DIY Christmas baubles!
I don’t need an excuse for crafting…but Christmas is a pretty good one!
Hand-making your decorations is fun, a great way of using up craft materials from your stash and gives you something special to hang every year…handmade is always best!
Today’s DIY is a great one to do with kids as it involves lots of sticking and a wild imagination!
I had some styrene balls in my stash (you can buy them at any large craft shop). I wanted to create a modern bauble with brown paper and gold glitter to match my other tree decs, so here’s what I did…
I gathered together the craft materials I thought I might need:
Styrene ball
Mod Podge (or a mixture of PVA and water would work too)
Brown paper
I also ended up using my glue gun and some bakers twine
Tear the brown paper into small strips/ pieces and start covering the ball with mod podge and the brown paper. I only did one layer and just made sure there were no gaps. I covered it all in plenty of glue smoothing it down with my fingers as I went (which also means you get to peel the dired glue off your fingers later -ha!)
Make sure you stick a big pin in the bauble so you have something to hold onto and somewehere to prop it up to let it dry…I ended up popping mine into a cotton reel after much faffing!
Leave to dry for a good few hours or overnight if possible
Once it’s dried you can start decorating it. Dipping it in glitter would be lovely, but I wanted to use some of the fabulous velvet glitter ribbon from the shop!
I used a glue gun to stick it down as I’m fairly impatient and like quick results!
Continue sticking the ribbon all round the bauble until you are happy. I used a simple criss cross design, but you could wrap lots of differnt ribbons around the middle for a jazzy bauble!
I then decided to keep things simple with some bakers twine for the hanging loop. I glued this to the top and et voila!
I think this looks pretty effective and definitely matches my other Christmas decorations! Let us know if you give this a go and tag us #scsblog
Happy festive season!
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