Holes in My Umbrella ;o) (+Cuttlebug fabric technique) MFT Enabler Alert!

Wondering why the holes in yesterday's Umbrella?

Dawn, you guessed it, Girlfriend! Beads...of rain.
(You guys are so fun!)

This was inspired by...
my friend Dawn's fiercely fabulous use of colour
& Jody's gorgeously clean style
to try & make something more colourful & clean than usual...
Not sure if it ended up having both, but I sure had a blast.

...and do you recognize that embossing folder?

(It's the new Provo Craft Koi folder--minus the Koi.) ;o)
It took a little creative Cuttling, & some covering,
but the Koi pond is now rain puddles.

The process to make the embossed fabric background might be a new Cuttlebug/Copic technique for ya: fabric that's been glued to cardstock & embossed (with colouring using Prismacolour pencils, Copics, and drops of Colourless blender.)

1...new & nifty: Pure Innocence
2...how to make braided hair embellishment (hemp)
3...Cuttlebug (or pressure embossed) fabric backgrounds
4...finishing touches & assembly
5...cheap tricks: one way of altering (using up) your patterned papers

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Enabler alert: Pure Innocence My Umbrella

Click the image to check
out My Umbrella at MFT

You can see more of the current Pure Innocence stamps here.
They seem to sell out quickly. Careful though,
they're addictively sweet! Don't say I didn't warn ya, hehehe ;o)

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...make braided hair embellishments:
(using hemp/twine/cording...)

• MFT stamp Pure Innocence My Umbrella
• MFT Perfect Paper Panels
  
• Hemp twine (in a natural colour) or small cording...
• Strong double-sided tape
• Patterned paper piecing scraps & paper bits/ribbon (hair ties)
• Judikin's diamond glaze/strong glue that dries non-tacky
• The Cat's Pajamas' Glitzy Glitter
• Paper piercer & sharp scissors
• Copic markers --(From this set especially) (B00, yR20, E00, R20, Y06)
• Silver metal microbeads

This little gal is perfect as is, but for some strange reason
I just had to add braids to her hair...



Step 1) Stamp, colour, paper piece, & cut out MFT My Umbrella girl. Give her a hair cut (to add braids to later.)



Step 2) Braid together three strands of hemp twine & add paper bits for hair ties (gluing wee paper strips on.) Braid one section long enough to cut in two braids.



Step 3) Trim the ends & fray them with a paper piercer.



Step 4) Add glue in the middle of the braid (on either side) to hold it together when you cut it in two braid pigtails.



Step 5) Cut it in two braided pigtails.



Step 6) Glue the braids to the back of the My Umbrella girl. I affixed them with double-sided tape, positioned them with pins (in my fun foam work mat) & then added copious amounts of Diamond glaze. Messy but those piggies are staying put! hehehe



Step 7) Colour the braids to match (however you've coloured the little gal's hair in the image.)

Finishing up Umbrella Gal:

Glitter the Umbrella: Add thin layer of Diamond Glaze (crystal lacquer) to the umbrella & cover with a bit of Glitzy Glitter. That stuff is SO cool! It's made of real glass. I like to pour some in the hollow of the lid to control the amount that spills out.

A) Add teensy weensy buttons: Pierce holes where the buttons are, add glue in the holes, & put silver metal microbeads in there. (I also lacquered her gum boots.) :-)

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Cuttlebug (or pressure embossed) fabric backgrounds

• fabric (I used a very old pillowcase, LOL)
• strong cardstock (watercolour paper if you want to add a lot of moisture)
• mod podge/glue that holds well & dries non-tacky
• Optional: prismacolour pencils, Copic markers & colourless blender

Step 1) Make a Cuttlebugged fabric piece:

A) Cut a square of fabric.
B) Cut a smaller cardstock square.
C) Glue together & Fray the edges.
D) Cuttlebug emboss it.
E) Colour the raised part with Prismacolour pencils (or something else).
F) Colour remainder with copics.
G) Add drops of colourless blender.

Step 2) Embellish the Cuttlebug fabric piece:



2A) Pierce the Cuttlebugged fabric piece (to make it easier to pierce, mark the four corners (piercing from the front) then flip & finish piercing from the back.



2B) Stitch the Cuttlebugged fabric piece with embroidery thread

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finishing touches & assembly

Other materials: Cosmo Cricket Ever After Crafting kit, paper piercer, needle, embroidery thread, seed beads, sentiment from MFT My Umbrella, Black ink, clear embossing powder...

Make a stitched cloud sentiment: Print the ledger cloud Stamp the MFT My Umbrella sentiment--Feel Better-- Pierce & stitch it.



Finish the sentiment: cut around the stitching Adhere it to grey Cosmo Cricket Everafter paper & cut that out. Edge with a dark gray copic marker.



Stitch scraps of paper to a mat & make a folded card.

This card is made from a piece of cream cardstock--cut to measure 6-1-4 x 6-3/4 and scored down the middle. (Folded it makes a 6-1-4 by 3-3/8 card to fit a really common envelope size from the office supply store.)



Adhere the Cuttlebugged fabric piece to the card

Adding beads of rain:


Add seed beads for rain.

A) Place the Umbrella gal temporarily in place
B) Pierce around her (two holes for wherever you'd like a raindrop bead)



C) Stitch on beads



Repeat beading on her Umbrella (piercing two holes for every bead again)



...and stitch beads on the umbrella.

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altering & using up all your patterned papers

use it up; wear it out;
make it do, or do without!
e.t.a oops had that favourite saying of my Mom's wrong.
I think I used up my brain cells & wore out my memory. I'll have to do without LOL

Cheap trick- colour over patterned paper to change its colours and make it match your project. Prismacolour pencils will even let you tint dark colours like the red. (I used orange & yellow to get them more like the pieces I had put on her umbrella.)

and that's it...

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