Heya everyone!! We are all ready for the Christmas season... well almost; I mean we have finished our shopping and wrapping and lots and lots of baking.... but our house is not yet ready for the season, and seeing as we are busy every weekend with parties and visits we need to get our sparkle on!! This tutorial will be a two in one because I have been leaving you hanging for so long!!
Well here we go!!
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| Snowflakes and Sparkles |
Lets get started with the sparkle, I was too excited to get started so I don't have a picture of the supplies but here is the list!!
What you need:
A circle Cutter
Festive paper or glitter paper
Scissors
Glue
Hot Glue Gun
Ribbon
Now I used three different colours of glitter paper and cut out circles using one page of each. Once you have all of your circles cut out and ready to go use you glue to paste together the non glitter sides of the pages. ( if you have double sided glitter pages you are good to go!!)
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| Your Circles are ready to go! |
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| Cut each one in half |
This is the interesting part! Take your halves and alternating colours you will use the glue gun to alternate the sides. It will look like an accordion once you are done! If you have any questions about this please let me know!!!
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| Accordion look alike |
Final Step for your sparkle balls! attach the open sides to one another and it will looks like this! once your ball is all done you will add the ribbon to hang it from the roof :).
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| Voila it's Perfect! |
I had a lot of extra sparkle circles left over so I attached them to curled ribbon and I hung them from the ceiling :)
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| Small Festive additions :) |
Go Get your Sparkle on!! Let me know how it looks and feel free to use bigger circles or even different shapes for the ball!! Let your creativity reign free!!
Tutorial Number 2!!! SNOWFLAKES!!
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| Sparkle and snow!! |
So we still do not have any snow on the ground here... it is starting to look like a green Christmas. That is why I have hung some snowflakes around the house to make it seem a little more festive!! If you love snow as well and are missing it, join right on in and sprinkle the snowflakes around the house!!
The only supplies you need are a pencil, some, paper and scissors!! ( I used some scrapbook paper so one side is white and the other is coloured for a little extra something!)
This is how we fold the snowflake before the design! I used an 8.5 x 10 pieces of paper, fold one edge over and use your scissors to trip of the coloured tail so that you have a full square.
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| Corner to edge and then trim |
Fold the Square from corner to corner
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| Into a nice triangle |
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| Fold that triangle in half |
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| Fold the small triangle into thirds, as shown here and below! |
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| Now you trim the tips |
Trimming the tips allows you the smooth edge so that you can begin your decorating! Get your pencils and scissors out and ready to go! Listed below are a few of the decorations that I used an there are so many many more designs on pinterest, just give it a browse!!
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| I forgot the design for this one! |
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| Design 1 |
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| Snowflake 1 |
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| Design 2 |
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| Snowflake 2 |
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| Design 3 |
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| Snowflake 3 |
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| Design 4 |
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| Snowflake 4 |
Let is snow Let is snow Let it snow!!!
Have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and I hope that you are well on your way to finishing your decorating and your shopping and that you have many events planned to be with friends and family this holiday season!!
The next post will be about a quilt I made last year! It is a rag quit and it was so awesome to make and I am excited to share it with you so stay tuned!!
-Happy Crafting-
-xo-
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