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Monday, June 4, 2012

How To Curl Twine: Vase of Paper Flowers


I am delighted to announce this news today:  I’ve joined the design team of Trendy Twine.  I first fell in love with Trendy Twine back in January when I was a guest designer. The twine is such a great weight and lays and falls so nicely. Trendy Twine is a three-color twist that comes in traditional colors mixed with white as well as custom colors mixed with other colors. It’s beautiful to work with and I couldn’t be more excited to join the team.

Let’s see some Trendy Twine at work, shall we? For this project, I made a vase of paper flowers.

 
I used flower kits from Little Yellow Bicycle’s Paradise and Wonder & Wishes collections to make the accordian flowers, added button centers from Basic Grey, then attached the flowers to floral wire stems. To incorporate the twine, I wrapped Twisted Lime twine around the five largest flowers.


To make a curled "ribbon" from twine, I wet the twine with glue, using Claudine Hellmuth's Multi Medium Matte.  While wet, I wrapped the twine around a straw. Once the twine dried, I unwound it from the straw and the twine sprung right back into shape. (Note the twine in the demonstration below is a different shade of green).


Here is a close-up of the curly cue twine ribbon.


To celebrate the new design team, Trendy Twine is having a blog hop and is giving a way a spool of twine (winner's choice) to a commenter chosen by random draw. You can find all the details on the Trendy Twine website here.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate your visit.  I'll be back tomorrow with reveal day and a Prima contest from My Creative Scrapbook.

Linking this to Tip Me TuesdayTater Tots & Jello and Today's Creative Blog.

51 comments:

  1. Congrats on your new DT, Izzy! ohhhhh.... and I soooo adore your bunch of paper flowers!! Adorable!!!
    Have a great week!
    Sylvia xx

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  2. Absolutely going to have to steal your curly twine idea, how creative!!! Gorgeous creation!

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  3. Congrats, Izzy!!!
    the vase is adorable!

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  4. congrats izzy! this is just way too cute!

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  5. Congrats on the DT!!! That is AWESOME!!!!!! I loveeeeeeeeee your flowers and LOVING how you made the twine curly!! That is WOW!!!!

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  6. Love the vase! Big, huge congrats on making the Trendy Twine team!!!

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  7. Wow Izzy! Congrats on your new DT! Love the flowers! (:

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  8. Congratulations!
    And I love the flowers!!

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  9. Congrats and gorgeous project!

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  10. I just love the twine curls--I need to try that :)

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  11. Congrats!!! Such a beautiful project!! Love the curls with the twine!!
    TFS

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  12. Izzy, that's wonderful. They are lucky to have such a talented person on their team!!

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  13. Oh, and not to mention MCS!!! Delaina told me and I was so happy for you. And MCS!!!!!

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  14. Those flower/rosettes are so adorable!!! TFS

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  15. Just LOVE these flowers and the curls!!! Congrats on making the team!!!

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  16. love the twirl you put on that twine and the flowers are amazing!!! Congrats on the team~you will be awesome, for sure!!!

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  17. Congrats on the DT! I love how you got the twine to curl. That looks awesome! :)

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  18. Congratulations Izzy! I love the flowers!

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  19. This is stunning Izzy and looking forward to working with you. Hugs, Anita

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  20. Ditto what everyone has said about making the team. :) I am so happy for you! Creating the curled twine to put around the vase is such a creative idea! It really adds a nice touch to the beautiful bouquet. :)

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  21. Congrats, Gorgeous bouquet of flowers. Love it.

    Hugs,
    Kate

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  22. Wow, that is so cute. I am going to have to remember that when doing flowers the pencil wrap up and the decoration around the flower.
    Congrats on yoru new positions.

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  23. Congrats Izzy! Adorable flowers and I just love how you curled the bakers twine!

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  24. Great idea witht he flowers. Congrats on making the DT.

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  25. This is so stunning, Izzy. The flowers and the "ribbon" are gorgeous. Thanks so much for joining the design team.

    Lesley @ Trendy Twine

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  26. Oh wow - I love the curly twine. how creative! Congrats! :)

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  27. Aaaw the flowers are so pretty. Love the idea!

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  28. How CUTE and FUN are these?! LOVE 'em!

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  29. Congratulations!! Love your flower vase - so fun and pretty.

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  30. Congratulations! GREAT news and what a fun project!

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  31. YAY congrats!!! love your flowers and those twine twirlies are now on my "must try" list!

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  32. This is awesome! Great work! And congrats on the new DT! :)

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  33. Welcome to the team Izzy! Wow, your flowers are gorgeous!! I LOVE the curly twine! So neat!

    <3 Alyssa

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  34. Adorable flowers! Congrats on your new DT gig!

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  35. Huge congratulations Izzy! Your flowers are AMAZING!!!

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  36. Congrats on making the cut Izzy. I love the flowers and how you wrapped twine between the petals; very creative! Christine

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  37. Looks like a congratulatory bouquet...for YOU! Congrats on the DT, Izzy!! Coincidentally, I've been meaning to tell you...hey, you should apply for the Trendy Twine team because I saw the call. And here you are! Yes!!!!!!!! You will be a perfect addition :)

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  38. Beautiful! Great work with the twine!

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  39. The flowers are fabulous and I love the curly twine. You did an amazing job showcasing the twine on your project!

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  40. This is really outstanding. Thanks for the curly tutorial. This will be great for decor I'm working on for a baby shower.

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  41. Curly twine is popping up all over. Great trend!

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  42. Wow!! this is absolutely gorgeous!! There isn't much more you say.. just Stunning!

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  43. I love it! Isn't Trendy twine the best. You flowers are amazing thanks for sharing.

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  44. Congratulations! I love your projects! I need to try your technique for making the twine spiral. Love it! I am a new follower of your blog.

    reynakb at gmail dot com

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  45. I so love all your wonderful little projects Izzy. This vase with the flowers is so beautiful and cheerful and enough to lift anybody's spirits!! Gorgeous my friend :)

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  46. Congrats and welcome to the team! Love the curly twine look!!!

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