Pages of Style #8: Bring Bunting to life (tutorial)

In June I was asked to make heart bunting for a friends wedding, the map pages they sent me were so colourful, I have chosen to use this for this tutorial, unfortunately I forgot to take a pic of the bunting at the wedding.

Materials,

Paper, A4 page or 2 pages of a standard book

Scissors

Ruler

Staple

Craft hole punch

Pencil (and rubber)

To begin with you need to draw the guide lines for the sections you will need to cut.

For and A4 page, the easiest way is to use a standard 30cm rule place it flush with thelong edge of the page and draw a line, you will need to do this until you have 5 full sections (I found I used the whole page).

With smaller pieces of paper you can either divide the width in 5 or fold and cut it into quarters and use more than one page per heart.

On two of the section you will need to draw a line a little over 1/3 of the down the page (on A4 I measure 11cm)

Cut along all these lines.

Fold one long section in half and you should end up with 2x 3 different length sections and a spine

The sections you should end up with: 2 short, 2 medium, 2 long ribbons
and 1 long ribbon folded in half to make the spine

For each half of the heart you need to line the ribbons up, with a flush edge and in descending order.

About 4-5cm (based on an A4 design) from the folded edge of the spine, hold the two sets of ribbons so they sit parallel, with the longest ribbons against the center.

Staple the 6 ribbons in place.

Beginning with the short ribbons bend each section to meet the bottom, (open) end of the spine. Hold each layer in place as you repeat until all 6 sections are once again flush.

Staple in place

You should end up with a shape like this (left)

Punch a hole in the spine and threat through your ribbon/string.
Experiment with how you want your heart to hang, you may need to give each shape a loop of string before connecting to the full length.

Hearts made from a copy of Romeo & Juliet
Christmas 2011

30+ Map hearts ready to be posted

Once you get going these hearts and easy to make and take only a few minutes. You can use them for children's bedrooms or as an alternating for paper chains at children's parties or Christmas.

I hope you enjoy making them as much as I do.

TTFN ~ Kate xx