WT153 The Height Of Fashion Challenge and VSN warmup and the April WT164 challenge (pleats)
Just stumbled across this warm up challenge (VSN) and it reminded me of a story my mother told me. When she was pregnant with me and my twin brother, she was worried (of all things) that we would be ugly babies. So she shared her concerns with my father. "What if they are ugly" she asked him. And he replied with "We'll dress them fine!". I thought that was so funny. She made it a point to sew matching outfits for us. She would use the same fabrics and colors, but one would be a dress and one little shorts or overalls. Our baby outfits were not the typical baby onesies, etc.
My empire waste baby dress has TAC ladybug stamped images. STamped in black and colored in w/red marker. Cuttlebug white flowers. Scallop scissors for edge. Folded the gingham paper to give it dimension and the appearance of gathers.
The card is the shape of the dress, but you can't tell against the white background. The red ribbon straps float freely above the card base.
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 GMT Views: 3732
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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:49 AM
This is fabulous! Do you have a pattern for this? I just read about a woman who made 100 childrens dresses to take to El Salvador with a mission group. I wanted to make a card for her....this is TOO perfect!
I wish I had a pattern....would have saved me some heartache. LOL Hmmm, I'll see what I can do. Haven't done tuts on stuff before. Should I just trace around the dress or scan it? As for the paper that I folded for pleats, that was all about guessing and playing too. I would start with plain junk paper to get the hang of it. I tossed the first couple of pieces. Thank you for all your lovely comments. It means alot!