Dephemerember2023 hosted by @49dragonflies and @luiseheinzl. Find them on YouTube or Instagram!
Short process video: https://youtu.be/SPhTlMzGoPI
25. FRIENDSHIP BRACELET
Today’s friendship bracelets are usually braided from embroidery floss; some of the designs are really elaborate and beautiful. Back in my younger days, though, it was all paper gum wrapper chains. Not much gum is sold in sticks now, and the gum sticks don’t have individual paper wrappers, so I used lightweight paper and cut my own pieces to 1” x 2 3/4”. (That’s 2.5 cm wide by 7 cm tall.) Any size is fine as long as it is this ratio 1:2.75 and each piece is consistent. Any paper is fine as long as it is very lightweight. Copy paper at 20 lbs is too heavy. I’m using origami paper in the video.
Fold the paper in half so you have a strip 1/2” x 2 3/4”. Open the paper. Fold each side into the crease. Now you have a piece 1/4” x 2 3/4” that is four thick.
Fold in half the other way. Open the paper. Fold each end into the crease. Now you have a piece that is about 1/4” x 5/8” and eight thick.
Do this a bunch of times, then build the chain by inserting the legs of one piece into the loops of the next piece.
26. FORGOTTEN SNACKS
These round tins of La Vie de la Vosgienne fruit pastilles were something my father would bring me and my sister. Not sure if the product is discontinued or no longer imported from France to the USA, but these are no longer available to me except as a memory. I guess that’s the opposite of a forgotten snack? But this is what sprang to mind for me.
To make the shaker you need a small zipper-top plastic bag. You want the bag to be just a smidge larger than the interior of your frame. If your bag is too big, cut it down with scissors and tape up the side with clear tape. Easiest shaker ever, no special equipment or foam tape!
27. SPAGHETTI BOX WINDOW
The pasta we use doesn’t have a window, but the candy I bought at Aldi for stockings does have a window. I cut six panels of cardstock in A2 size (4 1/4” x 5 1/2”) then die cut the center using the Sizzix for Stampin Up die Top Note. (Any die larger than your window would work, or heck use a die smaller than your window.) I sandwiched the window panel of the candy bags between two dies then decorated the front panel with paper flowers to obscure the package labeling.
28. ME & MY CRUSH
I used a lightbulb instead of a heart because it’s important to think about whom you marry!
Edison lightbulb die is Sizzix Bigz Tim Holtz Filament
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