Lass with Class

Happy Cinco de Mayo! In case anyone is celebrating, hope you're enjoying the day. The card I made today is for a challenge at Sentimental Sundays where the theme was Shabby Chic or to use lace or a doily. I chose to use a doily in my project and created a dress with it.

I began by creating the dress and wanted to see where it took me. Instead of going through the steps of how I created it, here is a link to a dress tutorial. There are many doily dresses out there created by some very talented individuals. The possibilities are many. And what a perfect idea this would be for a bridal shower or a wedding or even a graduation.

With the dress being done, I now had to decide how I would incorporate it into my card design. For some reason, I've used the color turquoise a couple of times lately and I wanted to use it again to make the dress stand out.  So I die cut a panel with Spellbinders Majestic Labels Eight and Labels Seventeen which resulted in the turquoise panel.

In my next step, I embossed a layer in white card stock using a Darice Interlocking Circles folder. To add some color to this embossed layer I used Vivid Straw ink and created dots in the centers of the circles. This was then matted with a turquoise layer and then adhered to a white card base.

My sentiment was personally computer generated and cut with a die from Spellbinders Labels Thirty-Six.  Before removing it from the die it was sponged with PTI Hawaiian Shores ink.

At this point, I put everything together. I adhered the turquoise die cut panel to my prepared base card at an angle using dimensionals. The dress was adhered to the panel, also at a slight angle and with dimensionals. Finally, the sentiment was popped on. My project was complete.

I hope you enjoyed this post and that it inspired you to create something with a doily. Thanks for stopping by and come back again.

This card was entered into the following challenge(s):

Sentimental Sundays  -  Challenge #205 - Shabby Chic or Lace/Doily
613 Avenue Create  - Challenge #70 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday  -  Challenge #130 - Anything Goes
Sister Act  -  Challenge #55 - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls  -  Challenge #17 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz -  Challenge #229 - Anything but Square
MFP Speedy TV  -  Simple Salutations #95
Crafting from the Heart  -  Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

Dies R Us  -  Challenge #1 - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody  -  Challenge #41 - Anything Goes
Simon Says  -  Wednesday Challenge Apr 30 - Anything Goes
My Craft Creations - Challenge 4/28-5/10 - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time  -  Challenge #211 - Ribbon or Lace