Good Morning! How goes it with everyone today! Hope you all have a picture perfect day today!
Today I have a little tutorial for you. About 2 years ago I use to sell hand cut dress forms in my other etsy shop PopaliciousToo (hand cut by Joe…my husband : ) not me…I am officially allergic to power tools…well that is if I want to keep my limbs with me! We sold tons of them and have requests for them almost every single day. Then unfortunately I had a little delay (emergency brain surgery). We won’t go into the craziness that stirred up in this families life but alas the dress forms were no longer. Now the good news, as you can see I am doing much better (thank God) and Joe started making them again for me and for the first time I actually made one so I want to share it with you. It was fun actually making something with our own item! The undecorated forms are available in my PopaliciousTOO etsy shop!
Taking Dress Form!
A little bit of snips and scraps and viola! I was lucky enough to find this wonderful W page in the dictionary…now if I only scanned it!
This is the base form
Nice and sturdy made from 1/2″ mdf
Here is what I used…but as you can imagine…your only limitation is your imagination…so the possibilities are endless and you don’t need much of anything at all!
I simple painted the sides…the stick and the backs of the form and the base…I chose black for this creation but once again the possibilities are endless!
Then I decoupaged the fronts with vintage dictionary paper. I applied modge podge to the front…applied the paper and smoothed it out…let it dry for about 5 minutes…trimmed it and then lightly sanded the edges for a clean and smooth finish!
Then it is time to create! Just apply all of your decorations with you favorite glue or adhesive strips and just let your creativity out! You can make these from card stock for your scrapbooking creations also…so many possibilities!
Sweet and Simple
Here are some samples of one of my VERY talented customers…
Regina Robidoux…
Regina even created a How-To You Tube Video Take a peek!
I love those little shoes!
A bit of pizzaz!
Hope you enjoyed this little project! I will see you tomorrow!
(Hugs)…
Think Pink!
I love it! it’s so cute! Have a nice day from spain under the wonderful sun of autumn!
Oh, WOW! This is just the cutest thing ever. You are so creative! I can’t wait to see what other shabby chic things you’re gonna put in your shop!
Oh so PRETTY and Oh so CREATIVE….I think I still have your email so I am going to look for it…Because you know and I know we have something to talk about… : )
These are so darling!!
These are gorgeous and Regina did an awesome job of decorating hers. I predict these are going to be a very popular item and your price is unbelievable on these. Got to grab a one or two for myself and a few for Christmas gifts for those crafty people on my list. Thank you Andrea for offering these, Joe for making them and Regina you gave me some awesome ideas for decorating! Can’t wait to see what new ideas you have up your sleeve next…lol.
These are so cute! Thanks for showing us how to do it!
These are simply adorable my friend. xoxoxo
AHHHH!! You Told me about These And now i Love them EVEN MORE!!! You have to Put these in your shop again!! Like my Little Ariels says.. You Must, You must, YOU MUST! lol she got it from my little pony lol
AHHHH!! You Told me about These And now i Love them EVEN MORE!!! You have to Put these in your shop again!! Like my Little Ariels says.. You Must, You must, YOU MUST! lol she got it from my little pony lol
AHHHH!! You Told me about These And now i Love them EVEN MORE!!! You have to Put these in your shop again!! Like my Little Ariels says.. You Must, You must, YOU MUST! lol she got it from my little pony lol
AHHHH!! You Told me about These And now i Love them EVEN MORE!!! You have to Put these in your shop again!! Like my Little Ariels says.. You Must, You must, YOU MUST! lol she got it from my little pony lol
AHHHH!! You Told me about These And now i Love them EVEN MORE!!! You have to Put these in your shop again!! Like my Little Ariels says.. You Must, You must, YOU MUST! lol she got it from my little pony lol
Oh wow!! Those are so neat!! The one you made in the tutorial looks awesome!!! As well as your customers’ creations:) Thanks for sharing such a neat craft! It would be so cool for gifts…thanks for the inspiration!
Also, thanks for stopping by my blog and for the awesome comment you left me…so sweet of you!! That’s what’s great about linky parties…meeting awesome people like you!! Thanks for following my blog!! I’ll definitely be doing the same:D
So so pretty! I love it!
So clever and beautiful! 🙂
So pretty , love it!
Short Poems
I was on another page of your blog for Time Travel Thursday and came across this. I can’t tell, did you link this to Beverly’s Pink Saturday and I missed it? If you haven’t linked with Beverly on her Pink Saturday – you should. This is great (pink or not) but especially pink! Let’s see, if you go to my blog, look on my sidebar for the Pink Saturday icon (lower right) or into my Blogs-Memes Category to find Beverly’s link. She pinks every Saturday – she’s doing holiday posts plus pink right now. Some don’t care for selling things on their memes. ?? Don’t know about Beverly’s party. Really neat post and love the dress form. Thanks, Jenn
so so very pretty
Happy PS
Laura
Love love love this!!! How stinkin’ cute. A terrific post!
Hope y’all have fun at the ball!
How cute are these 🙂
Oh they are gorgeous, each on as cute as the next!! I am just thrilled they are attending the dress form ball! Thank you soooo much!
Carol
Very cute! Popping in from Carol’s dress form party to say hi!
Very lovely!!
Thank You for sharing and have a great day!
Aledia~
I am glad that you are on the road back to recovery. I love your tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Cathy ♥
Oh, they’re absolutely adorable! I love your black, white and pink dressform. Beautiful!
Goodness!! This is such a great idea!! LOVE IT!!!
I actually have a paper mache or two dress forms at home that I bought at a yard sale!! I will definitely have to dabble a bit with them!
Thanks for the great inspiration!!
Hugs,
Debbie
These are all so cute. I love the one in the shadow box the most, but what a cute craft! have fun at the ball. Hugs to you
I love your sweet creations and am glad things are going better for you guys : )
I love this ! While I’ve been away I bought a wire dress form and my mind is going wild with possibilities with what I’m going to do with it ! xoxoxo