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DT Tutorial by Tiffany

Today, I will teach you how to make this awesome overlay pumpkin for your Thanksgiving tablescape!

Materials: 12x12 Hambly Overlay, scrap piece of patterned paper, Hambly Woodgrain Alphabet clear stickers, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Curio Knobs, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Crop-a-dial, seam binding, washi tapes, mini clothespins or binder clips, ruler, paper cutter, flameless tealight candle, brad, adhesive

Step 1: Cut 7, 1” x 12” strips of Hambly Overlay, create stack, and punch hole through the center and sides, using mini clothespins of binder clips to secure stack.

Step 2: Insert brad into center hole. Arrange the strips in a circle and apply adhesive to the ends. Decorate the tealight with various washi tapes. 

Step 3: Place tealight on top of the brad adhering with a glue dot. Starting with the 1st strip on the top, bring the ends together. Continue with each strip thereafter.

Step 4: When all but one strip has been secured, take the thumbscrew and insert from the inside of the pumpkin ensuring that the male end of the screw is exposed at the top. You may need to punch another hole before you’re able to complete this step.

Step 5: Add the last two ends and screw on the knob.

Note: This is how it should look after you’ve screwed on the knob!

Step 6: To create the knob treatment or “the stem” on the pumpkin, take a shoebox or plastic bin, trimmed seam binding, and glimmer mist.

Step 7: Spray seam binding several times.

Step 8: Ball up the seam binding, absorbing the rest of the glimmer mist at the same time, and allow to dry.

Step 9: To create the monogram tag, gather the scrap paper, Woodgrain Alphabet clear stickers, washi tape, and scissors.

Step 10: Cut tag from scrap paper, apply strip of washi tape, and punch hole at the top.

Step 11: Now you can add a monogram sticker to the corner.

Step 12: Take the dyed seam binding, tie a bow around the knob, and thread the tag through one of the ribbon ends. Trim excess.

Before your guests arrive, you can easily manipulate the overlay strips to turn on the tealight before adding it to your tablescape!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial!

Happy Pumpkin Making!

 

 

Holiday DT projects KL

Design team member KL created a cute Rudolph holiday collage along with a printable PDF so you can create one for yourself. You will need a current version of Adobe Acrobat in order to download & print the pdf, this comes standard with most computer operating systems.

I adore the holidays and when creating holiday projects i love incorporating traditional holiday images with my whimsical vintage style. A few weeks ago I came across this incredible cardboard deer head while shopping online and thought I could re-invent their concept for a cute Rudolph collage using Hambly and some vintage elements.  

For my project I used the following Hambly items; Houndstooth paper, Little Circles paper, Christmas Kraft stickers. I also used a vintage cabinet card frame & a scrap piece of antique ledger paper.

Step 1 : To being you will need to download the pdf I created with the three stacked Rudolph images {here}.

Step 2 : After you have downloaded your pdf cut a piece of your Hambly Screenprints paper to 8.5" x 11" and then print the pdf image onto the back of the printed paper so you can hand-cut all three images without the stencil lines showing {i printed onto the wrong side which led to me needing to be careful about cutting the print lines off}. You could also print the template onto a piece of plain paper and use the Overlays for your pattern as well.

 

Step 3 : Stack all three of your hand-cut Rudolph images onto each other using foam adhesive squares or pop dots. I then mounted my Rudolph onto a vintage cabinet card. I filled the empty cabinet card frame with a piece of the houndstooth paper that was cut to size.

Step 4 : To finish i added snowflakes from the Christmas kraft stickers and a red felt nose. Then i used my vintage typewriter to type "Then all the reindeer loved him" onto a vintage scrap piece of ledger paper, stitched the ledger paper onto the bottom of my card and used a vintage flower frog spike to hold the little collage.

Enjoy!

DT tutorial Celine

Here's a new tutorial from Celine Navarro on our design team.

What I LOVE about Hambly products is that the paint they use for the design on their papers is simply amazing : it works as a resist when it comes to painting on it :)

My favorite are the white designs on the kraft paper : simply use Glimmer Mist, or Color Wash, or any kind of spray paint and spray over your Hambly paper.Using a towel, add more paint to your paper.
Spray more paint here and there to have darker parts on your background and use a heat gun to make it dry faster.

On this layout, I used purple Glimmer Mist on my kraft Hambly Couture paper  and used a heat gun to make the paint dry.
Then use an edge distresser to make it look aged. For the background i used the Old Lace paper.

You can also add rub-ons to your layout, the white doily rub-ons give a nice contrast.

and ta-da! your layout has a vintage but colorful feel! You can give unique colors to your kraft Hambly papers now!

Céline