Tag Archives: Cerdafied Leather

Jewelry: Shabby Chic Floral Bracelet featuring Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon

03 Monday Jun 2013

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Happy Tuesday Creative Friends!

First of all, I have to say that after our exciting wedding blog hop over the weekend I am on a HIGH! I’ve never received so many wonderful words of encouragement! All of that love inspires me and makes me want to keep on creating. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!

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Today I have a shabby chic inspired wrap bracelet that is perfect for using up those scraps of pretty fabric you might have around. I started off by making my flowers using felt for the base and then twisting and turning the ribbon and fabric and hot-gluing it into place. I added a pearl in the center to make it pretty.
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This stunning Rumple Ribbon is called Oh Darling from the “Dinner Party” collection from Lovebug Creations. For only $6.00 for this collection of 12 yards, this ribbon is not only beautiful but it’s a bargain as well!

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I used strips of fabric that measured 1″ x 14″ and wrapped them around the leather and tied them in a knot to secure them. You could cover the whole bracelet or leave peeks of leather showing.

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I used this adorable fabric called Paris Flea Market.

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The leather wrap bracelet is from my friends at Cerdafied Leather.

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The final step is to glue the flowers onto the fabric wrapped around the bracelet. I used a drop of tacky glue in the middle and hot glue around the outside to give it a super strong bond.  Easy!

If you’d like to purchase one of my bracelets, please visit my Etsy shop!

Now, to reveal the name of the winner of the Ribbon Sliders from Bazzill Basics Paper from the Wedding Blog Hop.  The winner is Kathy, with email bqofss (at) yahoo (dot) com. Kathy, please email me at kryztyne @ Gmail.com to claim your prize!

Have a wonderfully creative week!

xo,

Christine Barker

Field Trip: Mercantile Flea Market in Fullerton

03 Sunday Feb 2013

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I had such a great day that I just want to put together a quick post to share the inspiration.  There’s nothing more inspiring for a creative mind than to take a flea market field trip. My friend, Julie Weller, and I went to the Mercantile Flea Market in downtown Fullerton, CA today.

We visited our friend, Priscilla Cerda, and her husband, Victor, in their booth and checked out their wares. Priscilla’s jewelry and mixed-media art company is called Vintage Bruja and her husband, Victor, is a master at tooling leather and makes some really cool leather cuffs for his brand, Cerdafied Leather.

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We had a little reunion with some crafty friends, Mariasela Vallejo and Tara Wilson.

After the flea market, we stopped into a new shop called Oh Hello Friend. I love this shop because it’s was like a live version of Etsy. I’m fascinated with the paper piano roll display in the window. She has the cutest washi tapes, and even masking tape with red hearts printed on it! Adorable Letterpress cards, laser cut wood gift tags, bakers twine, and string envelopes. So amazing!

After that we headed over to Gilding the Lily. I’ve been hearing about this shop for years but today was the first time I actually got to go inside and see all the treasures. There’s walls of vintage french ribbons, rhinestone jewelry, drawers of vintage buttons, cases of jewelry findings, velvet ribbon, millinery flowers, vintage hats, German glass glitter, pearls, and vintage beads. Everything a fancy, altered art lovin’, girl could ever want!

Enjoy a tour of my day in pictures!

Also, I just want to remind everyone that I’ve got a giveaway going on, and I’ll be drawing the name of the winner on Tuesday, February 5, 2012. I don’t want you to miss out, so come on over and check it out!

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Ukulele Sale!

“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” ~Lou Dorfsman