Vintage Shabby Chic Style

Decorated Note Book

To start I used a shop-bought plain portrait style notebook. I made a cover front and back using a brown kraft card and adhered it onto the original cover to add strength. Using a sheet of tea-dyed paper I lightly coloured over a scroll design of stencil and adhered that onto the front cover, I also used a piece of lace fabric in a cream colour and adhered that on top of the front cover. 

Using a sheet of white paper cut to size I randomly stamped a script design onto the paper and when dry I lightly coloured the paper with Distress Oxide ink so it will match the project. I used a pretty die cut that I again coloured with a Distress Oxide ink pad and adhered that down in the centre of the stamped paper. 

The image of the ballerina is from a digital collage sheet that I had purchased from the Gecko Galz Etsy store that I printed onto white photo paper, then I mounted that onto brown kraft card stock and then adhered them down on top of the die-cut. An ivory colour narrow crochet trim I placed around the edges of the layer of paper and added a flat back pearl trim on the edges of those

At the top and bottom of the front cover, I added a wide crochet trim and I also added a pearl effect flower trim at the top. The flowers did not match the project so I lightly coloured them with Distress Oxides ink pads and arranged the flowers to the bottom right-hand corner of the image. I added a gold-coloured corner peel-off on the top left-hand corner of the image. To balance the look a small pearl was added to the top right and bottom left of the image

I want to enter the Gecko Galz September Challenge 2021

"Ballerina Girls"

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