Swirlydoos Reveal Day - Cabaret

This month's kit from Swirlydoos is beyond gorgeous!  It is full of Prima's latest line of paper and flowers.  I had so much fun with this kit.  


I made this page by fussy cutting one piece of paper and laying it on top of another.  The embellishment add-on had this gorgeous foil paper that I just had to use.  I was inspired by the paper dresses I saw in all of the pictures from CHA and decided to make a paper doll.  She is pretty simple when you compare her to the CHA mannequins, but hey, I'm just getting started! LOL

I Googled drawings of can-can dancers and after what seemed to be 100 pages, I came across a drawing that I really like.  I printed it out and then used a piece of vellum, because I didn't have any tracing paper, and I traced the entire drawing.  Then I cut the pieces out and used them as a pattern.  Then, using the coordinating card stock and patterned paper from the kit, I cut out all of the pieces.  I used a verse stamp on her head, chest and arms.

Sketch Inspiration is a sketch blog and they are working with the DT at Swirlydoos this month.  They gave us a sketch and asked us to work with it.  This is my take on the sketch. I turned it over on its side.   The photo was taken a few years back while we were on vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  I painted a butterfly on my DD's face.  I used a Florabella action in Photoshop  on my photo.   Everything is from this month's kit.  I used a version of an Emerging Color technique on the strip going across the top.  I used a Spellbinder's die and the Smooch spray from out kit to make the butterflies and to mist my page in a few places.  The sketch called for a rectangular object.  I decided to make an envelope instead.

This is my take on the Swirlydoos Sketch that came with our kit.  I flipped it and kind of dismantled it.  It is a beautiful sketch, but it took on a life of its own. Everything except the UTEE is from this month's kit.  I made a heart shape using UTEE and a butterfly that Lisa G. made available for the kit.  I also made a mold of a frame corner I have and then poured bronze UTEE into it.  That is how I made the photo corner. The edge of the page has been slightly cut off, but you can see a close up of the photo corner below.

 

This page came into being because of a canvas I saw that inspired me.  The canvas had a piece of fabric on it that had been made to look like a big curtain that had been pulled back.  I decided to give it a try.  I'm still working on perfecting this, but the way I look at it; nothing ventured is nothing gained!  All of this was made using the kit as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!  

Hugs,
Lisa