By Noreen Doll.
This easy paperclip angel ornament is so quick to make, you can make a dozen or two in an hour.
It makes a perfect small gift for teachers, co-workers, neighbors, and others to whom you would like to give a little something.
You can find butterfly paperclips at Walmart or an office supply store.
I found the 12mm pink round plastic pearl beads at Hobby Lobby for 99 cents for 16.
What You Need
12mm Pink Round Pearl Bead
Butterfly Paperclip
1/8 Inch Wide Ribbon
What You Do
1. Choose a bead, and use an ice pick or other sharp object to clean out the hole so you can push the ribbon through it. Don’t try to enlarge the hole, just clean it out.
2. Cut a piece of 1/8 inch wide ribbon 11 inches long. Cut the ends on a diagonal.
You may need a piece an inch or 2 longer when you are first starting out, to ease knot tying.
3. Slightly twist the ends of the ribbon to start threading it through the hole.
I used an opened paper clip to help push the ribbon through.
(Bobbie – from http://100akerwood.blogspot.com/ – offered this great tip: “Just a FYI ~ once you’ve cleared out the pearl’s hole, use a floss threader to guide the ribbon through…” Thank you so much, Bobbie!)
4. Make sure the ribbon ends are even.
5. Use the loop end to push through the paperclip as shown.
6. Make a lark’s head knot. Or pull the ends and bead through the loop and pull up snuggly against the top of the paperclip center.
7. Make another knot on top of the bead.
Pull both ends of the ribbon through a loop and pull this knot up snuggly against the top of the bead. You will have a knot on each side of the bead.
8. Make another knot near the ends of the ribbon. Trim the ends neatly on a diagonal.
Hang the easy paperclip angel ornament using the ribbon.
©Noreen Doll
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This would be fantastic for Christmas! I love simple crafts that look great. Pinned
Love it – will be sharing with my favorite organization – Angel On My Shoulder. Thanks
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Looking around I find this angel (and site). It is very easy for my students to do.
How very cute! I like that they’re so simple to make too. Thanks for sharing this. I’ve pinned it to my Christmas board.
This caught my eye over at DIY Home Sweet Home. Its the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. So creative. I’m pinning this so I can enJOY it later this year. I’ve got a lot of teacher friends that will like it as well.
How very clever, cute and simply elegant. What more can I say! So glad you shared your creative inspiration at Sunday’s Best!
Very cute bookmark!! My Mom loves angels.. I should make one for her
Thank you for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
This is so cute, easy, and fun. Thanks so much for sharing at our Handmade Tuesdays party!
WOW, LOVE these!! The look super easy to make too!
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Just a FYI ~ once you’ve cleared out the pearl’s hole, use a floss threader to guide the ribbon through…
Great idea!
Very cute. Might be a good scout craft.
so very cute and easy enough that I may include these in the crafts to make
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This is so adorable! Thanks so much for sharing! These would be wonderful to make.
cute and clever! i would love for you to come link this up to my link party
{love} lauryn @ lovenotesbylauryn.blogspot.com
How cute! My grandma would love these {she loves angels}, I might have to make her a few. My to-do list just got longer! I’d love if you shared this {and anything else you’d like to share} at my Throwback Thursday party. Hope to see you there! Thanks for sharing
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So sweet and inexpensive. Thanks for sharing on beColorful.
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Cute! I will have to remember this at Christmas!
This is so adorable!! I will definitely make these this Christmas!
This is really cute. I’ll keep these in mind to attach to Christmas packages! <3
So cute!!! and I can´t believe how easy it is to make. Thanks for sharing how to make them. Such a great idea!
Ana BC
How cute! Great tutorial… thanks.
So very cute! Thank you for sharing this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Hope to see your prettiness again on Monday. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
These are super cute! Thanks so much for sharing at the Pinworthy Projects Party!
so cute-pinning!
What a simple, yet great idea! Thank you for posting on Saturday Show and Tell. I can’t wait for what you’ll be posting this week, hope to see you back!
-Mackenzie
http://www.cheeriosandlattes.com
I’m so happy you shared these at my Throwback Thursday link party! These are just too pretty. I hope to see you again this week
Featuring YOU today! Thank you for linking up to {wow me} wednesday.
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This is such a great idea! Thanks for linking up this crafty post to Say G’Day Saturday. Hope you can join in again this weekend.
Best wishes,
Natasha in Oz
How cute! I love it! Thanks for sharing at our Pinteresting Party.
Clever idea! Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic craft project for my 10 and 12 year old grand children! Thank you!
I love this idea so much, I had to share it on my blog!
http://www.awhimsicalchristmas.com/2012/08/paperclip-angel-christmas-ornament.html
Thanks for the inspiration!
~Jonquil
http://www.awhimsicalchristmas.com/
We made some of these for a Christmas Bazaar at my church several years ago. We attached a cute poem for the “Office Angel,” and we sold a ton of them. I wish I still had the poem.
OMG, this is so cute. Who would have thought you could use paper clips and make them look so cute. I am going to copy.
thanks for the tutorials and tips, I teach kids from grade 1 to grade 5 children monthly craft, this will be a beautiful easy project that I can use in the church, thanks again.
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Great idea for my coworkers and not too time consuming or hard to do either. Thanks!
I used a large-eye needle to thread 1st one ribbon end, then the other. No problem making 20 in an hour. Just love them.
These are so simple and brilliant! They will make the perfect ornament for my cookie tins this year! I will be sure to link back to your blog if I decide to make them and blog about it
Thanks, Jessica, I can’t wait to see your cookie tins!
Noreen
Love these!!! I actually got this idea from a coworker and we made these when my girls were younger for their classmates. We used silver pony beads and white ribbon. The pony beads have a larger hole to put your ribbon through and for the kids to help.
Really nice! Perfect for my office’s Christmas tree
Pinned this one too
I love this! I want to make one!!
WHEN I TRY TO WIDEN THE HOLE THE BEAD STARTS CRACKING. I BOUGHT THE 12 MM PINK ROUND PEARL SO I MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
THANSK
Cute!! I might have to do this with scouts! Must pin!
What a great idea! So darling!! We would like to invite you to a blog hop! We are co-hosting with Adorned From Above. We would love to have you link up. The party is live and will run through Sunday. You can link up at thebusybhive.blogspot.com
Hope to see you there!
Thanks
Joye & Myrna
The Busy Bee’s
Saw you on Adorned from Above. Very cute ornament!
So nice. Thanks for linking them up to tip-toe thru tuesday.
This would be great on top of a present! Thank you so much for sharing this idea on Handmade Tuesdays @ Ladybug Blessings http://www.ladybug-blessings.com
I saw this linked up over at Miss Information and it reminded me that we are going to make these in girl scouts. Our meeting got cancelled due to weather, so we will be making them in January!
Simply marvelous!
Thank you for partying with the Wildly Original Crowd this year.
<3 Christina at I Gotta Create!
trés trés joli, merci de partager cela
Perfect! I’m going to make these for the chemo patients at our local hospital and contribute them them at our charity luncheons as table favors…everyone can use these! Thanks so much…
What a neat way to use them! Thank you for telling me about it. Noreen
Well I think I must have missed something because as adorable as these little angels look, I for the life of me can not figure out how to bend the paper clip correctly!
Can someone help this dumb ole Nana please> LOL
I suspect you are trying to bend a regular paperclip to make it look like the clips used for the angels. What you need to do is get some “butterfly clips” from Walmart or an office supply store. You don’t bend them – use them exactly as they come. Noreen
Thanks so much I will have to get me some of those!
many are playful, using angels in my jewelry are very inspiring !!!!
How on EARTH did you get the ribbon through the pearl bead holes? i’ve tried paper clips, flossers, you name it, and there is no way in heck it’s getting through there. I looked a hundreds of beads at Michaels and these were the only 12mm ones I could find so not like there are a lot of different beads to choose from. HELP!
It’s difficult for me to help you when I can’t see what bead you are using and exactly what you are doing. But I can offer a few suggestions.
Are you using real pearls? They have very tiny holes and would not work for this project. The beads I used are plastic. I was not trying to make the angels valuable or elegant, just a nice little gift easily made. And plastic beads are perfect for this.
Clean out the hole in the bead. My plastic beads had lots of plastic scrap in them that I reamed out before I used them. You can use an ice pick or small file, or whatever will fit in the hole.
Is your ribbon too wide? I used 1/8 inch wide ribbon – very narrow.
Use a threader. Cut a 6 inch length of very thin wire and fold it in the middle. Fold the ribbon in half over the fold in the wire. Put the ends of the wire through the bead hole and pull the ribbon on through with the wire.
Please let me know if you were able to solve the problem, and what the issue was. I might need to amend the tutorial. Good luck with your project! Noreen