Happy (late) Valentine's Day! I couldn't help but post something about my Valentine! He's the sweetest, kindest, toughest dude I know...and he's pretty photogenic as well! I made this LO using the January Tres Jolie Kit Club scrapbook kit. The kit was super sweet and cute with tons of little shabby chic items it! Here is the LO:
I did quite a bit of paper layering and used a paper doily make a shabby-licious backdrop for my photo. Most of the Tres Jolie kits come with some amazing chipboard. Below you can see where I distressed and used tons of embossing powder, glitter and white paint to create a vintage look on the chipboard. Some of the flowers included in the kit had white edging around the petals and I really wanted to play off that with my chipboard. I also added some metal embellishments that I had laying around. I used some antiquing and crackle paste on those to tie the whole look together.
Below is a close up of another flower cluster and a closer look at the chipboard. I used some leftover chipboard "leaves" behind my flowers to add some pizzazz to the LO.
Finally, you can see here where I inked the edges of some of the background papers. I also added a Renea Bouquets dragonfly (because I just love all of her butterflies and dragonflies!) There is a little bit of lace layered behind some ephemera and paper layers as well as another flower cluster.
Thanks for looking! I hope everyone has an amazing week!
xoxoxo,
Mel
