holy moly how cute is this star!?

my friend daisha requested a christmas craft idea, and i got to work. so daisha here you go! i am heading down to joanns tomorrow to buy a big red satin ribbon to hang it from!

you can buy these stars at most craft stores. i got this one at craft warehouse. you'll also need some scrap booking paper and some family pictures (the pictures are optional...you could just use the paper if you wanted.)


first you'll need to make a template for your pictures and paper. just place a piece of copy paper on top or your star and press all around the star so the paper creases where you want it to.

cut out your template

then cut your template into two pieces starting at the point.

use your template to trace your pieces onto your scrap booking paper...
(here is my sweet little craft slave hard at work)

and pictures. make sure you pay attention to the directions you want your pictures and scrap booking paper to lay.

i used a very little amount of tape to stick my pieces to my star as i went, to get an idea of how i wanted my pieces arranged. don't use a lot of tape or it won't come off the back of your paper and pictures without ripping it.

i thought the paper needed a little something....so i took some brown and black paint...mixed them together till i got the color i wanted...

(after this picture was taken lucy wanted to paint, and used pretty much the whole bottle of my brown paint, most of it got onto my table. love that girl.)

dab a paper towel into the paint...rub it onto a piece of tester paper till most of it has rubbed off...then rub it onto the edges of your paper.

mod podge oh how i love you

cover a point of the star with mod podge.

place your paper onto the point

cover with mod podge

i added the year to the end of a point so i wouldn't forget.

now go...craft