Calendar Girls February 2011

Hear ye, hear ye! By royal proclamation …… I Welcome you all to Ms. February’s Ball!
Each of you beautiful belles – our lovely Calendar Girls - are cordially invited to the Calendar Girls Ball! It’s a month of love, admiration, and red hearts, my lovelies!
What will you wear to this ball? More like what will your CARD wear?! This month – fabulous Calendar Girls,- show us your STYLE! Your card should reflect a representation of what your dream dress would be and the moment each of you beauties walks into the ballroom, we’ll be dazzled by what you (your card!) has on!

1. Challenge 1 -- What’s your style?! Will your card be sleek, sexy and black?
Will it be a pink and frilly with flowers? Lavender and lace?
Will it have Bows? Buttons all down the back? {etc!} You may use any stamped image you like - it should not be a dress stamp, lol – your card should speak for itself with it’s colors and style!

2. Challenge 2 -- Show us your true colors at this ball! Add your favorite color somewhere to your card, even if it’s the smallest of a brad or a little flower – it might not match your “dress personality” but that’s the whole challenge! In the words of Tim Gunn, “Make it work!”

3. Challenge 3 -- Shape up for this ball!! Well, this will be one of your EASIEST shape ups evah! Tee hee! on the same card, you must use a SHAPE somewhere on your card! Make your regular card but add a Big-shotted, Cuttlebugged, hand cut out shape to your card.  Shape up, show your true color and your style!!


So here I am...finally I have a dress...lol..When I first read Kelly's challenge I knew exactly what I was going to do.....yay me..Did I do it? Kinda...lol. I actually was going to do a heart easel card and still use the black but the only die cut I had was the scallop heart (which would indicate ruffles and I didn't want ruffles.) So in checking my other nestability dies I found the labels 8 (which I had already cut out as an easel card in kraft for another challenge and had discarded...lucky me...it was already started). I then took some black paper (given to me by my sweet friend Linda) that had a fabric texture to it..( I took a picture with the flash and you can see the texture but the rest of the card didn't look very good so re-took it but here is how the paper looks).

 

I then took the labels 8 and punched a half piece out of the paper and used that for the inside of my easel card/dress..Once I had all the pieces cut out I used an oval punch to punch the sides of the dress to reveal cute little arms...(humor me here...lol). I took rhinestones and made a necklace using an oval rhinestone as a drop jewel (my favorite shape requirement #3). 

Requirement #2 was to add your favorite color..somewhere on the dress. My favorite color has always been blue, but I love black and white as much. I used blue rhinestones to attempt to give my dress/card a dropped waist with a black and white flower on the hip...(geegle geegle). Now if you know me I am extremely short so I would never be able to pull a dress like this off. So in keeping with requirement #1. I am showing you my favorite style/dream dress. In a perfect world I would have longer legs and be thin and be able to wear a strapless dropped waist elegant black ball gown. So Thank you Kelly for the wonderful challenge, I am able to wear my dream gown to your Royal ball and I look good in it...ROTFLMAO....

Thanks for stopping by, please drop by the other calendar girls blogs and see what they are wearing...

Kelly, Jeanette, April, Barb, Debbie, Michelle, Paola, Tami and Terry

Until next time...
Hugs,
Carol

P.S. I'm feeling a little guilty here as I didn't use a stamp on this (yet)...but it wasn't in the requirements so hopefully I didn't mess it up...I really did have fun though.