Victoria Day is right around the corner and I don't know about you, but one of the first things I associate with this long weekend is fireworks. Despite having taking a full day course in pyrotechnics safety back in college, I am definitely not one to set fireworks off myself. Last week though I saw some party poppers at the grocery store and thought they'd be good compromise. (I still plan on watching neighbours' fireworks from my window though!)
Supplies:
Party poppers, craft paper, metallic fringe, transparent contact paper, pencil, ruler, scissors, glue gun.
Instructions:
- Peel the labels off of the poppers. Try to keep at least one label intact.
- Using a label as a guide, cut your craft paper into rectangles of the same size. Since my party poppers were purple, I went along with the royal theme in honour of Queen Victoria and used purple paper to match.
- For each purple rectangle, cut a slightly bigger rectangle of transparent contact paper - this way you don't have to worry about lining it up exactly right later.
- If you don't have gold confetti on hand, cut up gold mylar. I used some gold fringe I had leftover from another project.
- To prevent wrinkles later, pre-curl the purple rectangles using the popper as a guide.
- Peel the backing off of the contact paper and set it on your work surface sticky side up. Sprinkle your confetti over it.
- Place the purple rectangle onto the contact paper, smoothing the two layers together.
- Trim off the excess contact paper and repeat for the rest of the labels.
- Put a thin line of hot glue down one side of the popper and attach one edge of the label.
- Put another line of hot glue on remaining end of the label and wrap it around the popper, pressing to adhere.
- Repeat for all remaining poppers.
Poppers seem to come in lots of colours, but if you don't like the colours available you could always give them a coat of spray paint before attaching new labels.
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