say YES to the dress

or rather, say yes to a dress, because today is (apparently) national dress day, and thus we are celebrating at shopping our stash by making projects that feature-- or are inspired by-- a dress (if the latter, be sure to include a pic of the one that inspired you, k?). i went with a vintage illustration because neither my wardrobe nor my craft stash contains any dresses lol.

vintage birthday party illustration from an old, falling-apart children's book; vintage lace from my friend anna; patterned paper: echo park, glitz design, the girls' paperie; paper flower: eyelet outlet; stickers: sandy lion, recollections, susan branch, karen foster; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

ok, so yeah... vintage illustration, as mentioned above; and some vintage lace from my friend anna. i diecut the illustration with one type of oval nestie and framed it with another. all my patterned paper is older, and the two smaller bits were scraps. the cluster of stickers has nothing less than 5 or 6 years old... several of the companies are sadly out of business now. that fab polka dotted flower is an older eyelet outlet one, and alas, no longer available although there are still some cool printed ones in the shop!

it's "anything goes" on the simon says stamp wednesday challenge blog this week, so i'm joining in! be sure to check out all the FAB design team creations at SOS, then come and play!