Making christmas decorations?

building_with_lego

Inspired by this thread I spent an hour this afternoon making this year's craft decs, from vintage ribbon wrapped around old wooden cotton reels, hung by gold thread and secured underneath with a vintage button. They will look exceedingly pretty on the trees of my family and friends (if we visit people at Xmas time we sometimes sneak a HM decoration onto their tree without them knowing ) and I've been meaning to do them for ages. Thank you for the kick up the pants!

Chris25

zepsgal wrote: »

Just read the instructions for this, amazing!

I could actually make these, just need a little time and a steady hand

by the time you've rattled off a few, you won't even need to look at what you're doing sometimes it's useful to use paperclips to hold the folds in place after glueing (sp?) if you've got glue that's taking it's time to stick.

don't forget you can also add glitter dots, stars, snowflakes, whatever to already bought plain baubles

qwiksave

There are also lots of christmas decoration ideas on the Hobbycraft website.

mummybearx

Hobbycraft, why didn't I think of that!!

Love these - http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/Pages/Ideas/Idea.aspx?id=1366

Next door have a crab apple tree so I can use some of them, and the woman at the end has red berries growing. Might look at doing them as tree decorations rather than napkin things.

:T

Deb_S_2

Last year I bought a load of cheap plain baubles and used glitter pens to put peoples names on them and make patterns.

They looked very pretty and I was able to pop some in peoples stockings so they can go on their own treees this year

jem1276

How about cloves studded oranges?

gingerbread men?

Salt dough?

Bunting from wrapping paper?

Paper chains?

:rudolf:

jem1276

Or felt is easy to sew/stick :j

goldenpony

Pinecone elves! Very cute and very easy to make.
Christmas themed bunting.
Decoupage some of the ready to go shapes you can buy at hobbycraft/online.
Felt lollipops - cut two circles of felt, a little strip of felt in a contrasting colour, sew onto the circle as the swirl, sew circles together, leave opening for a bit of dowelling, tie some ribbon to dowelling, place in a little glass jar/bottle.
Fill jars with festive coloured origami stars, there are lots of tutorials for them online.
Pipe cleaner candy canes gathered in a vase would look nice too.
Lollipop stick snowflakes, again tutorials online for these and plenty of paper snowflake patterns.

moneysavingmumofone

building_with_lego wrote: »

Inspired by this thread I spent an hour this afternoon making this year's craft decs, from vintage ribbon wrapped around old wooden cotton reels, hung by gold thread and secured underneath with a vintage button. They will look exceedingly pretty on the trees of my family and friends (if we visit people at Xmas time we sometimes sneak a HM decoration onto their tree without them knowing ) and I've been meaning to do them for ages. Thank you for the kick up the pants!

Hehe love this!

What about popcorn garlands? x

MarliesMommyxx

When I was a child we used to buy the polystyrene balls, get loads of multi colour sequins and pin them onto the balls through the hole in the middle of the sequin.
Looked really effective on the tree with the fairy lights... Like lots of mini disco balls :-)