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Dress Card using Designer Fabrics

I saw a project someone made at convention last year that created the dress part of this card using cardstock and a paper napkin. Then, when I was looking for ideas for using the Stampin’ Up! designer fabrics, I ran across some cards that used the dress and put it onto a standard card base. Cute, right?

I originally found instructions from Lorraine Castellon-Rowe’s blog and then started playing with the fabrics and papers I had around. Because I wanted to use the swirly pattern from the Deck The Halls fabric set, I decided to use my swirly pattern Texturz Plates for my BigShot to emboss the background piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.

To make the dress bodice, I used a series of punches:

	1. Punch a circle using the 2 1/2” Circle Punch for the base of the bodice
	2. Punch out the waistline of your dress using the 1 3/4” Circle Punch. If you want to be very precise, you can take the cut out from the first side and trace that curve on the opposite side. Then use the pencil line as your guide when lining up the punch.
	3. Punch the neckline using the 3/4” Circle punch

Then embellish as you like. I used the adhesive pearls and added some ribbon to the waistline but you could get creative with gems, buttons, embossing, or whatever sounds fun to you. The skirt was just run through the BigShot using the Scallop Square die though I think for future cards like this, I would probably use the new Scallop Square Duo die. And then adhere to the back of your bodice.

It’s a fun card and one you could make in so many variations to be a perfect match for the recipient of the card. I hope you enjoy this project!

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Just For You Dress Card Recipe:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Riding Hood Red cardstock, Very Vanilla cardstock
Accessories: BigShot, Scallop Square Bigz die, Backgrounds 1 Texturz plates, 2 1/2” Circle punch, 1 3/4” Circle punch, 3/4” Circle punch, Adhesive Pearls, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Small Oval punch, Deck the Halls designer fabric

April 2, 2011

A Masculine Birthday

Here is a quick share for the day; it is my attempt at a masculine birthday card. My brother-in-law had his 30th birthday and I needed to get some card off to him. I didn’t want to use a tree set and many of my stamp sets used cutesy animals or had lots of flowers, neither of which scream manly man. 🙂 So, I relied heavily on colors to man-up this card.

I had some fun with my Party Hearty stamp set by paper piecing the party hats. I stamped with my Dusty Durango ink and then stamped again on a piece of dsp so I could cut out two more of the party hats to glue over the stamped image. I also used one of the Texture Plates for the BigShot to create the diamond background in Soft Suede. The one other piece you might not be able to see, I punched out the Celebrate You stamped image and then behind that punchout, I adhered a scallop circle punch in Dusty Durango.

October 17, 2010

One more card using the BigShot

Hi all! I know, its been a little bit since I posted on my blog and I blame it all on the Twilight series of books by Stephanie Meyer! My friend Kally got me hooked on the series and I found myself spending the last two weeks spending my lunch breaks and evenings powering though all four books in the series plus watching the movie and all the behind the scenes extras. It is seriously addictive! 🙂

But I managed to pull out of the books to get things together for my technique night this week. Like I mentioned before, we met at a Roundtable Pizza and it actually worked reasonably well. The biggest problem was that where we were sitting didn’t have the best light after the sun went down. But if we were in the offical meeting room area I think it would have been fine. I’m thinking I’ll try hosting my card class there on the 27th (the class is open for more people to come, email me if you want to join in!)

Here is the final project we did for the Technique Night. We used texture plates and an embosslit for this card. These are probably my two favorite items for the bigshot and what pushed me over the edge to buy mine. Texture just makes everything cooler and having a perfectly embossed AND cut-out image in one is awesome too. Add in the fabulous kiwi kiss satin ribbon and a half pearl and you’re done!

April 16, 2009

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Dress Card using Designer Fabrics

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A Masculine Birthday

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One more card using the BigShot

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