I know it’s spelled right, but I can’t help but read that as Polish – as in polish the silver!
Anyhow, I’ve seen these lovely spiky stars in a few places – good basic instructions are here and a video is here. The wrapping was giving me no end or trouble when I used scrapbooking paper, but then I tried it with some lovely, thinner but quite sturdy wrapping paper I got from Paper Chase. It’s basically a mulberry paper, with a design foiled on to one side. It stands up to the rolling very well, and allows you to ge really crisp points.
I just have a couple of tips to add to:
When you have cut your circles, you can snip a whole stack of them (5 or 6 if it is this sort of thinner paper) so long as you secure the stack.
For the rolling, I used a bamboo skewer. I did it this way – which, to be honest, I’m not sure if it isn’t the same as the instructions. The skewer is a lot thinner than the pencil, so I think my way the roll if much tighter – it works, which is all I care about!
I lay the skewer in the middle of the section
Fold over the left side
Roll it up into a pointed cone
Add a daub of glue to secure
and it looks like this when done!
One section totally rolled
and the final ornament!
I like this one, but I can’t see making a ton of them! Each spiky ball is 10 to 14 circles and it takes some time to curl them all.
Anyone else going to give it a go?
Oh and to say I lost steam a bit with yesterdays tag – I didn’t really like the original much and ave been dreading going back to make one. So I’m not going to. I loved the first 7, even if I didn’t have the right stuff, and liked what I made for my own, but tag 8 totally left me cold. I did like the townscape tealight, but alas, no die. I have an idea though, so I may see if that comes to fruition, and will get on with tag 9, which I really like, and already know how to make rosettes without the die. Eight out of nine is still a pretty good hit rate, so we’ll see what 10, 11, and 12 are like.
scrappystickyinkymess 
09/12/2010 at 7:22 pm
I don’t have any Christmas type masks or the townscape die and really didn’t dig tag 8 either – but I am going to make it my own by doing something totally different, just using the same masking techniques – which is really what its all about for me. I also love Tag 9 and I make my rosettes without the die too – I just can not bring myself to spend $20 on a die of something that is pretty simple to make on its own, there are to many other dies I would rather spend my $20 on! My mom is wanting me to make her some Ornaments to hang from her dining room chandelier in lime green, purple and red – I think I will give these polish stars a try – thanks for the tutorial!
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