How to Make an Adorable Two-Sided Door Swag

An adorable two-sided door swag provides a festive look for both the inside and outside of a home – especially one that’s decorated with beautiful Bowdabra bows!

The key to a beautiful inside-outside door decoration is a balanced swag bow design that looks identical from both the front and back of the door.  A door swag that is fully visible from both sides of a door ensures a uniform, decorative bow arrangement for anyone entering or leaving the home.

Materials:

• 5″ wide velvet wired ribbon – 50yd roll
• White pine sprays, berry & pinecone picks, gold frosted berry picks, berry & pinecone sprays
• Hot glue gun/glue sticks
• Bowdabra/wand
• Bowdabra bow wire

How To:

Begin by cutting a 72″ length of velvet wire ribbon. Fold the ribbon evenly and loosely lay the ribbon on the work surface.

Glue on the white pine sprays 6 inches from the bottom of the ribbon on both ends.

Then begin gluing on picks -first, the gold frosted berries & pinecone picks .  .  .

then the red berries pick.  .  .

one on each side.

Make sure the arrangements look the same on each ribbon tail.

Time to make the Bowdabra Bows!

Cut an 18″ piece of Bowdabra wire, fold together, and place in the Bowdabra, tucking the ends under. Then cut a 28″ piece of 5″ wide ribbon. Crease in the center and place it down into the Bowdabra for the bow tails.

Next, leave the ribbon on the roll. Crease about an inch from the end of the ribbon and insert down into the Bowdabra.

Since the velvet is on one side of this ribbon, fold a 7” loop, crease, and twist the center of the ribbon down into the Bowdabra.

Fold and twist ribbon to make a matching loop on the opposite side, down into the Bowdabra. Hold loops up along the Bowdabra tower to make sure the loops are equal in size.

Then make one additional 7” loop on either side for a total of four loops.

Use the Bowdabra Wand to scrunch all the loops down.

To finish the bow, make a button loop to cover the bow wire, cutting off excess ribbon.

 While the bow is still in the Bowdabra, thread the loose ends of the bow wire through the loop and pull tight while gently pulling the bow out.  Take the bow wire around to the back, tying the wire in two or three tight knots, cutting off excess bow wire.

Dovetail the ends of the ribbon by folding the ribbon together and cutting at an angle from the corner tip up to the fold.

     

Assembling the two-sided door swag:

Add hot glue to the center back of the bows and .  .  .

Attach the bows at the bottom of the picks. Add white pine sprays to cover the ribbon in between the bow tails.

How gorgeous is this!

On both sides of the door.

This two-sided door swag is such an adorable way to decorate for the season! For more of Bowdabra designer Gail’s amazing craft tutorials, please visit her blog at Purple Hues and me!