Sew Christmas!

Sew Christmas!

by Lis Whiting

I love collage and I love dress forms! So, what's better than to match the two up in my Christmas card today!

Card Base:

• Normally I work in A2 - or 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Today's card is 5 x 6 1/2 inches.
• My card base is made from kraft paper to give an "old" feel.
• I chose a Christmas paper with roses on it for my die cut and an all over pattern for the card.  I found some white patterned paper that looked like old wood and decided to use that also.
• I decided to use the white "wood" paper on the left and the rose collage paper on the right - vertically. I planned on covering the seam with my dress form

Dress Form:

• Die cut Dress Form using Tim Holtz Sizzix die
• Cover top with roses patterned paper
• Cover stand with gold mirror (or gold glossy)
• Cover base with suede paper
• Edge one side with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain
• Decorate dress form with white pearls draped on one side
• Add small white crochet doily on lower left side - add a fancy button and glue a white pearl in the middle
• Mount Dress form onto card with foam tape -over the seam between the two paper mats.

Pie Plate:

• The pie plate is made from Frantic stamper's own die - the Parisian Lamp Post.  This die is amazing and can be used for so many things - my pie plate, a candelabra, a sign post - wow!
• To make my pie plate, I cut off the three candle sconces. I cut below the first "bulge" in the stem. I cut the very flat part of the base off. I cut just above the first indentation at the bottom.  I glued the two pieces together with a glue dot. I trimmed the bottom piece stem edges just a little so they were a little thinner.
• Although there is a seam, I did nothing with it. I used stardream gold paper and the seam is almost invisible.

The rest is decoration which I had fun with using Dazzles gold borders. 

I hope you try out this card!  Thanks for stopping by!

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Products used:

• Frantic Stamper Die Parisian Lamp Post
• Sizzix Die Tim Holtz Sewing Room
• Ranger Distress Ink in Walnut Stain
• SEI Suede Paper Newport
• Hot off the Press Holographic paper Silver Snowflakes
• Hot off the Press Dazzles Gold Lacy Borders
• Stardream paper in gold
• Paper Accents Gold Mirror Card
• We R Memory Keepers Antique Chic Crocket Doilies
• There are an incredible number of beutiful papers at Frantic Stamper. Enter "roses patterned paper" in the Search window.