Hi Everyone, Loll and Susan spent a few days at my house making Christmas Ornaments during a mini retreat we had for three days while my Hubby was visiting his family back East.
It was so much fun to craft and not have to clean up the craft room at the end of each day.
We've all posted our makes on a little blog hop so I hope you head over to
and
and check out all the ornaments.
Here is a picture of the ones I made.
We had a selection of wooden ornaments, bells, baubles and wood slices which we decorated.
You may need to prime the wood with gesso before painting or the paint may run the risk of bleeding outside of the stamped lines on the wood, I used clear gesso on some of my slices. When colouring you can also use pencils and odorless mineral spirit to colour
The first one is a wood sliced from Arteza, the slices come in Small, Medium and Large. These are the small. I painted and stamped the ornament then decorated with ta die cut.
The second was Balsa wood ornament (From Ali express) covered in acrylic paint and the covered in crackle paint, and then die cuts were used to decorate it.
The next two ornaments have Designer paper glued to them with Matt Medium and then decorated with die cuts.
For my final two, the one on the left I used tissue paper decoupaged to the wood and then decorated with die cuts, the two on the right I used clear gesso then stamped in Ranger Archival and coloured with Posca pens. I added some clear pearl pen on the buttons and the hats.
We had lots of fun making the ornaments which will be sold by Susan at her annual Christmas Card and this year Ornament sale for STaRS -Southlands Therapeutic Riding Society.
I meant to have linked to Snippets with Di's challenge but dog walking etc got in the way and I totally forgot, so rushed over today to do it 😅. As you can see there are too many snippets to mention on the ornaments.
Card Recipe
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Accessories: Wood Ornaments
Techniques: Mixed Media, Posca pens, Stamping, Die cutting
