boudoir: noun

a woman's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room

Oh la la... such a lovely challenge from The Shabby Tea Room! The theme is Vintage Boudoir using the colors in this photograph plus a sewing themed embellishment. {Sewing embellishment could be something such as: lace, ribbon, pins, stamped image, seam binding, machine sewing, faux sewing, buttons, zipper, bobbin, spool, needle, etc.}

 

I really loved that dresser and that mint green and knew I had some of that in my card stock..and I knew I had some Prima paper with butterflies on it that matched.....can we say oh la la again? Oui? Bon! All I needed was the perfect sentiment...and look, there it is from Our Daily Bread Designs, lifting you up in prayer....on the wings on butterflies :) tres magnifique! ;)

[ Don't worry, that's about the extent of my French, lol Well, actually I know a little more but not sure how I can fit in "My name is..." and "where is the bathroom" into the post! ]

So without further ado...my card!

 Now one of my favorite things to do is to 'fussy cut' an image from the paper I'm already using and alter it a bit and reuse it as a element. In this case it was a butterfly, and I stickled it every so lightly and then used some Liquid scrapdots to lift one wing just slightly off the paper. I love this effect!  The ribbon is attached with sticky dots , something that I totally forgot I had until I cleaned out a space on my shelf and was like "oh wow", and brought it out of their retirement! The sentiment is stamped on a piece of vellum, then embossed and laid on a paper clip that I simply opened and straightened the bottom half, leaving the hook on the end so I would have a 'surface" to glue the butterfly onto.

Shabby Tea Room week # 96

- Prima Sparkling Spring Collection

NRN - vellum and Blue

stickles - Star Dust

ribbon, paper clip- misc.

Our Daily Bread stamp - Mini Tags 3

floss- DMC

assorted chalks

Therm o Web Die Cut sticky dots

Helmars 450 and Liquid Scrapdots

And just to show you that first attempts aren't always perfect, here is what the card looked liked after I ruined it by adding the sentiment stamped on a heart. It just didn't flow, I didn't like it one bit! lol

I'm glad it was fixable anyway, I just pulled off the heart which was attached to the paper clip so that meant my paper didn't tear, and then just re-glued the new butterfly back on top of the paper clip :) Volia! ... oops, I did promise no more French words, huh? oh well...I lied ;)

so merci, beaucoup for visitng my blog and adieu my friends!