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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Recycled Cards - Christmas Ornament....

Recycled Cards - Christmas Ornaments
Difficulty Level: Easy

Items Needed:
Christmas Cards 
(or any kind of cards - we save all the pretty tops of cards throughout the year to use)

Scalloped Circle cutter
(best sizes: 1.5 inches to 2 inches in circumference plus if the scallops along edge are in an a number divisible by 3 it is easiest: like 15, 18, 21, 24….)

Glue Gun

Something to score the cards
(like steak knife, scissors point, points turner, etc)

Ruler

Twine/ribbon/baker's twine for hanger


STEP ONE: 
Cut circles from your cards - get a lot cut so you have a wide range of colors to pick from for scrappy ornaments

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STEP TWO: 
Using your ruler you are going to score the circles - here is where a circle with scallops divisible by 3 comes in handy. My cutter has 15 scallops that means I am going to score in 5 scallop increments as shown in following pictures: 

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Score each circle three times in triangular shape as shown:

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Score lots of circles as it will take 20 scored circles to make one ornament:


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STEP THREE:
using your glue gun to glue together the scored circles build your top 
You will do this by connecting  5  scored circles with all the triangle POINTS at the apex as shown below


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then tying a length of twine/ribbon glue into the top of the ornament with loop out the top as shown:

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STEP FOUR: 
Make a bottom same as the top, just glue the apex with a dot of glue rather than with a hanger coming out.

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STEP FIVE: 
building the ornament center. You will need 10 scored circles. You will orient the scored triangles in opposite orientations as show below:
triangle point - flat side of triangle - triangle point - flat of triangle - continue until you have 10 circles connected

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then complete circle by joining ends:

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STEP SIX:
join top, middle and bottom of ornament
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to create your finished ornament - (you likely will have to go over the ornament after all is connected to glue together joining joints - this is normal and makes the sphere strong.)

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STEP SEVEN:
Hang your sweet ornament on the tree

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My girls and I have done this for years. We have them on our trees, we gift them to friends and neighbors with holiday treats....it is a lovely tradition and I love the look of them on our tree. 
Just remember, smaller cut circles make smaller spheres, large cut circles make larger spheres.

You can see in this picture: we have spheres made from the same card and then we have scrappy balls made from many different cards. We also will "fussy" cut circles to make subject matter spheres: for example - all snowmen , all nativity, all stars, all snowflakes etc. 

So save your cards and recycle them into beautiful Christmas tree ornaments! 

Start your own post Christmas tradition!