What's your favourite embellishments? -TPV-

Today at TPV, it's the final one of our 5 special challenges to celebrate our 1st Birthday.

If you are here for the blog hop, you'll find it here

So, today the challenge is to use your favourite embellishments.
We all have embellishments that we grab time and time again and appear on all of our LO's, and at TPV, we'd like to see them.

I found this quite a challenge at first, as I have so many favourites. So I settled on this...

Yes, I LOVE that background paper from Crate paper, but that isn't the 'favourite' that I've used on here.
My favourite embellishments are handmade ones :)

All of the flowers and buttons on this LO are handmade :) I had brilliant fun making these. I think one of the reasons handmade embellishments are my favourite is because they are sooo fun to make, can be tailored to suit your project, and they are great fun to use :) This was the first time I had experimented with making my own buttons from Fimo, and it was really good fun. There are so many different designs and things you can do.


Here are tutorials for the flowers:


Large purple/blue book print flower -
This was made using this tutorial, which is really great. I have used book paper, and then coloured each layer with watercolours as it gives it a gorgeous mottled colour effect, and because of the water, the petals become easy to shape and then dry crisp. It is amazing how water can allow you to create such form from paper. When it dries, it dries crisp and keeps it's form. I now wet most flowers I make.


Large white flower -
I think I made this using roughly the same technique and tutorial as above, which is here. The main difference with this flower is that I haven't coloured it and have used mulberry/handmade paper. I have then misted the layers with water and shaped them by scrunching the petals and using a cocktail stick. The paper absorbs water very well and really does keep it's shape :)


The teal ribbon flower -
This has been made exactly the same as most ribbon flowers are made. I'm sure you know how to, but if you don't, I shall give you the basics. You start with a circle of card, then stick the ribbon to the centre. As you wrap the ribbon around into a circle, twist it as you go , making a coil of ribbon. Cut off the remainder of the ribbon once you have reached the edge of the card base, and glue it down.


Small purple flower -
This has also been made using roughly the same principle as the first two, with this tutorial. I have created 2 layers like these with book paper, and then one with some coloured card. I have misted them, and shaped them, then let them dry. I have then rubbed an ink pad over them to bring out some of the creases and definition.

I hope you like the LO, I was really pleased with it, I really like that colour combination, I should use it more :)

So, pop over to TPV here and share your projects with us, and make sure you use those favourite embellishments, they deserve that attention!

The lovely prize on offer for this challenge is..

This is the "Sophia" kit from CTMH and is filled with patterned papers, cardstock, buttons, twine and a clear stamp set! Isn't it lovely. I am straight away drawn to those buttons, which are another of my favourite embellishments. :)


Here are a few close ups of my LO :)

Bye for now,


P.S. Thanks to those of you that commented on my last post and gave suggestions as to what to do with the spelling mistake. I have taken your advice and tried replacing the 'e' with a heart :)

Rescued? Does it look ok?
Thanks so much :)