I love making things that are dirt cheap yet look fabulous. No one ever knows you spent a buck or two for fabulous decor and holiday pieces that youll cherish for a lifetime. Thats exactly what youll do when you use posterboard to create Christmas theme surrounds for plants, candles and other items in your home.
The surrounds are simple posterboard cutouts, but when theyre finished, they add a festive look to most any room. The surrounds are so easy to do that youll want to make many. Since posterboard is very inexpensive, and youll need little else to complete the craft, its a cheap project that allows you to make colorful Christmas accents for your home with ease.
Cut the posterboard in half and lay the pieces end to end. Tape the two ends together to form one long piece. The tape should only be on the backside. The two pieces will form the four sides of your plant or candle surround. This will make an average size surround. Make surrounds smaller or larger by using longer or shorter pieces of posterboard. The surrounds can be gigantic or very little. There are many different ways to create the Christmas theme for the surround. Glue Christmas fabric onto the posterboard, use wrapping paper, or just create a pattern by rubber stamping. The finished design is all your own. Use metallic tape - which dispenses like Scotch tape - to make easy stripes for the surround. There are countless ways to decorate the ordinary posterboard. Although you can make the surrounds squared they look even better if theyre shaped. Draw four Santa face shapes, four circles, or even four stocking shapes, onto the posterboard. The shapes should be side-by-side and simply drawn onto the posterboard. Between each shape cut two tabs, one towards the top and one towards the bottom. The tabs are needed to create the fold at each corner of the surround. Use coloring book images or other sources to create the shapes if youre no artist. Its important tho you make sure that the complete design will fit on the posterboard four times with no extra posterboard left over. Dont forget to allow for the final two tabs at the end. Spend as much time or as little time on this project as you wish. Make a quick and simplistic surround by using markers to color in the images. Involve more time by covering the shapes with cloth, wrapping paper, or craft supplies. When youre finished decorating the entire thing its time to fold it into the actual surround. Fold each set of tabs in half and crease well. The folds must be exact to keep the plant or candle surround from sitting lopsided. When youve made all the folds and creases simply tape the final tabs to the first shape. That will complete the square. The decorative surrounds can be used to give a Christmas theme to plants, candles and other things in your home. Make sure any candle is in a container before surrounding it with the posterboard. Add ambiance to the candle surrounds by poking holes in the finished design. Use a nail to poke holes, randomly or in a pattern, around the design. Outline the images in holes or just make holes in certain locations. The candlelight will shine through and add to the festive look of your holiday decor. Glue on craft supplies, if you wish to embellish, like fake jewels, chenille pipe cleaners, pom-poms, stickers, flat wooden shapes, sequin, glitter, roping, fake fur pieces, and other choices. The project can be as simplistic or as involved as you wish. Youll enjoy the surrounds which can be used in the bathroom to surround a stack of towels, in the kitchen around a plant, or on a mantle around candles.
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