Good evening to you all in the land of blog
After several lovely comments, and requests and lots of mail enquiries
finally I have prepared my first ever tutorial, thank you to so many of you for requesting it and hope this explains it clearly enough and I apologise for the numerous photographs and both mine and Matt's hands lol xx
So starting with all the little bits you will require,
- Some Scotch Electrical Shielding Tape
Edited at Request - The Electrical Shielding Tape can be purchased on e bay (mine comes from the electrician, the husband) on e bay search for 3M Scotch 24 Electrical Shielding Tape
- Some Pliers
- Some Glue
- A match stick or several first time around
- some craft wire the sturdy one not the flimsy
- copic pen to colour
Here is the Electrical Shielding Tape out of it's box, with a small 3 inch piece cut off the role.
Place your finger inside the cut off piece to open it out
and then remove your finger and expand it as far as it will go
Take a 5 inch piece of the craft ribbon and straighten it out, you are going to use this as the needle and thread, weaving in and out of the opened out end of the metal ribbon tube
It does get hard nearer the end, and you do need lots of patience but it will be worth it honest, make sure you have enough of the wire through both sides
Use a circular shaped object, I have used a small stickles bottle, to push the now misshapen wire into a circle shape again
Whilst it is in place use the pliers to twist the two wire ends together
Keep twisting until really tight
Remove from the circular object and you have a lovely circle and a great join for the wire
The scruffy edges you just push inside but be careful not to damage your nice circle.
Again put your finger into the ribbon and with your other hand, take hold of the other end of the metal ribbon, and start to twist
Keep twisting
Until it holds firmly on it's own
Take your scissors and cut away the excess metal ribbon
You have now created the little net
Take your pliers and cut through the waste wire but leave a little for the join onto the pole
Just the smallest bit so you can hide it
Now take your match stick
Offer it up to the net and mark with a pencil where the metal wire finishes
Using a craft knife, cut half way through the match stick on that line
Turn the match stick and cut down the centre up to the line
we are removing half of the match stick
So that the wire will fit under it
now to colour the pole, I have used copics E49
The wood takes the colour really well
Here it shows the cut out a little better
Now being careful flatten the net circle onto the net as when placed on the card it will need to be lower
Add glue to the wire stick
and the cut match end
Place the two together carefully, you will get over spill of glue, but you can wait till it is dry to trim this away
Now add it to your creation for that extra special embellishment
Hugs and Enjoy your evening
Kate
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