Creative Doughcraft4

DOUGHCRAFT

Making ivy

Roli out some white dough and cut twe!ve ivy leaves using the cuttor. Altach the leaves to wire by dabbing glue on one side of the leaf and pressing the wire halfway up the leaf. Stand the leaves up to dry in oasis.

Making the holly

Roli out some green dough and cut eight holly leaves using the cutter. Mark the leaf vein on one side of the leaf. Attach the leaves to wire and stand them in oasis, just as you did with the ivy leaves.

Making holly berries

Roli fourteen tiny balls of red dough and join them to the ends of the wires with some glue. Cut fourteen black stamens very short and push the end of each stamen into the centre of a berry using the tweezers. Stand the berries in oasis to dry.

Making poinsettias

Roli a pea-size bali of dough and flatten it on a work surface. This piece will form the basis of the poinsettia.

Roli out some red dough and cut out six ieaves with the medium-size leaf cutter. Glue the six petals together to form a circle, so that they overlap at the edges. Put some glue on one side of the base, and join the circle of leaves.

Roli out some morę red dough, and cut out four leaves with the smali leaf cutter. Pul some glue in the centre of the first circle of leaves, and join the four smali leaves to the centre.

Roli seven tiny balls from yellow or gold dough. Put some glue in the centre of the flower and join the tiny balls.

Using the light green dough, roli a smali marble-size bali, and glue it at the bottom underneath the base. Roli out some morę light green dough, and cut out three leaves using the large leaf cutter.

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