Pulling it all Together

My table has been in need of a little refresh lately with some cute decoration, so I pulled some of my favorite Stampin' Up! products to liven up my table!

I recently posted about making an adorable modge podge birdie and wanted to make a few other goodies to go along with it.  

I took a glass hurricane already in my home and added a bow of 1 1/4" burlap ribbon around the neck.  I used two half yard strips to accomplish this.  First, one strip was wrapped around the neck of the hurricane, folded over once and hot glued to hold the two ends of the ribbon in place.  This helped to make the extra tails of my bow.  Second, I tied a bow using the second strip of burlap ribbon and hot glued it to cover the fold from the strip making the band around the hurricane.  These were then trimmed to length.  

Next, I hot glued a button from the naturals designer buttons collection to the center of my bow and added some extra detail to my ribbon with an Early Espresso ink pad and sponge dauber.  

A final detail was added to the hurricane by punching out a two blossoms using a scrap of Soho Subway paper and the blossom punch.  In the center of the blossoms, I added a cork flower embellishment from the new Sale-a-bration Sweet Sorbet accessory pack.  These were adhered to the each side of the bow with some velcro.

Tip: A velcro spot on each side of the bow means I can easily interchange the accessories on each side of my bow depending on the season.  If you aren't interested in changing it out, hot glue works great for adding your flower embellishments to the side of the bow!

For the final decoration, I laminated one piece of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper is Soho Subway to make a mat for my hurricane and little birdie.