This is the fourth of a series of twelve paper ornaments I’m making this year, one a month so that when December rolls around, I won’t be surprised to discover I’ve done nothing about my wish to have a fully paper crafted Christmas Tree.
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When I thought up this idea of making an ornament a month so that I’d have twelve different types for my paper decorated tree, I really didn’t think I’d be crafting snowflakes at the craft table with snow falling outside in April.
But here we are 🙂
I’ve used this technique a couple of times before – it is super versatile. You just need a shape that is symmetrical, and then you cut several of them, fold them, and glue them to each other until the shape has as many sides as you wish. It’s visible in the clouds in this garland. And these cute cacti get their standup shape the same way.
To start off, pick a snowflake, any snowflake. Wait, not any snowflake. A SYMMETRICAL snowflake – the sides must be mirror images or this won’t work. No worries – the internet has ten thousand bajillion snowflakes.
Draw, trace or buy a cut file, and then size it so that you can fit at least three on your sheet of paper (three pieces make up each ornament). I decided to go a little small and get six out of a sheet, so I’d get two ornaments out of each piece of paper.
Because the ornament has a lot of detail, I did these out of standard smooth white cover stock.
Once the pieces were all cut and weeded, I used the tip of my weeding hook and a straight edge to score them down the center. This made folding each one in half easier, and that is really the most difficult part of this craft.
I put a protective piece of paper down on my craft table, and then using a glue stick that changed color as it dried, I spread glue on half of one snowflake. I then carefully aligned a second snowflake half to the gluey one, and pressed down until they stuck. I repeated this process with my second snowflake set, so that I ended up with two that were two snowflakes stuck together, and two loose snowflakes waiting for action.
Once the first sets were dry, I spread gluestick completely on the loose piece, and then fit it to the pair, carefully aligning the little points on the flake.
After those dried for a few minutes, I threaded twine through the top for hanging. If you are allowed to use glitter (I’m not, don’t ask 🙁 ) this would be a great embellishment for this ornament.
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Don’t forget to check out the other ornaments in this series:
No. 2 Glitter Snowflake Ornament
No. 3 Paper Christmas Tree Ornament
No. 5 Paper Strip Ball Ornament
No. 7 Glitter Paper Star Ornament
No. 8 Hipster Paper Reindeer Ornament
No. 9 Peppermint Candy Ornament
No. 10 Brown Paper Packages Ornament
No 11. Chalkboard and Wood Slice Ornament
No. 12 Santa Hat Topper and Full Tree Reveal
This craft will be linked up to some of these great link up parties.
You are all over this Christmas things aren’t you?! Your house is going to be A-maze-ing come December!
It’s funny. None of these have taken very long to do, so I totally could have made them in one week last December. But I didn’t, nor did I the year before, so I’ve just decided to break the task up and it’s really been fun!