Thursday, July 2, 2009

Shabby Chic Challenge No 1

She put me up to this. Thanks for giving me a kick in the butt. I was quite clueless and mojoless till this challenge. Thanks babe.

This was one not so easy challenge as it was to draw inspiration from a poster in this blog. I was quite stumped for a while as the DTs did very exceptional jobs and I was trying very hard not to copy what the rest of the DTs had done.


Check out this very beautiful poster.  All I could see what a profusion of pastel colours,  pleats,  layering and lots of peekaboos.  Hence,  I decided to go with the flow and started to do my layout.







The photo selection was the easiest of all.  Simone,  a friend of mine had actually taken this beautiful photo of Clarissa.  I thought that the photo really suited the layout as she was quite shy in this photo.  

Paper wise, I have decided to use vellum paper to layer to avoid a very heavy look.  To my delight,  I have managed to use a beautiful glitter vellum which I bought way back in 2004 which had tiny roses in it which I though suited the theme very well.  The rest of the background consisted of 3 different coloured vellum which I had traced out and cut in scallops.

I was also pleased to be able to find some of the buttons of the same era which I had stuck on as embellishment and used gauze to soften the whole effect.  I have layered on lots of flowers as they remind me of the layers of clothing in the ladies dresses.  I have also made sure that this layout was as 3D as possible to simulate the can can in the dresses.

A string of pearls is always associated with that ear and I sewed on a green one and the lo at the lace area.  That would complete my whole layout.

Materials used:
Mrs Grossman's Vellum Papers,  K n Co Glittered Vellum,  BG pp, Bazzill cs, Tattered Angel Chipboards,  Prima Flowers (lots of it),  Ladies Buttons,  trim and ric rac from local haberdashery,  Pearl roses,Canvas roses, Pearls,  Gold Blings,  String of green pearls and Butterflies from local shops,  Lace from Australia,  Chipboard Leaves from Collections Australia,  Cotton Gauze from local pharmacy,  Doiley,  Kaiser Bling Word "Adore" and burlap from Australia.  

17 comments:

  1. wow this is just stunning love it all. Those flowers are awesome. Thanks for playing with us at Shabby.

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  2. You took me on a wonderful journey of honesty and serenity - with your words and your work. Such a beautiful LO, doing much justice to a beautiful photo!
    Thanks for playing along with us at shabby!

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  3. You took me on a wonderful journey of honesty and serenity - with your words and your work. Such a beautiful LO, doing much justice to a beautiful photo!
    Thanks for playing along with us at shabby!

    (I'm having a bit of trouble posting this message chowchow and been thrown off a couple of times....i have no idea if you will get this more than once - sorry if you do)

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  4. What a beautiful page!!!! I love the colors, papers and all the beautiful flowers, butterflies, pearls and lovely details!!!!!

    Thanks:)

    xxxx
    Chimene

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  5. Gorgeous....really gorgeous! I am stunned!

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  6. oh this is so lovely.. the soft colors and the flowers.. oh so nice.. good one Michelle!

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  7. OUTSTANDING layout M!! I am so in love the colors, the composition, the arrangement of the yummy-licious flowers... gosh... everything!!

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  8. its gorgeous mich.. u totally put an art in it.. well done..

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  9. Mich babe!!! This is GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS!!
    I'm totally in love with it....it's just BEEEEAAAUUUUTIFUULLL!!

    You've just inspired me to use my vellums which are still stashed away! Thanks for such a lovely inspiration...

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  10. This is beautiful Mich! Love the layers and the clusters of flowers. Let me just say that photo is lovely and really matched everything.

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  11. SIMPLY GORGEOUS!!! I'm so glad you found this blog as well. I've yet to do my LO for this challenge. I just hope I can find the time.
    But seriously, this is so beautiful. The gauze, the vellum... LOVE IT!!

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  12. beautiful n sweet with alot of flowers.ur dd look soo sweet...

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  13. ah! so so stunning!!! you did great my friend!

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  14. how come my comment here always went missing :(

    anyway this is a beautiful LO mich....

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  15. This is really beaitiful Michelle! I love the colour combination, such sweet colours..

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  16. This is beautiful, the colours the photo, everything!

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  17. What a gorgeous and adorable shabby chique layout.
    Maria K.

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