One World One Heart 2011 Gift Exchange Gale Cards

Gale sent me the most fabulous greeting cards from the One World, One Heart 2011 blogging event. Her blog is Gale's Playing with Paper I had to share them with you! 

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Today in our mail I had a package from you and I could not wait to get the scissors and get it opened.  You did pack it wonderfully and it arrived in wonderful condition. Just like you had hand put in my mailbox yourself. But it did come across the country and traveled very well!

Oh My Goodness!; what fabulous cards you have made for me! And even envelopes to mail them to another but I don't know if I can do that, I Am a keeper and hard to part with my lovely gifts from exchanges. But, you have given me inspiration. I need to get at my work table and start creating.

I had been working on some jewelry and not finished with it (I am waiting on a few more ideas to burst into my head for it) But, I just boxed the whole bead board with the tools and beads on it to clean off a workspace.

I have a cricut machine that I am hugely disappointed in and now I remember why I just boxed it back up after I got it a couple of years ago.

Anyway, I love your cards and you used many fabulous art pieces together to make SIX of them for me! WOW!  You really sent me a bundle and I LOVE every one!

Your layering is beautiful with flowers, laces, ribbons, signs, glitter, stamps, and embellishments! I wonder if you colored all the cards, it sure looks like you did! Maybe they are those copic markers I hear about?  I adore the raised dots! You are truly a professional in your art making! 

I just got an idea. Yu know how I love to reuse something I have found for something else. Well, again at the thrift store which I am trying to stay away from because I have found so many objects there and I am overflowing with their things! Anyway, I found a box of professionally embossed with three initials cards and envelopes in wonderful new condition. Maybe they were made for someone and the initial design was wrong so they had to be remade and these tossed out. Well, at least not in the dumpster but to be recycled. Ok, now I know what to do with them. Re-make the front designs! Yes! You are a genius helping me think to do that!

Here are the cards you sent me to be so inspired!  Many THANKS!

Smiles, Cyndi

   

Could this be a Marie Antoinette wire dress form?

     


I listed this on Etsy this morning as I have been working with one to make a vintage like dress from another era. I am not a seamstress so I am just playing with it now, but I am inspired by an exchange I was in several years ago. I got the most beautiful dress in my exchange from Gina Smith with our Fairy Zine 2008  exchange with Lisa Kettle.  Gina made my dress mostley of silk flowers, lace, dyed pom poms, pearls and feathers,but the form she purchased had to be expensive I believe.

Anyway when I saw this wire form with a wood bead for a head, I thought MARIE ANTIONETTE dress form! Ding, Ding, in my head! Fabulous find! I love to find objects and use them for another purpose although I have no idea what this is other than a head scratcher my husband thinks.

Can you see what I see?

Here is a real photo of a dress from Marie's collection.

Wouldn't it be fun to try to make a similiar dress?  Do you collect material odds and ends? Craft Projects?


Here is the Etsy listing information in ByLightOfMoon shop:

Supplies listing for Marie Antoinette Like Dress Wire Form

I saw this and immediately thought of the dress forms I have seen on-line.

I am not sure what this is but it works for me.

Maybe it can work for you.

Measurements are:

Length ~ 10 inches

Width ~ 5 inches

Head wood bead ~ 1 inch

The prongs vary in length, the short is 5 1/4 and the long making the base of the form is 6 1/2 inches

The middle piece from the head to the skirt is 2 inches and varies in color, but it is just a base for your dress form and would all be covered in the fabrics of your choice

I AM using my imagination to call this a dress form


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Now, here is the dress exchange I got from Gina in 2008  and it is beautiful.

Oh, I have to go amke it bigger for you to see: Just a second;

This is a little better, I just made it larger in Picasa, the tools I can use easily.

I hope you have enjoyed this fun idea, I have had fun repeating in my head to you.

Smiles, Cyndi