I saw a pin of these paper chain a while back and I knew that I wanted to make them for something. Then the Garden Party Auction theme came up and I knew they would be perfect. I looked for some tutorials and there a few helpful ones but they never showed what each individual piece looked like. I took the above picture so you can see the kind of pieces I made. Everything is from 1.5x12" paper. The paper came from the left overs of the envelopes I made. The first one I made I stapled together, which was a mistake, it looked awful and I threw it away. After that, I hot glued them all. There are 5 strips of 1.5x11" paper that I glued end to end which was the base that all the pieces are glued to. There are 6 sets to each streamer.
I had originally made 7 streamers in August and thought that would be good. As the time came closer and I started finalizing how many of the streamers I would need I realized I would need 40 total. They were hung in groups of 5 from pvc pipes, so I needed to get going on the streamer making. I eventually used up a pack of printed paper that I've had for nearly 15 years plus all the extras from the envelopes. It was also a good thing I took that picture of how the pieces were made because I had forgotten how I did it when I started on them again a few months later.
Here's how the pieces look close up, and this is how they all came together the night of. I realized I don't have pictures of all 8 but they were all pretty. I used brown craft paper to back the flowers on top and a clamp at each end to attach them to the pvc pipe on top.
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