Colourful? Yes!

Warning - I may will ramble!! For starters my granddaughter is going to get a new bedroom - some  time soon! Last year she gave me a favourite dress that she had grown out of so I could try to copy it! Ha! Ha! My sewing skills were so rusty that the dress I made was, well, frankly, awful!!! I kept her little dress thinking I might make her something (what, I still don't know!!!- ideas gratefully received as long as it's got straight lines!!)
Now, here's the thing - I came across the dress while looking for something else - of course!! I had just seen a challenge that I quite fancied, so thought I'd make a tag using the colours but then - moving some more things around on the ongoing attempt to be more organised (stop sniggering at the back!) I came across a K and Co frame that had been tucked in behind something else, so that's what I've done!

It's a fairly simple affair. I used PA Fresco paints, Sky, Orchid and Autumn Fire along with Tim's doily stencil. To add a bit of texture I used crackle glaze on part of the frame and mixed some Sky fresco with Decoart media crackle paste to add some more doily stencilling. I stamped with Snowflake on a PA Squiggle Ink -Swirls and curls, around the edge of the aperture. The aperture itself was backed with some washi tape that I found in Sainsbury's. The little flowers stamped here and there were from an Artemio set and the centres finished with some distress stickles. The flower is using a technique that was shown to me at the WOYWW crop by Fiona - see her beauty here - except that I stamped a Stampendous flower onto some smooshy paper I had done using the chosen colours

THE dress!! She used to look so sweet in it!

All I had to do then was colour my own ribbon and add some little butterflies - used a punch into some scrap paper.

The flower was sprayed with Goosebumps and the centre had some sparkly stickles added. This version is two flowers stacked together 
If you would like  to see how I made this take a look here

I do hope my GD likes it - especially if I can come up with something to go along with it!

I'm going to enter in 
the Country View Challenge - 'Stencil it'
and  
Our Creative Corner's Challenge which is 'include a flower and Hand Dyed ribbon' 

Thanks for looking, Chris