Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Christmas DIY Cabinet Decorations with Bows


I saw this idea on Facebook. I think the bows they used were the glitter ones you can buy in the store, but I made my own. They put theirs in the center of the ribbons. I've heard people saying they would attach their Christmas cards to ribbons like this. I also thought about putting another strip of ribbon going horizontal like presents so there's really a lot of variety with this.
We went and got this ribbon at Jo-Ann's. They had a tooon of Christmas stuff for 50% off! I don't know if it was just our store or if all their stores are doing that. Since so much stuff was 50% off we got stuff to make a wreath to! See the post here.


I taped these on the inside of the cabinets at the top and bottom. Just make sure it's centered or how you want it and that's it! :)


These are the tulle bows I made. They're super easy to make. As you can see I haven't finished yet but it'll look great when I do!
Instructions below these pictures.


This one is pretty big compared to the others. I made a white bow and wrapped glittery gold tulle around it.



I hope you can see whats going on in these pictures. Tulle is so hard to photograph!


Start with 1 piece like this

Fold it over.

Then the opposite way

Keep repeating til you have 5 "loops"

For my bows I make it so there's 3 "loop" like things on each side. A total of 6

As it's sitting in the above picture, that's 1 to many folds. You need to be able to take the end of the tulle and hide it inside the bow to make the last "loop" So below I'm trying to show how to do that. You would follow these steps after you make the 5th loop

Lifting it up

Folded underneath to make a Z like shape, creating the 6th loop

You can see the line in the middle where the tulle is underneath. It would be cut at this point.
Take the top where my thumb is and fold it down away from you.

Fold it again this time towards you. Then repeat.

You should end up with folds like an accordion or a fan.

These pictures are of the back and front side of the bow. I always make sure the first fold and the last fold face away from me so it looks rounded and neat in the front. You can compare these 2 pictures. The one on the left is the back the one on the right is the front.

After I do this I cut more tulle to whatever length I want the lower strands to be. 1 piece will be 2 strands hanging from the bow so make sure you cut enough for that. Then wrap them around the center a few times and tie them twice in the back. Getting it to look right might take some adjusting. You can cut another strand to go over the first so that there's 4 hanging down, or even more than that if you like. This can help it look better if the first time you wrapped it around it ended up looking weird.

Please let me know if anything was confusing and I'll try to explain it and fix my post! :) 

 Happy Holidays! 



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