I was really thrilled to once again be invited to participate in the Ranger Designers Challenge for CHA-W 2012. For this year’s challenge, we were each provided with a paper mache dress form and asked to use Liquid Pearls on our projects.
The first thing I did with my dress form was to paint the base. I used the Jenni Bowlin Ranger Paint Dabbers in Brown Sugar and Malted Milk. After the paint was dry, I applied Vintage Photo Distress ink. Finally, I squeezed out some Dark Chocolate Liquid Pearls onto my craft sheet and painted it on over the dried paint to create a shiny glazed finish.
I used cotton quilt batting to pad the top portion of the dress form. I adhered it with Claudine Hellmuth Studio Matte Multi Medium. After the Multi Medium was dry, I cut natural colored muslin to fit and again used Multi Medium to glue it in place.
After the Multi Medium was dry, I brushed over the muslin with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to make the fabric look a bit more vintage. Finally, I brushed on White Opal Liquid Pearls over the muslin to give it shimmer.
To embellish my dress form, I first gave her a sash made from Tim Holtz’s Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon. I colored it yellow with Scattered Straw Distress Stain. After drying the ribbon, I stamped it with the ruler image from the Tim Holtz Stamper’s Anonymous Curiosities stamp set using Coffee Archival Ink.
At the top of the sash, a cute little blue bird cut from Grunge Board using the Mini Bird Alterations Movers & Shapers die and colored with Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw Distress Stains is perched on the shoulder of the dress form. The bluebird has a light coat of Broken China Distress Stickles and a shiny black eye from a black Sakura Glaze Pen. The clear star stick pins are by Maya Road.
The greenery wrapped around the sash and under the flowers is cut from Ranger’s Manila Cardstock and painted with Key Lime, Ivy Green, and Avocado Liquid Pearls and then inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. After the Liquid Pearls and ink was dry, the edges of the leaves were accented with Crystal Ice Ice Stickles. To create the crown for the top of the dress form, I applied a piece of Ranger Foil onto a scrap of cardstock and die cut it with the Alterations Vintage Lace Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die.
To create the Roses, I die cut Tim Holtz Core-dinations Distress Cardstock using the Alterations Tattered Pine Cone die. I brushed each die cut with Liquid Pearls to create a shimmery glazed cardstock piece. I used Hot Cocoa, Daffodil, and White Opal Liquid Pearls on the cardstock. After the cardstock was dry, I inked the edges of each die cut with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I assembled each die cut into a rose shape. (A wood skewer and a quick drying glue like Helmar 450QD is really helpful in assembling these.)
After the adhesive on the flowers was dry, I filled the openings of the roses with Crystal Ice Ice Stickles.
At the bottom of the sash, I added a mini safety pin and a small scissor charm that I created with Ranger Shrink Plastic, UTEE. The scissor stamp is from Wendy Vecchi’s Studio 490 Art By Hand stamp set.
At the base of my dress form I added a banner that says “She dreams of roses in the winter” using my beloved Hero Arts Printer’s Type Lowercase Stamp Set. The banner was cut from manila cardstock with the Tattered Banner Sizzlets Strip Die and colored with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I added two Idea-ology Mini Fasteners on each end of the banner.
I really love the finished piece. It really symbolized a bit of me that dreams of my spring garden during a cold midwest winter.
(Note: Hot Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Daffodil, Key Lime, Ivy Green, and Avocado Liquid Pearls are new colors that will be shipping in February.)
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Wow, that is very beautiful.
Really Lovely…
so, so wonderfully cute
Simply beautiful! Thank you for providing such full details of how you made this.
There were a lot of wonderful dress forms on display, but the elegant beauty of yours made it really stand out. Gorgeous work, TT!
Simply beautiful in every way Tammy, fab project!
She is beautiful – I love the roses! I have that die, but haven’t used it yet. Those roses are inspiring me to get crafty! I also love the color combination. Wonderful job!
Beautiful Tammy. I bet it really sparkles in person.
Thanks for the close-up, Tammy. Have seen “passing” shots, but really wanted to see more, so this is wonderful for me. Love the Pinecone Roses! (Yours is the best of the lot in my opinion!)
You did a great job. Came out beautiful. Good-luck in the challenge.
stunning and so creative.
You did a fabulous job creating this–it’s just gorgeous! I can hardly believe the little scissor charm isn’t metal. 🙂
stunning!!!
Beautiful!! I love it and all the elements too!!
simply BEAUTIFUL! luv luv your work…u never fail to amaze me woman! so glad you could go! and congrads on all! so happy for you!
Just love what you did with the dress form. Those flowers are amazing
Your flowers are beyond perfection…and all the colors..so sweet. I love all the tiny details, especially the silver trim around the top. Looks like a tiny crown.
This was so beautiful. It was one of my favorites from the challenge.
Simply beautiful!
Wow – this is just beautiful!
This is really stunning…an absolute labour of love! Would adore to see your creation in real-life.
Your work is amazing! She came out looking beautiful and I was fascinated by all the steps you took to finish this project! Thank you so much for sharing this!
I recognized it right away in Tim’s video. Your flowers are to die for; but to see it up close…oh my; i’m still trying to get roses half as pretty as yours. Thanks for sharing and creating such a lovely piece.
So beautiful… I love the way you made the sash with the ruler ribbon and added all those gorgeous flowers.
Beautiful as always !! I was wondering which one was yours when mario tweeted them. :). Awesome job
What a beauty!!! Awesome!!!!
Thank you for sharing the details and close-ups of your dress form, which turned out beautifully. The CHA videos I saw of these dress forms just don’t do them justice. Yours is amazing!
Tammy – thanks for showing all the close ups – the details and beauty do not come through when you see the larger piece in a picture – but with the close ups the details are stunning!
Gorgeous project Tammy – I may have to pick up some of the liquid pearls.