By Brandee Lay
What you need:
-1 paper towel roll and 3 toilet paper rolls
- spray paint (1 can)
- hot glue & glue gun
- wax paper
- candolier (I scored a set of 2 in Target’s 70% after-Christmas sale for just over $1, but most people just have these things hanging out around the house & in storage)
- scissors
Cut your cardboard rolls in ½ inch increments. You’ll need 48 pieces. Keep your extra pieces/rolls for future projects!
Glue your pieces. I used sets of 4 to make little flowers.
Then, I took 3 flowers and glued them together to form a “rectangular” section. If you’ve divided & glued these correctly, you should have 4 rows of 3 flowers.
Now, you may attack them with spray paint. You’ll need quite a few coats – cardboard sucks it all up.
After your pieces have dried, it’s time to break out the glue gun again. Try to make a box out of your 4 sections first, without the glue, just to get an idea of what you’re about to do. When you’re ready, you’ll need to make sure your pieces just barely overlap to hold well.
Once they are glued, check the stability. Carefully bend & stretch, or slightly squish, the pieces that don’t fit quite right. Manipulate them to perfection.
Get your wax paper, and roll it up to fit inside your holder.
Cut your paper to fit. You can also tack it to the cardboard with hot glue if you would like to do so.
Now turn on your candolier, stick it in your holder, and enjoy!
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