Homemade Christmas Ornaments

This is the time of year to take an hour, get together with your kids, friends, sisters, and make homemade ornaments this year. Pull away from the commercial side of Christmas, have an ornament making party. Share goodies and recipes, and make a few ornaments for the tree this year, to add to the top of a goodie plate, for your child's teacher, or the special someone.






Put homemade ornaments on real trees, fake trees, or hang by each stocking, on the mantle, or on the fridge! Take time to relax and enjoy the season.






This ornament is made by adding a tag with sentiment and a punched snowflake as an embellishment. Buy the premade grapevine balls and save time, Just add a ribbon and some berries as an accent to complete the ornament.








This ornament is simply made from using our 5 Petal Flower Punch. Punch out once for the leaves in a green. Then punch twice out of designer paper in red, for the pointsettia flower. Fan each layer out and fasten with a brad in the middle. Punch a tiny hole at the top and string ornament with jute cording.






This is an ornament that uses three of our punches. Punch one Scallop Circle punch in desired color. Also punch one snowflake and one 3/4 inch circle. Build up smallest to largest and secure with a brad.






This star is made using the valley and hill method. Start by fan folding paper, secure in the middle with staples. Trim both ends with scissors so they are pointed. Fan fold each side to attach with the other side and hold together with strong adhesive or staples. Embellish as desired. Here I used the Snowflake, Scallop Circle and 3/4" Circle punches and attached them all with a brad. Use jute, ribbon, or cording to hang.








This star is made from using a pattern I found on line at www.thetoymaker.com. The pattern is called "A magic Wand". Follow directions that they give you to create this cute star ornament. You can also put these stars on a stick and create a wand!





These stars are used among the garland, lights and candy canes to give some added 3-D appeal. Make a star pattern from chipboard or heavy cardboard. Trace and cut out on patterned paper. Then score and fold on every point and valley of the star. You should have ten folds on a five pointed star.





These are not an ornament, but a decoration that you can make very easily. Save four of the same size of cans when your making dinner one week. I used cans that had corn in them. Run them through the dishwasher once you have removed the paper around the outside of the can. Dry completely. Then decorate with patterned paper, chipboard ornaments, ribbons, and wire for a handle. I spelled out the word "SNOW". I hung these cans from a mirror I have by my front door. I put candy canes and berries in two of them to decorate them. You could fill with hot cocoa, marshmallows, candy canes, and mini chochlate chips and give as a gift too! Just remember, that if you want to use your crop-a-dile to hang each can with wire, then DO NOT use cans that have a lip at the top because your crop-a-dile will not fit. I hope that you enjoy these ideas and will take a minute to relax, and make something homemade this year! Happy Holidays

Christmas Gift Giving Ideas...

Christmas is around the corner. How about some gift ideas for yourself or someone else who loves to paper craft, scrapbook, or stamp. Our punches are an ideal stocking stuffer and range in price from $4.95 to $15.95.




Or how about a stamp set that your special someone can use all year long to create beautiful projects. Our stamp sets range from $13.00 to $45.00 depending on what you'd like. They come wood mounted and are very easy to assemble in minutes! Not sure what they would like - Get them a gift certificate..and let them choose what they want. Contact me to get yours today.



Or try giving your loved one the gift of color by adding Ink pads to her collection of paper crafting/stamping supplies. We have (6) In Colors and 48 regular colors to choose from. Better yet - get them a Color Family of 12 pads in - Soft Subtles, Earth Elements, Bold Brights, or Rich Regals.



Lastly... everyone is in need of storage solutions. Why not try out one of our caddy's. One is used to store ink pads and refill bottles of ink. The other is used to store all your embellishments. I can tell you personally...I love both of these products and they make everything so handy and at my fingertips when I reach for them! Call me to place your Holiday order in time for Christmas, and surprise that loved one with something she wants and will use all year round! Still not sure what to get...I have gift certificates in different amounts that you can give, and then your special someone can pick out exactly what she needs or wants! Contact me at skjj4richardson@msn.com or call (520)744-2537.