I have 2 ornaments and a tree topper to account for so here it goes.
Tree Topper- this was made from a paper quilled snowflake. I learned how to make quilled snowflakes from reading Ann's blog All Things Paper. (Thanks Ann!)
This flake is a design by Deb Mackes (via all things paper), click over for snowflake patterns and to see how nice it's really supposed to look when a quilling pro does it.
The paper used was scrap printer paper that I cut into quilling strips.
The base is made from an old wire clothes hanger that I cut and bent into shape.
I hot glued the snowflake to the wire base. And my tree topper was done.
Because I was using the song "baby it's cold outside" as my theme for the tree and it's a romantic song I wanted a few heart ornaments. I also didn't want the tree topper to be the only paper quilling on the tree so I chose that method for the hearts as well.
I cut strips of red paper, folded them in half, then curled the ends using a wooden skewer.
Then I glued the curved parts, along with a loop of embroidery thread (for a hanger) together. Once the glue dried they were ready to hang on the tree. Definitely my quickest ornaments of the whole challenge!
Last but not least I made honeycomb balls using tie-dye coffee filters.
My first step was to dye coffee filters green using markers and some water. (Step by step on dyeing filters can be found here).
Then I cut a circle template out of cardboard and used that template to cut a circle out of white card stock. Then I cut my card stock circle in half.
When the filters were dry I stacked bunches of them together and cut them all into a circle.
Finally I followed this how-to on making a honeycomb paper ball.
Here's how all the ornaments stacked up money wise-
- Tree topper- Free!
- Heart Ornament- Glue isn't counted against the budget, I bought a sheet of red paper for 25 cents and the embroidery floss was leftover from my garland.
- Honeycomb Ornament- Free since all the materials were leftovers from other projects in the challenge.
And that's how I got to $14.97 for my tree.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
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