Top Tip Tuesday #49

What is Shabby Chic?

This week's Challenge will be

...Shabby Chic...

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So.......What exactly is Shabby Chic???

This tutorial is a little different to our usual offerings - Each member of the playing team this week has written a few words and added an inspirational picture of what THEY envisage Shabby Chic to be.

The theory behind this is that unless you are familiar with the term, Shabby Chic can be a little confusing....

We want to show that there are no definate 'rules' as there often are with other styles - we all know that Vintage is old, Retro is not quite as old and CAS is minimalistic - but what on earth does Shabby Chic mean...

Pop over to Top Tip Tuesday to find out what we think.....................

This is my Shabby Chic offering for this week and I must admit to not doing a card specifically in the style of Shabby Chic before - I've done plenty of cards that were Shabby so added the word 'Chic' on the end to make it seem like I've known what I was doing.......is that allowed???

But after looking into the meaning of Shabby Chic for this week's Team Tutorial I must admit it doesn't scare me so much any more :)

I've used lots of elements that I've mentioned in my little write-up on TTT, however this card was very much a 'suck-it-and-see' project - plenty of the elements didn't start out the colours they are now - I'd do them with something and then add a bit of something else!

For example the plywood 'HOME' (picked up from The Works last week, a pack of 'Family' words - about 20, for £2!) started out being distressed with some TH inks - light browns & blues, but then when it was on the card I felt it didn't tie in with my 'white-washed' vision so painted it with some watered down Brilliance Moonlight White Pigment Ink!!! I'd used the same ink to distress around the image and sentiment piece.
The 3 little round metal bits on the left and the rectangle piece bottom left of the picture came off an old T-Shirt I 'took apart' yonks ago!

The image I've used is from one of our sponsors over at TTT this week and is called - Time To Clean - isn't she sweet?

The sentiment is from Sentimental Sunday's and was one of the freebies they offer each week - take a look!

Some Challenges I'd like to enter my card into...

Crafty Catz - Metal & Lace

Stamptacular Sunday - Diva with Attitude!

Pile It On - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Crafting For All Seasons - Bingo ....Ribbon/Shine/Flowers

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Choose 3 of... Ribbon/button/Brad/Charm/Hat Pin/Swirl/Popped-up Image

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes