Shabby Chic-All Glammed Up 12X12 Layout

Shabby Chic 12X12 Layout

This is a 12X12 page layout that has a Shabby Chic theme.  I now have it sitting on a wall shelf in my entry way.  It goes beautifully with my color theme and provides a nice talking point when people visit my home.

To begin here is a list of the products that I used:

. Heartfelt Creations Antiquity Paper Collection ( i just love it!)

. HC  Decorative Oval and Eyelet Oval Dies

. All Glamed Up Shoe Stamp and Die set

. Spellbinders Heart Nestabilites Die set

. A 'Delicate Fan' die from Tonic Studios

. Tim Holtz Distressed inks in-Victorian Rose, Aged Mahogany, Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo

. Tim Holtz Ideology metal pieces

. HC Open Vintage Floret Stamp and die set 

. HC 'Beautiful You" stamp and die

. A few pre made silk flowers 

. Versa Mark ink and Recollections Copper embossing powder 

. JudiKins Chocolate Twinkle embossing powder

. Viva 3D Stamp Paint in  Walnut Brown Metallic

. Elizabeth craft design glitter in Fire Opal

. Dries Clear Glue from art glitter 

To begin this project I used a 3 step background.  The first layer is a 12X12 piece of heavy weight black chipboard. I then layered a solid sheet of paper from the Antiquity Paper collection in a solid burgundy color.  On top of that was another sheet of paper from the collection that was a soft neutral. This is the sheet that I built my creation on.  

First I shredded the edges with a razor blade tool and painted the ragged edges with the 3D Walnut Brown Metallic paint and let it dry.  Then I layered the 2 HC Oval die cuts and added them to the center of the paper-inking edges with Victorian Rose and Aged Mahogany Distress inks and Walnut Metallic paint. On the bottom left corner I used several Rose and Leaf stamps and dies to create the floral spray from HC products and added just a few silk flowers to the mix for added dimension and flavor.  

For the Roses I stamped the Open Vintage Floret Stamps on the Antiquity paper collection with versa mark ink and heat embossed them with the Copper embossing powder from Recollections.  For the leaves I used 'Beautiful You' stamps and dies. To add shape to the flowers and leaves I used the HC Flower Shaping Tool kit and glued the layers together with hot glue. Once the flowers were done I sprayed them with Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist in heirloom gold to give the antiqued look. For the Fan in the floral spray I cut it out of the paper collection and sprayed it with Aleene's Tacky Spray and sprinkled with Fire Opal glitter.  This gave an amazing look and really finished off the look.

In the top corner here is where I added in the All Glammed Up Shoe stamp and die. Again using paper from the collection, versa mark ink, but this time I used the chocolate twinkle embossing powder and for the first time used a dove blender pen and colored in the roses on the shoe with distress inks in Vintage Rose, Aged Mahogany and Bundled Sage. This really added a nice touch to the project.

At the top of the Oval Die on the right side is where I used the Spellbinders Nestabilites Heart Dies. I cut a dark and a light heart and layered up using some metal pieces with the Oval Die in the center of the piece and added a small piece of ivory toile.

Some additional accents were silk flowers in the torn side opening of the paper and 2 more hearts cut from dark and light paper with a key glued on for some accent.  Here and there I did paint the edges with  the 3D Walnut Brown Metallic paint and Aged Mahogany distress ink for the antiqued effect.

I used dries clear glue throughout this project and my die cutting machine is the Tim Holtz Vagabond.

That completes this project.  Please leave me a comment and tell me if you like my creation! Thanks for stopping by!!   God Bless!