Finnish Star chickies-check this out!! - Page 2

megamay · Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:58 pm

wow! gorgeous!

Grandma Flowers · Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:59 pm

Gorgeous! Can't wait to try it.

SarahA · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:04 pm

WOW! Those are way cool!

ajsmom · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:10 pm

I gotta try these!! Very cool!

cmedance · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:11 pm

Those are really great, still working on mine.

writerlady · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:14 pm

Wow - how beautiful!!!

Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:27 pm

wow. I think I am going to make some smaller ones out of bling pp. then use the photosplits to put them together but add a glitzy type brad to the end of each one for more permanence.. I like these and plan to make a bunch of the smaller if that works out and give on top of Christmas gift boxes instead of bows.

-Tracy- · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:30 pm

Charleneanne wrote: wow. I think I am going to make some smaller ones out of bling pp. then use the photosplits to put them together but add a glitzy type brad to the end of each one for more permanence.. I like these and plan to make a bunch of the smaller if that works out and give on top of Christmas gift boxes instead of bows.

As you decrease the star's diameter, make sure you make your strips narrower too and you should be fine.

Post pics when you do get around to them-I'd love to see them!!

deerewife · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:32 pm

Cool!

And Tracy, no hard feelings about the adhesive - you live and learn! The paperclips are being hunted down...Iknow I have some somewhere!

-Tracy- · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:35 pm

deerewife wrote: Cool!

And Tracy, no hard feelings about the adhesive - you live and learn! The paperclips are being hunted down...Iknow I have some somewhere!

Wanna laugh? (and I know you will because my kids laughed at me-the little bast....) I didn't have any paperclips hanging around and then I remembered I had some "fancy" ones from Making Memories! So I used them!!! They were rectangles, but who cares? They worked!!

naney1952 · Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:51 pm

Very cool!

lostinadream · Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:11 pm

WOW! That's awesome!
I wasn't awake in time for the contest, but I made one too.

Thanks for those instructions. I'f I get brave I may make them with my students, or borrow someone elses older ones. LOL.

PezKat · Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:36 pm

These are gorgeous - definitely going to try this one!!

blaznpat · Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:39 pm

They are awesome.....any change of getting instructions?

lostinadream · Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:45 pm

blaznpat wrote: They are awesome.....any change of getting instructions?

The instructions are here:http://www.acherryontop.com/article?a=5021
They were up in the thread earlier.

-Tracy- · Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:03 pm

That article will stay up on the site under the Resources tab after the crop. So if you don't get to it this weekend, you can always go back and try it later.

PezKat · Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:43 pm

So, I finally made one!! And I think it's gorgeous - but it's also HUUUUUGE! lol. Has anyone successfully made a smaller one that could share dimensions?? I'm thinking maybe 8" long strips, 1/2" wide or a bit narrower?? Even 6" long would be a nice size. And with smaller ones the paper might not have to be quite so heavy to hold together (trying to use up stash, not buying more!)....

ncokely · Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:36 pm

My mom gave me the idea to cut it down --so I cut 9 inch strips that were 1/2 inch thick.
Then I tried 6 inch strips that were 1/4 inch wide. This is the size for bows for packages.

butterfly843 · Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:04 pm

Love this idea, have to try this out.

MamaK321 · Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:04 pm

dd (10 y/o) and I were making some of these yesterday as holiday ornaments to send to family, she really did a great job and caught on quick too. This may make a nice holiday craft for older kids.

we cut the paper at 6" long and 1/2" wide. Any smaller and they'd be much tougher to work with your fingers though they'd be cute tiny stars. I imagine smaller ones being 3" long and 1/4" wide.