2013 Ornament Swap

I used large bottle caps to make this years ornament for the swap!

Supplies used were green ribbon, My Mind's Eye coordinating papers from their Winter Wonderland collection, frosted lace Stickles, the Martha Stewart snowflake punch and adhesive rhinestones along with the large bottle caps. The Crop-a-dile and Aleene's EasyFlow tacky glue were also used.

I put a layer of Stickles around the outside of the snowman paper. I then highlighted the bottom of the snow man with the Stickles to make it look more like snow. 

On the back I placed the snowflakes and highlighted them with Stickles. I placed the adhesive rhinestones in the center of the snowflakes to add additional sparkle. 

I then punched two holes in the rim of the bottlecap using the punch and then threaded green ribbon through the holes and tied for hanging the ornament on the tree. 

I think they turned out cute!

Wood Ornaments

Every year I am in an ornament swap with my imaginary friends. That would be my friends who I have met on the Internet. Some of them I have actually met in person and talked on the phone with. But there are some I have never met. Regardless, I've known these ladies for years. We've gone through births, deaths, divorces, graduations and a bunch of other things together. You'd have to know them to know how wonderful they are!!

At any rate, if you visit my post from November or December of last year, you will see the ornaments I made for last years swap. The ornaments I am making this year are from wood.

I took wooden tags found at Michael's and covered them front and back with scrap booking paper. I attached it with Mod Podge. Then I sanded the edges and inked it with cat eyes ink.
I cut out the letter of their first name with my Sizzix die cut and glued them on. One on each side as it is reversible. Then I Mod Podged over the entire thing. Both front and back. I Inked a cream colored Prima flower and glued it on. Added some Stickles in the center of the flower. I attached some wire and buttons for hanging. I'm still debating on if I want to tie twine around the wire at the top or not. Decisions, decisions.

Here is what they look like. Each ornament had one side in the green gingham and one side in the sheet music. The ornament with the tree is an extra that I made (3) in case anyone joined the swap later or I needed a last minute small gift.

 

Twine or no twine....that is the question!

In the beginning......

I'm not quite sure what prompted me to start a blog. Perhaps it is because of my recent return to being a housewife or perhaps from my excitement over creating my latest paper ornaments for the ornament exchange I am in with my TW friends. Whichever it may be, here we go!!

Yesterday I created some cute ornaments for my swap friends. I used red, green and white cardstock and cute out a circular Fleur De Lis Motif using Spellbinders Shapabilities and my Cuttlebug. I then stamped a snowman using Touchestamps.com stamp Rejoicing Snowman 1454-E in black ink. I stamped 'snowflakes' using a dowel stamp by Stamps by Judith. I colored in areas with colored pencils and used Stickles to embellish. They turned out cuter than I expected.

The Green ornament...

The red ornament

My favorite of course is the white ornament!!

I'm thinking of using something similar to make my Christmas cards...not sure what I'm going to do there! Hope to have them ready to mail out by Monday!