I have received many emails recently requesting the instructions for the Ornaments I posted on November 13th. For today I am going to share instructions to make the Geodesic Ornaments shown below:

I originally found instructions on the HGTV website, but have adapted them slightly. The ornament is made up of 20 circles, folded to form a triangle. The side flaps of the circles are then glued together.

Supplies:

• One piece 12×12 Designer Series Paper
• small piece of scrap cardstock to make template
• 1 3/8″ circle punch (Any punch 1″ or larger works)
• Straight Edge/ Ruler
• SU! Cutter Kit or other scoring tool
• Anywhere Glue Stick
• 16″ Ribbon

Create Scoring Template:

Using scrap card stock, punch a 1 3/8″ circle ( or the same size as the ones you will be using to construct your ornament). Fold this circle in half, then again in thirds. Unfold the circle and place back into the hole the circle was punched from. Make a mark around the outside edge of every other crease.

You should have three marks. This is your template for scoring the 20 circles.

How to form the Triangle:

Using the 1 3/8″ circle punch, punch 20 holes out of your Designer Series Paper. Using your straight edge and cutter kit score each circle, connecting the marks in the template you made to create a triangle within the circle.

You will need 10 triangles with one side of the paper facing out, and 10 of the other side facing out as seen below. Fold on the score lines.

Ornament Construction:

You will need 5 triangles for the top, 5 for the bottom, and 10 for the middle section.

For the top and bottom sections, two side flaps of 5 triangles are glued to each other. Leave the last two side flaps unglued until the ribbon hanger is in place. For the middle section, 10 triangles are glued together to form a straight line.

Before Gluing the three sections of your ornament together, take your 16″ piece of ribbon and tie a slip knot approximately 1″ in from ends.

Slide the bottom section of your ornament onto the ribbon hanger, just above the knot. Glue the remaining two side flaps together to complete the bottom of your ornament.

Take the middle section and glue the end flaps together to form a circle. Now you will glue the bottom flaps of your middle section to the top flaps of your bottom section. Now glue your top section to the middle section and you are done!

I hope you have enjoyed my very first tutorial. Let me know what you think by posting a comment below this post.

The Stampin’ Up! retired list was released on December 1st. If you have not seen this list yet, you can view it online. There are two different ways to view the list:

1. Alphabetical order – this list is great if you are looking up a specific stamp set.
2. Numerical order- This list is organized by page number. It is better for someone like me, I like to look at each set that is retiring. This way I can look at each retiring stamp set throughout the catalog to decide which ones I NEED to buy before they are gone forever!!

I must say, the retiring list is much smaller now that the catalog is semi-annual. I am only losing 10 stamp sets. The problem seems to be trying to scale down the large list of retiring stamp sets that I want to purchase before they are gone!

Here is a card I designed recently for a Christmas Stamp A Stack using Holiday Tag Team, which will retire after this month. I absolutely love how this card turned out. There aren’t any special techniques involved. If you can color with markers you are good to go! LOL! I wanted to use the Hodgepodge Hardware with Black Grosgrain to make Santa’s belt. I didn’t have enough grosgrain, so I improvised and cut strips of black cardstock that would fit through the Hardware.

Supply List:

• Stamps: Holiday Tag Team, Warm Words, Many Merry Messages (inside)
• Ink: Basic Black Classic Stamp Pad. Real Red, Garden Green, Summer Sun and Blush Blossom Stampin’ Write Markers. Black Journaler
• Paper: Real Read, Whisper White, Basic Black
• Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, SNAIL, Bone Folder

If you like this card, let me know…post a comment below!

Enjoy browsing the retirement list. If you haven’t subscribed to my newsletter, now is the time. I will be send out newsletters with customer only specials on retiring products real soon! Just click on the link to the upper left and enter your email address.

Happy Stamping!