When Kristin mentioned wanting to experiment with wire, I knew I had to get in on the fun. I am a fidgety person, always twiddling something around my finger, so when I picked up a piece of wire, my first instinct was to wrap it around any object in arms reach. The lucky object nearby: a stylus. I started by wrapping the wire around the stylus a few times (see image at right). Then I carefully lifted the coiled piece off the stylus and pulled the ends to separate the coils slightly.


The words were created in a very freehand manner. I made the “be” first, making sure to leave plenty of extra wire after the “e”. Then I took a separate piece of wire and spelled out “mine”, again, making sure to leave plenty of wire at the beginning and end of the word (for adding extra coils!). I combined the two words together by twisting their ends into the heart shape.

The hard part actually came when I tried putting my wire creation onto paper. It just didn’t POP like I wanted it to. I decided to paint the wire white (using acrylic paint), which helped a lot, and then added some strips of cardstock to the background to give the card a little kick. Finally, I attached the wire element using strips of Therm O Web Zips. All in all, it was a fun new material that I'm excited about adding to my craft supplies! For more fun wire ideas, check out projects in Scraptastic!, Collage Lost & Found and Bead on a Wire.

Warning: Also like Kristin, I found this to be highly addictive. The projects are actually quite quick, but you may find it hard to step away from the craft table!

Eileen