I've decided to enter into a few challenges this week after making my little niece's birthday card:
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The Card Story: My little niece is having her 7th birthday in mid-June! She is a beautiful child with gorgeous eyes and hair and very much a girly girl. I decided a very pink card would be just right for her with a lovely lacy pink dress to grace its front. . .very girly girl!
Out came the Stampin' Up Dress Up Framelits for the dress form, but I decided to use the Spellbinders' Decorative Dress Forms dies for the little puffy sleeve dress, using only the bodice and cupcake liners for its skirt. Note: I did have to trim the dress a bit from under the arms and down to the waist to make it fit perfectly. To do this, after cutting the puffy sleeve dress with the die, I cut off the skirt about 1/2" below the waist (as it is shorter waisted than the Framelit dress form), I traced the dress form outline onto my cut bodice and cut along the traced lines, and I trimmed out the curve of the bodice neckline just a bit to add paper doily lace to its new lower scoop, as well as to the bottom of the puff sleeves. The shoulders of the two dress dies match perfectly. I sponged the bodice top with the Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink (retired) ink pad to blend with the skirt color a bit better. I gathered one organza rosette cut from ribbon trim, making it into a little flower bud and sponging it with the same ink to add to the dress waist. I was pleased with my little pink dress for Audrey's birthday card. I hope she enjoys her card as much as I enjoyed making it.
Following is a picture of the card and the little verse I made to go inside. Again, I apologize for the blurriness. As before, the equipment available to me while traveling is not what I use to when at home. I do hope you can enjoy the card and can visualize it as if it were shown to perfection.
Recipe: Stampin' Up papers: Wild Wasabi cs (card base), Crumb Cake cs. Recollections/ Essentials Distressed. Tapestry/ Geo Breeze. K&Co./ Watercolor Bouquet Specialty Pad. Stampin' Up: Dress Up Framelits (dress form); Eyelet Border punch (retired); Ink: Pretty in Pink; Pearls. Spellbinder dies: Decorative Dress Forms (puff-sleeve dress)/ Labels 4. Zutter Corner rounder. Wilton: 4" White Doilies; Baking Cups. Michaels: Celebrate It-Luxe: White Rosette ribbon. Stash ribbon: Pink satin; lace. Colorbox Cat Eye: Chestnut Roan (distressing). EK punch: Fancy Photo Corners (inside).
