Paper Dress Gallery for decoring

Just in the last few days, i had two readers let me know that they had recently used my paper dress tutorial to make some of their own dress projects! how exciting! :)

check out how Mid-Craft Crisis repurposed these cute basket/purses for her daughters!

and Kay used the dresses as cupcake toppers for her daughter's ballet recital! Adorable! :)

I made Esther's (pink) shorter than Ellamay's (purple), because I thought shorter it could be called a ballerina's tutu, and Ellamay's is longer and it can be called a princess dress. I hot glued on some string pearls that I had from a previous project for a necklace on both.

I used the lining that I had taken out, as a pattern to make the new lining.

I had some gold cord left over from some Christmas crafts and so I used that to thread into the tubing to make prettier handles. I put a little bit of hot glue into the ends of the tubing to hold the cord in place. I also glued the tubing to the inside of the basket to help secure it while I worked on the lining.

I finished off by hand stitching in the lining with invisible thread (nightmare for my poor eyes!). I used a thimble to help put a few stitches through the tubing to hold that in place extra well too.

So what do you think? I am sure the girls will like them. I am so happy with how they have turned out. And they didn't cost a fortune to make either. I like that.