A Yultide Tute...{Christmas Past}

 since i KNOW you are all busily wrapping away 

{what am i saying...i'm sure you're already done! ;}

i thought i'd give you a little help in the form a tutorial from a Christmas past!

MERRY WRAPPING!

That's short for "tutorial", just in case you're not "in the know"...
and that was a complete lie! ;}
Why do I do that?
It's just awful! And here it is almost Christmas! I should be ashamed!
{I promise, I shall be heartily sorry tomorrow....just let me finish this
post first,ok?}
So, as I was saying before I almost broke out into the entire Act of
Contrition...
I present to you today, for your perusal, A BOW TUTORIAL that I
totally ripped off from Kathy @ A SPECTACULAR MESS !
{And it's also chapter 747 of my Lazy Girl's Guide To Crafting From Your Couch! ;}
Geezaloooooo! There I go again! Can I work my way through the "7 Deadlies"
in one single post?!
Again...so, un-Christmasy...I am heartily sorry!




{the bird, the shell & the cat hair are merely there to add "visual interest"
to the shot. OK, the bird and the shell are...the cat hair is just everywhere,
all the time, 24/7...I'm not gonna lie...again...there's not a tape roller big
enough to tame it all, so I just dress accordingly! ;}






OK, let's get down to brass tacks here...
have your cat cut 7 strips of paper, 7" long and 3/4" wide...ish...
Now Kathy is a librarian, she probably did this all very meticulously
and, it goes without saying, quietly!
Then there's me...I started to cut strips of paper that only had something of
interest on ONE side...don't so this! BOTH sides of the paper will be visible
ergo...use the sense the God gave a goose and use sheet music or book pages!
I don't have a ruler...I had to use a tape measure and almost put an eye out!
But what I lacked in exact measurement, I tried to make-up for by using
my sassily edged scissors...see!...you were so taken with the curvy edges
that you didn't even noticed that my strips are 7 x 3/4...give or take... ;}


Now turn your strips into sorta-kinda-figure 8's...
easy as that! Tickety-boo!
Yes...That's another lie...tongue sticking out...trying to get the over-under...
under-over...Saints preserve us! What am I doing??! If I had filmed myself
REPEATEDLY trying to get the hang of this...they'd have me under a 72 hour
hold! But once you "get it" and then proceed to smack yourself in the head
a few times...truly...it's cinchy! Easy peasy lemon squeezy!



So, now that you've got that under control...
make 7! ;}
What? It's easy!


{Ooops, forgot. Kathy logically uses two-sided tape for all her adhering needs.
Welllllllllllll, I was plumb out of that particular product...so I used my glue
gun! Is that Can-Do-American-Spirit or what? No ruler, no tape and yet I
press on...undaunted...my pioneer ancestors are so proud! ;}




Now, stack 'em up!
You've all seen a bow...hop to it!





And there you have it!
Is that adorable, or what!
And I am adoring it...let me tell you!
Yah, yah...Kathy's is all neat and tidy and symmetrical and all
that other entirely superfluous stuff...but she had a ruler and
tape...AND she's a librarian with all that Dewey Decimalness
just oozing from every pore!
Don't judge!



{no muss, no fuss...a 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4...
for anyone who is more visual and doesn't need all verbiage...
how boring! ;}





{sidebar}
HOW cute would my sister's BOW-dacious apothecary look be with the
sheet music bows...possibly with glittered edges?
I am just dying here!





I say lose that lackluster white "been there done that" bow!!! And crown your
gifts with one of these little charmers instead!


{Kathy's is a tad more detailed and a bit more coherent...
for your own sanity...you might want to check it out?! Plus, her tutorial
has a Star Wars theme that I really enjoyed! ;}

{click HERE to see non-Christmasy bows made from non-Christmasy materials! ;} 





CHRIS CARTER sure missed out when he didn't take this fabulous
monster/bow-maker-helper! Lucky me!!