Using Metal Embellishments to Create a Journaling Block on Your Scrapbook Pages

Hardware Hodgepodge

Create an eye-catching journaling circle simply by raiding your stash of hardware!  See how I mix various photo hangers, brads, eyelets, flower brads, and photo holders to create a scrapbook page you can’t help but run your hands over!

Supplies:

Patterned paper in greens, blues, and browns

Vellum accent paper

Circle punches or circle cutter (two sizes)

Hardware: photo hangers, brads, eyelets, flower brads, photo holders

Stickers

Lace trim and ribbon

Fabric flower

Alphabet stickers

Hemp twine

Glue

Gem border trim

Brown ink

Crop-A-Dile

Paper piercer

Tape

Step One:  Arrange a grouping of patterned paper squares.  Cut or punch two circles.  Ink the edges of all the elements including the circles.  Glue together the bottom square and rectangle papers but do not glue any of these papers to the base patterned cardstock of the scrapbook page.  Glue together the circles but do not glue the circle down to the papers yet.

Step Two:  Arrange some brads, eyelets, photo hangers and a photo holder in varying areas around the journaling circle.  You will be stringing a piece of hemp twine through and around these pieces.  I am also adding a couple photo hangers to the outside edges of the patterned paper cluster.

Step Three:  Use a pencil to mark where the holes for the brads and eyelets will be placed. 

Step Four:  Use a Crop-A-Dile and a paper piercer to create holes into which you will anchor your metal pieces to.

Step Five:  Start the hemp twine in one of the eyelets.  Secure the twine to the back of the journaling circle with tape.

Step Six:  You will then thread the twine through eyelets and wind it around the brads as shown.  You can now add a small amount of glue behind the areas of the journaling circle you have already wound the twine through.  Do not put glue on the bottom half of the journaling circle.  You still have a couple places to thread the twine through.  You will need to lift up the bottom half of the circle to do this.

Step Seven:  Finish threading and winding the twine through the rest of the metal pieces.  

Step Eight:  Thread the twine through the first eyelet again to complete the design.

Step Nine:  Cut off the excess twine and secure to the back of the journaling circle with more tape.  Your fancy fun journaling circle is all jazzed up!

I hope you enjoyed that tutorial!  If you want to see more scrapbooking or cardmaking tutorials on my YouTube Channel, just comment here or send me an email letting me know what you want to see or learn!

Hugs!

Mo

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I know, I know...it sounded more exciting than it really is! Fooled you!

But now you're here, so stay and LOOK!

Today I have two cards pubbed in Scrapbook News and Review June 2011 issue.  I can share now!

A card I made for a dear co-worker who wised up and went to a different department.

I sure miss him :)

I hand drew a woodgrain pattern on that chipboard piece and went in and added some glitter to color it in.

I love this card ;)

I had some fun with stickers on this one!  Crate Paper rocks!  I love them!

Believe it or not, my favorite part of this card are the teeny clear pebbles!  Lol! Sigh.

In recent news, the Kao Family had a wonderful week!  We tired the kiddos out with various outings that knocked them out as soon as we got back home!

We watched "Up" outdoors at a park.  Hubby had to have his gummi bears.  Too funny.

Sher, I don't know if you're reading this but...remember when he wanted to stop by the store to get a bag of gummi bears to take to the Janet Jackson concert and I was like "Um, it's not like watching a movie..."...LOL! I'm still cracking up over that!

And my smart sis brought her air mattress.  Of course, the kids left my side to sneak in between my sisters!

I love my family!

There were face painters there.  So cute!

 

And my girl decided on that dog from the movie...whatever his name was....

The funny thing was, it was a "dog park"...people let their kids run around barefoot....um...what do you think is hiding in the grass at a dog park??????  Doggy doo!  Ew.  I'm such a bi*ch I kept on watching to see if the kids would step in it because I know exactly where a bunch of doo was!  I know, don't worry, Karma will get me!  It's little devlish things like this that make me the not-so-sweet-as-I-seem person I really am!

Muah..ha ha ha!!!!