How to Make an Ombre Newspaper Tube Vase

You'll Need:

• Newspaper/skewer stick
• Cardboard
• Scissors
• White tacky glue
• Hometalk logo
• Acrylic paints - ombre colors
• Brushes and or sponges

Instructions

To Make the Newspaper Tubes:

1. Fold and cut the newspaper section into four parts.
2. Open the paper section and place a thin wood skewer stick on the bottom left corner at an acute angle.
   Wrap the paper edge over the stick and begin rolling the paper with your fingers.
3. Just before reaching the end, brush on white glue and roll the end closed to secure.
4. Make 75 tubes and divide into five different ombre color paint groups of 15 tubes.
5. Place a plastic cover over the work area and paint the group of tubes in different colors.
6. Let the tubes dry completely.

To Make the Vase:

1. Cut out a four-inch Hometalk logo and trace two on cardboard before cutting them out.
2. Place one cardboard logo on the working surface.
3. Take five tubes and place them on each corner of the logo. Place an additional tube on top of one tube.
4. Glue the tubes in place and let them dry.
5. Glue the second cardboard logo on top and let dry. Take a sheet of paper, outline the logo 1/2 inch larger, cut it out, and glue it on the bottom.
6. Cut out corners of paper at each tube.
7. Apply glue to the cut-out edges and fold over, gluing in place.
8. Glue the Hometalk logo on the opposite side.
9. Paint the bare side with the color of the tubes and let dry.

To Weave:

On the painted side of the logo, bend the extra tube along the edge of the shape and over the next tube. Take that tube and bend it over the next tube, and so on.

Continue bending tubes over the next tube along the edge, moving around the design.

When tubes become short, simply add glue to the tube end and insert a new tube into the end, allowing the glue to dry.

Continue weaving a tube over the next tube using one color group at a time until all the colors have been woven into an ombre effect, leaving you with short tube ends.

To finish, apply glue to the end of the last short tubes and insert them inside the weave, hiding the ends. Cut off any excess ends.

The vase can be sprayed with a sealant to protect the finish.