Patriotic Hair Bows

Hi everybody,

This is Jamie and today I want to share some easy to make hair bows with you all. These bows are perfect for 4th of July!

Here is a list of the things you will need to make these bows:
Alligator clips (one per bow)
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Scissors
5/8" red wired satin ribbon
11/2" navy blue mini stars wired ribbon

It took me less than 30 minutes to make these bows start to finish. I made a (hopefully) easy picture tutorial for you just in case.

Step 1.
Cut ribbons to size. I cut the navy star ribbon at aprox. 11 inches and the red approx. 3 inches.

Step 2.
Take your blue star ribbon and gate fold until the ends overlap (make sure to have them overlap enough for a line of glue to hold them together).

Step 3.
Hot glue a line across one of the edges and then press the two edges together to make a continuous piece of ribbon (it should look like a circle or bracelet shape once unflattened).

Step 4. 

Flatten the ribbon you just glued together and grab in the center of the ribbon and pinch together.

Step 5.
While still pinching the center of the ribbon, use your other hand to fold the top and bottom of the pinched area to the back (so that the center now makes a "W" shape). At this point you can hot glue to hold it together or use some twine/thread and tie it in this position if you like.

Step 6. 
While holding the center in a "W" shape (you won't have to hold it if you've tied the center in this position) take your red ribbon and wrap around the center to hide the fold. (The 3 inches is enough to wrap around 2x. If you only want to wrap around once cut off the excess now).

Step 7.
Now secure the red ribbon with hot glue (making sure your ribbon seam end is on the back side of your bow).

Step 8.

Now hot glue your alligator clip (or hair piece etc. of your choice) to the back side of the bow. Make sure you line it up in the middle so that you can't see the clip from the front.

See, I told you easy! I hope my tutorial was easy enough to follow.  Thanks for taking the time to view my project today!

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

Starfish Layout

Hey Everyone,

Another layout to share. This one is another aquarium layout. I made this using mainly papers from the beach house collection (I've had it just sitting around for almost over a year)   from the paper studio, you can get it from hobby lobby.. super cute papers in there! Anyway... I used my silhouette cameo and design studio to make the title, stars and triangles on the bottom. I used pop dots for a few of the stars and adhered everything else with Zig glue and ATG tape. I used a punch for the line running across the top-middle and bakers twine on the silver tag. I cut the picture in three 2 inch increments to fit the sketch better. The red-ish colored paper (which is actually more orange) has been around for a couple years just sitting in my stash.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
The Studio Challenges - Old Stash
Clique Kits - Anything Goes
Let's Capture Our Memories - Sketch #133

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Rock Star Layout

I used the Birthday Wishes stack from DCWV for this layout.. I cut some of the star embellishments by hand and others with punches. I cut the title with my Expression 2, gypsy, & the Rock Princess cart.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Lets Get Sketchy - June Week 3 sketch
About A Girl - Bold Colors & Patterns
DL.ART - June Anything goes

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CWC #89 Graduation/ End of School Year

This week the CWC challenge is Graduation/ end of school year. I made this graduation card using the Happy Graduation and Plantin Schoolbook carts.

I used both the star cuts from plantin schoolbook and the graduation cap from happy graduation as stencils and used silver ink to put both onto the black cardstock.

I cut out some red and light red polk-a-dot paper and put it on the side and then put the black card stock with the cap over it.

I added some red bakers twine over the red paper and then put some on where the tassel would go. I also added some to the tag I cut out by hand in both white and red card stock. I hand wrote congrats on the tag. I also inked around the edges of the black card stock.

Hope you'll come join in the fun with us over at CWC this week!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

CARDZ TV - #109

DL.ART - Anything goes

Simply Crafts - Star Cut

Lily Pad - Star Challenge

Oldie But A Goodie - Anything goes

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Jayden's 2nd card

Another super cute Jayden card. It's pretty similar to the first one but her daddy thought it was soooo cute he just had to make one for Grandpa & Grandma. this one fits into the following challenge:

the sweetest thing - Sketch 88

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!