Rinea Tutorial - Spring Flowers in Foiled Paper

Hello, my friends!

Today I have a fun tutorial for Rinea.

I'm going to show you how I decorated a gift bag
using these fabulous foiled papers!

I'm featuring the gorgeous new "Floral" collection for this project.
Here's what I made:

Here's how I did it:

Materials used:

• Floral Foiled Paper Variety Pack
• Gold/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper
• Emerald/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper
• Sizzix Thinlits - Eileen Hull Flower Die
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels Eighteen Die
• Scrap of Cardstock - Lavender
• Piercing Tool and Mat
• Brads
• Adhesive
• Gift Bag 

1. I started by choosing my gift bag. I am actually recycling a Purdy's Chocolate bag. The purple is perfect for this collection, and purple projects always seem to be everyone's favorite!

2. I cut two labels from the Gold/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper, ensuring that the labels were large enough to cover the name on the bag. Also, some of the finer flower centers were cut from the gold.

3. I cut the leaves from the Emerald/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper.

4. I cut a multitude of each of the flower dies from each of the colors in this collection. 

5. On the back side of the bag, I placed a gold label over the name on the bag. Then I added a smaller Lavender colored cardstock label. This offers a place to write a message. I kept this side flat, so the bag can be folded, and hung up as a decor piece.

6. Then I just had fun creating all my flowers. I layered all the die-cuts up, alternating colors and textures - glossy and starstruck. I shaped them the way I wanted the petals to go. When I was happy with the layers, I pierced holes through the centers, and added coordinating brads. 

7. I added a large gold label to the front of the bag. 

8. I arranged the flowers in place on top of the label, and adhered the in place. Allowing some of the label to peek out.

9. I curled the leaves, and adhered them in place under the flowers.

All finished!

Now it's a lovely bag to fill and gift to someone,

or to hang up as a lovely Spring decor piece,

until the real flowers appear! :o)

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!
I'll be back soon with more fun to share!

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Rinea

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Whisker Graphics - Stitching Fun!

Hello, my friends!

I'm back to share a fun project created with products from the Whisker Graphics Shop!

I'm also over on the Whisker Graphics Blog today.

You're going to want to go over there and subscribe in the sidebar, if you haven't already done so. 

That way you won't miss what the rest of the DT shares,

and all the fun ways you can use these great products!

Here's what we're making today...

Here's what you need to make it:

From Whisker Graphics:

Middy Bitty Bags - Plain Brown - 5" X 7.5"

Divine Twine Bamboo in 3 Colors 

Solid Pink Bamboo, Solid Aqua Bamboo, Solid Green Bamboo

Other Materials Needed:

Paper Piercing Tool and Mat

Stitch/Piercing Design Templates

Insert the piercing mat into the Middy Bitty Bag.

Choose your design template and position it over the bag.

Pierce the design into the bag, through the top layer only.

Cut a workable length of the twine, and thread it on a needle. 

Using a piece of tape, 

secure the end of the twine securely in place on the inside of the bag.

Do this in a location close to where you will begin your first stitch.

Poke the needle through to the front of the bag through one of the pierced holes. 

Continue stitching the design from the front of the bag.

Do so carefully so that you don't tear the bag.

To finish off, secure the end with another piece of tape. 

Trim the twine close to the tape. 

I then decided to stitch "HELLO" on a Large White Tag from the shop.

I had a plan for it! 

When the stitching was finished, 

I threaded some additional twine through the hole in the tag.

Here you can see where I adhered the tag to the front of one bag, 

and then stitched a little bird sitting on it.

To finish these off, I cut a coordinating piece of cardstock to fit inside the bag. 

These are just a fun alternative to the usual greeting card!

Products from Whisker Graphics:

Middy Bitty Bags - Plain Brown - 5" X 7.5"

Divine Twine Bamboo in 3 Colors 

Solid Pink Bamboo, Solid Aqua Bamboo, Solid Green Bamboo

Large White Tag

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This was another fun project using these products from
Whisker Graphics!
Sometimes a girl's just gotta stitch! ;o)

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Thanks for stopping by!

I'll be back again soon with another project share!

Here are all the links you'll need:

Whisker Graphics Shop
Whisker Graphics Blog

Whisker Graphics Facebook