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DIY Filled Ornament Gift

Make your own diy filled ornament that is great for gift giving.

with Gwen Studios

Make a two-fold gift for holiday giving with this Christmas Ornament. It’s an ornament to hang on your tree and you fill it with a special treat. Anyone would love to receive this special gift. All the beautiful ribbons are from Gwen Studios and can be easily found at your local Walmart store.

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Materials:

scissors
cardstock
Zyron sticker maker
Ribbons from Gwen Studios
clear ornament
Christmas medallion

This Christmas Tree ribbon is amazing, I have never seen anything like it. Gwen Studios has a variety of different patterns of die-cut ribbon available. It is cut really well but because of the small pieces, you may need to remove some from the design to gain the full effect.

Check out the display of Gwen Studios die-cut ribbons at Walmart. There are trees, snowflakes, gingerbread men, ornaments, deer, and more.

I ran both the tree and red ribbon through a Zyron sticker maker and stacked them together before I wrapped my ornament with them. Now I am adding the double bow and Christmas medallion to the ornament with a bit of Fabri-Tac glue.

Don’t forget to fill the ornament and attach the gift tag that coordinates. I filled mine with candies but bath salts or hot cocoa would be nice as well. Just personalize the filling to your recipient.

The complete video tutorial can be viewed below:

Video Tutorial:

The filled and finished ornament is ready to gift. It would be great to make a few of these to have on hand for last-minute gift-giving.

And if you would like the printable to make the Christmas embellishment, you can find the inchies printable here: [Christmas inchies]

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How to Make Double-sided Paper

Learn the tips and tricks to making double-sided scrapbooking paper.

for Scrapbooking, Cardmaking, and Crafting

Double-sided paper packs are hard to locate. They are a preferred favorite of mine for paper crafting. I have begun making my own. I know you can glue two pieces of just about anything together, but getting the correct thickness is key for many applications. The secret I have learned that works best is to use wrapping paper.

Materials:

Single-sided Scrapbook paper
thin wrapping paper
spray adhesive
spray booth
scissors

The materials are simple and the process is easy. Spray the backs of each paper and then put them together before the adhesive has totally dried. Spray adhesive works best. Other kinds of adhesive will add bumps and bulk to the paper.

Video Tutorial:

My Spiral Ornament for the Cricut Ornament Exchange

I am participating in a Cricut Ornament Exchange. We were challenged to make a Christmas Ornament using our Cricut machine and then we sent them to another participant. I sent my ornament to Kara at Happy Go Lucky. The ornament I made is from an original design and the SVG file will be included below. The inspiration for this ornament was the red and white spiraled hard candies as well as candy canes.

Materials:

Doubled sided scrapbooking card stock
2 brads
Personal cutting machine (I used a Cricut Explore Air 2)
SVG Spiral Ornament Pattern

candyswirlornament Download

Directions:

The process for this ornament is more hands-on after the cutting of the design. When I cut out the design, I wasn’t getting through the card stock. I finally went to change the blade and found that my blade had some form of material stuck around it. Once this problem was resolved, the cutting was so easy. I really like using two-sided paper. I chose red which had burgundy on the other side. The only downside to using this kind of paper is the core of the paper is white and shows a bit on the edges of the paper.

Design Space showing the progress of cutting the paper.

The cut paper before weeding.

The cut shapes.

The two brads, you can use any color.

Take the bow shape, using your fingers, curve the bow shape.

To begin you are going to stack the elements in order on the brad. Here is the bow we began to curve in the above image.

Then add the ends of the ribbon to make the bow.

Stacking all six similar pieces together, curve the paper by rolling it in your hand. This will help form the ornament in a later step.

Add the six pieces to the brad and then add the brad to the bottom. Make sure all pieces are facing the same direction if you are using a two-toned paper. Fan open the brads but not the full amount so there is some movement available.

Begin to seperate the ornament shape once piece of paper at a time.

Now you can tighten up the brads by reaching into the ornament. You can manipulate the shape as needed even by pushed top and bottom towards each other until you are happy with the rounded shape.

I sent the file to my sister and that same night she went a bit crazy and made these two.

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Winter Hat Christmas Ornament

Fun hat ornaments made from toilet paper rolls and yarn. Learn how to make your own.

These cute Winter Hat Ornaments are easy to make. They only take a few items that you probably already have at home and they are easy enough to make with children. Use one kind of yarn or a variety to create a striped hat. The options are really endless by using a variety of different yarns. This is a great craft to use up leftover project yarn.

Materials:

yarn
scissors
tissue
toilet paper roll

Instructions:

Cut a 1/4 to 1/2 inch loop from the toilet paper roll.

Cut lengths of yarn about 10″ long. I wrap around my thumb and pinkie fingers and then cut on of the loops.

Fold one piece of yarn in half.
Place the loop through the tube.

Put the ends of the yarn through the loop.

Pull the ends tight.

Continue to do so until the tube is full of yarn.

Using one more strand of yarn, collect all the yarn ends and tie a double knot, very tightly.

Stuff a balled-up tissue into the hat to fill out the shape.

Trim the top “poof” of the hat and play with it to get the desired fullness.

Enjoy!

Options:

You can use different colors of yarn to create a striped pattern if you desire.
Different yarns will create a different look, acrylic versus wool, etc…
You can use another piece of yarn to hang your ornament or insert a wire hanger into the top of the hat.
Instead of an ornament, use the hat to top off a bottle of wine.
Decorate a present using the hat like you would a bow.