Craft Night - Christmas Ornaments

 

Life has been a blur lately. I got caught up in Christmas craziness, got sick and there some other crazy stuff going on in life. As a result I forgot to post this about my latest craft night!

In the holiday spirit, we made Christmas ornaments!!! They were simple to make and did require that many materials. I cut out some shapes from old cereal boxes and added some mod podge and some Christmas themed scrapbook paper.

I was glad to see all the folks who came out. Some fabulous ornaments were made and it was all in all a fun time.

 

Even though it is a bit past Christmas, here is how you can make your own ornaments! After all it's only 12 months till next Christmas.

Materials & Tools

• Cardboard (cereal boxes work great!)
• Christmas themed scrapbooking paper
• Ribbon
• Mod Podge
• Foam brushes
• Scissors
• Hole puncher

Instructions

• Determine the size and shape of your ornament. I used Picmonkey.com to find some really nice shapes and I formatted them to the size I wanted.
• Trace your shapes on cardboard and cut them out
• Go through all of you christmasy paper and figure out what you would like to put on your ornament. Be sure to make them double sided for twice the Christmas magic!
• Once your design is figured out begin putting them together with Mod Podge. I recommend doing this step in layers alternated between mod podge and paper.
• After your ornament is assembled, use your hole puncher to make a hole towards the top of your ornament
• Take some ribbon and tie it around your ornament. Place that baby on the tree!

 

December is moving along. Despite feeling really crappy the past few weeks I have been making an effort to get some projects done. Here is what I have been up to.

We finally got a tree! This time around we went with a Basal fir. I was a little nervous because its my first Christmas with a cat. I hear they like to make a mess of Christmas trees. So far Bmo has been a good kitty and he has just been hanging out underneath it. 

I love putting together the tree every year because I forget what awesome ornaments we have. We have mostly Star Wars, a few Harry Potter and a lot of owls. One tradition we have been keeping up every year is that we each make our own ornament. I love seeing those because its part of our little story. 

Speaking of ornaments, I have been getting ready for the next Craft Night. I've been trying to get into the habit planning these out and I've had this idea for a while. Thanks to this nifty little tutorial, I've learned out to recycle cereal boxes for crafty exploits. I thought they would make perfect ornaments. So the base, mixed with some Holiday scrap paper, mod podge and ribbon, you've got the perfect personalized ornament. 

While unpacking I came across our little nativity. Its cute, but tiny. I'm not the most religious person but I feel that I needed to spiff up our nativity. I was inspired after seeing this on pinterest. Since I had some spare wood lying around I made a stencil and whipped this up in a few days.

 

After a lot of experimenting I think I may have finally perfected making my zipper pouches. I'm quite proud, so proud that I've listed some new pouches made with the new pattern and techniques. 

After the fun festivities of last weeks's Harry Potter themed bridal shower, it was followed up by the arrival of Caitie's invites! 

Crafting up some Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and I am almost done with gifts. It's always frantic and I always get paranoid that I missed someone and my wallet is usually not to happy. This year I have been able to make a lot of home made gifts! Yay! Here are some of the things that I have made!

I came across these cute charm bracelet tutorial. I made a few for all of my lady friends (If you are reading this and you're one of my lady friends, act surprised)

Then my work bestie Margaret got me this awesome shirt! She is quite the muppetational lady so I made her this awesome kermit coffee cozy. She also would appreciapte this mustache ornament... because a christmas tree needs a mustache.

Speaking of ornaments... I made this one for my little brother. He, like a lot of men, loves bacon so yeah and its cute. (If you want to make your own bacon find the tutorial here). Also for the broski, is this awesome snuggie. Last time he came for a visit he was jealous of my own snuggie that I made one for him to enjoy. If you want to make your own just follow this tutorial from instructables!

So did you make any Christmas presents this year? I wanna hear about it ! Leave a comment! 

Holid-daze

     It's that time of year again...finals. I always love/hate the end of Fall semester. Love it because it leads right into Christmasy fun time! Hate it because I am always stressing about final projects and such but thank God school is over and I have been able to get into the holiday spirit! I have filled the crafting void with some Christmas decorating. Here's proof!

This is a pretty simple idea, glass jar + ornaments = nice decorations!

     A new addition to our Holiday decor this year is this little niche by the stairs. It was pretty blank and needed a little something. The card wreath was inspired by a Target circular. It is another simple project. You need a Styrofoam ring (from ye ole craft store), red ribbon and some sewing pins. I wrapped the ribbon round the ring and pinned it in place. I had to wait a bit to get some cards and pined those around the wreath and ta da. Quick and simple and looks pretty darn good.

      Underneath the wreath are some framed pictures. Since my wedding last year we used these picture frames for the table numbers. We have all these left over frames so I have been experiment with things to do with them. After reading this tutorial on Sweet Verbena I thought I'd put a holiday twist on it. As for the pictures inside the fames, the subway style text was taken from a Christmas scrapbook. The other image is actually a Christmas card we are giving out this year. I kept one because I like the Bansky style of it.












The tree looks pretty good this year.

Farewell for now,

Sarina