How to Decorate a Glass Candy Dish With Tissue Paper

Candy

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  Fold four pieces of tissue paper into triangles and lay them in the dish so they are overlapping with a sharp corner poking out in each direction.

• 2

  Lay some candy, cookies or potpourri inside the dish. Use tissue paper in a color that complements the contents. For example, if you putting green peppermint candy in the bowl during Easter, use pink tissue paper for a fresh, spring look.

• 3

  Set the candy dish on top of matching or complementing tissue paper in the center of a table.

Carnation

• 4

  Layer tissue paper on top of each other by folding it over until you have six to eight layers.

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  Set a cup over the layers, trace the around the cup using a pencil and cut out along the line so you have a stack of circles.

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  Clip the circles together using paper clips with one paper clip on each side of the stack of circles. Color the edges with a marker. Use a marker color that complements the tissue paper. For example, use red marker on pink paper.

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  Poke two holes close together through the center of the stack of paper and insert a green pipe cleaner.

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  Fold the end of the pipe cleaner over and work it back through the other hole so only a little of the green end is showing through the top. Curl the top layer of tissue up around this green end by gathering up all the sides and pinching it together to look like a rose bud.

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  Pinch and fold the remaining tissue layers up around the initial one. Scrunch them together and work with them until the flower resembles a carnation. Each layer that you scrunch up won't be as tight as the previous layer.