Tim Holtz Ranger Aerosol Baubles

There are a lot of Tim Holtz's tags going around in Blogland at the moment - but these aren't them!  They are the baubles that were featured on the Ranger Blog today.

Pretty difficult to photograph at nightime but I think you can just about see the effect that the alcohol inks have created on some clear baubles.

The technique shown on the video on the Ranger website today (here) was to use an aerosol air spray

and Alcohol inks:

You simply put a few drops of alcohol inks into the bauble

..and blast it with air using the straw attachment that comes with the air canister. 

I am going to add some metallic mixtures to these two I have made when I can find them!  I must tidy up my craft stuff, I just keep losing everything!

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And finally..

A special mention to my older son today...

..who played the part of a dad in the School Play today based on World War II - he even got to show our real Town Mayor around the school! 

...and these poor ducks

..who are stuck with virtually no water on our frozen local canal.  Here in this part of the West Midlands, we haven't got the really deep snow that some areas of the country have, but we have got the ice and freezing temperatures that make it so difficult for all of us to get about. 

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Tutorial for Paper Christmas Bauble

A Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and followers in America, hope you are having/have had a great day!

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This is my christmas bauble:

..made from half a piece of scrapbooking paper. It can also be made from old christmas cards or paper you decorate yourself.

To make it you cut up your paper into 10 strips:

Mine were 6" by 1" (but they could be slightly narrower)

Make a punched hole in both ends and insert a paper fastener in each (I couldn't find my normal ones so used flower shaped fasteners)

Then 'fan' out the pieces into the bauble shape:

Tie some thread around the paper fastener and hang:

Another simple decoration for your tree that only takes about 5 minutes to make.  I think a collection would look good made with different coloured papers.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Bauble Characters

Nice simple idea for a decoration. Make characters out of baubles using googly eyes and other christmassy bits.

Apologies for my hands in the reflections, but the baubles are so shiny they are difficult to photograph. .

This is another idea that children might like to do, for themselves or for Christmas fairs. 

The idea for these came to me just as I was dropping off to sleep last night, strange how some things just 'pop' into your head!

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave