Thursday, December 26, 2013

Papertrey Ink December Blog Hop - String Challenge Take 2



This is my second card for this month's PTI blog hop. I came across a You Tube video by Neen for making twine flowers - you can watch the video here. Neen shows a simple way to create flowers by wrapping string/twine around your hand. I took that same method but used my Bow-Easy instead which allowed me to make flowers of different sizes. As my flowers went down in size I wrapped my string less times - for example the flower on my card was wrapped about 22 times instead of the 42 that Neen used for a larger flower.



For my flower I used some household string that I had lying around. These flowers are fun and easy to make. Below are a few samples of different sized flowers, including some black crochet cotton. You can use a variety of items for your flower centers - buttons, beads - I used a wood shape that I coloured with a gold Krylon pen.


Supplies:
Stamp - Boutique Borders: Love (PTI)
Paper - DP (Echo Park), Classic Ivory CS (Flourishes)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark, Gold EP, Gold Krylon pen, Copic R59 (to colour heart)
Other - Boutique Borders: Love Die (PTI), household string, wood shapes (CTMH), gold skeleton leaves (Graphic Prod), bow-easy, hot glue gun





19 comments:

  1. Clever use of the twine, love those blooms!

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  2. Lovely card! I love how you made the flower embellishments.

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  3. Oh, I love how you made the string embellishment! So creative!

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  4. Wonderful black polka dot panel on this - love the red heart and creative twine flower!

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  5. This is really cool. I'm going to try it out. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  6. Sorry, forgot to say how much I love the card, too. The gold, the polka dots and tipped tops die--super design.

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  7. Great way to use twine - love the touches of gold on your cold!

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  8. What a fabulous card! Love the design!

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  9. Oh Connie, this is such a lovely card and you string flowers are amazing!

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  10. adorable little flowers, Connie. Such a clever use of string for this challenge. thanks for the info on using a "bow-easy"

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  11. This is great! I have a bow-easy somewhere. I think I need to find it!

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  12. Your card is so pretty. Such a cute twine flower embellishment. Love those colors you used. I never tire of that combination.

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  13. Another gorgeous idea! Love your flower and how you made it. Beautiful card.

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  14. Your string blooms are adorable! Great little accents.
    Thanks for the inspiration.
    Connie, what program do you use to add your watermark? Need to apply one to work I'm doing, and having trouble finding an easy, (preferably free?) program for my Mac. Thank you for any help!

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  15. Wow! Another super creative use of Baker's Twine! Love these blooms, and the design of your card. Black and gold together always looks so elegant! I am going to give your blooms a go myself...thanks for the video link.

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  16. So pretty Connie. What a creative way of using the string! That is a beautiful flower!

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  17. Oh I love your flowers! Fabulous card--thanks for the inspiration!

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Thanks so much for your kind comments, they always make my day.