Christmas Craft: Chenille Poinsettia Garland Tutorial

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Well, alrighty, it's time for Kate @ Centsational Girl's Christmas Craft Party, and it's CSI's Handmade Holiday Challenge, so I made me a garland.
And I made you a tutorial at the end.  You're welcome.  

I think it looks just about perfect on my hutch.  

LOVE me some blue and brown (sand and sea)...

...with a bit of iridescence and shine for the holly-days of course.  

I think it looks kinda vintage-y.  And yummy.

Although it may be painfully obvious how I made the poinsettias, I did up a tute anyway.

Here's what you'll need to make the petal pairs (finished pair shown):

Between the first two 'lumps', bend the wire like this:

Then pull the end down to meet the other end to make a petal.  

Twist the end around to hold:

Repeat for the other side,  then bend the pair into a 'V':

After you've made 3 pairs of petals, punch out a circle out of construction paper:

Fire up that glue gun and put a glob in the middle of the circle:

Then start stickin' your petal pairs on:

 #1

#2

#3!

Then put another blob of glue in the middle and stick your flat marble on:

Once it dries, I go around and pinch the ends tight while pushing toward the center a bit. 

This helps bow out the sides to make the petals nice and fat:

Lastly, trim the paper circle on the back so it won't show from the front:

And there ya go.  

You can use these as ornaments, 

hanging on a lampshade like they used to in the 40's, 

or in a garland like I did (the marble makes them heavy, so beware

...I had to anchor mine on top of the hutch with fishing wire and thumbtacks.)

I also made some red ones with styrofoam balls I (surprise) glitterfied:

I hot glued the white ones with some Dollar store snowflake ornaments 

on an iridescent blue ribbon for my garland.

Pretty! Pretty Easy!

Let me know if you give this crafty-craft a try.  So many color possibilities for holidays and special occasions.

Visit my Glitterfied Mantel and my  Porch's Twiggy Holiday Vignette from Laya and Rhoda's shin-digs.

.Don't forget to head over to Kate's place (Dec. 7th)

and

 to see all the other amazing holiday craftiness happening in blogland.