Hello! So today I am going to be showing you how to make a very simple, but very nice garland!
First of all
you will need:
-a pencil
-a rubber
-scissors
-a ruller
-metallic pens (I ended up only using silver because the gold ran out :P)
-black cardboard (an A4 sheet is enough, unless you want to make your letters bigger)
-tape
-a holepuncher
-and, finally, some twine (but wool'll do)
1st Step
Take your A4 sheet and devide it in three parts horizontally and vertically
.
Cut them out and you'll end up with something like this:
(moreless 7x9,9 cm)
2nd Step
Now you'll trace the middle of the rectangle (vertically), and from one of the bottoms measure 2cm.
Join that dot with the corners, like this:
And cut throug those diagonal lines.
3rd Step
Now you have nine cards all cut and you can choose what to write on them. I wrote wander (you know like on the quote), so I only needed 8 of those cards, but obviously you can write whatever you want.
Anyway, I wanted to use pretty calligraphy, but I'm not very good at that, so I went on Picmonkey and used the "Rye" font to make this:
Now, you can either recreate it in your card, or you can go to a little bit of trouble, make the image bigger, print it, cut it and outline it onto your card. Either way, after you've done that you'll just have to fill the letters with your metallic pen of choice and you'll be done.
4st Step
For the other two cards I made a chevron patern.
Firstly, you will divide the halves that you made in step two, so that you have 4 vertical lines at the same distance from eachother.
Now you'll have to make some dots:
(the dark pink ones are distanced 1,5cm from each other, and the blue ones are distances 2cm)
Afterwords just unite them and fill the lines, once again, with your metallic pen of choice. Then you can erase the lines.
5ft (and final) Step
So now you have these 8 pretty pieces
and you just have to "punch" a hole in their top middle, put the string through,
and stick to your wall using tape!
PS: To get the cards to point forward, put some tape on their back to (to glue the string to the paper).
That is it! I hope you liked this idea, I'm not the most creative person but I think it looks good! I also hope the instructions were clear enough for you to understand, but if you have any questions just ask me; and if you do decide to do this please let me know!
-Maria
