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Tutu Dress Form Bow Holder

I've been asked how I make my Tutu Dress Form Bow Holders. They are very easy.

First I get the dress forms at Hobby Lobby. They are in the Home Decorating section, at my HL they carry the black and hot pink. They are not in the same isle in my HL. I wait until they have their metal 50% to buy them. They only have like 2-3 of each one so I get there early in the week they are on sale to get them.

This picture shows where I place the tulle on the form. (A)

This picture shows where I glue the ribbon that are for the bow holders. (B).

 

This is the ribbon I' using for this one. This Bow Holder is for my newest Great-Niece. Her mom, my Niece Becky likes bold fun colors. On this one I used 4 yards of 1.5" ribbon. I like to make a big bow on the back.

 



 





This is my Tulle Choices for this one. I have made ones using just one color. I like them both. I like to make mine really full as you will see in a later picture so I use about 10 yards of tulle per color or 40 yards total.

 



This is how I cut my tulle...I think 26" is a good length so I have the Martha Stewart Scoreboard. * you can use what you have or cut a piece of cardboard.  I wrap the tulle around and around the number of times for how many pieces I'm going to need. There are 8 spaces (see A) that the tulle goes. I put 2 groups of 3 pieces in each space. I do a diagram of the spaces and colors I'm going to use just to keep me straight. *hope that makes sense to you.*

 

Cut only at the top that will give you 26" pieces. I used 48 pieces total. (12 of each color).

All my tulle cut and ready to start looping onto (A).

 

 

All my tulle cut and ready to start looping onto (A).

 

I take 3 pieces of my selected color and loop onto (A) spaces going from the top down. I just like how that looks.

Here is the first color in place. Now I scrunch that over as much as I can and place the second color right next to it in the same space.

 

Then I continue in the same manner until all 8 spaces are filled up.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a close up of the loops

 

This is a bottom view of how full the skirt part is ...

 

 

 

 





 

I now cut my ribbon that is going to hold the bows and go on (B). I cut mine about 19" long...that gives me a 1" fold over at the top and the length I like. You need 4. I "V" cut one end. The other end I do a tuxedo fold...I just like how it makes the ribbon lay.

 

Now you can sew or glue into place. The first few of these I made I sewed them (not easy to do)....now I just hot glue them.

 

 

Next comes the top....I use a 8" woven headband.

 

It goes in place like this....and as you can see I loop several of the loops over the black swirl things at the top to hold it in place.

 

Next comes the waistband that I just tie in the back in a BIG BOW.

 

 

 

That's it...Easy as 1...2...3....

 

If you have questions just post them. I've made 12 of these so far. I clip the bows on the ribbons hanging down and clip some on the mesh headband and headbands can be hung on the hangers....there are 5 of them.

 

 

 



 





Ribbon Storage

New Boxes for storing my ribbon....after I started making bows (which I started doing to use up some of the ribbon I bought for scrapbooking) I started buying MORE ribbon...isn't that how it works out....who knew there was so much CUTE ribbon out there. So the boxes I was using in my post below was not working out...there was too much space at the top so if they got turned over...well it just would have been a BIG mess... My Mom found these at Costco for me and they are perfect...there was a space between the two rows of ribbon  I just took a 12X12 piece of cardstock and folded it into the long tube. I used my ATG gun to stick it down (double sided taped would work). I have them separated by color and then I have one that is all the ones printed with designs or characters.

 



This picture was taken about a month ago....LOL...I have one whole containers filled with just pink ribbon...and another with the printed...

Ribbon Organization Project

I saw where a fellow scrapper organized her ribbon by doing this....Okie's Ribbon Storage. I really like how it came out and thought I REALLY NEED to do for my ribbon. But I didn't have the plastic that she used for the bobbins and it freaked me out a bit on how long it seemed to take her. THEN I was reading a Hair Bow blog this week where the title of her post was "Get Organized Using What You Have"...This lady used 3x5 cards...I thought I have LOTS of 3x5 cards leftover from when my boys were in school and used them to make flashcards to help them study. SOOOOO my project for this last Sunday was to organize my ribbon...

First take 2 3X5 index cards and fold them in half...

Next Staple to hold it closed...one worked for me...

Then I taped one end of my ribbon and started wrapping.....

Keep wrapping until it is full and i used another piece of tape to keep it put...you could pin it or use a rubber band....

 I then used the storage container that I had stored my ribbon rolls in...I'm going to buy ones that are not so tall down the road....I went from 3 of these full, plus a ribbon bag...plus rolls stored here and there to two of these....organized by color....

DONE!!!

Pixie Hallow "BEAUTIFUL"

Layout for the "Strut Your Cuts" Challenge over at Scrappy-Go Lucky week 6. This layout is using Tinkerbell and Friends. This picture of my Great-Niece Cadence was taken last year at Epcot's Flower Festival. I've been meaning to get it scrapped BUT I "hate" piecing those little fairies!!! So again this challenge was a good kick in the butt to get a much needed layout done. I LOVE how it came out.

Supplies Used:
Plain Cardstock: Core-dinations
Pattern Paper: The paper with the fairy on it and the pink flower paper is from DCWV "Once Upon A Time" stack the purple swirl is Cloud9 "Pixie Hallow"
Cricut: Disney's Tinkerbell and Friends Cartridge ...Iridessa2 page 60 cut at 3.5"....Silvermist1 page 64 cut at 4"...Beautiful page 56 filigree feature cut at 10" (lenght setting)
Prima Flowers
Buttons
Signo Gel Pen

Ruffled Baby Dress

A few weeks ago my Mom prints off this crochet pattern and hands it to me. She said why don't you make one like this. I quickly read the pattern and thought that looks a bit hard, I put it aside. Last week we made a Hobby Lobby run, I thought let me get some yarn and try that dress. I think this is now my new favorite crochet pattern! It worked up really easy. This one is for my Best Friends Daughter (my fake Niece Sam's baby girl Sophia.) For those that don't know my "real" Niece Becky is expecting a girl in April and my "fake" Niece Sam  is expecting a girl in March ( actually I've already called it she is going to be born on my birthday). I've already made them each a blanket, a dress, and a few diaper covers. This is where I got the pattern ... Ruffled Baby Dress.

P.S. This is my "fake" baby....

XOXO

HUGS and KISSES for Cadence

Another layout for the challenge over at "Scrappy-Go-Lucky" Strut Your Cuts where they give you a list of 5 cartridges every week and you have to use only those cartridges for your layout. I've done one every week and it has really been fun. Sometimes VERY challenging because the cartridge I had from the list had no font on them to use for a title but it really made me look at the layout in a different light. It has gotten me to do layouts that have been needing to get done and MOST of all it is getting me to use my cartridges!!!

This week the only one I had from the 5 was Paisley. I've had this cartridge for about a year now and have not made a single cut from it. Whenever I think about that cartridge the image of the nesting dolls come to mind. BUT when I took a look at it this week I was surprised at how many CUTE images there were on it. Two layouts came to mind to do BUT as life happens for me this has not been a good week. My vertigo has been off the charts and no crafting happened. All day yesterday I kept thinking I NEED to get at least one done but I had a migraine that I could not shake. I went to bed early hoping that this morning I could get it done...since the time difference between Florida and Australia I had a little less than 3 hours to get it done then blogged....tick tick tick....

Here it the layout....I still need to journal on it but I wanted to make sure I got it before the deadline...tick tick....

SUPPLIES USED:
Plain Cardstock : Core-dinations and some shiny cardstock that I've had
Pattern Paper: K & Company "Jubilee Pink and Teal Collage" and "Jubilee Pink and Blue Collage"
"LaceBorder" is some that a good friend sent me...it is from DIY Craft it is self adhesive tape
Cricut Paisley Cartridge....Lipstick cut at 3.5" and OXOX cut at 2" both are shadowed....

Layout Sketch is from Sketch Inspirations Sketch # 305
tick...tick I need to stop now and post.... I have 13 minutes to post it...tick.... tick....