Handcrafted Christmas: Old paper bunting

I buy alot of books just for their illustrations and my poor bookshelves sigh each time I bring a new one home. I've wanted to show off the pages of this old 1950's Daily Mail Christmas Annual since I bought for 20p at a jumble sale a year ago, so some bunting seemed like a good idea.

To start with- cover your ears book-lovers- I tore out pages of the annual with the illustrations I liked the best. This ended up being nearly every page, over fifty in total.

Next, cut out the triangle shape. I can be as big as you like. I cut out one that I liked the shape and size of and then used this as a template for the rest. You need to remember to leave a good centimetre at the top that can be folded over, so cute out a slight longer triangle than you need.

The good thing with paper bunting is that you can cut out more than one triangle at once to save time.


As you can see, I ended up with alot of triangles! I picked 14 or 15 of my favourite to use for this bunting and I've saved the rest for some wedding bunting.

I used plain string and, one by one, folded over the top of each triangle, lay the string under the flap and sellotaped the flap down.





Et voila! Later on, I also added some sticky-back silver glitter letters to spell out Happy Christmas but they are too fiddly to snap, so try and imagine them until I get a photograph! You could use anything for this, even simple newspaper or wrapping paper. It's possibly the cheapest Christmas decoration I've ever made!

Are you making any of your decorations this year? Or, on top of everything else, is it just too much to ask?