Dress Card

Hello all! My name is Susan and I've have been creating cards/scrapping for a liitle over a year now. My friend Laurie, aka Teacher, had introduced me to this wonderful world of papercrafts and as a result I have become her "Grasshopper".  I am also a bonafide member of the Paper Dolls scrapping group, a group of five creative and crazy gals that meet up once a month. I am very new at this blog stuff but my New Years resolution was to get with the program and figure the blog world out. It's easier than trying to lose weight, right? Okay, on to my very first published card.

I have been reading this great blog called Fantabulous Cricut, which Laurie had again introduced me to. Well, they have a wonderful challenge every Monday and I have been wanting to enter it for a while. This time I'm doing it. Below is the card I created using the "Summer in Paris" cartridge. I started by cutting out 2 images of the french maid to fit the 12x12 white cardstock paper. I then lopped off the poor gals head, arms and legs leaving just the dress on two cut images. I then took a piece of pink scrap paper and outlined just the bottom part of the dress, which creates the skirt, and attached it to one of the white images. I then stamped the other image "Just Fabulous" which is the inside of the card. Using a very small brad I connected the two images together at the middle of the waist. I then created the belt which is actually there to hide the brad. By using two pop dots on the back of the belt it raises the belt high enough that the brad doesn't show and the card can move without the belt having to move. Then of course my favorite part... bling it out with gems, gel pens, Stickles and feathers!

Oh how I love doing creative stuff!