Boo!
Why not add a personal touch to your Christmas gifts this year? Here's a quick tutorial on how to make these cute bows. As seen from my Instagram photo you can also decorate your room etc with them :)
Check out some of my other Christmassy tutorials:
Possible Tools:
• Wrapping Paper, Tissue Paper, Printing Paper, Origami Paper
• Glue/Double-Sided Tape
• Scissors
• Glitter/Gems/other decorative items
• Ruler
TUTORIAL:
Take a sheet of square paper. If you are using printing paper, you can follow the steps in my 'Spook things up' tutorial to create a square piece of paper |
Fold the square piece of paper diagonally in half, and crease |
Open the piece of square paper and fold, and crease the opposite side |
Lay the piece of paper out, and fold horizontally and vertically as shown |
And you should be left with these creases |
Fold your piece of paper diagonally again, so you have a triangle |
Take the right hand side of the triangle from your point of view, and open the corner up, and press down |
And you should be left with a little square. |
Take one side of the little square and fold it back on itself |
Turn your paper over, and do the same thing on the other side |
An alternative method to steps 5-7 would be to just push the pointed corner in. |
You should then be left with the little square. Fold the tip of square that has no open sides down about 1cm/half an inch. The bigger this fold, the bigger the centre of your bow. Crease quite forcefully |
Now open up your paper and you should be left with these crease marks - with a noticeable square crease in the middle |
Following the creases of the square dotted, you want to pinch at each side of the dotted square |
Like so, to make it protrude upwards |
Once you've pinched one side, do the same on the remaining sides. |
And you should be left with this |
Turn the paper over and do the same folds on the other side |
Open the piece of paper up and push down on the centre |
When you turn the paper around this is what it should look like with the centre of the bow apparent |
Turn the paper back the other side again |
You want to cut down the dotted line but make sure you don't accidentally cut the centre of the bow |
If you wish, you can glue the two flaps down to make cutting and folding a bit easier. |
This fold need not be perfect |
Cut again at the dotted places - this is to your prefernece |
Now you have completed the bow! |
I hope you found that tutorial useful. Below is just a picture of a number of other bows I made.
Take care and speak soon!
Very intricate steps but beautifully made, they look stunning.,
ReplyDeleteWow, that looks amazing, I have no patents for things like this X
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the tutorial. The bows seem much easier to do than I initially thought!
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