Today I’m taking part in the Technique Squad blog hop for the very first time! Thank you if you’ve joined me from JoAnne Pollock’s blog. The technique for this hop is called Bargello, which I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of before. However, I’ve learned about the technique and here’s my Bright & Beautiful Bargello card…
For this bargello technique I used strips of the Bright & Beautiful 6″ x 6″ designer series paper that were between 1/2″ and 5/8″ wide and 6″ long. I added them to a piece of card with the short side along the top, using liquid glue. Next I chopped that piece of card up in a horizontal direction to give me strips with lots of squares or rectangles on them. The final step in the technique is to arrange the strips onto another piece of card, in whatever pattern you chose then add this to a card base. I actually added an extra step and embossed my layer with the Cute Crochet 3D folder, for more texture.
I stamped the sentiment from the Online Exclusive stamp set Everyday Greetings with Azure Afternoon ink and cut it with a Greetings of the Season die (but cut off the end with the hole). Using tear and tape adhesive, I added some Pretty Peacock & Gold ribbon and then put my sentiment label over it with dimensionals…
The finishing touch was to add some gold sequins. You can never have too much bling!
THE BLOG HOP
Please use these links to hop round and check out the other Bargello projects for more inspiration…
I’ve made another card with this technique since and I’ll be back with a video tutorial for that very soon.
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Happy crafting,
Heather x
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I’ve never heard of this technique either- looks like fun!
It is fun! I’ve made another card with the same technique that I’ll share soon xx