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title: "DIY fabulously floral Christmas crackers"
url: https://darlinglovelylife.com/2013/12/diy-fabulously-floral-christmas-crackers/
description: "It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – and here at Darling Lovely Life, we do love to have a crafty Christmas. This week’s tutorial is all about ditching…"
published: 2013-12-05
updated: 2013-12-05
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# DIY fabulously floral Christmas crackers

Published 2013-12-05

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5 December 2013 · by Sara - Darling Lovely Life editor · filed under [Christmas cracker crafts](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [DIY christmas cracker](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [festive crafts](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [festive DIY](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [floral christmas cracker](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [luxury christmas cracker](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/)

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – and here at Darling Lovely Life, we do love to have a crafty Christmas. This week’s tutorial is all about ditching tradition, getting rid of cheesy crackers with rubbish toys and groan-worthy jokes and replacing them with fabulous, goody-filled novelties.

## You will need

♥ Luxury wrapping paper with a pattern of your choice. We’ve used leftover wallpaper below just for the demonstration but wrapping paper sticks a lot better.
 ♥ A ruler
 ♥ Toilet roll tubes (you can buy cracker middles at Hobbycraft too)
 ♥ Cracker snaps (we got ours from Hobbycraft)
 ♥ A pen
 ♥ A glue stick
 ♥ A paper perforator
 ♥ Ribbon
 ♥ Gifts for the inside of your cracker. This is where you can get really creative and give loved ones great surprises – lipsticks, nail polishes, jewellery, personalised jokes or fortunes, fabulous sparkly crowns – this could be the cracker that really pays out!

## Step one

Measure and cut a 20cm x 30cm piece of wrapping paper.

## Step two

Put the tube in the centre and mark where the edges rest. Using the ruler, draw two lines there.

## Step three

Stick a cracker snap length wise across the paper (as pictured below) avoiding gluing the actual part that snaps.

## Step four

Put your tube back in (filled with your goodies), roll and glue. then gently twist the ends.

## Step five

Tie a little ribbon on each end et voila – you have a cracker!

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