I love stars at Christmas.

I’ve only recently pondered why… (I wrote about it over on my “Faith” page… look for “twinkle”)

As I started taking pics around my house of the ways I use stars I thought I’d share a super easy way you can add stars to your Christmas embellishments if you like them too!

I used a paper star punch bought at a local, craft store and easily cut PERFECT stars from a variety of pale gold, aqua, silver, cream, lightly patterned and vellum (semi-transparent) papers. You could use ANY variety of colors or patterns you like.

NO LIMITS on the possibilities!

Then with my sewing machine and a neutral thread, I began stitching them together in long rows, like kite tails. I was sure to start with several inches of string pulled through the machine, then stitched right through the first star. When I got to the bottom of that star, I “stitched” nothing, (does that make sense?), & not breaking my thread, gently pulling it to create some space between it and the next star. Mine are spaced about 2-3” apart, but anything you like is perfect. Again, without cutting the thread, I stitched through the next star, and repeated this until I had strings of stars attached. I was sure to leave several inches of long threads at the end also. I have a variety of lengths, anywhere from 3 stars to 10…

I chose my star colors randomly, but you can also do a pattern of your colors or do them all in white, or silver.

And while we’re at it, YES! This works for other paper punch motifs as well! Our daughter made these with circles of bright solid colors to string, and they look like christmas balls all strung and merry. Or look for snowflakes, or hearts, (Valentines?), etc…

I simply used transparent tape to attach them to window frames around my house.

They’d be cute strung along a tree, or hanging from a light over a table in various lengths to create a “paper star chandelier”. ^__^

The trick will be (learned this the hard way!) how to store them so they don’t become tangled. :O

If you’ve got some great ideas, add them to the comments!