Halloween Garland - Step by step instructions

I have had many requests to post the step by step instructions on making the Halloween Garlands posted a few weeks back.

• Cut a 12x12 piece of double sided designer series paper down to 6x12
• Cut each 6x12 into 1 inch strips so you have 12x1inch strips
  
• Using your 1/8 hole punch of your crop-a-dile, punch through all 12 pieces of paper at one time, once at each end. Make sure to center the holes.
• Take a string of black gingham ribbon (i didn't measure it...probably about 8 inches) and tie a loop at one end.
• Feed the ribbon through the 12 strips of paper from top to bottom.
  
• Curve your paper to the size you want it by pushing the paper up the ribbon shaft to its desired size and tie a knot in the ribbon at that base of the ball.
• Tip: Be sure not to cut off any ribbon at this point if you want to add tags to the base of them.
  
• Fan the pieces of paper around until you get the look you want
• Stamp your Halloween images on white paper - make double the amount of garland balls that you made.
• Punch images out with 1-1/4" punch
• Punch out 1-3/8" circles of black cardstock
• Mount a stamped image on each side of the black punched out cardstock
• Tip: Be sure to glue them both facing up in the same direction
• Using the 1/8 punch on your crop-a-dile again, punch a hole at the top of each tag.
• Tie the tags at whichever length you like at the base of each lantern.
• Optional: Add some bead bling from your Pretties Kit
  
• Trim your ribbon

I mounted mine on Silver Elastic thread by tying each lantern in place with a little knot so they don't move.

These would be so cool for Thanksgiving or make large ones using 12x12 1 inch strips!

Have fun with it!

Halloween Garland...

One of the ideas at convention which I fell in love with was Home Decor. When I saw the Halloween trims and dressings, I just about died and went to heaven. Of course, you can take this garland concept and apply it to any or all seasons with the right papers and I doubt it would ever get boring!

For those of you who participate in my classes or long distance class packets, you can bet your bottom dollar, this will be included in September's Halloween class! :-)

Oh and yes, I went a little crazy with the picture taking but then I couldn't decide which ones to post, so I posted all of them lol...sigh...yes sometimes I'm a doofus :D

Let me know if you like it or not!