Ha Ha! I got both my projects finished today! My project for day 5 is an ornament (Styrofoam base) that I covered with strips of red and green paper, then finished off with some wired silver/multicolor mini-garland.

Materials:

• Styrofoam ball (3″)
• Sequins
• Sequin pins
• Scrapbook paper
• Paper cutter
• Silver/multicolor wired mini-garland (trim ribbon)
• Small piece of wire
• Super glue

I took the small piece of wire and formed a loop at one end. I stuck the other end through one sequin then stuck the wire into the Styrofoam ball. Then using the super glue, I glued it securely. This gave me somewhere to safe to attach my tree hook at the top of the ball.

My next step was to cut lots of 1/4″ by 2″ strips of green and red paper. In reality, I only used 2″ x 10″ pieces of paper in each color and cut them all into my 1/4″ strips. I then folded these strips in half. I grabbed a sequin pin, put a silver sequin on and then attached the folded paper to the ball with the pin/sequin.

I did seven rows of these, with no particular spacing, just what I thought looked good, and covered about 2/3 of the ball, leaving the top uncovered. Lastly, I took the silver/multicolor wired mini-garland (trim ribbon) and pinned it to the ball in circles to cover the rest of the ball.

Since I had already put in the wire loop for the hook, all I needed to do was add a green tree hook and I was done!

I like this one and ended up curling the ends of the paper strips to give the ornament more depth. I think it looks like a Christmas acorn.

Happy crafting,

Kristin