Make a gift bow from a magazine page

April 27th, 2010

This is another fabulous tutorial from the ‘How About Orange‘ blog. Ever need to wrap a present in a hurry and don’t even have any wrapping paper let alone a gift bow to stick to the present once it’s wrapped? Well this is a tutorial for you. You could wrap a present in newspaper and attach one of these fab bows and it’ll look amazing.

Check this image out to see what I mean:

This is what you need:

Find a brightly coloured magazine page and 9 strips of equal width – the tutorial suggests 3/4″ wide.

Leave 3 of the strips full length.
Cut one inch off 3 of the strips.
Cut two inches off 2 of the strips.
Cut the last strip down to 3 1/2″ long.

You then need to twist each strip to form a loop at both ends and staple or glue it in the center.

Once you’ve looped all the long strips [8] take the shortest and make it into a circle and staple or glue this also.

You should be left with this:

Then starts the layering. Layer the 3 longest loops on top of each other, spacing them evenly and gluing them in place. Then add the next two groups of loops, doing the same. Finally stick the circle loop into the center.

You don’t have to stick to magazine pages. You could use maps, graph paper, wrapping paper, photos – try anything and see if it works. You could also try different sizes so that the bows you make suit the size of gift you’re giving. If you’re going to try this tutorial out – take some photo’s of your creations and post them up on my Facebook Page and I’ll post them on this blog alongside my own attempts!

Enjoy!

via How About Orange

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