The lovely peeps at new craft store Mushi Makes sent me a Tildas "Winter memories" paper pack . A beautiful pad of 24 double sided sheets of 230gsm acid and lignin free paper in seven different patterns, three of each plus three cut-out sheets. So to match my Vintage Christmas theme I made a bunch of pretty paper baubles dusted with coarse white glitter to hang on my white Christmas tree.
Here's how...
Pretty paper baubles
Tools and Materials
- Circle cutter
- Winter Memories paper stack
- Gold embroidery thread
- Glue gun
- PVA glue
- Course white glitter
- Small paint brush
Pretty paper baubles, How-to step by step
- Using the paper-mate cutters smallest circle, with the blade on the inner line
- Cut out two circles of paper from each printed sheet, so you have nine circles
- Fold all the circles of paper in half
- Stack circles on top of each other, Wrap a lenth of thread all the way around the stack, so that it runs along the fold. Tie ends together at top of bauble to secure.
- Fold and unfold paper sections, so paper starts to fan out
- Using a hot glue gun, place a dab of glue about 1/3 of the way up the top of the bauble, on the outside edge. Fold the facing flaps together and press to secure the glue.
- On the next circle along, place a dab of glue about 1/3 of the way from the bottom.
- Continue this all the way around, alternating high and low glue dabs.
- Once you've glued all the adjacent flaps together, knot ends of embroidery thread together to create a hanging loop
- Paint a line of glue on all the outside edges of the bauble
- Sprinkle glued edges with glitter, lightly tap to remove any excess
- Hang to dry
Have a sweet day!
