Helmar Holiday Blog Hop

It’s that time of year where we all start thinking of the holidays and what better way to get your Holiday spirit than a great Helmar Holiday Hop, filled with so much Holiday cheer and some amazing projects featuring all the different Helmar Adhesives.

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Hello everyone and welcome to my stop on the Helmar Holiday Hop. If you have been following along, you should have hopped here from  Rae’s blog. If not, you just have to stop at the Helmar Blog and start from the beginning. There are goodies along the way and we don’t want you to miss a thing.

  So here we go~

   The Helmar products I worked with are the Fabric Stiffener & Draping Liquid and the Premium     
  Craft Glue.

First I wanted to share a little about each Helmar product. The Fabric Stiffener & Draping Liquid is very easy to use. It is a fast way to stiffen or color ribbon, lace, crocheted items or material.  This comes in concentrate form and may be thinned up to 50% with water.  Instructions are on the bottle.  The Premium Craft Glue bonds with almost all types of fabrics, paper, soft woods, and most other hand crafted materials. Dries clear and sets quickly!  So with all of that great glue this is what I made~

My 2011 Christmas Wreath, with all my favorite "little peeps" on it.  I cut tags out of Basic Grey Christmas paper and attached my photos to them.  I adhered them, all around the wreath, with Helmar Craft Glue.  Other supplies used were Tim Holtz's Rosette die and Holly leaf, Darkroom Door's Dear Santa Collection.

The number cards are by 7gypsies and the holly leaves were cut out of a brown paper bag and painted with Twinkling H2O's by Lumin Arte.   I added some red buttons and pearls by Kaiser to the holly leaves.

The next part is the garland { made with Darkroom Door's Dear Santa Montage set} and the bow {May Arts ribbon} that was stiffened using Helmar's Fabric Stiffener & Draping Liquid.

I used 1/8 of a cup and 1/8 of a cup of water. Soaked my ribbon in it and squeesed it out.  Held it up in front of a fan and it was dry and ready to tie on my wreath in 10 minutes.  I loved that. no mess and no wait!!! It acually looks like Kraft paper after it dried.   I made the garland by adhering the montage pieces to the bakers twine and then draping it in the center of the wreath~

I ended up with it here~love my "little peeps"!!!

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Make sure you leave a comment at every stop because the elves of Helmar will be giving away prizes to some lucky Helmar fans. Now hop on over to Grace’s blog to see another amazing Helmar Holiday project. The Holiday Hop will be open for comments until 11:59P.S.T December 4^th , so take a look and enjoy a little holiday spirit from all of us on the Helmar Team. Thanks again for stopping by today and Happy Holidays.

See ya soon!!!!