It’s easy as pie (actually much easier than pie) to decorate the forms. Just use straight pins. You can use pins with small heads and hide them, or you can use decorative ones like these and match the colors to your designs.

Just push the pin through the design into the form like so, and continue to cover the form.

The poinsettias come in several sizes which you can use to good effect for various shapes. For this tree, the sizes were graduated.

Another way to simplify decorating with your embroidered flowers is to use inexpensive fakes for filler and place your own flowers strategically around the outer part of the bouquet. This gives you a nice full bouquet without having to make a ton of flowers and leaves.

The smallest poinsettia can be used as a festive earring. It can be used in the ordinary way with french hooks and the like, or use a stud earring through the loop as shown here.

You could even use a dangle earring with post and clutch.

The bouquet and topiary ideas can be adapted for our 3D butterflies and flowers in the Springtime.

If you have flameless candles you can decorate them and light them, too. If you use washable glue, the decorations will be removable, so you can decorate the same candle with something different every season. Place poinsettias singly as shown or in a ring around the candle, or scatter smaller ones.

All our designs are available on our website at http://www.k-lace.com.

We hope you have had fun with Criswell designs this season and wish you all very happy holidays and a wonderful new year.

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