DCWV / Faber-Castell Blog Hop Week!!!

 
Hello!  Welcome to Day #2 of the DCWV/Faber-Castell Blog Hop Week!  Yay!!!  You know what that means? Inspiration and Giveaways, woot woot!!! If you've stumbled upon my blog make sure you start at the DCWV Blog so you can see all of the inspiration, as well as how you can get entered for the giveaways!  By the way if you are wanting to know the prizes DCWV will have 3 giveaways worth $50 each!!! woot woot!!!  And Faber-Castell will be giving away a $50 prize pack as well! woo hoo!!!!

Now onto my project for this hop... I've created a paper tassel banner.  This is very similar to the tissue tassels, if you have ever seen them, and I also made a step by step tutorial on how to make these tassels yourself.  DCWV has a wonderful stack called Vintage Essentials made of wonderful collage/tissue type cardstock so it is really versatile...

First, I hung this up on my China Cabinet so you could see it in all it's glory... but I'll show you add the end of the post where it finally found a home among my Christmas decorations.  Let me share the tutorial before showing that...

1. cover each 12 x 12 with various Gellatos (colors I've used: Snow Cone, Red Cherry, Butterscotch Carmel, Metallic Mint)

2. Fold over in half and then fold over again until it looks folded like mine above.  Then with scissor make straight cuts from the bottom towards the edge leaving about 1.5" at the top.  Also make sure not to cut any of the folds, just cut as close as you can.

3. Open it all up and it should look like the photo above if cut correctly.

4.  start at one end and begin rolling the paper up.  Go slowly so that the fringes don't get caught on one another and rip.

5.  Next I twisted the center and folded over.  To keep the circle top I used some of the DCWV Adhesive Jeweled sheet trimmed and wrapped around as shown.

Here is a group of them in the various colors before I strung them up.

I also created circles to go in between the tassels that I wrote various words on that remind me of Christmas.  White I don't have a tutorial on these I can tell you have I made them...

I started by painting a heavy weight white cardstock with Faber-Castell Chalkboard paint and letting it dry.  This product goes on so smoothly, gives great coverage, and drys fast! love it!  I then wrote my words using PITT artist pen in Silver.  To give it a chalkboard look I went over it with the Snow Cone Gellato and smudged it with my finger.  I then adhered these circles to punched out circles from the Holiday Glitzy Glitter Stack.

And here is where I finally hung my tassle banner...

Doesn't it look perfect here?  I love it!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope I've inspired you, or maybe you've picked up some new techniques, tips or tricks!  Make sure you stop by the DCWV blog for full blog hop details and don't forget about the giveaways!!!

Happy Crafting!
Lisa

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