FAO rainmac r.e. door hangers

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

I think I'm driving my OH out of home.............was doing pickled bums yesterday and he suddenly decided to go to the pub a bit earlier.................lol

Back to the door hangers............I'm at the ribbon stage with a couple of them. Whats the best way to do this as I'm hopeless at creating a bow......and how many times do you wrap the ribbon round before you tie it ?
(Know it sounds a daft question but every time I try it looks wrong)

Mary, I have knotted my pieces of ribbon rather than tie bows (I too am not good with bows ). I have put the ribbon through the circle hole once and tied it then tied again to form a knot and then cut the 2 ends of ribbon and then repeated it again with another colour ribbon. I think knots sort of add to the homemade look. Does this make sense

rainmac

RustyFlange wrote: »

Lovely hangers as always!!!

The boys door plaques are just perfect!!!!! Well done Can I ask one thing though? .... Is your Thomas as much as a monkey as my Thomas?

My Thomas is 19 mths and a complete monkey which sometimes makes me feel :mad: but most of the time makes me feel :rotfl:

I managed to get him some of those Night Garden characters by the way but they were full price in my Tesco :sad: Still bought them as I know he will love them

cookiedough38

I plan to make my door hangers, finally!! What was agreed to be the best thing, glue or double sided tape?

RustyFlange

rainmac wrote: »

My Thomas is 19 mths and a complete monkey which sometimes makes me feel :mad: but most of the time makes me feel :rotfl:

I managed to get him some of those Night Garden characters by the way but they were full price in my Tesco :sad: Still bought them as I know he will love them

lol mine is the same!! and mine is almost 6! :eek: (I feel old)

Oh thats a shame Sorry Rainmac, I thought they would have been reduced everywhere.

cookiedough38 wrote: »

I plan to make my door hangers, finally!! What was agreed to be the best thing, glue or double sided tape?

I have only tried glue, I screwed up big style using PVA as my paper was too thin and went all wrinkly. I used pritstick in the end which worked well but I am pretty sure Rainmac has used double sided tape and worked well.
Good luck with making them, can't wait to see them.

CandyB101_2

rainmac wrote: »

Here is another Xmas door hanger...



I used Papermania paper and chipboard shapes and another 49p tree from Hobbycraft.

I then moved my thoughts onto door plaques and made these two for my little monkeys for Xmas...



The blue paper is a bit darker in the flesh than the pic shows. I love these! They are very simple and were really easy to make - just my kind of craft(bought the animal shapes!)

Need to work out what to use to attach the plaques to a door - double sided foam pads? Anyone got any ideas?

Wow .... they are absolutely gorgeous!!!!
Did the chipboard shapes come already coloured ..... or did you do that too?

mary43

rainmac - thanks. I've got some ribbon wider than others so think I'll combine the two...............just need to get the right colours now.

cookiedough - I stuck my paper on the hanger with wallpaper paste -I'd mixed some up to cover a couple of shoe boxes. It worker ok -I'd made it quite thick. Otherwise I think I'd maybe have used PVA. Thicker paper is better....less risk of tearing (though I still managed it...........lol)

cookiedough38

thanks all, I used double sided tape around most of the edges and pritstick for the middle. The tape is from OH's work and really strong so I shouldnt have to worry about it peeling.

After sticking them down, OH informed me that his knife is at work, I am not going to attempt to cut around them with scissors, I will wait until tomorrow

rainmac

cookiedough38 wrote: »

thanks all, I used double sided tape around most of the edges and pritstick for the middle. The tape is from OH's work and really strong so I shouldnt have to worry about it peeling.

After sticking them down, OH informed me that his knife is at work, I am not going to attempt to cut around them with scissors, I will wait until tomorrow

Ohhh, good luck

I have used both glue and double sided with similar results. I am impatient so had to sit on my hands when using glue so not to start cutting before the glue had properly dried. I've used glue on most of them as I reckon it is much cheaper.

Remember to post pics

rainmac

CandyB101 wrote: »

Wow .... they are absolutely gorgeous!!!!
Did the chipboard shapes come already coloured ..... or did you do that too?

No sorry to disappoint but the chipboard shapes were already coloured. I added the ribbon to the pressie shapes

rainmac

RustyFlange wrote: »

lol mine is the same!! and mine is almost 6! :eek: (I feel old)

Oh thats a shame Sorry Rainmac, I thought they would have been reduced everywhere.


I have only tried glue, I screwed up big style using PVA as my paper was too thin and went all wrinkly. I used pritstick in the end which worked well but I am pretty sure Rainmac has used double sided tape and worked well.
Good luck with making them, can't wait to see them.

No that's fine Rusty, even at just over £2 each I think they are a good price and little T will love them I do also have a bigger boy who starts school in 2 weeks and is as much of a monkey as his brother