Crafty Secrets challenge time!

The Crafty Secrets DT girls are doing another challenge, we're all doing a tutorial for you! I decided to do a tutorial on the lace flower embellishments I've been using a lot lately. I put this one on top of an altered recipe box, it's on the handle of the box.

Here are the supplies I used: lace (this is from a flea market), white cotton string, ribbon, needle & thread, vintage button, E6000 (or other strong adhesive), silver spoon (another flea market find). Here is a before picture of the vintage file box, it's bigger than a regular recipe box, it holds the big index cards. My mom had this and I snatched it up!
For the lace flower, cut your lace 5 - 6", wide lace needs to be longer for the flower to gather nicely. Do a running stitch along the edge of the lace gathering it up as you go.
When you get to the end pull the thread and gather the lace, pulling as hard as you can with out breaking the thread. I use quilting thread, it's strong.Line up the 2 ends and stitch together, knot it and cut the thread.
Tie a bow in your ribbon and glue it on top of the lace flower. Thread the string through the button and tie it in a bow on the back of the button, glue that on top of the ribbon. I let this dry over night.I bent the spoon to form more of a handle and glued my lace flower embellishment on the spoon.
Here is a closeup of the button, I love the cut-outs in it!


I glued the spoon handle on top of the recipe box.

I covered the box with paper from the CS Radiant Paper Pad, I used Mod Podge to glue the paper on. I used the Crafty Secrets Creative Scraps (Garden, Domestic Goddess & Girlfriends), Tim Holtz style, using his Fragments. I glued a Fragment on the part of a Creative Scrap I wanted to use with Glossy Accents, let that dry, cut around the Fragment and glued it on the box lid. I put a Tim Holtz Keyhole in the center of the lid.

I used more Creative Scraps on the box, I mounted them on black card stock before I glued them on.
I threaded the buttons with the cotton thread and glued them on the box.I love the look of the Creative Scraps used this way!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Make sure you check out the other DT blogs below, they have some great tutorials to show you and Heidi has a give-away going on too!!

Anna Wight
Heidi Blankenship
Linda Duke
Lisa Zappa
Marisa Grossman
Melissa Phillips
Michele Kovack
Michelle VanEtten
Vicki Chrisman
Vivian Peters

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