Marie Antoinette Fan a R.A.K. for Deb

This fan was done as a R.A.K. for Deb

I did it some time back.

Was cleaning up my photos and files 

on my computer and I ran across this

the with these photos I took of the Marie Antoinette fan.

The one below is one I started for me and have yet to finish

I did find some feathers that are the right tone. 

So this fan may finally get done!

 So why not share them both with you too.

Another Fan

This is the fan I started to make for the swap. Then I changed my mind after reading some of Renee's colors choices that she likes. So I quit when I just had the paper put on and the image selected. So this past Friday it was another one of those creative Fridays that Deb (It's all Good) and I have from time to time. She brought over her projects she wanted to work on and I was trying to finish up things that I started. So this is as far as I got.
It still needs some more finishing touches like an embellishment of some sort on the bottom and some details to the back side.....but it is mostly done. At least I'm farther along than I was. The plum purple is difficult but not impossible to find things to coordinate with. The photo's colors are way off so. I will need to retake the pictures in natural lighting. I used my Spellbinder to cut out he frame and the wing accents and the patterned paper lace. I really like being able to use the tool I have.

Now I Can Show My Swap Fan

All wrapped up in tissue paper and tied up with hot pink ribbon

Surprised her with a little container of flowers and brads

Made a cute little Marie tag
Made A card from the left overs

Hand punched paper lace

A little bling
Premade K & Co. Paper flower embellishment
I ended up putting an embellishment on the back of
this to cover up the bolt. Rat's I forgot to take a picture of it.
A little gold lace ribbon on the back

Yeah Renee got her fan from me and has posted photos on the flicker link.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1157292@N24/
So Now I can share with you what I made for her.
We have had too much fun doing this swap.

A Green Fan?

Hello.... Terri..... it's not all green.

Yeah I know. So why am I calling this a green fan.? Because 95 % of it is recycled leftovers from interior design jobs. It pleases me to no end when I can do that.

As you can see from a previous post I have entered a fan swap with Vintage Rose Designs and I thought how great it would be to do a fabric fan from recycled items. What could I come up with.

So I cut out my fan shapes from mat board left over from a framing job. Went though my dropped fabric sample books from Robert Allen. Checked my trunk of miscellaneous trims and what nots. Printed out an image of Marie Antoinette used K & Co.'s vintage paper frames and some rhinestones and Anna Griffin ribbons...the flower was one of the left over from a floral job. And the feathers were left overs from another project. It's rather simple but it all coordinated together pretty nicely.

The only problem is...which really isn't a problem at all...is that the fan panels needed to be 8" in length for the swap and this one with the cording was a little over 6 1/2" shy of 7".

When you cut the little sample fabrics out that is pretty much all you have enough for.

So I went with pretty papers for the swap. I will show you the one I made for my swap partner near the end of this month or the first of September depending on how the mail goes.

I have a couple more fans that I'm working on that I won't be swaping. I'll show them in a future post.