I'm not looking to sell these or market them I promise, because I'm just making these for myself. But I know some out there may have some helpful tips on how I could improve to make them prettier for my Lolli. I didn't know what other category to put this in.
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On some of the bows I was attempting to make that 'smushed in' look on the bow, but I couldn't find any tutorials on anything like that on google. I just took some thread and hot glue and wrapped it around the middle of the ribbon, but it's not coming out how I like. Anyone have any tips on how I could obtain that? The ones I'm talking about are the very left one and the top pink one in the following photo. They look ok in the photo but up close they are not that neat looking they look messy. But also the look that this does is 'too' smushed. But if I lessened the hold the thread had it didn't look right.
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I started doing this because I can't afford to purchase other bows that I like for $5 a piece or such. I found a bunch of ribbon and beads and things I had from doing other crafts so I didn't have to spend any money to make these.