St.Patty's Day Bow

Ohh This bow is too cute and simple. St. Patty’s Day is one of my favorite holidays or celebration. We get all dressed up in green and the family and I hit the parade. The past couple years we have been very lucky to have nice enough weather to BBQ in the back yard, hang out with family and friends. It is like an opening day ceremony for Spring J

I am not sure how many times I have plans to make my daughters shirt, pants or anything to stand out in the crowd of other overly green fans.

So this year I promised to make a cute but not “babyish” bow. She is 6 and thinks the Boutique bows are only for babies. Girls!haha.

Let’s get started!

You will need 1/4” or 3/8” grosgrain ribbon

You can use 1 or 2 colors

Hot glue

Barrette, alligator clip

Embellishment (Optional)

Scissors (Not Pictures OOPS)

I choose green and gold for my colors.

Craft Board, Not so pretty :)

1.      Cut 6 – 3” strips for the outside clover

            And 6 – 2” strips for the inside clover

2.      Take 2 – 3” strips and put a small drop of hot glue on top, then lay the second strip right on top.

3.      For the bottom I shaped the 2 ribbons to look like a heart the put a small drop of hot glue on the other and placed the ribbon at an angle.

This is so one end of the clover lays flat

Repeat with the remaining 4 strips AND the 2” strips

(Took me about 5 minutes)

Easy so far!?!

Should Look Like This

4.      Now put a dap of glue on the flat corner of the 3” clover and lay the 2” on top to attach.

I choose to put the smaller clover in front, you can do either way.

Clean up the glue strings

5.      Here comes the tricky part, but once you get it, it will be easy J

 Put an extra small dap of glue in the corners of the flat area, THEN Take the top of the 2” strips, bring it down and hold. This will give the ribbon a HEART Shape.

 Can you see the glue?

6.      Again you are going to put an extra small drop of hot glue in the center top of the 2” heart.

 Grap the center point of the 3” and slide it all the way down and into the 2” heart.

Just a note: I put the drop of glue on the back side and slide the green ribbon down the center of the yellow heart until it couldn't go any further.

7.      Clean up any hot glue strings flying around and you have one part of your clover!

      8.      Do this 2 more times
      9.      Now look at your pieces and see which order you want them to lay.

A small dot of glue on the flat areas of the clovers and attached.

 10.  Cover your clip, attach clover to clip and add embellishment !!!

Looking there your own Boutique Clover!

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