Before I pack up things for the year, I wanted to quickly post this because I will be putting these with the other Christmas 'jewelry' I have. I had an idea to do tiny flourished earrings using extra small glass ornaments. I did the tree as I normally would but much smaller and to fit within a 1" circle. Centering the circle over the design, punch as usual. Now the tricky part. I had to be fast on this because I didn't want the paper to stay curled. Curl the paper around a smaller object like a skewer and quickly insert in to glass ornament. I then used sharply pointed tweezers and then toothpicks to move the paper around until position correctly. A dab of glitter glue on the end of a toothpick and placed at the bottom of the sphere helped to hold the paper in place. After setting, I added earring wires to the ornament wire and re-attached the ornament top. The black paper doesn't show the tree as well as I'd like so the next one I make, probably next year, I'll use lighter paper. It was a fun experiment and I have some larger glass ornaments I plan to use for something similar--maybe personalize with someone's name, add another flourish, who knows?
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