Map It Monday - Button Chateau

French Country Shabby Chic gets a taste of Sweet & Sour

What do you think a card would look like if you mixed a bright, contemporary teen-inspired designer series paper with a French country shabby chic style?  To me, that doesn't sound very appealing.  But as you can see on today's card, it sure turned out beautiful!  The polka dotted dsp is a design from the Beau Chateau dsp (current 2011-2012 IB&C), and the orange dsp is from a recently retired Sweet & Sour Specialty dsp (last year's 2010-2011 IB&C).

The flower is created by crumpling up the dsp, flattening it out & punching circles with circle punches.  The inner petals are partially punched circles.  The edges of all punched circles are distressed and sponged with Soft Suede.  A bright orange button & hemp twine decorates the center of the flower.  I also frayed the ends of the twine knot.

It's not obvious on the photo, but the bottom cs is actually More Mustard cs that had been embossing in the polka dotted embossing folder through the Big Shot.

You may notice a design on the orange dsp.  I did nothing to that piece of dsp - the paper itself has shiny embossed designs on it.

I chose a Crumb Cake card to further add to the shabby chic look of the card.  Edges of the card are also sponged with Soft Suede.  I didn't meet the photo quality challenge today - my apologies for the blurriness.

Notice the beautiful fabric in the background?  The fabric is Stampin' Up's "Spice Cake" designer fabric from the current 2011 Holiday Mini Catty.  Beautiful cannot even begin to describe this fabric!  I've been having fun cutting, tearing & fraying this fabric into strips and faux ribbon to use on greeting cards.  It's a fun change of pace from ribbon.  If you'd like to order this fabric or the similar Christmas themed fabric in the same catalog, send me an email.

The map layout for this card:

Happy Monday!

Linda