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Thursday, January 29, 2015

A little bit of Shabby Chic,my style.....

I stumbled across Elaine's mini challenge out there in blogland....how on earth did I miss her blog...I mean, I am on her design team and I have known her through crafting for quite a while now...a lovely,lovely lady....
So Elaine's Mini Challenge is Shabby Chic and entries must be altered art/mixed media...so here is my entry....


I started off with a wooden tray, a few freebies from a lady who owned a craft shop,she was going to bin them,so I begged them off of her.
For my project I used  one with 4 compartments....
First I  gessoed the whole piece,then painted it with Kaisercraft acrylic paint, I mixed a bit of white with pistachio green. When that dried,I dry brushed white paint over the whole piece,although the photo dosen't pick that up very well.



Next I decorated each compartment with some vintage paper from Graphic45...a Tim Hotlz doll and a few other bits...added lace,beads and flowers to the corners.
To finish I used a couple of screw in rings and found some matching lace in my stash to use to hang it up as you can see below.


Hope you like it...I'm going to hide it from my daughter...once she sees it,she will want it,lol....
You can find Elaine's Mini Challenge HERE.....






5 comments:

Analia Cristina said...

WOW!This is a fantastic work,I love the Shabby style!

Rupa Swaminathan said...

Such a pretty one and looks beautiful hanging there, Sandie.

Anonymous said...

To use a word my son uses when blown away by something........AWESOME,
Pretty colours, lace and embellishments......yes, Sandie, I think you had better hide it from your Daughter, lol
Jan
x

Elaine aka Ellapu said...

Sandie babe - you do not need to hide this from your daughter send it to your boss lady lol... love it so much and thank you for entering it into my mini spotlight challenge over at Anything but a card... absolutely fandabbydozy xxx

Carol said...

YUMMY xx