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Hi I'm Karen Nelson with Design With Your Dime in Mind and today I'm teaching you how to make these
Halloween tissue puff balls
all you're going to need is tissue paper and your color that you select, wire
and scissors
and let's get started
so the first thing your going to do to get this size tissue ball
is to take your regular sized tissue paper
and fold it in half
so get it as close to the half way point as you can fold it
try to flatten it out
and then all you will do is take your scissors
and cut right along your fold here
once you do that
you're going to want to select
at least for this size you pick 10 pieces of tissue paper
if you want to go to a larger size say this size you
would do at least fourteen pieces of tissue paper
so and if you want to add fishing
line to hang it
you would also need that as well
so after you have cut this down
this is the size that you're going to have
and all you do from here is
make sure it is
lined up as you possibly can
and then you start to fold it in accordion style
you don't want your folds to be to large
but you want them
and make sure you crease them
you want them to be at even as you can
if they're a little off it's not going to cause a problem
just try to make them as
even as possible
and for the sake of saving time here we already did one
we already prepared one
so this again was with the ten
and it should look like this when you're finished
so you'll have
this accordion style
what you do now is go straight to the center of your accordion
and you wrap
this wire around
and all this wire is there for
is to give you a point when you're pulling the tissue paper
so it's what you pull up to
and it's also, this is where you would attach that fishing line
and make sure you do not cut the wire too short
you need a lot to twist over to make it tight
so once you have done this
make sure that is as tight as possible
to achieve this
green pumpkin shape that I have here
I only selected two of the green tissue papers. This one had four and
I actually want it to be a little bit
less green
so i did two of these and eight of the orange
so once you have this
the green for this one needs to be on top
and then you just start to peel it back
Let's see, the tissue paper can be a little bit tricky
as you're pulling this up
you want to try to be very careful so you do not rip this but
I almost always do
having little tears in it does not ruin it as well
so you just want to start pulling this up
and you go as close to the center point as you can
so continue doing this
throughout the whole
piece making sure you only have one
piece of the tissue paper at a time
and you would do this on this side
and on this
so this is how you complete your Halloween tissue ball
don't forget that you don't just always have to make these for holidays
we also can make one of these that I have turned into a jelly fish by adding ribbon
and
these sparkles for
my daughter's room to hang in there year round
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