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Creative Ribbons & Bows for Gift Wrapping & Presents

DSmiffy · 2005-08-24 15:26:00

Hi All, I went to the Southport Flower Show last week and on one of the stalls in the Rural Crafts Tent was a guy showing how to make fabulous decorations out of florists ribbon. They were called Personal Touch. I've done a search on the internet and nothing is coming up about them. He was selling a video and some rolls of…

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pavlovs_dog Posts: 10,223 Forumite

26 August 2005 at 9:28PM

its not quite what you are after i know, being a box, but it is so soooo pretty i just had to share this little gem i found on an american craft site called craftster. i was really enchanted by this snowflake paper box with bow

which looks a little something like this :

the post lists the links to the site for the origami templates and instructions, so its a case of choosing your paper/card and away you go!

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