Gift Bow

Dec 17, 2010

The other day Ronda sent me a few pho­tos of some cute con­tain­ers she cre­ated filled with some of her pep­per­mint bark, click here if you want her recipe. Well I noticed she had the cutest gift bows on top of each con­tainer so I imme­di­ately asked her how she made them. Well she got the idea from Emily who got the idea from a post on Flickr. Oh the tan­gled web us crafters weave. Emily’s tuto­r­ial is super easy to fol­low and I think you will want to cre­ate some for your­self. These bows do not take much paper either so you could mix and match them with your paper scraps.

Sup­plies Used: The Girls’ Paperier — Tin­sel & Twig — Holly Berry Flo­ral, Col­or­Box Fluid Chalk Ink — Creamy Brown, Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue

Tools Needed: Paper Trim­mer, Scal­lop Scissors

I trimmed the sides of each paper strip with scal­lop scis­sors then inked the edges using Creamy Brown ink. I do believe I am going to have to accent the scal­lops with some Dia­mond or Plat­inum Stick­les and then cover the entire bow with Crys­tal Coarse Glit­ter. I just can­not stand not hav­ing some bling espe­cially at Christ­mas as I love how glit­ter accented pack­ages look under­neath our tree when the lights on… so magical.