You will discover, once you find your old phone book, that playing with string with the String Theory technique is addictive. In just mere moments you can have quite a number of layers ready to make into cards. Here’s my first post on the technique and here’s Lydia Fiedler’s blog post which includes her video.

I used a piece of twine that was natural and gold again and doused it in bermuda bay ink. The metal in the twine definitely adds to the effect by not taking up the ink. I made two loops in the twine and then another towards the bottom of the card, topped it with a second card and put it into my phone book. Then (using a glove!) I used one hand to press down on the phone book and the other to pull out the twine. I really loved the effect of two separate petals (?) at the top of my image. The space left was perfect for this sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday also stamped in bermuda bay. I of course mounted this on a bermuda bay card base.

It’s a good idea to wear gloves. It really is, BUT then it’s easy to add smudges of ink as I did on the top piece of card. So I cropped it, mounted it on a black piece of card and added a sentiment from Vertical Greetings. You can see that they are mirror images but they look very different.

I hope that you’ll have a go with the String Theory technique, it’s loads of fun. Just find a phone book, some gloves and see what you produce. I’d love to see what you come up with.

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I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz