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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

There’s stars on that Mantle!

I wanted to say there’s stars on thairs!  Get it?  Dr Suess!  OK, anyway on with the business of the day! 

I added these stars to my mantle garland today.  They look very pretty and added some glitz to my plain garland.  I am really into metallic accenting this Christmas. 

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See the silver and burgundy ink!

Here’s what I did.  First I created this 3-D star with my Gypsy  and George and Basic Shapes, and I cut 18 of them.

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I choose white paper because I wanted to use some silver Rub and Buff paint I had and I thought white would be best for this.

After cutting them out I scored them using my clear ruler and my bone folder.  I don’t have a Score Pal or Martha Stewart score board. 

Then I trimmed the tabs on a slant so they wouldn’t stick out when I glued the two stars together. 

 

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Next I rubbed some Rub and Buff on my Swirls Cuttlebug folder and ran one side of each star through the Cuttlebug.

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Next I used a cranberry  or pine ink pad to layer in some more color. 

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Next I folded the star and tabs and shaped the star

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I added glue to all the tabs.

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Then press the star flat so that the edges meet and are sealed and if needed clip to hold tight until glue adheres.

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And ta-da!  Cute huh!  From here I punched a small diameter hole, added red ribbon and put them on my mantle garland. 

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Here they are on the garland.

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That’s it for now!  I hope you are getting everything done you need to do!

2 comments:

It's Jenn! said...

Thanks for the tut! I will have to give this a go. I have the drawn template of this, but it's a pain in the rear to cut it myself!

Stephanie said...

This is really cute! I never thought to ink my embossing folders before! I am going to have to try it out!
Hugs,
stephanie