Tutorial: How to make Bollywood Baubles

I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t posted any tutorials in a while. Every excuse I can think of is weak, so I won’t bother listing them. Instead I’m making it my ‘End of Year’ resolution to design more blog makes …starting off with some fab festive filmi fun: Bollywood Baubles.

 You will need:

 Plain Christmas baubles (I bought a box in the £1 shop)

 A Bollywood magazine (cut out images of your favourite stars – small ones that will fit on your baubles)

 Bling and things…

Like…Glitter glue tubes

Loose glitter

Sequin trim

Sequins

Gemstones

Bindis

 Assorted collage papers

 Essentials

PVA glue

Scissors

Paintbrush or fine tip applicator (a container with a fine nozzle to make gluing details easier)

Get crafting: 

 1. Chop collage paper into shapes, try small triangles, squares and strips.

2. Glue these randomly on your baubles, by pasting PVA glue on the back using your brush. Ensure every corner is glued down, and smooth them out around the curves of the bauble so there are no lumps and bumps. 

3. Glue your Bollywood star in the centre, again, ensuring the image is fully glued down. Don’t worry if glue spreads out from underneath as it dries clear.Outline the edge of each star with a line of glitter glue.

4. Sit your bauble in an eggcup so they are easier to handle and get decorating. It may take a couple of hours to complete, as you will need to wait for them to dry before you can turn around to decorate the bottom section.

Ideas: Use a brush or fine tip applicator to add dots on the surface to stick on sequins, draw shapes and spots straight on with glitter glue, define edges, stick on sections of loose glitter and cut strips of sequin trim. There are no rules, bling it up as you wish! The paper shapes underneath will also create sections which will influence the design.

5. When dry, thread string through the top and hang them up somewhere in your home…they don't need to be on a Christmas tree, or displayed just for Christmas….I hang up some of my Christmas decorations all year round!  

And here they are closer up (click on the links to check out the stars in action!):

 Queen Rani Mukerjee

 

 The Big B Amitabh Bachan

 Sexy Vivek Oberoi 

Do you love Bollywood? Check out Bollywood Deewana’s incredible Bolly Blog and listen to Love Bollywood on BBC Asian Network with Raj & Pablo. And if you want make more Christmas decorations, I'll be posting another make soon, or come along to the All That Glitters workshop I'm running at The Geffrye Museum in London, on December 3rd. It costs £30, lasts the full day and all materials are included.