Victoriana in Pink and Black

A very Happy Saturday to everyone and I hope you all have a magnificent weekend! Although we have had rain each evening and night, our days have been so beautiful and it's so much fun to spend hours outside. I am signed up for a 5K Color Run on July 26 so I have been trying to get in my training time...eeeek!! Did I REALLY say I would do that??? hahahha

I was asked to try my hand at a little Victoriana project so I hope I have met the mark with a 6" square 4-drawer chest topped with an easel card. I used two fabulous products from the Southern Ridge Trading Company shop. I used the beautiful flourish border BOR-345 and hearts from the HRT-080. Everything else is from my stash..so if you have questions about something I have used, just jot me a note and I will try my best to answer your questions.

You can see that, on the front,  I used the two ends of the BOR-345, painting them with black acrylic paint before placing them as the anchor for the floral treatment.

On the back, I used two of the hearts from HRT-080, painting them with white acrylic paint before topping them with a bit of fancy! The other embellishments are the same as I used on the front of the card and are listed below.

I will attempt to give you as many details as I can but you can tell that I used so many things that I will surely miss part of them. I first made the little 4-drawer chest and you can Google that since there are so many different instructions and options and I can't remember which one I used...except that it ended up 6" square. For the drawer pulls, I dipped the little open roses into ModPodge several times so they would look like ceramic. I then added some black satin bows and MS punched rose leaves. I also painted some little black spools to use as legs for the chest.

I used 3 layers of double-sided DP for the top and rolled back two sheets of the opposite corners for dimension and for places to tuck in a ribbon tag and some little Victorian pretties...like crystal wheat, rosebuds, berries, glass baubles. Rather than use a paper doily I used some pre-gathered lace and black guipure lace in a semi-circle to serve as the base for the flowers/stuff!  haha I used various roses and rosebuds, crystal flowers, stick pins, ceramic heart, chenille heart, organza butterflies. I also used a small lace butterfly in the lower corner topped with tiny pearls. And of course it wouldn't be Victorian without its share of border pearls!!

Here are some additional views:

I hope you will let me know what you think of my little attempt at Victoriana!

WINNER!!!!

Mr Random.org has made the selection for the darling Maya stamp and the beautiful Butterfly Border Die is.....

Helena (Gvendalen)

Congratulations, Helena! Please leave a comment on this posting so that others know you have claimed your prize and send me an email before Monday, June 30 at 8 AM ET so that I can get your package to you right away!

Thank you all so much for dropping by and I hope to see you again real soon! Have a lovely weekend and until the next time, I send Big Hugs!!