Friday, April 2, 2010

Not to late for a Easter Basket?

Adele, Tyler and I made these baskets/bags yesterday.  We got the idea out of "Parents" magazine (parents.com).
We used decrative sissors to cut the bag shorter and cut off the handles.  Your can have the bag flat and cut straight across.  Punch a hole for the ribbon on each side and pull it through and make a knot.  I used glue dots to keep the ribbon in place around the bag.

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( The flower directions were more complicated so I will put the magazines directions on.  Don't be intimited the flowers are a great thing to know how to do.  The posibilities with them are endless!)


 "Flowers"
What you'll need  Various colors of tissue paper, scissors (regular or decorative-edged).  floral wire, hot-glue gun.
Make it Cut tissue paper into 5-7 inch rectangles.  Stack 3 to 6 pieces, alternating colors.  Accordion-fold the tissue paper lengthwise and wrap wire around the middle (before I separated the tissue paper I cut each end at an angle.  It made them look like petals) .  Gently separate each layer, pulling upward toward the middle of the flower.  Attach finished flowers to the bag with hot-glue gun.