Friday, December 3, 2010

3 - paper globe ornaments

Since it's the first Christmas in our house, I've had quite a few decorations to buy: I got some things for the outside and also stockings - now that we have a mantel! I also came back from Thanksgiving with an artificial tree that my mom was not planning to use (thanks, mom!), but I don't really have a lot of ornaments around since we never had a full-sized tree in our apartment. I didn't really want to spend any money on tree decorations, especially since I know as soon as my mom reads this, she'll be packing up all my childhood ornaments to send home with me on my next visit, so I decided to go with some easy paper globe ornaments.Supplies:
  • paper cut into strips of various lengths - I used various reds; in the inspiration project, Martha recycled holiday greeting cards
  • hole punch
  • paper fasteners
  • festive string/cord for hanging
All you need to do is punch a hole at both ends of the paper strips, attach the fasteners, and fan out to make a globe. You can vary the number of strips depending on how much space you want between them. On the ornaments made from longer strips, I did 15-18 strips, and on the shorter ones, I usually did 10-12 strips.
I cranked out a whole bunch of these sitting in front of the TV and then wound some gold elastic cord around one of the fasteners on each to make a loop for hanging.

I love all the sentimental ornaments (made when I was young, given to me throughout the years, etc.) on the tree at my parents' house, but I'm also a big fan of a uniform look when it comes to tree decorating, so I'm quite pleased with how this turned out. And it really was inexpensive - most of the paper I had on hand but spent maybe $2.50 on some more, about $2.50 on the fasteners, $2 on the gold elastic cord for hanging, and $8.50 on lights (buy one get one free at CVS). And I have plans to make a skirt out of a $5 (half off with coupon!) tablecloth from Target...

found this fun paper at Michael's that's double sided - so you
get a little peek of red & white when you look up close.



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10 comments:

  1. How sweet! They'd look awesome with some glitter on too! :)

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  2. in my mind i was packing those ornaments before you mentioned that i would be. gah. so predictable.

    the ornaments are nifty. and thrifty. nice work!

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  3. I've tried some of these paper ornaments, but yours are SO much better. I'm inspired.

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  4. These are great! I love this idea! I'm decorating a tree for a church dinner next week, and there's 0$, so these will be perfect!

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  5. love these i featured them today

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  6. I heart these so bad. :) I featured them today in my post!

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  7. These are really fantastic and you make them look so easy! I like a coordianted tree, too.

    Visiting here from Just a Girl Show & Share.

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  8. Love your ornaments, they will look great with my paper bird ornaments

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