This colourful tassel garland is a super easy way to whip up party decorations that both look amazing and don’t break the bank.

All you need is:

1. Whatever colour tissue paper you like (something that fits your theme). We went for pink, yellow, fuchsia and coral, but you can include foil, cellophane or anything else you like.
2. String or ribbon (we went for a silver ribbon from Kmart).
3. Scissors.
4. A glass of Veuve (sort of optional, but almost mandatory…)

First, you’ll need to cut the rectangles of tissue paper. You’ll be halving these after you’ve cut them so make sure that the length when halved is how long you want your tassel to be. We went for short tassels so did a total of 30 cm. Cut as many rectangles as you like out of your colours to make the length of garland you need to fit your space.

Next, you need to fold all of your tissue pieces in half. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to cut.

Keep the tissue rectangles in half and cut lines (about 1 cm wide) up to about an inch from the top fold. This will create a fringe, but leaves the top bit intact.

After you’ve cut all the tissue paper like this, you’ll need to unfold the rectangles so their back to their full length. Next you’ll need to roll them up (being careful not to rip the fringed tissue) so that you essentially end up with a cigar shape (ours was 30cm).

Once you’ve done this, you’re almost done! You just need to twist the bits that are not fringed so that they’re nice and tight and then cross them over each other (so you’re paper is in half again!) and you end up with a threadable loop at the top! You can leave them simply twisted (which works fine for tissue paper which holds nices) or you may need to use something to secure the loop if you’re using foil – the world’s your oyster, but I quite like washi tape for this as you can add some sparkle or pattern to your design).

Phew, nice one! Only all the rest of the tassels to go… Simply repeat the steps above and you’ll end up with lots of super cute tassels.

All that remains is for you to thread them on to your string or ribbon (in whatever order you like) to make your garland! You could mix them up or make an ombre one – whatever you like!

You can also use these tassels on so many other things – I used them on my Christmas wrapping this year and they went down an absolute treat!

Cheers to that!!

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