Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Christmas Decoration tutorial

Have had an extremely hectic past two weeks. My daughter's dance concert was on Saturday (Two 3 hour shows, and they danced in 46 dances between the two of them). I spent the week before sewing costumes for 10 dancers and had to pull a few all-nighters to get them done. Up early Saturday to do their hair and makeup, and get them to the Entertainment Centre by 9am. Then busy selling raffle tickets, & helping backstage for the first show. Phew....still exhausted thinking about it! I got to relax and watch the evening show, which was fantastic.

Haven't had a chance to do any scrapping til tonight, so here's what I came up with for my design team post. I saw something ages ago on the net, but can't remember where. (I'd love to give credit if anyone can help me out!) Found it..... the clever person is Liz (perspicacious.org) on Flickr. Mine is a little different using only five 'petals', and adding the flowers to the centre.

I made this using Graphic 45 Christmas Past paper, Spellbinders and Marianne Designs dies, plus a little bit of ribbon/cord, gold Stickles, and Kaisercraft pearls.

I cut five labels, and then used the four smaller dies as a guide to cut four < > shaped cuts. Hopefully this shows up on the photo. ( Make sure you don't cut through the centre.)

I curved the first < > shapes around a pencil and then glued them to each other, overlaping the point.


Bend the centre of each petal to glue it to the next. I used the Marianne Designs Poinsettia die to cut some flowers, I adhered these to the centre, and added some Stickles and a pearl. I hope the pictures make this easy to understand



19 comments:

  1. OMGosh Tina....this is awesome!!!!

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  2. WOW! Gorgeous project - I will have to pull out my dies and try this one!

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  3. WOW!! This is such a gorgeous project! Thanks for sharing the tutorial, too. :)

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  4. These are so pretty and look so difficult to make! Great job!

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  5. They are really easy, they only "look" difficult!

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  6. Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial, these are just gorgeous, I hope to try this.

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  7. Such a beautiful, unique ornament! It somehow manages to look delicate and sturdy, if that's possible. Great tutorial! You're a natural at them!

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  8. wow! Tina they are fantastic decorations...so creative and aptly decorative for our festive season...WTG Tina :)

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  9. Wow, these are stunning, thanks so much for the tutorial

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  10. Wow! This is beautiful!! And you've made it look so easy...guess I'll have to give it a go! Thanks for the great tutorial.

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  11. Must have a go at this....it looks fabulous, and so different! You have some lovely projects alogether.

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  12. That is gorgeous!!! I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing!

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  13. This is gorgeous girl, thanks for the mini tutorial. :)

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  14. This looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I will have to give this one a try

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  15. Thanks for sharing such a fantastic tutorial!

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  16. These are fantastic! I would love to make some of these!

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