Christmas Ornament

One more Christmas Craft for ya!

I saw this ornament on a blog post by Samantha Elizabeth. She is an amazing local photographer and I follow her blog. She took her wedding programs and  put them inside a clear Christmas ball with glitter!  When I saw it, I had to try!

Here's her post.


Here are my supplies to start

I grabbed two programs because I wasn't sure how many strips I would need, but one was enough. I cut the strips and wrapped them around a pen to curl. It was cool to cut and wrap so that important parts of the program are readable, like "The Lord's Prayer" and Marc's Mom's picture.

Then the fun part! I put the strips and a whole lotta glitter in the ball and shook the heck out of it!

The final product:

Cute and a great keepsake!!

Christmas is almost here!!!!!

Where do you hang your Christmas Cards?

Aren't you always looking for a place to display all those Christmas cards you're getting? There really isn't much room for them around the house and it doesn't seem right to just throw them away?

Cue Pinterest with another awesome idea!!!

Of course I can't find the real original picture that I hand, this one, is close though! I thought this idea was genius, but after looking around Pinterest it seems I'm a little late to the party, there are tons of great "Christmas Card Hangers" out there!
Nonetheless, I chose to make something like this.







Here are my supplies all ready to go!
I used a piece of card stock as my base and scrapbook paper for my background

And some stickers to decorate with.

I hung two strands of gold ribbon (left over from the wedding!) from the card, and some yarn (left over from the wreath!) along the top!

Use clothes pins to hang all your Christmas cards!

















Another easy, useful, fun project!

Happy Holidays!

Any ideas for another Christmas Craft?

Yarn Wreath

I was super excited to make a Christmas wreath for one of my "Christmas Craft" blog posts! There are so many awesome types of homemade wreaths on the internet it was hard to choose. Check out Pinterest (shocker!) to find one for yourself.

I chose a yarn wreath for my first time!

A good tip (that I didn't follow) is to purchase plumbing foam and tape it together to make the base of your wreath. Apparently it's only about $1. I can be kinda lazy though (shocker! again!) and the $5.99 floral foam wreath at Michael's was alot easier to bring home! Bad Shawn! Baaaad Shawn!

Here is my base and my yarn ready to go.

Threading the yarn around the wreath was a bit time consuming but overall not hard one bit! 

Whenever I began or ended a yarn color, I used a dab of hot glue and a little knot, both placed on the back side of the wreath. I chose to do 6 blocks of 3 colors.

The next day, I made some flowers out of old Tshirts (which is a different blog post all together) and they turned out really cute. I just happened to have old Tshirts in matching colors!

I think it turned out really cute! A very easy, inexpensive (and even cheaper if you're not lazy, like me) Christmas decoration! And throw in a little recycling for good measure :)

Here is a close up of the flowers.

Cute, eh?

Stay tuned to the blog for more Christmas Crafts!

:)