WOYWW 22nd September

My work desk has a frame on it this morning... when we were out shopping a couple of weekends ago, Chris picked up this picture frame for the scrap room wall and though I like it, it lacked something... so I decided to take it apart and have a go at shooshing it up a bit (you like that word? shooshing it up sort of described what I had in my head but leaky elbow syndrome tends to kick in and the thing never turns out the way I imagined)!!

This is the pre 'shooshing it up' pic... its a nice picture and I love the big M and the sentiment but it looks odd... shouldn't the M stand out and the rest be more laid back?

So here is the work desk... and given the subject I think I should get points for neatness!! 

So here is the finished piece... I love those Graphic 45 Steam Punk Debutante papers, they are stunning! I threw some bling at it, inked some little Mayo Road chipboard dressmaker dummies, added some gears and beads and lace and chain etc...  I think it 'shoosed' up quite well!!  (Now to explain to Chris what happened to the picture he bought me for the scrap room.....)!!  I did meet with one problem... I hadn't taken into account that the frame was flat and I merrily made it all very 3D and then it wouldn't fit without squashing the butterflies etc.... so I had to cut some lengths of chipboard and turn it into a shadow box!

Sometimes you should just...

leave stuff alone!!  I was shopping last week in Mr Price in Dahran Mall... (now, any South Africans reading this are going to be hopping up and down saying 'They have Mr Price in Saudi Arabia'?) and found these photo frames... I certainly would not have paid the full asking price for them but as they had reduced stickers and were now pretty cheap-ish, I figured they might be good for a bit of tarting up!!

This is the way they came... I think they were trying for a vintage type effect...

So this is it after a couple of coats of paint and some gold and as you can see... I had company in scraproom today...

OK... so I think this where I should have just stopped....

but I didn't.... LOL