Altenew Inspirational Blog Hop | Embellishments | with VIDEO

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Have you seen Altenew’s Embellishments Collection website landing page? The site makes it SO easy to shop for exactly what you are looking for! Today I am participating in a BLOG HOP sharing cards that featuring EMBELLISHMENTS of all kinds!

I 've been making TINY TASSELS to bump up the Glamour factor on projects. The Metallic Thread from Altenew is ideal for making them. The only other supplies needed are a FORK and SCISSORS.

I captured the process on VIDEO for you to watch, as explaining HOW in words is rather difficult. 

Watch the SHORT video HERE 

• Start with 6 pieces of  Metallic Thread cut at 18 inches long
• Take one and fold it in half
• place that piece in the middle space of a dinner fork and hold the ends down with the handle
• Take 4 pieces of thread together and weave them in and out of the fork tines, creating a basket weave
• Take the first thread in the middle up and secure the weave together with 2 knots, making it as tight as possible, this is the end tail of the tassel
• slide the weave off the fork 
• Fold the bundle in half at the top holding the secured middle thread tail
• take the last thread and fold it so there is a short end and long end with a small loop sort of in the middle, this is the wrapping thread
• Hold that wrapping piece on the folded end of the bundle pinching tightly with finger tips
• Take the longer of the two ends from the wrapping thread and wind it around 6-8 times close to the top of the bundle
• feed the end of the long wrapping thread through the back of the loop
• gently pull the loop closed with the shorter end of the wrapping thread to secure the wrap, this will bury the knot inside the wrap, a little macramé trick
• Trim the ends of the tassel with scissors to shape it up

Tassels can be used as toppers for tags as well a added embellishments for thread nests.

FEATURING:

Metallic Thread

Must-have Gel Pen Set

Here for You Stamp & Die Bundle

Teeny Hearts Stencil

Sketched Lines Stencil

Terrific Tags Die Set

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Below are a few other cards featuring TINY TASSELS and many other embellishments! 

FEATURING:

Metallic Thread Set

Botanical Rhapsody Wide Washi Tape

Misty Meadows Washi Tape

Wondrous World Enamel Dots Release Bundle

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FEATURING:

Metallic Thread Set

Botanical Rhapsody Wide Washi Tape

Tea Party washi tape set-

Wondrous World Enamel Dots Release Bundle

Creative Edges: Lace Die

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Head over to Erum Tasneem's blog for your next stop on the hop.

Giveaway Prizes!

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this special blog hop, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/11/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/13/2023.

 

Blog Hop Order

Altenew Card Blog

Virginia Lu

Joy Dsouza

Tenia Nelson

LauraJane  <YOU are here

Erum Tasneem

Vickie Davis

Looking forward to crafting with ALTENEW and YOU in 2023!

Thanks for stopping by!

LauraJane :)