Pom Pom Holly Christmas Card
I made this pom-pom holly Christmas card using:
3 medium red pom poms
3 thin dark green pipe cleaners
1 sheet of red card, slightly larger than A4
scissors
PVA white craft glue
1 foam three leaf holly stamp
light green ink pad
Most of this came from The Works in Stroud.
I started by gluing the three pom poms into a triangle; these were to represent the holly berries.
I then cut about a third off of the ends of three pipe cleaners. I then bent them into the holly leaves, making sure I left enough excess to twist into a tail.
I then turned over the berries and glued the leaves in place. This was a bit fiddly and involved having to rig up scaffolding using various boxes and rubbers I could find to stop the leaves just flopping and their ‘tails’ sticking out from the berries. I then left the whole lot to dry for several hours.
In the meantime I folded the red card in half and then in half again. I then took the foam stamp which I got as part of a set from the Pound Shop and pressed it into the light green ink. I had previously tried the dark green but it came out a sort of dark brown on the red card and just didn’t look anywhere as nice as the lighter green.
I then stamped a holly leaf triplet into each corner – I reloaded/repressed the stamp in the ink pad each time.
I then glued the pom pom and pipe cleaner holly onto the card.