Tuesday, March 15, 2011

How to Line Snap Clips with Ribbon for Mini Bowdabra Hair Bows

Coordinate outfits with matching hair bows. Use the Mini Bowdabra Hair Bow Tool & Ruler to make easy hair bows to match all of your daughter’s clothes. The Hair Bow Tool & Ruler comes with interactive software to make 70 different hair bow styles. The interactive software gives step-by-step instructions with pictures, an easy to follow material list, a ribbon length chart for all standard bows, helpful hints, and frequently asked hair bow making questions.
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I wanted to make my daughter some special hair bows for school. I started by lining two snap clips with 3/8” grosgrain ribbon.

How to line snap clips:
1. First begin by hot gluing the 3/8″ wide ribbon to the end of the snap clip. Place the ribbon onto the top of the snap clip and hot glue it in place.
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2. Wrap the ribbon tightly around one side of the snap clip. Hot glue the ribbon onto the clip to hold it in place.
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3. Next, wrap the ribbon around the point of the snap clip, got glue and pinch the ribbon together. Bring the ribbon around to the other side.
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4. Wrap the other side of the snap clip tightly and hot glue the ribbon end. Make two matching snap clips.
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5. Using the Hair Bow Tool and Ruler’s interactive CD follow the simple instructions to make a Quad Pinwheel Bow using 7/8″ wide Grosgrain Ribbon and add a small Boutique Bow using the same 3/8′ wide ribbon that you lined the snap clips with.
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6. Make two matching bows using the Mini Bowdabra, Hair Bow Tool and Ruler, and Bowdabra Bow Wire.
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Trim away extra Bowdabra Bow Wire, hot glue a finishing ribbon onto the bows, and then hot glue the bows onto the metal ends of the lined snap clips.
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Make several bows using different colored ribbon to match your daughter’s outfits.
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Use the Hair Bow Tool and Ruler interactive CD to make loads of different styled bows, even the hard to make baby bows. The interactive CD gives step-by-step instructions for hair bow making from start to finish. Learn how to attach bows to alligator clips, combs, hair elastics, and headbands. Follow the easy tutorials for finishing the bows with ribbon, finishing knots, beads, even buttons!

Visit Bowdabra’s Ribbon Craft & Things Store for all the Bowdabra Products and a HUGE selection of Morex Ribbon.

Original Blog Source:  How to Line Snap Clips with Ribbon for Mini Bowdabra Hair Bows from Sandy Sandler Creating Creativity Blog

Written By: Sarah Forhan, Bowdabra Designer and author of Sewing and Crafting with Sarah and Contributing Crafter at Crafters 4 Kids
 

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com   

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