Heart Candle Holders

Heart Candle Holders

 

We love the look of these candle holders when lit up at night with the candle light flickering through the hearts.

You can use old mason jars but I already had these plain candle holders stacked in the cupboard.

At the bargain store we bought a sheet of hearts stickers and we use the spray paint that was leftover from our ‘Pinecone Trees’ craft.

This process is very easy and very effective!!

The first step is to place the heart stickers all over the jar.

Then put a ring of sticky tape around the top edge. (This helps stop spray paint over-spray from going into the jar)

Now simply spray paint the jar!!

Once dry use a tooth pick to take off all the hearts.

Viola!!!

Now you have to wait until night-time to test out the result!!

Enjoy

Origami Bowties

ORIGAMI BOWTIES

 Serena had one of her BFF (Sophie Baker) over for the night. As per usual we did craft!!

These paper bowties aren’t that hard to make. I hope you understand my instruction, if not just follow the pictures

(Please excuse the girls makeup as they had a lovely time applying it!!)

To start you need a square piece of paper. Fold it length ways, unfold then fold it lengthways on the other side.

Fold it corner to corner (both sides)

Open it up and it should look like this

 

Now this is hard to explain!! Fold/push opposite corners into the middle. Then flatten. You should have a diamond shape now.

Place the diamond shape down with the open end facing away from you. Fold a little section of the bottom point up, unfold it and flip over to do again so that there is a really sharp line.

Open up the whole piece of paper. It should now look like this.

 

With this step the creases of the little centre square corners fold out, push the centre crease on opposite side in.

 

It should now look like this.

 

At the straight end fold the edge up so the flat end lines up with the centre line. Do this with both sides.

Flip over and repeat

Carefully grab the two corners and open slowly.

 

The centre should look like this. Gently flatten it out.

Flip over and neatly cut along the folded lines. All 4 of them.

 

Fold one newly cut square over onto the top of the other one.

 

 

We are now going to fold the bottom shape edge to the middle line, flip the top 2 squares over again and repeat folding the bottom edge to the middle.

 Repeat on other bottom side.

It should now look like this.

Using the scissors cut along the centre fold of the square to almost the middle of the bowtie.

 

Fold the newly cut edges over to make them look like the bowties ribbon lengths that hang down.

Flip over and neatly cut the ends.

It should look like this

Nearly finished!!

 

Now put a little glue onto the point of the bow bit and gentle bend over into the centre. (Under the little square) We place a peg onto it to keep it in place until it dried. Repeat on the other side.

Ta Da !!

Custom made bowties for all occasions!!