Lollies

UPDATE 3/17/10

Here are a couple of new lollies. The top one I made for my wall I used book pages and a doily, the flowers and the banner are made from a brown paper bag. I made one for the Ruffle Your Stuff contest. I think the pleats in the accordion folded lolly and the ruffly flower in the center, both made from dictionary pages, count as ruffles. I think my favorite one so far is one I made for my niece in the hospital. It was pink, orange, and yellow, it turned out super cute! I made a lolly, flower and banner with her name using pages from an old hymnal and sprayed them with the springy colors. DARN IT I took it to the hospital without taking a picture.

ORIGINAL POSTING
I have been having lots of fun making Lollies. I have made them from old sheet music, pages from an old dictionary, or any old book, printer paper, and scrapbook paper. I use 3 sheets of paper. Fan fold each sheet so you have a strip of folded paper, then fold that in half  (looks like a "V") and glue together at center of  fold. Glue all 3 together to make the circle. You can use them on banners or garland or attach them to cards. I like to attach them to a dowel and put them in a vase or bottle.

Here are some I made with some inspirational words from a PDF file that Tiffany Windsor from Inspired at Home sent to me. I had my girls pick out their favorite word and made them for their bedrooms. I layered them with some cut outs, glitter and doilies, then embellished them with ribbons, pearls and bling.

This is one I made for a friend's birthday, instead of a card. The fan folded part is pages from an old paperback sprayed with blue shimmer spray. I also sprayed the doily, tag, and cupcake paper flower with pink and purple shimmer spray.