Tag Tuesday: A Little French Wedding Dress

I want to thank everyone for your ever kind encouragement and sweet comments. Tag Tuesday is a highlight of each week for me. I have so enjoyed planning my tags and also seeing the variety of ideas and styles of all the participants!

For this wedding tag, I cut a dress form out of chipboard and decorative paper using a Tim Holtz die.  After stamping French lettering with a stamp from Oxford Impressions,  I folded cupcake holders to make the skirt, added a little glimmer, and then trimmed out with antique lace scraps, rhinestones, and millinery flowers. 

I staged it with my latest obsession - the paper cup holders and pastry bags from Starbucks! If you want to see how truly smitten (or crazy) I am about these pink papers, there's another project on my blog under "A Little Pink Starbucks Obsession."

I hope you are making it a great week!                                                                                                                                                - Laura

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Instant Vintage Dress Form

I've loved dress forms since I was a girl.  
They're so in style right now, I decided to buy one.

I didn't have a lot of time to distress it, 
but I wanted it to look old.  

So I dug through my scrap vintage linens and lace:

and came up with something I really love!

Here's the step-by-step:

I also added a ribbon around the waist:

Oops!  Misspelled "millinery."  You caught that, right?  :-)  

Finished bodice.

 There she is--all done!  

Now, I just have to figure out what to name her.  

Any suggestions?

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You're Gonna Love It
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I'm in the Summer 2012 Issue of Take Ten!

Just checked my mail at 6:00 this evening and to my surprise, there was a copy of Take Ten (Summer 2012) pushed way back in the box.  I don't subscribe, so I skipped along into the door happily thinking I would find a card of mine hidden among hundreds of others.  When I opened it, I almost immediately came to a two-page spread of the four cards I made while crafting with a friend one night.  I love the way they staged it.  How fun!  I'm so excited!  They also chose it to be one of the six articles on their Web site.  Hurray!  Thanks Suzanne, owner of Oxford Impressions for making such beautiful stamps!