Welcome the the Scrapbook Steals.com May Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Judy’s blog but if not, head on back to Scrapbook Steals and start at the beginning. Today we are all showing off the results of our play time with some Twine. Two Berries Twine to be exact! But before I show you my projects, you need to know that Scrapbook Steals is also hosting a giveaway as a part of this hop.
Enter to win a $20 ScrapbookSteals.com gift code by visiting each of the designers’ blogs and leaving a comment at every stop along the way (including the post at ScrapbookSteals.com). Be this month’s random lucky winner by leaving a comment on one of the six blogs! In case you get lost along the way, here’s the line up:
- ScrapbookSteals (Start here and don’t forget to leave a comment!)
- Memorable Scraps – Neela Nalam
- Want Less Create More – Judy Stech
- Alison Day Designs – Alison Day (You are here)
- Scrappin’ Chaos – Charity Hotrum (Go here next)
- Stephanie’s Scrap World – Stephanie Umpleby
You have until 11:59 PM MT on Sunday, May 5th, to make your comment. Have a great time hopping! Oh, and before I forget, there’s information at the bottom of this post about the NSD (National Scrapbooking Day) Celebration being hosted at Scrapbook Steals.com tonight. Sounds like a fun time that you won’t want to miss!
Okay, with all the business out of the way, how about I show you what I created?
I was sent the Gold Metallic Baker’s Twine to play, … er, create with. Gold is not a colour I normally gravitate towards so I had to really stretch my creative muscles! As soon as I started my first project I realized that a couple of my original ideas weren’t going to work for two reasons. The twine was too thick for any of my needles so I had no way to thread it (normally I would have just separated the strands but that would have lost the metallic thread so … not a good idea!) And two, the metallic thread was kind of easy to unravel from the rest of the twine so I had to come up with ways to keep it together.
My first project was to create twine rosettes using some giant glue dots.
I may not have a lot of gold accents but I do have a bottle of Gold Lame Color Shine from Heidi Swapp so I went crazy with the mist splatters. Then I dug through my stash to see what other gold I could find and came across this sheet of textured gold paper. Bingo!! Out came my punches and away I went.
I used the butterflies from the border punch as a sort of confetti scattered around the page along with some punched circles.
To further accent the border strip, I added a line of twine.
These glittery alphabet stickers from American Crafts added to the glitz and glam of this layout about my youngest daughter Princess.
Next I decided to create my own back ground paper using the twine. I laid down rows of double sided tape on the diagonal and started wrapping the twine around the page.
Once I had all the stripes finished, I filled in a few with patterned paper from my scrap drawer and then trimmed the edges. After I’d adhered it to the pink background paper I noticed some of the twine starting to come away. I hoped it would look fashionably distressed but eventually I realized that I had to find a way to seal it up. Washi tape to the rescue! Wish I’d thought of it before I’d adhered the twine covered paper to the back ground paper so I could have wrapped the washi around the edge. Oh well. (Note to self: get a sewing machine! that would have solved my problem perfectly!!)
I found more gold in my stash! This time in the form of gold glitter card stock from my Stampin’ Up! stash. I used it to cut out a title on my Silhouette as well as the arrows.
Because the background was so busy I knew I wouldn’t need much in the way of embellishment. Apart from my title I just added a few butterflies and a journaling card and called it done.
For my third project I wanted something a bit special so I went back to my Silhouette and cut out a butterfly.
I used the negative of the cut out as my base and laid down rows of twine behind the card stock. Once that was finished and mounted onto cream card stock I adhered the die cut butterfly back into its’ negative. Only I’d spiced up the butterfly with more Gold Lame Color Shine!
Oh, and popped up the upper wings with pop dots. A card needs a sentiment but I didn’t want to cover up my beautiful butterfly so I opted for vellum.
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Love the Flutterby! TFS
Thanks Janet. I’m partial to flutterbys (if you can’t tell!!) 😉
awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for stopping by!
Such great layouts and i just love that card! Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Staci. So glad you liked them!!
Quantmlife (on some blogs) ~ beautiful pages and the card (vellum was definitely the best choice)
Thank you!
Love the lo and the card!
Thank you Joan. Glad you liked them!
Beautiful Layout!
Thank you Alexia!
Oh. My. Goodness. All three of these projects are stunning! I love the butterfly theme that you had, too. 😉
Thank you so much. I didn’t intentionally have a butterfly theme but hey, when it’s working you just roll with it, right? 🙂
Love the butterly card!
Thank you. thanks for stopping by!
Oh that butterfly is just gooorgeous!!!
Thank you. It’s so nice that others are appreciating it too!
what beautiful projects!!
Thank you so much!
I’m really diggin this National Scrapbooking Day business. Too fun and lots to win! Beautiful layout…
Thanks Lynn. Good luck with your NSD endeavours! Hope you’re lucky!!
Very creative!!!!
Thank you Lori!
love how you used the twine underneath the butterfly card. thanks for the inspiration!
Happy to help! thanks for stopping by!!
Really like the gold metallic twine.
So glad you liked it. Hope you snapped some up for yourself!
cool butterfly card and loving the stripes on your LO!
Thank you so much Beatrice. I may be pulling out that butterfly die cut a lot! 🙂
Thanks for sharing that working with the gold was a bit of a stretch for you. What a great idea to use the twine as the page background (and I love that you put it on the diagonal!).
I don’t believe in making out that everything is easy and wonderful. Thanks for taking the time to comment on that part of the post. Sometimes it’s good to stretch out of our comfort zone, right?
Absolutely!
I like all your uses of the twine!
Thank you Audrey. Happy hopping!
Loving all the gold!! Great projects 🙂
I must admit, I have a new view on gold now! Thanks for visiting!
Love the slanted stripes! Great inspiration!
Thanks so much!
What cute layouts! And the little princess is a beauty too!
Well thank you Patti. I kind of think so too! 😉
love the sparkle twine! and everything you made with it. Great projects and I love the purple hair 😉
Micia
yellowbirdcreation@gmail.com
Yes, that purple hair was a big hit! Thanks for visiting!
Nice rosettes and layouts. Thank you for sharing your ideas.
Thanks for the kind comment. Happy to share!!
great ideas
Thank you Larisa!
WoW!!!! Your ideas are amazing!! I love your layouts and everything you made with the twine!
I also signed up for your newsletter.
Thanks so much Donna and welcome to my site! Thrilled you signed up! I’ll get that first email out to you asap!
Ha ha, I don’t have a sewing machine either, I can see how fraying ends would be a problem. Fun projects!
Us non-sewing machine owners must unite!:) thanks for stopping by Michele!
LOVE this! Now I know what I am going to do with some of my twine
Thanks! I’m happy to help!
So creative! Not usually a gold person but you knocked this one out of the park! Now have more ideas to use my twine. Thank you!
Thank you so much Kayla. Glad I could give you some more ideas!
Fun projects! I love the twine back ground paper you created – it looks fab over the kraft – but what doesn’t ?!? 😉 And I especially love the butterfly card!
Thanks Amy. Yes, kraft is pretty awesome!! 🙂
Great layout and card! Love that gold lame’ twine!
Thanks so much Denise. Glad you liked them.
what a cute idea 🙂
Thank you Michelle.
Happy Scrapbook day…what fun…thanks for chance to win…WOWSA @giveaways and projects so much fun.
chris@iwooten.com
Good luck Chris! It’s so nice to celebrate our passion, isn’t it?
Cute ideas! Thanks for sharing with us!!!
Thanks Katherine. Happy to share!
Love the butterfly 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Rachel, I must admit I’m a bit partial to butterflies!
The gold is perfect with your pictures and your butterfly card! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you Ruth. Glad you liked them!
Love the twine behind the cut out.
Thank you Abbey, and thanks for stopping by!