How to Make Wine Corsets

Make personalized wine corsets to cosset your hosts and hostesses this holiday season.

Don’t be put off by my use of the very dated word “cosset”. I had to look it up myself. It means to treat with indulgence or to pamper. I recalled the word and thought it had an appropriate connotation, but couldn’t remember exactly what it meant. Either I’m getting old or the language is changing. Or both!

Here are directions and tips for making your own wine corsets. Mine are done digitally but you could also do them using rub-on letters and word art … or even do your own calligraphy. If you’re doing yours without benefit of computer, just skip the irrelevant parts.

Materials and Tools:

• Glossy photo paper – an 8 ½ by 11” sheet makes two corsets;
• Digital graphic software like Adobe Photoshop;
• Holiday word art and other graphic designs – have fun shopping at Scrap Girls and downloading your purchases for immediate use;
• 34 to 48” of ribbon for each corset;
• Hole punch;
• Self-stick reinforcements for the holes;
• Scissors;
• Fray block if your ribbon ends tend to fray;
• Bottle of wine for each corset :-)

For the rest of this series, see:
Intro to Wine Corsets;
Wine Corset Product Development; and
Step-by-Step Directions for Wine Corsets.

Tags: digital graphics, Scrap Girls, wine corsets, Photoshop, ribbon crafts, Christmas crafts, craft supplies