Recycled Kusadama Ornament, originally uploaded by robayre.
Tonight Matt and I sat down to make our annual Christmas ornament. And eeep, if last year’s ornament was too big to hang on a tree well, check out this year’s (the larger of the two). My original vision last year was to make a whole bunch of these and cover a tree with them and white Christmas lights.
I followed this 2 stage pattern. Make sure you have lots of time, it takes about 3 hours with two people working at it. AND we use translucent double faced tape. I can’t imagine how long it would take if you used glue like the instruction say. This year I followed the directions for size and the instructions call for 60 7 inch square pieces of paper. It wasn’t until afterward I reread my post from last year and saw that I stated I used 4 inch square papers. Basically this year’s ornament is equal to a good sized globe in diameter.
Once again I cut apart an old art magazine with a good weight, luster and variety of colors. Next year I hope I return to this post and read it before creating the third ornament. Robyn, cut the paper down to 3 inch squares please. Not that it will make the process any faster, but perhaps one year we might actually make an ornament that can fit on the tree.
I like that you have a traditional group ornament making project….a very sweet idea. :)
I love these but they do take forever! Nice job :)
Maybe it’s time to invest in some ginko biloba?
Wow .. those look great. I DID attempt this, but used glue and it was a mess. My son and I got through ONE flower and decided we were done.
These are very cool. Did you notice the original instructions were in centimeters? 7 cm = 3 inches, so maybe they’ll be more manageable if you do that size.
Nice blog. I came for the giveaway but stayed for the cool crafts!
These ornaments look fantastic!
Wow, these are gorgeous! Must take a lot of patience and dedication though! ;)
Julie xox