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Materials

• one 6 cm smooth foam ball

• 1/2 inch sequin pins*

• 3/4 inch sequin pins*

• 15/0 clear iridescent seed beads*

• 5 mm sequins in orange*, gold, and green

• red and gold glitter paint**

• 6 mm wide gold ribbon

• two pearl-topped corsage pins

• two 8 mm red sequins

• 11 gold leaf sequins (approx 9 mm X 1.5 cm)

• gold thread

• glue

*purchased at Cartwright’s

**Homemade using loose red glitter and gold glitter glue.

Instructions

1. Pin the gold ribbon in two perpendicular lines around the foam ball, sectioning the ball into four equal parts.

2. Trace the gold ribbon on both sides with 5 mm orange sequins.

3. Then, trace the orange rows of sequins with a line of alternating green and gold sequins.

4. Paint the remaining visible foam with glitter paint. You may need several coats of paint to get an opaque look.

5. Once the paint is dry, add the hanging ribbon and bow on the top of the ornament. Thread a green sequin and a large red sequin onto the corsage pin, then the hanging ribbon, and then the bow, in that order.

6. Pin two gold leaves in each painted panel. One leaf pointing up, the other pointing down.

7. Thread 3 gold leaves onto a piece of gold thread.

8. Tie the thread to a corsage pin. Thread a green and large red sequin on the pin, and pin it to the bottom of the ornament so the leaves hang down.