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!