Christmas Bauble Tutorial

 

This week's challenge at Inspiration Avenue is "Christmas baubles". I thought it would be good to do a submission and an easy tutorial in one!

So here's a little project to make a pretty bauble for your tree, which is easy enough to do with the kids on a rainy afternoon (you may want to use PVA glue to attach the flowers rather than pins, depending on their ages!)

You'll need -

A Styrofoam ball

A flower punch

Pretty paper - spare Christmas gift wrap is ideal

Paint in a colour to match your paper

Pins

Short length of ribbon for hanging

A cocktail stick

1. Paint your Styrofoam bauble in a colour to co-ordinate with your papers - I've used a rich gold. You don't need to be too fussy with the painting as most of it will be covered. You don't need special paints for this project either - even leftover emulsion would do the job!

2. Using the cocktail sick, make a hole in the top of the bauble, and fill this with a blob of PVA glue.

3. Make a loop with your ribbon, then push the loose ends into the hole, again using the cocktail stick.

3.Punch lots of little flowers from your festive papers - the more the merrier!

4. Using pins, push each flower into the Styrofoam ball, until it's completely covered.

5. Stand back and go "ta-da!" (optional)

You can see all this week's challenge submissions here