Love String Art

Hello Everyone! I'm sharing a new technique (for me) for my Miss Kate Cuttables design team project. I will share step by step directions. 

For my project I tried STRING ART!

I am going to share the steps I took to create the project:

STEP 1: 

I selected the SVGs. I used the envelope from the Valentine Love Letter Set.

I also used a bold font for the LOVE. You can use the bottom layer of the Valentine Uppercase Alphabet. Once I imported the SVGs into my Cameo Software I converted to dots using the rhinestone feature. I converted the lines to dots. I used .25 spacing.

STEP 2:

I cut vinyl with my Cameo. When I peeled the vinyl from the backer it left all the dots on the backer piece so it was super easy and there was no weeding needed. I applied the vinyl to my board and grabbed by hammer and nails.

STEP 3: 

I nailed in my nails. Using the holes in vinyl as my guide. 

I peeled off the vinyl when I was done nailing.

STEP 4:

I grabbed my yarn (Walmart carries this brand)

I started by securing my yarn on a corner nail and double knotting it, leave a tail. I then went around the outside edge of the design, wrappng around each nail, sort of outlining it, keeping the yarn at the bottom of nail. Once it was outlined I started randomly wrapping the yarn until it was a desired amount of coverage.

Once it was completed I repeated the outline around the shape to finish it off and tied a knot at the nail I started on.

I decided to outline my envelope with black yarn - it helped to make it pop.

This project is time consuming but it was very fun! 

I actually took some iphone videos. Here are the links on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/dED3Ptjd_T8

https://youtu.be/L1eDIUZIByw

Thanks for stopping by today!

Under The Sea Shadowbox

Hello ~ I made a fun shadowbox over the holidays for a sweet baby named Kora.

Her picture will go in the upper right portion. I'll share the Miss Kate Cuttables files I used for the rest of the shadowbox. 

For the top portion I used the whale file.

In the bottom right of the shadowbox I used the Seahorse file.

This cute little Smiling Crab is featured at the bottom of my shadowbox.

I also used some of the seaweed from this file and the bubbles.

As additional accents I used the Underwater scene.

You can find the coral file here.

Please note! I decided to assemble the large piece of coral and then as I was putting together my shadowbox I decided to manually cut it and use it in a few different spots in my shadowbox.

Here are a few closeups of my shadowbox:

Here's a look at the bedding I was matching:

Hope you liked my shadowbox today. This will be featured as my Design Team Challenge project for Miss Kate Cuttables. The theme this month is Anything Goes! Stop over on the Galleria to join the fun. You can also check out all the design team projects on the Miss Kate Cuttables Blog.