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Rainbows...

2012-02-28T09:58:00.000-05:00

One of the thing that we LOVE most about our twine is the BURST of color it creates!

With so many colors of our twine available...we love seeing your "rainbow" inspired projects with our twine!

Take a peek at a few projects that have been submitted by our fans and customers to our Flickr Group!

Pastel Rainbow Card

The Emerald City

Lollipop Card

Thank You Card

Hello Card

Rainbow Packaging

St Patty's Day Card

We hope you enjoyed these as much as we have!

And if you have some rainbow-inspired projects that you've created with our baker's twine, we've LOVE to see them too!

Please feel free to upload your photos to our Flickr Group or post them on our Facebook page!

We hope you have a COLORFUL day!

Twine on a Stick

2012-02-27T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hello Twine Lovers! Angi here with much excitement as I share my first official Twinery project with all of you. I made a gift box and mini card set for a friend. I added baker's twine to several places. Notably, I added twine to a wooden skewer and inserted it into the gift box. Be sure to add adhesive to the skewer first before wrapping it to set the twine in place.

The mini card was also fun to make.

I added double layers of baker's twine to the sentiment.

I dressed up the front of the box with embellishments.

I added even more twine to the affirmation card that says...

"Be positive...Be True...Be Grateful...."

I used yummy "Blossom" twine for this project.
Be sure to pick up some in the Twinery store.

A Rainbow of Wishes

2012-02-24T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone! I am Jamie and I am so excited to

share my first post for The Twinery!

Today I have created a rainbow using The Twinery's Maraschino, Mandarin, Lemondrop, Peapod, and Caribbean Twine and a Silhouette cut! The Silhouette file had individual stripes for the rainbow so rather than cutting colored paper, I used a double-sided adhesive paper and placed the strips on my card. I uncovered one strip at a time, laying three strands of the same color twine on each strip! Using a double-sided adhesive already in the shape you want it makes placing your twine so easy!

Thanks for stopping by the Twinery today!

Supplies Used: The Twinery Twine: Maraschino, Mandarin, Lemondrop, Peapod and Caribbean; Papers: Let's Party Pyramid Pad Momenta; Die Cuts: Samantha Walker, Rainbow Card Silhoutte; Stickers: SRM; Flair: Cuddle and Coo Momenta; Markers: Black, Creative Memories and Glitter Pen, Sakura; Adhesives: Wonderfilm, P K Glitz, Foam Circles, Recollections.

The Martha Stewart Show

2012-02-23T12:22:00.000-05:00

It's an exciting day at The Twinery today!

Our baker's twine was mentioned on The Martha Stewart Show this morning!

The show was entitled, The Purple Party Show. You can see a short preview clip of the show HERE. We'll post the full video of the show once it's available.

Ultimate party planner, Darcy Miller, shared ideas from her daughter Pippa's Purple Birthday Party! She shared ideas on how you can add an exciting pop of purple to your celebrations with festive kids' party ideas, favors, invitations & more!

Darcy shared that they used our Lilac baker's twine to string her daughter's birthday banner together and each member in the audience also went home with a free Lilac spool of twine from The Twinery!

Then, actress Ali Wentworth also joined Martha to make some fun crafts - is anyone else making those adorable tie-dyed t-shirts and t-shirt pom poms?!?!

If you missed The Martha Stewart Show this morning, The Purple Party Show also airs again on The Hallmark Channel at 2:00pm EST this afternoon and also again at 1:00pm EST tomorrow afternoon. Check your local listings. We'll also post the video segment if it's available later this week.

Shamrocks, Lace & Baker's Twine

2012-02-22T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi there!

Jessica here sharing my first official Twinery project with you today! In honor of St. Patrick's Day coming up, I thought I'd make a quick and simple shamrock card with some heart punches, patterned papers, lace, and of course Twine! I have found that I love to layer twine on top of ribbon or lace - it has a great impact with very little bulk.

As you can see from the photo above, I wrapped some Peapod Twine around the lace a couple of times and then tied a quick bow. I also used the twine to thread the green button embellishment for the shamrock.

Happy St. Patty's Day a bit early!

Jessica

And the Winners Are....

2012-02-21T17:06:00.003-05:00

....of the Facebook 10K Celebration Giveaway....

1 ~ Complete Set/18 Spools of Baker's Twine

provided by The Twinery

Congratulations...Dale Anne Potter

1 ~ Complete Set/18 Spools of Baker's Twine

provided by The Twinery

Congratulations...Rebecca Keppel

Creatopia Starter Kit provided by Xyron

Congratulations...Kris Chirhart

Family Forever Paper/Embellishment Collection provided by Momenta

Congratulations...Charlotte Brachu

$25 Shopping Spree provided by Market Street Stamps

Congratulations...Lasting Memories Scrapbooking

Beautiful Mini-Book provided by I Love it All Etsy Shop

Congratulations...Purejoy

Winners....we do have your email on record,
so please email Julie Ranae
at julieranae@hotmail.com
to confirm with your mailing address

Thank you to all who participated in our celebration and for sharing

The Twinery with all of your friends and fellow crafters.

We have more celebrations and giveaways around the corner

so make sure you stop by often!

Make sure you click HERE to meet this week's

FEATURED DESIGNER

Angelica Suarez

Meet Our Designers - Angelica Suarez

2012-02-21T08:00:00.011-05:00

Welcome to our weekly segment called, Meet Our Designers!

It will be a chance for you to meet each of our Design Team Members in more depth...get to know them, see their pretty faces and take a peek at what they love to create! We know you'll love this segment and we cannot wait to introduce you to each of our fabulous 2012 Design Team Members!

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We'd like to introduce you to Angelica Suarez!

Angelica is a Southern California native residing in the Frozen Tundra, a.k.a. Green Bay, Wisconsin, with her husband of 7 years, Jorge, and their two spunky preschoolers, Marlee (2.5) and Lucy (4).

She's the Co-Founder and Illustrator of Market Street Stamps - a clear photopolymer stamp company founded in January 2010. Angelica's background in logistics, print, and customer service have provided all the skills necessary in nurturing a fast-growing company. She credits the key to success in building and maintaining solid relationships with suppliers, customers, and her faithful blog readers & followers.

You can also find her crafting marketing ideas and coordinating the Design Team over at Peachy Keen Stamps - a company owned by her mom and stepdad.

Even with a hectic schedule and a full day, Angelica still finds time to create each day - even if it's just a quick doodle in her art journal.

Twine has played a huge role in unleashing creativity for her - if it'll hold glue, it'll hold twine - and she's designed jewelry hangers, mini-albums, pencil cup holders, numerous cards, scrapbook pages and display pieces using the soft, eco-luxe twine from The Twinery.

Angelica was also on our Design Team last year as one of our first-ever design team members! We loved her work and we're so thrilled to have her back on for a second term with us!

Take a peek at some of the crazy amazing twine craftin' ideas Angelica has created using our baker's twine...

Jewelry Organizer

Learn how to create your own HERE

Thank You Card

Silhouette Card

Simple Moments Album

Learn how Angelica made this album HERE

LOVE Sign

Isn't this sign just the cutest?! See how you can make one too...HERE

Homespun Easter Pail & Eggs

And we're absolutely in love with the way Angelica stores her baker's twine...

Such a cute use of a curtain rod!

Be sure to show Angelica some love...

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Good Times!

2012-02-20T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone, Stacy Rodriguez here with my first post as a design team member at The Twinery. For those of you who know me you know that I LOVE to create mini albums, so that is what I created for my first project. I'm always looking for fun things to tie on the rings of the albums....and this yummy twine is simply perfect for that.

I used Stone, Denim & Charcoal on this baby!

Here is a little close up of what I did with the twine on the binder ring. I cut 2 strips of each color then tied them in a knot on the ring. I then split the colors into 3 sections and began to braid the twine. Once I was done I tied a knot at the end and just let it dangle. You could slip on some beads or a charm at the bottom before you tie the knot.

On the top part of the album I felt there was a little to much "open" space. I used a long piece of the Denim twine, wrapped it around the cover several times at different angles to give the mini a little something extra. Here is the finished project.

Thank you so much for stopping by The Twinery today. Next time you are looking to add a little something to your project, reach for some fabulous twine from The Twinery.

~Stacy

The Twinery Takes on a Challenge

2012-02-19T08:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome back to The Twinery.

We want to thank everyone who stopped by during our

Facebook 10K Celebration.

We are super-excited to share the winners of the

$650+ in prizes and will be announcing those

names on Monday, Feb 20th.

Today we have a fun challenge to share with you.

The Twinery is this week's sponsor over at

CPS Sketches

{Card Positioning Systems}

and several of our own designers have created

projects to help inspire you to play.

First...the sketch...

Now...the interpretation from our designers

featuring our baker's twine....

Angi

Ashley

Carolyn

Jamie

Jen

Jessica

Kathy

Monika

Tifany

Now it's your turn!

Pop on over to CPS and have a play.

You could win a fabulous

Sampler pack of baker's twine!

Layouts with Baker's Twine

2012-02-17T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone!

Thanks for coming to see my first post for The Twinery today.

I'm Sarah and I can't wait to share my twine projects with you all throughout the coming year!

I do a lot of scrapbooking and love including twine on just about every single one of my layouts. When I saw the new colors that were released in January, I knew the Flax and Shore would be perfect for accenting pages of my new baby boy!

For this page, I used a strand of Flax and a strand of Shore together as a little clothesline to hold some chipboard baby clothes. I tied bows at the ends and clipped them into two mini clothespins. The clothespins are then held on the page with glue dots. For the chevron design, I used my Silhouette to cut a chevron background out of cardstock, then used that as a stencil to cut my background paper apart. I distressed the edges, then just adhered it all back together on a sheet of kraft cardstock, which perfectly matches the Flax twine!

Feel free to come visit me at my blog, vintage pear studio, anytime! I love new visitors, and of course, old ones too! :)

Have a great weekend, The Twinery friends!

10K Celebration & Major Giveaways!

2012-02-16T14:48:00.000-05:00

GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED

MONDAY, FEB 20th

It's time for another CELEBRATION!!

In honor of reaching number 10,000 in Facebook Fans,

we are having a party with some pretty fantastical giveaways!

We are THRILLED TO CELEBRATE with a

FABULOUS DISCOUNT FOR ALL OUR TWINE LOVERS

Just place your order by midnight EST Saturday, Feb 18th

and you can get TEN PERCENT OFF YOUR ORDER

USE DISCOUNT CODE: FB10K

{discount code good through midnight EST, Feb 18th)

Before we tell you what you can win, we want to
thank you by sharing

some of the beautifully creative work that we
found in our Flickr Group...

Amy

Wendy

Rina

Anita

Thienly

Julie Ranae

We love seeing all the creativity you share

using our baker's twine and encourage you

to put your projects in our Flickr Group because

you never know when they may appear here

on our blog!

HOW ABOUT A FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY!!!

We have not 1...not 2...but SIX terrific prizes
to give away, so let's take a look....

Over $650 in prizes are up for grabs!

The Twinery is giving away
TWO COMPLETE SETS OF BAKER'S TWINE
ALL 18 SPOOLS {retail value $430+ total}

The terrific folks at Xyron are giving one lucky
winner a complete Creatopia Starter Kit {retail $165}

Our friends at Momenta are giving one lucky winner
a complete 'Family Forever' Collection {retail $30}

Market Street Stamps has a wonderful
shopping spree for one lucky winner
{retail value $25}

Monika Wright of 'I Love it All' has
created this beautiful coupon/mini book.
{retail value $14}

Here's how YOU can win:

1. Become a Follower of The Twinery blog
(if you already are, leave a comment and let us know)

2. Leave a Comment on our blog and tell us your favorite thing

to do with our baker's twine

3. Head on over to our Facebook Page and say hello

4. Share on your OWN Facebook page

5. Visit the Xyron FB Page & the Momenta FB page

*LIKE* them and thank them for supporting The Twinery

6. Come back to our blog and let us know

you did the first 5 and you will have

SEVEN ENTRIES to win!!

Deadline for prize eligibility is
11:59pm EST, Sunday Feb 19th

Thank you for being the best supporters on

the planet...we know you love our baker's twine

and we hope you know we LOVE YOU TOO!!

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!

Taking the Challenge with Baker's Twine

2012-02-16T00:01:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone....are you ready for something a little different?

Julie Ranae here sharing a fun challenge that many of our

designers are participating in.

The Twinery is happy to be sponsoring this

fun and creative color challenge

and we would love to encourage you to play along.

If you've not participated before, it's very easy and

a lot of fun because, as long as you stick with

the color story above, you can enter pretty

much ANYTHING!

Yep...cards, layouts, cupcakes, knitting, crochet work,

mixed media, party decorations...the sky is the limit.

The goal with this color story is to use

BLACK & WHITE with a 'SPLASH OF HOT PINK'

A few of the designers here have created a variety

of things to inspire you to play....

Ashley

Amy

The simple instructions and even more inspiration

can be found over at The Play Date Cafe.

It's easy to link up your project(s)

and look what you could win....

We will be back later with a pretty amazing

celebration, so make sure you stay tuned.

You will NOT want to miss it!!

Cupid's Arrow Treat Bags

2012-02-15T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi again twine lovers! This is Ashley Bores of Heartmade Stationery – you might remember me from the Guest Designer post I did with The Twinery a few months ago. I was completely over the moon when I was asked to join this year’s Design Team and I feel honored to be among such great talent. You are in for an amazing year!

For my first post as a Designer for The Twinery, I just knew I had to showcase the Cupid’s Arrow Treat Bags I made for Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s might have been yesterday, but around our house and the hussle and bussle of work/school/activities – one day just isn’t enough. February is the month of love after all! I made these mini treat bags as favors for our Love Day dinner, but they would be equally cute sent to school with your kiddos or tucked in your husband’s coat pocket. Spread the love!

For these favors, I used Pink Sorbet, Maraschino, Blossom, and Lilac baker’s twine – perfect colors for Happy Hearts Day. I started by folding my mini bags where I’d want them to close and then punching holes where I plan to tie my arrows on. I filled the bags with little treats, like mini chocolate bars, Hershey kisses, and conversation hearts, and then threaded the baker’s twine through the holes. (Okay, so the first time I did these, I actually sealed the whole bag before adding anything to it. It was cute, but pretty pointless. ☺) Once you have your twine threaded, don’t tie your bow yet! Instead, seal your bags with a strip of pretty washi tape and set aside.

Next, I cut white lollipop sticks into 3 inch lengths using my floral wire cutter. I put a little dab of hot glue on one end of the stick, and then wrapped another color of baker’s twine around the length of the stick, using another bit of hot glue to fasten the other end.

For the point of the arrow, I used a heart punch and some patterned paper scraps. (I just can’t bear to throw away my crafts scraps. I have huge bins full of tiny pieces of paper, fabric, ribbon, and twine. My husband encourages this hoarding because he thinks it’ll keep me out of craft stores longer. (He’s wrong.) For the fin end of my arrow, I folded scraps of felt in half and cut parallelogram type shapes.

A smidge of hot glue to attach my heart tips and end fins to the arrows and you have tiny Cupid’s Arrows! After my arrows were all set, I tied them to the front of my favor bags with a little baker's twine bow.

I love the way these turned out and how seriously simple they are! I had thought of making 40 more for my kids's Valentines yesterday because they really don’t take very much time, but I just couldn’t stand the thought of all those kids just throwing away my pretty baker’s twine! ☺

Here’s wishing you all a lovely Valentine’s week! And if you’d like to send me some love, check out my facebook page! Twinery fans are the best.

XOXOXO - Ashley

P.S. While preparing this blog post, I had thought about using little stickers that said "You've been hit by Cupid!". But then I couldn't stop singing, "you've been hit by, you've been struck by a Smooth Criminal" and my son rolled his eyes and told me to stop. :)

Materials:

Baker's Twine: The Twiney (duh.)

Papers by American Crafts (Dear Lizzy & Craft Fair), Echo Park, and Lori Whitlock
Mini Hearts Washi Tape: LeBox Boutique
Mini Bags: Canvas Home Basics at Archivers
Wilton Lollipop Sticks

Styling Valentine's Day with Baker's Twine

2012-02-14T08:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hi ya'll, this is Natalie from Southern Belle's Charm, with my inaugural post for The Twinery Design Team. So excited to be here on a day all about romance. In honor of the holiday all about expressing love for each other by presenting flowers, offering sweets and sending valentines, here are great ways to use twine to embellish your special day.

My newest collaboration {Just My Type Play Date} photo shoot gives off the feel of classic love letters written with a typewriter in lieu of the trendy coffee shop/texting craze. The brand new color, Flax, was my inspiration as it is the perfect color of natural coffee filters.

Paired with Maraschino and Stone Twine and the look was complete.

The twine was a perfect addition to the Valentine's Printable Invitation from Frog Prince Paperie. I just wrapped the stone twine around the corner and tied a little bow. Taped it in place and then layered a red and white striped 5x7 piece of card-stock behind. I love to display invitations at parties and play dates. This red frame backed with coordinating typewriter paper was the perfect setting. The perfect finishing touch included X and O fondant covered sugar cookies from

Lynlee's Petite Cakes.

Party banners are one of my favorite trends - I secretly hope they never go out of style! I really wanted the vintage feel and instantly doilies came to mind. If you attend any southern shower, there are always doilies covering the dessert plates and I wanted to replicate that look in this shoot. I cut natural coffee filters every inch so they would lay flat. Then covered in a paper doily. In order to keep everything in place, I pushed a tiny brand through and fastened on the back. Added a 3 inch punched red and white striped card-stock circle with a 2 inch printable circle. Then tied everything together with the Maraschino twine.

I wanted another banner to hang from the vintage white desk - this one took me five minutes! I grabbed heart cut outs but you could easily cut a heart shape from a piece of red card-stock. Then I punched a 1 inch scallop shape from a white piece of card-stock and stuck on sticky black letters spelling "love". You could easily print out the words from your computer in your favorite font and punch out. Just add double sided tape, matting tape or glue to adhere the punches to the hearts. I used a whole punch and punched two holes in the top. Then I strung the hearts on the Stone twine. So easy and quick. This banner would be perfect strung across your front door, mantle or displayed for a party.

Twine is a wonderful tool just to wrap around as an embellishment. The cake stands and milk glass vase look adorable with that extra touch. I just tied a knot in the back, wrapped it around and tucked in the end piece when I had enough twine to complete the look. Super easy!

I wanted to display the cookies from Lynlee's Petite Cakes on the coffee cups from Repurpose with natural coffee filters, 3 inch circles and Maraschino twine. I needed the coffee filters to fit snug to the cups so the twine was a perfect addition.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Enjoy your day with the ones you love.

Can't wait to be back and share more uses for twine in your parties!

Remember to make every event yours.

Photography courtesy of April Summers Photography

The Twinery / Momenta Blog Hop

2012-02-13T08:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome!

We are so happy you've stopped by today

as the designers of The Twinery join the

designers of Momenta for a great blog hop!

You are at the very start of the hop.

Both companies have terrific prizes up for grabs

and there are only 14 blogs total that you'll need

to visit and leave comments on.

We would love for you to become followers

here at The Twinery as well.

Here is a sneaky peek of some of the fabulous

projects that The Twinery designers have to share with you.

The designers from Momenta have

some pretty awesome projects as well.

To see the completed projects, make sure you stop

by each of the blogs listed below.

Leave a comment while you're there and you could win...

The Colorful Bunch Sampler Pack

from The Twinery.

{retail value $20}

Family Outing Prize Pack
(retail value $30)

The next stop on the hop is the

Momenta blog

Enjoy the hop and be inspired!

In case you get lost, here are quick click links to the

participating blogs on the hop:

The Twinery

Momenta

Julie Ranae

Jamie Cripps

Cristal Hobbs

Monika Wright

Mara Campbell

Jen Carter

Christa Uttley

Tifany DeGough

Erin Morehouse

Angelica Suarez

Christine Meyer

Sarabeth Burke

Valentine Mini-Bottles

2012-02-10T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hi, this is Dorangela from Two Prince Bakery Theater, with my very first post as a design team member for The Twinery! I have created a beautiful accent to use at any Valentine's Day Parties,

an embellished Valentine mini bottle.

I had saved these bottles believe it or not from a probiotic yogurt I purchased at the health food store. I thought they were small and cute and I like to upcycle items as much as possible.

I held on to them, so glad that I did.

While looking for table features for a Valentine's Party photo shoot I was working on, I came across these adorable templates for heart shaped napkin rings from Piggy Bank Parties. You can download the free template here. I thought they were adorable, but like I usually do, I wanted to come up with a different way to display them. So I used the napkin rings and bottle bands.

Here's how to get started. Once you download your free template (make sure you print it out on red paper) and cut out we are ready to get started!

I decided to use the gorgeous Stone baker's twine to compliment my red paper. Measure out the length of the band and then cut

20 strips of twine in the same length.

I used a good craft glue and brushed the surface working one piece of twine at a time until all 20 pieces are laid out.

You will end up with this, but as a lover of all things sparkly,

I couldn't stop there.

Once I joined the two heart halves to "close" the napkin ring, I painted a glitter heart to make it pop a bit more!

Here are the Valentine Mini Bottles on our

Valentine Party Table Scape. What do you think?

I added a little more baker's twine to the top of the bottle just wrapping it around and tucking it under. Then just add a pretty striped paper straw and a little Valentine flag straw topper from The TomKat Studio and voila! I hope that you enjoyed these Valentine's Party embellished mini bottles. I'll be back soon with more fun projects for The Twinery!

Welcome Our Guest...Tami Mayberry

2012-02-09T08:00:00.000-05:00

We are happy to have a great line-up of guest designers who will be joining us throughout the year. Some will be very familiar faces as they spent a great deal of time with us last year as designers on our team. Some will be new to you...all will be uber-talented!

Today, we are happy to welcome

Tami Mayberry

Today, Tami shares a fun Valentine's Day greeting

to make you smile!

We love the way Tami incorporated six different colors

of our baker's twine and coordinated her gemstone

embellishments to match.

Here are a few tips from Tami:

*Create a 3D frame by adhering twine inside lines

of stamped image

*Tie small bow separately and adhere with liquid adhesive

*For perfectly aligned rows of twine, use a scoring board to create 1/2-inch lines and then line twine up along edge of each one

We thank Tami for sharing her talents with us this week.

Want to see YOUR project on The Twinery blog?

Make sure you upload your creativity on our Flickr page and you just might find yourself front and center!

Have a great day!

Supplies:

Baker's Twine in: Peapod, Honeydew, Carribbean, Lemondrop, Marschino & Pink Sorbet

Stamps: Gina K Designs (Girl Talk)

Card stock: Gina K Designs

Gems: Bo Bunny

Scor-pal scoring board

Helmar Acid Free Glue and foam squares, Scor-Tape

Valentine's Day Goodies

2012-02-08T09:44:00.000-05:00

Hi Everyone!!

It's Kathy here with my very first post for The Twinery!! I am so excited to get to work with all of this awesome twine and such a great group of ladies!

When I first found out I'd be part of the design team, I immediately thought... Valentine's Day! Every year the ladies at my local scrap store host a Valentine's Crop, and part of the fun is that everyone exchanges Valentines like we did when we were kids. I decided to make some cute goody bags with some twine accents.

I started with strips of card stock, 4"x 11". I scored them at 5" and 6", then die cut a heart on one side. The bag topper is a 4 1/4" x 4 1/2" piece of patterned paper, with the edges of two sides scalloped. To decorate the topper, I cut cute kitty Valentine shapes (my husband calls me the crazy cat lady)... to be adorned with some twine!

Each kitty has a "collar" with a twine charm. To create the charm, I punched a small heart, covered it with adhesive, and started winding twine around to fill the shape.

At the end, I simply snipped the extra.

or the goody part of the goody bag, I filled a small, clear bag with Kisses and Hugs, and stapled them into the bag. To complete the look, I added the twine heart charm and a little twine bow.

And here's my basket full of kittens!

After completing this project, I realized I had a bunch of hearts left over from die cutting the bags, and I just couldn't let them go to waste. I decided to make mini Valentines for my daughter to share with her friends at school. I outlined the heart with twine, leaving a little extra to tie a bow, and die cut a little hugs and kisses banner. I stapled the whole heart to a little bag with some chocolate kisses!

Thanks for stopping by the Twinery today! Please come visit me at my blog... I love to have visitors!

Supplies Used: The Twinery Twine: Maraschino and Blossom; Papers: Bazzill kraft card stock, Pebbles, Inc With Love; Die Cuts: SVG Cuts 24 Valentines Cat with Shades, Sweet Treat Bags, Valentine Cupcake Topper; Heart Punch. Bags: Michaels.

Meet Our Designers - Monika Wright

2012-02-07T09:12:00.000-05:00

Welcome to our weekly segment called, Meet Our Designers!

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We would like to introduce you to Monika Wright!

A mom to 3 smart and spunky kids and wife to an equally smart and spunky husband, Monika is a former Marketing Director who's turned her love of crafting, creating and graphic typography into a career.

She opened her Etsy shop, I Love It All, in June 2010. Her shop carries an array of art poster prints, mini books and journals and cool crafting supplies.

Be sure to stop by her blog where she also shares free downloads (it's a must read for sure)! And stop by her Facebook fan page to say hello...she also shares news of special sales and discount coupon codes over there as well.

Monika is often a featured crafter for major online blogs and website and her work has even been published in print as well!

Monika is now one of our Second Term Senior Designers. She might be a familiar face to some of you who have followed our blog for a while now, but we know you're excited to see what twine ideas she dreams up this year!

Just take a peek at what she created during her first term here on The Twinery's Design Team...

Twine Balls

Learn how to create them HERE

Highlight your Journaling Layouts with twine

And we LOVE this cheerful, happy card

(and imagine this...Monika even claims she's not really a "card maker"...could have fooled us!)

Alphabet of Love Journal

This has been one of the most searched ideas on our blog and it has made it's way around Pinterest! With Valentine's Day just around the corner...this would make a great gift for your sweetie! Take a peek at how to make one of these HERE or you can purchase one HERE.

Be sure to show Monika some love...

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Meet Our Designers - Julie Ranae

2012-02-02T10:19:00.002-05:00

Welcome to our new weekly post called, Meet Our Designers!

It will be a chance for you to meet each of our Design Team Members in more depth...get to know them, see their pretty faces and take a peek at what they love to create! We hope you like this segment and we cannot wait to introduce you to each of our fabulous 2012 Design Team Members!

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Today, we'd like to introduce you to Julie Ranae!

Julie Ranae comes from The Forest City of Rockford, Illinois. She has been married to Paul, her British-import, for over 20 years, is a mom of two children and grandma to four grandsons.

Her professional background in retail marketing & consulting eventually led into her opening the largest rubber stamp and paper-crafting store in Illinois.

She has gone on to organize paper-crafting events and workshop and retreat weekends which have drawn crafters from all over the world.

In June 2009, she began a new journey with her creative blog Julie’s Open Window. It quickly became an outlet for her passion of creative writing and a place to share her work. Recently celebrating a 2-year ‘blogaversary’, she is honored that 870+ people have become followers and participate in a variety of blog hops, challenges and fun when they visit.

She is currently the Design Team Coordinator for The Twinery, The Craft’s Meow and Sweet Stamp Shop, and a designer for EAD Designs. She is the creator of the very popular weekly color challenge, The Play Date Café and co-creator of the her newest challenge, CAS-ual Fridays, which features Clean & Simple Design styles.

Her work in the rubber stamping industry has been featured in a variety of trade publications and her work has also been featured Scrapbook News & Review, and other popular creative blogs like Paper Craft Planet, CARDS & Moxie Fab World.

We are so honored to have Julie as our own Design Team coordinator over here at The Twinery! She keeps us all organized & keeps our schedule full of amazing team-ups with other companies to feature various other products with our twine.

Be sure to stop by Julie's blog today to say HELLO! :)

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Meet Our Designers

2012-02-01T13:40:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone!

We know you're all dying to see what our new Design Team has been creating - we can't wait to show you! But first we'd like to share a new blog segment we'll be doing. Each week, we'll be doing a blog post called, Meet Our Designers!

We'll start this segment off tomorrow with our first Meet Our Designers post where you'll get a chance to meet our Design Team Coordinator, Julie Ranae!

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For now...take a peek at what some of our AMAZING customers have been posting over in Flickr...

Card by Jenny Suchin

Card by Anita Mulcahey

Card by Kellsterstamps

Card by Anita Rex

And scroll through the images below to see what everyone else is making and creating with twine...it's pretty amazing!

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We {heart} Felt Hearts

2012-01-26T08:00:00.000-05:00

I admit it, I love any excuse to put on my thinking cap and create a project. While I had my Maraschino baker's twine and red felt out the other day, I thought to myself, "What else can I do with this?"

I'm Monika Wright and I'm here today to show you what some felt scraps, a little baker's twine and some patterned paper scraps will reward you with. I made this heart pin for my Mom, but I'm thinking that I should have made one for myself as well!

I began with my two felt hearts and stuffed it with a small bit of a cotton ball. After using my craft glue to adhere the two layers together, and becoming impatient with the dry time and resorted to stitching the heart shapes together with my sewing machine. Probably the best choice, really. The baker's twine is adhered with Glossy Accents atop the line of stitching.

After adding a pin closure to the back of the felt heart, I attached it to the patterned paper insert I made for my hinged tin and added a bit more twine {Maraschino and Lemondrop} to add a fun touch.

Enjoy!

New Twine Colors are Here!

2012-01-23T07:00:00.013-05:00

They're here!!! Many of you have been asking and today's the day...

OUR NEW TWINE COLORS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

We're so pleased to introduce you to the new fabulous twine colors...

Shore - light baby blue & white twisted twine

Orchid - light pastel purple & white twisted twine

Cantaloupe - light orange & white twisted twine...think Creamsicle

Flax - light brown & white twisted twine (it matches Kraft paper bags, boxes and other products perfectly)

They are all dreamy pastel shades...perfect for Spring (which is right around the corner)!!

You can purchase the new colors in our shop now...we have spools, sampler packs and combination packs that now include these four new colors!

Do you want some fun twine-spiration?

Take a peek at what a few of our designers have been doing with these new colors...

Angelica

Monika

Helen

Jen

Carolyn

Jamie

Ashley

Teri

We hope you enjoy our new twine colors...and we know you'll love creating with them!

And we'd like to help you bulk up your twine stash...

Use discount code NEWCOLORS for 10% off your entire purchase at The Twinery...discount ends Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:59 EST.

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT OUR FOUR NEW COLORS!

Bag Full of Love with Monika Wright

2012-01-20T14:43:00.000-05:00

There's love in the air for young, old, single, married...

and of course, the wee ones in our life!

Being a crafty mama, I always have random art project supplies on hand and thought I would share with you this rather easy, but charmingly cute, under 10 minute project. Hi, I'm Monika Wright, a proud returning member and now Senior Designer from the 2011 Design Team for The Twinery.

Here are my supplies:

So, let's get started. Using some die cut hearts, but you could also use a hand punch or even free hand draw them and trim them yourself, I wrote a message that spans about 9 hearts to our oldest daughter. After punching holes, I threaded the hearts together with Maraschino twine and loosely knotted it to hold the little booklet together before slipping it inside the canvas bag.

Then, using a hand cut felt heart, I used my Glossy Accents {I find that this product does an amazing job of adhering The Twinery twine to fabric, felt and cardstock} to embellish the felt heart with more Maraschino twine and again used Glossy Accents to adhere the felt heart to the canvas bag.

Sweet. Easy. Packed with lots of happy love. I'd adore for you to drop in for a visit with me at I Love It All, where I share more crafty projects, mini books, scrapbooking ideas and downloads.

Supplies Used

Maraschino Baker's Twine

Canvas Bag | Glossy Accents | Sizzix Heart Set #2 | Accent Opaque Cardstock - International Paper

Sweet Thank You's

2012-01-16T15:32:00.002-05:00

Throughout the year, there will be a variety of our

design team alumni who will be sharing with us here on

The Twinery blog.

Today, Stephanie is back to share a quick and easy project

for fun and fabulous thank you cards.

Hi there! Stephanie here with one more card to share. I don't know about you, but every year after Christmas I have tons of thank you cards to give out to all those that love to spoil the husband and me :)

For this 5x5" card, I cut each of the letters using different paper scraps with my die cutting machine. I accented each with The Twinery twine using Tombow Mono Multi Glue.

*tip, if you don't have a die cutter (Cricut/Silhouette/etc..) you can always print your favorite fonts on paper & fussy cut them.

Inside I added "so very much" using stickers.
I let the stitching show & just tied little bows to secure the twine.

Wishing you all a very happy 2012!

♥Stephanie