Saturday 21 November 2015

Three New Christmas Placemats - Print and Colour-in..!

Christmas Placemat
Keep everyone busy, in the run up to the Festive Season - Three new printable Christmas Placemats, for you and your groups and families to colour-in, ready for your Christmas Dinner table...

Here is the link ...   Three Christmas Placemats

Also - why not make this little felt Christmas stocking - fill it with candy and hang it on your tree...!


Tutorial - Felt Christmas Stocking Decoration







Friday 20 November 2015

Easy 3D Tissue Flowers in a Vase - Tutorial and template

3D tissue flowers in vase

So easy to make these 3D Tissue Flowers - we put them in a vase and mounted them onto black card...! 

These tissue flowers can also be made to decorate greeting cards - just make them smaller to fit your card.

What you will need...

Tissue paper

Stems - we used wooden coffee stick-stirrers but you can use string, paper strips etc

Print-out of template for vase

A4 sheet black card

Strip coloured paper for "table cloth"

Double sided sticky pads

Glue stick

Stapler

Stickers and bows (optional)

How to make them...

Cut out one vase template (there are two on each print-out) crease down lines on sides and bottom.


Turn it over and colour-in your vase front.


Then on the coloured side - Apply glue to the tabs - bottom and sides..


Attach the bottom tab to your black card and then ...



folding your glued tabs inwards, attach you vase to the black card. Push the tabs inwards so the vase is 3D and not flat.


Fold your tissue paper so you have about 20 layers of tissue (approx 9cms square) and staple twice in centre as per picture below.


Cut into a circle (no need to measure - doesn't matter if a bit wobbly!) and then cut into edges about 1cm (as below)


Then, one layer at a time, separate the tissue layers and pinch up into the centre.


Place your stems in the vase (fix in place with a piece of double-sided adhesive pad) and then attach your flowers - also using double-sided adhesive pads.

Finish with a strip of coloured paper across the bottom "table cloth" and we added a few butterfly stickers...


These 3D Tissue Flowers can also be used on greeting cards - make them any size you want...!


Tuesday 10 November 2015

Paper Lanterns - Tutorial...!


I'm sure most of you have made these Paper Lanterns at some time in your life - either as a child or with your own children - but in case you need a brush-up here is a good tutorial...

First Pallette

Diwali - an ancient Hindu festival, known as "The Festival of Lights" is celebrated this week and these lanterns are also great for Christmas decorations too...

We used thin card for the Lanterns and decorated them with glitter, stickers, ribbon, lace and shiny confetti, but you can use anything you have, that will enhance these colourful Lanterns.
 


Enjoy making your lanterns....!