Spring Clothespin Wreath

This week Stampendous has been playing with DIY Bangles, but don't let the name fool you. They sell more than just bangles. You can buy beads, various shaped pendants, floral craft rings and other wood products. Today I am showcasing the floral craft ring. You can't really see the ring, but it's there!

I just started off with the wooden craft ring, a 12x12 sheet of paper, designer paper cut into strips, clothespins and Zip Dry glue. I covered the ring with the 12x12 paper, then covered the clothespins with the strips of paper. I couldn't resist embossing the edges of the clothespin for a distressed look. I really like the effect. I just used my VersaMark pen on the edges of the clothespins, added embossing powder and heated it with my heat gun. Last, I sealed everything with Fast Finish.

Next, I affixed the clothespins onto the ring. I can't remember exactly how many I used, but it was a little more than 50. I bought two 50 packs at Target for less than $2 apiece. Clothespins are cheap!! I put another coat of Fast Finish on it just for good measure.

Now, the real fun began! I embellished it with paper medallions, flowers a butterfly and a banner. The flowers are from the Jumbo Cling Tiger Lily. I stamped two lilies with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored them with Copic markers, and used embossing powder, mica fragments and glitter to embellish them. I also used a little embossing enamel and fran·táged the edges of the yellow flower. The butterfly is from the Jumbo Cling Butterfly Trio. Again, I stamped with Memento, colored with Copics and embossed it. Likewise, I sealed it with Fast Finish. (Can this just be a given?)

The banner also uses the Stampendous Small Typewriter Alphabet set. I cut out canvas with pinking shears, stamped SPRING, dried the ink with my heat gun and sealed with Fast Finish. Then I  punched eyelets and ran some twine through them before tying it to the wreath.

This is my first wreath and I gotta say, I kinda love it!!

The gang is all here with terrific projects to astonish you. Sit back, get a
cup of something warm, a fuzzy sweater, a friendly kitten and be ready to be
amazed. At each blog (or just the ones you want) leave an insightful
comment that lets us know you actually looked at the project and we'll enter
you once for each comment in a chance to win some DIY Bangles, beads, or
circles plus some Stampendous goodies with which to embellish them.

Annette Witherspoon

April
Derrick

Barb Turpin

Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Price

We sure hope you've had some serious fun with
our collaboration this week! Thanks for joining us. Would you mind sharing
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Join us as well for our new December Challenge
- CAS (Clean and Simple) Christmas Cards. We'll be doing our best to give
you last minute card ideas you can complete quickly to fill out your card
sending list. We'll be providing simple Christmas card inspiration all the
way up until Christmas day, so stick with us. This will be our last
challenge of the year and we're mulling over what to do next year, so stay
tuned for that as well!

Stick around and we'll announce November Prize
winners and the Winners from this hop early next week (once we've recovered
from our Warehouse Sale and Holiday Party this weekend!)