Hello everyone, today I'm going to be making some embellishments for upcoming journal making. As I want to make several in the same theme I'm going to make them in bulk. You can also use this method to make different themes and different colours and have a stash of them on hand for future use.
What you will need:
You will need your Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA Glue and Helmar Fabric Glue, scissors and a flower punch, a variety of scrap papers, lace and/or cheesecloth scraps, buttons, sequins and pre-sewn paper bits.
Firstly lay a full piece of paper down, I've used a tea stained graph paper. You then need to rip up pieces of the papers that you have selected and layer them up on the larger sheet.
Then you can add small pieces of the lace/cheesecloth as desired.
Once you are happy with the look of the little bundles, using your Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA Glue you can apply glue to the page or to the individual pieces (I found gluing the pieces easier).
Continue to glue all the bundles.
Now punch out any flowers you may want to use and shape them if you desire.
Using your Helmar Fabric Glue, adhere any buttons and flowers to your bundles.
I've added little sequins to some of the flowers and Kindyglitz to others. I also left the long threads on my buttons for a shabby look.
Once they are all done, you can choose to rip them in to individual embellishments or leave them on the larger sheet for future use.
I think this is a great way of making bulk embellishments, a nice project to do 'in between' larger projects and you can have a lovely selection of different themes etc waiting to be used. All you will need to do is add a word or quote and glue it onto your project.
Thank you so much for stopping by today and I do hope you consider making a few embellishments in bulk.
Take care
Jeanette xx
