Making christmas decorations?

zanuda

MarliesMommyxx wrote: »

When I was a child we used to buy the polystyrene balls...

That remind me when I was a child, we had to bring to school hollow eggshell (when you make to holes on opposite sites and kind of blow the egg out, egg you usually use for some cooking) and we decorated it at craft classes. Really money saving tip J. Now you don’t have to trouble yourself with empting the egg, you could buy polystyrene balls. On the other hand as a child I really appreciate the idea of making staff from total easily available materials.

Chris25

Chris25

can't edit the post above to include details???

anyway, I think they would be quite speedy to make, if you didn't like the look of the wire ones, the pipecleaner ones would be simple to do

http://www.craftpassion.com/2009/12/tutorial-wind-a-star.html

CT19720

I'm going to attempt to make one of these over the next few weeks.

I saw the idea last year, and managed to pick up 2 boxes of 50 baubles in the 75% off sale in Wilkinson in January for £4.00, so very MSE and hopefully it will last years.

I'd also like to try to make this as well, but need to source a cheapish shadow box, and some bells at a reasonable price.

building_with_lego

Ikea do 25cm box frames for around £9. I usually pick up a couple when I'm there as they're lovely for just that kind of thing- I made a button heart picture for my mum's birthday and will be making a cotton reel one soon and may just stretch to a jungle bell Christmas frame! Thanks for the inspiration

jessimacalucy87

not the greatest photo but just wanted to share my first run of the paper stars, you can only slightly see but its flecked with bronze paint. looks pretty amazing in reality, thanks for the tip

Chris25

CT19720 wrote: »

I'm going to attempt to make one of these over the next few weeks.

I saw the idea last year, and managed to pick up 2 boxes of 50 baubles in the 75% off sale in Wilkinson in January for £4.00, so very MSE and hopefully it will last years.

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Yes, it should do, I've made a few of these & I can't emphasize enough, how important it is to make sure you glue the tops onto the baubles before you start .
I used about 85-90 for each one. threading them onto the hangers & then hot-glued some smaller baubles in place when I'd finished my circle.

Last year, when I got the wreaths out of storage, I discovered that some of the glued smaller baubles had fallen off but I just re-glued them back on

I've just had a look at one in the loft & some baubles have fallen off again, perhaps because of the range of temperatures up there. Anyway, they'll just be glued again

MrsTinks

LOL yep definitely glue the tops on... I made one last year and thought "PAH! What nonsense... " DOH - I'm going to make another this year and I can promise you it'll have the tops glued on first (hot glue gun is the best...) The baubles will ping off if you don't glue them and trying to squeeze them back on in a tight space that probably isn't actually big enough is just going to ping one off somewhere else LOL

Tete_en_l'Air

Last year I made a few simple pom-poms and hung them from the tree. Also a rag wreath is easy to make - you just need the metal circle 'base' and some 1"x5" strips of fabric in whatever colours you like, and just knot them all on - looks very effective

dory22

just found this its absolutely brilliant i am going to try it myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uenLzSlaW-o&feature=related