DIY Christmas Bauble

 Hello all!

Wow, only 7 days to Christmas, can you believe?

My second project for Country View Challenges - Anything Christmas is a Christmas Bauble.

This is an easy fold and glued Honeycomb ball made of - you won´t believe it - coffee filter bags!

Well, I´ll show you how I made it:

(I found this at pinterest here: Honeycomb ball)

You need:

8 coffee filter bags, a mask, scissors, pencil, double sided tape or a glue stick, if you have at hand a bone folder, a string, if you want watercolour ( I used a metallic one, the shimmer is amazing!), some pearls and beads if you like.

Fold your filter bags in half and crease the edge with the bone folder.

like so.

Next use your mask and draw half circles onto the folded bags.

Cut them out.

This step is optional. I painted all my circles (16) with metallic water colour. But you can use them also as they are (either the white ones like here or the brown ones).

When they are dry, fold them at half again and mark the middle of the halfcircles...

like so.

Now you can start glue all together. I used double sided tape, but a glue stick does work too.

First glue all circles in the middle.

Now you have to put tape to the sides and glue one half circle on top of the other.

I decided, that I wanted some gold at the edges and I painted them with extreme sheen paint.

Last I made some decoration with pearls and glued the gold string to the middle of my bauble.

Now I only had to close the bauble - and done!

I really love, how it turned out!

May be you´ll give this a try, it´s super easy and looks really elegant!

May be you´ll find some time to join in with our challenge, there is enough time! You can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop - no! This month there are even two!

Now I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holidays!

Thank you for your visit!

Tiny Christmas Town

 Hello and happy December everyone!

For the Christmas challenge at Country View Challenges this month I made a little christmassy scene with the Tim Holtz Tiny Houses.

I cut out the tiny houses with the thinlits from Tim Holtz from white cardstock and put them together.

Behind the windows I sticked some foil I had in my stash. It is a litlle bit sparkly and milky - perfect for the houses!

I decorated them with some  "snow out of the tube", it´s a fluid medium, and sprinkled some deco ice on top. I like how it turned out!

Now I grabed a wooden slice, I found in a dollar store, drilled a little hole in it and put a light string through it. The battery I glued to the back.

Now I arranged the houses and the silver tree and glued them down with hot glue. 

For the snow I used fiber paste from Golden, I spreat it with a spatula, pushed some styrofoam balls into the paste and sprinkled deco ice over all. I also glued some styro balls as stands to the back of the wood slice.

To one of the houses I added a little chimney I made of a white-gold paperstraw, I glued in some cotton wool to imitate some smoke.

That´s it! I must admit, I am in Love with this little scene and I hope you like it too!

Here are some more pictures - first of all illuminated, although it was very hard to photograph.

That´s it for today, I hope you will find time to make something christmassy for our challenge too.

Have a wonderful and not too stressful December!

Stay save!

Evelyn xx