Diy Vino Cork Arrows

Januari 20, 2014

Make some Cupid's Arrows out of upcycled vino corks for your valentine! No, these are non for hunting! Decorative role only.

Tutorial later on the jump.

Ready to upcycle some vino corks? This is bully for people (like me!) who jibe onto their vino corks but never look to accumulate plenty to brand a cork wreath.

The sentiment to brand arrowheads out of corks came to me spell watching "Her". I had to hold back impatiently for the moving-picture exhibit to last over thence I could become domicile together with craft! Pure torture.

Lovely movie, though.

You volition take (per arrow):

Wine cork - Only corks that hold back similar they're made of dense foam, non existent cork. Real cork was way also difficult to cut!

Craft knife

Scissors

Cutting board

Thin arts and crafts stick - I used diffuser reeds from Walmart, $3 for fifteen reeds

Glue gun

3/4" thick ribbon - iii or 4 inches

**Another create equally I say, non equally I do! In the pictures, I showtime slicing from the corkscrew-pierced cease of the cork. Please showtime from the other cease - the non-holey end! The corkscrew hole tin thence last used for attaching the stick to the arrowhead.

***Please last super careful spell you're cutting! Some corks are definitely easier to locomote amongst than others thence if a cork is giving y'all trouble, but deed on to a unlike one.

1 together with 2. Find a cork, sudden knife together with cutting board.

3. From the locomote past times of the cork, piece downwards at a slant.

4. Slice at a slant from the contrary side.

5. Keep slicing but about the cork, making a betoken from the locomote past times of the cork. Once you've removed the large slices, y'all tin role the pair of scissors to complete sharpening the point.

6. It'll hold back kinda similar this.

7. Push the tip of the knife into the arrowhead's base.

8. Get the stick. Add a chip of gum to the end. Put the stick into the hole at the arrow's base. Cut stick to desired length.

9. Cut off iii or iv inches of ribbon. Make a crease halfway downwards the ribbon.

10. Cover the cease of the stick inward glue. Sandwich the cease of the stick inward ribbon. Press the ribbon but about the stick.

11. Make piddling slanted snips inward the ribbon. Run your fingers along the snips. This volition plumage the ribbon.

12. Make some more!

13. Add paint, if desired.