Trimming the tree
Published 10:21 am Friday, November 25, 2016
Photos by Colleen Harrison
Looking for an inexpensive, yet personalized gift for family and friends?
Combine metal cookie cutters and some of your favorite family photos or decorative wrapping paper to make these ornaments for your tree. They’re simple and quick to make.
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- What you will need: Aluminum cookie cutters, holiday wrapping paper or photocopied pictures, card stock, pencil, scissors, white craft glue/Elmer’s glue, ribbon
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- Step 1: Choose a wrapping paper or a photocopy of a family picture and glue it onto a sheet of card stock. With a pencil, trace the cookie cutter on top of the paper. Then cut out the shape.
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- Step 2: Carefully spread glue along cutter’s edge. Press paper in place and let dry. Thread narrow ribbon through between paper and cookie cutter and wrap ribbon around top of cutter.
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- Step 3: Tie ends of ribbon together with knot and hang.
