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Another great project from our friends over at Craftster! Make your own Victorian-like Christmas ornaments. Using fabric scraps, thin cardboard and whatever trimmings you have on hand; you can make these Christmas ornaments for friends and family.
Thrifty Christmas Crafty Tip
Cereal and cracker boxes are just the perfect thickness for making these Christmas ornaments and best of all, they're free.
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Like a country Christmas? These cute birdie ornaments should fit the bill. Made with scrap wood, some craft wire and a bit of felt - these birds make the perfect Christmas gift for friends and family.
Please Note: This craft does require the use of a saw for cutting out the body.
Thrifty Christmas Crafty Tip
The original project used Pogs for the wings. A substitute for your birdie ornament's wings might be woodworking biscuits.
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Free instructions and full size patterns to make a variety of Christmas ornaments including snowmen, gingerbread men, football ornaments, penguins, ribbon candy and reindeer!
Fabric Paint Crafty Tip
When painting with fabric paint in squeeze bottles - to lessen the number of air bubbles, keep a paper towel nearby and before each use, tip the bottle of paint upside and tap it gently on the paper towel. This will help remove any air from the tip of the bottle.
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Raised stencil snowflake ornaments sparkle during the day and glow at night. They're unique, colorful and very easy to create. Decorative raised stencils (aka Dimensional or 3D stencils) aren’t just for walls. You can use them to create Christmas ornaments, window decorations, wall art or holiday gifts. They’re created by pushing Stencil Paste through a heavy weight stencil. Once the stencil is dry you can decorate it with a variety of different paints, glitter or leave it unpainted.
Stenciling Crafty Tip
After you have pressed the stencil paste into the stencil remove all of the tape along the sides and bottom of your stencil (leaving only tape at the top) before you start to lift it. Slowly lift the stencil being careful not to smudge your stencil. Let the stencil air dry for 24 hours before you paint it.
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From the talented designer and owner of GEEKWARE, Nicola offers several clever projects to make Christmas ornaments from discarded computer equipment. Make a star for the top of your tree, message ornaments from old keyboard keys and a number of other truly geeky and clever recycled Christmas ornament crafts.
Recycled Crafting Crafty Tip
Old wiring and cables are a great source of crafting material. Most cables, including old phone cords are full of colorful, plastic coated wires that make great crafting supplies. I use the wires for Christmas ornament hooks as well as creating the ornament itself. Best of all, everyone has old wires and cables that don't work anymore. Challenge your crafty self and you will be able to come up with tons of clever uses for the colorful wires that you normally would have thrown away.
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