Paper Tassels for your Projects

Hi Crafters

Today I am talking about making paper tassels.
This is a great way of decorating your projects and using up your stash of paper pieces and oddments of beads and embellishments.

This is not my own design I found several tutorials on YouTube and the one I worked from was Quick and Easy tassels from Nina Ribena, mainly as I was trying it out and quick and easy sounded the best way forward. 

Having looked at other tutorials they are all made in the same basic way with slight adjustments to the way the decoration is added. If you are a beader this part will pose no problem for you but if like me you have done little or no beading you will need to follow the process for the beads to be added during the making of the tassel.

The great thing about making these is they use up your scraps of paper, and if you  have them filed in an orderly manner then you need to go to your stash of papers that are 8.5" by about 3-3.5". It also todies up your odd beads and decorations 
You do not neeed exact measurements, but make the paper tidy and mark/score the paper about 1-2 cm from the top, depending on your width of paper.

Cut narrow strips along the length of the paper cutting up to the scored line.
Cut out the last inch or so so you have a little piece at the top ready to start rolling up.
Place your cord or wire horizontally over the top line at the end you have cut the bottom away, and roll the paper as tight as you can around the wire glueing ever inch as you go. Place a peg over the rolled tassel to hold it while the glue sets. 
Add your beads to the top over the wire and bend the wire around to form a loop, I recommend you follow the video for this as I used cord for mine as I had no wire handy. 

You can now decorate the top folded part of the tassel.

 I have made one or two thread tassels before but these are my first paper tasssels, and I am very pleased with the results. Like all new crafts there are areas to be improved, but I would happily use any of the tassels made so far to decorate my journals or memory books I make. 

So why not check out the tutorials and have a go yourself. If you like what you see here please click on the follow button at the top of the page,   comment and share your makes, I would love to see your version of any of the makes on my blog.
Dee