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Hi. My name's Hannah and welcome to my series Here Come the Girls from my wedding scrapbook.
Over the next eight weeks I'm going to show you how to make some absolutely gorgeous projects
for your hen do all based on ideas from my lovely lovely book Girl's Night In. So first
thing's first I'm going to start off with making invitations for your lovely hens.
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So for this project you need a few little bits and bobs. I've got these premade brown
cards which are really nice, nice kind of texture and color on those. And then we're
got two pieces of sort of scrapbook paper. You don't need very much of these but I'm
going to use this one for my top and this one for my skirt. And then I've got a bit
of tulle which makes this skirt really pretty at the end of it. And then I've got a couple
of trims, I've got a couple of kind of flowers and some ribbon. And then we need to have
a metal ruler, some scissors, some glue, a pencil, and a pen. So the first thing we need
to do is make our fan skirt so I'm using this pink piece of card. I'm going to turn it back
to front and I'm going to measure it about 9 cm by about 16 cm. So just use your ruler
and your pencil.
So we just need to cut that out. And then we just get rid of that piece. And then we're
just going to fold this into our fan shape so it's literally going back and forth into
our card. Just make sure that the end piece is facing forward so when you attach it to
your card you can stick it down. So just go backwards and forwards. You can just press
kind of hard down to make sure you've got quite a crisp line on there. So at the end
of our skirt I'm going to attach a little bit of tulle just to make it look like a petticoat.
Ok, so I'm just going to grab our tulle just here. And then we need to flatten out our
fan shape and cut a section out probably about 2 cm overhang and a cm so we can glue it to
the actual card. So just lay that over and just cut it out. So it's good to keep all
the lines quite neat and straight so if you've got any extra bits just trim them off really
neatly.
So we just get our glue and we need to just run a line down the back of our skirt and
then stick on our lovely tulle. And we just want to smooth the glue down a little bit.
So now the glue has dried, we can just snip off the ends of the tulle just to make it
lovely and neat. We'll put that aside for a moment and our next stage is to draw out
some legs on our card. So I've actually changed it slightly and already drawn some out in
pencil which are here. So we just need to do the bottom end of the legs and then we
just need to go over those with a black pen. So I'm just going to go around. It's best
to draw these out with pencil first because, you know, you want to get them right basically.
So we just draw around the outside.
So we're going to glue the skirts on now. Just grab some of your clear glue and we're
just going to glue down those two tabs that we had on either side of the shape. So you
want to pinch the top together before you lay it down and get it fairly center on the
card. And then you just need to hold that in place while it's gluing. So now that lovely
skirt has been glued down, we're going to make the top to go on top. So I've got my
lovely sparkly bit of card here and I'm just going to cut out a little sort of vest shape
from there. And it's good to sort of measure it up to the height of your card and the size
of the waist. And you kind of have to do this bit by eye really. So just trim that final
piece off and we're just going to glue that on to the top of our lovely skirt. So the
next stage is we're going to put a lovely pretty bow around her waist so you need to
cut about 15 centimeters of ribbon. This is about 0.5 centimeters wide, this ribbon. And
just tie yourself a bow in it. Pull it tight and make it kind of a little bit small to
be able to fit in the waist. You just need a little glob of glue on there.
So we're almost finished, I'm just going to finally add one of these pretty little flowers
as a little corsage just on the top side of our lovely bridesmaid's card. And there we
have our perfect invitation. So if you've enjoyed this video, don't forget to give us
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