DIY vintage inspired baubles

Last week I showed you the vintage Christmas tree decorations that I bought from Sunbury antiques market and on Sunday I showed you the gorgeous vintage Christmas tree decorations from Citrus and Orange and Loretoidas. Inspired by all these vintage baubles I decided to paint cheap plastic silver baubles with nail polish and dust them in vintage glitter to match my Vintage Christmas theme. I love how the polish gives them a worn look but still gives them a little shimmer and is a great way to use up old nail polish! I was also lucky enough to find some old metal glitter in my craft boxes which adds to their vintage look. If you can't find metal glitter try using a course glitter instead.

Here's how...


DIY vintage inspired baubles

Tools and Materials

• Plastic silver baubles
• Nail polish
• PVA glue
• Course silver glitter
• Small paint brush

DIY vintage inspired baubles, How-to step by step

• Wrap washi tape round bauble
• Paint nail polish on to unmasked sections
• Hang to dry
• Brush PVA glue on to areas you wish to glitter.
• Sprinkle liberally with glitter, tap to remove excess.
• Hang to dry

Have a sweet day!

Paper Rosettes

The lovely peeps at new craft store Mushi Makes also sent me Tildas star tissue paper in grey brown. So to match my Vintage Christmas theme I have started making paper rosettes in the pretty tissue paper. Some to hang on my white Christmas tree and some smaller ones as cake toppers!

Here's how...


Paper Rosettes

Tools and Materials

• Tilda tissue paper grey brown stars
• Tonic studios accent punch- stars
• Gold embroidery thread
• Double sided sticky tape

Paper Rosettes, How-to step by step

• Start by cutting out a rectangle 25cm x 12cm from one sheet of tissue paper
• Make 1cm wide accordion folds, creasing the paper carefully with each fold.
• Using the accent star punch, carefully punch a star from each end
• Using a pair of scissors round the end edges of the paper

• Repeats steps 1-4 with a second sheet of tissue, and fold in half
• Stack the two folded sheets of paper on top of each other ( making sure the fronts face the same way) and tie embroidery thread round centre
• Place a piece of double sided tape on one side
• Affix the thread so the ends stick out the top

• Fold the two halves together
• Repeat by placing a piece of double sided tape on one open side
• Fold the two halves together
• Repeat till the rosette is closed, tie loose ends of thread together

Have a sweet day!

Pretty paper baubles

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!

Beaded snowflakes

To match my Vintage Christmas theme in a colour palette of snowy white, pale rose, vintage pink, icy mint, faded aqua, mushroom and lots of glamorous gold. I have made a cluster of glamorous, shimmery, sparkly beaded snowflakes.
Here's how...


Beaded snowflakes

Tools and Materials

• Snowflake bead frame
• Jump rings
• Beads
• Ribbon
• Roundnose Pliers

Beaded snowflake, How-to step by step

• Simply thread beads on to the wire frame
• Using a pair of small roundnose pliers, loop the wire end towards the last bead
• Attach a jump loop to one of the wire looped ends

• Thread jump loop with ribbon, knot ends and trim

Have a sweet day!

Citrus and Orange's Vintage Christmas tree ornaments

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you some more gorgeous Vintage Christmas decorations, this time from Citrus and Orange. To see more of Susana's beautiful work check out her blog, Citrus and orange.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites:

• The pretty painted Vintage baubles in My favourite
• The glitter decorated baubles in Vintage ornaments on my collection
• The multi coloured pinecones in Ornaments display
• The floral painted bauble in Vintage teacups for Christmas decor

Have a sweet day!

Loretoidas Vintage Christmas

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you the gorgeous Vintage Christmas decoartions from Loretoidas. To see more of Loreta's gorgeous work check out her blog, All the Beautiful things by Loreta.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites:

• The beautiful coloured Vintage baubles in Vintage ♥
• The glitter topped pinecone in Vintage Christmas
• The ornate silver bauble in Merry Christmas!
• The delicate bauble in Silver Christmas

Have a sweet day!

Vintage inspired Christmas decorations

Earlier today I told you about the fab morning I spent at HomeSense. So this afternoon I wanted to show you all the lovely decorations I bought to fit in with my "Vintage Christmas".

I have been looking for really large baubles for a while now as I love the idea of hanging a few from our capiz chandelier above our dining table this Christmas. So imagine my joy when I discovered the beauties in the first photo! I can't wait to get them strung up.
I am planning on decorating the top of my radiator cover with my white Christmas tree candles I have had for a few years now so thought the edition of the shimmery pink tree candle in the second photo would fit perfectly.
I am undecided what I will do with the mini Christmas tree candles but I might use them as place settings?!?



Have a sweet day!