Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Butterfly bows




Start with a piece of ribbon...probably about 5 inches long (you will actually need 2). Burn the edges of the ribbon with a lighter to prevent fraying ribbon.
Place a drip of glue on one end of the ribbon

Put both ends together, with the ends perpendicular to each other, forming a tear drop shape like so:

Place the tip of the "drop" under the center of the opposite rounded side and secure with glue. It will look like this:

Repeat the above steps to create the other side:

Place the "wings" on a ribbon colored clip running perpendicular and secure like so:

Place a curl of ribbon down the center parallel to the clip. I used a baked curl ribbon from my corkers....

This is a really cute bow! I am really happy to share!