Dressing it up

Since the recipients have hopefully received their cards by now, I thought I'd share two cards I made.
My sister has this brilliant dress-shaped punch and I have used it for a few birthday cards.  She made me a brilliant present a couple of years ago and punched a whole box of dresses for me in different patterns and colours so I would have lots of lovely card-making objects. Cost very little but perfect for me!

However, I wanted to make a card for a blogging-friend who has lots of dresses and shoes in fabulous patterns and wanted to try and create a coordinating card of different patterns. So I punched several of the design and layered them on top of each other in order to make the dresses stand out like they had petticoats on.  Stuck at a jaunty angle and then punched shoes (also borrowed from sister).  Finally, the plain background was lacking something so I just used a colouring pencil to draw some spots.



 

Having this stripy and dotty  paper as part of the same pack as the previous card, I decided to make a simple matching card with one dress. Just added some baker's twine to tie on the fold.