I have a few things planned for the day, mostly things that I don't want the girls to see so they'll be later ;) But I decided to try my hand at making bows from magazine pages. A great way to reuse and recycle :) I used this tutorial, except instead of staples and glue dots, I used a glue stick for all of it. I think the glue stick actually works better (and is less wasteful/expensive). :)
I looked through a couple of Better Homes and Gardens magazines I found lying around and found some good candidates. However, I discovered that the Christmas catalog made the most "Christmasy" bows. :) Both girls made one, as well. The twisting was too hard for my four year old, but my 8 year old managed just fine. I'm still in process, but here are the bows finished so far:
I think this one is my favorite :)
Here are two that look like Christmas to me...one is a full page Folgers ad, and one is a page out of the Oriental Trading Company's Christmas catalog.
If you'd like to join, please head on over to The Natural Mommy! She's gone crafting craaazy :D And has a bunch of tutorials up!
For some inspiration:
The Common Room's round up of homemade Christmas gifts
Simply Vintage is having a homemade Christmas carnival as well, and there are tons of great ideas!
3 comments:
I love your bows! They are so festive.
These are amazing! I only have some free organic gardening magazines... I wonder what they'd look like? :-) I'm definitely bookmarking this, though!
Thank you, HM :)
Beth, I think gardening magazines would do just fine! I made an orangish one out of a full-page picture of fall leaves, and one of my favorite green, Christmasy ones was a page of hostas...
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