Pine cone bauble tutorial

I have been wanting to make these ever since I saw some on Pinterest and thanks to a tutorial From Enfys Cashmore on Fiskarettes UK on Facebook I found out how to make them. I decided to include a tutorial on here so if you want to make them you may find it useful and also for my own reference for another year.

You will need lots of 1" squares of two papers, a polysterene ball lots of pins, ribbon and any embellishments you want to add.

Start by folding two corners on one side of each square.

Attach four squares with the points meeting at the bottom of the ball. Attach each one with three pins as shown. I stuck another square over the bottom once I had finished to make it look neater.

Now start building up your layers. Attach a layer of one colour with the points level with the joins of the bottom layer. Each paper will be secured with two pins with the point hanging down.

Fill in the gaps with the second colour. Keep building up the layers in this way. Always do the same colour of each layer first otherwise the pattern won't look right.

When you have one layer to go pin a loop of ribbon at the top.

I added some sparkly poinsetias to the top of mine. You could add bows, berries, holly leaves or just do another layer of papers.

Challenges

Winter Wonderland what you love to do at Christmas (I love Christmas decorations) 

The Ribbon Girl anything goes 

Crafteezee anything but a card