After a bit of fooling around with my first effort, now I am quite happy with this little project. Again I started with a 7" paper mache cone on which I painted rough strips in a maroon red and creamy white, you don't have to be perfect because the next step is to cover all of this in a good white glue and coat with Diamond Dust. I tried several other colors but a silver tinsel pipe cleaner for the handle worked best in this mix. The red rim is wired tinsel trim from Michael's adhered with DST. I adhered a line of vintage silver tinsel garland along the inside top (DST) and that along with a bit of snowy white paper shreds make a fine winter nest for the vintage '50s snowman with plastic holly pick. I added a rosette (the smaller TH die) made with a MS pp and topped with a vintage button. A bit of ribbon and a sparkly pompom finish it off. While I find Diamond Dust stays pretty well put, I have sprayed this this with a light coat of fixative.
I am entering this in the "Vintage Christmas" Challenge #39 over at Sugar Creek Hollow, "V for Vintage" challenge at the Alphabet Challenge Blog, "Anything Goes" challenge at Simon Says Stamp Challenge, "Glitter and Sparkle" challenge at Divas By Design
super sugary sweet, Sandi! that glittery cane effect is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteLovely cones. I have always been very fond of cones and tussie mussies. Love the red and white glittery stripes. Creative Bliss...
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing project! LOVE the "sugary" chucky glitter.. WOW! :) Thanks for playing along in the "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog this week! xo
ReplyDeleteWow! What a stunning Christmas cone with lovely embellishments, Sandi! The red and white stripes, glitter, rosette and greenery are just beautiful. Thanks so much for joining the Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge this week.
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Amelia (DT Sugar Creek Hollow)
Wow looks fantastic Sandi!!
ReplyDeleteThis is very pretty indeed! Valerie
ReplyDeleteThis cone is Vintage Christmas at its best!! I love the glittery Christmasy look!! I LOVE it Sandi!! Thank you for joining us at Sugar Creek Hollow!!
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Heather
This is a beautiful Christmas project! Love the vintage cone and all that glittery goodness! Gorgeous! Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteFabulous project thanks for playing along with us at Alphabet challenges
ReplyDeleteHugs Shaz x
I've never made a cone and been itching to try my hand at it. Yours is lovely and I wish you the best of luck at the challenges.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your kind comment on my blog. I want to follow your blog but blogger is being, well blogger and it's not pulling up, I will keep trying.
Very inspiring. Oh and I love your banner (something looks quite familiar ;)
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Caroline
This is so gorgeous, it has the Victorian look I love at Christmas time! And what is DST?
ReplyDeleteThanks Scarlett, I should resist using abbreviations! Double sided tape!
DeleteWow! What a super Christmas project. Thank you for sharing it with us at Divas by Design this week.
ReplyDeleteSarah-Jane xx