A sweet little shabby chic Valentine using Cornish Heritage Farms' new backgrounder, Vintage Chintz, which will be released Friday. I stamped the backgrounder in green for the background, and in pale pink behind the sentiment, which is from the Love Scrapblock. I inked up only the word "sweet" using a Memento marker. The frame is from Tattered Angels, painted in Ranger's Tattered Rose Crackle paint and adorned with some vintage mother of pearl buttons. To make the little flower-and-bow embellishment, I first slipped the wired ends of three Prima flowers through the holes in a vintage button, like so:
Then, I took a scrap of pink ribbon, folded it to look like a bow (you don't actually have to tie it... creates too much bulk), and secured it behind the button by twisting the flower wires around it:
After that, I twisted the wire around a length of pink CHF tulle ribbon, then snipped off the excess wire:
I then wrapped the tulle around the chintz-stamped panel, adhered it to an ivory card base, and sewed around all of the sides to keep it nice and secure. I finished it off by distressing the edges of the green panel to shabby it up.
Hope you're having a great week! I'm off to make some Victorian ATCs for my club tomorrow night.
11 comments:
Wonderful technique....thank you for sharing it with us!
I love this new background!! And the clever way you made the little button/flower/bow embellishment! Such a cute card, Jeanne!
Completely fabulous! Great shabby chic look!
I love your blog. I just found you through a friend and have past along this site. I'm a scrapper, card maker and paper artist. I am sooooooo excited.
Thanks!
I Love it, your shabby chic is amazing, the extra touches of those flowers in the button (I never would have thought off that) is adorable!I need to case this one!
I love the tattered look of the edges...such a cute card! Come say hi...
Possitively stunning! I love this new Backgrounder and your design is gorgeous!
This one is I think my favorite of yours for January. so graceful and full of feminine flair. Love it Jean
Beautiful card!!
Oh I just love this. So pretty. clever girl you.
this is a fantastic idea!!! thanx for sharing!
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