Happy Birthday Dress Card :: by Shona Cole

:: Happy Birthday Dress Card ::
by Shona Cole

{Featuring Dresses with Sashes Stamps}

Stamp image onto a piece of watercolor paper. Paint image with watercolor paints. Spray image with alcohol inks and carefully mask the main image. Collage some contrasting papers above and below the image. Add a little bead embellishment. Layer this panel onto a card and stamp the words "Happy Birthday" below.

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Altered Skirt Bag :: by Shona Cole

Altered Skirt Bag
by Shona Cole
{Featuring Dresses with Sashes Clear Stamps}

Step 1: Stamp image onto a piece of canvas
Step 2: Paint image with acrylic paints
Step 3: Trim some fabric (in this case, an old skirt) to a long strip about 14 inches long

Step 4: Sew the image onto one side of the fabric strip
Step 5:  Fold the fabric strip in half, right side of the fabric facing together. Sew up the sides
Step 6: Sew a ribbon to the seam at the very top of the bag
Step 7: Hot glue a flower on the canvas panel

Dresses with Sashes Place Cards by Melody M. Nunez

Dresses with Sashes Place Cards
by Melody M. Nuñez
{Featuring Dresses with Sashes Stamps}

These embellished dresses make lovely place cards, and would also function beautifully as gift tags.  This project is a great way to use some of your bits and pieces – a bit of lace here, and a few rhinestones and scrap cardstock there.  There are hundreds of ways to dress up these dresses – here are three:

Begin by stamping the dress images onto cold press watercolor paper with permanent black ink – I used StazOn.  Add color to the dresses.  I used Caran d’Ache watersoluble crayons and a brush, but you could use watercolors, markers, or colored pencils.  If you used a water-based color, let dry completely before proceeding.  Trim the stamped piece of watercolor paper to your desired size, and stamp the guest or recipient’s name above the dress.

Grace: Attach a strip of black cardstock along the bottom edge, and affix rhinestones along the bottom edge of the dress so they cover the open dots along the scallop.  Color in the sash so it’s a solid black, and affix another rhinestone to the center of the flower at the waist.

Marie: Attach a piece of lace or trim along the bottom edge, and affix rhinestones equal distance apart using an adhesive like Gem-Tac. Color the band at the waist a solid black and attach another rhinestone in the center of the band.

Sara: Attach a strip of black cardstock along the bottom edge, and attach a thinner piece of decorative/patterned paper on top of the cardstock.  Color in the bottom striped ruffle of the dress so it’s solid black.

Finish each place card or gift tag by attaching a hanger or point of attachment.  For a place card, attach a narrow ribbon loop to the back as I did, if desired.  For a gift tag, punch a hole, or set an eyelet along the top edge or in a top corner and thread with ribbon.

Find Dresses with Sashes stamps here.

Balance by Cynthia Shaffer

Balance

by Cynthia Shaffer

{Featuring Dresses & Sashes Rubber Stamps}

Apply a wash of white gesso onto a piece of torn vintage sheet music and adhere onto white panel. With black inkpad, stamp image onto white cardstock and add watercolor to the dress. Cut out and mount with foam dots onto the panel. With embroidery thread and needle, couch a piece of twig to the lower portion of panel.

Adhere a small strip of vintage text to lower portion and sew on small seed beads. Crochet a small flower and adhere.

Find Dresses with Sashes stamps here.
 

Three Lovely Dresses • Susan Allan

Three Lovely Dresses 

by Susan Allan

{Featuring Dresses with Sashes & Notions Found}

I stamped a dress onto multi-colored, shimmery paper and carefully cut it out, but adding a bit of extra length. Then I used a Martha Stewart lace punch along the bottom of the dress to make a beautiful lacy edge. A piece of frayed muslin was carefully gathered and glued onto the reverse side, making the dress even longer. A pale blue satin ribbon decorates the waist. Heavy watercolor paper was torn and stamped around the edges with one of the Notions Found stamps. Then a collage of muslin and various ribbons was stitched with a sewing machine onto the paper and further embellished with a torn paper flower, broken wooden flower and a pearl-topped dressmaker's pin, pushed into the muslin.

I adhered the watercolor paper to a kraft card base and placed the dress on top with sticky foam pads. The kraft card base was punched in the top right hand corner with a matching corner punch. Other adornments I have used for this project are torn paper sewing patterns, gathered frayed ribbons, pale pink latex paint and gathered strips of torn silk. 

TIP: When I am spraying Glimmer Mist onto a project, I spray into a shoe box with a book page in the bottom of the box to catch all of the stray glimmer. Because the book page looks so beautiful, covered with many different colors and all shimmery, I can use it in other projects, such as these dresses.

Find Dresses with Sashes stamps here.

Find Notions Found stamps here.

Dress Ornaments • Becky Shander

Dress Ornaments

by Becky Shander

{Featuring Dresses with Sashes}

Stamp dress images onto plain paper. Cut out the dress silhouettes (these will be your templates). Place the templates on top of tea-dyed chenille fabric and then cut around the dress silhouette.

Embellish each dress with embroidery needle and thread. For these, ivory colored thread was used to add French knot detail around the center of the French knot roses. Machine sew vintage trim along bottom of each dress.

For each base, cut organic batting into a small rectangle. Cut a piece of tea-dyed used dryer sheet into the same size and place this on top of the batting. Sew the two pieces together around the edges. Use pinking shears to trim around the edges of the rectangle.

Type "pretty" and "sassy" onto paper, and then cut around each word and sew it to the batting base. Adhere the dress to the top of the base with craft glue. Create mini hangers with wire. Clip the batting to the wire hanger using mini clothespins. 

Find Dresses with Sashes rubber stamps here.

Party Place Cards • Olivia Thomas

Pretty Party Place Cards

by Olivia Thomas

{Featuring Dresses with Sashes}

On cardstock, stamp dress images with black StazOn ink. Score on the sides of the dress image, right at the waistline. Mesure from the score line to the bottom of card. Add this amount from score line to the top of card and cut place card with decorative scissors.

Color with colored pencils. Use sharp craft knife to cut the bodice portion of the dress, right above the score line. Apply rub-ons to add names of guests at the table.

 
Find the Dresses with Sashes rubber stamps here.

RUBBER STAMPS :: Juliette's Dress Notecard • by Rachel Emilie Jackson

On a flat cream card, stamp dress from CRESCENDOh's Dresses with Sashes set in gray waterproof ink. Color the dress with watercolors and use an opaque white pen for details and petticoat. Add a word of found text. Stamp card with large spot from CRESCENDOh's Notions Found set in deep turquoise ink. Stamp the stitched music image from the same set on a scrap of old paper, and add it to the top of the card with printed ribbon and a typed birthday message.

 

Add a pearl to a butterfly-punched paper scrap, and stick it to the card. To finish, rub some gold acrylic paint gently across a dried musk rose, and glue it in place.

Learn more about Rachel Emilie Jackson here.