Houston Interior Designer Karen A. Nelson: How To Make Tissue Puff Balls
Channel: Karen A. Nelson
Date: 2012-11-07

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You will need the following:
Fishing Line
Scissors
10 sheets of your favorite tissue paper

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Transcript Below:

Hi I'm Karen Nelson with Design With Your Dime in Mind and today I'm teaching you how to make these Halloween tissue puff balls. All you're going to need is tissue paper and your color that you select, wire and scissors and let's get started.

So the first thing your going to do to get this size tissue ball is to take your regular sized tissue paper and fold it in half. So get it as close to the half way point as you can fold it 
try to flatten it out and then all you will do is take your scissors and cut right along your fold here.

Once you do that you're going to want to select at least for this size you pick ten pieces of tissue paper.If you want to go to a larger size say this size you would do at least fourteen pieces of tissue paper and if you want to add fishing line to hang it you would also need that as well so after you have cut this down 

This is the size that you're going to have and all you do from here is make sure it is 
lined up as you possibly can and then you start to fold it in accordion style. You don't want your folds to be to large but you want them and make sure you crease them 
you want them to be at even as you can. If they're a little off it's not going to cause a problem just try to make them as even as possible and for the sake of saving time here we already did one. We already prepared one so this again was with the ten and it should look like this when you're finished so you'll have this accordion style 
what you do now is go straight to the center of your accordion and you wrap this wire around and all this wire is there for is to give you a point when you're pulling the tissue paper so it's what you pull up to and it's also, this is where you would attach that fishing line and make sure you do not cut the wire too short you need a lot to twist over to make it tight so once you have done this make sure that is as tight as possible. 

To achieve this green pumpkin shape that I have here I only selected two of the green tissue papers. This one had four and I actually want it to be a little bit less green so I did two of these and eight of the orange so once you have this the green for this one needs to be on top and then you just start to peel it back. Let's see, the tissue paper can be a little bit tricky as you're pulling this up you want to try to be very careful so you do not rip this but I almost always do. Having little tears in it does not ruin it as well so you just want to start pulling this up and you go as close to the center point as you can 
so continue doing this throughout the whole piece making sure you only have one piece of the tissue paper at a time and you would do this on this side and on this so this is how you complete your Halloween tissue ball. Don't forget that you don't just always have to make these for holidays. We also can make one of these that I have 
turned into a jelly fish by adding ribbon and these sparkles for my daughter's room to hang in there year round. Thank you for watching please hit the subscribe button for Design With Your Dime in Mind. Thank you!