'Tis the season for sales. No doubt you've been inundated with countless flyers informing you of all the deals that are going on. Instead of tossing them, use these brightly colored advertisements to make bows for your holiday gifts. I got the idea for this craft from this site.
Materials:
*Sales flyers, magazine ads, or other brightly colored paper scraps
*Pen
*Drinking glass
*Scissors
*Brad
*Washer
*All purpose adhesive
Directions:
Note: for a video tutorial of how to make a six-pointed paper snowflake, see my Six Pointed Paper Snowflake tutorial.
*To create a six-pointed paper snowflake, choose a portion of the advertisement that you would like to use for your snowflake. Place the glass over this space and trace around it to get a circle.
*Cut out the circle.
*Fold the circle in half.
*Fold over about 1/3 of the half circle, such that the resulting shape looks like two triangles of equal size.
*Fold the resulting shape in half to get this shape:
*Cut out triangles, semicircles, squiggly lines, etc from the folded shape. Do not cut out the center.
*Unfold and you now have a paper snowflake.
*Repeat the above steps to create a second paper snowflake.
*Glue a washer to the center of one of the snowflakes and slide a brad through the center of the other.
*Slide the brad through the center of the second snowflake.
*Pull the two snowflakes together and fold over the prongs on the brad. Now you have a colorful snowflake gift bow.
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