Good Monday Morning Fancy Pants Designs {and Tombow} Fans!
We are excited to be blog hopping this week with our fine friends over at Tombow! We love their adhesives and teamed up, again, to share more ideas with you using our Love Note collection! There are going to be lots of fun projects for you to whip up for Valentine's Day next week so be sure to stop in each day this week for ideas and drop in on Saturday for the chance to win FREE Fancy Pants Designs and Tombow products! Enjoy!
Today's project is brought to you by the talented Jess Mutty!
1. Cut two 3" x 10" strips of coordinating paper, fold them in half, and round off the open ends. At 1" and 2" cut straight lines up from the bottom about 3.5".
2. Begin weaving the two halves together: one strip fully inside and then fully outside the opposite strip as shown (not just over and under). You want the inside of the heart to fully open like a pocket when you are done. The third strip will take a bit of fussing and wiggling.
3. Adhere trim around the outside of the front of the heart. Build up a series of clustered and layered embellishments on one side of the heart using fussy cuts, stickers, die cuts, buttons and other coordinating pieces.
4. Cut a 2" strip of pink paper and border punch both sides. Cut a 1" strip of black check paper and gather it in a ruffle using a strip of permanent adhesive. Sew the ruffle down and adhere it to the center of the pink strip. Use permanent adhesive to attach the handle to the basket.
Now your paper heart basket is ready to fill and hang!
Well, I just LOVED this project that Jess created! It is so much fun and new little technique that comes in handy for loads for holidays, right?!!
We used a great mix of products Tombow sent over to us including different runners (the Tombow Stamp Runner is a fav of mine), Fastner Tabs and more! Tombow definitely knows adhesives! Be sure to check out what they done with our products over on the Tombow blog!
Thanks for stopping by and we'll see you all tomorrow!
Jess...you are amazing and so is your work! Love this cute little holder.
Posted by: carrie | February 04, 2013 at 10:07 AM
The weaving looks really cute. It reminds me of some placemats I've made..
Posted by: Sharon Gullikson | February 04, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Such a cute project! Love the weave technique to show off the different paper patterns.
Posted by: Cynthia B. | February 04, 2013 at 12:27 PM
I love the weaving of the paper !! The basket is beautiful ! TFS .
Posted by: Julie A. Shearer | February 04, 2013 at 05:39 PM
Jodi, this is adorable! I remember doing this special weave. Will have to get out my FP papers and make some.
Posted by: Debbie Fisher | February 04, 2013 at 05:50 PM
This is too cute! I will have to make some for V-Day!! Thanks!
Posted by: Laura G | February 05, 2013 at 04:03 AM
This is just adorable, I love the weaving. All the added embellishments are so fun.
Posted by: Rea Custer | February 05, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Wow - this is so cute!
Posted by: Jean A Marmo | February 05, 2013 at 05:56 PM
Terrific idea!!!
Posted by: Beverly Jordan | February 07, 2013 at 08:31 AM
What a cool idea!! The twine on the finger is genius!!
TFS!! Take Care!!
Jennie
Posted by: Jennie Garcia | February 07, 2013 at 12:52 PM
These are way neat and adorable. I love this idea. Going to have to try it for sure.
Posted by: Amy#8546(TheTigersHaven) | February 07, 2013 at 03:42 PM
Wow! What a cool project!
Posted by: Lee-Anne | February 10, 2013 at 09:05 AM
What a wonderful design! I am going to have to try this technique!
Posted by: Marcia T | February 11, 2013 at 06:18 AM