Digging Out the QuicKutz

For the most part I am too lazy to mess with making die cuts, especially those that require several different cuts on different pieces of paper, but I do have a HUGE collection of scraps, and there is nothing that is quite like little cut outs on a card.  I am part of a private swap on Swap Bot with someone who loves dogs, so I made this little card to put with her goodies.

Origami Dress Card

It took me all afternoon, and my studio table looks worse for the wear, but I finished a card for a great-niece's birthday.  By making it with just her name on the front, it could be framed to hang in her room. It would be a nice decoration, because really, it is just too cute!!

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I found the inspiration on Pinterest that lead to this blog, then I found a YouTube video to show how to fold the dresses. All the papers were from my scrap bin.  The dresses and background printed papers are by Chatterbox, card stock by Bazzill, letters were cut with QuicKutz Elizabeth font from a scrap of Wild Asparagus paper by My Mind's Eye.  All the trims were also scraps. The brads are Making Memories, the Hangers by Tim Holtz.  (I was SO excited to have a project to use those cute little guys!!)

If I was going to try it again, I would be sure to use really thin paper.  The line I chose was fairly light weight but I still had a little trouble with some of the folds.  The squares I began with were 3", and I would not go any smaller than that.  This card is 5X7, and it needed to be that big to get three dresses on it.