Thursday, May 28, 2015

Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop :: Day 04 with Erica Houghton

Welcome! Today is Day 5 of the Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop! I hope you've enjoyed all of the creativity and inspiration this week...I sure have!

Today, I'm sharing two wood embroidery hoops by Darice that I altered using the Nirvana Collection by Marion Smith Designs.


I started with two (one small and large) wood embroidery hoops by Darice.


Next, I painted the metal screw white and then wrapped each wood embroidery hoop with jute.


I then cut two circles from the Nirvana Collection by Marion Smith Designs, adhered and stitched a Heidi Swapp sticker to each circle; I adhered the circles to the back of each wood embroidery hoop.


Finally, I cut balloons, butterflies and sentiments from the Nirvana Collection by Marion Smith Designs; I finished altering each wood embroidery hoop by adding Petaloo flowers.


I used a variety of Petaloo flowers, including flowers from the mixed textured, burlap and sugared collections. 


Here are a few close-ups:



Make sure to stop by the Petaloo blog for more inspiration and creativity. And, be sure to check back tomorrow for the last day of the hop.




Paper
Marion Smith Designs, Nirvana

Embellishments
Marion Smith Designs, Junque & Gems – keys
Tim Holtz, Ideaology – baubles, jump rings
The Paper Studio, Spare Parts – swivel clasps
Heidi Swapp – stickers
Marion Smith Designs & Petaloo – flowers
Celebrate It – ribbon
Misc., - natural jute

Adhesives
Crafty Foam Tape – White

Products
Darice – wood embroidery hoops
Tim Holtz – distress ink
13 Arts – gesso


Thanks for joining me today!

19 comments:

  1. Beautiful crafting. Love the jute!

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  2. WOW these loops are really awesome. An awesome idea to use these loops for altering, I never ever thought of anything like this, but it´s a wonderful idea, and it also looks amazing. Wonderful decorated and lovely deecor on both of these.

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  3. LOVE both of these beautiful hoops!!! Absolutely lovely!! TFS!

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  4. SO clever to cover the hoops with burlap - love it! Great embellished middles in both - wonderful details!

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  5. Never thought of using hoops for altered art. Love the way it looks & how unique it is. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  6. Great project! Love the idea of adding Jute to the hoops
    and love all the mixed textures in your embellishing.

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  7. Good way to use the little embroidery hoops that I have laying around - since I don't do embroidery any more.
    paper crafting took over as my "habit" of choice.
    thanks for sharing a great idea. I'll be putting it to use.

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  8. Erica, I love how you transformed these hoops. You have inspired me to get my old hoops out and give them a face lift!

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  9. I am just starting to clean out & reorganize my craft room and I came across a bunch of hoops that I don't use anymore. Thank you for the inspiration to try this. I'd love to put a little piece of art in each room (& one that says "create" in my craft room!). Yours are beautiful & I hope I can do half as good a job as you.

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  10. Oh what an awesome idea! these are beautiful!

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  11. I will never look at my embroidery hoop the same way again! What an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing that Erica!

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  12. Oh dear! I now see myself checking op shops for any embroidery hoops that people have donated! The only ones I do have are large ones that I do use for cross stitch! These are just gorgeous and would make great gifts too!! Thanks for sharing them!

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  13. Beautiful projects - thank you for the step-by-steps.

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  14. How creative using the embroidery hoops. Perfect to hang on any wall.

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  15. Wow, how neat these
    look! Great use of the
    hoops.
    Carla from Utah

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  16. Wow, how neat these
    look! Great use of the
    hoops.
    Carla from Utah

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  17. Beautiful! I love how both embroidery hoops turned out! Very inspiring, def. a project I would love to try!! :) Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  18. This is such a cool mixed media project you've done here for this hop that I missed!!! It's also an idea that I might be able to do myself! You always delight with your projects! One of my favorite blogs to follow! Thank you !

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