Christmas Greetings!

Hi Girls
Thank you to everyone who entered our  last challenge.


Before we announce the winners remember that Wendy is very generously offering a
20% discount 

in the Etsy store until 19th December so do pop along and grab some gorgeous discounted digis!

Use this code in store

HAPPYXMASADU

to get your discount!


You all made  beautiful cards and we loved each and every one of them but as you know there can only be one winner.

The winner of the challenge was chosen by Random.org  is ...

Lilibet with this much admired beauty.....

Well done! Please email us at alldressedupchallenge@gmail.com with your choice of 3 images or papers from the shop.

Now onto the top 3 in no particular order chosen by Lori

No 1 Lilibet (lucky you winning and Top 3)


No 15 Monique
 

and No 16 Kerys





Remember that one of you lucky winners has been selected to be our next Guest Designer so keep an eye on your emails to see if you have been contacted!

Very well done ladies! These are all stunning! Please help yourself to your badge from the side bar and hopefully you'll play along again when we come back on 15th January 2016!
 We would love to have you :)

Don't forget to share your crafty makes with us over on our Facebook Group  too.

The Dressy Girls 

Kit and Clowder Advent Calendar Promotion

Hello crafters!

I am sure many of you are aware of Kit and Clowder  and may be aware that they are running and Advent Calender this month.

All Dressed Up are sponsoring today, the 16th December, and as a special treat Wendy is offering a generous discount here!!

Use this code

HAPPYXMASADU


to get 20% discount


until

Saturday 19th December!!

Please pop along and join in the fun!

Look what some of our DT have created using the images......

coloured by Andrea using All Dressed Up for Christmas

coloured by Rachael using one of the Christmas Girls

coloured by Andrea using the 3 Christmas Girls

coloured by Holly using All Dressed Up for Christmas

 Anet using Little Skater Girl 

Lucy using one of the 3 Christmas Girls

and finally Sheila using one of the 3 Christmas Girls

Remember you can pick up a discount of

20% until 19th December

in our Etsy store on any digis images using this code


HAPPYXMASADU

Remember we will be back here with a new Blog Challenge on 15th January

and

we currently have our December Facebook Challenge running. 

BIG SURPRISE ON 16TH

Morning Dressies!!

DO come along and join in some more very exciting fun on 16th from 11am!!

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Can't tell you what is happening as we want to make it  a lovely Festive surprise for you all!!

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A few clues ..........

Do you like having fun?  

Do you enjoy All Dressed Up images?

Do you like a bargain?

Do you like a massive bargain?

Answered YES to these?

Then come back at 11am on 16th.......

Remember the FB Challenge is still running and the Blog Challenge closes in a few hours so you still have time to enter the last one this year!!

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Challenge 45 winner and Top 3!!

Hi Folks!
Thank you to everyone who entered our  last challenge.
You all made  beautiful cards and we loved each and every one of them but as you know there can only be one winner.

The winner of the challenge was chosen by Random.org  is ...

and that is Crafty Kiwi Mama!


Well done! Please email us at alldressedupchallenge@gmail.com with your choice of 3 images or papers from the shop.

Now onto the top 3 in no particular order chosen by Bernadet this time....

No 9 Tanya OD



No 18 Kevin 



and No 22 Cara





Remember that one of you lucky winners has been selected to be our next Guest Designer so keep an eye on your emails to see if you have been contacted!

Very well done! These are all stunning! Please help yourself to your badge from the side bar and hopefully you'll play along this week too on Challenge 46.
 We would love to have you :)

Don't forget to share your crafty makes with us over on our Facebook Group  too

The Dressy Girls 

Challenge 46 & Fabulous News to share!

Hiya Dressy's

Welcome to our new challenge here at All Dressed Up and thank you very much to everyone who played along  last time.  Check back soon to see if you are the lucky winner :)

The Design Team are taking a short break over the Festive Season so this will be the final Challenge of 2015.

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We have a wee surprise for you all on 16th December so do pop back - it is hush hush and very exciting - there might be something nice for you just in time for Christmas; or perhaps we are having another party or are we having a competition? 

Come back and see on 16th December!!

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We will be back tho on 15th January with a new Blog Challenge so take this opportunity 

to wish you all 

A Very Merry Christmas and 

a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2016!

 We have a wee announcement to make in that it gives us great pleasure in telling you all  that our 

Lucy has recently won

 3rd place in National Cardmaker of the Year 2015!!

Please join us all in sending her huge congratulations! She is such a talented cardmaker considering her personal situation (visit her fabulous blog to see more of her fantastic work)! 

As Always our theme for our Blog Challenge is

Anything Goes 

(BUT YOU MUST USE AN ALL DRESSED UP IMAGE)

Not got any? There are some gorgeous freebies here - Now what can be easier than that?

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Our Guest Designer this time around is Zubaida 

Isn't this just stunning with all those fab layers and texture! Great colouring too!!


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Here are our Design Team with their stunning work for inspiration.........

Tracey using Little Angel

Vannessa using Happy Christmas Little Star

Claudia using Hippie Chick

Lucy using Christmas Penguins

Sheila using Christmas Post

Anet using Love My Teddy

Aren't they all fabulous?

You could win your personal choice of 3 All Dressed Up digi images; be selected as one of the Top 3 or be chosen as  guest Designer for our next Challenge.

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We do hope you'll find the time to play along and don't forget there will be a new release on the 7th of the month so remember to check out the Etsy Store. 

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We also now have a challenge over on our Facebook page  starting on the 1st of each month running throughout the complete month with a Theme - this month is Stars/Snowflakes so do pop along and join in there too. Why not play along for the chance to win even more gorgeous All Dressed Up images !

An InLinkz Link-up

Tutorial - Making a Distressed Layered Card - Andrea

This is the finished card which I'm going to show you how to make in steps below.

The image I've used is Little Star available on Etsy - coloured in pastel shades with ProMakers

I've then picked my design papers out this is the larger set

And these are the smaller sets.  All the design papers have been cut so the backing sheets are half a centimetre larger than the one to be placed on top.  You can see what I mean better in my first lot of layering in the 7th photo.

The strange looking circular object is a distressing tool from Tim Holtz and can be bought from most good craft places.

And here I'll give you a tale.  I went to a local shop and saw distressed cards and thought they looked amazing.  When I asked about how they were done I was told it's a skill but no other details were disclosed.  Well I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be a "skill" - you can get a tool which will do it for you :D

See this is what it does - but be warned if you've not used this tool before - it's extremely messy.

Here I've piled up all my layers so you can see what they look like before they're mounted onto the card.

This is my first lot of layers.  The first design paper is mounted directly onto card and they yo've got the first double layer.  You can see the effect that cutting the top layer half a centimetre smaller than the underlying layer has better now.

I've then mounted two more layers at angles and over the top of each other.

This is a strip of design paper cut with a Martha Stewart punch to create a fancy border.  I've also put this at an angle to the rest of the layers.

On top of this I've added some straight lace.  I tried to use some shaped lace but it took away the effect of the punched border.

This is a close up of the starts I made.  The backing is grunge board from Tim Holtz.  I've used gesso, pink acrylic paint, lot of loose DecoArt glitter and some DecoArt crackle paste.  You can see the effect the crackle paste has better on the larger star.  You can also bring that effect out more by adding some darker ink and rubbing it over the top of the paste when its dry.

So here you have the final card.  I added the larger star.  Then I put some sticky dots onto the back of the double image layer to raise it up to the same level as the star and the lace panel.  Onto this I added the smaller star and rhine stone (to cover the glue dot up shhh...)

I then put the pearl gems on and added the pearl string

Hope you found my breakdown of how to make a card like this useful

If we see lots more we know it has been :D

Andrea x

All Dressed Up Design Team