One of the things I love to do is to craft dresses out of paper!
So I've had a bit of a play here with ORANGE! Love it!



Its made out of Marrakech Vanilla Chai and Lime Rickey Orange Cream(much more orange in real life than in the shop where its quite yellow - the pic about does it justice!) both these lines were faves of mine a while ago

Here's how you can put a little dress together...
Cut out the desired length of the skirt, spray with water first though (its easier to fold that way) and pleat



Find a manequin on the net and cut it out - or you may have one in some shape or form or be clever enough to draw one - cut out of card board though - it just stabilises it a bit more. Glue your pleated skirt to it.



Now its time to add the bodice - easy enough to wrap a strip around the bust of the manequin (I sprayed the paper with water first so it would adjust around the shape better. Glue it on


Time to cut out a flower shape from the Marrekech paper - (actually I cut out three, one for the skirt - and too for later on.... )


Here we place a crease in the flower cut-out, so it fits nicely on the waist


And bind some green embroidery thread around it to give the waistline some definition


Finish the little dress off with a lovely big button - Sugar Rush Buttons and a little bow.


And we can put this dressed manequin embellishment onto a LO...
The Alpha is Basic Grey Pheobe These are great cos you can get two sizes in two different colours!
So here it is...


I've used the rest of the orange Lime Rickey paper as a base for the the Marrekech paper which as you can see has three flowers cut out - so it shows the plain orange through. So I've put a button and bow on the two other flower cut-outs (bent the edges up a little) and offset them to the side a bit of their original place, And used the third space as a journaling spot!


Some of Basic Grey's papers have fabulous patterns where you can get creative with cut-outs! And it's background papers will forever remain my faves!

So much effort for an embellishment Mandy - love your work - but the reward is worth the effort - this looks fantastic

Luv, luv, luv this, Mandy and totally luv the LO you have created.

stunning missy

Thanks girls... its a but of fun!

Wish I had girls to scrap the dress is just too cute Love it Mandy.
Still migt give it a go, should be fun

Thanks Danni! You could do it for yourself dont need little girls!

gorgeous Mandy!!

wow Mandy that looks amazing
wish i had the paitence to fiddle around with all that

Beautiful. Just love it.

Stunning Mandy!

Want to try and find some time for this technique. Love it!

Mandy you are just so full of Ideas!!!

Love that dress! So very cute

Thanks girls... would love to see what you can do with a little basic grey dress??