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Showing posts with label Dress Forms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dress Forms. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

MAISON de la MODE - House of Fashion - Streets of Paris Event


Maison de la Mode is now open for business and is carrying elegant fashions and accessories.
In the bay window, you’ll find a sampling of the items the shop carries.

The shop occupies all three rooms on the second floor with doorways between each room.
Sparkling lighted (with fairy lights) chandeliers grace two of the rooms and the front bay window.
A vintage cash register sits atop a wood counter painted in complementary colors.
The hole in the floor is to accommodate an elevator which is coming soon.
The walls are decorated with sundry fashion-themed posters.
In addition to jewelry, the shop carries the lovely velvet jewelry box pictured below made from a chipboard kit.
There is a large selection of hats and gloves.
Each room is packed with all kinds of beautiful products showcased on glass shelves and in glass cases.
Throughout the shop, you’ll find lovely dresses.
The balconies are a perfect place to display the shop’s line of couture dresses.

To go along with this project I have created four new collage sheets and two digital image sets plus a video tutorial where I walk you through how I outfitted the shop.  You’ll also find a button below that when clicked takes you to a large photo album crammed with additional pictures.

 NEW COLLAGE SHEETS & DIGITAL IMAGE SETS
This collage sheet contains a variety of boxes and bag designs and sizes that would work for a clothing store.  There are rectangular boxes, round hat boxes, bags, and some labels.  To purchase this sheet, click on the image below.

Use these images for a collage project or glue them together to make mini fashion magazines or catalogs.   To purchase this sheet, click on the image below.

Use these images for a collage project or as posters on walls. To purchase this sheet, click on the image below.

Use these images for a collage or miniature project.  TIP: If you are using the gloves as part of a miniature project, print the gloves multiple times and glue them together for a 3D look.  To purchase this sheet, click on the image below.

This set includes all of the images on the Mini Fashion Magazines & Fashion Posters/Magazine Covers for a total of 36 images.  Use these images for a collage project or as posters on walls and miniature magazines.  To purchase this image set, click on the image below.
HOUSE OF FASHION DIGITAL IMAGE SET
This set includes all of the images on the House of Fashion Bags & Boxes collage sheet, fashion posters, invoices, window signage, and window awnings for a total of 37 images.  Use these images for a collage project or as posters on walls and miniature magazines.  To purchase this image set, click on the image below.

VIDEO TUTORIAL


FREE DRESSED WOOD FLOOR COLLAGE SHEET
Feel free to download this collage sheet and use it in your projects.
DETAIL SUPPLY LIST
COLLAGE SHEET/DIGITAL IMAGE SETS
PAPER
Black Suede Paper – Purse, Dress, Jewelry Box
Acanthus Leaf Dresden Decorations – Used on Awnings

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Couture a Bejeweled Altoids Tin Dress Shop - NEW Collage Sheets & Digi Image Set


AlphaStamps May kit is aTiny Dress Shop.  For my shop, I thought I would create dresses made from images of vintage jewelry.
The tiny shop is made from Altoids tins so you can imagine how tiny the dresses are.  What gives the shop an architectural look is the 3D roof chipboard kit designed to fit the top of an Altoids tin.
I could see the items I used applied to other themes like Halloween, Alice in Wonderland, Fairies, etc.
For this project, I created two new collage sheets and digital image set.  One of the sheets is filled with dress forms that can be used standalone or layer over the chipboard dress forms from the two shape sets I used.  
The Mini Bejeweled Collage Sheet is a mini version of my older Bejeweled & Bejeweled #2 Collage Sheet.
The digital image set contains most of the images on the older Bejeweled collage sheets plus some new images.  The great thing about the digital image set is that it is easy to size and flip images and to print multiples of an image which is what I did to create my dresses.

This sheet contains three sets of different sized dress forms with each set made up of 14 unique patterns.  The dress forms are sized to work with the Dress Shop Shape Set & the Mini Paper Dolls Shape Set.  You can layer the images over the dress forms in these sets or use them standalone.
This collage sheet is a mini version of my larger Bejeweled & Bejeweled #2 Collage Sheets and is packed with all kinds of jewelry.  The images are great for smaller projects.  Use them as an accent or combine multiple pieces of jewelry to create clothing. 
This sheet contains 72 vintage jewelry images which are also found, with a few exceptions, on the Bejeweled and Bejeweled #2 Collage Sheet.    You can “jewel up” these images by adding rhinestones, Glossy Accents, microbeads, glitter, and Stickles. 


THE DETAILS
I started by assembling the roofs which are made from a chipboard kit and then covered them with Hampton Brick Scrapbook paper.   Notice the grove at the bottom, its designed to fit on top of an Altoid’s tin.

For the tins, I started by removing the lid and flattening the prongs.  I covered the back and sides with 1:12 Brick Wall Sheet which is embossed.  
I covered the surfaces on the inside with papers from the Moments In Time 6x6 Paper Pad.
To make the dresses, I used dress forms from my New Dress Form #2 Collage Sheet.  I applied the dress forms to chipboard dress forms found on the Dress Shop Shape Set & Mini Paper Dolls Shape Set and painted the bases of the dress forms black.
To create the dresses, I used jewelry images from the Mini Bejeweled Collage Sheet.  Since for many of the pieces I need multiples and flipped pieces, I also use the Bejeweled Digital Images Set.  The longer curved images and leaves work great for bodices and skirts.  Birds are great for shoulder accents and bodices.  Horizontal pieces work well for belts or connectors for long waisted dresses.  Wings turned upside down work well for collars and the use of multiple wings upside down can create a tapered skirt.
To give the jewelry more dimension, I applied Glossy Accents to some of the jewels.  You could also add rhinestones, glitter, Stickles, microbeads and metal findings.

I glued the dresses inside the tins by using layers of double stick foam tape which popped them up from the back. 

The frame I glued on top of the tin is from the Altoids Tin Facades which dresses-up the edge of the tin.  I cut away the top of the frame as it would have covered up the roof.  Next, I glued the roofs on the top of the tins.

For the centerpiece, I used two more of the Altoids Tin Facades.  I used the same paper for the roof and the main area of the frame. 

The posters displayed in the opening of the façade come from the Mini French Fashion Magazines Collage Sheet.  To the image in the front, I added a feather and jewelry images from the Mini Bejeweled Collage Sheet to the hat and used part of an image for the earring to which I added Glossy Accents.  In the center of the flower on the hat, I added a red bead.  

I glued the poster images to paper from the Moments in Time paper pad then sandwiched the images between the two facades.
Finally, I glued the edges of the Altoids tin on top of the edges of the façade.




DETAIL SUPPLY LIST
or
Mini French Fashion Magazines Collage Sheet
Moments in Time 6x6 Paper Pad
Hampton Brick Scrapbook Paper
1:12 Brick Wall Sheet
Blank Altoids Tins
Altoids Tin Facades – Set of 4
Altoids Tin Roof
Dress Shop Shape Set
Mini Paper Dolls Shape Set