Snowflake Postcard

As winter still is in full bloom (or rather in full snow) I have done another snow project. This one is a bit tricky and requires a lot of patience.

Snowflake Postcard How To:

Material: 1 Sheet of white paper
                a small piece of sandwich paper (left over from the snow crystal project)
                a small piece of a different transparent paper (a different shade of white,
                a slightly different texture)
                sky bluish paper
                sewing thread in different shades of blue (consistent to your choice of
                background paper)
                glue stick

• Cut the sheet of paper in two crosswise.
• Draw the contour of a snowflake and cut out.
• Cut out a snowflake from the transparent paper.
• Cut out a small hexagonal crystal shape for the center and 6 pieces for the tips of the snowflake from the sandwich paper.
• Align them all on your background paper in layers, so that they fit into the snowflake cut-out of the cover.
• Glue carefully only in the center of each 'arm' of the snow crystal, so that it is just fixed a bit, but the ends will remain loose.
• Sew the layers together, using different shades of sewing thread for each seam.
• Glue under the cover and sew carefully together.
• Glue the finished  cover and the other half of the A4 sheet together. Cut off protruding edges if necessary.
• Fold in two.
• Very carefully pull the loose ends of the tranparent parts of the crystal a bit off  the background for a more 3D look.

Fixing the transparent paper onto the background and sewing everything together are the trickiest parts. If your sewing machine allows for extra slow sewing, take the chance.

Snowballs

 

As winter seams to want to disguise as a very rainy spring, with temperatures so high that snow is no option in the near future, I decided to make some snowballs and hang them on branches.

This is a job for people who love making a bit of a mess and are not afraid of sticky fingers.


How to do them:

Material: 1 sheet of white paper
                plastic balls as you find them in your roll-on
                Planatol A or white PVA glue
                pieces of string, 25 cm long ( I used some Lurex)

• Shred the paper in a paper shredder that does cross-cuts.
• Dilute the glue with water to the consistency of condensed milk.
• Spread a little bit of glue onto the plastic ball.
• Fold the thread in half and glue first. Fix it by glueing a few paper cuts crosswise over the first centimeter.
• Cover the whole ball with paper cuts, making sure to thoroughly spread the glue so that the cuts stick properly (This is the messy part!).
• Continue until the ball is covered completely. It does not matter if there are small gaps left as you can see on the photo.

This single sheet of paper sufficed to do 7 balls.