Friday, September 14, 2012

Trendy Twine Guest Designer...


So honoured to be asked to be a Guest Designer today over at Trendy Twine :)  September is "Snips & Snails & Puppy Dogs Tails, That's What Little Boys are Made of" Challenge Month featuring this gorgeous blue and chocolate twine, Chocolate Sprinkles.

To try and encourage my sons' reading efforts, I thought it was a perfect time to create a boys bookmark, featuring a Trendy Twine tassel. This bookmark was created using The Alley Way Stamps Priceless Joy and Alphabet Soup, together with Autumn Leaves and Doodle Bug papers.

Making a tassel is easy and fun!!!  Just take a piece of cardstock twice as wide as you want your tassel, and fold it in half.  Wrap your tassel around one end of the cardstock around 50 times, starting and ending at the open end of the fold.  Take another length of twine, twice as long as you want your attaching string to be, slide it under your wrapped twine and tie in a knot at the folded end of the cardstock.  Take the scissors and cut the wrapped twine in half at the open end of the folded cardstock (see photo).


Take another piece of twine, about three times the length of your tassel, and fold in half then secure with a knot about 2cm from the top of your tassel.  Wrap the ends of your knot in opposite directions 3-4 times around your tassel then secure with a knot.  Trim the end strings of your knot at the same length as your completed tassel.  Tie a knot in the end of your attaching string and attach to your bookmark - easy!


15 comments:

  1. congrats on being the guest designer...love your bookmark...so fun

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  2. this is awesome! i love the tassel ;)

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  3. Love your bookmark and the perfect little twine tassel! Thanks for guesting with us at Trendy Twine!

    -Candi
    Trendy Twine DT

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  4. Super cute bookmark. Love the tassel. Thank you so much for joining us over at Trendy Twine this week.

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  5. Love this bookmark, Lyndal. So cute. Thank you so much for guesting for me on the Trendy Twine blog.

    Lesley @ Trendy Twine

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  6. Wonderful boys bookmark! I love the paper piecing and your fantastic tassel!

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  7. Awesome! Love the tassel. Thanks for joining us over at Trendy Twine!

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  8. This is such a fun idea and great tutorial too! Thanks for being a guest designer for us over at Trendy Twine!

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  9. What a super cute bookmark! Thanks for being a guest designer with us!

    Jamie
    Trendy Twine DT

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  10. congrats on your guest designer gig :)

    super fun bookmark :)

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  11. Thanks for sharing how to make the fab Trendy Twine tassel. I will be giving it a try :)

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  12. Thanks for guest designing with us! Love this bookmark. So cute!!

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  13. What a cute bookmark! Great job! Thanks for guesting with us at Trendy Twine!

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  14. Your bookmark and tassle are so cute. Thank you so much for guesting with TT. We loved having you!

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