Boutique Accessories

Welcome to the final day of the Papertrey Ink February Countdown and the second design team group post day. This time around our focus is on the soon to be released Boutique Accessories. Be sure to check out Nichole Heady's blog for more info on this set.

 

Erin's Boutique Accessories line-up is simply genius! Never has it been so easy to display such a number of hand crafted accessories. Even though I thoroughly enjoyed taking the time to hand stitch a felt hydrangea broach, I enjoyed even more how easy it was to create coordinating and pretty packaging. 

 

Be sure to scroll all the way down, I've snuck in a couple cards featuring my other new set for the month...  Mini Blooms and Watercolor Wonder!

I've had so much fun with today challenge and I'm super excited to share...

For today's challenge I've assembled and adorable hydrangea brooch constructed  from bits and pieces of felt.  Below I'll show you exactly what pieces I've used.

Here's How:  The pieces used for construction... One: bits and pieces die cut from vintage cream felt using the Mini Blooms dies, these were the individual flowers pieces.  Second: as the base, two pieces were cut using the top portion of the Happy Hydrangea flower die. Third: leaves die cut from limeaid ice felt using the Sending You die collection.

The individual pieces were stitched into place using French knots (a novice tutorial can be found here) onto one of the Happy Hydrangea flower die pieces.  The leaves were then hot glued into place.  The second hydrangea flower was cut to fit the pin and then glued into place to cover the stitching and create a clean look.

A close up of the blossoms.  Here's A Note:  I opted to incorporate a number of different floss colors for a unexpected pop of color.

The base of the packaging was inspired by the use of color in the hydrangea brooch.  I stamped the Irresistibly Ikat polka dots in coordinating colors.

Next, a Mini Blooms sample.  This simple creation began by heat embossing the sentiment in black.

Over the embossing it was easy to stamp a few individual flowers, in a pretty color combo, directly over the sentiment.

Last but not least, Watercolor Wonder.  I simply stamped a few painted strokes across the front of a white card base. 

Then finished the card of with a simple sentiment (you can see a "so much" addition to this sentiment on Nichole tag here, on her first project), stamped leaves and a resin flower (more info on it here).

That's it from me today! Now, be sure to see what the rest of the Papertrey Ink design team has in store for you today...

• Nichole Heady
• Betsy Veldman
• Dawn McVey
• Melissa Phillips
• Erin Lincoln
• Jessica Witty
• Danielle Flanders
• Ashley Cannon Newell
• Cristina Kowalczyk

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Maile