Club Scrap Crewel & Unusual Blog Hop

Welcome to another

Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month we feature the February kit

called: Crewel & Unusual.

I hope you came over here from 

Josette's Blog

and enjoyed her artwork for this kit.

When I was thinking of what to make for

this kit I was inspired by this picture:

I absolutely loved the spools that came with this kit

And here is my project:

A box with decorated spools.

I started with measuring the spools and making

a template for the box.

The box measures 4,5" x 3,5"x 3"

and is made out of heavy kraft paper that I

sprayed purple and decorated with the purple

decorated paper.

The finished box looks like this. Complete with a ribbon

from the kit and flower on top with one of the buttons

that was in the embellishment pack.

Here a close up of the top of the box.

Now move on to what is inside the box.

There are two kinds of spools.

Little cards and decorated spools.

First I show you how I made the decorated spools.

I colored the background with a stencil and purple ink.

And the top and bottom stitches are stamped

with the same purple ink.

Here you see the other two spools and how

I used some other stencils on them.

On the plain green paper I printed some sentiments

and a few vintage pictures that match the sewing theme.

Here are the finished spools from one side.

I added vintage pictures from my family.

Left is my mom, in the middle it is me and 

to the rightis my mom and my grandmother.

Here the backside of the cards. I love the tassles that came with the

embellishments. When I added them to these spools it gave it even

a more vintage look. I colored the images with pencil and

here and there I added a few sticky pearls from my stash.

 Now to the other spool cards:

These are little real cards you can add to a bouquet of flowers

or a little gift.They are 3x4 inch (6x4 inch folded).

You might want to find your punchboard and get

punching! I found a you tube tutorial here explaining it

all. I just made a diffrent size to fit my box.

This is a 4x6 inch card and I have made these before.

You find a complete spool card technique tutorial is here.

All you need is your enveloppe punch board.

For this card I used the deorated ivory paper

4 x 12 inch folded lengthwise in half.

The sentiment is one of the cut apparts

that came with the kit asdid the beautiful

wide red ribbon.

Here you see the way this card is standing

and really looks like a spool.

As I was unlucky that my box was totally wet when arrived,

that is why I made little things with the good paper

that was left. Club Scrap was so wonderful and send

me abox of new paper,that arrived yesterday.

 THANK YOU SO MUCH!

So expect some more crewel & unusual projects

this week. Now for more inspiration hop over to

Tricia's Blog

who always has the most inventive ideas.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!