Thursday, December 8, 2011

DIY star ornaments

Today is a big day!
L is presenting In a prestigious business plan competition at Rice university. I was lucky enough to get off work so I could see him!
So now here i am, listening to people talking all "businessy" and as interesting as that is, I figured now would be a good time to bust out another tutorial :)
now, the sad thing is that since I am writing this from my iPhone, all of the pictures are put at the bottom of the page. Boo.
Well you may not believe this, but these stars are made of...
Cereal boxes!
These cost me absolutely $0 to make and were pretty easy. I free handed my star(but if you have a printer I would recommend printing a star out and tracing it on the box). Use A Ruler! Strait lines are super important. When you have the outline of the star, use a pen to draw a really deep line where each fold would be. By pushing really hard with the pen it makes folding it a lot easier.
Cut out your star, paint it(I just used a rusty red acrylic paint), and fold along the pen marks!
I then glued on a loop of bakers twine to hang it on the tree!
I hope that all makes sense! If not, totally ask me questions! I don't get near enough comments on these posts!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

So cute! Maybe Shonee and I will try some!

Jessi Wight said...

You should! They are so cute!