Free Kisses?

Gotta love something that can serve two holidays. It was never really my intent, but like normal I found the ingredients and then the project came together!

While wandering around Big Lots with Lisa, I found these gigantic red roses that were meant to be clipped onto gifts or perhaps on a tree? I loved them plus they were cheap!

She and I had been talking about making Christmas Kissing Balls with real pine, so this was meant to be a template for those. I mean, it's a round ball of foam, how hard can it be? Plus, I thought using fake flowers and material would be nice so then I could reuse this next year. I did take a few minutes to watch a video on the process. 

I completely underestimated the sheer volume of material I would need. This ball was 6" however with all the items added, it probably would measure 12" in diameter. 

I think I bought 12 gigantic roses, cut apart a candle centerpiece with pine greenery & red berries that I was recycling, and then added the variegated holy to fill in and STILL didn't have enough!

I  had bought a white foam ball and wished it had been green so it wouldn't show through. I think next time I'd cover it with some sphagnum moss hot glued on. 

Needing more "filler" I then added the white snow flake ribbon and those weird twirly red things....

Here is another view.

It is designed to hang, well, it is a KISSING BALL!

I used some of Shirley's eye lash ribbon to hang it with!

Now my only complaint is that I have hung this in the corner so can't cash in on any free kisses!