Monday, August 29, 2011

Blog Hopping with the Dreamweaver and Woodware Design Teams

The Dreamweaver design team is partying with the UK Woodware design team to bring you innovative ways to use our wonderful Dreamweaver Stencils and supplies all week long!  By the end of the week, you'll have seen stencils used in inspiration ways you just couldn't have imagined, and you'll see that, although our stencils are wonderful for paper crafting, they have SO MANY other uses too.  We'll have several posts a day for you, beginning today, Monday, August 29th, through Saturday, September 3rd.  At the end of our celebration, each designer will randomly select a winner from all blog comments to receive a free Dreamweaver stencil.  We look forward to you partying along with us.

Here's my entry for today.  Garden party, anyone?   For me, it's more like "gardening party," but who said you can't be stylish while pulling weeds?

 Stenciling on straw couldn't be easier.  I used the Black Eyed Susan stencil (LJ902) and blocked out the placement on the brim, using one or two flowers to fill in the blank spaces.  Then, following my template, I applied white embossing paste to every other section.   When that paste had dried, I paste embossed the remaining sections.   The ribbon band was a piece of cake.   Cut ribbon to fit and, starting at one end, paste emboss a single flower as many times as needed.  Since you are only pasting one flower at a time, it's not necessary to wait for the first one to dry before starting on the next flower.






When dry, replace the stencil and apply Splendor Inks by Tsukineko in your desired colors.  I attached the ribbon using fabric glue and added a bow to cover the two ends.  

You can find all the supplies I used and more here and right here.






If you've just joined the hop, here are the designers who have posted today:
Debbie at http://debfs.blogspot.com
Deborah at http://upcyclingmylife.blogspot.com
Kristi at http://www.kristiscreativecafe.blogspot.com
Liz at http://blackcatsstudios.blogspot.com    (you're here)

That's it for today.  Come back tomorrow and start at Lynell's blog DREAM it UP!  Lynell has also listed all of the hoppers on her blog, so it's a good place to go to if you get lost or miss a day (we know that won't happen, but just in case) and need to catch up.

I hope you've enjoyed the hopping with us and don't forget hop tomorrow through Saturday!

Happy Crafting,
Liz

16 comments:

  1. WOW! This is extremely clever, Liz! Great work.

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  2. I am stunned! I new that the Dream Team were clever but well I am speechless!

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  3. Oh, LIz! this hat is darling!!! Country weddings are so "in" right now and this would be a great look for a centerpiece.

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  4. What a very clever idea. I would never have thought of doing something like this. Your hat looks so fresh and pretty!!
    Siobhan

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  5. This is really lovely Liz. Would never have thought of stenciling my hat or even trying too!!

    hugs Diane xx

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  6. OmiGOSH Liz, this is absolutely positively FABULOUS!!!

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  7. GREAT IDEA!!! To bad I am not a straw hat wearer....maybe I could so something with my baseball hats. Hmmm....this is fab. Love it!

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  8. What a delightful project! It turned out so lovely!

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  9. Gorgeous -- this is much too pretty to wear in the garden!

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  10. Hi Liz, another wonderful idea. I'm a card girl really but I might just be tempted to expand my horizons.
    Love and hugs
    Kimx

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  11. OK this is tooooooo fun! love the hat idea!

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  12. What fun! You did a fabulous job.

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  13. How lovely, this blog hop is giving me lots of ideas....

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  14. This is just darling! You did a wonderful job, love the flowers on the ribbon too!

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  15. This is absolutely inspiring I would never of dreamed of using a hat. Beautiful!!

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  16. Liz these is beautiful, I would wear this hat I love the colors you used.

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