Vintage Dress Up

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Today I am sharing the last of my current crop of Dress Up die samples. (Do I hear any sighs of relief out there? LOL).

This is a vintage style card I made using Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, the Tiny Tags and Oh, Hello stamp sets, Large Pearls, Vanilla Ribbon Trim and the Tea for Two designer series paper.

Back soon with some non-Dress Up projects. :)

Love Elizabeth X

Imagine Dress Up!

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Another Dress Up die sample for you today. This one features a Silver Glimmer Paper dress with a layered frill made with a Paper Doily from the Stampin' Up! Spring/Summer catalogue.

The greeting comes from the Word Play stamp set and the Flower trim was dyed to match the ribbon using Raspberry Ripple ink.

Love Elizabeth X

Dress up Just for Fun!

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You may not know that I am such a big Walt Disney World fan, that my nieces call me Auntie Disney so I just had to make a Minnie Mouse card using the Dress Up die.

The ears are my ONLY non-SU! punch! The greeting is from Itty Bitty Banners.

My second fun project is a Stampin' Up! apron! I cut it and then used a circle punch, scissors and pricking tool to make that Apron.

I hope you like today's fun Dress Up projects and I still have more to come....

Love Elizabeth X

Dressing up for a Wedding

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Today's project is a Dress Up die wedding card. I stamped the bodice with the Gossamer Lace stamp - see how on my previous video!

The skirt is made with 9 Vanilla Flower Trim flowers and the greeting comes from Petite Pairs.

The Oval dies are in our Spring/Summer Stampin' Up! catalogue. I stamped the Crumb Cake background with a stamp from Creative Elements.

Hope you like it and I am back with two super-fun projects on Sunday.

Love Elizabeth X

VIDEO Lacey Dress Up

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Today was supposed to be another Dress Up video - also featuring an Apothecary Labels.

So I went to link it - and found it was already linked to another post below! Those of you who use blogger and youtube may know they have had some problems over the last few weeks and too many dress up videos had got me confused...easily done!

So now I have the video you should have had last week - scroll down if you want to see what you should have see this week. LOL

Back on Friday with more cute Dress Up dresses!

Love Elizabeth X

Bathing -Dress up

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Dress up is not just for dresses! Here is a card made using the Dress Up die to create swimming costumes.

I cut the dresses in Floral District designer series paper. I then used the 1 1/4" circle punch make the leg cut outs.

The bikini needed a little hand cutting and I used the pricking tool, Basic Rhinestones and Bakers Twine to finish it.

 

I made the sand with torn, spritzed Crumb Cake cardstock and Champagne Glimmer Paper. The Suntan Lotion bottle is made using the Jewellery Punch and the Flip Flops were hand cut and finished with Bakers Twine.

 



Back on Tuesday with another Dress Up video - are you tempted to get these dies yet?


Love Elizabeth X

Retiring soon and Dress for a Night Out

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Before today's project - I have a link for the retiring lists! Sad but true, every year we have to make room in the catalogue for new goodies, so old favourite will be leaving us. There are a few items discounted too - but be quick either way - retiring items tend to sell out quickly. I have already had to disappoint one of my lovely ladies this morning - so check and see if there is anything you MUST have and let me know.

Click HERE and scroll down. You can download the files in PDF or Excel - your choice. The little crosses mean it has already sold out. There is one file for stamps, one for accessories.




So now for the project. Today I am sharing a project made with the Dress Up die from Stampin' Up! You can find it along with a matching stamp set in the Spring/Summer catalogue (also ending soon!) - buy them both and you will save 15%

On the card below I used all three dies. I cut the dress form die out of Natural Composition Speciality DSP. I then sponged Early Espresso ink over the dress form to make the pre-embossed images really pop.

I used the sleeved dress die to cut the jacket in Silver Glimmer paper. (If you want to see how to make the jacket, scroll back and you will find a video showing this).

The dress on the right is cut with the final die in Basic Black and the pleats made using Crystal Effects.

The rail ends are made with the tiny Christmas Ornament punch from the Merry Minis punch pack and I used one of the tiny clothes hangers from the Hung Up Cute Clips.

I hand cut the bag and made the handles with the Large Oval punch and finished the card with lots of Basic Rhinestones. I hope you like it!


Love Elizabeth X

VIDEO, Dress up die and jacket

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Today is the first of my Dress Up die videos - and the second of my sample posts - scroll back to see the first.

Hope you enjoyed today's video - back on Friday with more Dress Up ideas.

Love Elizabeth X

Dress Up Starts Here.....

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Have you see the Dress Up dies in the Spring/Summer catalogue from Stampin' Up! Since I bought mine a few weeks ago they have lived on my craft desk! I just love all the things you can do with these dies.

I have a couple of videos to share with you over the next two weeks and lots and lots of different samples. Here are a few just for a starter....I told you I had made a lot! LOL

Here are a few close ups so you can see the embellishments and techniques I have used...

Below you can see ribbon and a brad on the Red Glimmer paper dress, a Vanilla Flower trim with a Large Pearl, small Basic Peals and Victoria Crochet ribbon on the DSP dress and on the final dress layered ribbon and an In-Color Dahlia.

Below I cut down the dress with a punch and the scallop edge of one of the dress dies to create an apron. The one on the right has the bodice stamped with a stamp from the Artistic Etchings stamp set and the skirt is cut with the Scallop Circle die.

 

 

The dress on the left below was first cut in Whisper White, then embossed using the Vintage Wallpaper die, them rubbed over with Frost White Shimmer Paint. I finished with a piece of Silver Glimmer paper to extend the length of the dress. On the right I used ribbon and Bakers Twine to create a bow to go on the jacket. I have a video showing another type of jacket made with this die coming up on Tuesday. 

 

 

As I said - this is just the start - keep visiting for more ideas and techniques!

Love Elizabeth X

Artisan Embellishments with Dress Up

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Another project made with the Artisan Embellishments kit. I should say I only had one kit - so with three more projects still to share you can see you get plenty to play with.

Here I combined the embellishments with a die cut of the dress form from the Dress Up die from Stampin' Up! Those dies are SO much fun. I have a ton of examples coming up - but here I stamped the flower from the Oh, Hello stamp set onto a die cut piece of DSP from Tea for Two. I stamped the Oh, Hello sentiment, then just punched out the 'hello' word using the Ticket Builder Punch.

The used the wire attached to the flowers to secure the ribbon and embossed the Core'dinations cardstock with the Elegant Lines embossing folder.

As I said, I have more to show you next week after my Tuesday video. Hope you like today's card.

Love Elizabeth X