I didn’t make any ornaments this year. Usually come Christmas-time I’ve got a box full of that year’s output but this year I had to sit down and make some. I decided to make clay ornaments from cookie cutters. Here are an angel and a stocking, decorated after baking with glitter. Then I made a… Read more »
Posts Categorized: ornaments
Clay snowman
This was made from polymer clay. The basic shape was formed using a cookie cutter and then embellishments were added.
Ornament toppers
Three more ornament toppers crocheted with thread from a leaflet. I’ve also made the snowman. I think that elf’s a little demented looking.
Quilled elf ornaments
These were made from The Book Of Paper Quilling which has a nice variety of patterns. I found that I had to use bigger quills to duplicate her work. The elf on the left was made from 2″ quills which is what the book called for but that was making for tedious, cramped work. The… Read more »
Snowman ornament topper
This was my first attempt from Ornament Toppers. It came out OK except the embroidered face is a little crooked. I’m bad with anything freehand. You have to imagine that it’s on top of an ornament because I was mailing this to someone and it was easier to mail without the ornament (which gets glued… Read more »
Polymer clay cookie cutter ornaments
These I think came out just adorable. For my first efforts with polymer clay I decided to start with stamping shapes out with cookie cutters, seeing as I’m not that artistic. The books make it sound awfully easy to make characters – just make a ball, now add a square, etc. But experience tells me… Read more »
Ugly cloth ornaments
When Todd saw these in the book he said, “I don’t know. They look kind of bunchy.” Well, he was right. These are made by taking two cloth circles and trying to ease them around a styrofoam ball. The result is kind of bunchy. Add to that the difficulty of getting everything square and centered… Read more »
Bottle brush tree ornaments
I got this idea out of a book. Hideous isn’t it? It’s huge for one thing. So I went back and looked and it’s meant to be a tree topper, not an ornament. But that only makes it slightly less hideous. I don’t have a good tree topper but it’s not going to be this… Read more »
“Stained glass” ornaments
Some more ornaments based on ideas from the Christmas craft books I got in a post-Christmas sale this year. I got three: Christmas Ornaments to Make, Christmas Comfort & Joy, and Simply Christmas. These were done using a special kind of paint that creates a stained glass effect. As with the gold leafing, learning on… Read more »
Crocheted snowmen
This was made from a pattern in a Crochet magazine. This one I kind of invented myself.