THE DRESS OF MANY COLORS...

Hello all you wonderful creative visitors, I want to tell you how much you all inspire me, I was thinking that while I was creating my Cottage ATB, my heart has been singing out loud by all the creations I have been absorbing, I could not do what I do without you my Lovelies, THANK YOU...

I'm trying to play catch up before I leave, sharing what I have already made, this dress has been on the back burner for a while now. My DS Sandy has been telling me to use my paper towels I keep from when I'm pouring my inks. There was lots of white still there so I made some sprays and colored them all up, then they sat in a folder for a while.
I'm really glad I created it, I had a ball for 2 days making this, my hands suffered but it was sure worth it....
I used my dress templates I made, cover it with the paper towels, then folded 2 layers added light pink netting in between, the top layer I stamped it with swirls, and gathered it together to give it softer folds. I used 2 pieces of lace for the waist piece, I folded a paper towel to form the bodice. Added a piece of step ladder yarn to be able to hang it..

                               You can see the layers here..

The jewel on her bodice is a piece of necklace. Glued on some foam butterfly's to hide the wires, used stardust stickles on top.

                 The danglys  are from a earring I took apart...

Another close up....

Thanks Sandy for making me make it, I adore my dress of many colors. She is hanging in the bird cage...

After swimming I had company till 4ish today, then have been madly working on the ATB, hopefully I can get it finished.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, :O)......

I have my Dragons tag to post before Wed evening...

Thanks for visiting my crazy, busy, messy nest

((( BIG HUGS )))

 Head bowed,  wings together..

NAMASTE!!!

NEW FEATHER DRESS

                            Hello my Lovelies I finally made a new dress
                            I got these feathers from my DS Sue..

                         

                           I am having some problems downloading from                                   Picasa.
                           I got some fabulous gift from Tonniece I will try
                           to post them later, thanks for stopping by, hope
                           you all have a wonderful day.
                                         NAMASTE!!!! 

BRIGITA'S FORGOTEN GOWN......

Hello my Lovelies, I have started a series of
dresses, I'm going to hang them in my bird cage,
my last Canary who used to sing to me all day
passed away about a year ago, now it sits empty
in my studio (front room), so I'm going to fill it
with tiny dresses, Tonniece's idea brilliant one :O).
This one belong's to Miss Brigita, a beautiful fairy...

I started with my beer mats shaped like a dress,
gessoed it, tore up strips of my tea dyed material,
some of my rusted material,
I folded a gessoed, inked, stamped, book page for the center,
Used some white net under it than the gathered tan mesh on top.
I started layering the torn pieces on each side till I got
the shape I wanted.
I cut  out 2 pieces from a tea dyed big doilies  to
lay over the front.
I wrapped the rusted strips over the top crisscrossed,.
Wrapped some lace around her waist, then a triangle
rusted piece to cover the doilies,

This was an earring I glued it at her waist,
the little brown beads were red, used a copic to
color them,
added a flat wooden bead and a blue flat back pearl.
I had a lot of thread from tearing the material, so I
gathered a pile and twirled it together then wrapped
it around the wooden bead, then hanging on the sides... 

The left side..

The right side...

I kind of have to cover the backs so I glued a
piece of rusted material...
I love this grungy old look, threads hanging every where
 so I think it will be my
favorite for now..
Thanks so much for visiting,
It's Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, I'm thankful
for every one of my followers, who all inspire me.
THANK YOU..
Hope you have a wonderful weekend..
NAMASTE!!!!

NEW DRESS

 

 

Oh Boysss I tried to add this to a challenge and lost the pics of my dress
and couldn't add them to the older post so hope this works SHESH..
The description and link are in the post below, sorry:):):).

NEW DRESS

 

New dress, my friend Jan got me the plastic frame at the $ store.

I thought what the heck can I do with this.
I have been trying to make smaller dresses like
http://www.messiejessieblog.co.uk/
I got 2 of them for Christmas, they are really small,
she makes some that fit into candy cans.
Haven't achieved that yet. This form is a lot bigger.
I decided to make a form of the body then dress that.
I took plastic wrap and wrapped it around it, twirled
the two side till it was snug, I used a big clip to hold it.
I soaked some torn strips of book pages in water,
then podged them on her to shape a corset,
 leaving a small empty space down the back.
When it dried, I cut the plastic off the back and could
then slip it off the form.
I cover the top with some lovely old lace I got from my DS.
I gessoed some old book pages just over the writing
 distressed the edge with Tim's tea dye.
 I rolled the pages corner to corner glued them.
I glued them to my form to the back of the hips.
I did a running stitch on the lace gathered it to fit
around the top of the skirt.
For the beads, I had a 50 cent bin at Michael's,
they were a pumpkin, I swirled them around the top
and bottom. They were orange so I painted them
with bronze nail polish.
I had to keep a few words showing on the waist :)..
I first saw a dress made like this on my BBF pinterest.
I knew I had to make one, loving dresses like I do...
I do LOVE how it turned out..
I'm busy making up my give away bags, almost done,
can't wait to get to my desk and create something:):)
I've been visiting all my lovely Ladies and am all a
twitter from all the inspiration....
Thanks for visiting and have a fun creative weekend..
NAMASTE!!!
My dear friend Alison, Miss Butterfly suggested I should
enter this in the challenge from Our creative Corner
http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.ca/
This is the first challenge I have entered and anything goes.
Scary stuff but what the heck:):)
This Challenge blog has all of my favorite Artist on the
design team, go have a look at their fabulous art, thats
who get me inspired...

BALL GOWN

 

 

 

Good day my Lovely Ladies well here is the ball gown for the Faerie
Princess dress:):).
I have been collecting pretty napkins forever, I saw a dress made of
them, so I thought shesh I should use some of my tissue and create my own.
I used more wallpaper to line the inside aged it a bit.
I also put a strip of the inked paper on all 4 sides.
I did add a handle to pull the box open but no pic of that.
I cut out a bodice and covered it with my inked time cards.
I used some of the same inked card in the bottom corner to match.
I used 2 a green and a purple one folded them in triangles to form
the bottom of the dress.
 I used some sequins for the top and some ribbons to create the waistline.
Then used the gorgeous, avocado green ribbon to create the top layer.
I added some shiny dollar store bling on the bottom of the dress.
As you see there is a special little faerie to guard the Princess dress.
She has done an excellent job..:):).
Thanks  for visiting and  and have a wonderful day.
NAMESTA!!!

DRESS

 

 

 

I made another little Dress, This one I did a lot more work, I used
card stock, the one I spritzed with shimmer spray. For the outer skirt
I inked and stamped butterfly's then added gold splotches, You really can't
see all that but it there. I dyed some lace and added pearls, used
a piece of material for the top, used some blue ribbon..
Thanks for looking and have a great day..
I'm swimming Mon to Thurs. so will be busy so hope to see you soon.
NAMESTA!!!!

DRESS

 

 

I made a dress from my beer mat, I used some material I rusted,
then some lace bits, organza, used some string pearls for the top
and the waist. I used a flower made of thread and covered it with stickles..
Thanks for looking, have a great weekend..
NAMESTA!!!

DRESSES

 Funny I was going to use beer mats for something else, so when I
showed the to my BF, she said they look like little dresses so that's
what they will be I was inking yesterday and soaked  up the left overs.

DRESS TWO

 

This is the other dress, she uses beautiful old lace
hankies and dollies paper ( book pages), netting.
Sue and I have a lot in common, she says being
somewhat of a magpie her work often features
found objects, recycled jewelry, beads and fabric.
Imagine we both are magpies collecting all sorts
of thing shiny pretty etc, LOL, kindrid souls we are.

BIRTHDAY GIFTS

 

 

Well its my 60th this year, shared with 3 of my
friends, My BBF Tonniece went all out and got
me gifts from around the world and made it really
special..
We both really like Messie Jessie www.messiejessieblog.co.uk
She has been giving us beautiful desktops. I have been
wanting to try and make a dress. I used to say to Tonniece
I'd like to have one in front of me to see how its made.
Low and behold I now own 2 precious dresses made by
Sue Griffith www.suegriffiths.co.uk/category/miss-havisham
Now I'm going to make shadow boxes for them.
Then try to make a couple myself with the books.
Sue's work is stunning do have a look...