It’s time for the Papertrey Ink monthly blog hop. How did it get to be the 25th already? I must admit, however, March is one of my least favorite months. I’m so ready for Spring by now, and we are once again buried under in several inches of new snow. Once April comes, I always feel like Spring has a chance!
This month’s challenge was to use embroidery floss in a creative way. I decided to make some small tassels to attach to some pennant flags. I used the Pearl Cotton floss which is a little heavier, but can be found right along side the regular floss at Michaels. To create the tassels, I used a tutorial I found here. It was very easy to follow.
This turned out to be a very difficult card to photograph so the embossing would show. I used the partial embossing technique again which I’m liking a lot, and scored two lines at the bottom of the embossed portion of the card. The pennants and banner die for the sentiment are from the Spellbinder’s Nested Pennant set. The banner line is cut from Quickutz Pennants set, and the embossed portion of the card was made with Papertrey’s Tintype Impression plate. I used Papertrey’s Royal Velvet cardstock and two designs from their Pacific Vineyard pad of papers. The sentiment is from the Papertrey “Round & Round” set. Finally, the pears are my faves: A Muse Creative Candy.
What a striking color combination.
Rinda
Those tassels are brilliant! Totally, totally stealing that idea.
Oh, I LOVE this!!! CASing this idea!!
Fun card! Love the tassels…so creative.
Wow! I love everything about this! The colors (love the Pacific Vineyard and Royal Velvet papers together), love your embossing, love the little touches of gold, and I REALLY love the tassels (thanks for the link to the tutorial)!
WOW — this is purely GORGEOUS!!! LOVE it!!! Thanks for tut link too!!! 😉
I liked the scored lines, been thinking I need to get a scor pal and you’re not helping.
Such a FUN idea!! Love what you did with the floss!
Wauw!!! This is perfect! The colors, the way you used the floss, it looks like a party!!! It’s just amazing, my fave project on the Hop so far! 😉
Hugs, Wendy
Tassels!! FABULOUS! Absolutely LOVE it!!!!
Beautiful!
Love the tassels!
Beautiful and unique!! I love your little tassels!
Great card….super idea!
What a great idea. So clever.
TFS
Ang
This is fabulous. I tried incorporating tassels with no success. This is brilliant!
Karen, your card is gorgeous! Love the tassels you created! and the rich colors and pennant designs!
very cool tassels! thanks for posting the tutorial link!
Great card. I’ve never seen tassles on a card, but they are perfect for emphasizing those beautiful banners. Thanks for the tutorial link. I’ll be needing that!
So glad you used the purple! Looks so nice.
I’m really drawn to the detail of the embossing within the greeting – it is lovely and one of the things that make your cards a standout!
Fabulous idea! The tassels are a great accent to the pennant flags.
Gorgeous card! Love the tassles!
Cute idea. I love the tassels.
Beautiful! What a lovely way to use the floss. Thanks for the link to how to make the tassels.
Oooohhhh, I love the tassels! I need to go make some for sure, they would be great on lots of different kinds of cards. Thanks so much for this idea!
Love those tassels! Wonderful colour contrast too.
You can tell you’re a photographer because I thought the shot was incredible getting all of the details, and you’re not satisfied with it. I need you to give me photography tutorials.
And I’m glad it is shot a great photo because it shows all of the wonderful details of this striking card. The partial embossing, scored lines and tassels all add to the design. Fabulous!
Lovely card, the bunting and tassels are very effective!
Oh, those tassels are cute! They really set off the bunting! 🙂
The colors on this card are outstanding! And the tassels were such a unique idea for using the floss! Awesome job 🙂
I love bunting but never thought of putting tassels on the flag, really lovely Karen x
Oh my gosh, Karen, I LOVE the combination of the bunting with the tassels. I MUST remember this one – it’s just so lovely!
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