Showing posts with label DIY Christmas ornament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY Christmas ornament. Show all posts
Cheap and Easy Crafts: Feather Ornament DIY
It's a new feature on le blogge: Cheap and Easy (crafts). These may not all really even be verifiable crafts per se, think of them more like cute ideas that are super easy to execute. Yes, that's it.
The 12 Crafts of Christmas: Crystallized(tm) 3-d Paper Flower Ornaments
Layered Crystallized Die Cut Paper Flowers pre-grommets-love, love, love these K&Co. papers!
I will be making one of these eventually, but I was in a HURRY and the die cutter saved the day! Isn't this yummy?!
This is part one of a two part post. My DH and I crafted up a storm the past two days and made something super fun together. Okay, I came up with an idea and stood over his shoulder directing while he executed the first half of it. Then even with Cathie and Steve's Hot Glue Gun Helpers, I managed to burn the
This is part of what we made...but tune in tomorrow for the BIG REVEAL! I do mean B I G.
Did I mention it would be big? I just want to be sure you understand the scope and scale of this. Bigger than a bread box, smaller than a car big.
But I digress...
In my stash of retrofabulous craft magazines, there are so many fabulous paper ornaments it would make your head spin. We all think ourselves clever, but honestly our grandmother's could craft circles around us. However we do have some knifty tools she would have LOVED. There is so much good stuff in these mags, I could spend most of next year just on Retrofabulous Christmas Crafts. I am particularly smitten with the paper flowers, the tissue kind we *all used to make when we were kids. (*Meaning all of us of a certain age.) So taking a cue from the paper ornament idea, and bringing in some modern convenience for the impatient crafter...I had this stack of gorgeous double sided paper from K & Company, a Sizzix layered flower die and a Big Shot and away I went.
Fun, fast...fabulous!
Margot Potter
Materials:
Double sided scrapbook paper (something of a nice cardstock weight)
Sizzix Flower Layers #4 655370
Flat back SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS (I used Swarovski sew on twist 3221 and flat back checkerboard 2493 Crystal 001 foil backs)
Small dimensional foam stickers
Aleene's Dry Adhesives Tape
Gunmetal or black grommets
Traci Bautista's Collage Pauge Sparkles or Ranger Stardust Stickles
18 or 20 gauge stainless steel wire
Tools
Sizzix Big Shot
Crop-a-dile
Foam brush or fingertip
Pencil or pen
Wire shears
Round nose pliers
Chain nose pliers
1. Select papers, mine were dark background with white accents on one side and white background with dark on the other, that way I could layer them alternating the backgrounds for dimension. Die cut your flowers, you will only need the largest and medium sized layer. You'll need two medium layers for every large layer.
2. Use a pencil or pen to roll the petals of the smaller flower into a curved shape. Repeat for all smaller flowers.
3. Use a foam brush or finger tip to add glitter to the lighter background layers. Allow to dry. You can opt to glitter it all up or even add dimensional glitter, totally up to you! We had a quick deadline, so I schmeared and moved on with my day.
3. Adhere layers together on both sides using glue tape.
4 Place dimensional stickers on back of your flat back embellishments, I used four for each square and two for each circle shape. Attach to center of flower on both sides.
5. Attach a grommet to the longest petal on each flower. This helps give the paper strength.
6. We used steel wire to create s-hook shapes so the flowers could hang. Use shears and not cutters on steel wire or your cutters will die a sad death. For a standard tree, you can make a regular hook with a larger loop to accommodate petal.
Retrofabulous Christmas Craftabration: Perky Pixie Ornaments!
Madge's Inspiration: McCall's Christmas Pixies
Madge's Perky Pixie
Oh yes indeedy do, boys and girls, it's all kinds of kitschy craftacular here at The Impatient Crafter blog this holiday season! Today's Blast from the Past is one of my favorite holiday projects! Follow this link for instructions on how to make your very own retrofabulous Perky Pixie. You could make a slightly smaller version into jewelry...I'm just sayin'!
Love
Madge
ILoveToCreate Teen Crafts: Joyful Christmas Ornament
(Note from Mom: Avalon does it again! Love this sparkly glass ornament using Tulip Fashion glitter and Aleene's Tacky Glue Spray! Check out her latest teen craft project for ILoveToCreate. Am I proud? Does Santa like cookies?!
Uh, yes, yes he does.)
ILovetoCreate: Joyful Christmas Ornament
Avalon Potter
"Teen created, Mom approved."
I thought I would squeeze in one more holiday project because it is one of my favorite seasons. A few years ago my mom took a clear glass Christmas ornament and put crystals inside making a snow globe for your tree. It was one of my favorite projects she ever made, so I thought why not adapt her old project into something new! My project is a clear ornament that you spray wit Aleene's Tacky Spray Glue and coat the inside with Crafty Chica glitter! I enjoyed making these as gifts for my little cousins because it is fun, easy, and you can personalize each ball with different colors and tag to make it special for the person you give it to.
Materials
Clear ornament with opening top (preferably plastic in case of accident)
Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Spray
Tulip Fashion Glitter (green and red or colors of choice)
Colored paper to match glitter
White printer paper
Paper to make funnel
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue Stick
Ribbon to match color of ball
Tools
Printer
Hole punch
Scissors
Instructions
1. Gather your materials.
2. Open up your ornament and lightly coat the inside with the Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Spray.
3. Make a funnel with a piece of paper and insert the bottom into the opening of the ball.
4. Pour a sufficient amount of the color(s) of glitter you choose into the ball. Feel free to mix colors or choose different colors then I used.
5. Close the ornaments top and shake until the ball is completely coated with sparkles. Shake the excess sparkles out of the ball.
6. Using a font you like print out in large letters the word or name you want as the tag. Use a similar color as the one you used in the ball. If you used two or more colors chose one for the font and another for the colored paper behind it.
7. Cut out the word and cut out your colored sheet of paper a slightly bigger into a rectangular card for the word to sit on.
8. Use your Aleene’s tacky glue stick to glue the word to the colored paper.
9. Punch a hole in the corner of the tag.
10. String some colored ribbon that matches the ball through the hole and tie a knot.
11. Tie onto the top of the ornament in a bow to complete the ornament.
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