Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Magazine Balls Part Two

Welcome to part two of my magazine ball making. For this ball, my inspiration came from elementary school. Do you remember making those wreaths for Christmas out of tissue paper and glue? Well, this is pretty much the same method.

For this one, you'll need the same supplies as last time (plus a pen or pencil).

To start, just cut out squares from your magazine. A good size would be 1x1 inch, but I just kind of started cutting and didn't worry about them all being the same size.



Then, I put a good amount of hot glue on my styrofoam ball and wrapped my magazine square around the end of a pen (so that I wouldn't burn my fingers). After that, I just used the pen to stick the square onto the ball.



It should look kinf of like this:


I didn't like how big they were, so I flattened them a little bit.



It took forever, but I just kept going. Here's the finished product.





And here she is with the magazing ball from the other day.


9 comments:

  1. I really like the new ball a lot! I'd like to try it.

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  2. These are cool. I featured this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com

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  3. Yeah, the new ball fits my style more but thanks for the idea!!!
    Gotta keep an eye for some on sale =]

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  4. Oh I like the look of the 2nd one! So cute and simple, just takes time and hot glue!!

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  5. OMG~
    I'm going out to the garage right now to get that stack of magazines I just decided to throw out.
    Cute idea!

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  6. Oooo, I really like the ruffly one, your second one. I like the texture of it. I think I will be making a few of these myself and will definitely link back to you when I do. Thanks for the great tutorial.
    Erin
    http://frostedsquare.blogspot.com/

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  7. OMG that is totally cute! I love the foofiness of it. Gorgeous!! Great tute!

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  8. What an awesome tree decoration! Great idea! Will have to bookmark it for next year!

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