Hello Friends! So glad to see you today 🙂
Rose are Red, Violets are Blue
I love Valentine’s Day, How About you?
(Look at that – I’m a poet!)
But seriously, I am seeing nothing but love love lots of love all over the blogosphere! How about you? Everywhere I look there is tons of inspiration and I’m loving it. Have you gotten in on the Valentine’s Day action yet? Well I’ve got another little goodie for you guys today. I’m working on my Valentine’s vignette (which I can’t wait to share but it’s not quite ready), and I whipped up a little garland for it but it’s soooo cute that I couldn’t wait to share it!
A few weeks ago, at Michaels, I bought a pack of 2000 sheets of tissue paper squares in Valentine’s Day colors. And well, they were totally an impulse buy but for a couple dollars I figured I can figure out something to do with them. I’m pretty crazy for tissue poms. They are such a fun little way to spruce up any decor, including my sweet Miss P’s Nursery. I just love them so much I wanted to try my hand at making some little ones for a festive red and white mini tissue pom garland. PERFECT use for my tissue paper!
Since the squares are tiny (about 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2) they folding and fluffing technique didn’t quite work for this little poms. I used this tutorial from 6 Bittersweets as a guide for making my tissue poms. To make the garland I started out by making a zillion, I mean, two dozen little poms. This took me about a whole evening sitting in front of the television watching about five episodes Real Housewives. Ha. After I was done fluffing all my little poms. I grabbed some of my pretty baker’s twine (fresh from the Twinery – they have the best colors!) and busted out my hot glue gun and carefully glued all my little poms onto the twine. Clearly, I didn’t do the best job at measuring the space between poms but that’s okay, it’s homemade!
I love love love my sweet mini tissue pom garland! It is going to look fabulous a part of my Valentine’s Day vignette and I have another fun little use for it too! You’ll have to wait and see what I have up my sleeve!!
In the mean time, be sure and check out the rest of my Valentine’s Day inspired projects! Have a great day friends 🙂
This project is linking up to some of my favorite parties.
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Laura @ Our Prairie Home says
January 30, 2013 at 5:17 amHow cute is that! Totally worth it all that folding and fluffing!
Jessica @ Mom 4 Real says
January 30, 2013 at 7:09 amOnce again girl, you have knocked it out of the park! You are a supa-star!
Debbie says
January 30, 2013 at 8:36 amAw, they’re so cute Chelsea! Love that you used baker’s twine, it was a nice touch. How in the heck do you find the time to do all the cute little projects you do?? You are amazing. Enjoy your Wednesday!
Debbie
Rachel says
January 30, 2013 at 12:19 pmI love this!! It’s so sweet and simple and cute! Seriously – you’re blowing things out of the water with these cute Valentine’s Day crafts! I’m loving them.
Chrissy says
February 1, 2013 at 11:30 amThis is adorable! I love your projects and your blog, so cute!! I have a new Pinterest Power party and would love to have you share this and any other recipes you have!
http://www.thetaylor-house.com/2013/01/31/pinterest-power-party-4.html
Thanks!
Chrissy
Taryn @ Design, Dining + Diapers says
February 1, 2013 at 1:23 pmThis is so sweet Chelsea! I love the little Pom Poms! Cute idea.
Emily Benson says
February 2, 2013 at 7:53 amSuch an adorable idea. I love that it is a fun way to decorate for Valentines without being hearts!
Emily @ The Benson Street
Leigh [email protected] says
February 3, 2013 at 12:06 pmSuch a darlng idea! I’d love for you to come over and share at Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky Party.
http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/finding-the-pretty-delicious-linky-party-3/
louise says
February 3, 2013 at 11:10 pmLove the tissue pom poms! I make these alot for parties, but big. Love the teeny tiny ones in the garland!
[email protected] says
February 4, 2013 at 7:10 pmLove that! I want to spend an evening watching TV and making pom poms now–it sounds kind of relaxing. And you have Valentine’s decorations when you’re done 🙂
Mandy @ Sugar Bee Crafts says
February 6, 2013 at 12:31 pmThanks for linking to Take-A-Look Tuesday over at Sugar Bee Crafts – you were featured today!
–Mandy, http://www.SugarBeeCrafts.com
Holly Lefevre says
February 7, 2013 at 11:50 pmCUTENESS!
Bonnie and Trish @ Uncommon says
February 10, 2013 at 4:56 pmLove this Chelsea! Featured you tonight at Monday Funday! 😉
Lauren @ The Thinking Closet says
February 10, 2013 at 9:46 pmThis turned out fabulously! I’m currently obsessed with pom poms…made some the other night out of yarn just for kicks. Now, I’m thinking of incorporating some into a wreath. I love that you were able to use tissue paper and make them look so round and fluffy. Job well done!
Julia @ FaveCrafts says
April 4, 2013 at 8:21 amWhat a cute project! I love it so much that I decided to feature it in our roundup of pom pom crafts! Check it out here: http://www.favecraftsblog.com/pom-poms-crafts/
Have a great day!
Xiaolu (6 Bittersweets) says
September 4, 2013 at 8:31 pmYay! I’m glad you tried this and it turned out soooo cute! Yea it is quite time-consuming! I was selling these on Etsy for a while, but I couldn’t justify the time+material costs without charging what looked to be ridiculous prices. Fortunately, I can just point people toward the tutorial 8D