Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by the Scrapwhispers Blog today. Its Blog Hop time and we've got a little bit of a quick and easy tutorial for you today. Are you like me, with an endless supply of paper "scraps" in all shapes and sizes, colours and patterns? There are only so many extra layouts you can make and cards you can create isn't there!! This week we want to share with you a simple way to make lots of different, personalised and homemade feeling embellishments for scrapbook pages or indeed cards.
Start by gathering a selection of your papers and a selection of punches - make sure the punches are in all shapes and sizes. The more variety the better.
Select 3 or 4 punches to work together and punch shapes from various shades or patterns of paper.
You then are going to layer them on top of each other in a completely random fashion - whatever you think looks right. Glue them in place with a small amount of adhesive.
Now you are going to add a circle of felt or material behind the scraps of layered and punched paper. To secure this in place simple sew randomly across the whole embellishment.
Once you've done one of these, make as many more as you like. Keep going. Try different combinations and colours, play around with whatever works for you from the stash and supplies you have.
You could make a whole bunch of them and leave them in a pot on your craft desk so the next time you are working on a project you have one ready to go. You might want to leave the stitching out altogether, you might want to hand sew. You might not have felt or material so decide to stick with everything being paper. You could add number or letter stickers to make it tie in with your scrapbook page - you might even want to add extra buttons or gems to make it sparkle. The choice is really up to you - the most important thing is the layering!
I used my Christmas embellishment on a card. These would also look cute on a project such as an album cover; a covered book or a covered container.
So there you have my design - check out what the rest of the Design Team have created using this technique:
If you want to give this tutorial a go yourself - link us to your creations and be in with a chance of winning that lovely October prize. Hurry though as the deadine is short! :)
2 comments:
I really love the Christmas embellishment; I'll definitely give this a go.
Why has the link closed after just a few days? Is there a problem?
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