Hiya guys! Hope you’ve all had a good Sunday!
This week, I had intended to do a
post about making loads of DIY baubles and decorating my Christmas tree with
them. However, I’ve been pretty busy with
work and didn’t really have enough time to do this L
Instead, my post is a short one about
ideas for making your own Christmas baubles, and at the end I’ll have photos of
my tree!
Let’s begin…
Christmas bauble #1
This is a really easy bauble to make,
although it’s a bit messy - but quite cool once it dries.
What I used:
Medium polystyrene ball (less than £1
from an art store)
Torn up newspaper text
Glue
What I did:
1) Basically I just covered the ball with
glue and newspaper scraps, then covered it with more glue…sort of like paper
mache.
2) I then left it to dry!
You can decorate your bauble more if
you like – glitter, gold/silver pen, gems – whatever goes with the style/colour
scheme of your Christmas tree. Bauble
hooks, ribbon or string can also be attached to it so that you can hang it on your
tree!
Idea: Half a dozen of these could be
put into a large bowl for a table centre piece.
Christmas bauble #2
Like the first, this bauble is not
that hard to make.
What I used:
Large clear plastic ball, opens up
(less than £2 from a haberdashery store)
Card
Craft Punch, flower design
Glue
Glitter, red
What I did:
1) First of all, using the craft punch,
I cut out nearly a hundred wee bits of card - crazy amount for one ball!
2) I covered the inside of one half of
the ball with glue and stuck the little card designs down, with some space
between for the glitter to be seen.
3) I did the same for the other half.
4) Once all the card was stuck down, I
covered the inside of both halves with more glue, then poured on the glitter. I then put the two halves together then shook the
ball so the glitter would stick to the glue.
5) Once both halves were dry, I glued them
together, to finish the Christmas bauble.
Again, bauble hooks, ribbon or string
can be attached to the bauble, if you want.
You can be totally crafty, decorate and
make DIY baubles any way you like - using permanent markers, glitter glue or
old nail polish...anything! This is
where you can have fun, designing!
I really do like the idea of making my
own DIY baubles but, in the end, I just used decorations we had from last year.
The gold and silver colour scheme never
goes out of style!
So I will end my post with my gold
and silver decorated tree!
I’ll catch you all next week, with
another Sunday post! Enjoy the week
ahead…until next time!
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