Christmas ornaments

This year I decided to personalize our Christmas Tree with some handmade ornaments. I have seen some really great ideas and decided to give it a try.

I found the paper snowflakes for $0.50 and this embossed pearlescent paper for $1.00 at Hobby Lobby.

First, I traced the snowflake onto the backside of the paper and cut them out. Then, I colored the brown snowflakes white or blue so that the edges would match the color of the paper. Once the paint dried, I coated them with Mod Podge and attached the paper to the flake. I bought five snowflakes, and painted two of them blue. Very easy and simple. I also added as finishing touch my son's picture using Cricut printable vinyl (see below).

I also decided to BORROW the glitter ornament idea I have seen in several blogs, and cut out some vinyl figures from the Christmas Cricut Gypsy download.

I used Kricut Krazy's video tutorial for these and cut out the figures at 2.5 in.

Finally, here is how I made the vinyl picture ornament.

Materials: Cricut printable vinyl for Cricut Imagine, circle cutter, trimmer and a glittered ornament.

I trimmendthe printable vinyl at 4x6 and printed the photo on it. Then, I cut a 2 1/16 in circle.



Peeled off the backing and adhered it to the ornament.



I think everything turned out great, a fun, simple way to personalize your Christmas Tree!

Karina

2010 Christmas Tree Decoration

I finally took pictures of our Christmas Tree. For the past five years we have bought a natural tree, I always ended up decorating it with every color on the rainbow. This year, I decided to go with a silver and blue theme and am very pleased at how it turned out. Some of the decorations are new, others I already had, and this year I also decided to make my own ornaments. Here's a picture of how it turned out.

Here's a picture of my boy admiring the ornaments.

Karina