Birdhouse Ornament for My Sheri Crafts

This week's requirement at My Sheri Crafts is to create a Christmas-themed ornament/home decor. I altered a birdhouse that I got from Michael's. The base of the birdhouse was painted with crackle paint and I covered the roof and sides with paper from DCWV and Graphic 45. The awning at the roof was made using the Martha Stewart Cornice border punch, and I made a wreath using Martha Stewart branch punch. The "berries" are made of Liquid Pearls. I added ribbon "pillars" along the edges and Stickles to frame the "windows".

More Christmas Ornaments!

I made some ornaments for both the GIBBS and Secret Sister Christmas swaps. Both of my friends have different color preferences, and I made sure that they both get what they will like. :-) I loved the Kusudama ball that Denni made so much so I made two of them!


I used Becca Feeken's tutorial for the Fleur-De-Lys ornaments.


I painted this wooden tree ornament with silver acrylic paint and covered it with Stickles, Flower Soft and mica flakes.
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I also made this Tilda ornament for my Secret Sister (not so secret anymore!) because she loves Tildas.

Blue Ornament for My Sheri Crafts

I made this ornament as a Design Team project for My Sheri Crafts. This week's theme is "Hannukah". The projects are either Hanukkah-themed or makes use of the traditional blue and white Judaism colors.
To make this rosette ornament, I cut 4 pieces of 2"x12" strips, then I punched along the edges using a snowflake border punch from EK Success. I scored the paper using 1/2" increments vertically, fan-folded it then glued two pieces of fan-folded paper together to form a rosette.


I glued the rosette to a 3" empty ribbon spool. I repeated the same at the back of the ribbon spool. Then I tied a piece of 5/8" silver ribbon around the spool. It is important to tie the ribbon used to hang the ornament prior to gluing the stamped image because it will serve as a guide on the placement of the circle. The stamped image is from Just Rite Stampers that I embossed using a sky blue embossing powder from Hampton Arts. The frames are from Spellbinders, and I dotted the scallops using enamel accents. To finish off the look, I lined the edges of the rosette with tinsel.