"""BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)<br /> Pic: ZacharyCulpin/BNPS<br /> <br /> Denise applies the finishing touches to one of the stunning paper dresses. <br /> <br /> Ori-garments -  Artist Denise Watson has created a stunning 1750's masquerade Christmas Ball with characters made entirely from paper at the National Trust's Uppark House in West Sussex.<br /> <br /> Denise has dressed 14 shop mannequins with clothes, shoes, masks, fans, floral details, hair and even jewellery made from things like tissue paper, gift wrap and brown parcel paper. <br /> <br /> The festive display was inspired by Admiral Lord Gambier's memoirs in which he quotes from Lady Sarah Featherstonhaugh's journal of 1753 where she wrote: """" The whole party afterwards proceed to Uppark, where they passed a cheerful happy Christmas in the most friendly society, and enlivened their neighbourhood with some masked balls.""""<br />  <br /> The design to the finished result took a total of three months. Denise said, """"I am really delighted with the final result. It has been a joy to work at Uppark using the grand rooms and to recreate an event which actually took place""""."""
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