Oscar Dress Card 2020

It is that time once again...it’s Oscar dress card time! We absolutely love this post every single year. I’m watching the Oscars now more to look at the dresses and to pick our top ones to make a card from! After looking through many many dresses, take a look at our top 10 and then take a look at the dress we chose to inspire a card this year!

10. Brie Larson - We’re starting with sparkle here. Brie Larson seems to always make our list (her blue Oscar dress a few years back was chosen for our Oscar card  (http://paperwhitecreations.blogspot.com/2016/03/oscar-dresses-and-card.html) and this year is no different. The cape, the sparkle stripes, and the slit all makes for a perfect gown. Even the pale pink colour is perfect!

9.  Greta Gerwig – Simple and poufy, this dress is just enough. The olive green colour is something that is also very different and helps to make this dress stand out. The quaint little bow on the bodice is a perfect little detail as well.

8. Penelope Cruz – We liked this short little black high-low dress. Again it’s poufy and the little accents like the pearl belt and the white flower really makes this dress pop and stand out.

7. Idina Menzel – The bright pinkish purple colour of this dress is what caught our attention. The pleating and big bow are nice additions to this otherwise simple strapless gown.

6. Charlize Theron - Love that slit! This dress is simple when it comes to fabric and colour but the overall design has a lot going on. Like I said that slit is amazing! The dropped shoulder strap is very different as well and that mid-section “wave” stands out. Is it a two piece? It gives that illusion. Finally that train is also something amazing making it look very regal and just stunning overall.

5. Renee Zellweger – First of all, did you see JUDY? Amazing! And so is this dress. Not everyone can pull off the one shoulder look but Renee did in this fresh white dress. That very subtle sparkle really takes the dress to the next level.

4. Mindy Kaling – We’ve chosen a yellow dress before because it’s so bright and cheerful and exudes happiness. This dress is no different. One shoulder dresses seem to be popular this year. This one shoulder dress is also an off the shoulder dress with a v neckline. It utilizes the pleated or draped look that the Idina Menzel dress did.

3. Scarlett Johansson – I love the metallic colour of this dress. It’s not quite silver, maybe it’s pewter. Whatever colour, it’s beautiful and so soft. It also looks very soft as well and the beading makes this otherwise simple dress just a little bit elaborate and over the top.

2. Regina King – There’s a lot going on with this dress, but all of it works so well together. The very light pinky peach colour is so dainty and soft and then you have a big poufy train which draws your eye to the back. The actual dress part could stand alone without the train, but it just takes it to the next level. Your eye also goes to the small single strap but then also down the bodice which is covered with some bling. The almost diagonal neckline is another element that stands out on this exciting gown.

1. Florence Pugh – Ok, so our number one pick for the best dress at this year’s Oscars is Florence Pugh’s layered teal gown. This is definitely a fun party dress. It’s got a long train with a skirt that falls at ankle length in the front; perfect for some dancing. The skirt part is layered satin teal but when it hits mid-section, there is a small teal belt before the low cut bodice with spaghetti straps. It’s a teal and satin lovers dream come true. Take a look at our teal card inspired by this beautiful gown. Enjoy it!

Oscar Dress 2020 Card:

For this teal card you will need some teal ribbon, three shades of teal cardstock, light grey cardstock, a simple small stamp, and the basics (glue tape, embossing powder, heat gun, and ink). Our inspiration is coming from the layered look of Florence Pugh’s dress.

First of all, we cut a card base out of the darkest teal shade It roughly measures 6 ½ x 5 ½ inches.

Then we used a light teal shade for the centre stripe. It measures 5 ¼ x 1 ¾ inches.

For the top and bottom stripes, we used a mid-teal shade. These stripes measure 5 ¼ x 1 ½ inches, so just slightly skinnier than the middle one.

Once those layers or stripes are glued down, then you can glue your thick teal ribbon down through the middle of the bottom strip. You can glue it the length of the card. The ribbon represents the satin aspect of the dress and also the belt element.

Now get some light grey cardstock and cut ¾ inch squares. We have a tiny stamp that says “all you need is love” which we are using. If you have some other words or a slightly bigger stamp, then you can use that; just adjust your grey square sizes accordingly. We stamped our words in black ink.

We glued the stamped square near the far end of the stripe with the ribbon and evenly spaced out the other two light grey squares. When we first started, we had all intentions on using the three squares but then we just left the card with the one square. Finally we added the other two squares becasue it needed them becasue it was missing something. 

Champagne Beach - DIY Glass Etching

This week is going to be a fun one! We picked a shade called “Champagne Beach” by Tarte and it’s a gold sparkly shade which I’d love to try out. So sparkly, so gorgeous! We are going to do something that we have never tried before and that’s glass etching.

Inspired by our shade of the week, we are going to try glass etching on champagne glasses.

Before even starting, we went on a field trip and bought some champagne glasses (we were surprised at how inexpensive they were and such good quality too). We also picked up a glass etching cream by Folk Art. You can buy some stencils (sticky ones are good for this) or you can do what we are doing and that is to make your own (we are doing this in a couple of different ways).

When we got home we thought up some designs for these glasses. We bought six of them so we are going to try out a variety of techniques and designs. We went with some more generic and Summery designs that can be enjoyed at any time but this would be a fun project for weddings and bridal showers as well. In our research we saw lots of initials etched, but that might be better with a bought stencil as nice lettering is harder to cut freehand like we are doing to make some of our stencils.

We printed a turtle and seashell on sticky label paper and cut them out like this...

Another way to put a design on a glass is by creating a design with masking tape or painter’s tape...

To make polka dots, we will use reinforcements on the glass.

As something different, we wanted to make the entire glass have that etched look and then make our design “clear” so we're punching out a couple of sizes of hearts (on sticky labels or paper) and scattering them on the glass.

Before even starting, please read the instructions on your glass etching kit/cream. Make sure you are in a well ventilated area and have on something to protect your clothing as well as rubber gloves and maybe even a mask. You don’t want to get this stuff on your skin so make sure you are careful.

First of all make sure you have a clean protected area to do your glass etching. Make sure the glasses are wiped with rubbing alcohol and then washed with warm soap and water.

Prepare your glasses by laying out the designs.

Now apply the glass etching cream to the areas on your glasses that you want. Remember not to apply the etching cream to any areas of your glass that you don’t want etched. Cover these areas and tape them off.

The etching cream that we used was quite runny and thin compared to the thicker ones that we saw on some video tutorials. We tried shaking it up but it still stayed very runny so we applied a couple layers.

The first layer was thinner so we patted it on and tried to make it as even as possible. Since it was so runny, we had to lay the glasses down as they were drying so that they didn’t drip. That didn’t work 100% for us though.

After the layers have dried (for the brand of cream we used, it was about 15 minutes from the last layer that we applied) you can run the glasses under room temperature water and wash off all of the etching cream. This will also help loosen the stencils and tape that you applied on. Make sure you wash the glasses really well before using them.

We were pretty much happy with how they turned out. Some of the etching cream must have run through our stencils or the stencils weren’t stuck down enough so you might want to try a vinyl peel and stick style stencil or just make sure the stickers are really stuck down. Or you might want to make sure that your etching cream is a thicker one.

Overall, our glass etching turned out quite well. At first we thought the etching was kind of light but after leaving them a couple of days, we can actually see it quite nicely on the glasses!