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In this video I'm going to show you how to
make your own paper honeycomb ornaments

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You can make them out of book pages like
I have done or indeed any kind of paper

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They're great, really quick, really easy. I'm Christine of Christine's
Crafts and this channel is dedicated to crafting on a budget

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So the first thing you're going to need to do is make a
little template so that we can prepare our honeycomb paper

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So all you need is a piece of paper and a
ruler and then you're going to make lines

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Now I'm choosing to make my lines one
inch apart. So you'll see you'll see that

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see at the moment I'm marking the page every two inches. And
that's because I'm going to do two different kinds of lines

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So every two inches I am drawing a red line. And I'm going
to use these as markers for where I'm going to do my gluing

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So all that matters is that your piece of paper
is larger than the piece of paper that you're

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going to use for your honeycomb. And then
in between those lines, I'm going to draw

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some black lines. So you just need to mark
exactly in between. So again, these are two inches

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apart and you're just going to end up with a
stripy page and that's our template. And then

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you just need paper that you're going to make your
honeycomb out of. So for me that's book pages

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Place it on your template and then apply glue
all the way along one set of lines. So for me

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that the red lines first and you can see I just running it along
them add your next page Glue that down when you got it lined up

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And then making sure your paper's in the same place,
you're going to go and do exactly the same thing

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but using the black lines. So run your glue along. Now
you'll see I'm just using an ordinary paper glue stick

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You can use any paper glue you like. I just
found that was very easy, very little mess

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didn't get it all over the place. And it did hold
perfectly well. So once you've done the black

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ones, you're doing the red ones. And then the
black ones. And you'll notice I sometimes peel

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the edge up because I can't remember which one I've
just done. They start to merge together a little

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bit. But you can always just have a quick peek and
make sure you keep alternating red black, red black

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red black, red black, red black. Until you've got
enough pages. I've done 60 and I actually think

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was a little too many so I would say
somewhere between 50 and 60 would be a good

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amount to get your ball out of and once
you've glued them all and you've let

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it dry you're ready you've got honeycomb
paper so you can open it up and have a

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look so you can already see you've got
the honeycomb paper it's now just a case

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of making a ball or indeed a different
shape if you prefer but for us if we're

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going to make a ball you want a semi-circle of card as a template Now I just drew around a plate nothing fancy and get a semicircle And then place
it onto your big wadge of honeycomb paper and draw around it Now I putting it at the edge here because I want to make sure that when I cut it out

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I can use the rest of this paper. You can use all
your honeycomb paper so we don't need to throw it

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away. I'm not going to just get this one ball
but you can see it's really thick and it's

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difficult to cut. Now I managed to cut it with
scissors but it was a real struggle so it's up to

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you how you think is the best way to cut it but
however you cut it be very careful. It is tricky

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And once I cut it with my scissors, my edge
was not perfect and that might happen to you

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So take that away and you can use that for some
more spheres. And here we go with this one. Open

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it up, you can see how it's going to be. But you can
also see I've got a lot of bits and edges on that paper

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So just tidy it up so that you're happy with
it. It depends how rustic you want to be

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And then it's time to build it. So
do you remember that semicircle

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We'll cut another semicircle out inside so
you get that arc and make a matching one

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So you should have two of those now that we're going
to use to stick together and they're going on there

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However, if you leave it like that, it will stick out. So I recommend that
once you've got them there in the same size, you cut some off the outside

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to edge and it will just mean that they not visible when you finished So glue one onto each side of your paper and then we
going to apply plenty of glue and we going to glue those two together Now I recommend you put that bit of card because it

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just gives it a bit of stability and
then wrap around and press those two

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edges together. Now you need that glue to
dry so the recommendation here I would

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give is to put some clips on it. Now I've just used paper clips. boring ordinary
paper clips. But you'll see it can be a little bit tricky. And how do you know that

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Because I've pulled it to the edge of the screen. I
haven't been focused on keeping it on camera for you

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And there you go. You've completed a ball.
So then it's up to you what you do with it

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If you want to hang them, you're going to have to think
about a hangar. Now I'm going rustic with a bit of

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twine, but you could use a bit of ribbon. Put
a knot in the end and then glue it to the top

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I'm using cool melt glue. You could use
hot melt glue. You could use a multi

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purpose glue. You just want to make sure it's
nice and firm in there. And if it's not and you

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want to add more glue, feel free. Otherwise,
you're complete. It's also going to hold the

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honeycomb together well at the top, it's just adding
a bit more stability. Obviously, you don't need

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to hang them. You might be going to place them in a ball. You might want to make lots of
different sized ones. It's entirely up to you. But whatever you decide to do with your honeycomb

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balls, thank you for watching. And if you've
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