Altered Dress Form

Hi everyone - hope that you all had a great weekend... I had a little play in my craft room over the weekend,  I was inspired to get creative with my Craftwork Cards Pretty in Pink Vintage Blooms kit.  My Craftwork Cards teamie Karen has created some stunning projects and I mean stunning - with this month's kit.... pop over here and take a look!  (If you are a Privilege Club member you get the kit for just £10 - yep £10 for all that!)

JUST TO WARN YOU NOW - THIS IS A PICTURE HEAVY POST - A TON AT LEAST!!

So I started to make up some of the flowers in the kit and thought also about how I wanted to use the gorgeous papers that come in the kit. 

I hit on an idea to alter a dress form that I've had for a couple of months just sitting on my shelf all naked and bare........

So lets start with the paper... roll strips around a pencil....

 stick two together....

now add some vintage lace to the bottom... of the dress form

 now start adding the rolled up paper around the dress form to make the skirt!

 now for the top and waist I added some pretty ribbon to hide the top of the skirt.  I then used more ribbon and vintage lace to make a little top!

 and now for one of the flowers from the kit... can you see I've also attached some oh so cute "tape measure" ribbon that I had in my stash - I thought it added a nice touch!

 Now it wouldn't be something I've made without the added "sparkle" would it?!!

and here is the back with a pretty bow...

 and a scrunched flower

Some more views...

 Can you tell I was having fun with my camera!!!

And finally back on the shelf - but this time looking all pretty!! (mind you look at the contrast in colour from the previous photo as its not by the window....)

I really hope that you like this post as much as I did altering this dress form!  Sorry for all the photos  (don't know about you but I love looking at and taking photos - ha ha!!)

Thought I might enter my dress form into this challenge:-

http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/anything-goes.html - Anything Goes (ends 21st July)

Right I'll leave you now off to make a cup of  tea .... until next time...

Happy Crafting

Tina

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