the dress....

when i was little, i had a dress my mother made me. it was dark red with little flowers. Jillibean soup now has a paper that looks almost 99% the same ( brown rice) - the flowers on my dress are just a slightly different shape. i have been thinking alot about growing up. i am mentally preparing myself for a meeting with a social worker about adopting a baby/infant/toddler CHILD!!! i have never really gone through the albums of when i was little, and as digital cameras were not even an idea in someone's head almost 40 years ago, i don't have hundreds to choose from. the ones i do have of myself as a baby and a toddler and little girl, are faded and textured and SMALL!! so, as i am being inspired, i am scanning them and changing them a little to make them fit better. i think that i will will use the original ones too. maybe on a collaged page. who knows!! anyway, when i saw this picture i remembered this dress. i loved it. my mother made all my clothes until i was about 15 and then she still made alot of it. i was a real tomboy growing up. but i had this dress, and i remember always feeling very pretty when i wore it.

i actually remember this photo being taken. i think i was about 5 years old. it was taken at the side of our house, and on the original photo you can see my mother's baby carnations peeking out from behind me. i used a piece of the left over Laced with Grace paper spritzed with my home made glimmer mist, also misted on the page before i added the elements, to just break the white. i then printed my journaling on it. i matted it twice just to make it stand out a bit. i then used one of my border punches to make a small border and used my new Paprika stickles to dress it up

i wanted to add the scallop border with pearls, but i don't have any orangy pearls. so i stuck them all down in a row on my craft sheet and dabbed some Terra Cotta and Sunset Orange alcohol inks on them. only when someone at Let's Scrap reminded me of COPICS, did i remember that there is another way to colour them! i cut the butterflies from one of the sheets of paper and added them instead of the strip on the sketch.

i love the title frame. i stamped it with Archival ink on the lightest paper in the range. i then cut it out as nicely as i could, and added some liquid pearls and stickles to dress it up. i used my Making Memories magnetic stamps to stamp the title also on the light cardstock, and then i spritzed it again. the archival ink acts as a resist to the mist, so you don't have to worry about anything. the roses were cut from another sheet and raised. the strips are just the cut offs from the papers, back and front ( love double sided papers!!) i do hope you like it! i discovered "let's scrap" last night when Jeaunes Viljoen invited me. she has a stunning blog - have a look here. i am very glad she did ! sometimes we need to be challenged!! pay them a visit by following this link.