Bonjour

Good morning blog friends!  We are going French today, oui, oui!  This is one of my favs from the show.  My photography just does not do it justice, but I started with some background paper that I found while in FL. from Websters Pages (I am fairly certain that it can be found in the UK too).  I cut three strips and covered them with our self adhesive sticky sheets.  I peeled the backing paper off and covered them in clear micro beads for texture.  I matted each strip with milk card and then taped them on to a background piece of blush card.  I stamped one of the JustRite French Frill tag stamps on milk card and cut it out with the matching Botanical Swirls die.  I inked it  lightly with Tattered Rose distress ink while it was still in the die, then used a bit more to deepen the roses on the stamp.  I used some black tulle and threaded it through either end of the tag and tucked the ends around the back of the card and secured them.  I tied a bow and added it to the right hand side.  I cut two of the French Frills dressforms out of black card.  I decided to use just the stand and replaced the dress portion with stamped versions from the same Just Rite stamp set.  I inked them with Tattered Rose also and cut them out with the matching die.  Using mounting foam for height, I added them to the centres of the dress forms.  On each dressform, I added three small flatback pearls to the neck.  Across the card strips, I added a lovely spray of swirlie pearls for interest.  I decided to go with a black mat to balance my dressforms and tulle and I pierced the inner layer to finish my card.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 8 1/2"  It's one of those  no particular purpose, girlfriend type of cards, but I love it!  All for now, Sue x