High Tea with Mme. Dubois

Let's Get Shabby Challenge #27

A fun and unusual challenge at Let's Get Shabby.  First step - visit Tallulah Belles Etsy Shop.  Pick an image that inspires you, and create a project!
Here's my creation:  It's called High Tea with Madame Dubois.

Altered Cigar Box:  High Tea with Mme. Dubois

And here's the image that inspired it:

Image from Tallulah Belles:  High Tea with Madame Dubois

This image just said "fabulous tea party" to me.  
I started with a lovely wooden cigar box.  The altered cigar box contains individual tea booklets for Madame Dubois and her friends.  I imagined her to be an elegant Parisienne, hosting a tea for her fabulous friends from around the world. ( I imagined her friends to be rather goddess-like.)
Here's Madame Dubois:

And here she is with her friends:

The folders are to be filled with (very chic) individual tea bags, and the whole set to be given as a gift by me to someone very special next month.
The challenge at  Let's Get Shabby runs until Sept. 20, so you still have time to join in!
Thanks for dropping by, and for having a virtual cup of tea with me today!

Materials List:

I used anything and everything that I had in my supplies. including:

Cigar Box painted with Rose Distress Crackle Paint

Papers: Graphic 45, Webster's Pages, Bo Bunny Gabrielle (among others)

Prima Flowers

Recollections Pearls

The Age of Which We Do Not Speak

It is a snowy Sunday morning in April.  What a perfect day to launch my new blog!

I have spent the past month in Costa Rica.  Immediately upon returning to Ontario, we moved to a new house.  Whew!  It has been busy to say the least.

In between all the packing and unpacking, I completed this project for my daughter's 30th birthday.  Or as she calls it, "the age of which we do not speak".

The glamourous 30's-themed Curtain Call papers from Graphic45 were just right for this 3-part project: card, altered cigar box, and matching paper-bag book.  With its focus on some specific magical periods of time, the Curtain Call collection echoes my belief that every decade of a woman's life has its own glories and beautiful qualities.

I kept to the basic black and cream colour scheme, with pearls for glamour and occasional touches of colour for emphasis.

Here is the birthday card:

The inspiration for this card came from the uber-talented Robin Shakoor.  Check out her blog, and you will see what I mean!

Creative process went like this:  from the card came the idea for a box, and from the box came the paper bag book:

The book had three sections.  The first was a Parisian/Moulin Rouge theme.

I used my wide paper-punch to create pockets for tags and photos.

Section 2:  The Golden Age of Cinema.   Dahling, You Look Fabulous!

Section 3: All That Jazz, dedicated to the glorious jazz age.

SO love this image of Billie Holliday...could not cover it or improve on it in any way.

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