Sundress: Step-by-Step

I’m not a seamstress, I don’t like to sew, and in fact, most of my sewing attempts end with me in tears. However, the summer before my Junior year of high school, I was bored, found some cute fabric and decided I wanted to try and sew myself a sundress. I’m not sure I ever wore it again after these photos were taken, but it was still a big accomplishment for me and worth scrapbooking!

When I saw this paper from Zim’s Paperspectives it reminded me of the flowers in the hat I’m wearing in the photos, so I decided to make it the base patterned paper in my layout. Here’s how I created the page:

Supplies:
Zim's Paperspectives “Sunflower” paper
Mustard Moon plaid patterned paper
Bazzill Basics cardstock
Heidi Swapp photo corners
Silk flower from Self-Addressed August kit
DMC embroidery floss
White wire from Artistic Wire
Quickutz Olivia font
Brown SlickWriter
Brown Vivid Ink

1. Cut a piece of the sunflower paper to about 10” x 7 ½”. Ink the edges with brown ink. Adhere the patterned paper to a sheet of green cardstock at a slight angle.


2. Next cut a 2” x 12” strip of coordinating patterned paper. Ink the edges and adhere it to the lower half of the page at a downward angle. Trim the extra at the edges.


3. Crop and mat the two smaller photos with brown cardstock. Mat the focal point photograph with a thin green mat and a larger brown mat. Ink the edges of all of the mats and adhere the photos to them.


4. Place the two smaller photos in the top right corner of the page at slight angles. Lay the focal point photograph slightly over the patterned paper border, keeping that photograph straight.


5. Ink the edges of the entire page and add four brown photo corners to the corners of the page.


6. Cut the word “sundress” using the QuicKutz Olivia font. Adhere the title to the patterned paper border.


7. Handwrite “handmade” and the journaling at the top of the page with a brown marker.


8. Create a needle with a piece of white wire twisted around itself and thread a piece of yellow embroidery floss through the eye.


9. Poke three holes around the focal point photo mat and thread the embroidery floss and needle across the top left corner of the photo. Pull the thread through to the front of the page. Then poke two more holes on the patterned paper border to tuck the needle in next to the title.

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