Guesting at Petaloo!

I am delighted to be the June Guest Designer with Petaloo!  

I've had several team-up opportunities between Petaloo and other companies and each experience

 reminded me how much I truly love working with Petaloo products. I was equally excited to

 learn that Petaloo would be teaming up with Graphic 45 this month in celebrating all things

 Summer, patriotic and beach!  For my project today I'm sharing a grapevine wreath that I

 dressed up for the season...it contains stars, red, white & blue and a beach theme...

it just says "Welcome, Summer!"

 I started off with two pre-cut stars that I had on hand.  I used the backs of the Graphic 45 

 "Place in Time" papers to cover the stars.  After machine-stitching around the perimeter, 

I spritzed each with a little walnut spray and distressed the edges.

 After deciding on the focal piece to cut out from the "July" portion of the collection, I used the 

remainder of the patterned paper as the backdrop for two smaller stars and the postcard print. 

 I backed it with a thin chipboard and then stitched in place.

 Now for the embellishments!  Before attaching the postcard to the base, I added one of the

 metal brackets to the bottom.  A beautiful swag of Darjeeling Flowers makes a nice border,

 followed by a paper pennant "held up" by two of the sweet sea shell pins.

  I edged the bottom in three rows of the Paprika Crochet Trim.

 Next, I punched two small holes at the ends of each large star and attached to the grapevine wreath

 with a thick gauged wire.  A large burlap bow to the side and my wreath is ready for 

hanging and welcoming Summer guests!

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