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Christmas Baubles

Well it has been a wet day here in Dunedin so today I made some of these Christmas Baubles.  

                

I am entering these into the Ribbon Girl's Children's Christmas Craft Challenge.

You can click here to enter it yourself.

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Christmas Baubles Tutorial

 

You need old Christmas cards or  a good quality patterned paper otherwise the baubles will be too flimsy and difficult to construct.

Then you need a circle punch, die or a circular object to draw around the circles, some PVA glue or a glue stick and a scoring board/bone folder.

1.  Punch or die cut 21 circles for each bauble.  We have used the Spellbinders 2 ½ inch die for the large ones and a 2 inch die for the smaller baubles.

2.  Take one of the circles and draw an equilateral triangle on the reverse and cut it out.  Use this triangle as a template for marking the score lines on each circle.

3.  Take the template and lightly mark with a pencil the 3 points of the triangle on the reverse of each punched circle.

4.  Use these pencil marks as a guide to score a triangle on each circle.

5.  Join 5 triangles together for the top and bottom.  We used a glue stick, but you could use wet glue and then line up each edge. 

6.  Join 10 triangles together to form a strip for the centre section.  Join the ends of this strip together, forming a ring.

7.  Now join the top and bottom to the centre ring to complete the bauble.

8. Create a hanger by punching a small hole in one of the edges and thread with ribbon.