Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world
last time Frankie and I were hanging out
here which was just a little while ago
we were making this amazing super secret
diary however you need something cool to
write with for your super secret diary
don't you think yeah I think so so we
are going to teach you how to make a
really cool little tassel pen
this is a tassel topped pen which fits
perfectly into the spirals of her spiral
notebook so now miss would you like to
learn how to make one of these yes I
would okay for this project you will
need duct tape a ballpoint pen scissors
and a work surface Frankie this is a
really simple easy craft and you know
what it's perfect for the end of the
roll do you know what the end of the roll
is no that's okay oh the end
of the duct tape roll exactly when you
get to the very end there's like about
oh like 3-4 inches left you're like what am
I going to do with this there's not very
much less this is the perfect perfect
thing now what would you like yours to
look like so I've got yellow and purple
here that I'm gonna be making but I've
got some bubble which is kind of fun and
I've got the purple and I've got the
green what would you like I think I'd
like to use the bubble and I also had the
yellow okay and the purple so you want to
use the bubble yeah okay so we're going
to give you four and a half inches of
bubble so let's just move this stuff
off to the side here move our notes ok
we're going to take four and a half
inches you know what's great about this
this is four inches right there no need
to measure so we're gonna go for
four cubes exactly four cubes and then
right down there is a half okay so would
you like to cut that with the x-acto knife
right now you get that and then what
other color would you like to use you
want to use yellow purple green
purple okay you got it this one's
already set and ready to go for you
great okay so here's what we're going to
do take the purple one oh no I'm not
good at this don't panic so
I promise it'll be okay
I promise okay okay so we're going to
take this one okay and we're just going
to lay it right on top like that so go
ahead and smooth that down great so see
that wasn't so hard was it no no now
which do you want to be on the outside you
want the bubble on the outside or
the purple I want the
bubble okay so fold that edge down
please great so you end up with kind
of like a little line across the top
and then look at this on
this side we have sticky right okay
you get it? I'm just going to cut
these little edges off because we don't
need these okay and I'll let you cut the
other edge off right over there so what
we're going to do Frankie is just take
the we're just going to take
the scissors that we have right here and
you're going to start cutting from the
purple side so the side that doesn't have the sticky you're just going to start
cutting little fringe and I like to make
this you know pretty thin but it's up to
you you know you don't have to make it
thin and I often find that it's easier to
turn it over so you can see where that
edges where that sticky edge is and then
you just kind of cut down until you're
almost there but not all the way I'm
gonna let you take over that okay and
while she does that I'm going to get at
pen now here's the deal with the pen
they could be any kind of ball point pen
it could be a pencil it can be whatever
you want to use it's not a big deal
whatever you want to make fancy is what
you are going to use now while she's
doing that I'm going to do a little prep
work ahead of time here because one of
the things that we're also going to need
to do put a few little strips of tape
underneath to finish it off and so I'm
just cutting a few little 1/2" pieces
of tape the Frankie can you use when she
wants to finish it off so these are set
and ready and then I think did we use
purple there Frankie yeah okay
alright let's see maybe we'll use a
little bit of yellow here since we don't
have the purple purple going to give you
one or two strips of that if that's okay
mm-hmm so how's that cutting going good
hey excellent so now once she's done
with that what we're going to do is take
our pen and we're just basically going
to wrap it around just get very very
very very very very poufy when we do
because she's got long she's almost
there excellent you're doing nice little
cuts thank you like that so it ends up
looking like a giant eyelash really is
what it ends up looking like that's a
very very big i although let me just
tell you you would not want to put this
on your own eyelashes because it would stick
and trust me I know from experience
ok so you don't want to know ok so I'm
gonna take the sticky edge right and I'm just
going to lay it right here now see how
we've got the non sticky and sticky
line up the non-sticky with the top of
the pen and then put the sticky on the
pen body so I'm going to give you that and you
take over and then Frankie you're just
going to wrap it around straight around
and she's just going to wrap it around
and around and around it's making a
tassel what's great about this is
that if you have like the end of the
roll where it has cardboard on it you
can still do this with cardboard all you
have to do if you pull that off cut
about four and a half inches add a
little tiny strip of duct tape on the
bottom so you have your sticky strip
then cut your end of the roll that has the
paper on the back of it into a tassel
and you can still do the same thing
there you go you're doing
great actually you know what as
you're doing that i think i'm gonna give
you green because we're going to win a
little green to go around that too
match your book i'm just realizing yes
excellent so now she's finished it off
there and i'm going to give her a little
strip of tape this is basically half
inch by two inches because the duct
tape is two inches and she's just gonna
wrap around that's it just wrap
that around the bottom there you want
another piece, sure
and then if you want we can add a
little bit of your blue in there too if
you like your bubbles aren't those bubbles
fun that bubble tape fun. I love it
I wish that you know this is the only
thing with dollar tree cuz this is
dollar tree tape they only put it out
for a really really short period of time so
when you see it you're like grab it
because otherwise you're you're never
going to find it again there
you have it that is your pen and now you
put that with your fabulous diary here
glam it up and you are all set for
keeping your super secret secret secret
for more fun ideas come and check
us out at sophie-world.com