Debbie said...

beautiful layout and that pic is so precious!

Rachael Elliott said...

Vicky this is totally GORGEOUS!!!

Carole Wright said...

Ooooh just adorable, gorjuss baby and layout.

Unknown said...

Vicky, this is beautiful!!! I adore the colors you used, and what a little cutie pie!!! Gotta love the chubby cheeks!!

Sandie said...

Beautiful layout Vicky, and love what you did with the photograph, absolutely gorgeous.

Ali said...

beautiful layout and that pic is so precious!
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Stacey Anderson said...

Lovely work Vicky!